IRELAND.
The _Dublin .Evening Post announces definitively, that the statutes which- constitute "the Queen's University in Ireland" have received her Ma- jesty's sanction, and are now in full operation. The Earl of Churnelorz has been appointed Chancellor, and a Senate is constituted, consisting of seventeen eminent individuals of different denominations, who represent generally the various departments of literature and science, medicine, and law. The Chancellor and the Senate appoint examiners, and grant de- grees in art, medicine, and law, to the students in the three Queen's Col- leges of Belfast, Cork, and Galway.
The Council of the Tenant League have published the weekly report of their proceedings, with an address organizing the movement They have resolved to take steps "for systematically extending the principles and influence of the Tenant League, by holding sittings of the Council suc- cessively and at short intervals in various parts of the country ; and, if the friends of tenant right in each district approve it, by holding public county meetings at the same time and place."
The Nation advances to vindicate the Tenant League against our alle- gation that the Irish seldom hear the words of truth unadulterated by a moral brogue, and that the fixity of tenure sought by the League is not according to the general practice of Europe. The Nation so manages the contradiction as to corroborate both assertions. Among its proofs of fixed. tenancy prevailing in Europe, it adduces the proprietary tenure of France, Switzerland, Norway, &c. : this implies that what the League seeks is, to render the tenants proprietors; which would confiscate the property- already vested in landlords. But this is sought under the pretext of ren- dering tenancy less uncertain ! The tenants, we are told, will not become villeins, because "the proposal is not to tie them to the land, but to tie the land to them." Q. E. D.
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