the statutes, reduced to two, in order that the pittance paid to each may be doubled? When these lines shall meet the public eye, the visitation now sitting shall have concluded its task. Will the little arrangement we have just described, and many a similar expedient, be brought under the cognizance of the visitors? Surely, if not, the visitation, whatever principle it may establish regarding the right of free discussion, is not a visitation into the state of the College. Or will the visitors take notice of the present year's fellowship examination, in the middle of which the visitation is held? Will any one inform them that although there was no examination last year, nor the year before, nor again the year before, the total number of candidates which has accumulated during the interval is just three, and of these two sat for fellowship in 1854? And, to appreciate this fact in all its significance, we must add that the examination is now such as to encourage classical scholars, as well as mathematicians, to present themselves; and that, besides the fellowship for the first man, there is the "Madden's premium," worth £350, for the second, and a liberal allowance of minor prizes for half a dozen other candidates, if such there were. Whatever may be the intentions of the visitors on this occasion, it is not in visitations that we trust for the removal of the grievances that afflict the University. The visitors, we know, have not power even to appoint an auditor, or to compel the publication of the accounts. Neither is it in the junior fellows, or the professors not on the foundation; for the latter are altogether under the power of the Board; and a junior fellow who should attempt to bring about changes which would reduce the seniors' incomes, must look forward, of course, for all the years that lie between him and the Board, to a somewhat cool appreciation of his merits on the part of the body which has such large patronage to bestow. Even if he were rash enough to lose sight of this important consideration, there are ad monitions, censures-nay, expulsions. Shall he appeal to the visitors against these fulminations? He must fight his legal battle at his own cost; his opponents have the common chest to supply the sinews of war. Shall he plead his own cause, and trust to its inherent strength to obtain him justice? "He that is his own counsel hath a fool for his client." If he is wise, and not rich, he will leave appeals alone. He will look at the past proceedings and the present powers of his college seniors, and will meditate on the words, "Vobis vexatio direptioque sociorum impunita fuit ac libera: vos non solum ad negligendas leges et questiones, verum etiam ad evertendas perfringendasque valuistis." What hope, then, remains for Trinity College? One, only one-public opinion. To this high court, to this "external tribunal,' as the College Board, on a recent occasion, instinctively called it, lies the only satisfactory appeal. If the college be planted in the affections of the country-if her past services and her high functions in connexion with religion and education can command the sympathies and the active help of our gentry and professional classes-the present crisis of her history may turn to her lasting good; the tide of adversity, that has so long and so steadily kept flowing against her, may be turned, and she may rise, with a renovated nation, to a new career of prosperity, usefulness, and honour. If not-if the educated classes of Ireland turn a deaf ear to the complaints that have found voice within her walls-if public opinion will permit itself to be put off by a Queen's letter, skilfully devised to hold out hopes of reforms to come into operation twenty years hence, and to shelter all existing abuses, new and old, under the pretence of preserving "vested interests" then all we can say is, that the Protestants of Ireland cannot lay the consequences at the door of the Protestant press: nor, we may add, can the University of Dublin charge with neglect of duty the periodical which bears its name. INDEX TO VOL. LI. A Week with the Times, 40. 552. Antiquities of the Royal Irish Academy, Army, Sanitary Condition of, 210. Atherstone's Handwriting on the Wall, Atkinson, Thomas Witlam, Oriental Barrack Accommodation, The Sanitary 450. Bridal, The Royal, by C. F. A., 284. 157. Brooks, Shirley, The Partners, 99. Cairnes, Professors Lee and, 286. Canal, Suez Ship, 542. ander Pope, reviewed, 299. Civilization in England, History of, by Colonna Vittoria, 232. Collins, Mortimer, Over the Ferry, 111; Eleanore, 255; Cathedral Solitude, Competitive Examinations, 584. Defence of Lucknow, The, 479. 