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Show I IRISH AHEAD. Returns of the English school inspectors inspec-tors show that the Irish are far ahead of the Welsh as far as study of the lan- I , guages ia concerned in the schools. Out of 11,577 scholars in fifty-six Welsh I j- schools, but 2,730 passed the examina- I ! Hons recently in Welsh, while in Ire- 1 i land, out of 6.894 students in Irish. 3.166 I j Ftudents, or E8 per cent, passed the ex- i animations. I Is this a good showing or not? The i Welsh have been studying their own tongue In their schools for a century f under the most favorable auspices, I while the Irish have had the chance to I study It only for a decade, and then I under auspices not the most favorable. I I 1 |