became the property of Luke White, one of the most remarkable men that Ireland has produced.  In 1778, Luke White was in the habit of buying cheap odds and ends of literature from a bookseller, named Warren, in Belfast to peddle about the country.  In 1798 he loaned the Irish government, then in great difficulty, a million of pounds!  Mr. Warren, who found him very punctual and exact, used to permit him to leave his pack behind his counter and call for it in the morning.  No one would then have dreamed that the greasy bag was to lead to such results.  By degrees, White scraped together some means.  He used to take odd volumes to a binder in Belfast and employ him to get the “vol.” at the beginning and end of an odd volume erased, so as to pass it off among the unwary as a perfect book, and generally furbish it up.  Then he used to sell his literary wares by auction in the streets of Belfast.  The knowledge he thus acquired of public sales procured him a clerkship with a Dublin auctioneer.  He opened first a book-stall, and then a regular book-shop, in Dawson street, a leading thoroughfare of Dublin.  There he became eminent.  He sold lottery-tickets, speculated in the funds and contracted for government loans.  In 1798, when the rebellion broke out, the Irish government was desperately in need of funds.  They came into the Dublin market for a loan of a million, and the best terms they could get were from Luke White, who offered to take it at sixty-five pounds per one hundred pound share at five per cent.—­not unremunerative terms.

At the time of his death, in 1824, he had long been M.P. for Leitrim, and his son was member for the county of Dublin.  He left property worth a hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars a year.  Eventually almost the whole of it devolved on his fourth son, who some years ago was created a peer of the United Kingdom as Lord Annaly.

The family has probably spent more than a million and a half of dollars on elections.  It has always been on the Liberal side.  The present peer has property in about a dozen counties, and is lord-lieutenant of Langford, whilst his younger son holds the same high office in Clare.

The University of Dublin consists of a single college—­Trinity.  This edifice forms a prominent feature in the Irish metropolis.  It stands in College Green, almost opposite to the Bank of Ireland, the former legislative chambers.  Since the Union, Trinity College has been but little resorted to by men of the upper ranks of Irish society, although it has certainly contributed some very eminent men to the public service—­notably, the late unfortunate governor-general, Lord Mayo, and Lord Cairns, ex-lord-chancellor of England.  Trinity is one of the largest owners of real estate in the country.  The fellowships are far better than those of the English universities.  The provost, who occupies a large and stately mansion, has a separate estate worth some fifteen thousand dollars a year, which he manages himself.