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LIBRARY AND MUSEUMS.

The arrangement and formation of the library has
been actively proceeded with since date of last
report, and, so far as the limited funds available
from the Parliamentary grant has allowed, may
be considered as being nearly completed, except
in the department of anatomy and physiology, in
which the requisition lists have not yet been finally
arranged. In each department, however, the books
n3w obtained can only be contemplated as forming a
nucleus for what the library collections of the college
ought to be; and I would beg leave to submit the
absolute necessity of additional funds being provided
for obtaining books, as even already the wants of the
professors and more advanced students have outgrown
the existing resources of the college.
Some additions have been made to the library, by
donations of books, of which the most interesting has
been that of 51 volumes of works on Oriental litera-
ture, presented by the Hon. East India Company ;
and of 23 volumes and parts of geological memoirs,
maps, and plates, precented by Sir Henry Delabeche
on the part of your Majesty's Government. The
Royal Irish Academy and the Messrs. Chambers have
presented their several publications, and I was able to
select from my own library 238 volumes of works on
the physical and medical sciences, as a donation to
those departments of the college library. Donations
also of many individual works have been received
from Dr. O'Connor, of Cork, and ether persons in-
terested in the progress of the college.
Considerable progress has been made in the arrange-
ment of the museum, and its collections have been
augmented by donations of a series of the fossils col-
lected in the north of Ireland during the geological
survey under Lieut.-Colonel Portlock, R.E., presented
by the Right Hon. the Chief Commissioner of Woods;
also of a series of casts of the fossils of the Himalayah,
collected by Dr. Falconer, presented by the Hon. the
East India Company ; also of a collection of specimens
of American woods, presented by General O'Leary.
Further donations of rocks and minerals have been re-
ceived from Mr. Greenough, to whose kindness and
liberality the college is under the greatest obligation.
There now only remains a department of the general
and medical museums in which the collections still
require to be organised, and it is to be expected that a
very short time will enable those departments also to
he rendered tolerably complete as to the arrangements
for their illustration.

RE,TDENCE4 AND DISCIPLINE OP STUDENTS.

The discipline and conduct of the general body of
students have nven found during the last session upon
the whole extretni.ly satisf,ctory, only a few cases
having occurred of infuictiun of rules of discipline,
and none which require d other correction than the
admr•nition by the vice president and by the college
council. In no case has any violation of the rules of
diciplirie in regard to morality and religion been
known to have occurred.

In regard to the conduct of the students resident in
licensed boarding-houses, and of the religious instruc-
tion imparted to those students by the reverend deans
of residences of their respective creeds, I have the
honour to annex the report of those reverend gentle-
men; and I b-g to add thereto my own full agree-
ment in the opinions which are therein so strongly
expressed, that the moral and religious conduct of
those students is most honourable to themselves, and
most decisive as to the beneficial influence of the col-
legiate system on the habits of the young men who are
subjected to its rules.
I beg leave also to express to your Most Gracious
Majesty the gratitude which is due to those reverend
gentlemen, the deans of residences, who having dis-
charged the wholly gratuitous duties of their offices
with such efficiency and zeal as fully proves their
conscientious anxiety for the moral and religious wel-
fare of the students committed to their charge.
The number of students of the Wesleyan commu•
nion having materially increased, his Excellency the
Earl of Clarendon, Lqrd-Lieutenant, has been pleased
to appoint the Rev. Mr. Greer as special dean of re-
siclf nces for that communion.
The relative numbers of matriculated students of
the respective communities attending the college in
the first year of its opening having been shown in the
former report, it remains to exhibit, in the following
table, the proportions of students of the several creeds
attending during the session just now closed. Of the
118 matriculated students on the college books there
belong to the—
Church of England ...
Roman Catholic Church
Presbyterian Church ...
Wesle, an Communion
Other Protestant Communions

... ... 42
... ... 65

Total ... ... ... ... 118
When di3tributed according to college standing,
thefe become--

Freshmen. Sophistors. Total.
Church of England ... 23 19 42
Roman Catholic Church 42 23 65
Presbyterian Church ... 1 1 2
Wesleyan Communion 5 3 8
Other Communions ... 1 0 1

Comparing the distribution of the religions of stu-
dents, among those who entered the college in the
session commencing in October, 1849, with the reli-
gions of those who entered in the session commencing
October, 1850, the result will be found as given in
the following table, extracting the figures of 1849
from the last report : _ _

- Entrance of 1849. Entrance of 1850.
Church of England • • 26, or p. cent. 37'14 .. 23, or p. cent. 32'43
It. Catho ic Church •• 38 „ 54'29 .. 42 „ 59.18
Presbyterian...... •• .. 1 „ 1'43 .. 1 „ I'3l
Wesleyan •. • .. ••• •• 4 ~ 5'71 .. 5 „ 7'14
Other COMMUAIOO .... 1 „ 1'43 .. 0 II -...

70 100 00 71 100'00
Hence the Roman Catholic element appears to
have increased about 4 and the Wesleyan about
per cent. upon the preceding years. The generid
numbers may be considered, however, to represent
very fairly the ratio of distribution of the several
religions among the class of society from which the
students were derived in the south of Ireland.

In concluding this report I b-g leave to express
the general satisfaction which is felt at the comple-
tion of the improved system of superior education by
the establishment, under your Majesty's Royal
Charter, of the Queen's University in Ireland. The
academic career of the students of the Queen's Col-
leges being thus to be crowned by the reception from
the Chancellor and Senate of the highest university
degrees in the several faculties, will open to your
Majesty's subjects of all creeds an honourable career
in practical and professional distinction, un-
biassed by prejudices, unshackled by illegal ex-
clusion, and rich in the rewards of honour im-
partially bestowed. Your Majesty having graciously
conceded an organisation, so suitably devised, it
becomes the paramount duty of all entrusted with
carrying out so great an educational plan, to devote
themselves to the fulfilment of those objects of public
benefit with which this college and the university have
been founded ; and it is my fervent trust that, not-
withstanding the many and great difficulties with
which this college has to contend from various sources,
it will each year become more efficient in its depart-
ments, more extensive and more perfect in its range
of action, and more fully known for the steady con-
duct and discipline of its students. Thus, alone, can
it become fully entitled to that award of public con-
fidence and support of which already it has received
so satisfactory a share ; and thus only can the autho-
rities of the college feel that they have discharged
their duty, in carrying out to practical succeEs the
beneficent intentions of your Majesty for Ireland and
for its people.
(Signed) ROBERT KANE, President.
Queen's College, Cork, June 18th, 1851.

