INTRODUCTION. THE COLLEaE AND THE UNIVERSITY.* The constitution of the University of Dublin, and its relation to Trinity College, have been a subject of controversy. Some questions that were generally supposed to Have been settled have been recently re-opened. The Letters Patent of Her Majesty the Queen (21 Vict.) confirmed to the Provost and Senior Fellows of the College, and to the Chancellor or Vice- Chancellor, Doctors and Masters of the University, without any alteration or diminution whatsoever (save as therein pro- vided), all such powers, rights, and privileges as by Eoyal Charters and Statutes had been given or granted to the Pro- vost, Fellows, and Scholars of Trinity College, or to the Uni- versity of Dublin, or which by long usage had been possessed. The Introduction to the first volume of the University Calendar (1833) contains an instructive historical account of the foundation and settlement of the College. It afterwards states, that neither in the Charter of Queen Elizabeth, nor in the Charter of King Charles I., was the University recognised as a corporate body distinct from the corporation of the College : that the University was simply a College with University pri-
- By the late Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Chancellor of Ireland, Vice-Chan-
Napier, Bart., LL.D., formerly Lord cellor of the University. VOL. II. b
