The Catholic Bishops further demand a commission in which Catholics
would have confidence, to rearrange the endowments of the middle-class schools ; aud as to the higher education, they demand either a Catholic University, or an endowed Cathlic College in a common Irish University. We do not see how a Govern- tnent pledged to "levelling down" can grant either request, but they should throw open the University of Dublin (as distinguished from Trinity College, Dublin,) with its endowments to all com- petitors, whether from Trinity College, or Maynooth, or the Catholic College (now called a University) in Dublin, and make the governing body of that University truly national, leaving to Trinity College only its own special collegiate endowments. We do not doubt that this plan would cause some Protestant outcry. But it would be fair, and Mr. Gladstoue's Government is strong enough to carry it.
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