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OFFICIAL LETTERS OF THE SEVERAL
DEANS OF RESIDENCES ADDRESSEE) TO
THE PRESIDENT OF QUEEN'S COLLEGE,
CORK.
FROM THE REV. LOUIS PERRIN, DEAN OF RESIDENCES
FROM THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

My dear Sir,—l must ask your pardon for the
long delay I have made about answering your note;
since very shortly after the commencement of this
session I have had, as usual, my weekly meetings
with my pupils. My own pupils have attended with
fair regularity, and some of the others (i e., those
not resident in licensed houses), have also very fre-
quently been with me. Fogarty has not attended I
believe engagements prevented him; but as he is of
the Methodist communion, I do not feel that he is
bound to come. I have every reason to believe that
my pupils are regular and attentive to public worship.
The return which you made me at the commence-.
meat of the session has been reduced, as Ashe h.ts
left the licensed house in which he did reside, and is
with his brother ; and Kingston has not been in town
since Christmas. I need not ask have any other
students, in connexion with the Church, been 'since
settled at licensed boarding-house, as no doubt had
such been the case you would have informed me of it,
I remain, my dear Sir, yours, very f dthfully,
Louts PERRIN, Cserk.
See House, Cork, March 14, 1851.

FROM THE REV. WILLIAM O'C ,NN ,R, ROMAN CATHOLIC

DEAN RESIDENCES.

Dear Sir RobettKane,—lo reply to your note of
yesterday, it affords me great c,nsolation to bear the
same high testimony to the conduct of the Roman
Catholic students of Queen's College, Cork (fur what
has pissed of the present collegiate year), that 1 did at
the close of the last year's studies. The students
who reside with parents and guardians, and who do
not necessarily come under my control, are equally
entitled to my praise for attention and for orderly
conduct as those re,iding in b arding-houses ; and I
am happy to be able to add, that whatever may be
the speculative opinions of some wise and good men,
I have not yet seen, nor have the students yet expe-
rienced, danger to either faith or morals at Queen's
College, Cork.

I have the honour to remain, my dear Sir Rober
yours most truly,

WILLIAM O'CONNOR,
Feb. 20, 1851. Roman Catholic Dean of Residences,

FROM THE REV. WILLIAM MAGILL, PRESBYTERIAN DEAN

OF RESIDENCEip TO THE PRESIDENT OF QUEEN'd
COLLEGE, CORR.

Sir,—l have had under my care, for the last ses-
sion, Mr. Rutherford, Mr. Hayes, Mr. Hogg, Mr.
Henry, and Mr. Eunson, students of Queen's College.
Weekly lectures on religion, and intended for their
benefit, have been delivered from October to June.
Regular vieits were paid to the students at their own
rooms for advice and superintendence; and evenings
were devoted to religious and literary education. All
these means of instruction, together with the usual
Divine services on the Sabbath at the Scots' Church,
were attended by the students with considerable re-
gularity, I have bad reason to be satisfied with
their moral character and habits, their attention to
their religious duties, and their interest in their
several courses of study in which they were en-
gaged. They leave Cork, I believe, in every way
improved, and they carry with them a purpose of
literary industry which mny be regarded as the bud of
future promise. The unrivalled advantages they have
enjoyed, aided by the kindness of many of the citi-
zens of Cork, will induce them to commend their
alma mater, and thus collect a harvest of almuni for
future academic honours and pursuits.—l am, sir,
yours, &c.,

WILLIAM MAGILL, Dean of
Residenves of the Presbyterian Church
Cork, June 14, 1851.

QUEEN',-; COLLEGE, GALWAY.
TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

May it please your Majesty,—ln compliance with
the provisions of the Act of Parliament founding the
Queen's Colleges, I proceed to lay before your Ma-
jesty the report of the proceedings of the session
which commenced on Tuesday, the 15th of October,
1850, and which terminated on Saturday, the 14th of
June, 1851.
At two entrance examinations held on the 15th of
October and 20th of December, 1850, twenty-six
students were-enrolled on the college books, of these
twenty-four were matriculated and two non-matricu•
fated students. If these be added to numbers who had
entered the Queen's College during the first session,
the numbers admitted since the opening of the college
in October, 1849, will appear as follows.
As great misrepresentations have been circulated of
the number of students attending this college, as well
as of its general success, I deem it right to make upon
this subject a few observations.
In estimating the progress of such institutions at
the Queen's Colleges, attention must be paid to the
district in which they are placed, and the population
and wealth of the towns with which they are con•
netted. Colleges placed in populous and thriving
localities are at once frequented by numerous stu
dents, who live in their own homes, and who are not
obliged to incur the expense of travelling to or resid-
ing in a distant neighbourhood. The students of the
Queen's Colleges, unlike those of other institutions,
must attend its lectures for at least two terms of esch
sessi. n—a period varying from five to six months.
It will thus he seen how essential it is to look to the
condition of the town near which a college is situated
to judge with fairness of its real progress. In the
great majority of cases the young men frequenting
the Galway College come from a distance, the town
of Galway not as yet possessing such a population as
would furnish a large number of students. Taking
these circumstances into account, I do not hesitate to
say that the Queen's College, Galway, has fully kept
pace with her sister institutions of Belfast and Cork
—institutions which, by the confession of all, have
equalled the most sanguine expectations of their
warmest supporters. Nor do I entertain a doubt that,
despite the extraordinary and continued opposition
which appears to be in a great degree concentrated
upon this particular institutioo, it is destined to out-
live the hostility with which it has been assailed, and to
confer upon the province those countless and ines-
timable blessings which follow in the train of know-
ledge, enlightenment, and civilisation.
I am glad to be able to report that the conduct of
the students (including young men of all p-rsonsions)
has been generally all that could be wished. If some
acts of insubordination and breach of college discipline
have occurred, they have yielded in almost every in-
stance to remonstrance and persuasion. The college
authorities have but rarely been compelled to resort
to penalties. The reports of the professors, to which
I shall subsequently refer, give, on the whole, a very
satisfactory account of the attention which the stu-
dents have paid to their studies and their progress in
the different branches of learning to which they de-
vote themselves. I feel, indeed, sure, that in no col-
legiate institution do the professors labour with more
indefatigable zeal to promote the interests of the stu-
dents ; and it is right to say that, in the majority of
cases, their efforts have been met and responded to as
they deserve. The great dearth of schools in the
province, and the faint desire for knowledge which
has hitherto manifested itself, is strongly perceptible
in the state of preparation of many of the students
who offer themselves for entrance • and nothing better
can illustrate the necessity and advantage of such an
institution as the Queen's College than the change
which a few months' attendance upon the lectures of
the professors has wrought, not only in the aztuel at-
tainments of the students, but in awakening within
them a desire for knowledge. Young men, whose
attainments on entering the college were barely suf-
ficient to enable them to pass the matriculation ex-
amination, have within a short time become most as-
siduous and attentive in their studies, and before the
conclusion of the session have evinced an improvement
which has called forth the admiration of their
teachers.

