§ Bill considered in Committee.
§ (In the Committee.)
§ MAJOR NOLANcomplained that the appointments of governors of lunatic asylums, a matter with which the Government had promised to deal, was now mixed up with a dozen other questions. He desired to get from the Government a further promise that they would deal with the subject separately.
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. GIBSON)said, the Government desired to deal with the question in a broad, fair, and liberal spirit. They had attempted to do so in the Grand Jury Bill which they had introduced. No one could suggest that the way in which the matter was dealt with was not a fair and reasonable one, and that it did not show an honest desire on the part of the Government to redeem any promise made by his right hon. Friend the present Secretary of State for the Colonies. As the Bill now before the House was a matter of urgency, it was desirable, in the interests of the asylums, that it should become law before the 6th of July.
§ Bill reported, without Amendment; to be read the third time To-morrow, at Two of the clock.