Statement adopted by the graduates of the Queen's University in Ireland, assembled in public meeting in Belfast, on Wednesday, 6th December, 1865.

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Credit: Statement adopted by the graduates of the Queen's University in Ireland, assembled in public meeting in Belfast, on Wednesday, 6th December, 1865. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vague rumours, and wliicli so far as they have learned may be yet undefined. But, bearing in mind that important action may be taken by the Government before those connected with the Queen’s University shall have the more favourable opportunity of supporting their views through Convocation, it is considered that the cause of United Education, which has been established now for so many years in Ireland, may be in some degree served by giving a short sketch of the action of the British Parliament and successive Governments in relation to the vexed question of education ; and by submitting that the policy of a generation of great and enlightened states- men ouo-ht not to be reversed without the most weighty and well-considered reasons. Brief Sketch of Public Education in Ireland. Sketch of PubUc In tlic vcar 1701 a commission of distinguished Education. ^ ^ , men, presided over by Provost liutchinson, the secretary for Ireland, made an elaborate report to the Lord Lieutenant, from which the following is an extract :— Dpinion of Com- “ We beg leave to submit to your Excellency as our decided nlssionersofi79i. opinion, that there should be no distinction made in any of the schools [charter, parish, diocesan, and royal schools] between scholars of different religious persuasions, without meaning, however, to interfere with the peculiar constitution of the charter schools, or with the intentions of the founders of any other schools, expressed by their wills or other instru- ments directing such foundations.— Report of Commissioners of Education Inquiry, i79^- (Printed in Appermix to Endowed Schools' Commissioners' Report, vol. ii. p. 3^41