The Convocation of the Queen's University of Ireland is announced
to hold its annual meeting on Wednesday next, when we hope there will be a better disposition manifested to give a fair hearing to the Roman Catholic minority than there was last year. Indeed this would be desirable as a mere matter of policy. With the question of a national University for Ireland before the Ministry and the Howie of Commons, the Irish Universities now iu existence should be anxious to give no handle to the charge of exclusiveness and party government which is freely brought against one of them. Trinity College has shown her statesmanship quite as much as her equity by throwing wide her doors in anticipation of the coming struggle, and we may be sure that Trinity College has gained vastly in Parlia- mentary favour, and probably in Parliamentary power, by her tactics. The Queen's University would be wise to follow suit, at least by listening patiently to those whose views are least palatable to the majority of her graduates. She can only lose respect by pursuing the narrow and discreditable tactics of last year.
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