This involves separation of Trinity College from the Uni- -versity
of Dublin ; the separation also of the theological faculty of Trinity College from Trinity College, and its trans- lerence, with a charge on the revenues of the -College for its maintenance, to the Disestablished Church ; the abolition of all tests in Trinity College ; the Incorporation of the University .of Dublin, and its government by a Council of about twenty-eight members, to be in the first instance appointed by the Act ; the affiliation of Cork and Belfast Colleges (Galway it is at present proposed to abolish), of Magee College, and the Catholic Uni- versity College, to the new University ; the endowment of this University by about £50,000 a year (of which Trinity College -will contribute a quarter, the funds now endowing the Queen's University nearly another quarter, fees some eighth part, and the funds obtained by disestablishing the Protestant Church of Ireland the other three-eighths) ; the establishment of a staff of Professors for teaching in Dublin academical subjects, not including the semi-religious subjects of History and Mental Thilosophy, for whose salaries £15,000 to £20,000 a year is to be provided ; the establishment of 100 bursaries of £25 a year, ten- able for four years, in connection with the new University, each to be competed for by its students ; 25 scholarships of £50 a _year each, Cso tenable for four years ; and 10 fellowships of 1200 a year each, tenable for five years. The Council governing the University is to be nominated in the first instance in the Act, and the vacancies afterwards for ten years to be filled up alter- nately by co-optation and the nomination of the Crown. The members of the new University are to be elected by the whole body of the higher graduates,—all the Queen's College and Trinity College graduates coming in at once, and the students of ether affiliated Colleges, like the Catholic University College, being Admitted immediately after examination passed.