752. Duke of Wellington, Brialmont's, 146, Earls of Kildare, The, 28. Earls of Kildare, The, and their Ances- tors, from 1057 to 1773, reviewed, 28. Eleanore, by Mortimer Collins, 255. England, Buckle's History of Civiliza- England, History of, by J. A. Froude, English Language, Curiosities of the; Euphrates Valley Railway, The, 239. Ferry, Over the, 111. Fisher Girl, The, by Mortimer Collins, 623. Fitzgerald, Gerald, "The Chevalier," -, 387; Chap. xi., Last Days at Freiheit die ich Meine, 188. Lee and Cairnes, Professors, 286. Legend of the Golden Prayers, The, Life and Death in Tipperary, a Story Lucknow, The Defence of; Martial In- Macaulay, Lord, 272. Froude's, J. A., History of England, M'Clure Discovery, The, 189. reviewed, 669. Gerald Fitzgerald, "The Chevalier," by Germinal, A Vision of Perpetual Spring, M'Carthy, D. Florence, M.R.I.A., Marianne, a Little Rosebud Daughter, Missionary Travels and Researches in Gweedore and Cloughaneely, County of Mitla, by G. F. Von Tempsky, re- Donegal, State of, 731. Handwriting on the Wall, The, by Ed- pore, by Mary C. F. Monck, 209. India, Notes on, by an Eastern, 320. Kelts to the Northmen, Relations of the, Kildare, The Earls of, and their Ances- Latham, R. G., M.D., Pages in Irish Poetry:-English Scenes, C. F. A., 97; The Royal Bridal, C. F. A., 284; Speak, Smile, Sing, by W. Charles Kent, 319; Freiheit die ich Meine, 188; Eleanore, by Mortimer Collins, 255; The Battle, a Cantata for Music, by Jonathan Freke Slingsby, 593; The Fisher Girl, by Mortimer Collins, 623; Cathedral Solitude, by Mortimer Collins, 541; Marianne, by W. Charles Kent, 47; Germinal, a Vision of Perpetual Spring, by W. Charles Kent, 458; The Legend of the Golden Prayers, by C. F. A., 397; Over the Ferry, by Mortimer Collins, 111; The Cobbler and the Round Tower, by W. Allingham, 668; Myrrha, by T. Irwin, 685; The Emigrant's Adieu to Ballyshannon, by W. Allingham, 173; The Highlanders by the Well at Cawnpore, by Mary C. F. Monck, 209. Poor Purse, 751. Pope and his Biographers, 299. Prisons, Irish Convict, 166. Professors Lee and Cairnes, 286. Recent Historical Revelations, 530. Rees on Lucknow, 479. by Joseph W. Hunter, 299; The Noble Traytour, a Chronicle, by Thomas of Swarraton, Armiger, 575. Revolution, a Year of, 50. Royal Irish Academy, Antiquities of: Sanitary Condition of the Army, Bar- Siberia, Oriental and Western, by Thomas Witlam Atkinson, reviewed, 76. Slingsby, Jonathan Freke; The Battle, a Cantata for Music, 593. Small Firearms, 506. Smyth, C. Piazzi; Teneriffe, an Astronomer's Experiment, or Specialities of a Residence above the Clouds, reviewed, 471. Speak, Smile, Sing, by W. Charles Kent, 319. Speculation in France, 360. Stokers: British, and Italian Sympathies, 157. Strong Government, 584. Suez Ship Canal, 542. Resources of Modern Warfare, Small Teneriffe, an Astronomer's Experiment, Firearms, 506. Reviews-Arnold, Mathew, and M'Car thy, D. Florence, 331; The Noble Traytour, 575; Rees' Lucknow, and "A Staff Officer's" Account of the Siege, 197; Recent Oxford Literature, 405; Memoirs of Béranger, written by himself, 437; Brialmont's "Duke of Wellington," 146, 309, 450; The Handwriting on the Wall, by Edwin Atherstone, 81; Professor Piazzi Smyth'sTeneriffe,471; History of Civilization in England, by Henry Thomas Buckle, 12; Froude's History of England, 669; History of the Last Four Popes, by H. E. Cardinal Wiseman, 712; a Personal Narrative of the Discovery of the North-west Passage, by Alexander Armstrong, M.D., R.N., 189; The Earls of Kildare and their Ancestors, from 1057 to 1773, 28; A Year of Revolution, from a Journal kept in Paris in 1848, by the Marquis of Normanby, K. G., 50; Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, by David Livingstone, LL.D., D.C.L.,56; Oriental and Western Siberia, by Thomas Witlam Atkinson,'76; Three Introductory Lectures on Ecclesiastical History, by William Lee, D.D., F.T.C.D., 286; Character and Logical Method of Political Economy, by John E. Cairnes, A.M., 286; The Life of Alexander Pope, by Robert Carruthers, 299; Pope, his Descent and Family Connexion, 471. "Times," The, A Week with, 40. Times," The Times and the, 663. Tipperary, Life and Death in, 564. Travel in Mexico, 741. Traytour, The Noble, a Chronicle, by Thomas of Swarraton, Armiger, 675. Trench, Dr., Dean of Westminster, Some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries, noticed, 225. Trinity College, Dublin, 612. Trinity College, Dublin; The Budget, 752. Vittoria, Colonna, 232. University of Dublin, Report of the Royal Commission to Inquire into the State, Discipline, Studies, and Revenues of the, 612. Warfare, Resources of Modern; Small Wilde's, Dr., Catalogue of the Antiquities of the Royal Irish Academy, 652. Wiseman's, H. E., Cardinal, History of the Last Four Popes, reviewed, 712. Worshippers of Mercury; or Paracelsus and his Brother Alchymists, 354, 419. Year of Revolution, A, from a Journal kept in Paris, in 1848, by the Marquis of Normanby, K.G., reviewed, 50. |