The Irish University Bill has passed the House of Commons,
with the prospective clause empowering the Senate of the new University to draw out a scheme for fellowships, scholarships, and exhibitions, to be conferred, both for" comparative" and also for "absolute" proficiency; and the Irish Members have declared their resolution not to regard this scheme as a settlement of the question, but to agitate for collegiate endowments, whenever the scheme of the Senate shall be presented to Parliament. Mr. Lowther and Sir Stafford Northcote were obstinate against any concession to a "Denominational College," either by results endoWsing.121?r,a,. Edmond Fitzma.urice proposed, by a direct
"P-ofessoriate. But it is reasoned that by means of conferring schao..hins for " absolute " proficiency, a quantity of money may get tau -vhp pockets of average lads, who will be " obliged " to spend it in to,:„ colleges, in order to get any further education. But why obliged r- Why may they not take it to crammers, or worse, waste it without 1...,,ceeding to any higher stage of education at all P The measure Mao 'Pair to be as lavish of ill-spent grants of money to candidates of no special merit, and without any guarantees for the right expen- diture of these grants, as it is parsimonious in refusing them to the teaching bodies which need help most. The Irish University Bill has come out a bad and botched apparatus for popular bribes.
