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REMARK S. — We here give from various articles which have recently appeared relative to Upper Canada College, a series of brief extracts. These extracts, though fir from doing justice to the ability which has characterized the articles in their iiitegi-ity, will yet serve, iii some measure, to indicate the strength oF tlie feeling by which the Province is now agitated. We regret that we have been unable to obtain copies of several influential journals in wliich articles have appeared on the sub- ject in question,— journals which, by their manly and eloquent defence of Provincial rights, have reflected the highest honor on tb.eir etlitoitj and their proprietjiry. i THE UPPEK CANADA COLLEGE QUESTION. From The Dumlaa Tnie Banner ^ August 20. ^"^ tracing the history of tha Institution, the author clearly eitab- lishes the fact, beyond the possibility of cavil, that Upper Canada CoH«ge w g "conceived in sin and shapen in iniquity," and that its career for nearly forty years has been marked by one continuous and flystematic wholesale robbery of the original Grammar School Endow- nent and the University Funds, for the accomplishment of objects, tha importance of which can bo properl> estimated when a comparison iii drawn between the usefulness of the Grammar Schools, which it has plundered of their legitimate means of support, and the work which has been accomplished by Upper Canada College since the date of its in- ception. From the IngersoU Chronicle, August 20. The relation of Upper Canada College to the County Grammar .Schools of this Province, from the period of its establishment to the present time, is fully and critically examined in this pamphlet, and is •done, we must say, in a very masterly and scholarlikc manner. Th.>t this institution has been founded and fostered at the expense and injury of our Grammar Schools, no one who has taken the trouble to examine ■can possibly deny. We intend to devote a series of articles to this sub- ject, which, we think, is a matter of Uie greatest moment to all who have the welfare of our Grammar Schools at heart. It is high time, if injustice has been done to the Grammar Schools, which we think is the case, that the Legislature should take the matter in hand. From The York Herald, {^Richmond Hill,) August 21. We earnestly trust the Association will follow up their labours, eud draw public attention to this important subject. Boards of Grammar School Trustees, and the public generally, should endeavor to become familiar with the facts brought out in this pamphlet, and seek redress in the proper quarter, by knocking at 'he door of Parliament. From the Woodstock Sentinel, August 21. We have been, for many years, trying to ascertain the amount of lands appropriated for Grammar School purposes, and the management of those lands, but failed to obtain such information. Now we have the whole facts in this pamphlet and truly the fraudulent and extravagant spoliation of those lands, to support Upper Canada College is almost beyond belief, were the facts not plainly stated and supported by the indisputable testimony of the proceedings of Parliament, addresses, orders in Council, kc, of which chapter and verse is given to facilitate research and to establish the truth of the astounding facts contained in this brochure before us. Next week we shall give the subject a careful consideration and lay such facts before the public as to convince all, of the necessity of aiding the Grammar School Association in their efforts to obtain justice for our Grammar Schools. From TJie Wentworth Xews, {Dnmlas,) August 2G. If, as the advocates for the Grammar Schools claim, an injustice is being continually perpetrated for the benefit of Upper Canada College OPINIONS OF rilK I'RESS. I •gainst the interasts of tbe Grammar Schools, the Gorerumeut should not delay in taking prompt, speedy, and decided action in the matter. From the Smith's Falls Review, Amjust 27th. We need look do further than this for an explanation of the small amounts annually apportioned to our Grammar Schools, and the diffi* culties vrhich have continually been felt in keeping them in a proper state of efficiency. Will it be endured that this gross injustice shall still continue, and that our Grammar Schools shall remain as they hare so loag, hampered with innumerable difficulties, able neither to build school- houses nor to procure proper furniture, books or apparatus, and driren by the very necessities uf the case into Union with the Common Schools 7 We heartily sympathize with tbe Association in their efforts to right this monstrous wrong, and we heartily thank the committee to whose labori- ous and pains-taking efforts we owe the publication of ihin interesting pamphlet. From t/ie Inycrsoll Chronicle, Augiist 27. How a nondescript institution like Upper Canada College, under tbe guise of being a University, when it was nothing more than a Grammar School, was so endowed and allowed thus to rob the Grammar or District Schools of their rightful inheritance, appears incredible. It has been well said that this Institution was " conceived in sin and shapen in iniquity." It has been well described by a contemporary as '*an Augean stable of fraud, deception and incompetency." That this is the case we think our readers will admit when we have fully treated of the subject in the series of articles which we intend to devote to this ques- tion. It is a duty the press of the country owe to their time-honored and cherished institutions, the County Grammar Schools. From The Times, {Owen Sound,) August 28. It would be impossible, in the limits of a newspaper article, to allnde to the many just grounds of complaint against Upper Canada College, as brought to light by the " Grammar School Masters' Associa- tion," but we have said enough to show that a monstrous fraud is being perpetrated ; and one in which every Caunty in the Province is inter- ested, for our Grammar Schools are crippled and their efficiency seriously impaired for want of the funds out of which they have been cheated by this huge Toronto monopoly. The funds at the disposal of the Province for the promotion of education are not so ample that we can afford to have such a large portion of them squandered in the way it is proved they are by Upper