ight of the matter which he had to deal with, and the general
misapprehension which prevailed; thought the tide was turning in
their favour. 11.--Gladstone in high spirits, confident of success
on Thursday. 14.--Dined at Gladstone's. Our host in high spirits at
his achievement of yesterday.

The leading provisions of the measure, though found by the able and expert
draftsman unusually hard to frame, may be very shortly stated, for the
question by the way is still in full blast. A new university of Dublin was
to rise, a teaching as well as an examining body, governed by a council
who were to appoint officers and regulate all matters and things affecting
the university. The constitution of this governing council was elaborately
devised, and it did not make clerical predominance ultimately impossible.
The affiliation of colleges, not excluding purely denominational
institutions, was in their hands. There were to be no religious tests for
either teachers or taught, and religious profession was to be no bar to
honours and emoluments. Money was provided by Trinity College, the
consolidated fund, and the church surplus, to the tune of L50,000 a year.
The principle was the old formula of mixed or united education, in which
protestants and catholics might side by side participate.

(M144) What many found intolerably obnoxious were two "gagging clauses."
By one of these a teacher or other person of authority might be suspended
or deprived, who should in speaking or writing be held to have wilfully
given offence to the religious convictions of any member. The second and
graver of them was the prohibition of any university teacher in theology,
modern history, or moral and mental philosophy. The separate affiliated
colleges might make whatever arrangements they pleased for these subjects,
but the new university would not teach them directly and authoritatively.
This was undoubtedly a singular limitation for a university that had sent
forth Berkeley and Burke; nor was there ever a moment when in spite of the
specialisation of research, the deepest questions in the domain of thought
and belief more inevitably thrust themselves forward within common and
indivisible precincts.

III

On Feb. 14, Mr. Gladstone reported to the Queen:--

The general impression last night appeared to be that the friends
of Trinity College were relieved; that the liberal party and the
nonconformists were well satisfie