We have discussed the inference to be drawn from the
very strong language and personalities which marked the meeting of the Convocation of the Queen's University in Dublin last week. We may add here that the extreme inadequacyof the numbers of the Arta students in the Queen's Colleges is the more remarkable because there is no University in the British Islands where degrees and honours are so easily gained. In fact, the standard of scholarship was materially reduced some twelve or fifteen years ago, on purpose to provide against the danger of empty schools and vacant honour bats. Considering that Galway and Cork have, as a rule even now, no more Arts students than there are scholarships to tempt by j the offer of gratuitous or almost gratuitous teaching, and Belfast, though better off in numbers, is extremely deficient in anything like Consols were on Friday 91i to 92.
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