Canada College, and we hope our Legislators at their approaching meeting will attend to it ; make a thorough investigation, and remedy the gross abuses complained of. If they do not, they may depend upon it their constituents will attend to them ; for once the eyes of the public are opened to the disgraceful state of affairs, they will not suffer it to continue. From The Brampton Times, August 28, After a perusal of this document it seems almost incredible to ui that our public men, many of whom must be acquainted with the facts, TlIK I'I'I'ER CANADA r(M.LK(iK (^I'KSTIOX. have 80 long permitttd the existence of a school, for the support c' vrhich the greater and better part of the Grammar School lands of this Province has been misappropriated, for which the Royal Grammar Schools have been despoiled of their rightful property, and which has ubsorbed by far the larger portion of the whole University endowment. From, The Ihimhis True lianner, September 3. The Pamphlet recently issued by tlie Grammar School Masters' Association has found its way to all sections of Ontario, and has met wilh almost universal approbation — newspapers of all shades of politics cordially uniting in denouncing the unprincipled management of this institution in the past, and calling for immediate action on the part of the Ontario Legislature for its suppression. That an institution whose management has been most thoroughly corrupt for over forty years, should have been allowed to retain its position in this Province, notwithstanding the repeated attempts which have been made at investi- gation, seems to be perfectly astounding; and now that its history has been narrated in the ]ilain, nnvarnishcd language of truth, it ij not to be wondered that a storm of indignation is gathering which cannot fail eventually to eradicate this huge swindle from the educational system of our country. From the Hamilton Spectator, September 3. Upper Canada College has at length found its historian, and, unless we much misapprehend the signs of the times, the history will bo found complete in the very thin duadrcimo volume just published. To speak more plainly, we cannot believe that Upper Canada College will survive the merciless exposure, which it has received at the hands of a Grammar School Master, in a i)amphlet tlio title of which stands at the head of the present article. We cannot believe that the subserviency of the whole Province to Toronto and its paltry interests, has yet become so complete and hopeless, as to permit the further maintenance in that city of an institution, whose past history and present administration arc here for the first time displayed at large. Short as is the time during which the above statement has been afloat, we can see by our exchanges that the Province is already profoundly moved by the facts which this state- ment discloses. Journals representing all shades of political opinion, jonrnals discordant on almost every other question are on this qnestion, quite unanimous. All agree that the career of Upper Canada College is now run. From the Markham Economist, SejAember 3nl. It has been asserted that over one million of dollars has already been absorbed by this insatiable institntion, and that the educational results are in nowise commensurate with the enorruons expenditure. If this be true, as the author maintains, an immediate remedy is required. It is the duty of the Legislature of Ontario to either abolish the institution and allow its endowment to revert tothe Grammar Schools — the equitable owners — or to place the school under the supervision of trustworthy officers. ! OPINrONS OK THK IMIE8S. H From Smith'it Falls lieiitw, September 3. Much more might ho said on llie subject, but we think enough has been atnted to show the gnisping, greedjr chiirACtcr of the whole conduct of the managers of the institution, und tlie imm'cnso damage it has done to the cause of superior education, tiiroughout the land. Wo trust that the Legislature of Ontario, in whose bands the Confederation Act has placed the educational interests of the I'rorincc, will be awakened to a sense of its duty, and that Upper Canada College will, at uo distant period, bo called upon to give an account of itself. The Grammar iscbool Masters' Association deserve the thanks rf all true friends of education for their energetic action in the mattci, and we hope that its members will continue their crusade, till their clForts are crowne ' with success; till an institution, established and maintained merely for the benefit of a few Government Oflicials, and hangers-on, shall no longer be supported at the public expanse, to the injury of over a hundred Grammar Schools throughout the length and breadth of the land. From The Xew Dominion, {Port Dover,) September 4. The Local Legislature cannot possibly ignore the facts brought to light of day by the author of this statement. With their own journals confronting them they cannot deny justice to the Grammar Schools. Wa shall watch with particular interest the action of those rather numerous members who represent Toronto interests in Parliament. The present question will form a valuable test for their constituents, by which they may determine how far those residents in Toronto hare the welfare of the Province at heart, — how far their representatives are ready to sacrifice the duty they owe to their constituents to the aggran- dizement of Toronto. From the Hamilton Evening Times, September 5. We have just risen from the perusal of a report on this question, compiled by order of the Ontario Grammar School Masters' Association, and a more ably-written pamphlet it has rarely been our fortune to set eyes upon. Supporting his cause by full references to original docu- ments, which it must have taken an immense amount of labor and perseverance to verify, our author proves his points with an accumulated weight of argument, which it will be difficult to shake. And yet, though the facts are weighty, and the statistias by no means inconsider- able, the interest of the reader never flags, for the writer brings to his aid the resources of a pungent wit and keen irony that would go far to make his fortune in a literary career. It is perfectly evident to every impartial observer that such an insti- tution would have fallen long ago had it not