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carried out in good faith. and will he
concluded at the next general election,
when the question or home rule in Ire
| land will be submitted to the people OF
the United Kingdom.
Catholics Demand University.
The Irish Catholics for many years have
been demanding university of their own
supported by the state. There has been
no institution for higher education at
which a self-respecting Catholic could
seek an education The University OF
Dublin represents the Church of Ireland.
just as oxford and Cambridge represent
the Church of England and. until few
years ago, placed a ban upon Catholics
| and would not permit them to have any
| thing to do or say about the manage
| ment. 1t was natural, therefore. when
the trustees Of Trinity took Off the ban
| that the synod of Maynooth should put
| it back. and. in consequence. Catholic
students were forbidden to attend lee
lures there by what is known as decree
| in 1875 and confirmed by Pope Plus TX.
Religious Tests and Bans.
Religious tests at Oxford and Cam
bridge were abolished in 1871. at the same
time as at Trinity. In 1874 an attempt
was made by the famous Mgr. Capal,
who is now living in California, to found
Roman Catholic university in England,
but it failed. Since then the young men
of that church have attended Cambridge
and Oxford, by permission of the HER
archy. but the ban has never been re-
moved from Trinity College. Dublin. And
one cannot blame them for not removing
| it. They cannot forget the past. The
| Roman Catholics of Ireland were deprived
Of educational privileges for several hun
| dred years, and under the penal statutes
| of Queen Anne were debarred from the
| learned professions.
There are no religious tests in Trinity
College today, 1t Is true. and students
| who do not belong to the Church of Ire
| land are not required to attend chapel.
every tendency at Trinity are naturally
| toward the Church Of Ireland. which has
theological school as department of
| the university.
There are three independent non-sec-
| tartan institutions in Ireland, known as
queens colleges, because they were
! founded by Queen Victoria about fifty
years ago at Belfast, Galway and Cork
| These are known as goddess colleges"
| because they have no chapels. no re-
ligious exercises and no religious instruc-
| ton. Queens College at Belfast, how
| ever. Is distinctively a Presbyterian in
stitution. Nearly all the faculty are
| prominent and active members of that
| denomination, and students who are in
| tending to enter the ministry go from
| Queens College. LondOnerry. which is
| under the care of the Presbyterian gen.
eral assembly. Therefore Queens Col
| lege, Belfast, occupies relation to the
| Presbyterian denomination quite as init
| mate as that of Trinity with the Epis-
| copalians.
Presidents Of New Universities.
| Maynooth College, where most of the
Catholic priests of Ireland are educated.
will be affiliated with the new university
at Dublin in the same way that Magee
College is to be affiliated with the Univer.
sity of Ulster. All of this, however. does
not appear in the bill, which processes to
| be entirely non sectarian. 1t Is we'll un-
derstood that the president of the new
university at Dublin will be Prof. Corey
the president of the University of Ulster
will be Rev. d. Hamilton, Presbyte-
| rian divine.
/ In the house of commons the other day
Mr.. S. ]. O'Donnell asked the chief sec
| rotary to the lord lieutenant of Ireland
what provision he proposed to make for
the university education of Catholics in
| Ulster the northern and Presbyterian
province), seeing that no facilities are
| given to them in the bill. while two col
leges were provided for Presbyterians. The
chief secretary replied: Il do not pro-
pose to make any further provision for
university education In Ireland The
Catholics of Ulster province will have to
whereupon the Irish members cheered.
Mr.. Flynn, one of the Irish members,
asked III the Catholics at Belfast
| would not have the same facilities at the
| terians in Cork and Dublin would have
| at the University of Dublin" and the
chief secretary replied: Precisely the
| same"
No Test Of Religious Belief.
The same conditions apply to both the
Roman Catholic Theological Seminary at
| Maynooth and the Presbyterian Theology
cal Seminary at Magee. The students at
both of these institutions will be excused
from residing in the new universities and
may continue their studies exactly as at
present. going up to Dublin and to Bel
| fast only to receive their degrees Several
| of the Roman Catholic colleges and the
two Goddess Colleges" now supported by
made a part of the Roman Catholic Uni
versity at Dublin but section III of the
bill provides that mo test whatever OF
religious belief shall be imposed upon any
continuing to be professor. lecturer. fell
low scholar. exhibitioner. graduate or
student Of or Of his holding any office
or emolument. or exercising any privilege
constituent college; nor in connection with
either of the new universities or any
such constituent college shall any prefer
ence be given or advantage withheld from
any person on account Of his religious be-
lief" 1t will be permitted however. for
religious denominations to erect chapels
or other houses Of worship in connection
| with either of the new universities. with
their own funds. for the accommodation
of students processing that faith: but no
students shall be required to attend re-
ligious exercises or religious instruction.
but attendance at them Is to be entirely
voluntary. 1t Is we'll understood. however.
and the bill is intended precisely for that
rurnasa that one of the universities shall