7 JANUARY 1899, Page 24

IRISH UNIVERSITY EDUCATION.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.,"]

SIR,—At a meeting of the General Assembly's Committee on the Higher Education held on December 27th, 1898, in the Assembly's Offices, May Street, Belfast, the following resolu- tion was unanimously adopted :—" Resolved, that this Com- mittee having power to speak in the name of the Church, adhere firmly to the views expressed in their 'Statement on the Irish University Question,' and sent to the members of her Majesty's Government and of both the Houses of Parlia- ment, on March 29th, 1898; that any other views are wholly without authority and do not express the mind of the Irish Presbyterian Church." The publication of this letter, with the incorporated resolution, will oblige yours, &c.,

WILLIAM BEATTY,

Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland.

Assembly's Offices, 12 May Street, Belfast, December 29th.

[We cannot, for the present, publish any more letters on this subject. —ED. Spectator.]