existed in Toronto. That ^ he same spirit of intense selfishness which has left Hamilton without amy Provincial Institution except the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, and has even sought to deprive us of it — that same spirit which has brought about the location of nearly every public institution in Toronto — that same spirit manifested itself in the foundation of the institution whose history is now for the first time made public, and has continued ever since to conceal TIIK riM'KK CANADA COlJ-KiJK (^I'ESTION. its fniilta And to gloss over its corruptions. Hut ne can assure the people of Toronto that she is not so necessary to the ProTinco as the Province is to her, and the people of Ontario will watch their reprcsentatircs narrowly to sec if in the decision of this important niatttr they shall bo iwaj-ed in the slightest, degree by the insidious blandishments of Toronto influence. From the Hamilton Spectator, September 3. To a person wandering through this chronicle of the Upper Canada College — this record of an ill-spent life— its administration both past and present, displays most unmistakeably upon it the infamous motto of Pompadour : " After us the deluge I " Let us trust that the antediluvian period is at length ended I From The Wentworti, Xews, (Dandas,) September 9. The arguments Mr. Hunter advances to support the position ho haa taken, are apparently irresistible ; and we wait anxiously the defenca Upper Canada College will make to the serious charges which are brought against it in this cleverly gotten up document. If the facts are as stated in this pamphlet, and we have no reason at present to doubt their cor- rectness being apparently fully supported by references to original docu- ments, it is altogether probable we may have to wait a long tim» for a defence from this nondescript seot of learning. The arguments in the pamphlet are clear, concise, and to the mark ; no point is shirked ; no evasion visible ; and the whole question from its inception to the present time is gone into with a vim that shows its historian must have ftlt the correctness of the statements he advances and the injustice which not only the teachers but also the pupils have been compelled to suffer. From the Brockville Recorder, September 10. The remarkable pamphlet issued under the auspices of the Grammar School Masters' Association deserves a more extended notice than we gave it last week. We wish, indeed, that every friend of education could read it in extenso, for then, such a pressure would be brought to bear on our Legislature, as could not fail to wipe away the monstrous injustice that has been saddled upon the community for so long a time. We would willingly touch upon the other points so eloquently and clearly dwelt upon in the brochure under notice, but we cannot at present do more than conclude with the Grammar School Masters — "That the further maintenance at the * Public Expense' of Upper Canada College, is thus on every ground indefensible. Let us bear of no truce ; no compromise ; no dangerous delays. " Finally, let us — strong in the goodness of the cause — demand of the Legislature justice against that Institution which the Legislature's own journals declare to have been begotten of fraud and nurtured by plunder." From the Cana^lian C/iampion, (Milton,) September 12. How comes it that the boasted leaders of public opinion, the Toronto papers, the Globe and the Telegraph, who profess to be superior to the OPINION'S OK TIIR rKESR. rural press, and who are bo keen tconted for a gricranca that they will see it afar olT, at Cobourf; or Kingston for instance, how comes it, ■ay we, that they are silent with roganl to Upper Canada College ? The carcass la right under their noses, and its corruption ha^ been exposed from one end of the Province to the other ; but these usually stern guardians of the public interests, these rigid censors who take a savage delight, and a proper pride in exposing and denouQcing such subjects as the York Koads, the Uaby Frauds, et id genut omne, allow the country press to steal their rccation, when it comca to the excision of a Toronto school, with whose history and antecedents they have peculiar oppor- tunities of becoming acquaintet^ Hut this policy will prove of no avail, with or without the aid of Toronto, this Agitation will be carried on, and the rural press will prove that their united rills of influence will form a torrent of public opinion, which the Metropolitan press will be powerless to modify or arrest. From The HamUton Keening Tinies, September 11. We shall anxiously look for the reply of the friends of the Upper Canada College to this pamphlet ; but we do not sec what reply is possible where the proof is so strong and the evidence so overwhelming. For let it bo borne in mind that thcae statements nre not the ipse dixit of aoy one man, or even of any association, but arc founded on evidence givea by the authorities of the Upper Canada College itself, published with the sanction of Parliament. Successfully to contradict one's own statemeatt is a feat of gymnastics which seems difficult to accomplish ; but suob it the task which the Upper Canada College — if defenders there be— wiil have to undertake. From the Jirmitford Expositor, September 10. We have, in a very hurried manner, glanced over a report relet, to this College, compiled by order of the Ontario Grammar School Masters' Association. The report might almost be said to contain a complete history of this Institution from its earliest existence to the present moment, and probably it will be read by many who had hereto- fore known very little about the College, with feelings of utter astonish- ment, if not positive disgust; for certainly, if one-half of the statements made in the report be true, it is difficult to conceive how any honest and upright man can do aught but blush for the men who could be guilty of the acts charged in the report against those who were the promoters of that Institution, and by which it has been sustained and pampered during the many years it has now been in existence. From the St. Thomits Dispatch, September 10. The above extracts may suffice to show how scandalously the educa- tional interests of this Province have been sacrificed to the saaintenanco of Upper Canada College, which