§ SIR HENRY ROSCOE (Manchester, S.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether it was a fact that a Treasury Commission of 1876 reported in favour of the appointment to the Presidency of the Queen's Colleges in Ireland of Professors of the said Colleges; and, if so, whether in the appointment of the Presidency of Queen's College, Belfast, due regard would be paid to this recommendation?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURThe Treasury Committee of Inquiry of 1876 expressed the opinion that in the case of a vacancy in the President's office of the Queen's Colleges in Ireland, the new President should in the first instance be sought for among the existing Professors of the three Colleges, their object apparently being to combine in one person the duties of President and Professor. As I have already stated in reply to a previous question on the subject of the existing vacancy at Belfast, the Lord Lieutenant will, I have no doubt, in making the submission of a name, give due weight to all the circumstances of the case.