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Kine’s CoutEece has been as much on the “ look gut” for a local 
habitation, as any “ gentlemen that had left his lodgings.” The discus- 
sions, inquiries, and solicitations for some place of rest to this pilgrim of 
literature, have been innumerable, and still no rest is found for the 
« sole of its unblest foot.” 
It first was to alight on Highgate-hill, for the benefit of the air, and then 
on Hampstead, for the benefit of the scenery. Whitechapel then wooed 
its presence for the good of the circumcised population, who were, on 
the earliest opening of its doors, to forswear the sale of old clothes, shave , 
their Rabbinical chins, and turn converts to the sermons of Mr. Mathias. 
Then Northumberland House was thought convenient, as the Admiralty 
and Foreign Clerks might step in, between office hours, and learn to 
spell. Then the Regent’s park combined all voices, from the salubrity 
of the atmosphere, and the exercise of the pupils in walking from six to 
ten miles every morning from the city to school; but the tigers were 
there already. Then the King’s mews, on the strength of a pun of that 
very lively nobleman, Lord Goderich, as the native soil of the metro- 
politan Apollo. Then the site of St. Margaret’s, Westminster, with the 
double advantage of removing a notorious eye-sore, and studying the 
memories of great men in the Abbey. Then Vauxhall, from its proxi- 
mity to the more profligate quarters of London, and the advantage of 
planting such a seminary of purification under the eye of Lambeth. 
Then the site of Billingsgate market, with a similarly double purpose of 
extinguishing a commercial nuisance, and of rectifying the proverbial 
piseatory dialect of that eminent vicinage. Then Somerset House, the 
taxes having fallen off, the clerks having been put on half-pay, and the 
Strand and Fleet-street affording a clear and decorous promenade for 
the students. Then the Artillery Ground, on the strength of teaching 
the young idea how to shoot. All these plans have been duly considered 
and rejected. We understand that the favourite conception, at present, 
is that of establishing this great institution in the Castle of Dublin, the 
Castle being vacated by the sinecure government: the students to be 
carried over in classes, by steam-boats regularly in waiting at Tower- 
stairs for the purpose: and the lecturers, for greater dignity and expe- 
dition, to be conveyed in balloons, to start every half hour with the 
newest regulations of principle and costume, from the Golden Cross, 
Charing Cross. . 
We give the outline of the establishment, already drawn up by the 
Committee :— 
Visrrer.—The visiter will be invested with all the powers usually belong- 
ing to his office. 
Governors.—All fundamental regulations concerning the course of studies, 
and the internal discipline of the college, which the council may frame from 
time to time, as well as the appointment and removal of all the officers of the 
college, will be subject to the approval of the governors. 
Councit.—The council will direct the financial concerns of the college. 
They will regulate the payment for attendance at the several lectures, but 
will not interfere with the discipline of the college, except by promoting such 
ple as they might think expedient for the approbation of the governors. 
ey will also appoint the principal and professors, subject to the confirma- 
tion of the governors. 
Princieau.—The internal government of the college, and the general direc- 
tion and superintendence of the course of education, will rest with the prin- 
cipal. He must be a clergyman, having the degree of M.A. at least, in one of 
the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, or Dublin. It will be his duty to 