In the appendix annexed to this report will be
found the courses of instruction which are pursued by
the students in the several faculties and schools, as
well the examination fur matriculation and the scho-
larships of the different years. I have also added se-
lections from questions given at the scholarship and
prize examinations. These questions will be a test
from time to time of the effect which the college may
produce in elevating the standard throughout the
province.
With regard to the religious instruction of the
Roman Catholic students, and their attendance upon
their religious duties, I think it right to state the fol-
lowing circumstances. By the statutes of the Queen's
Colleges the Crown has been empowered to appoint
deans of residencies for the different persuasions, to
whom complete control is given over every student of
their respective creeds not residing with his parent
or guardian, and who can also call for college penal-
ties upon any student, no matter where resident, who
may not be regular in attendance upon his place of
worship. Immediately on the opening of the college,
in October, 1542, a Roman Catholic dean of resi-
dences was appointed, who continued to discharge,
during the entire of the first session, the high and sa-
lutary duties of his office with the most exemplary
attention It was my grateful duty to lay before
your Mjesty, iu my first report, the statement
submitted to me by this excellent gentleman,
of the extreme satisfaction he had derived
from the conduct of the students submitted to his
care. This statement was, indeed, a gratifying. proof
that the statutes had provided abundant securities fi>r
the faith and morals of the students, and that soy
danger which might arise could only ari,e from
Churches not availing themselves of the opportunities
afforded them by the statutes, and from not co-ope-
rating with the college authorities in providing for
the spiritual welfare of the students. Among other
interesting portions of the report of the Raman Catho-
lic dean I beg to refer to the following statement :
" I am happy to say that the Catholic students ,

