FIRST UNIVERSITY EXAMINATION IN ARTS.-Eberle, Emily E.; Kelly, Marion; McGrath, Louisa Maria; Mulvaney, Isabella; Oldham, Alice; Sandes, Annie M.; Taylor, Charlotte M.; Twemlow, Jessie; Wilkins, Eliza.

The results of the Matriculation Examination were declared on October 24th. Forty-one ladies have passed. Their names are as follows:

Anderson, Alice M., private tuition.

Anderson, Bessie, Intermediate School, Newry,

Bailey, Emily, private tuition.

Baxter, Mary Anne, Ladies' College School, Belfast.

Carson, Mary H., Alexandra College, Dublin.

Coburn, Sara, The Academy, Banbridge.

Collier, Martha J., Methodist College, Belfast.

Conan, Agnes, North London College School for Girls and private study.

Conan, Josephine, North London College School for Girls and private study.

Cooke, Hannah M., private study.

Cuming, Mary F., private study.

Fitzmaurice, Margaret, Bedford House, Listowel.

Galbraith, Juliet, private study.

Garrett, Sara, Ladies' College School, Belfast.

German, Annie W., Strand House School, Londonderry.

Graham, Eliza, private study.

Graham, Elizabeth, Ladies' College School, Belfast.

Hamilton, Florence A., private tution.

Haslett, Annie W., Ladies' College School, Belfast.

Hayden, Mary T., Alexandra College, Dublin.

Jebb, Catherine M. L.,

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Johnstone, Lucinda, Methodist College, Belfast.

Logan, Martha K., Ladies' College School, Belfast.

Lyons, Ellen, Miss Mulhare's Seminary, Saint Patrick's Hill, Cork.

Lyons, Mary Alice, private study.

M'Glade, - Ladies' College School, Belfast.

M'Intosh, Euphemia H., Alexandra College and Royal University

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Macdermott, Margaret, Intermediate School, Ballymoney.

Macdonald, Sarah, Ladies' College School, Londonderry.

Moss, Sophia, Brookware School.

Mulvany, Mary, private study.

Pattson, Mary L.,

Perry, Hannah, Ladies' College School Belfast.

Rosborough, Catherine, Strand House, Ladies' School, Bally

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Shannon, Agnes, Alexandra College, Dublin.

Stirling, Mary, Ladies' College School, Belfast.
Walkington, Letitia A., private study.

Wood, Catherine E., Methodist College, Belfast.

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Wray, Martha H., Ladies' College School, Londonderry.
Yeates, Ada, Alexandra College.

QUEEN'S COLLEGE, BELFAST.-A very important step has been taken recently. A memorial was presented lately by the Belfast Ladies' Institute to the President and Council of the Queen's College, Belfast, asking that certain of the advanced or honour classes should be opened to those young ladies who have passed the matriculation examination of the Royal University, under such conditions as may seem best to them. The following resolution was passed at the meeting of the Council on Saturday :-"That the Council is disposed to sanction the admission of women to certain classes in the college if arrangements of a satisfactory character can be made, and if it is found that a sufficient number of women are desirous of availing themselves of the privilege." Ladies who have passed the matriculation examination, and who are desirous of availing themselves of these classes, are requested to communicate with Miss Connery, 2, Mount Charles, or any of the ladies of the institute. There is little doubt that this change is due to the altered position of the Queen's College, which is now connected with the Royal University which admits women, instead of with the old Queen's University which excluded them.

LADIES' COLLEGIATE SCHOOL, BELFAST.-A number of former students at Mrs. Byers' admirable school have arranged a programme to be delivered in the hall of the school, the proceeds of which are to be used in establishing a scholarship fund. The first lecture was on November 3rd. The course is as follows: :

November 3, 1882, Rev. J. L. Porter, D.D., LL.D., President, Queen's College.-1. Education, its Scope and Nature, with special reference to the Education of Women.

November 10, Professor Redfern, M.D., Lond., F.R.C.S.E., Queen's College.-II. Health.

November 17, Professor Meissner, Ph.D., D.Lit., Queen's College. -III. Fables and Stories of the Middle Ages, represented in Cathedrals and Abbey Churches.

November 24th, Mr. W. H. Patterson, M.R.I.A.—IV. Irish Archæology.

December 1st, Professor Everett, M.A., ¡D.C.L., F.R.S., Queen's College.-V. The Tides.

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December 8th, Rev. A. C. Murphy, M.A., D.Lit.-VI. The Turk.

February 2nd, 1883, Professor Cuming, M.D., F.K. and Q.C.P., Queen's College.-VII. The Blood and its Circulation.

February 9th, Professor Letts, Ph.D., D.Sc. Queen's College.VIII. The Impurities of Water.

February 16th, Professor Cunningham, M.D., D.Sc., Queen's College-IX. The Natural History of the Cod and Flounder. February 23rd, Rev. S. Andrews, M.A.-X. Literature and Cul

ture.

March 2nd, Professor Park, M.A., D.Lit., Queen's College.-XI. Some Relations between Thought and Language.

March 9th, Rev. C. H. H. Wright, Ph.D., LL.D.-XII. Great Jewish Rabbis in the centuries immediately after Christ.

March 16th, Mr. W. H. Dodd, M.A., Barrister-at-Law. XIII.— Macaulay and Carlyle.

Ticket for the Course 10s 6d; Family ticket for three £1 1s.; Ticket for Single Lecture, 2s.

