The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-03 00:00:00

CAMBRIDGE, June 2.

At a congregation this day the proposals of the
Syndicate for altering the examination for the
mathematical tripos were carried .by 40 votes
against 35. Also the Rev. G. F. Leyuer, of St.
John's College, was admitted to the degree of
D.D., and J. H. Raven, of Jesus College, to that
of M.A.

The next theological examination will begin on
Tuesday, October 6, 1868, at 9 a.m. The names
of candidates must be sent to the prazlectors of their
several colleges not later than Tuesday, Sept. 15.
The selection from the Epistles of the Greek Tes-
tament for the ordinary examinations of Easter and
October, 1869, is—the two Epistles to the Thessa-
lonians and the Epistle of St. James. The subjects
for the Additional Examination of Candidates for
Honours At Easter, 1869, are—Greek Testament :
the two Epistles to Timothy and the Epistle to
Titus. Septuagint : Deuteronomy 1, xix., and
Amos. The Epistle of Poly carp, the Epistle to
Diognetus, and Irenmus adversus Ilerreticus, Lib•
11. Butler's Analogy, Part I. Barrow's Sermons
on the Creed, 1-5.

The Hebrew subjects for Easter and October,
1869, are—Genesis, Amos.

Mr. G. E. Phillips has been elected a Fellow of
Corpus Christi College.

AN AMERICAN PAPER ON IRELAND.

There is an able article in the Round Table on
the wrongs of Ireland, which, it states, began on
the quarrel of Henry VIII. with Rome, making
the English a Protestant people without converting
the Irish from the faith of their forefathers. The
entire property and revenues of the old Church
passing into possession of the new, laid the foun-
dations of that political, social, and religious mis-
government from which Ireland has suffered from
the Tudors to the Guelphs. A whole people were
made to support a religion professed only by a small
number of alien residents. The Catholic Irish had
to furnish the means for an ecclesiastical system
which they held to be a " damnable " heresy, ten-
tenths of the population having to contribute to the
maintenance of a clergy whose dogmas were recog-
nized only by one-tenth. The Episcopal Establish-
ment in Ireland counts 693,300 members out of
5,720,000, with a revenue of £600,000, of which
one-third is from landed property and two-thirds
from tithes, the tenants, that is the Catholic people,
being indirectly the persons taxed ; supplying, ac-
cording to the Round Table, £400,000 a year of
that sum. To maintain this huge wrong has been
the cause of the misgovernment of Ireland. The
Round Table asserts that the experience of history
goes to show that one country is really unfit to
govern another, and it is under the Federal sys-
tem alone that different nationalities can hope
to live together in harmony. The question at issue
between England and Ireland is one of race, pro-
ducing an antagonism to be overcome neither by
violence nor conciliation. Those who boast that
the people of Ireland have been governed by pre-
cisely the same laws as the people of Eng-
land do not touch the real point, even were it
the case, which it has been only during the
last few decades, for it would still remain the
worst possible plan. Ireland differs radically from
England, having nothing in common with her, and
presenting an irreconcilable contrast. She has no
historical associations—no national sympathies with
her; the heroes of England have been the scourges
of Ireland. Cromwell and William 111. are quoted
as instances. Of course the Round Table means
William 111., although it actually states William the
Fourth, not in figures but in letters, to be the King
who violated the treaty of Limerick, and approved
the Bloody Code. When the First Napoleon was
lampooned in England, Irish poets sang paeans to
his greatness ; when Fox lost the confidence and
love of his own countrymen he was almost wor-
shipped by the Irish ; Garibaldi was popular in
England, but the reverse in Ireland. It is a most
mischievous idea to govern Ireland as England is
governed ; the former requiring a rule essentially un-
like, and before she can become a s mnd member of the
empire, a decentralising policy must be adopted.
Total separation is only desired by a small fraction
of the people, who know they could not exist with-
out the connection. The Round Table points out
the prominent part taken by Irishmen iu the Go-
vernment of the Empire, and thus proceeds to de-
scribe the parties into which Ireland is split :--
" Independent of the ultra Protestant Orangemen
of the North, who are mostly of Anglo-Saxon de-
scent, and have neveL sympathised with the native
population, Ireland may now be said to be divided
into three great parties, all more or less disaffected
toward the English Government. To the first be-
long the Feniana, recruited principally from the
lowest strata of the people, who insist on entire se-
paration and annexation to the United States. The
second comprise the anti-Unionists, or Repealers,
who demand an English von Beust, and the
same autonomy for Ireland in the British em-
pire as that which Hungary has lately obtained
from the Austrian. This party, though not the most
numerous in times of excitement, is yet the most
influential. To the third belong the Unionists, re-
presented in the Imperial Parliament by Maguire,
'lhe O'Donoghue, and others, who desire the pre-
servation of the Union of 1800, but hope to obtain
such radical reforms as can be secured by strictly
constitutional means. This party comprise the
higher society., and its influence only makes itself
felt in tranquil times. These three factors the Bri-
tish Government has to take into account in deal-
ing with Ireland. The Repealers are only just re-
gaining their ground, and a statesmanlike policy
might win their confidence. Mr. Gladstone's Re-
solutions are already a step in the right direction,
for the solution of the Church question involves the
solution of many others. Let the 800,000 acres,
which number also includes the glebe lands owned
by the Established Church, once revert to the
State, and the land tenure grievance can easily
be settled without prejudice to vested rights, on
the admirable plan suggested by Mr. Bright."

The startling statement of the Pays, that three
persons had been arrested at Rouen for conspiring
against the life of the Emperor Napoleon is autho-
ritatively contradicted by the Constitutionnel.

The New York adviees mention that the smaller
denominations of United States bonds are in request
at relatively advanced prices owing to their being
largely used in place of letters of credit. Formerly
the newspapers were crowded with ajvartisements
from bankers, inviting travellers and men of busi-
ness to buy their letters of credit, and a large amount of
business was transacted in this way. Bonds are now sub-
stituted, especially by German and continental travellers
visiting Europe. " They find them much cheaper and
more easy of negotiation than the old-fashioned docu-
ments."
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