Baron Smith should be driven off the bench by Mr. O'Connell-Mr. Crampton get the vacant seat, and poor Perrin succeed as Solicitor-General-but "Othello's occupation's gone." Sergeant Perrin will never be Solicitor-General; the ministers will not lose a vote by exposing him to the chance of a re-election by the Protestant electors of Monaghan. The Gloucestershire election is a remarkable proof of the reaction. Mr. Codrington was returned by a majority of seventy, in the very county where, on a former occasion, he was defeated by a majority of 700, and yet the government press tells us that there is no change in the feeling of the country. The House of Lords have acted nobly with regard to the revolutionary bills sent up to them from the Commons-the bill for admitting dissenters to the Universities, and the Irish tithe bill. The first of these was a measure striking at the root of all religious feeling among the higher orders, by unchristianizing the system of their education, and the Irish tithe bill was an act of open and unpalliated spoliation; the ministry, through their press, have threatened the clergy with starvation, because they would not take a little more than half their property. By their conduct upon these occasions, the peers of England have entitled themselves to the gratitude of all the thinking portion of the community, and have, therefore, of necessity, exposed themselves to the low and vulgar ribaldry of that portion of the press which advocates the views of the destructives. The Conservative Society met upon Tuesday, the 19th, the Earl of Rathdowne in the chair: £1600 was subscribed, in the room, for the assistance of the clergy. Mr. Boyton gave notice of a motion for a petition to Parliament, for a tax upon the properties of absentees, to such amount as would be sufficient to cover the expense of the additional police, which, the reverend gentleman stated, was always found to be necessary in districts where absenteeism prevailed. Mr. O'Sullivan gave notice that, on the next day of meeting, he would bring forward a motion relative to the conduct of the government towards the north of Ireland; and we can state, with some confidence, that the facts which he will then adduce, will place it beyond all doubt, that a system of the most oppressive, and most unjust persecution is, at this moment, carrying on by the government towards the Protestants of Ulster. The next meeting will be held upon the 10th of September, when Mr. O'Sullivan will make a statement of facts that will place the conduct of the ministry in a new light. The appearance of Mr. Hamilton, our respected Professor of Astronomy, was not one of the least interesting features of this meeting. Mr. Hamilton is already known to the public as, perhaps, the first mathematician of the present day, and it is with peculiar pleasure that we see him enrolling his name among those of the friends of order. We have to apologize for the omission of our critical tablets, and for this very short summary of our political memoranda; but the article on the Protestant Meeting extended to so much greater length than we anticipated, that we were obliged to interfere with our previous arrangements. 9, Upper Sackville-street, August 20th. A. P. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. WE beg to call the particular attention of our Academic readers to the following regulation, which has been adopted with respect to the Scholarship examination : Henceforward all Candidates for Scholarships in Trinity College shall be examined in the new Course, as stated in the Card recently published. SCHOLAR COURSE. The Scholarship Course consists of every Greek and Latin Book read for Entrance; and in the extended Course for Undergraduates, to the end of the Second Examination of the Junior Sophister year or should the Candidate be of higher standing than that of Junior Sophister, reckoned from the time of his Entrance to the end of the last Examination, which he might have answered, had he proceeded regularly with his Classes. Sizars who, in the first year, descend to the next Class, to be regarded as having entered with that Class. The Examinations in Michaelmas Term will be held For SENIOR SOPHISTERS, in Classics, on Monday, October 20th. For SENIOR and JUNIOR SOPHISTERS, in Science, on Wednesday, October 22d. For JUNIOR FRESHMEN, in Classics, on Friday, October 24th. For SENIOR and JUNIOR FRESHMEN, in Science, on Saturday, October 25th. Candidates for Moderators' Places will be examined as follows: In CLASSICS, on Monday and Tuesday, October 20th and 21st. In ETHICS and LOGICS, on Thursday and Friday, October 23d and 24th. The Examination of those who are selected for PRIZES will be held on the following days: MONDAY, OCTOBER 27th, Junior Sophisters in Science-Senior Freshmen in Classics. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28th, Senior Freshmen in Science-Junior Freshmen in Classics. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29th, Junior Freshmen in Science-Junior Sophisters in Classics. N. B.-Those Candidates for Degrees, who have obtained Honors in the preceding part of the College Course, are entitled to offer themselves as Candidates for Moderatorships, without answering the preliminary Examination. The Examination for ENTRANCE will be held on Friday, the 17th of October. THOMAS PRIOR, Senior Lecturer. The Annual Divinity Examination will be held on Thursday and Friday, the 6th and 7th of November. C. R. ELRINGTON, REGIUS PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY. THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. No. XXII. OCTOBER, 1834. VOL. IV. HOW IS IRELAND TO BE GOVERNED? How is Ireland to be governed ?" is a question which has invited and baffled a larger host of doctrinaires and dogmatists than any by which, in our day, the political or the scientific world has been occupied. In appear ance it is so simple, that the most inexperienced are encouraged to risk the attempt at its solution; and it is beset with invisible difficulties, which display themselves in a moment when their appearance was least looked for, and before which, hitherto, statesmen, the sagest and most resolute, have gone back discomfited. All things remind us that "the age of chivalry is passed." Even in the experiments by which Ireland has been tormented, this painful truth is brought to our remembrance: in ancient and more poetical days, the bold knight who addressed himself to any high emprise, desisted, on proving unsuccessful, from further trials of an adverse fortune, and left to some less unhappy brother in arms the termination of the adventure. It is not so in Irish legislation. Here failure does not warn. Disasters and defeats are emblazoned as though they were achievements; and, without abatement in his confidence or diminution of his followers, the ten-times conquered returns to the rash attempt, and is fooled on to the top of his bent by the same cheers which so often before had VOL. IV. ended in vexation. To drop these halting metaphors, and speak in plain language the simple truth; such is the position of Irish affairs, that repeated failures encourage the sciolist to persevere in the framing of new contrivances, and recommend his schemes to public acceptation. This is the truth. So regardless is England of what happens in the sister country, that she knows little more than that certain names are associated with Irish affairs. Whether the notoriety has been acquired by speaking truths or by uttering predictions which events have proved deceits, is comparatively of little moment; and many a speculator is emboldened to issue rash promises and assertions by learning that the oftener his prophecies have been falsified by fact, the better they circulate. We do not know whether Mr. Poulet Scrope, author of a pamphlet which has furnished us with the title and the subject of our article, is one of those whose privilege to prescribe for Irish grievance, has been purchased at the price paid by many of his persevering competitors for distinction; but of this we are fully persuaded, that few can be found who have vented their conjectural specifics with a more visible indifference to the risk of exposure and detection. 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