according to the showing of the Grammar School Masters, ought not to rank higher than any of our County Grammar Schools. The Masters ask " And what has this Province to exhibit for such frightful expenditure?" Scholastic education, like every other T 6 THE L'l'HKU CANADA CULLKUK gU&STION. good tiling, limy ho abiissd, and never more so, tUaa when it becnmeti the medium for feeding up Tftoity and fostering pride. Thi:, .fo fear, from the Alastcra' report has been too much the case witli tlie Hcliolars at Upper Canada College. From The Princeton, T'ranacript, tSvpteinbcr 1 1 . Upphk Caxada Co!,t,KnR Question. — In common with our brethren of the Press we hare received for roview a copj of a nently-printcd document bearing the above title. This harmless looking, blue-covered pamphlet is producing a wonderful commotion throughout the Province. At this elTect, when wc come to regard its contents, we are by no means surprised. We have here circumstantially detailed, and proved by abundant documentary evidence, a series of transactions in connection with an educational institution of Toronto, which, we are confident, would fail to find n parallel in any similar institution in the world. The centralizing policy of Teronto ha» often formed the subject of remark, hut we confess we have hitherto been unaware of the extent to which this odious system of monopoly has been carried. It is hero made plain that our earlier Grammar and Common School Systems, were completely wrecked by the expenditure at York of the funds assigned for tue support throughout the Province of such schools. It is established on evideuco that a kind of mongrel Grammar School, still existing in Toronto, "Upper Canada College" by name, not only in former years absorbed the funds referred to, but worse than all has brought the Provincial University to the very verge of ruin 1 1 From the Ilam'dtoti Eceniiuf Times, September 12. Upper Ca.vada Collbok. — We are happy to see that journal after journal throughout the Province of Ontario, has taken up arms against that plundering establishment in Toronto, which is called the Upper Canada College. Its vast robberies and plundcrings from the University and Grammar School properties in the Province, need only to be known to excite the indignation of every honest man in the Province. It is a monstrously voracious parasite fastened upon our educational system, and unless the Legislature of Ontario take action early in the coming session to stop its plundcrings, by appointing a Parliamentary Commis- sion to inquire into and report upon its misdeeds, the Government itself need expect no mercy from any party whatever. The country is becom- ing thoroughly aroused to the enormous robberies perpetrated by and for the Upper t!anada College, and they will not b" satisfied till it is put in its proper position, or justice be done the whole of the Government Schools throughout the Province, all of which have been most shame- fully robbed for the benefit of the sharks who will cluster around and levy upon the Upper Canada College. It appears really to be little better than a den of thieves. From The Ihomville Luminary, Septejnber 18. Some time ago wo received a pamphlet on the Upper Canada College Question, issued under the authority of the Grammar School Teachers' Association of Ontario, which contained statements so extraordinary that we forcbore any notice of it till we had an opportunity to examine such OlMNIONS i)F THE PllJiS.S. of the ilociimontfl rofcrrtd to (herein as wc could conrenlciitly obtain, in order that wo might bo able to Judge as to their verftcity. The account.'' given of the financial condition of the College were truly staggering, ami were they not fully borne out by the authoritative gtatcmenta submitted to Parliament would be wholly incredible. • ••••••••• By these menus I'pp'^r Canada College has cost tho public over one million of dollars during the3fl years of ltd existence, an average of nearly $30,000 per annum, and at tho present moment hopelessly involved in debt, with a yearly deficit for the last six years of $2329, 39. It behooves Parliament ut its next session to take some steps to niter this condition of affairs. It is altogether unfair that the other Educational Institutions of tho Proriuoo should suffer in order to sustain Uppor Canada College ia its shameless course of extravagance and iucompetcii'" From f/io Hxrnn Signal, (Oo'li'ricfi,) Septtnibi 17. Wo have no hesitation then in saying that this institution should be abolished, and that the land? from which its revenue > ieriv< 1 should ' handed over to tho Grammar Scho Ms for which the, .vere originn"j set apart by tl" Legislature. The apportionment of (he latter w. nM then be about v' , per annum, and the inereas* in llio amount a(. rtioned to each Bchuul would b. a great stimulus, and would .'.: m ny cases so » icourugo tlic local managers of these schools, as to mduc; them to more extraordinary exertions for their improvement, so that the ,; '^d eflccts must soon bu seen in tiic increased prosperity of thos'? useful institution? We hope that during the next cession of our Local Legislature, this body may continue to doservc the high reputation for wisdom, honesty, Lnd devotion to the true intun'sts of the country, whic!: it has already camel, by appointing an impartial committee to investigato tho whole matter. And follow this up by abolishing this superflous iustitution altogether. Fro7n 77ie Brampton TimeA, September 18. While wo regret that tho Glube and Leader have so far neglected their duty to tho publi«. as to avoid reference to an Institution that is daily bringing down on it the well merited censure of all who are fr«i' from Toronto influence, we have the best reason for considering their reticence the surest omen of its downfall ; for were there even a shadow of a case fot the defence, we would, no doubt, have them flying to tho rescue. The tone of the Press is so decided on tho subject, and tho Country members are admittedly so independent of City influence, that the advocates of the suppression of Upper Canada College have good grounds for being sanguine of tho success of their endeavors. Besides, the present economical Ministry cannot in the face of tho many reductions they have made iu the. Provincial expenditure give their support to