It was stated yesterday that the Government intend to found
and endow a Catholic University in Ireland. We should think that what is intended is that Government mean to place the Catholic University College on something like an equal footing as regards library, museum, laboratories, and general educational means, with Trinity College ; for in the Royal Irish University, Roman Catholics already have what, so far as University purposes are concerned, well suits their needs. What they are greatly deficient in, is an adequately endowed College which would put Catholic students on a fair level with Protestant students in contending for the prizes of the Royal Irish University. We have always maintained that such an endowment would be in the strictest sense just, and. would remove instead of introducing a religious inequality,— a religions inequality from which the Irish Catholic students at present suffer very seriously.
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