ha ye, up to this time, evinced a deep sense of the
an xiety which yourself, sir, the college council, and
tb.e entire body of professors, have felt for their reli-
gious instruction in appropriating one day in each
week for that purpose. I have had the satisfaction to
se() them attend my instructions regularly on every
St iturday. My notes of their attendance enable me
tc, report that they have been generally present, ex-
et •pt when prevented by some reasonable cause.
" All students who have been present at my in-
structions have given me the greatest satisfaction, by
the attention which they have paid to the various sub-
jects on which I addressed them, and the thorough
knowledge which I found by . interrogating them
they acquired of them. lam happy to report, as the
fruit of such religious dispositions, that on a late oc-
casion several of the students, who had not previously
received the sacrament of confirmation, were confirmed
by the Right Rev. Dr. O'Donnell.
"I am also gratified in being able to report that,
during the visits which I paid to the licensed houses,
I have heard no complaints nor observed any symp-
toms of disorderly conduct ; on the contrary, I have
received repeated assurances from the parties who hold
these houses, that the students have conducted them-
selves in a quiet, moral, and gentlemanly manner."
Such was the satisfactory manner in which, during
our first session, the religious and secular instruction
of the Roman Catholic students went hand in hand,
the latter given by the accomplished scholars who fill
our professorial chairs, a large number of whom are
Catholics—the former dispensed by the clergyman
who, in accordance with the statutes, bad entered
upon his office under the sanction of the constituted
authorities of his church. I lament to say that this
gentleman has intermitted during the last session the
performance of those sacred duties which he had dis-
charged with ao much honour to himself, and so much
advantage to the college.
In the absence of that minister whom the public
care of your Majesty provided for the Roman Catho-
lic students, the heads of the college have not failed
to use all the weight of their influence and advice in
enforcing upon them a diligent attention to their re-
ligious duties. It gives me sincere pleasure to de-
clare that that advice has been attended to. From
the repeated inquiries I have made, I am able to state
my confident belief that the conduct of the Roman
Catholic students has been excellent; that they have
been regular in their attendance upon their place of
worship, and in the performance of every religious
duty belonging to their creed.
To the cordial support and co-operation we have
received from the reverend deans of the Established
and Presbyterian Churches I find it hard to do jus-
tice. These gentlemen have been instant in the dis-
charge of every duty connected with their office ;
they have endeavoured to carry out the benevolent
intentions of the Legislature, in giving confidence to
the parents of the students submitted to their charge,
and in blending with that instruction which prepares
a man for his walk through life that higher teaching
which sanctifies and elevates his path. Some diffi-
culty has been felt by these gentlemen in the case of
students who do not reside in the boarding-houses,
and over whom their control does not extend. They,
have, however, endeavoured to compensate by an in-
crease of zeal for that legal authority of which they
are deprived in the case referred to. I may hare ob•
serve, that every inducement that could be afforded
to students to reside in licensed boarding-houses
would be in itself an additional security for religions
and morals, by enlarging the power and control of'
those ministers, who, in some degree are accountable
for the conduct of the students.
As connected with the distribution of scholarships,
a circumstance occurred towards the commencement
of the session to which I think it necessary to refer.
In awarding those scholarships which the munificence
of the Legislature has placed at the disposal of the
college, the authorities considered that they were
dealing with a fund which was given to promote edu-
cation, and which ought not, under any circum-
stances, to be bestowed upon undeserving candidates.
While they had regard to the low state of education
in the province, and considered that a high standard
of knowledge ought not for some time to be insisted
upon, they were determined not to confer scholar-
ships upon any candidates whose answering did not
imply such an amount of previous preparation as
would enable them to derive advantage from the
teaching of the professors. Acting upon this princi-
ple, they stopped several scholarships at the exami-
nations held during the first term of the present
session. On one occasion a student who consi-
dered himself aggrieved by not obtaining one of
these endowments, memorialed the visitors against
the decision of the college council. As the transac•
tion involves a principle of law deeply interesting
to all the colleges, and as it tends to show the prompt
attention that is paid to any student who may con-
sider himself unjustly treated, I deem it right to
state the particulars of the transaction, and the deci-
sion of the visitors.
A few scholarships of the second year not having
beers awarded at the first examination of the session
in October, were held over to be contended for at the
second and last examination in December. On this
occasion the scholarships exceeded in number that of
the candidates ; but, as the answering was very de
fective, the college council determined not to award
any of the scholarships. An unsuccessful candidate
protested against this act of the authorities, and urged
them to reconsider their decision, and to grant him a
scholarship. Upon their refusing to do so, the stu-
dent memorialed the visitors of the college, praying
for an extraordinary visitation to consider his claim,
which he rested upon two grounds—first, that he had
not been examined with sufficient care and perfect
fairness; secondly, and chiefly, that the council had
no right to refuse him scholarship under the circum-
stances in question. An extraordinary visitation was
at once granted to the student, and his case received
the most patient and attentive consideration. I feel
much pleasure in stating that the accuracy, care, and
honour of the professors who examined the student
were completely vindicated, and that the decision of
the college authorities in not awsrdiag a scholarship
upon defective answering was fully confirmed. Bat
I feel equal satisfaction in referring to the prompt at-
tention that was paid to. the prayer of the memorialist,
and to the proof which has been thus given that any
student who may consider himself aggrieved will
have the wrong of which he complains at once inves-
tigated by a tribunal composed of men whose rank,
integrity and attainments place them above the sus-
picion of injustice.
With respect to the educational progress of the stu-
dents, I beg to refer to the reports of those professors
who have been engaged in their instruction, and who
state with perf-ct candour the real condition and pro-
gress of the students.
The complete foundation, under letters patent
granted by your Most Gracious Majesty, of an uni-
versity, where the students of the Queen's Colleges
will obtain degrees, and the attaching to them " all
such rights, privileges, and immunities," as belong
to similar degrees granted by the most ancient and
honoured universities of the empire, is a fit comple-
tion of the system of education which your Majesty
and the Legislature have provided for the people of
Ireland. The establishment by the university of
prizes to be contended for by students from all the
Queen's Colleges, will keep alive a spirit of generous
emulation amongst these institutions. It will be a
gratifying and instructive spectacle to see young men
from every province, and of every creed, contending
in honourable rivalry for those prizes which will at
once confer distinction upon those who may obtain
them. The high and respected names which consti-
tute the senate of the Queen's University have already
attracted public confidence, and are a sufficient ear-
nest of the success that will attend its proceedings ;
nor can I allude to the constitution of that body with-
out expressing the entire satisfaction which every sup-
porter of the Queen's Colleges has derived from find-
ing at its head the statesman who, in an auspicious
hour, was called to preside over the destinies of this
country, and to whom the friends of united education
owe a debt of endless gratitude.
The annexing, by the benchers of the Queen's
Inns, to the A.B. degree of the Queen's University
the privileges that attach to the same degree when
granted by the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford,
and Dublin, is a just recognition of the high coutse
of education pursued in the new colleges, and does
honour b 3 the liberality of the benchers. The
student who shall obtain the degree of A.B. will
now be called to the bar without being compelled to
attend the extra terms hitherto required of all who
had not graduated in the older universities. Certain
other privileges have been asked from the benchers
for the diploma of elementary law, and the degree
of LL B. Into the particulars of these demands I
do not think it right to enter, because they are still
under the consideration of the benchers, and because
I have the fullest confidence that every privilege
that justice can require will be ceded by that
learned body. I hope, however, it will not be con-
sidered improper to observe, that the Queen's Col-
leges have peculiar claims to the favourable consi-
deration of the heads of' the legal profession, as being
the first collegiate institutions that have given to the
science of law its due importance, and that by in-
troducing into its ordinary courses the study of its
noble principles, as well as by the creation of legal ,
faculties, and the endowing them with scholarships,
bare endeavoured to premote the cultivation of legal
knowledge.

