unnecessary degree of bitterness and personality. There have been timesthe occasions have been rare-when we imagined that our duty called on us to expose the conduct of individuals in high station; and we admit that upon such occasions we have been more anxious to give expression to our feelings than to soften down the language in which those feelings might be conveyed. We feel strongly upon politics; and when we see political baseness in high places, we cannot always tame down the language of our honest indignation to the measured terms of polite discretion. When we felt that the rights of Britons were assailed, we did not hesitate to break down the conventional etiquette which never was intended, which never ought to protect the enormities of dignity and rank. We never have disguised our hatred of apostacy, because it might happen to be seated on the woolsack; nor concealed our contempt for meanness, even when found in the wearer of a coronet. With nothing to hope from patronage, and nothing to fear from power, we have never scrupled to denounce the faults or the crimes which seemed to us to endanger the well-being of our country, even though the delinquent might happen to be an Archbishop, a Chancellor, or a Lord Lieutenant. But while we confess, and glory in the confession, that we have carried to its utmost bounds the liberty of the press, we defy any one to adduce from our pages a single example of its licentiousness. We have never lent ourselves to the detestable occupation of private slander. Our opinions we have expressed, without any other restraint than that which our own sense of propriety imposed; but this is a controul which has ever influenced us; and we cannot recollect that, even in the heat of political excitement, an expression has escaped us of which, in our cooler moments, we have seen reason to be ashamed. The name of our periodical is a subject upon which we are anxious to nake a few observations. It is, perhaps, calculated to give a very false impression as to the nature of the work. We contemplate far more popular, and far more important objects than to send forth to the world a chronicle of scientific intelligence, or a register of academic proceedings. We desire that there should be nothing in our pages to distinguish us as a University Magazine. The truth is, that if we had our name to choose, our present denomination is not the one we would adopt. Few persons are aware of the accidents in which this Magazine originated; and it is needless to detail the circumstances which, in the minds of its projectors, determined its appellation. With the exception of the list of honors, which we generally make it a matter of conscience to insert, there is nothing in our pages to render the name peculiarly appropriate. Still less do we wish it to be supposed that our journal is in anywise the organ of the heads of the University-of them we are perfectly independent. We are anxious, for many reasons, that this should be distinctly understood. While it is but justice to that learned body to state, they are not in any degree responsible for our sentiments upon any subject; it is, perhaps, no more than justice to ourselves to say, that we owe to them neither patronage or support. There is one sense, indeed, in which we may be entitled to the name of the University Magazinethe sense, we believe, in which it was originally adopted-we do claim to speak the sentiments of the great majority of the graduates of the University. Our name was adopted at the period when the wise extension of the franchise had admitted all graduates to a species of connexion with the University; and it was supposed that the title of University Magazine would be an appropriate one for a journal which aspired to be the monthly advocate and representative of the Protestantism, the intelligence, and the respectability of Ireland. Unquestionably the graduates of the University, as a body, combine all these elements in themselves. We cannot, however, help thinking that the selection was injudicious. Unfortunately, in our Irish University, the graduate who has once left her walls has but few associations to bind him to his Alma Mater; and even the extension of the franchise has done little to connect him more closely to the institution, except, perhaps, as it creates the somewhat harsh reminiscence which is annually excited by the never-failing exaction of a pound. The Close of the Year. But it is now too late to quarrel with our designation; our space, too, is limited, and we must turn to a more pleasing topic, which it would ill become us to neglect. We cannot omit this opportunity of