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London, England, 1850-07-19 00:00:00

impress upon the Noble Lord was, that the information
being wholly unprivileged, it was most unfair to call
upon a few dissatisfied persons, and to induce them to
take all the legal consequences upon themselves.
Sir R. ING US said, although the Noble Lord was a
great master of debate, he had evPently not done justice
to the speech of his Right Hon. Friend and Colleague,
who had brcught together the most perfect reasoning
and the most profound philosophy, and which were only
equalled by its eloquence. They did not object to
inquiry, but to the unconstitutional nature of the
propose inquiry. With reference to the speech of the
Honourable and Learned Gentleman opposite, he bad
made so many admissions that he was sur-
prised his speech had not been more applauded
by the two members of the Government who had
spoken than it had been. The Hon. and Learned Gen-
tleman admitted the right of the Crown to institute in-
quiries into the state of the colleges and foundations of
the universities; but the matter had been decided other-
wise in the time cf Bishop Trelawny, in the case of
Exeter College. The Crown had no more right to send
a roving Commission to inquire into alleged misdeeds in
colleges, unless such misdeeds were brought before it,
in the shape of appeal, than the Chief Justice of the
Court of Queen's Bench had to send a Commission of
Inquiry into the conduct of the people of Devonshire or
Buckinghamshire. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman
had needlessly introduced the subjget of Trinity College,
Dublin, and given, what ought always to be avoided, a
gratuitous opinion with respect to his neighbour's pro-
perty. He had said that Trinity College, Dublin, or the
fellows of that college, had more property than they
ought to have—an opinion that was wholly uncalled for.
He (Sir R. Inglis) entirely concurred in the opposition
to the motion of the Hon. Member for North Lancashire
(Mr. Heywood). _ _

Mr. ROUNDELL PALMER explained in reference
to what had fallen from the last speaker on the subject
of the right cf the Crown to institute inquiries by Com-
mission in those cases—that in the case of that very
Exeter College—when soon after the revolution of 1688,
on the occasion of a general visitation, the visitor de-
prived the Master and the Master disputed his power to
do so. The question was brought before the Court of
Queen's Bench, who held that the visitor bad no such
power. Lord Coke differed from them, and the case was
hrought on appeal before the House of Lords, and it was
there decided that the visitor had acted in conformity
with his jurisdiction. Then with respect to Trinity
College, Dublin, what he had said was that its revenues
were so large that he apprehended the purposes of the
foundation, and the interest of education in Ireland,
might be served, consistently with a due development of
the intentions of the Royal Founder, by enlarging the
foundation, instead of allowing those large proportions of
dividend to accumulate in individual hands.
Mr. G. A. HAMILTON wished to observe, in refe-
rence to what had fallen from the Hon. and Learned
Gentleman on the subject of the Fellows of Trinity
College, Dublin, marrying, notwithstanding the statutes
of celibacy, that it wa3 true that forty or fifty years
ago, before the oaths of celibacy were imposed, some of
the fellows were in the habit of marrying ; but in 1811
the oaths of celibacy were imposed, and the practice of
marrying ceased until 1840, when, at the instance of the
Marquis of Normanby, the celibacy statutes were re-
pealed. With respect to what had been said about the
accumulated property of Trinity College, the Hon. and
Learned Gentleman was not present when his Hon. and
Learned Colleague 01.1 r. Napier) showed that it was
smaller than the amount voted annually to the College
of Maynooth.
Mr. HEYWARD replied, amidst impatient cries of
" Time,"and " Divide."
Mr. STUART rose and said, in courtesy to the Right
Hon. Baronet (Sir George Grey) who had given way in
the earlier part of the evening, when be (Mr. Stuart)
was about to move his amendment, and withdrew his
own amendment to give him the opportunity to do so,
be would now give way to the Right Hon. Baronet, and,
by withdrawing his amendment, allow him, it he felt
disposed, to again bring forward his amendment.
Sir G. GREY then moved as an amendment that the
debate be adjourned to this day three months.
The House then divided, when there appeared—
For the amendment ... ••• ••• 160
Against it ... •.• ••• 138
Majority fur the amendment ... —22
The original motion, consequently, fell to the ground