of the first year are examined in more extensive courses of literature and science. In 1873 the subjects prescribed for these literary scholarships were, in Greek, four books of the Iliad of Homer, the Ion of Euripides, portions of the Anabasis of Xenophon, selections from Lucian, with an exercise in prose composition; and in Latin, the Odes of Horace, six books of the Eneid of Virgil, and portions of Cicero and Livy, with Latin prose composition. Candi dates had also to translate from Greek and Latin passages not contained in the prescribed books. They were also examined in English composition, Roman history, and the histories of England and France, from A.D. 1066 to A.D. 1509. The subjects prescribed for science scholarships of the first year embraced Euclid, books 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6, with the definitions of the fifth book, geometrical exercises, algebra to the end of the quadratic equations, including the binomial theorem, and the first principles of logarithms; and plain trigonometry. In the first session of the undergraduate course in arts the students must attend lectures and examinations in mathematics, Greek, Latin, modern languages, and English. In certain classes it has been found difficult to carry on the work of instruction from some of the students being more advanced in knowledge than others; but this has been to some extent obviated by calling in the aid of senior scholars. At the end of the session a general examination is held in each class, which must be passed by the student before he is permitted to enter upon the studies of the second year. The same remark applies to the other years of the undergraduate course. As the scholarships awarded after matriculation are tenable for one year only, scholarship examinations are held at the beginning of the second year, which are open to all students who have completed the first year of the undergraduate course. These examinations embrace more extended courses of literature and science than those prescribed for the first year's scholarships. In the second session the student is required to attend a course of logic and another of nat ural philosophy, together with second courses of instruction on any two of the following subjects: Mathematics, Greek, Latin, and a Continental language. Students intending to proceed to the degree of B.A. must present themselves in Dublin for the first university examination, unless prevented by illness or other unavoidable cause. The subjects of this examination prescribed for 1873 are: In Greek, Euripides-Medea; Xenophon-Memorabilia, book 1. In Latin, Horace-Satires; Cicero Ad Familiares I., II, III., with prose composition in both languages. In modern languages, translation from two modern authors, either French, German, or Italian, with an exercise from English into the language selected. In mathematics, Euclid, books 1 to 4, book 6, and definitions of fifth book, arithmetic, algebra to the end of quadratic equations, together with the binomial theorem, geometrical and arithmetical progression, the nature and use of logarithms, and plane trigonometry to the end of the solution of triangles. In mathematical physics, mechanics, hydrostatics, optics, and elements of astronomy. Candidates for honors at the same examination are required to answer in formal logic as well as in the subjects of the past course; and are examined in a more extended course of literature or science. For the third session, the following subjects are prescribed: 1, English literature; 2, metaphysics, or history, or political economy; 3, chemistry; 4, zoology or botany. Students are at the same time not obliged to adhere strictly to this course, but are permitted to substitute for any one or two of the above subjects, honor courses on subjects taught in the undergraduate course. This permission is largely used, and many honor courses are delivered. At the end of the third year students are permitted to present themselves for the final degree examination at the Queen's University. Any bachelor of arts of one year's standing may offer himself for examination. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. The medical students of this College pass through a rigorous training before they can acquire the degree of M.D. from the Queen's University. In the matriculation examination a knowledge of Latin, Greek, history, arithmetic, alge bra, two books of Euclid, &c., is required, and it is not uncommon that several trials have to be made before a sufficient standard is attained. Many of the subjects of the medical course serve also as means of mental training:-for instance, the attendance on lectures and examinations on the subjects of Modern Languages, Experimental Physics, Botany, Zoology, and Chemistry, and the University test of the knowledge acquired, are such as is generally admitted, it is desirable to add to the required study of Classics and Mathematics for Arts degrees. Thus every medical undergraduate must submit to an efficient training in nonprofessional subjects. He is guided during his proper medical studies by the ordinary curriculum of study, but in addition he almost uniformly extends his study of many of these subjects, as a glance at the numbers attending the classes on different subjects will show. The fact that many of the professors are also University examiners, enables them to secure much greater devotion to the subjects of study, and to exact a much more extensive knowledge of each than could possibly be required by examiners unacquainted with the character of the training through which each candidate for a degree had passed. The attendance at classes is recorded daily in roll-books which are regularly inspected by the College Council; explanation is required of every absence from a class, and the required certificates are withheld whenever the attendance has been so deficient as to have imperiled the acquisition of a knowledge of any subject of study. The University examinations are conducted, in the most practical and laborious manner in dissecting-rooms, hospitals, &c., and every security is thus given that none but well qualified candidates are presented for graduation. ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT. 3. A The regular ordinary course for students of Civil Engineering in this College extends over three sessions, and includes attendance on Mathematic, Experimental and Mathematical Physics, Chemistry; a course of Mineralogy, Geology, and Physical Geography, and Modern Languages, especially French, together with the various courses conducted by the Professor of Civil Engineering, which may be thus sketched out:-1. Geometrical Drawing, including the general principles of the accurate representation on flat surfaces of the forms and dimensions of solid objects, and including the art of perspective, together with practical drawing, especially in relation to engineering and architectural subjects. 2. Surveying, Leveling, and Mensuration, including various operations of field work in measuring over the surface of land, and of office work in mapping, drawing, and calculating, in connection with such measurements. course of teaching planned so as to be suitable for the stage of advancement at which students arrive in the third year of their collegiate attendance, and adapted to constitute an introduction to, or a scientific foundation for many of the chief subjects of study which are necessary or useful to the civil or mechanical engineer; to the architect, and to many other classes of artificers and praetical men. Of these it may suffice to mention Strength and elasticity of materials and structures, bridges of various kinds, ornamental architecture, theory of hydraulics, and its application in practical water-works, and subjects more particularly relating to mechanical engineering. The students are engaged in practical work in the drawing class-room during their three entire sessions of attendance; most of them work very diligently there, and many attain to proficiency so as to be well prepared for doing good service in offices, and otherwise in engineering business at once on leaving college. Many of the engineering students too, in addition to carrying out their attendance on the lectures of the Professor of Chemistry, have been very assiduous in acquiring a knowledge of practical chemistry by working in the laboratory under his direction, where they learn the methods of analyzing ores and other minerals, and acquire practice in chemical manipulation. DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LAW. The Professor of English Law, in conducting his department, has constantly kept in view the object of the Select Committee of the House of Commons in recommending the foundation of Chairs in Law in connection with the Queen's Colleges, which, as they stated in their Report on Legal Education, was not merely to prepare candidates for the Bar, and for the profession of attorney and solicitor, but to raise the standard of legal attainments amongst local practitioners, and especially to provide opportunities of legal education to qualify persons intended to fill administrative situations not strictly legal-a policy which has been since followed up by the legislature conferring privileges, by way of inducement, on candidates for the profession of attorney and solicitor, who shall avail themselves of these Schools of Law. The lectures are made auxiliary to the cotemporaneous studies directed, and are accompanied by interrogation, independent of the general examination and that for honors. Such books, cases, and decisions and portions of treatises are pointed out for reading as are considered by the Professor most useful in elucidating a branch of learning which is scarcely furnished with books exclusively intended for instruction; and no efforts have been spared to point out the peculiarities of the law in Ireland, whether proceeding from statutes or inherent diversity of practice, or to direct attention to the recent changes which have been introduced into the course of proceedure. DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL ECONOMY. The Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Economy fills in reality two distinet and important Chairs, in the two distinct Faculties of Law and Arts. As Professor of Jurisprudence, he lectures, teaches, and examines in the general philosophy and history of law, in Roman Law, and in Constitutional and International Law. As Professor of Political Economy, he lectures, teaches, and examines Arts' students in that great subject. His instruction in Jurisprudence has the twofold purpose and result of teaching legal philosophy and history, both as a branch of higher University education, and as a preparation for the legal profession. President Henry concludes by recording 'his abiding and undiminished testimony in favor of a thorough training in the common branches, and of a united, secular, and separate religious instruction.' What are called the common branches are, very often, uncommon ones; and, when a student is deficient in the knowledge of English, history, arithmetic, geography, and of some power of composition, need I say that, brought to encounter science and literature, as they must now be taught, he is left to battle afresh with the elementary means, when these should be at his easy disposal, both for the understanding and the recording of knowledge. Competitive examinations may apply to the few who enter into them, for places under the civil service, through the governmental rules; but the spirit of competition has entered more largely than ever into every profession and walk of life; and that parent does great injustice to his son, and mars his ultimate prospects, who hurries him, prematurely, from school to college, and from college to his calling, in the one case, unprepared for studies, which leave on the judgment or memory, no discriminating or abiding principles, and, in