In the House of Commons on Thursday Mr. Murphy raised
the question of Irish University education, and insisted that no solution of the problem would be successful which did not give Irish Roman Catholics facilities for University education capable of being enjoyed by them without violence to their religious feelings. The chief event of the debate was, how- ever, not the speeches of the Irish Members, but that of Mr: Balfour•, who laid down what, in our opinion, are the true principles on which the question ought to be decided. He declared, in effect, that while Trinity College should remain what it is, a University with a Protestant atmosphere, the Roman Catholics ought to have a University which would satisfy them as Trinity College satisfies the Protestants,-- i.e., a University with a Roman Catholic atmosphere.
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