the statute of Charles I.; but an express exception was made, prohibiting any change in the hours of daily prayers and morning lecture; but as it appeared expedient that the restriction should be removed, the new statute gives the heads of the university, with consent of the visitors, the same power of changing the present hours of prayers and morning lecture, which they have over the hours appointed for other college duties. 4. Formerly prayers were read in the chapel three times every day; the new statute ordains that divine service shall henceforth be celebrated twice only every day, and assigns the performance of evening service as a part of the office of the junior dean. 5. Lastly, annual visitations of the college, which were enjoined by the statute of 52 George III., are abolished by the new statute, and the visitors are not now bound to visit at any stated times, but only on such days, times, and occasions as they shall, in their discretion, deem it expedient for just and weighty causes to do so. The Provost and Senior Fellows of Trinity College have appointed the Rev. James Thomas O'Brien, D.D., one of the junior fellows of Trinity College, to the office of Archbishop King's Lecturer in Divinity. This lectureship was founded in the year 1718, by Dr. William King, Archbishop of Dublin, 'for the better instruction of such bachelors of arts as intend to enter into Holy Orders.' The lecturer has hitherto been elected from the senior fellows, and held the office for one year only: this, and the very small salary attached to the situation, rendered it impossible that any individual could devote his entire time to its duties, and hence the lectures have for the most part been formal and inefficient. The Provost and Senior Fellows have accordingly made arrangements to remedy these evils, and to render this lectureship an important and efficient part of the Divinity School: it is henceforth to be held with a salary of 7001. a year, by a junior fellow only, who ceases to be a tutor, and is incapable of holding any other college office, except that of university preacher. The duties of the lecturer are also to be enlarged, so as to connect his lectures with the last year of the undergraduate course; and thus to constitute with the labours of the five assistant lecturers, and the regius professor, an effective divinity school for the education of candidates for holy orders. On Friday, May 17, Dr. Longfield, Whateley Professor of Political Economy, delivered his Introductory Lecture, in the Law School. This professorship was instituted in the year 1832, by the Most Rev. Richard Whateley, D.D., Lord Archbishop of Dublin, under the same conditions, mutatis mutandis, as the Drummond Professorship of Political Economy at Oxford. The principal regulations are as follows: 1. That the professor be at least A.M., or B.C.L. of Dublin, Oxford, or Cambridge; 2. That no person shall hold the office for more than five successive years, or be re-elected until after the expiration of two years; 3. Every professor to read, in term, a course of lectures on Political Economy, consisting of nine lectures at the least; and also to print every year one of such lectures at the least. The lectures to be open to all graduates. Undergraduates to be recommended by their tutors. Private courses may be superadded at the discretion of the professor.-Dublin University Calendar for 1833, p. 130. The university have made arrangements for publishing a catalogue of their MSS. in a form similar to the Harleian and Cottonian catalogues, printed by authority of Parliament. This laborious work has been drawn up by H. J. Monck Mason, Esq. LL.D., under the Commissioners for Examining Public Records, and has remained for several years in the hands of the author, in consequence of the withdrawal of the funds placed at the disposal of that body: the university have now consented to print it at their own expense. The examination for scholarships was held on Thursday and Friday, the 23d and 24th of May; and on Monday, the 3d of June, being Trinity Monday, the following students were elected scholars of Trinity College :-Patrick Flavelle, Richard G. Mac Donnell, Joseph Turner, Thomas Stack, Richard Gibbings, Joseph Carson, John Ball, William Reeves, Alexander Fleming, William Fitzgerald, Henry Owgan, William Chichester, Thomas Hawthornthwaite, Ribton, Thomas Wallis, William Adams, Justin M'Carthy. The examination for sizarships was held on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 4th and 5th of June, and the following candidates were elected sizars: Maurice O'Donoghue, Frederick H. Ringwood, Daniel Ryan, Daniel Callaghan, Patrick Murphy, James Eccleston. SCOTLAND. (Condensed from the Official Estimates.) Annual Grants.-The estimate of grants to the Scottish universities for the year to the 31st of March, 1834, consists of the subsequent items: 1. To the Principals, Masters, and Professors of the colleges in the university of ST. ANDREWS; viz.: In all St. Mary's College.-The Principal, 937. and the 2 L. s. d 352 3 08 In all 657 16 11 £1010 0 0 2. To the Principal and Professors of the King's College and Marischal College, ABERDEEN; viz. £. s. d. King's College. To the Principal, 201. The Professors of Civil Law, Medicine, Greek, Philosophy, Humanity, Moral Philosophy, Philosophy, (sic?) and Divinity, 847. 19s. 10d. Dr. Duncan, Mearus, Professor of Divinity, additional Salary, 150l., and additional allowance to the Principal and Professor, 7001. Marischal College. To the Principal 601. The Professors of Philosophy, Civil and Natural History, Medicine, Greek, and Mathematics (431. 