an imposition on the people of Ontario, for tho maintenance of a Fchool from which Toronto nloue derives any apparent benefit. From The, Ghwdlan ^I(tpl>i Leaf, September 17. These are only a few of the facts broi ght to light by Mr. Hunter's rigorous pamphlet, but they are sufficient to ring the death knell of Upper Canada College. T 10 THE UPPEii, CANADA C'OLLEOE (QUESTION. The miserably onesided ideas of economy possessed by those Toronto* papers that advocate so earnestly the withdrawal of the grants to the Denominational t. lieges, and their addition to the funds of the Toronto University, must now be apparent, when the fact is exposed, that this mere United Grammar and Common School has been annually swallow- ing up more public money than all the Denominational Colleges put together, and that in Toronto at their very doors, — yet these public spirited patriots never seem to have found it out. We hope Legislative interference will soon cause this fungus on our educational institutions to be numbered among the things that were. From the Hamilton Spectator, September 24. This whole Upper Canada College question now lies within a nut- shell. Is this Province to pay $95 per annum for the honor of inscrib- ing a small boy's name to the "College" register? Is this Toronto institution to absorb annually $12,500 of the Grammar School Fund ? In short, is this pretentious institution, which unsuccessfully endeavored to supersede the Toronto County Grammar School, to spend annually the present average Government allowance of Twenty-three County Gram- mar Schools? The answer of the people of Ontario to these and similar questions, which the Provincial journals are now asking in tones of thunder, cannot be doubtful. We hope that the popular feeling on this matter will be duly reflected by the people's representatives, and that even the first day of the approaching Parliamentary session will witness a movement in the matter. Enough of the tinker's art has been tried by former Legislatures on this Institution. What the country now demands is, that the Upper Canada College Fund, while any of it yet remains, be restored to the source whence it was in the first instance fraudulently taken ; that this institution, which has proved itself throughout its wliole career to be the most persistent and the most in- sidious enemy of the Provincial University, be at once and forever suppressed. The conduct of the House of Assembly on this great educational question will be most narrowly watched. We intend to supply our readers with the fullest reports of the Parliamentary debates and dr- visions. We sincerely hope that the country may be spared the dis- graceful spectacle of members allowing themselves to be button-holed by Toronto editors who are actually afraid and ashamed to hint in thetr journals at the views they take in this illicit manner. In this question, at all events, there can be no pretence for the introduction of political issues. The cause is euiltled "Toronto vs. the whole PnoviNCKl From The British Canadian, {Port Hope,) September 3. In a pamphlet which we have before us, compiled by order of the Ontario Grammar School Masters' Association, and entitled " The Upper Canada College Question," the illegality and injustice of the continua- tion of the institution in question on the same basis that it now exists, are very fully and conclusively shown. • •••* * ••«• The College has always been conducted at Toronto, has done no University work, and has been carried on by a system of lavish expendi- T OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 11 ture, while other educational institutions of much more importance than itself have been systematically plundered in order to supply means for its extravagance. It has thus interfered with the Grammar ISchool system of the Province, in having the greater and richer portion of the lands set aside for the maintenance of these schools, handed over to it, without the consent of Parliament, by a man who favored it for the sake of a selfish whim, and who could intrigue successfully on account of the position ho occupied at the head of the Upper Canadian Government. But the Grammar Schools have not been the sole victims of Upper Canada College voracity. The Common Schools have also suffered considerably, and the University to an almost incalculable extent, to support an expensive institution, paying its teachers enormous salaries ^ and yet doing nothing for the popular education of the Province, as only the sons of those who could obtain a certain amount of Government favor, or the richest men in the land, may hope to secure a course at the so-called Upper Canada College. From the Ingersoll C/tronicle, 8e])temher 24. There is no class of men in the country who hold a more responsible^ honorable and important position than the Principals of our High Schools, and we contend that men holding such a position ought to be well sup- ported. These men have the training of our youth in their hands, they have to mould the characters of the leading men of the next generation, and we contend that salary is not the question when we get the right men in the right places. If the endowment that is their own by right, is given back to the Grammar Schools, or an equivalent thereto, not only will the Headmasters obtain the incomes suitable to their position, but they will be able to increase their staff and have one or more assistants in their Grammar Schools. We trust that the Press and the Legislature will work heartily in the cause of our High Schools, of which we feel proud, and endeavor to make them as thoroughly useful and efficient &9 possible. From The Kingston Daily British Whig, Sejytemher 24. Upper Canada College. — In returning to the consideration of this institution, there is one thins: which strikes the mind of any intelligent man, and that is, the folly of paying such immense sums of money an- nually, without any idea of the way it is spent. The expenditure of the College in 1866 was $19,887.51, an amount greater by $5,30'<:.62 than the total expenditure for Grammar School purposes in the cities of Toronto, Hamilton, London, Ottawa and Kingston combined. And yet the money given to these Schools from Government was only $6,884, the whole of theii- further expenditure being provided from local