IRISH UNIVERSITIES.
[To TUX ZDITOR OF TUX "XPICOTATOR.1 SIE,—It seems that there is again to be dealing with the Irish University question. I happened to be staying for some time ,in Ireland, and at a good point of view for this subject, when the Queen's Colleges were entering on their career. • From .what I then saw and heard I should be inclined to think that the best course would, he to let Trinity alone and giie the . Catholics a liberal giant to be laid out on a Catholic University, putting the administration of the grant as much as possible in the hands of laymen. I can hardly think that "Modernism," as the Pope aptly terms it, will get on very well with anti- 'Modernism under the same roof. I should be inclined to hope more from the influence of emulation, especially from its effects on the anti-Modernist. There are two Irelands, and you cannot help it. But Mr. Birrell, with the present state of 'things before him, may know best.-LI am, Sir, &c.,
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[The omens are, we hope, favourable to a solution of the , nature described by Professor Goldwin Smith, and con- sistently urged in these columns. Leave Trinity alone; give the Roman Catholics the University they desire, not the ,University Englishmen and Scotchmen think they ought to desire ; and let the Presbyterians of the North also have a University of their own in Belfast, if such is their wish,— these are the lines on which we trust the problem will be solved.—ED. Spectator.]
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