168. Sd. each), Divinity, 537. Chemistry and Oriental Languages (331. each), 667. In all 442 0 0 In all 954 19 108 £1396 19 10 3. To the university of GLASGOW, for the Professors and their successors: The Professor of Anatomy and Botany, 30.; Mathematics, 621.; Ethics, 117.; Natural Philosophy, 211.; Greek, 201.; Logic, 117.; Medicine, 107.; Oriental Languages, 201.; Humanity, 25l.; Astronomy, 501.; Natural History, 1007.; Midwifery, 501.; Chemistry, 50l.; Surgery, 501.; and Botany, 50l. Also, additional, in lieu of a certain lease of Rents, granted by Sign Manual, 7th of August, 1826, 8007. In all £1360 0 0 4. To the university of EDINBURGH, for the Professors, &c. ; viz., The Professor of Greek, Moral Philosophy, Logic, Humanity, Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Hebrew, each 30l.; Rhetoric, Natural History, Clinical and Pathological Surgery, Military Surgery, Botany, Church History, Medical Jurisprudence, and Medical Police, each 1007.; Public Law, 200l.; Astronomy, 2007.; for support of the Edinburgh Museum, 2007.; and for ditto of the Botanic Garden, 4197. 3s. In all £1929 3 0 The sum total of all the Grants contemplated for the year ending the 31st of March next is, therefore, 56961. 3s., Aberdeen being set down at 13971., which leaves 14d. unappropriated. THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EDUCATION. BEF UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN. EFORE we proceed to describe the present state of education in the University of Dublin, it will be necessary to continue its history, so far at least as to enable our readers to understand the changes introduced into the constitution of the college by the charter and statutes of Charles I. The corporation of the college, by the charter of Elizabeth, consisted, as we have seen, of a provost, three fellows, and three scholars, with power to increase their number as the funds of the college permitted. To the provost and fellows was committed the whole care of the government and discipline of the university, the election of officers, the appointment of academic studies or exercises, and the power of conferring degrees. The scholarships were set apart at that time for the education of those who were afterwards to be admitted to holy orders in the church of Ireland, and of these some were generally natives, who were required to cultivate and keep up their knowledge of the Irish language. Such was the state of things in the year 1609, when Mr. (afterwards Sir William) Temple was elected provost of Trinity College. At this time the number of fellows was but four, and the number of scholars twenty-eight, of whom ten or twelve were natives. The income of the college was proportionally small; it consisted of about 100l. per annum in rents, and an allowance of 3887. 15s. Irish allowed by Queen Elizabeth out of the Exchequer during pleasure. In the year 1611 the exertions of Provost Temple had procured from the king (James I.) a grant of this allowance in perpetuum, and the rental of the college was also increased by the liberality of the same monarch to about 700l. per annum. Upon this increase of income it was proposed to augment JULY-OCT., 1833. P the number of fellows to sixteen*, and the number of scholars to seventy; and it was upon this occasion that a change was proposed and carried into effect, which still continues, and has exercised a most important influence on the subsequent character of the university. Nine of the sixteen fellows were termed probationer or junior fellows; they were to have no part in the government of the college, and were to be considered in every respect as scholars, except that they were recognized as college tutors, and employed in instructing others. But although this alteration was ultimately productive of beneficial effects, as it enabled the college to increase the number of its instructors without the necessity of multiplying its governors in the same proportion, yet it was at first an occasion of some very serious difficulties. It was urged that the junior fellows had an express right by the charter to have a voice in the government and elections of the college, and that no act of the provost and senior fellows could deprive them of this right. To this it was replied, that the junior fellows were not, properly speaking, fellows by the charter at all, that the title was given them by courtesy and honoris causá, and that their rights, as determined in the charter, were those of scholars only: accordingly Bishop Bedell's Statute Book provides against this difficulty by dividing the scholars into nine socii scholares, or probationer fellows, and seventy scholares discipuli, or scholars, commonly so called, as being still in statu pupillari. This distinction was, doubtless, a sufficient answer to the charge of violating a chartered right; but it was connected with one serious inconvenience: it rendered it impossible to call up a junior fellow to supply the place of an absent member of the college, senate, or board; and hence the most important acts, which legally bound the whole corporation, were frequently left unavoidably to the decision of a minority. Sir William Temple was succeeded in the office of provost+ by the celebrated Dr. William Bedell, afterwards bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh. The college was at this period (1627) in a state of great confusion, owing principally to the junior fellows having claimed the right of interfering in the government of the university, and particularly of having a vote in the election of a provost. But although the piety and prudence of Dr. Bedell did much to restore order and good feeling in the society, yet the short duration of his govern * By subsequent foundations, added at different times, this number has been increased to twenty-five, eighteen of whom are junior fellows. The number of scholarships has never been varied. + Sir William Temple died January 15, 1626, and was buried in the college chapel. |