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STANDARD.—In the deb' te
grant either of lagt or. 1841, IN <ll4 stns e •'tpr,
cisely which, Sir Robert Peel, IN kl444ljucr to. • . se
the grant, freely declared his conviction (4`ovirugh
inctitiry into the system generally pursued' hi" the
Romanist College was called for, adding that
the proposition for this inquiry would most
becomingly proceed from the parties more directly
interested. !Three years, 'a least, have passed• since
this intimation was given, yet we do not' fincr,that
the parties directly interested in Maynooth have mani-
fested the least disposition to act upon it. Maynooth
remains, as Sir Robert Peel said on Friday, still in. a
most " unsatisfactory position," and it is now full time
for the Government to take up the consideration. of the
subject. This considt ration, to be effectual for good,
must, however, go a great way beyond the constitution
and conduct of this particular college.. Narrowing the in-
vestigation within these limits, almost the only alterna-
tive at which the Government could arrive would be

either to enlarge the grant, which upon the hypothesis
would be to augment enormously an enormous evil, or
to discontinue it altogether, which, if not a violation
of one of the subsidiary engagements of the Act of
Union, would be easily employed as a- pretext
for charging such a violation. The investi-
gation to be opened by the Government must take a
much wider range ; it must- embrace the considera-
tion generally of the means of education of the middle-
class Roman Catholics of Ireland, with a view to reform
the clergy of the Church of Rome through the laity of
the Church - of Rome—the only way in which the Ro-
manist clergy, or the peasantry now enslaved to them,
can ever be effectually reformed, or the latter can be
emancipated. Were the middle-class Roman Catholics in
Ireland as well educated as the corresponding class of Pro-
testants, the power of the priests over the peasantry. would
he rapidly extinguished ; and whether we are right.or
wrong in our conviction that a prodigious step ssould
be made towards the religious reformation of the whole
people—it is certain that all, if not made Protestants,

would be made incomparably better Roman Catholics,
better neighbours, better subjects, and better men. The

means or effecting this all-important object may
not be easily discoverable, but we believe that
they are not hopeless, and it is quite appa!
rent that if employed they will be, in the great
majority of cases, of certain operation. There is in Ire-
land already a numerous body of educated Roman Catho-
lics, and these are universally, except the very feir for
whom the tempting prizes held out by faction have
proved too strong, peaceable and loyal citizens ; their
number is increasing, and, with improved facilities
and motives for education, will increase until

they become co-extensive with the whole of the
middle-class Roman Catholics in the island. 'These men

hold an opinion of the present order of Roman Catholic
priests very little different from that held by Irish Pro-
testants, and are at least as anxious as we call be to see
that order both improved and humbled. In the in-
tercourse of life they mingle freely and cordially
with Protestants of their -own rank, and are as
freely and as cordially accepted in Protestant so-
ciety. A great deal of this happy communion is due to
Trinity College, Dublin, as Mr. Wyse almost acknow-
ledged while paying a just tribute to the high and honour-
able spirit of this Irish University, but the debt is due to
Trinity College as it is—not to Trinity College as it
would be if Mr. Wyse's proposition of introducing
Roman Catholic fellowships and scholarships were
adopted. It is because the corporation of the
College is and must remain exclusively Protestant, that
it is able to teal without partiality or suspicion of par-
tiality, which suspicion would be just as' destructive of
peace as the thing. suspected. The notions of the
power of rude fusion in conciliating, the disposi-
tions of men, long prevalent in Ireland, are strangely
contradictory of what experience teaches every-
where else. If you would have men to unite
cordially in friendship or in any common
_feeling,
you must trust to their voluntary approximation ; and
where you interfere at all, interfere only to keep them as
much as possible apart upon those subjects. upon which
you know that they cannot agree. The means of
conciliation hitherto employed in Ireland have
been very much like the device of cruel boys, who
tie the tails of cats together and throw them across
a cord that they may lovingly' 'embrace, or
who fling a bone to two dogs at play,
to promote their affectionate dalliance. It is not, there-
fore, surprising that in Ireland " conciliation " always
means a challenge to reciprocal hatred. Quite sure we
are, that the less any Government attempts to force the
Irish Protestants and Roman Catholics into union, the
more rapidly they will join in friendship; like all the rest
of the world they choose to have their affections at their own
disposal. To come back, however, to our immediate subject.
What the Government contemplates we do not pretend
to know, nor are we certain that they have as yet any
digested plan ; and, indeed, we almost hope that they
have not, because we think that in preparing prelimina-
ries for their reform, au amount of good may be ef-
fected, inferior only to the adoption of an effectual reform
itself. Before, in fact, any further step should
be resorted to, we would wish to see a report
of the constitution, state, conduct, and prospects
of all the principal universities on the continent of
Europe in which Roman Catholics are educated,
whether in Roman Catholic or in Protestant countries.
Such a report would be best compiled from the re-
ports_ of Consuls, for the reports of Commissioners
are always suspected, and the value of this re-
port would be the weight with which it must operate upon
the minds of the middle class. The report of. which we
speak would, if we mistake not, show that. in every
country of Europe, Ireland only excepted, the 'Roman
Catholic clergy and laity are educated. in. common,
and the Irish Roman Catholics would thus see the
fraud, which many of them already suspect, practised in
reserving Mayneoth for an exclusively ecclesiastical esta-
blishment. Let us only reflect for a moment what would
be the effect, if the middle-class Roman Chatholics of
Ireland should insist upon a community of education as be-
tween laymen and clergymen. The laity would, of course
—honourably ambitious not to come behind their Pro-
testant fellow-citizens--demand the same liberal and
comprehensive education, which so many of them
now seek and receive at Trinity College,
Dublin, and the priests must submit to the
same course of reading. Nor is this all. -The
priests could not dare to follow, in the presence of
laymen, that abominable.;; line of study which occu-
pies nearly all their tat:talon in the sty at May-
nooth. Their fellow-students of the laity would
not endure the abominations of Dens and Liguori, or the
atrocities of Devoti—at all events if such vile books
should still constitute the foundation of sacerdotal edu-
cation, the Roman Catholic laity would know it,, and
would not be shocked and insulted by first hearing the
training of their wives and daughters' confessors from
the lips of Protestants, and in the vidfence of Exeter
Hall. air
UNIVERSITY IN7ETIGENCE.

