d by Elizabeth may be excused if they
point with pride to the names of Ussher, King, and Magee, among her
theologians; to Berkeley, Brinkley, and Hamilton, among her thinkers and
mathematicians; and to Swift, Goldsmith, Burke, and Plunket, amongst those
whom she has given to literature, oratory, and politics, whose names shall
live so long as religion, science, and letters attract the respect and
claim the study of educated Englishmen.

Trinity College has never been, and never was intended to be, a national
institution; her emoluments, her Fellowships and Scholarships, are the
property of the Irish members of the English Church; and the proposal to
throw them open to the competition of Roman Catholics and Dissenters is a
proposal for the confiscation, so far, of the property of Irish
Protestants. Trinity College has well and faithfully discharged the part
she was required to fill; she has maintained the pure doctrine of the
English Church against all opponents; she has reared her Students as
faithful children of that Church; she has given them an education that
enables them to compete successfully with all rivals in the walks of
literature and science; and it cannot be fairly alleged against her as a
fault that she has not provided for the educational wants of Irish
Catholics; she was never intended to do so.

The lovers of the gorgeous Rose need not blush because she wants the colour
and grace of the beautiful Lily; and I may well be pardoned for believing
that no brighter or fairer flower blooms in the garden of the West, than
the Tudor Rose planted in Dublin by the proud Elizabeth.

In order to estimate rightly the effects of the secularization of Trinity
College, both upon the Protestants and the Roman Catholics of Ireland, it
will be necessary to give a numerical view of the relative proportions of
the different religions and professions among the Students of that College.
Taking an average of the past ten years, there are 1200 Students on the
books of Trinity College. Of these 1200 Students, 800 are in daily
attendance upon lectures, and may be classified as follows:--

1. Divinity Students, 160
2. Medical Students, 240
3. Law Students, 70
4. Engineering Students, 60
5. Civil Service of India, 30
6. Non-professional Students, 240
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