The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-26 00:00:00

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The royal commissioners unfortunately only had
before them the latter half of these startling facts
and figures—without a notion of the contrast that
would have been presented to them by their juxta-
position with the companion facts halfa century ear-
lier—facts which were brought to light opportunely
by the researches of the " Dublin University "
contributor. Yet, with only half of the truth told
to them, the Royal Commissioners looking only
to the table of 1851, ask pertinently—" By what
authority is the method of distribution regu-
lated ? " And the reply coming, almost we had
said, impertinently, " The distribution of the fees
is made by the authority of the provost and senior
fellows." No wonder, with such an extremely
cool rejoinder before him, no wonder at

all that the writer in the " Dublin University
Magazine " should have arrived at tho
distinct conclusion that—" Publicity, in a word,
must be henceforth the rule in all educational
endowments." The security, beyond all others,
will be—the public auditing of the accounts.
Under the glare of publicity we should not have to
deplore the monstrous insufficiency of the salaries
of the non-tutor fellows—coupled with the rapid
increase of the emoluments accruing to the mem-
bers of the Board, under every fluctuation of
affairs both public and collegiite. An increase
like that in the Professorship of Divinity—which
was 5001. a year in 1761, when held by a senior
fellow named BRABAZON DlSNEY—which had in-
creased to 7001. a-year in 1790, when held by
another senior follow named JAMES DROUG/ilT—
which had still further expanded into 1,2001. a-
year by 1814, when RICKARD GRATES, afterwards
Deau of Ardagb, was appointed to it—and which
had ultimately attained the value of 1,7001. a-year
by 1850 (namely, by the addition to it of the liv-
ing of Raymochy), when Dr. SINGER wag inducted

into the vacant chair of the Professorship.
Simultaneously with which swift and steady ex-
pansion—there has been observable, on the other
hand, the miserable dwindling away of the
incomes awarded to the holders of the
minor offices in the University. The Professor-
ship of Botany, for example, having shrunk from
GOO/. to 2001. per annum ! While the Profes-
sorship of Oratory, which was 1001. a year in
1762 was reduced to 601. in 1847, and in 1850
to 351. (Irish). Time, surely, in all conscience, for
some strenuous effort at interposition with a view
to some sweeping measures of reorganization. The

signal for this zeform, we rest assured, has now
been definitively given by the bold and honest
out-speaking of the Maga of the Dublin Univer-
sity. It is scarcely conceivable for a moment
that such an exposure can be very long survived.

Cleanliness is altogether too expensive—there-
fore dirt is infinitely prpferable—according to some
of our Metropolitan ratepayers. They held a snug
little hole-in-the-corner meeting the other day,
these advocates of economical filth, and there
passed two or three wonderful resolutions entirely
to their own satisfaction. Freemasons' Tavern
was their place of assembly. They had a live
M.P. for a Chairman. They had two other M. P.'s
for his supporters. They had vestrymen who
proposed, and other vestrymen who slconied
some of those curiously long-winded and involved
sentences called resolution, having either no punc-
tuation at all, or the most sparse sprinkling of
occasional commas, reading in point of fact more
like a specimen of the conversational powers of
Miss FLORA. CA say than anything else with which
we are acquainted in the whole range of polite
literature. Everything in fine was perfectly cor-
rect and regular. It was admirably business-like.
It was as dull as ditchwater, but no matter that
was only in keeping with everyiling else about it.
And the gist of this meeting—What about That ?
Well, it was to all intents and purposes certainly
s)mething really very extraordinary.
Any one might reasmetb'y have supposed that
by this time, by the
middle of the ninteteeenabthsoclu7e
ture, by the year of grace 1858, h
nastiness, the notorious ins Ilubrity, the stupid,ty,
the cruelty of transforming the noble and beautiful
river flowing through our capital into nothing
less unsightly or obnoxious than a loathsome
open sewer, would have been admitted universally
as a horrid undeniable truth—anywhere, every-
where, by everybody, amine -comatradicente. But
—No ! The supposition would have been errc-
neous. There is the Monster Evil under our
very windows,
ebbing and flowing twice in the
twenty-four hours with the ebb and flow of the
tides again), and what is worse than that, smelt,