The governing body of Trinity College, Dublin, has declared unreservedly
in favour of the abolition of all religious tests, and has transmitted a memorial to Mr. Gladstone in which they insist on the advantages of having young men of different faiths educated in common, and on the great disadvantages of the separate seclu- sion of denominational groups of students during the years of University teaching. We need hardly say that we concur heartily in this view, and only wish there were any chance that the Irish Roman Catholics would concur too. Only, of course, the Roman Catholics will say that this tends to inspire Roman Catholic youths with the view that heretics may be such very good fellows, after all, as to diminish seriously the dread of heresy. And as that is precisely what we Protestants wish, and precisely what the Roman Catholics dread, we doubt if there is much use pressing the point upon them.
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