b_) Thursday, 26th October--The Language and Literature of France,
Italy, or Germany, at the option of the candidate; and the History of
the country, the Language and Literature of which he presents, viz.:--

French History, from the Accession of Francis I., 1515, to the Death of
Louis XIV., 1715;

Italian History, from the Death of Lorenzo de Medici, 1492, to the
re-conquest of Naples by the Spaniards, 1733; or

German History, from the Accession of Charles V., 1519, to the Treaty of
Westphalia, 1648.

CONOLLY EXHIBITIONS, L20 EACH.

_Founded by John Conolly, Esq._

I. _Mathematics:_--Thursday and Friday, 19th and 20th
October:--Cooerdinate Geometry, Differential and Integral Calculus.

II. _Mathematical Physics:_--Friday and Saturday, 20th and 21st
October:--Mathematical Statics and Dynamics, and Elements of
Mathematical Geography and Astronomy.

III. _Experimental and Kosmical Physics:_--Monday and Tuesday, 23rd and
24th October:--Heat, Light, Electricity, and Magnetism; Elements of
Geology, Physical Geography and Climatology, and Astronomy.

IV. _Natural Sciences:_--Tuesday and Wednesday, 24th and 25th
October:--Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Crystallology.

N.B.--Of these Exhibitions, Nos. I. and II. cannot be held by the same
person; so also Nos. III. and IV. cannot be held simultaneously.

FOOTNOTES:

[31] Affiliated Students are such as, having passed the Entrance
Examination, pursue their studies in an approved college or school, with
the view of completing the higher studies in the University (_Calendar_,
page 48). For the purposes of the Examination for the above Exhibitions,
all Students who will have been examined for Entrance by the University
Examiner in one of the seminaries, colleges, or schools, connected with
the University (vide _Calendar_, page 81), between the 1st June, 1863,
and the 10th October, 1865, will be eligible.

DOCUMENTS.

THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITIES OF BELGIUM AND OF IRELAND.

The Catholic University of Louvain has just been deprived by death of
its first Rector, Mgr. Peter Francis Xavier de Ram. This illustrious
prelate was called to the reward of his useful life on Sunday, the 14th
of May, and his demise has caused a vacancy, not only in the University
over which he presided with so much prudence and energy for over thirty
years, but also in several other learned bodies, of which he was a most
distinguished member. His death has been a severe loss to his native