§ MR. DAWSONasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If his attention has been called to the Report of the President of Galway College and to the strong advocacy therein contained of the retention of teaching as a part of University work; and, whether the New Royal University, making no provision for teaching, leaves the great mass of the Irish people without any provision for academic training, whilst a minority will have the Queen's Colleges and Trinity College to supply to them that great advantage?
§ MR. W. E. FORSTER, in reply, said, the Report was, no doubt, most interesting, and the President did put strongly the advantages of University teaching and training, as well as of examination, and he showed that the Queen's Colleges continued to give that advantage. But, interesting as the question was, it was not a practical one, since the House had decided it in establishing the new Uni- 1466 versity, for which an Act was passed a year or two ago.
§ MR. DAWSONsaid, that in consequence of the answer he had received he should, early in next Session, bring forward a Motion declaring—
That, in the opinion of this House, it is inexpedient that the vast majority of the people of Ireland should be without academical teaching, while the minority had the advantage of the Queen's Colleges and of Trinity College in Dublin.