As regards the profession of solicitors, a recent act
of the Legislature has conferred some very important
advantages upon the students of the Queen's Colleges.
First, by extending to the degrees of A B. and LL.B.
the same privileges which have hitherto been confined
to the degrees of the Universities of Oxford, Cam-
bridge, and Dublin, students now obtaining these
degrees being entitled to be sworn in as solicitors after
three years apprenticeship, instead of five ; and next,
by conferring on all matriculated or non-matriculated
students who shall attend the lectures of the professors
of the faculty of law in the Queen's Colleges the pri-
vileges set out in the following clause

8, 1851

" That every person who has matriculated, or as a
non-matriculated student of one of the Queen's Col-
leges, shall have attended, or shall attend, the pre-
scribed lectures, and shall have passed or shall pass
the prescribed examinations of the professors of the
faculty of law in any of the said Queen's Colleges
for a period of two collegiate years, and who shall
have duly served as an apprentice or clerk, by con-
tract in writing, duly stamped at or before the sign-
ing thereof, or within six months after, fir the term
of four years, in like manner as by the said herein-
before recited Acts is directed respecting the service
for the term of five years, shall at any time after
the expiration of five years from the commencement
of such attendance on lectures, or of such period
of service which shall first happen, be qualified
to be sworn and to be admitted as an attorney or
solicitor respectively, according to the nature of his
service, of the several and respective superior courts
of law or equity in England or Ireland, as tul,y and
effectually, to all intents and purpuses, as any person
having been bound and having served five years is
qualified to be sworn and to be admitted or enrolled
an attorney or solicitor, under or by virtue of an Act
or:Acti now in force for„the regulation of attorneys
or solicitors in England or Ireland, anything in the
said Acts or any of them to the contrary, in anywise
notwithstanding."

It will bs seen from the reports of the professors
that the students have been generally most assiduous
in their attendance upon lectures, and that when
they enter on their stu.iies wi'h a sufficient amount
of preliminary learning, their progress has been only
retarded by their endeavours to pursue at the same
time too many branches of knowledge. It will be
necessary to explain what has mainly given rise to
this. In many instances young men are unable to
meet the expense of residing near and attending the
college unless they are sufficiently fortunate to obtain
scholarships. The large majority of these endow-
ments are annexed to the faculty of arts, while there
are comparatively few in the faculties of medicine
and law, and in the schools of agriculture and
engineering. Now, the students attending these
professional and industrial departments are pre-
cisely those who, looking to the profession or em-
ployment they may adopt in after life for support,
stand most in need of those aids in obtaining edu-
cation which scholarships afford. Accordingly many
students enter the faculty of arts, gain scholarships
therein, and thus deriving the ueises,,ary means for
attending the college, endeavour to pursue, cotempo-
raneously with the studies required in arts, the
courses of instruction given in o. her departments.
Scholars in arts are constantly found ate ending niedis
cal, legal, or engineering lectures, hut particularly
the former. IP, would be urjust to previont any stu-
dent from obtaining at, once by increased l:.bour the
endowment which enables him to prosecute his colle-
giate career, and that particular sp. cies of knowledge
which he may consider most useful to his future pro-
spects. But the pursuit of so many branches of know-
ledge serves, it is feared, to distract his attention, and
to prevent his attaining that complete familiarity with
the subjects of his duty which so effectually helps to
sharpen and fortify the mind.
Acting upon this belief, the college authorities have
determined to recommend to the senate of the Queen's
University that a modification Je made in the
courses of instruction in arts for such students of
the faculty as may be in attendance at the same
time upon the medical lectures, and that they may
be thus enabled to carry on simultaneously their edu-
cation in both departments. They conceive that, by
such an arrangement, many persons will obtain the
means of pursuing their medical studies who would
otherwise be precluded from doing so, while the stu-
dents of the medical faculty will be encouraged to
cultivate, together with their professional pursuits,
those branches of classical and general learning which
every day's experience proves to be so essential to the
medical practitioner.
I have referred to the fact, that the scholarships in
the faculty of arts are often sought for by students to
enable them to attend lectures in other departments,
and to the injurious effects likely to result from such
a practice. The cause of this I have already ex-
plained to be the difficulty which students find in meet-
ing the expenses of the college. This difficulty, I
have little doubt, will form the only real obstacle to
the speedy and entire success of the institution, and
not any opposition arising from a misconception of its
nature, which every hour must serve to dissipate. I
am far from wishing to recommend that any of the
scholarships at present annexed to the taculty of arts
snould be transferred to the other departments, be-
cause I believe it right to encourage the youth of the
present day to a diligent cultivation of those great
models of ancient literature, and those exact sciences,
which form the best mental culture ; but I most re-
spectfully venture to submit that some means should
be devised by which the cost of attending the college
would be lessened, and the advantages it offers be thus
more widely diffused. The tees pay able to the college,
which at present constitute the sole means of defray-
ing its current expenses, add largely to the cost the
student must encounter.

To enable the authorities of the colleges to reduce
these fees, by a grant for meeting this expenditure,
would be an object worthy of the wise and benevo-
lent policy which, in other respec's, has so nobly en-
dowed it. No educational institution that I know of
is left wit iout some provision for its maintenance.
The establishment, too, of boarding-houses or halls
under the control of the authorities, where the stu-
dents could reside at a fixed and moderate rate, would
largely contribute to extend the ben.-fits of the holm,
tution. If the college tees were reduced to tls, same
moderate standard which premiss in the universities
of Scotland, and boarding-houses or hails provided
tor the students—all of which could be dune at en
expense utterly insignificant as compared with the
great end in view—the college would, I am persuaded,
overcome every obstacle it may have to encounter,
and would cast far and wide throughout the province
those precious seeds of knowledge sure to yield at no
distant period that abundant harvest which would
repay with usurious interest whatever cost or care
has been expended in its establishment.
(Signed), EDWARD BERWICK, President.
Q.Leen s G ilw4y, A ul4. 5 1851.

