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CoLLEGE OF MAYrooTH As the pubIic mind ot Great Britain s in a state of the highest ex c'tement in consequence of the proposal of Sir Ro- bert Peel 10 increase the endowments of Maynoo,h h College from nine thousand pounds to twenty five thousand pounds annually, we believe our readers Will be glad to obtain more definite idea of its lo cation and character. We extract the tol,oyvins from 'he London Christian Examiner for April

 "lhe College of Maynooih derives it's name from the town in which it is located Maynooh Is sruaI town ahout eleven miles distant from the Irish me. tropolis, and adjoining the magnificent seat of Ire lands only duke'-ite Duke of Ieiaster. At tbis place house for the intended collese was sed Tor the stun o E4 O13 l0s, and y four acres of md were eraated by lhe late Duke of fLeinster on lea o lives renewable forever, the annual rent of 73 Twenty arres of land were subsequently, ob,ainetf rom MT St"yte, al an annual rent of tl40 The Rev Dr Hussey, formerly chiplain to the Narouis del Campo, the Spanish ambassador and afterwards tituiar Bishop of Waterford, was appointed first president ot the institution. Flfiy htudents were admitted in 1795; fifty more in ls0O; in 1919 they amounted to Two hundred; in 1872 to two hundred shd my, ard al present the number approaches to hve hundred The ruperiors, professors and .tl tho s'Iien's resile within the walls; and the College huiidings, wanring III architectural embellishments from three sides of quadrangle, containing chap e re'ectorv, library. and various lecture rooms ne 'o''' onst C, these erectIons is understood 10 have been f4l ,9iS 3s ltd

 rue anlual grant from Parliament provides for the support o he President, Vice President, deans, ,li- oraf'a"' hufsar, professors, and about hundred ana seventy students.

 fhe ColIrse of Maynooth ia not now. and never has oeen' a Stat" institution. It's establishment was not the act of tn civil power; it was he result en- Iireiy Of ecclesiastical action

 Al the period 'f the Union the,e was no stipuIa- . ton, m convenanr for the permanent endowment of this College.

 The College O: Maynoo'h is strictly sectarian ofs It was established by Roman Catholics, and Cor them IL was never designed for Proteslants, and has never con open to them. Nor is th. aII.- It IS not designed To promote secular education nmong Roman Caiholr'. IL is seminary for ,he education of prest, and of priests alone. All the doctrlnes all the reculiarites of the Romlsh creed me taught by he professors.

 To endow any sect at he public expense is not within the proJcr prurnce of the evil er but p 'oves' on h's p'r, darng infringement of the God."