§ MR. MACVEAGHI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he can state in how many months of the year education is imparted at the Queen's College, Belfast, and for how many months of the year, including vacation periods, it is closed; and whether he can state if the periods of repose are similar at the Queen's College, Galway, and the Queen's College, Cork.
§ MR. WYNDHAMThe period of the college session at Belfast, as at Galway and Cork, is regulated by statute and is the same in the case of each of these colleges. It commences on the third Tuesday in October and terminates on the second Saturday in June. Much of the so-called vacation between June and October is taken up with examinations of the Royal University, at which the professors and students are occupied.
§ MR. MACVEAGHAre they not paid extra in connection with these examinations?
§ MR. WYNDHAMI cannot say.