POLICE INTELLIG6INCE.
MANSION-HO US E.
Walter Whittaker was charged with having com-
mitted an assault upon a policeman with a tobacco-
pipe, and inflicting a most dangerous wound.
It app'ared that the policeman was called in by the
landlady of a public-house called the Custom-house
Stores, to remove the prisoner from the bar, on ac-
count of having used offensive language to her. He
induced the prisoner to leave the house quietly, but
after going a short distance he returned, and said he
should go in again. The policeman told him he mu-t
take the consequences it he went back. Upon this he
took a long pipe from his mouth, and thrust it into
his face. On finding that blood began to flow, he
went to Mr. Childs, surgeon to the police force.
Mr. Childs said the pipe had made a most danger-
ous wound; it had penetrated the side of the face.
With great difficulty he contrived to extract a piece
of pipe about two inches long from the wound, it had
forcibly perforated the bone, and was lodged in the
cavity of the upper jaw. To do this great violence
must have been used. He could not say what would
be the effect of the wound, but the complainant would
perhaps suffer more or less from it all his life.
The prisoner was apprehended by another police-
man while running away. He said the landlady had
given him a pinch of snuff, after which he became in-
sensible and knew nothing of what had occurred.
It was proved that he was not in liquor.
The prisoner was committed for trial for having
assaulted the policeman with intent to commit some
bodily harm.

MARYLEBOIVE.
James Cummins and William Cummins (brothers),
both of them well known to the police as being most
desperate characters, were placed at the bar before
Mr. Long, charged with outrages of a very brutal
description upon the police and other persons.
The first •named prisoner has for a long time been
known by the appellation of the "Slasher," and has
several times been punished for murderous assaults
committed by him ; the other has also been more
than once in " trouble" fir offences of a like nature.
Sergeant Bushell, 9 D. whose eyes were shockingly
bruised and swollen, deposed that on the same
morning, at two o'clock, as he was on duty in Hare-
wood-square, he saw a woman leaning against. the
rails, and, on his asking her wha' was the matter
with her, she told him that she felt ill. He advised
her to make the best of her way home, which she sail
was near at hand, and at the same moment the pri
sonere made a remark to him the purport of which
he did not understand, and he then went on towards
Dorset-squere, on the way to,which spot the prisoners
rushed out upon him from a mews, and, seizing him,
beat and kicked him most severely upon the face and
different parts of his body; the prisoner James
Cummins also tore a quantity of heir from his (wit-
ness's) head. Hr (the sergeant) cried out " Murder"
as loudly as he was OA., and in a short time some
c,-nstables and other persons came to his assistaoct ;
had they not done so his life would probat.ly have h,t,n
sacrificed.

A great deal more evidence was gone into, from
which it apprsred that the prisoners had assaulted
other police f,ffiee ni and two per,ons, who, hearing
the cries of murder, went to Birdiell's assistance.
The prisoners, who had no witnesses to speak in
their behalf, said that they were improperly inter-
fered with in the first insturice by the sergeant, itiAi
illtreated by him.
Mr. LONG characterised the assaults as being of a
most unprovoked and brutal nature, and therefore
felt himself bound to inflict a `were punishment,
which he hoped would he a i.,:i!utiry lesson to the
prisoners with regard to their future conduct.
Each of the prisoners was fined 203. or fourteen
days' imprisonment, in two cases, for attacks upon
civilians and for assaults ul3Oll the police. James

ur toed
Cummins was sent for three months to the Pic)--tio
Correction, being one month for each of the
assaults. Wi Cummin3 was, in addition, t°,.4,
fines above stated, sentenced to two months' iverl
ration, being one month each for the attacks W
him upon two officer:,.

