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tion, as hereinafter provided, the Town Council shall nom,
nate four curators, and the University Court of the said
University shall nominate the remaining three curators;
provided, that, except the Lord Provost, no member of the
Town Council, or of the University Court, shall be eligi-
ble as a curator ; and the curators shall continue in
office for four years ; and in the event of vacancies in
the office of curator occurring from death, resignation,
or any other cause, the vacancies shall, as respects the
four nominations made by the Town Council, be filled
up by the town council, and shall, as respects the other
nominations, be filled up by the university court, for
the remainder of the period unexpired."
Clause 14 was then proposed, and the blanks left for the
names of the commissioners were proposed to be filled
up as follows :—His Grace John George Douglas Camp-
bell, Duke of Argyll ; the Right Hon. George Hamilton
Gordon' Earl of Aberdeen ; the Right Hon. William
David Murray, Earl of Mansfield ; the Right Hon.
Duncan Mc Neill, Lord Justice General and Lord
President of the Court of Session ; Sir William Gibson
Craig, of Riccarton, Bart. ; John Inglis, Esq., Lord
Advocate for Scotland ; James Craufurd, Esq., one of
the Senators of the College of Justice ; William Stirling,
Esq., of Eleir ; James Monoreiff, Esq.; Alexander
Hastie, Esq.
The names were agreed to, and the clause was ordered
to be added to the bill,
Mr. ELLICE, sen., remarked upon the extensive
powers given to the commissioners, powers which the
Home Secretary would hesitate to give any body of men
in England.
Mr. WALPOLE said it was intended to insert in the
bill a clause requiring the commissioners to lay before
Parliament their resolutions 15 days before they were
put in force.
Mr. GLADSTONE said what he wished to see was the
Scotch degrees brought up to those of England, which
be did not think could be done while Scotland main-
tained four Universities. The greatest good in hie
opinion would be effected if the four Universities
were consolidated into one, all the colleges arranging
themselves under it as a central body. He did not
think any loss by doing so would be occasioned, hut, on
the contrary, a positive advantage would be gained.
What be was most anions for was, that powers should
be given to the commissioners to inquire into the possi..
bility of consolidating the four universities into one.
This would involve upon the commissioners the duty of
inquiring and reporting the result to the Crown, and if
it was found that the feeling was in favour of such a
proceeding, means could be taken ultimately to carry
out the object, the effect of which would be to elevate
the higher branches of education in that country. He
therefore moved an addition to the clause, to the effect
that the powers he had mentioned should be given to
the commissioners, and that in the event of her Majesty
granting a charter to the central university, the four
existing bodies might be authorised to surrender their
powers of granting degrees to the new university. (Hear.)
The LORD ADVOCATE trusted the addition pro-
posed by the right hon. gentleman would not be
pressed at the present moment. He suggested that it
might be proposed upon the bringing up of the report.
After a short discussion, the words proposed were
withdrawn, on the understanding that they should be
brought forward on the bringing up of the report.
The clause, with a few other verbal amendments, was
then agreed to.
Clauses 15 to 13 inclusive were agreed to,
On clause 19 (previous clauses baying provided for
grants of money by Parliament),
Mr. BAXTER moved the addition of the following
proviso :—" That it shall not be lawful for the Commis-
sioners to apply any portion of such moneys for the en-
dowment of professorships in theology." He spoke, he
said, on behalf of two-thirds of the people of Scotland
who were dissentients from the Established Church.
Mr. DALGLISH seconded the proviso.
The LORD ADVOCATE objected to the proviso,
whoa., a eas: l',ll the faculty of theology altogether,
a faculty which was the most distinguisl,iLg feature in
the universities of England and Ireland.
Sir J. TRELAWNY thought that if the Parlia-
mentary grants were to be applied to theology an acri-
monious spirit would be raised whenever those votes
came under consideration. He thought it would be
very advisable altogether to avoid questions connected
with particular theological views in that house.
The committee divided. The numbers were—
For the proviso
Against it
Majority
The proviso was therefore negatived.
On the question that clause 19 stand part of the bill,
the committee divided, when the numbers were—
For the clause
Against it 76
Majority -49
The clause was added to the bill.
Mr. BAXTER gave notice that on bringing up the
report he should again take the sense of the house on
the application of public money to theological purposes.
He regretted the division that had just taken place, be-
cause it raised a false issue.
The remaining olauses were agreed to, and the bill was
reported to the house ; several members, however, giving
notice that they should move new clauses on bringing up
the report.
The sitting was then suspended.
The house resumed at six o'clock.
THE %VEEDON ESTABLISHMENT.
Col. FOR RESTER, the comptroller of the household,
appeared at the bar, and read the following message from
her Majesty :—" I have received your address praying
that a royal commission may be appointed to inquire
into the system upon which the books and stores have
been respectively kept at Woedoo, as well as generally
into the mode in which that establishment has been con-
ducted, and into the result of such mode of conducting
such business as to stock and stores, and having taken
your address into consideration, I have directed a com-
mission to issue for the purpoF es you have requested."
EDUCATION (IRELAND).

