§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that in the recent examination of candidates for First Arts and Second Arts in the Royal University of Ireland, only one first class distinction was obtained by a student from the Queen's College, Cork, which is endowed, and no fewer than forty five such distinctions were obtained by the students of the University College, which has no endowment; and whether, seeing that the endowments in Art chairs and prizes of the Queen's College, Cork, produce such small results, he will consider the desirability of diverting them to other educational institutions.
§ MR. WYNDHAMThe reply to the first query is in the affirmative. The number obtained by students of University College was twenty-five not forty-five. The Question does not, however, take account of distinctions that may have been obtained by students in other Faculties besides Arts. I am inquiring as to this.