New-York daily tribune., 1856-08-14
INTERESTING LIBEL CASE ~ IRELAND

This case which has crea'-d q sensatOn both
within the vale Of "OId Trinity aud without
them. apd which has occupied Elk days OF the Kl-
dare A,szes at Aihy, whittier Provos', Vice
P,oyo-t Fellows S+Dior and junior, Professors,
ard hos. Of others, attended from the metropolis,
either as witnesses or atenrs. usy interest or
,mu.e the rtsdtrs of THE TRIBUNE
The parties were Baslo Angel, Professor OF
Itsap, and Jo-ept A. Galbra'tb, one o. the Junior
Fellows, one of the hsads Of the WoolSich De
p.rtn e1t ard author Of several scientific aud lit-
frary works. The Professor h.d becom. so gre..
a,ayotitu with the Provost, Or. McDonI ell, THAI
be proposed to confer On M the degree OF LII. D.
But q Senor Marsni had been al unsuccessful can
dids,e for the PfofessOrship, Mr.. GalbraiEh had
pauoplzed him, and tney had made discoveries
u.r,, of, ctDe Abscli's scholarship aud partly his
uorsls, on the ground Of whch II wss sought to
deprl7e hn of bis Pro ossorsnip ald also ot his
G,it 'sme To febut these charges Professor Al
c,h broughs this action. and hos, OF witnesses,
il c!udips NJ Pan,zz, che Librarian OF the British
Museum, were brought on the one eide AID the
Other.
The Professor Signor Bisilio Angel, according
10 bis own account is native OF Lucca, whose
family was respectable, aud who, after being edu-
Gated at home by his uncle, priest WIS sent to
Lncca for further education, where he studied
u.oi ,ine bid afcerward at the Cnlversity OF Pisa
Having reu, ain some time at hone, be Travelled
in Italy. Germany, Spain und France aad came
to Britain ip 1884. His objec: in coming TO
Ri am WAS 10 improve his kn,wl,d DE of medi-
cine: he STAYED " th Sgnor de Lucchesl, whom he
lad known In Italy, aud who had acquired wealth
a. statuary Before leaving Italy be had mar
RED but he and his wife had separated. lie came
"a ublin on ID. Invitation of NaDnett another
statuary where h. supported himself by teaching
Italian and Spanish and IN lSt9 was appointed
PIotr.,or, in Il ublin University, Of Ira ian aud
Sospisb. In 1-54, the Provost proposed to confer
or lin the DE- gree OF Doctor of Laws, and 1t Was
then rbat Mr. Gabrath laid b, fore the Board the
CT a, pes out of which this acton arose.
The clsrqes-to which the names of Mr.. In
cram. alsoa Fellow, and of Professor Hadshton,
rlr sppenGed as well as that OF Mr. Galbfaltn-
were in subsaLce, that Professor Augth had got
bis proit ssoIship by false representations that ne
had not received such an educaion rs qua'ihed
him for the Office: that he had evlnced his lDcom
p.tence hy n translation into Italian OF the dis
course OF Sir Robert Kane, at the opeulng OF tue
Queens College C0rk-s service in which he had
brep employed by that eentleuln, the rrincipti-
which translation was iull of bIunders; and t'at
he had proposed to give premium to young
uan named Wreht-who had left his class, after
paying the fee, hnding him uhquaiiheu -"e o'io0
10 silence. =
r. side these i. was alleged by the Professor
TINT Mr. Galbrairh bad orally accused him OF
inselo,J in putting into bis papers thot lie had
trsvel. in Germany, when he had never Deeh III
Germany: and also of wIte.desertion.
Nr. Gabr,ths defense wa that bis statements
IN The Board. o. which as Junior Fellow he was
nnrnber. were "priyil, g.d, and that the allie
garitn. were true. 1t appeared that VI. Angel was
,l, ct, to the PIofrssorshp by the Board, which
c,u,ists e the Provost. Nice-ProvoSt, am seni"r
and Junior Fellows, unanimously ana, upon
this election, was 7Pppl0ted oy me N"s"ln" NJ
which is the mode d filling up this Profts sorship
But il also appeared that the choice vas founded
Nholly uuO1 testimUnials; and IL seemed strange
that in such an establis hment there was no one
Iroi, ssur or FellUw-sO c"Dyersant win itnIan
authors ss to be able 10 test tue extent OF his ac-
quantance with Italian literature.
N rhe present trial Prof, ssor Angtl brought
| forward .tveral persons in whose families he had
taught as we'll a. other Italian teachers, to p'0ye
hi- G, MP, teucy snd some gentlemen possessed OF
| a kn.v edge of Italisn-Obe Of whom Mr. Der
| wick Secretary OF the Queens Colleges, hdd re-
sided in Italy. ~
ON the other sice critical examination of the
| Professors Italian transidlon VI oir hopert
| Kap.'s Inaugural Address had been published, aud
the list of alleged errors III 1t foimed tue oriei
from " Inch the opposing counsel eAafn,neo tne
Witnesses called to prove the Professors lgn0-
rance of Italian But 10 this he had published an
answer. and this again was the arm"ry Tor thc
cross examination in vin0icatlon OF him. Inc
general answer 10 alleged NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. vas ::
They were either trivial inaccuracies, the result
of ,Ie Saste win which the translation was niaue;
or tynoorspb,cal errors, there being no itai!dh
schoiar in the printing office; or l0lotn"t'c1i
PHRASES. correct in some parts oi ltiiy' thonen
| lot used i'll others; or antlquattd PHRASES tuo
Ell ploy IL, ut Of which is matter OF taste as in t
use Of certsin English ones Vf Shakespeare, Chau-
| Ger. or Sptnser. ,
NJ, Psnizz, and SignOr CsliDga, the former the
ibroran of the b 1ish Museum the laftei io-
fssor OF The Italian language and h.er''ure 'pe
London Uniyersity, were those whose tesuulony
TIE Board of Trinity College relied oo' "heu
. upon the charges above stdfeu, 'pe;
/ ciared the Il ofes or incompetent, AMI inc pro-
fess"rsLp vacant. some OF the fr"!"ssoi 'iau'
| la,ous and their correcDes may ahuso 'uo
I =. ad+r In describing the audience az slr k'o.rt
Kanes inaugural adoress' the rroleSsS' a; '.'u .n
LA grsn tala era piena zeppa di sienon ai ani-
10 ,,ssi the literal English of "h'cu 10:
"The great hall was full OF gentlemen oi oC,n @
sexes" II WAS said that CARDINAL An'onSh
when tte Address WAS put into hIs hahas' eA
| pIef,ed great astObshmeDt that the fnpsiPai W
the CoiL College had been able TO get l'sp'u'l ~
! audience Of a thousand people 80 nsuatv Gun
,ttufed. and wo, derd that such phenon1eh'n
was 20 common ip ireland.
elr Robert had spoken OF the Colleges a. neaa'
for .ievatipg Ireland to the place amons Tue Ia-
"tious 10 which. by her geographlcsl po.'i,n su0
ais tbtitled." Instead of this, u. fahi%%i saia,
l. naNE al