PROFESSORS AND PENSIONERS AT BELFAST, & C. 7 A. J. Wilson. T. Hamilton. D. Gordon. J. Orr Scott. B. W. M'Cullough. W. Young. W. Wright. Fifth Class. J. R. Leebody. W. J. Strong. W. J. Knox. John Gamble. W. Johnston. J. Steen. J. Maire. W. Kerr. R. Beattie. D. Buick. T. Hanson. N. Morton. W. H. Dodd. Sixth Class. W. C. White. M. Macaulay. J. Patterson. R. M'C. Edgar. J. Meek. J. E. Henry. W. J. Flack. J. Kirkpatrick. G. Buick. T. Blain. R. J. Crawford. W. Brown. E. Leggat. Seventh Class. This class is composed of students who are engaged as private tutors, and who cannot attend at the ordinary hours. They are named in some of the six classes, so do not add to the number of students. This class usually meets two extra hours in the week. IV. No students are specially educated as missionaries. Missionaries are selected from the general body on account of peculiar fitness. V. The college session commences on the first Tuesday in November, and closes on the last Thursday of April. The occurrence of the Easter holidays sometimes closes the session a week earlier. All students attend the full session; and if, from any cause, a student retires before the session closes, he must, except in the case of sickness, make up the loss by subsequent attendance. VI. The hours of attendance on the classes of Sacred Rhetoric and Catechetics varies two, or it may be three, times during tbe college session, so as to correspond with the unoccu- pied hours of Queen's College. This change is especially required in the undergraduate classes. I subjoin the hours of teaching as they stood at the close of session 1861 : Monday. Four hours ; viz., 1st class of the day, from nine to ten ; next class from one to three; a third class from three to four. Tuesday. One class from eleven to one. Wednesday. One class from nine to ten; another, eleven to twelve ; a third from three to four. Thursday. A class from one to three. Saturday. One class, eleven. In all, 12 hours of weekly teaching, with one or two hours additional for the seventh class, as above stated. VII. My salary from Government is 250/. per annum. From Regium Donum I receive nothing. I have no congregation; consequently, no congregational income. When elected to the professorship, I resigned my congregation, with all its emoluments; but, at the request of the congregation, I was appointed what, in our ecclesiastical language, is termed " constant supplier." For my services in this capacity I believe I might have claimed 52 guineas per annum, with repayment for mv unavoidable expenditure in carrying on the religious services of the church ; but I neither claimed nor received anything. And, during six years I believe the whole income of the church was employed in paying off a heavy building debt, and in pressingly- necessary repairs, in rent, insurance, and other incidental expenses. And farther, I do not believe that the members of the church, generally, were at all aware of the fact, that I was, to the best of my abilities, labouring without remuneration. But when, by the last Parliamentary inquiry, I was necessitated to state the fact ( for through me it should never have voluntarily been made public), the committee, at the suggestion of the congregation, began to make me occasional presents, but no fixed or claimed salary. And this, at intervals, they have continued to do, move especially when the state of my health, or that of members of my family, required temporary residence abroad. VIII. As agent for Regium Donum, I receive 300/. per annum. I receive nothing as salary from any other source than as stated in this return. My income from students' fees has, for reasons which, I presume, it is unnecessary to state, varied from 14/. to a little above 20/. per annum. I anticipate, however, that in consequence of a late enactment of our General Assembly, my income from fees, notwithstanding the number of exempted students, will range from 40/. to 50/., or something upwards. The foregoing statements are, to the best of my knowledge and belief, a faithful reply to all the matters required by the House of Commons, so far as I am concerned or am able to give the information sought. H. Cooke, D. D., LL. D., Belfast, 1 May 1860. President of Faculty. S° 4- A 4