sources. This wretched pittance, too, was only obtained from the Government by elaborate reports setting forth not only the total, but also the average attendance during the year then past, and the detailed statement of tho names of each pupil, the studies pursued and the numbers engaged in each study. But how fs it with this immaculate institution ? It receives annually a grant of $12,500, and when asked how this is expended, along with its other sources of revenue, the obliging Principal informs the assembled Parliament—" 1866— total— 284." Perhaps he was too 12 THE UPPER CANADA COLLEGE QUESTION. bu87 to give any details further, or be may have had an engagement to go out for a drive, and had only time to inform Her Majesty's Commons, " Total 284." " Great is the Principal, and the Parliament must bo his obedient flunkeys," at least for a time. From The Hamilton Evening Times, September 30. We have characterized the reputation of Upper Canada College as baseless and undeserved. Many of the Grammar School Masters believe that it has, to some extent, been foully obtained. The Principal of Upper Canada College is a member of the University Senate, and assists in that capacity in deciding to which of the competing students honors and scholarships shall be awarded, many of the competitors being his own pupils. The Masters in Upper Canada College have frequently acted as examiners in the University, and have had to examine their own pupils along with others. Can it be wondered at, in the face of these facts, that many of the Grammar School Masters are exceedingly doubt- ful of the fairness of the decisions, and see no other remedy for the evils than the abolition of this enemy alike of the University and the Gram- mar Schools. From The Bunclas True Banner, October 1. Just to show our readers, however, that the Globe could speak out with telling force on the subject of Upper Canada College in years gone by, we copy one or two extracts from the columns of that journal. They will be read with avidity, and viewed as an oasis in the desert, imparting new life and vigor to the body politic. In this instance, at least, the " skeletons " of the past are more tangible and powerful than the ilesh and blood indolence or indifference of the present. We dangle these " skeletons" before the eyes of the Globe authorities, and trust a mandate will be issued forthwith to infuse new blood and life into the dry bones of the past, so that the Globe may not be entirely forgotten as a friend of tlie masses. In an article published in the Globe, on Thurs- day, May 20, 1852, reviewing the "Final Report" of the University Cc'imission, the editor writes as follows : " From the way in which the books were kept, it is, of course, im- " possible that the Commissioners could give a correct account of the " manner in which the moneys were expended, but they have grouped " the diil'erent branches of outlay in a general summary. We find from " this that no less than i;75,506 5s has been expended in Upper Canada " College, which has also been in receipt of an annual grant from " Government of £1,000, and in addition had an endowment of over "60,000 acres. Nearly one-half of the expenditure from King's College " [Toronto University] funds, has been made on account of this miserably ^* inefficient Grammar School, which has been but of slight benefit to the ^'public." In an article on Upper Canada College in the Globe, on the Ist of June, 1852, the editor, after making a particular reference to the endow- ment self-apprepriated by that Grammar School, adds : " There can be no justice in expending the proceeds of this endowment ^[from the general fundi exclusively in Toronto" OPINIOKS OF THE PRESS. 13 What was said by the Globe regardinf; Upper Canada College in 1852, is applicable, in erery respact, to tba. Institution at the present time. From The Daily British Whiffy Kingston, /September 16. The only means of satisfying public opinion is to aboliah the whole concern, and give the endowment which properly does not belong to it, to the institution upon which it has too long prejed. We sincerely trust that the first day of the next session of the Ontario Legislature will see a motion put on the paper to enquire into this abominable vampire so long fattening on the vitals ot the Province and still getting more and more insolent every year. From the Peterborough Review, October 2. True, there is one matter recently come to light to which the vehe- ment Globeisms have not been applied. Pamphlets and other papers are being sown broadcast over the country about it. It has been proved to a ilemonstration that there has been corruption going on for a great many years. We refer to the funds and management of Upper Canada College in Toronto. How does this institution escape the lash of this Terror to evil doers. Why not the Upper Canada College first, as it comes first / We arc araazcd that such a master in the perception of rottenness should be so ilow in finding out Upper Canada College and hunting it — corrupt thing 1 — to death. From The Brantford Expositor, October 2. The writer of the pamphlet, who is, we believe, Mr. Hunter, of Dundas, proceeds to relate the remainder of this corrupt fonndation. He shows by what means it has contrived to absorb about three-fifths of thtt University endowment ; how, by boarding the sons of influential men for nothing, it secured the support of their parents whenever a little additional money was desired ; that it has been repeatedly over- hauled by tho Legislature with no change for the better ; that at the present time it maintains a baseless reputation by impudent mendacity ; that it costs about $30,000 per annum to educate about 240 boys ; and many other things, into the particulars of which we have not leisure at present to enter. But we have said enough to show that if ever there was a thoroughly corrupt educational institution, Upper Canada College is that place, and enough to authorize the country to demand, in imperi- ous accents, its immediate abolition. From the Owen Sound l^imes, October 2. We are pleased to notice that the papers of the Province, almost without exception, are denouncing the gross fraud and squandering of the public money in connection with the Upper Canada College, recently brought to light through the