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THE COUNTRY MARK-El° oil
et t 041.11
dr
LIVER'. . OL, SEPT. 6 -We are very qui
not much passing in the trade.
the w tber os
MANCHESTER, SEPT. 6.-Altbough - %It
ring the week has fur the most port bees . 010
cloudy, with occasional slight showers of "In:oer
M not on the whole been .favourable for batlePto if
tions. The trade throughout the same WO'
OU le
r I
na of
mained in much the same state as noted jo
port, a m, derate, but by no means brink, de,°!isro,
experb need for approved marks of fresh-maae 0 10
oatm,a), without varia!ion in prices. Cca`tvleorpoll
from Ireland the arrivals at Liverpool and 1S,!„,(1011
again to a limited amount, and those from suividic
this week on a less extensive ,Cale than we hi'veciatf,
notice" of late. At our was ket this morning 50.04 tt
occurred in the value of •wh-st. Floor Woe
slowly, but good qualities,
maintained the currency of this day se'liidgbt• wise
oatmeal, continuing in moderate supply, like
put. d late rates. . well /!.,,Is
NOTTINGHAM, SEPT. 6.-The market wa- die e-
pli. d with now wheat to-day, but notwitbstSui old
large quantity well got, many of the sastosot
whether Eltlish Oro,
poor condition, and sold very slowly. Til° ''' tbson
of new and fine old were Is per quarter lowa 0,17 A
week. Some samples of new barley were °WI 41.
the quality was coarse and condition not goalito sti
not tear of any sales being made. Iti oa
11 4
peas no alteration. , ..,,,a stik7Af
GLASG.W, SEPT. 4.-Owing to the Awry lic'
cattle from Ireland this morning, sales were vet, 400. A
effected. Best ox beef, 42s per cwt; carrel, . tor,
ferior, 34s to 365. At the close a greats 0110 d Istsr
out unsold. Although the number of sheP, of IP;
was smaller than last week's mark*-t, ,ellsd 6'
equal to the demand. Best aged wethersp,' tobs V
middling quality, 4to 41d; inferior, 3id' i2e; °,.,‘
dull in sale; best, 15s each; current, 103 to *,,,,,, Pa
from 6a to Sw; a few lots of small inferior 8070rA
3s to 4s. At the close a great many tur°_,ed f°ostu lifile"
DALYEITH, SEPT. 4.-The relative weight nib, sr#)
of the three pi ices of wheat were Ibst 71b, 'BLit 0 111,1
01b. Oats, 12st 'lb, 12st 81b and lOst 121 b. v"-,,0,."',11'
lest 01b, and 15st 21b. Peas and beans, I9st w
end 15st 131bs. bieril
Ql4. Wheat ... ...... Z2Besst. 6 ' EC2urreint.l). £Bl 1861
11l
602 Oats
164 Barley
'27 Peas and Beans 1 19 6 1 17 ° 01,
Average of wheat .. , ... 38i Sit to 11,1004
ABZILDIEN, SET.T 5.-Grails-Oats-. 2,)%-dibspsr,o4o,
401bs pm bushel; foreign oats, 00s Od to 170 un, ";" 00'i/
~ol
barley, 23, od to 24s od. 521bs per buabel ; be:j6 &W.;
(td, 521bs per bushel, wheat illsto 425; °straw, ";I,sair,7l
per boll ; flour, 30s to 3ls per sack. Pro
ce-,i, dill;
3n to 6d per lb; mutton, ditto, 3d to ,6tr lb, 56,1P61:
to 5d ; pork, per stone, 3e 6d to 3s 9d ; lamp, 1,0,,,, r.'d r
tallow, per stone, 3.> lid to 35 6cl; Pe 6064, _7240;
6d to 8d ; rabbits, each, Od to 0d; '"",.- P"..,101
Ito „A: sr
to 050 d ; grouse, per brace, Os to Os ; butter, Pe,: 1, ~,,,, it,
eggs, per doz, Bd to 10d ; cheese, per oft, 186 . pd. ‘lO.-, 0
peisi6pdaitro,22ssodod;todutsk6ldin;
gcsh,icdkitetnos,,2,dsittoto2,
il:66d;titteur.ilt,itscot?r, 0
U•
e3A
ii,t. to
u.
ea
srB6i
e,
dsderm,
tt
:op
e;
a4igor:escetwsidet, ditto. 76 to 8s; butter for epl.:ea..--te(17110;10'
to bid; 41b loa:f,7pc3oalskt°ll,fits:desf•scemrgeagdilt:,w6bd°•lesuariel" Per 't°°
1
al Oatmeal, 15 Sd to Is 9d•
ship pork per basrsrelcrotf°2o°%°cllbs;:i:'l;
3d;110d to 2s Od; aids, 7bdartoleY°%ld'ullibet" rrogelidl4llll.l
to Is 6d; flour, Is 9d to is 10d; bar' ley, per lb, -)
floupr,ußosLOldN,tos in aistelt
E1PT8'.1.5.-The supply of new grit, Orclelpio6
cEuvrereyn a idecaliPrei Pl,t'i :din e metaa
last,s l)
but demandofd t w, with:, h :tin e:
$ 1.10 d; ill
/ '4
of feeding oats, continues without aecn' - o'4
corn_ scarcely saleable, and our quotattul, 10 $.09,
bWheat, white, 19s to 215 od; red ditto; ;104l:001
ere, new 9s Od ti lOs 0.1; oats, 14s Od 1° ~-6l; 0114
new, 9s Od to Ila Oil; oatmeal, lis6d to lb' per
B,j,l!,tti,
ur, per cwt., 12s Od to 14. 0 i.; Indian surgiti per
25s Dr
to 27a OJ ; rapeseed, new 14a Od to 15'. "- . Oh
We have had anotCnOerß+.KeeSkEoPTt SEPT.
54 in-actill
with scarcely any business passing in either to 01/%10
clese iste
of grain. Indian corn, especially, °wing': ted.i. aII
supply_ of potatoes, is almost totally OP; 010 i
English advices continue to represent the e,;..osrf ill
coming in in fine condition, and of extra 01.100010.
quality.hetoreigTnhais,
tiiicaise,t haencdffuetct
damping
intifl °bPrirhijgcol
trade materially. Tile supplies of g.rai° re il3 :110
condition,
increase daily. The oats arriviog slity `01•0(1.
are-ofmTwheatehnetlate
ai
ntiesandiadhrisydo
good, of
but
te
wheat,weather,
Irespect.
,5
5 4
Thebhowever,arr e
totalls
384 b 0 deo 0
the value
barrels.lue o
a n
yWd
eesheraivpetti'clov'euncraoluiftldygiiitbseialP:eriuTnerec:c:bi(eiseisiaP;lgti:4ll:lCrre."-'.;1:1901:05:1:e:riPl!
which are 3d to 4d pe r brl lower, Ittibeinith-e_slro-titoiliglii,ifo
mtwheeeliht
mostos,vebhyarsde,
etbaauimit very little doin and eve° "" sllio
ractebr
soeaptsp.ly oTfhteheflmouoerrereshaswmey reciselllo IN°
noticed, the purqpase
have
v immejiatee Exceptwa sagtse $0:5°;18:111311° Li°.
°5117141
market continues p i solely e
eptrnieetsitrheer working off tneiardestboecikns before patio
hiicergi
fate
elyngliaeggebnocrdts;.
stilll udpiraincecsoranre, ansoamllnesodifY °boo'
last quoted.
Barrels. Citill.es
83 White wheat ...16s 9d to 185 6d ,„„,171 a Pcl-4° 0
54 Red wheat 145 Fel to Ms Od "'"
67 Ditto
32 Ditto . 16s 6d to 17. 9d nos Ofr
42 Barley
16 here - - ......
357 Oats
od
8s Od to bs 8d Ofr
mno:
179 Ditto ....
r} --
,siti
51 Ditto .. ...
0 Pigs Otis 111 to 00s Od `'" siti';
Quantity sold at the Highest Priceily:fe 5
11 barrels white wheat; 11 red; 18 barley; 4
0 13igs.
Quantity of Grain and Number of Pigs en"-trilli;
Wheauta,lictlyA,osNT3.. Barley, 799. Oats, '2,67
~ 1.., freiV
. . PRICES OF BUTTER. ~..• 61'
jaw' ...
Third
Second
db qdu:
quality li t y coot .... 'ir
Whisky.Fourtl.ld qualitype
Fifth quality
Sixth quality
t
Return of Cattle sold for week ending Pl. OP
average
agw,Baiasno.lo.ot77,at,s:ol(d'itit.o: 1: :01; hi(4s)use::: 6hdolSFdiit::::hl4l2qqt u;aa16::i1Yt;)61.i..:::::.7.irG'.°31;4504"11°!r..
Sheep, 339. C°l4' 702510
01205. ;thddealteorin;s3°3,edsa Oatmeal
o :I:
61 p r cwt. Indian corn 5i 10s to 3g4;slAol
0071;8515vpe'oder:t6gao;nde. ;ragiflBl Hay--iooea.n,Femaariupreaer.:te:r92n°B9l:4*B:,...,,titi'6os:oll4;ol:l
household loaf 4
12:
ne.r Car. c
I seconds, o
rte
1P49: 30:.e1.
per ton.to Bread-Wheaten
per 41b.W heaftr:bl°s----tb'at°f'Cl°l
94 per 15. Eggs-45 3d to 4s 4d per busarvoT• ifi;o4
Dort Od Lydney 15s ; Landore (o ye 01
per
bacon
cwt.o n9d per
Tallow 38s Od t° 3.fl' oe• .ii.- Vi
-Beef sid to 7d; mutton 5d to 6itd; 1 btl Coe
?to;p
sp6los4d2sto
t_o.n_. Bark-Barbary 7t Os to 8/ Os ; Valonis 151°, pet' rd
sitd4taretmok,peT2t2l6i 291
12 to
oo:ro3:ttogivpep3l i
per barrel
7ois
salted
l BtooFish-
d .1; p
N2eßreatnoufgt
onoowout;ren1337rsdlosedihaadte;:pv_;;;:!::::::::::::s.:00101:
util us ; Spanish 0/ per ton, Fleece Wool 145 0 I'6 00'; 0(
ditto,_. 15s per ton; deals, 12s to 155 per I : 6011'.001
...... ovrt I p1ie1,,,,s
3d to 3.id i 7 t
„,,, 2 per lb. Potatoes, white 4ha tnkm. Bite
Wa to 00d. Guano- Peruvian, 11/ 105
[ells"
per ton. Tar-Archangel, 195 per barrel- .
(t)°l"W'On°B aP. : ..
67776.t2:
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tif°°‘
Mills, Captain, h p., 9%11 F. 1 Armyti ilit'
Lieuter.aqt-Colonels—Day, late Bengt.
leod, C. 8., late R. Eng ,Penrith; P. Mac Dot 'glolf,
Majors —Kitson; ret. f 62d F., Bath; rats 75
ret. t:n., 13i h Vet. 80., Loudun;P Cradockt .- i
id
Mil. Knight of Winthor. . 641 ,
Jame.
___ Captains—Gordon, 42d F., Cairo;
llyderabad; Mitchell, 84th F., Trichinopolh .1; f'4o
Lieutenants—Glasgow, 4th Dr. Gds., Lilvel;coo3 fit.
Ist Bat. lit F., at sea, on passage howe J-Callvf,l
Scitia; Dawson, Ceylon Reg., song. NOP 6113 ~
wood, ret. f. p., sth Vet. Bu.; Downe, hkPß"fi II:J.
Upson, h.p., 15th F.; Haz-n, 11. p , 49'11 F., 6tha*.—
W.:-
wick ; Phillips, h.p., 57th F ; Scott, b.p., ,1,01
Reg,
nDeubtiwn;atWts,atilla.pc.:,
2d Dr,
Yorkr.
utbin;
Chaa6Bl3"'
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Cornet—Watts,
h.p.,
staff. —Pilkington, b.p., Staff, B

