Trinity College, Dublin, celebrated the three-hundredth anniversary of its birth
on Tuesday last with great solemnity and splendour, with a religious service in St. Patrick's Cathedral. No doubt the tercentenary lost some of its effect from the political stir of the elections, which necessarily diverted a certain amount of public attention from the occa- sion. But there was no sign that the contumely with which popular orators endeavour to overwhelm University consti- tuencies had at all succeeded in estranging the people of Dublin from the distinguished College of which Ireland has long been proud. The procession from Trinity College to the Cathedral was the occasion for every kind of expression of popular pride in the fame of the College and the dignity of its alumni, amongst whom Lord Wolseley, Lord Dufferin and Ava, Lord Iveagh, Lord Morris, and Mr. Lecky were distinguished and impressive figures. As yet the jealousy of culture which even Mr. Gladstone, in spite of the great academical career behind him, seems disposed to encourage in the minds of the English people, has not made any progress either in Great Britain or Ireland.
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