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The great Maynooth fight began on Tuesday and ended on

Thursday. Mr. Whalley moved on clause 30 to omit the words which leave a part of the Maynooth Act unropealed,—his object being to extinguish the College as a corporation, and also its limited exemption from the effect of the Statute of Mortmain. This was of course resisted by the Liberals, and would be most unjust at a time when they are giving the Disestablished Protestant Church corporate rights and power to hold property, and the motion was eventually defeated by 128 in a House (including the tellers) of 524 (324 to 196).

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