expressing our deep sense of obligation to the newspaper press of the empire, without distinction of politics or party, for the tone and temper of their criticisms. Severally to express our gratitude to each British journal would be impossible, and to particularize any would be invidious. In Ireland our national undertaking has been kindly looked on, even by those whom we have most uncompromisingly opposed. To the leading Protestant journals of Ireland we are deeply indebted. The Evening Mail, a journal which stands triumphantly where it ought to be, at the head of the Irish press, and its honest and excellent ally the Warder, have placed us under repeated obligations; while the provincial Protestant press has, almost with one voice, expressed an opinion of our periodical of which we cannot but feel proud. Support, however, from these journals our principles give us in some degree a right to expect: but even by the radical papers we are received, if not in a spirit of love, yet certainly not of hostility. The criticisms of the Evening Post and the Freeman's Journal have been anything but unkind. To the latter paper in particular we are indebted for comments, in which, mingled with what we must consider intemperate abuse of our politics, there has ever been a full disposition to appreciate whatever literary merits we may possess. We confess that we feel peculiar pleasure in witnessing a spirit such as this; it proves to us that party spirit has not yet pressed into its service every feeling of Irishmen; it could almost revive the dream that once filled our minds in our younger and more enthusiastic days-a dream that all party distinctions might one day be obliterated, and all Irishmen unite together in the bonds of fraternity and peace. But we must have done-we must turn from these fond imaginations to the stern duties which belong to our occupation-duties, the labours and the cares of which are not altogether unrelieved by the sweet consciousness 711 We cer that they are effectual. We took up our pen to say many things-we must lay it down when we have said but a few. way for a few moments' rest and conLike a traveller who has paused on his versation, we have been communing with our friends and readers, and we now again address ourselves to the road. We do so with the feeling that our path is one along which our prospects have toiled up many a rough and are brightening at every step. We arduous steep; we can now look back upon our difficulties as past. tainly are proud of having at last ESTABLISHED an Irish periodical. It has cost us much of labour and of harassing anxiety; but we are more than repaid in our success. hardly say that we shall equally exert We need and the favor with which we have been our energies to retain the confidence honored; and perhaps the exertion may not be the less efficient, as a rapidly increasing circulation is placing We have struggled in the days of diffi increased resources at our disposal. culty and danger; we will not relax call those of our prosperity. our efforts in the days which we may most anxious desire is, that whatever influence or power may attend upon Our our success, we may feel to be a sacred trust, and that in the solemnity of that feeling we may honestly employ religious principles, by an adherence them in support of those political and to which we have risen. release our readers from a colloquy It is time, however, that we should which probably they have found tedious. We could not present them volume without indulging in a few with the completion of words of self gratulation; and we our sixth shall now take our leave of them for this year, wishing them many happy returns of the merry season of Christmas, at least a season which was once merry in the good old days, and which, in spite of Whigs and Radicals, will honest Briton in the land cheer up his be merry yet once more. Let every glass, let his sentiment be, that he and we heart; and as he takes his Christmas may both survive the reign of Whiggery, and live to keep a truly "merry Christmas" in honester and better times. To the Cork Evening Herald,' the Londonderry Sentinel,' the Belfast Guardian,' the Belfast News-Letter,' the Cork Constitution,' the Newry Teleraph,' and the Kilkenny Moderator,' we beg to return our sincerest thanks. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. MICHAELMAS TERM EXAMINATIONS AT TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN. The names of the successful Candidates in each Rank are arranged, not in the order of Merit, but in the order of Standing on the College Books. JUNIOR SOPHISTERS.-PRIZES IN SCIENCE.