dopt the two first, he
said:--"There remains, therefore, but one other course, and that is the
course we are prepared to take. We are prepared, in a liberal sense and
confiding spirit, to improve that institution, and to elevate the tone
of education there. Will you not take that course?" Sir Robert Peel
then stated the proposals of government to the house. The trustees of
Maynooth college, he said, could purchase land to the extent of L1,000
per annum; but they could not receive it on any other terms than for the
lives of the trustees; he proposed to incorporate the trustees by the
title of "the trustees of Maynooth college;" and to enable them to hold
real property to the amount of L3,000 per annum, should members of
the Roman Catholic faith be desirous to contribute to the college so
incorporated. The stipend of each professor did not now exceed L120
per annum; instead of defining what should be the amount paid to each
professor, he proposed to allot to the trustees a certain sum, which
should be placed at their discretion for the payment of salaries. The
sum would admit of a payment of L600 or L700 per annum to the president
of the college; of L260 or L270 to the professors of theology; and of
L220 or L230 to the other professors. A sum not exceeding L6,000 would
be allotted to the trustees for making provision for the officers of
that institution. At present there were about four hundred and thirty
students in the college, divided into three classes: the twenty
Dumboyne students, the three senior classes, and the four junior
classes. It was proposed to allot L40 per annum to each of the Dumboyne
students: and to make provision on the whole for five hundred free
students; that there should be two hundred and fifty students in the
four junior classes, and two hundred and fifty in the three senior
classes, these being divinity students. For the maintenance of each
of these students, it was proposed that a sum should be placed at the
disposal of the trustees of L28 on the average. It was further proposed
that to each of the students in the three senior classes, L20 per annum
should be allowed for their own personal expenses. The sum required
for the students would be L14,560; the total sum for the establishment,
L26,360. It was further proposed that the college should be made, in
appearance and in fact, worthy of an institution of the kind; and that
proper provision should be made for the accommodation of the presidents