action of the Grammar School Masters' Association, and demanding that the small remnant yet remaining of the revenue of which the Grommar Schools of the Province have beau WSH 14 THE UPPER CANADA COLLEGE (^LKSTIOX. despoiled by the disgraceful iDtrigues of that plundering Institution sliall be devoted to the purpose for which it was originally appropriated. It is signiiicant, however, that amid all the outcrj being raised from one end of the Province to the other, the press of Toronto has not one word to say on the subject. There can be no doubt that Upper Canada Collegr, though a great imposition upon the Province at large, is a local benefit to that city ; and this doubtless furnishes the key to their strange silence— as if they think that by this course they can hush the matter up, and still allow Upper Canada to retain its ill-gotten emoluments. Their very silence, however, furnishes one of the best proofj that the complaint of the Qrammar School Masters is just; for if, with a dispo- sition to favor the College (!) in every possible way, they are unable to ■ay anything in its defence when serious charges arc made against it, the public may reasonably take it for granted that no defence is possible. But they need not flatter themselves that their public silence will save the Institution; for the public are becoming aroused to the flagrant in- justice done to every Grammar School in the Province, and the next meeting of the Ontario Legislature, if it does not seal its doom, will at least see the remnant of the Grammar School endowment wrested from its grasp. From the Ottawa Citizen, JSeptember 10. We may, however, say we are glad this pamphlet has come out and sincerely hope the labors of the compiler will produce the fruit desired by the Grammar School Masters' Association. We have, for many years, entertained the conviction— how inwrought, we could hardly have told if called upon — that this so mit-called Upper Canada College was nothing better than a giant parasite of the most sinister character, feeding and ever feeding with ravenous appetite upon our educational resources, and absorbing the provision which would, if properly dis- tributed, have given substantial collegiate capacities to scores of s»mi- naries scattered throughout the length and breadth of the Province. A cursory glance through the pages of the book has reminded us of many things we had before heard, and from which, no doubt, we had received these impressions which had at last resulted in a settled conviction of the disgracefully fraudful origin and history of the wretched concern. But we commend the brochure to general circulation, and earnestly wish tt may soon be sown broadcast over the whole country. From the Ingersoll Chronicle, October 1 . This question is now fairly before the public. We have endeavored to lay the main facts of the ease before our readers. Wc shall always be ready to advocate the interests of the Qrammar Schools, and hope that they may be enabled to obtain their rights. The question of Salaries and Pensions paid in Upper Canada College, we think, is about as fitting a climax to the wholesale jobbery and fraud of that institution as could possibly be. We shall conclude this series of articles by the following extracts from the pamplet under revision, which we think will clearly prove to any candid mind that th« existencs of such an institution at the expense of the Grammar Schools is a crying evil and will show clearly why the friends of the Legislature have declared that Upper Canada College was begotten of fraud and nurtured by plunder. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. pe \y la From The Dxindas I'me Banner, October 15. At the regular meeting of the United Board of the Hamilton 'Grammar and Common School Trustees on the evening of Thursday the Ist inst., the following resolution was moved by Mr. David McCuUocb, seconded by Mr. Thomas White, jun., and carried unanimously : " Resolved — That this Board regards the present position and future '' continuance of Upper Canada College as a great wrong to the Gram- "mar Schools of the Province, and heartily endorses the recent action of " the Grammar School Teachers' Convention on this question ; and that " the following gentlemen be a committea to prepare a memorial to the " Legislature of Ontario embodying these views with instructions to " report at the next meeting of the Board, viz : — Messrs. Jas. Osborne, "T. White, jun., and the mover." This is a step in the right direction. We trust, however, that the Hamilton Trustees will advance a step further and forward a copy of their memorial (printed in blank) to each Grammar School Botvrd throughout the Province. From The Brantford Expositor', October 16. A young man who, a year ago stood equally high with McKee at the Grammar School, under the impression that a more thorough training for college was to be had at the Upper Canada College, than at our school, has since been studying at that institution. He has, however, in the race for academic honors only equalled McEee in mathematics, and etands below him in classics and history. From The Kingston Daily British Whig, October 17. Another example of mismanagement, and we leave the subject for the present. During the same five years of which Mr. Christie's return treats, we find the enormoas amount of $1,041. TO charged to stationery. Here all comparison with Squeers is at an end. He at least would never have squandered the full fee of two of his boys on stationery. But what can this mean ? Why it would supply a daily newspaper with its stationery, and how the demand can be so great as to use it all up in a school is what we cannot understand. Granted the Prin- cipal does print a large number of circulars, but $l,t41.70 is also a large sum. But this item is only on a par with every other. Reck- less expenditure, wasteful extravagance, arrogant puffing, and all for no conceivable purpose. Let us hope that an end will come soon, and the sooner the better. From The Hamilton Spectator, October 20. The interest taken by the public in this important educational question appears to be constantly on the increase, as the session of the Legislature approaches. The unanimity of the press as to the necessity of immediate Legislative interference is very remarkable : and not less