Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-19
MUST KNOW GAELIC
Rule Adopted by National
University of ireland.
GOES IN EFFECT IN 1918
Acquaintance With Language to Be
Required of Matriculates-Se-
rious Eviction Riot.
GOES IN EFFECT IN 1918
Foreign Correspondence Of The star.

DUBLIN, July 8. 1910
1t is stated that the decision of the
senate of the National University of Ire
land to make the Irish language compul-
sorry for matriculation in and after the
year 1918 was taken by a majority Of
p votes to II. The Gaelic League is
jubilant over the victory. which is main
ly due to the pressure which the league
was able to exercise through the nation
alist county councils. The councils are
authorized by the universities act to
strike rates in aid Of scholarships to a
total amount of about $4,000 per annum.
Many of them made the striking of the
rate conditional upon the adoption Of
compulsory Irish. II the new rule is
strictly enforced handreds of students will
be diverted TO Dublin University or to
Belfast. The Irish Times in expressing
regret at the senate's decision says that
1T does not think that either Trinity
College or Belfast University wishes to
be enriched at the cost of Roman Catholic
1relands first venture in educational
home rule.
A serious encounter between police and
people occurred the other day in connec-
ton with evictions on the Tredennick
sheriff, accompanied by sixty constables,
arrived at Cloonshanagh to dispossess
certain tenants who had failed to pay
their rents the chapel bell was rung and
a large crowd speedily assembled amid
shouting and horn blowing. The dwell
fngs marked out for attach were found
to be stouty barricaded In one case
the door and windows were protected by
a solid wall OF stones, behind which the
householder. armed with a cudgel. await
ed the coming of the evictors.
Constables Are Injured.
When the police attempted to dislodge
him he resisted fercely, and his neigh
bors, who also carried sticks. prCr,tiy
came to his assistance. Stones we're
thrown and several constables received
cuts about the head and face. Several
helmets were smashed. Eventually a bat
on charge was ordered, in which many
blows were exchanged, some of the com
batants having to obtain medical assist
ance. The police ultimately scattered
their assailants and the evictions were
carried out.
Irelands growing prosperity is reflected
in the banking statistics for the second
half Of 1909. which lately have been pub
lished. At the end of December the de-
posits and cash balances in the joint
stock banks stood at $685., $780, 600, as COM
ing date in the previous year. De
cember 81 the total amount in the post
Office and trustee savings banks was
$66.97O,000. At the end of 1903 it was
$01 $4,000. With the exception of 1901
there has been an increase in each year
since 1859, and the balance in the saw
ings banks is now more than two and q
half times the figure at which it stood al
the close of the latter year. In the two
decades the number Of post Office depositors
total being 54656o. In December the ag-
gregate amount held in government
funds. India stocks land stock and kin
dred securities was $9405000o.
1t is understood that the case of Lord
Cianricarde's estate is at present engag-
ing the careful attention Of the con-
gested district board and the matter OF
a settlement is being pressed forward
with all possible dispatch There is
strong ground for believing that settle
ment is at length in sight, news OF which
will be gratifying, not only to the tenants
who are chiefly concerned, but to the
Irish people everywhere who have taken
an interest in the historic struggle in
what was for years the cockpit Of the
land war in Ireland.
Working Of Labor Exchanges.
in the chamber of commerce. at which
G. r. Askwith, X. c., of the board OF
trade. delivered an address on the work
ing Of the labor exchanges. Mr.. Ask
with said that Dublin would be the first
city in the empire where a permanent,
and what he trusted would be an effec-
tive, building would be erected under the
labor exchanges act. They considered
that Dublin would be a central clearing
house for all Ireland The whole prin-
ciple upon which the labor exchanges
stood was impartiality. They had en-
deavored to carry out the principle Of i'm
Partially between employer and en-