§ MR. PIRIEI beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury, with reference to the Oath taken by the Sovereign on accession to maintain and to preserve the Act of Security in the Treaty of Union between Scotland and England, which Act is declared to be a fundamental and essential condition of that Treaty in all time comings whether, in view of the fact of this Act having been infringed by the abolition of theological tests for professors in secular classes in Scottish Universities, it is the intention of the Government to so change the Oath that it shall no longer be obligatory for the Sovereign to swear that he will maintain those tests which have been already abolished by Act of Parliament.
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURI am advised that no change in the Oath is rendered necessary under the circumstances suggested in the question.
§ MR. WILLIAM REDMONDI beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury if he can now make am definite statement as to the Committee to be appointed on the subject of the Sovereign's Accession Oath.
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURAs the horn Member is a ware, the proceedings in connection with this Committee originate in another place, and I am not at this moment in a position to make any statement on I be subject.