ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITORS. IN sending forth the following pages we feel that it would be unwise not to offer some words of introduction and explanation regarding our undertaking, and our efforts to establish a means of communication, by which members of this University may make public their opinions upon any subject in which they may be interested. Knowing as we do that numerous votes of censure will be passed upon us for thus endeavouring to monopolise public attention, we should have shrunk from our undertaking had we not been buoyed up by the hope that these pages will meet with a welcome reception at the hands of many of our friends and contemporaries, whose edification and amusement we have in view. We do not however propose to hamper ourselves by fixing any limits to our subjects of discussion: for, whether the subject in hand be of Political, Literary, or Commercial interest, we shall endeavour, as far as we may be able, to bring to bear upon it every means of information that we can command, and to express our opinions unbiassed by prejudice or party-spirit. Since however it is our good fortune to exist in that rara temporum felicitas, ubi sentire quæ velis et quæ sentias dicere licet,' we shall avail ourselves of the privilege thereby afforded, that of freedom of speech; and shall consider the acts of all public men, and especially of those who are entrusted with the government of this country, to be fairly open to criticisms and other observations; but whatever may be the opinions |