Lord NAAS (for Mr. H. Herbert) moved for copies
of report of the committee of the National Board of
Education in Ireland, appointed on the 11th day of
September, 1857, to inquire into the conduct of Mr. J.
W. Kavanagh, head inspector of national schools; of ap-
pendices t, the foregoing report, marked A, B, C, D,
E, F, G, H ; of extracts from the minutes of the pro-
ceedings of the 27th day of November, 1857, with re-
spect to the report of the committee appointed to in,
quire into the conduct of Mr. J. W. Kavanagh, head-
inspector of national schools ; and, btatement of
further proceedings connected with Mr. J. W. Ka-
vanagh, subsequent to the order of the board, dated
th© 27th Nov., 1857, depressing him from the rangy: of
head inspector to that of district inspector of the first
class.

Mission did take would tor, published, or any of the let- I
ters they received heath ,g on the subject would be
appended to the report ?
Mr. S. HERBERT st the report would be in the
hands of the Secretary t ,f State next week, and no doubt
he would deal with it ii a a judicious manner. The appen•
dix to the report won ld contain all the information
which the commissionurs thought necessary to justify
the conclusion at which . they had arrived.
LIEUTEasTANT SALKELD.
Mr. KER SEYM:ER asked the Secretary of State
for War for an expla nation of the circumstances under
which the Victoria Gross was withheld from the late
Lieut. Salkeld ?
General PEEL expressed his regret that the hon.
gentleman had not coi:amunicated with him before put-
ting his question on t'a a paper. It had never been con-
templated to withhold from Lieut. Salkeld the Victoria
Cross. So far from ti at being theecase, he and others
were recommended fo r the hentlr by Sir Archdale
Wilson, and their names were duk gazetted. Unfortu-
nately, they never lived to receive them. They had ap-
peared in the Gazette, and if they had survived; her Ma•
jesty would have approved the recommendation, and
the crosses would have been presented to them. They
i were now being prepared for presentation to their rela-
I tives. (Hear, hear.)
BEDDING AND CLOTHING FOR TROOPS TO
INDIA.

Mr. ALCOCK asked the Secretary of State for War,
whether he had made any fresh arrangements for the
gratuitous supply of bedding and clothing, adapted to
the climate, to her Majesty's troops in India!
Gen. PEEL said that with regard to any gratuitous
supply of bedding it was vested in the East India Com-
pany. He had made application to Sir Colin Campbell
to get gratuitous supplies of clothing for the troops, and
he was endeavouring to bring about that the
_troops
should have reduced sea-kits.
THE SLAVE TRADE.

Mr. MUTT inquired when the slave trade papers of
the year would be laid upon the table t
Mr. W. S. FITZGERALD said he should be pre-
pared to give an answer to the question to-morrow.
COMMISSION ON LIGHTHOUSES.

Lerd C. PAGET inquired when the royal commission
to inquire into lq-,Ththouscs would be appointed'
Mr. HENLEY said there was no intention to delay
the issuing of this commission. The delay had arisen
simply in consequence of the pressure of ptblic business
at this period of the session, when it was impossible to
give attention to the formation of the commission, and
the instructions under which it was to act. There should
be no unnecessary delay in the appointment of the com-
mission.