Mr. Gladstone has given notice that on the motion that
the House go into Committee on Mr. Fawcett's Trinity College, Dublin, Bill, which is put down for Tuesday, Lord Hartington will move an instruction to the Committee to divide it into two parts,—the Tests' Abolition part, and the reconstructive scheme,— and that the Government will support the former, but not the latter. Mr. Fawcett has declined to accede to that proposal, and there is some chance that the Government may be defeated again on this attempt to disengage the Tests' question at Trinity College, Dublin, from the general policy of the Government with regard to Uni- versity Education in Ireland. We fancy, however, that the Conser- vative leaders are not very eager to resist the reasonable demands of the Catholics, and that Mr. Plunket and Dr. Ball will not be able to rally the party to the support of Mr. Fawcett. It will be a sign of the weighty effects of even expected responsibility, if it should so prove.
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