OXFORD, Juur 20.—At the annual election, Winchester
College, the following gentlemen were placed on the roll, to
fill the vacancies that may occur during the year at • New
College, in this University :—Messrs. Wingfield, Fox, Baker,
Dewar, Mount, Ridding, Bateman, Shipley, Frith, Loveday,
and Bathurst.
N. Kendall, Esq., has presented the Rev. Nicholas Kendall,
of Trinity College, to the vicarage of Tolland, Cornwall,
value 1101. per annum.
The Rev. H. Fyffe, of New Inn Hall, has been presented
with the perpetual curacy of St. John's, London-road,
Southwark.
The Rev. J. Browell, of Exeter College, has been presented
to the curacy of Fulham, Middlesex.
The Marquis of Cholmondeley has presented the Rev. T. B.
Lancaster to the vicarage of New Houghton, Norfolk, value
681. per annum.
The Lord Bishop of Lichfield has presented the Rev. J.
Nunn to the perpetual curacy of Moreton-say, Shropshire,
value 1201. per annum.
The Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol has instituted
the Rev. H. H. Mogg to the vicarage of High Littleton,
Somerset, value 97/. per annum.
The Grocers' Company have presented the Rev. R. J. Har-
rison to the perpetual curacy of Forden, Montgomeryshire,
value 119/. per annum.
The Vicar of Bolton has presented the Rev. P. A. Galindo
to the perpetual curacy of Bradshaw, Lancashire, value 1501.
per annum.
The Lord Bishop of Bangor has presented the Rev. J. IN%
Jones to the rectory of
.Heneglys, Anglesey, value 3831. per
annum.
The Rev. W. Metcalfe has been presented to the incum-
bency of St. John, Yeedon, Yorkshire.
Lord Henniker has presented the Rev. E. J. Moor to the
rectory of Great Bealings, Suffolk, value 230/. per annum.
The Lord Chancellor has presented the Rev. R. Williams
to the perpetual curacy of Stoken Church, in this county.
The Earl of Westmoreland has presented the Rev. J. Oliver
to the vicarage of Warmington, Northamptonshire, value
107/. per annum.

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HER MAJESTY.—The apartment selected fur the
accouchement of her Majesty at 'Windsor Castle is in the
Augusta Tower, situate between the Victoria Tower (in which
are the suite of rooms appropriated for the nursery of the in-
fant Royal Family) and the York Tower, and commands a
beautiful prospect to the southward, extending over the
Long Walk, Windsor Forest, and the Great Park, and
bounded by the richly-wooded scenery of the Surrey hills.
A deputation from the Society
i for the Employ-
ment of the Distressed Needlewomen n London, consisting
of Lord Ashley, M P., Mr. Alderman Farebrother, and other
gentlemen, attended by Mr. Roper, the hon. secretary, had
an interview with Sir Jamos Graham, at the Home-office on
Saturday last, upon the subject of the low prices which work
is taken in at the various prisons and other establishments,
to the great detriment of the industrious poor ; when the
Home Secretary was pleased to express his anxious desire to
afford all possible attention and assistance to remedy the evil
complained of.
The Great Western Railway Company have sold
their premises in Princes-street, City, .to the L nion Bank of
London, for 28,000 L, including the landlord's fixtures.—
Railway Record.
Ili E GOLD Du ST Disco V EltY .--A good .deal: of
jocular gossip is being bandied about here on account of a
considerable quantity of glittering sand, which 'the officers
and seamen of several of the guano' ships have
brought home in bags in high hopes that it is gold dust. It
was discovered by a party of sailors on the African' coast
opposite Ichaboe, a few miles inland, and of course Jack saw
that his fortune was made at once, if he had but as..much
spare canvass as would make sufficient bags for' the treasure
and the belief that that part of Africa was once called the
,‘ gold coast" instantly confirmed the fact. The "golden op-
portunity" was iinmediately seized upon, and every "palm"
and "sail-needle" set to work ire bag-making. The ore has
actually arrived, and is reported officially ; and in the im-
port list of last week we see noted the " Clansman of Glas-
ow, Peck, from Ichaboe, with 530 tons guano to A. and J.
Downie, and 21 bags supposed gold ore to the' trfaster."
Since its appearance here all our amateur chemists and
alchymists have been experimenting on it with crucibles and
blowpipes, but unfortunately none of them having "a phi-
all the experiments. ended- in Spoke.
losopher's stone,"
However, we learn, that properly qualified- chemists from
Edinburgh, who possess the secret, and who have some re-
collection of the method used by George Heriot in•a4saying
the sands he procured from the Leith shipmaster, are to be in
Glasgow directly with their entire apparatus, and we wait
the result with considerable anxiety ; meanwhile we may re-
, mind them of the sound orthodox of the.S6ottish proverb—
"lt's no a'goud that glitters."—Glasyou, Chronicle. -