ASSOCIATION OF IRISH SCHOOLMISTRESSES AND THE INTERMEDIATE EXAMINATION.--At a committee meeting of the above association, held at the Alexandra College, Dublin, October 19th, Mrs. Jellatt in the chair, it was resolved to fix October 30th as the latest date for receiving signatures to the memorial from Irishwomen to the Board of Intermediate Education, entreating them to lay down no rules which will make the examinations unequal in value to girls as compared with boys, either in regard to their education or pecuniary importance. The Daily Express, October 21, says :

It will be seen from a memorial in our columns which was adopted at a meeting held in the Alexandra College that great dissatisfaction is felt at recent changes made in the programme of examinations, making a difference of subjects aud standards between the boys and girls who are candidates for educational distinction. There can be little doubt that in principle the memorialists have a case so strong that we do not see what answer can be given to it. They plead with great force that the change which has been made is contrary to the precedents of the English examinations, which are the same for men and women, for boys and girls, and that the adoption of an inferior standard of advancement will place the Irish girls at a great disadvantage. This is neither fair nor politic. It is an imputation upon the natural capacity of Irish girls and upon their qualities of persevering energy and laudable ambition to reach the highest rank of intellectual culture, and to advance themselves in the social scale, that they have been allotted to a lower educational level; and the sense of injury is aggravated by the fact that it is not merely sentimental, but involves substantial injustice. Why should they not only be disparaged by an invidious distinction, which implies inferiority, but have their prospects in life irreparably damaged by their exclusion

from the higher scale of merit which they know they are capable of reaching, and which their English sisters may occupy without hindrance if they win it in honourable rivalry with the other sex? No doubt the Commissioners are placed in a great difficulty by the want of funds, but as the Legislature admitted girls to the examinations, and prescribed no distinction or exclusion, it is hard that they should be made to suffer because the Government is illiberal and does not want to expend more money to crown the work which their predecessors began. The schoolmistresses and others who are interested in the higher education of females-and it is a matter which concerns every family in which there is a child to be taught-have a right to expect that Irish girls shall be put upon an equality in all respects with Irish boys and with English girls, who are allowed to compete with English boys, and often win the highest prizes from them. The memorialists state that several societies of ladies who are engaged in promoting the higher education of women, as well as many eminent men, have already appealed to the Commissioners against these changes. They join their earnest entreaties that no rules may be laid down which will in any way make the examinations unequal in value for girls as compared with boys, either as regards their educational or pecuniary importance. We hope the remonstrance of the memorialists will awaken public sympathy, and that their gentle pleading will be supported by a strong and vigorous protest.

THE report of the Intermediate Examinations last summer shows that the reduction made in the scale of prizes and result fees gave a decided check in the number of girls who entered their names, while the figures for 1881 showed an increase over those of 1880 of 1021 in the number of boys, and of 556 in that of girls; but the figures for 1882, while still showing an increase for the boys of 530, showed a falling off in the girls of 157. We need not search long for the reason. The girls' schools are poorer than the boys', and could less easily afford the additional classes required to meet the examinations.

LONDON SCHOOL BOARD.

Seven ladies only have been nominated as candidates at the approaching election, of whom six are sitting members. The vacancies are caused by the retirement of Mrs. Surr, from Finsbury, and Mrs. Webster, owing to ill-health, from Chelsea. Miss Simcox has also retired from Westminster. The lady candidates are as follows:

City: Miss Davenport Hill.

Hackney: Mrs. Fenwick Miller.
Lambeth: Miss Müller.

Marylebone: Mrs. Westlake and Miss Frances Hastings.

Southwark: Miss Helen Taylor and Miss Richardson. Mrs. Westlake addressed an audience of ladies in the Somerville Club on November 7th.

On November 2nd, Mrs. Fenwick Miller gave an address on "The Work of Women in connection with the School Board: Women as Members: Women as Teachers," at the Manor Rooms, Mare street, Hackney. The chair was taken by Mrs. G. Linnæus Banks.

SUFFRAGE.

The eighth demonstration of women in favour of Women's Suffrage took place on November 3rd, at Glasgow. Rain had fallen in torrents all day, and fears had been entertained, which happily proved false, that the meeting would be scanty. St. Andrew's Hall, which is capable of holding 7,000, was crowded from end to end by women, chiefly of the middle classes, a few gentlemen obtaining seats in the gallery. Mrs. Duncan McLaren occupied the chair, and she was accompanied on the platform by Miss Burton, Miss Maitland, Mrs. Paterson, Miss Louisa Stevenson, Miss Flora Stevenson, Miss Wigham, Mrs. Wellstood, Miss Kirkland, Misses Hope, Miss Hunter, Miss Walls, Miss Anderson, Miss Fraser, Edinburgh; Mrs. M'Kinnel, Dumfries; Miss Stuart, Wemyss Bay; Miss Simmons, Dunoon; Mrs. Arthur and Mrs. Robertson, Paisley; Mrs. M'Cormick, Manchester; Mrs. Lucas, London; Mrs. Thomason, Bolton; Mrs. Beddoe and Miss Sturge, Bristol; Mrs. Smith and Mrs. F. Smith, Bothwell; Miss Tod, Belfast; Mrs. Vero and Mrs. Ellis, Basley; Lady Collins, Mrs. M'Grigor, Mrs. T. M. Lindsay, Mrs. M'Kendrick, Mrs. Edward Caird, Misses Ure, Mrs. David Greig, Miss Barclay, Miss Greig, Mrs. J. M. Blair, Mrs. Edward Parker, Mrs. J. M. M'Callum, Mrs. M. M. Black, Miss Woyka, Miss Mayor, Mrs. David Russell, Mrs. Nichol, Mrs. Neilson, Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Young, Mrs. Thom, and others. After prayer by Miss Wigham, Mrs. McLaren said :

Women of Glasgow and its neighbourhood,-Scotland has witnessed many a noble gathering in the cause of liberty, but never one