For sacred are the walls we rear To guard our homes and shrines within, And thus the work we here begin Then rear the rampire, men of Ross, And foes by force may win the town, How shall we build for Heaven above Build only thou on faith and love And God will make the structure good; Then rear the rampire, men of Ross, The beams may break, the stones may fall, Where, high in Heaven beyond your thrall, The liberal Lady Rosabel To wall your town her gold hath given, Oh, serve your benefactress well, And build the rampart fair and even; You gain the gates of life above, Serve Him with prayer and praise to Heaven, "The ladies' carol; and the events which followed, I must consider of," said Turlogh, "for I only heard the story twice, and some of the rhymes therein are waxing faint in my memory." UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. No. XXXVIII. FEBRUARY, 1836. VOL. VII. CONTENTS. Page COLQUHOUN ON THE PRESENT STATE OF IRELAND 117 132 OUR PRESENT POSITION-MORE PLAIN WORDS BY A PLAIN THINKER 193 204 THE BIBLE AND CROWN-A NEW BALLAD, TO BE SAID OR SUNG IN ALL CHURCHES 229 DUBLIN. WILLIAM CURRY, JUN. AND COMPANY. SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, Gallery of Illustrious Irishmen. No. II. Grattan-in our next. We have a few words to say upon certain matters connected with the University of Dublin, and we had availed ourselves of the appearance of the University Calendar (which by the way was very late in its publication this year) to throw our sentiments upon these points into the shape of a review. Want of space obliges us reluctantly to postpone our paper on these subjects. Next month we shall have something to say touching academic matters; we will not forget Dr. Sadleir, of whom we have heard some strange things; we will have a word, too, on the new system of tutor's emoluments, and many other little topics that ought not to be altogether forgotten by the public. Why did we not receive at an earlier period that beautiful and splendid volumethe Literary Souvenir? It does not indeed deserve to be regarded as an annual. Its embellishments are too exquisite to be forgotten with the passing away of the Christmas season it is a volume at all times fit to be presented as an offering of friendship but still it bears the appearance and shape of an annual and long before it reached our editorial table, our last number had been read by all the Tories and half the Radicals of the empire. Had it reached us earlier we would gladly have devoted a few pages to an examination of its merits. But the book will still be bought and admired; to any one with an eye to be charmed by the most exquisite productions of art, it carries with itself a better recommendation than any we could give it. WHEN Our readers shall have acquainted themselves with the contents of the pamphlet which we now propose to bring under their view, they will, we think, acknowledge that we have no reason to regret the earnest ness with which we urged the sending into England and Scotland a Protestant deputation. To many, who were timid, the project seemed rash; to others, whose love had waxed cold, it seemed foolishness; there were those who had serious thoughts of relinquish ing the struggle against the powers of evil, as being altogether hopeless, and who, having, as they thought, counted their cost, were desirous of sending an ambassador to the enemy, and treating of terms of peace, lest with their ten thousand they should not be equal to a contest with his twenty thousand; and there were those who never had been hearty in the good cause, and who were only anxious for the time when they might quietly pocket the wages of their treachery and desertion. To all these the proposal of sending chosen men into England and Scotland, by whom our condition might be made known, was received with coldness and distrust; and little better was expected by one part of them, or desired by another, than that it should end in frustration and disappointment. But if there are, at present, any who are sceptical as to the result of the exertions of our able missionaries, we do think that the work before us must entirely dispel their doubts; which we regard with peculiar interest, coming from the quarter that it does, and being, as it were, the first fruits of the newly formed Protestant associations. Mr. Colquhoun, of Killermont, is well known in Scotland, and cannot be altogether unknown to many of our readers. He was, in the last parliament, returned by the radical interest as the member for Dumbartonshire; and, we believe, entered the House of Commons with as many prejudices against Irish Protestants and Orangemen as were entertained by any other of his party. But they were the prejudices of a fair-minded man; and were not retained longer than they were found to be reasonable. Mr. Colquhoun lost no opportunity of testing the accuracy of those representations, which ignorant, or malignant, or interested individuals have circulated to the prejudice of the Conservative party in this country; and, although he commenced his inquiries merely with a view of fortifying his previous opinions, and without the slightest suspicion of the course to which they would lead, yet when that course was clearly in Ireland-Popery and Priestcraft, the cause of her misery and crime. By J. C. Colquhoun, Esq. of Killermont. Published under the superintendence of the Glasgow Protestant Association. Strictures on the Letter of the Right Rev. Dr. Murray, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, relative to Dens' Theology. By a Lay Protestant. Milliken, Dublin. VOL VII. K |