the other, little special qualification for distinction or ultimate success. In many cases, an additional year, devoted to the laying of scholastic foundations, would insure greater collegiate advantage, and, in the end, higher personal gain, Regarding united education I trust the time will never come when science shall cease to congregate within the peaceful walls of our colleges, presidents, vice-presidents, professors, and students of various creeds and denominations, each, without the slightest compromise of religious faith, or principle, conceding to others what he claims in this regard for himself, all taught to respect one another as men and as citizens of the same state, uniting zealously for the common advantage, and learning those lessons of courtesy and good-will, which lay a solid basis for future co-operation, in the varied walks of public, professional, and social life. This firm maintenance of the right of individual faith, and this spirit of harmonious action, exercised in the promotion both of personal and public benefit, are equally consonant with the genius of the State, which has committed to this College its high and beneficent mission, and it is right that all its authorities should preserve inviolate the fundamental principles of its foundation. QUEEN'S COLLEGE, CORK. QUEEN'S COLLEGE, CORK, was incorporated under the name and style of The President and Professors of Queen's College, Cork, Dec. 30, 1845, and was opened for the reception of students on the 30th of Oct., 1849. Down to 1874 there had been a registered attendance of 2,000 students, of which number 1,800 were matriculated. COLLEGIATE STAFF IN 1873-4. Professorships. Mathematics,..... Natural Philosophy,, History and English Literature,. Logic and Metaphysics,. Natural History.. Geology and Mineralogy,. Jurisprudence and Political Economy... Anatomy and Physiology,, Surgery... Materia Medica,....... Midwifery,... Medical Jurisprudence,.. Engineering..... John Ryall, LL.D. Incumbents Bunnell Lewis, M.A., F.S.A. Charles Niven, M.A., Fellow of Trin. Col., John England, M.A. .George F. Armstrong, M.A. .George Sidney Read, M.A. Maxwell Simpson, B.A., M.D., F.R 8. Joseph Reay Greene, B.A., M.D., M.R.I.A. .Mark S. O'Shaughnessy, M.R.I.A., F.R.S.L. Denis C. O'Connor, BA, M D. Wm. K. Tanner, M.D., F. and L.R.C.S.I. Purcell O'Leary, B. es. L., M.A., M.D., F.B.S. Joshua R. Harvey, B.A., M.D. Mark O'Shaughnessy, M.R.I.A., F.R.S.L. {Purcell O'Leary, B. es. L., M.A., M.D., F.B.S. The total number of students in 1873-4 was 260, distributed in: Of the Matriculated Students, there were 116 Roman Catholics, 110' Episcopal, 10 Presbyterians, 2 other denominations. SCHOLARSHIPS, EXHIBITIONS, AND PRIZES. The Council disposes of 30 Junior Scholarships-value 5 £24-in Faculty of Arts. } 20-in School of Engineering. 40-in Faculty of Arts. 40-in Faculty of Law. 20 for 3 years. 15 for 3 From the Financial Statement for the year ending March 31, 1874, it appears that the College received 9,637 for the entire work of the year. Of this sum all but 814 4s. (for College Fees and Fines) was from the Government. The expenditures were, Salaries 4,910.; for Scholarships, Exhibitions, and Prizes 1,272.; for Library 1891.: for Apparatus, &c., 1451; for Museum and Botanic Garden 478.; Printing, &c., 1314 QUEEN'S COLLEGE, GALWAY. QUEEN'S COLLEGE, GALWAY, was founded Dec. 30, 1845, opened for students Oct. 30, 1849, and down to 1874 had received 1,271 admissions. Of these 1,150 matriculated. The mixed character of the attendance is shown by the record-570 Roman Catholics, 429 Established Church, 270 Presbyterians, 29 Wesleyans, 17 Independents, 9 other denominations. The Organization with Faculties, and the Curriculum as to Studies and Terms is substantially the same as at Belfast and Cork. The following table exhibits: English Law,.. Anatomy and Physiology,...John Cleland, M.D., F.R.S.,.. Practice of Medicine,.......Nicholas Colahan, M.D., F.R.S., Edin........ 21...... .......... Charles Geisler, PH.D.,...... 84...... 227 8...... 92 William B. Campion, Q.C.,..... 9..... 77 78. 170 Practice of Surgery,. ..James V. Brown, M.D., L R.C.§ I., . . 21... 36 48 Materia Medica,.. Joseph P. Pye, M.D., M.C.H.,..... 31...... 66 Richard Doherty, M.D., Hon. V.P., Obstet. 17...... 37 Civil Engineering,.. 348 ....Edward Townsend, M.A.,. Medical Jurisprudence,.....Joseph P. Pye, M.D., M.CH., 10...... The President in his Annual Report for 1873-74 remarks: What we, who have been intrusted by your Majesty with the administration of this College, have from the time of its foundation down to the present longed for has been-REST; the opportunity of patiently and silently endeavoring to develop the institution, and attract round it the sympathies of a people whose history and traditions prove them to have been ever devoted to the attainment of learning. It is a matter of the deepest satisfaction to myself and the Professors, who have now for a quarter of a century, in the face of a most vigorous opposition, struggled with me to plant in this remote part of your dominions an institution which should be at once a center of enlightenment and of loyalty to your Majesty, to know that our efforts have not been in vain, but that they have been recognized and approved by most eminent and influential men of all parties in the House of Commons. We append extracts from the Debate on Mr. Gladstone's University Bill for Ireland, in which the Premier's remarks to the disparagement of the success of this College, are answered. Dr. Lyon Playfair (late Postmaster-General). The case must be a strong one to justify the extinction of a college which is the only one in the West of Ireland. At present you have Dublin College for the East, Cork for the South, and Belfast for the North of Ireland, but if you suppress Galway College, the whole of the West of Ireland is left destitute of means of higher culture for its population. There is no part of Ireland where such a college is more import |