-Senior Prizemen-George A. Shaw, William Lee Junior PrizemenJohn James, John M. Lynn, Malachi S. Hussey, Richard W. Biggs, John B. Murphy. PRIZES IN CLASSICS.-Senior Prizemem-John Walker, Thomas Wrightson, John W. Hallowell, William Lee, John Walsh, James Eccleston. Junior Prize. men-Robert Welsh, Joseph Wilson Higginbotham, Thomas Rice Henn, Joseph Le Fanu, William Kelland, John Orr, James W. K. Disney, John Tyrrell Baylee, John Allen Shone, William Falloon, Thomas Walker Stanley, Frank Voules, Daniel Ryan. SENIOR FRESHMEN.--PRIZES IN SCIENCE.-Senior Prizemen.-Charles Kelly, Thomas Galwey, Henry Connor, Michael Roberts, Edmond Meredith, John H. Jellett, James A. Lawson. Junior Prize men- Henry Burke, Robert R. Warden, Edward Ovens, Thomas Sanders, Stephen Flanagan, William Roberts, Robert Beere. PRIZES IN CLASSICS.-Senior Prizemen- -Thomas Francis Torrens, Richard Wrightson, William Roberts, John Watson, Patrick Murphy, Cornelius Percy Ring. Junior Prizemen-William Knox, James Douglas, James Hodder, John Francis Walters, Michael Roberts, John Perrin, John Robert Minnett, John Ogle, Edmond Meredith, John Marchbauks, John Jellett, James A. Lawson, Henry Edwards, William Ahern. JUNIOR FRESHMEN. PRIZES IN SCIENCE. Senior Prizemen-William B. Blood, George Salmon, Michael McCann, Joseph Galbraith. Junior Prizemen John Reid, Conway Dobbs, George Kirkpatrick, James Lendrick, Matthew White, Charles Bagot, Archibald Rutherford, Henry Rutherford, Francis M'Gillicuddy, John Coen. PRIZES IN CLASSICS.-Senior Prizemen-John Storey, Hugh Cairns, John Flanagan, Nicholas Wrixon, Thomas Tracy, John Coen. Junior PrizemenJohn O'Neill, G. Salmon, Edward Moriarty, John Laughlin, George Longfield, James Gwynne, William Fausset Black, Robert Peebles, Hugh Law, Richard Longfield, Peter Fawcett, Robert Fulton Neely. The Senior Moderators are placed in the order of Merit: Junior Moderators in the order of standing on the College Books. Initio Termini S, Michaelis, habitis Examinationibus pro gradu Baccalaureatus in artibus. IN MODERATORES SENIORES NOMINANTUR.-In Disciplinis Math. et Phys. 1. M'Dowell, (Georgius); 2. Stack, (Thomas,) Sch; 3 Webb, (Franciscus.) In Ethica et Logica.-1. Davis, (Johannes), Sch. 2. Hughes, (Johannes Gwygher); 3. Ball, (Johannes) Sch. In Literis Humanioribus.-1, Bentley, (Johannes); 2. Owgan, (Henricus), Sch. IN MODERATORES JUNIORES NOMINANTUR.-In Disciplinis Math. et Phys. -Chichester, (Gulielmus), Sch.; Le Marchant, (Gulielmus H.); Vickers (Henricus Thomas.) In Ethica et Logica.--Murland, (Jacobus,) Soc. Com.; Stack, (Thomas,) Sch.; Mullins, (Robertus,) Sch.; Townsend, (Aubrey); Davis, (Thomas.) In Literis Humanioribus.--Fleming, (Alexander,) Sch.; Nash, (Georgius.) INDEX TO VOL. VI. Avenged Bride, a Tale, Review of, 164. Beloved one, Song to the, 413. Bill for the Abolition of the Irish Church, Billiard Table, the, a Tale, 361. Black Monday of the Glens, a Tale, 332. Bores of my Acquaintance-No. III. 185. Coleridge's Table Talk, and Works, Re- Corby Mac Gillmore, a Tale, 278, 538,/- Corporation of Cork and the Privy Corporation Reform, 118. E. Chichester, A. M. Review of, 231. Effects of Insanity, on some unnoticed, 666. England, the Fudges in, Review of, 297. ► 661. Essays and Sermons, by the Rev. H. man, 411. Exeter Hall, Second Meeting at, 228. Ferns, the late Bishop of, 239. Forget me Not, from the German, 409. France, Murders, Morals, and Monarchy the younger, Review of, 297. Hibernian Nights' Entertainments. The 3 D Insanity, on some unnoticed effects of, 666. Irish Church Abolition Bill, 125–475. Lascelles, Edward, Gent. Scenes from the XX. and XXI. Off Algiers, 496. Leaves from the Journal of a deceased Letters from an Old Orangeman-No. I. Letters on the Philosophy of Unbelief, by Rev. James Wills, Review of, 625. Lords, House, what is the use of? 71. Mackintosh, Sir James, Memoirs of his Man, addressed to Lord Byron, 696. Martineau's, Miss, Tracts, Notice of, 557. Melancholy, Ode to, 412. Metaphysic Rambles, by Warner Chris- tian Search, Notice of, 466. Moore's Fudges in England, Review of, 297. Murders, Morals and Monarchy in France, by Terence O'Ruark, A. M. 344. My Life, by the author of Stories of Waterloo, review of, 154. Naples, an evening in the Bay of, 662. Obituary-Bishop of Ferns, 239. Mr. Orange Institution, account of, by an Old Ordnance Survey of the County of Lon- O'Ruark, Terence, Passages from his Paradise Regained, by the Rev. Mark Passages from the Diary of Terence Philosophy of Unbelief, Letters on the, Poor Laws for Ireland, necessity of, 24. Privy Council and the Corporation of Rambling Recollections, No. V. Mr. McDermott's Story concluded, 567. |