ABBE PROULX'S JOURNEY TO ROME

What is saidto be clone by frlends of Laval. The présent position of affairs unsatisfactory :

It is generally known in interested circles that voyage to Rome of Révérend Abbé Proulx, Vice-Rector of Laval University, is undertaken for the purpose of obtaining some modification in the terms of the union between Laval and Victoria. (1) Two years ago Rome authorized the Bishops of this province to settle the question of the union, without infringing upon the rights of Laval. Accordingly an arrangement was made and accepted by ail parties, but it is now claimed that the rights of Laval were not respected as they should hâve been. Hence, Abbé Proulx's

(1) This state ment is completely false : so the whole argument based upon it falls by itself. — J.B.P,

voyage to Rome. A professor asserted that a new bill replacing or amending the existing act had been prepared by the agents of Laval, and was to be submitted to tbe Législature at the next session. The partisans of Victoria were not inclined to submit to anything that would affect the liberty of the old School of Medicine. Several of the professors were seen and they were unanimous in authorizing the publication of the following statement drawn up by them ! " The arrangement made between the School of Medicine and the bishops, and sanctioned by an act of the Législature, is final, and even though it were desired to modify it, it cannot be do ne with the consent of only one party to the arrangement; and up to date the School of Medicine is in nowise disposed to allow its liberty to be restrained, but is, on the concrary, firmly resolved to maintain its rights."

It was stated that the School was well able to resist, and would, if necessary, ask the Législature for the authority to issue diplomas. It could also, it was believed, in an emergency, rely upon the temporary support of Victoria University, which had acquired the right to issue diplomas for three years more, before entering the fédération of the University of Toronto.

The condition of the Laval branch in Montréal was said to be anything but satisfactory. It needed a great deal of money, and yet Archbishop Fabre had notified the management that it could only rely on the price of tuition for revenue. Several of the students were following the courses at McGill and Bishop's Collège,

and a gênerai feeling of uneasiness pervaded the entire institution. The Québec management was prepared to do full justice to Montréal, financially and otherwise, but wishes to direct the studies. Should a satisfactory solution not be arrived at, it was believed that Laval would not object to the maintenance of the School of Medicine as an independent Catholic institution, but would only ask that no use be made of the naine of Laval. (1)

(1) This last number clearly shows that this correspondence of the Star flows from the very saine source than the one which was published some days before in La Presse ; but the two rivulets flowed in two opposite directions, for the use of two différent classes of persons, as the correspondence of the Star speaks for the friends of the ancient members of the School of Medicine, and the correspondence of La Presse is specially intended for the friends of Laval at Québec.

Gentlemen, your way of doing is known of long ! — J.B.P.