§ Resolutions [18th March] reported.
§ First Twenty-nine Resolutions agreed to.
§ The last Resolution read a second time.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House doth agree with the Committee in the said Resolutions."
§ MR. O'DONNELLagain objected to the granting of money to an institution which, as he had stated on the previous evening, tended to lower the standard of intermediate education in Ireland.
§ COLONEL STANLEYhoped, that after the long discussion which had already been taken on the Vote, and the number of divisions to which that discussion had led, the hon. Gentleman would accept the decision at which the House had arrived, and would not put hon. Members to the trouble of dividing again for the eighth time.
MR. SULLIVANsaid, there was no occupant of the Treasury bench from whom an appeal was entitled to greater consideration than from the hon. and gallant Gentleman. He regretted, however, that the Irish Members generally could not accede to it, for the fact was, they felt themselves constrained to challenge every item in the Vote in connection with the Queen's University. Consequently, the matter must be pressed to a division. He trusted the House would not misunderstand him. They felt it their duty to oppose to the last, and they were pledged to resist in every possible way the Vote.
§ Question put.
§ The House divided:—Ayes 237; Noes 16: Majority 221.—(Div. List, No. 58.)
§ And it being now ten minutes to Seven of the clock, the House suspended its sitting.
§ The House resumed its sitting at Nine of the clock.