Extract from the Evening Packet, 18th March 1848

THE QUEEN – THE PEOPLE – AND THE LAW

Dublin, Saturday, 18 March
College of St Columba

In consequence of the publicity that has been given to the subject, the Trustees feel themselves under the painful necessity of announcing the Mr ELIAS T. STEVENSON has been expelled from his Fellowship in the College of St Columba by the Warden, with the consent of the Visitor, his Grace the Lord Primate, as required by the statutes, in consequence of his having become a member of a political society called ‘the Irish Confederation’.