ff 0 dsbilet;
Lord Bagot's seat Brthfi ld B 11 Ste-hrw'oga
has been the ecene of great IfestiCities weepold,
the arrival of' the lion Baaot. too"
bride, daughter of Lady Dover, from their wool'

BIRTHS.

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OF A SON. Tb°l
On the 4th inst., at Salisbury, the ladi. of
11111
$,
Grove, Esq., of seagry-house, Wilts. of an het..., of
Oa the 4th inst., at St. Helen's-place, the Woe
Soly, Esq., F.R S.

ii.
On the 2d inst., at Peubury, Kent, the • _.oft
st;fr_ ot VI.
OF A DAUGHTER.
Wall, Esq., of Tunbridge•wells no giddier
•
On the ler inat, at. Eutcote-house, Beie•-0
the wife of Francis H. Deane, Esq.
tseirnAgtolef
tChristchurch,ot,naeHi4,,ipeerr by the Rev. Robert Walpole A
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MARRIED.
ter of the lateh
of Hat chum.
near St. Austell, Cornwall. P ' q"
f.A,A. a Herd',
. ~?..hio',,,qa":,,RsNte ,hetouesvAnEnse Sopohf iLa,gev_l...: 11°'''
On the 4th inst., at Hampstead, Middlese z. l'". srle, ' tt:
ca,tle, Esq.. younger son of the late Alfred flardc3srt dildol,
heath, and Samuel Hoare. jun.. 1%41., .. IL. .u,Stirrty. to Priscilla Buxtol:),ejlilalopteforl,
step-d,iuzliter of Captain Sir Wililde Hi
of the Royal N ' a J'' f
~,,/w t,
On the -lth it;stvt.3;:a Trinity Church, St. 310Yle"vfici''rol
Henderson, Esq., eldest son of J. P. flentlerVil' alog
~. no ' In'
Manchester-square, to Aim Mary C. Coo^s-- t„ ,f Lit
Cughter of tit, late Dr. William Cyok•on, M.P.,'
DIED. ,7D , 6, il'
On the Ist inst.. at Thames Villa, Kino of ton, Treoilisi
63, John Young, el lest son of the late J. Young, the
house, Newport, Isle of Wight. Areclat
Oa the 4th inst., at Woolwich, Cordelia Viritr,!' 01
wite of Captain the 11,n Montagu Stopford, li.i',,t_Col°
At Ramsgate, on the 3d inst., age,' ;8, Lientelle'
tbj' ~d
Tart liff Boger, K..H., late of the Royal ArtillerY.stres
On the .ith its t.. William Stericker, Eal,•°l
and Penehurch-street. Ezell 51.

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