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this university. His head, which is of a dignified character, is thrown a little backward, and looking upward with an expression of pious resignation, which is admirably represented: the extension of the right hand is quite in unison with the turn of the head, and leaves nothing wanted to complete the difficult subject. A female figure, emblematic of the university, bends over him in an attitude and with a countenance expressive of the most tender grief; at his feet is an angel approaching him, holding in her left hand a wreath of palm, and looking on him with a countenance of ineffable benignity, points up to heaven. These figures, with the matress or couch on which they are placed, is of fine Carrara marble. Behind the figures rises a pyramid of dark-coloured Egyptian porphyry, which has a fine effect as a ground to the subject. The matress on which the provost reclines is supported by a very rich sarcophagus of black and gold marble, sus. tained at the lower corner on massive lions' claws; these again, rest on a black marble plinth, which lies on a pedestal of the same material: all these are highly polished. In contemplating this splendid work of art, it is impossible not to be struck with the great elegance and propriety of the design: in our judgment nothing of this kind could be conceived more natural, chaste, or unaffected. To the beauty of the conception are added correctness in drawing and elegance of form, the whole conducted with a degree of care in the execution suitable to the subject, and which throughout displays the hand of the master. sculpture, we have seen very few modern works that could rank higher than this, in any of the qualities that constitute elevated art.

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This noble work is the production of Mr. Hewetson, a native of Dublin, whose friends sent him to Rome, where he executed this monument, the expense of which was £2000. We lament to say that this artist of genius died in the prime of life, shortly after the great powers of his mind had begun to develop themselves in his art, which thereby suffered an incalculable loss.

In the room over the ante-hall, is the old organ,

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THE DINING HALL.

which belonged to the former chapel, and which, tradition says, was taken in a Spanish ship, and presented to the college by the first Duke of Ormond. At the opposite side to the theatre, not directly in a line with it, but parallel to the chapel, and retired about forty feet from the line of its front, stands

The Refectory, or Dining Hall.—This is a detached building, in the lower part of which are the spacious kitchen, cellars, and other offices. It presents a handsome front, having an angular pediment, supported by six pilasters of the Ionic order. The entrance is approached by a flight of steps, the whole length of the front: this has a good effect. In the pediment is placed the clock, which strikes the time a quarter of an hour later than the town clocks, on purpose that the pupils may have an opportunity of getting into college in good time to avoid fines, &c. The dining room is seventy feet long, thirty-five feet broad, and thirty-five feet high; it is wainscoted with oak pannel to the height of twelve feet, finished with a scotia moulding. Over this, on the east side, the windows, four in number, are placed; these are large, with semicircular heads, carried quite up to the cornice. At the north, or upper end, opposite to the entrance, and over the fellows' table, is a Venetian window of large dimensions; these give plenty of light to the hall. The west side is without windows, but instead of them it is ornamented with circular-headed flat niches, seven in number. In each of these is placed a full-length portrait of some eminent public character who has graduated in this college; they are habited in their academical robes, according to the degree they may have taken. Most of these posthumous paintings were executed during the provostship of Dr. Elrington, by an artist named Joseph, from London, who also painted portraits of Dr. Barrett and some others of the fellows then living; for all which the artist was much more liberally rewarded than the merit of his works could have afforded any claim. The niches are finished with broad mouldings in stucco, and immediately over them runs a bold dentil cornice, of great depth and classic character.

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From this cornice springs the ceiling, which is coved, for about ten feet from the cornice, throughout its whole length. The central portion of the ceiling is flat, and in it are ornamented apertures, through which are suspended large chandeliers.

The provost, fellows, resident masters, and fellow commoners dine at the tables at the upper (north) end of the hall, whilst the scholars and pensioners are placed, according to their classes, at the other tables; the sizars come in and dine at the fellows' table, when the latter and the fellow commoners have retired from the hall.

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The Historical Society's Rooms.-These apartments are situated over the vestibule or ante-room of this refectory, from which a spacious staircase leads to the large room in which the debates are carried on, and the other business of the society transacted, for which purposes it is sufficiently capacious. Posterior to the large room is situated a smaller one, which is used for committees, and where refreshments of tea and coffee are served to the members.

Having already given a sketch of this society's history, of its rise, progress, fall and resuscitation, we have nothing further to add, except a few incidents which were overlooked in our notes.

Several of the junior Fellows, it appears, assisted the senior students in drawing up and settling a plan for the government of this society, the principal features of which are the following: All the Fellows were declared to be members ex officio; all other members must be subjected to a ballot. No person whose name was not on the college books could be a member, nor could any student become a member until his junior sophister year. Any member who incurred a college censure, ceased to belong to the

a Some fastidious persons have objected to this great distinction between the sizars and other classes; but it should be known that without considerable College attainments no one can be a sizar, and as their manners and moral conduct generally harmonize with their knowledge in arts and sciences, they often attain to great eminence in the learned professions.

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