decided is the expression of opinion as to the nature of the remedial measure required. u THi: i:i>PKK CANADA COLLK(iK «JUESTION'. Tlic mismanagement of this institution, though naturally cn^roisin;; A large measure of public attention, is after all quite a secondary consideration. The principl* involved in impoverishing every Grnm- mar School in the Province for the gratification of Dundreary & Co., of Toronto, is too remarkable to be confounded with any question of managempnt or mismanagement. The gross and shameful injustice implied in the very existence of Upper Cnnada College excited atten- tion many years ago in Toronto itself. The Globe of June 1, 1852, while on this very point, wrote as follows : " Then ran bt no justice " in expending the proceeds from this endowment from the (general funds " exclusively in Toronto." Has the Globe discovered that justice is only ib variable term, and that it chiefly depends for its interpretation on the personalities of the Principal of Upper Canada College ? From the Cobourg World, October 16. This pamphlet, which has been compiled by order of the Ontario Grammar School Masters' Association, contains disclosures of a most startling nature, — disclosures which must force themselves wltli telling effect upon the thinking portion of the people, and upon their represen- tatives in Parliament. The pamphlet gives a straightforward record, supported by ample testimony of the manner in Avhich Upper Canada College has robbed both the University and Grammar School fund. Not one of the conditions on which it was to receive its moiety of the University fund has been ful- lilled ; and yet it has swallowed up not only what would have been its own share, but a great part of that which belonged to others. From The Brcunpton Times, October 23. The attack on Upper Canada College is daily acquiring an im- portance which the Toronto papers will soon be unable to ignore. Fully three-fourths of the journals of the Province have declared war ii r outrancc against this glaring anomaly in our national system of Education. Judging from the display of honors and scholarships, it apparently gained at the recent Toronto University Examinalions, any one would imagine that it sweeps the board on this occasion as it ])retends to have done in the past ; but wlien allowance is made for those pupils who received part of their training at other Grammar Schools, and who have been claimed since the publication of the list, the number of the Upper Canada College "boys'' becomes sadly re- duced. The honors of this now infamous institution have always been and still nre but illusory ; whereas, according to Dr. McCaul's state- ment last week, the Grammar Schools carried off more than one-half at the late Examinations. Only give our public schools fair play and Ave have no fear of the result. From The Daily British Whig, (Kingston,) September 24. On another occasion we may find time to return to this Augean stable and assist in its cleansing in the only possible manner, by advising that it be totally abolished. iti'iMoxs ur TiiK i-iu:s8. 17 s, it any From The Samia Ohaerver, October 23. The pamphlet we are speaking of gives a great deal more infor- mation about Upper Canada College and the Grammar Schools, than \Te have been able to condense within the limits ut' this article. Taking it altogether, we cannot but think that a very clear case has been made out for the Legislature to act upon, and to that body we com- mend the consideration of it. We notice that the Hamilton Board of Grammar School Trustees has directed a memorial on the subject to be drafted and forwarded to the House. We commend this course of pro- cedure to other Grammar School Boards, and assure them of our sym- pathy if they take part in the attempt now made to procure restitution to the Grammar Schools. These Schools ought to be the local colleges of the community, and anything that will improve them, deserves, and will receive the hearty support of the public. From the Xew Dominion, {Port Dover,) Oetober 30. The present agitation is really to be regarded as a protest against the odious system of centralization — a policy especially odious in educa- tional matters. We hope that early in the ensuing session of the Local Legislature prompt measures will be taken to extinguish this Upper Canada College, which has so long abused the forbearance of the conn- try ; to make some reparation for the way in which the Grammar Schools have been so remorselessly plundered, and then to open up to those "People's Colleges" an enlarged sphere of usefulness: finally to relieve the Provincial University of a persistent parasite that has brought it to almost the very verge of ruin. From the IngersoU Chronicle, October 29. We desire to draw the attention of our readers, and more especially of our representatives in the Parliament of Ontario, to this important subject, which will no doubt be brought before the House at an early period of the approaching session. All that is asked is, that the question which now occupies so prominent a position amongst the educational questions of the day, may receive due attention, and that a fair and impartial examination may be made by Parliament into the matter. If injustice has been done to the Grammar Schools of this Province, surely reparation should be made. If Upper Canada College has been enjoying annually $12,500 from the Grammar School Reserves, it does not require any argument to prove that the Grammar Schools have been plundered of that which they alone should benefit by. We do not doubt Aat the matter will receive due consideration atthehandiof our representatives. If the charges brought against Upper Canada College be true, then the issue is clear. We hope that the Grammar Schools will at length have justice done, and that they will not be injured henceforth by a monopoly in Toronto, carried on at their expense, and mach to their detriment. From the Ottavm Citizen, October 30. The Upper Canada College incubus is becoming more and more intolerable to the population of Ottawa ; and concerning it, they seem disposed to say, as was said of another objectionable concern, " the more we know of it tlie more wc dislike it." 18 iiii-; I I'l'Ki! lA.sADA r()i,i,i;(;i; in i::sri(»N. /'Vo//i tli<' XojHDu-r, lu-pi'('t\i, October I). \Vc liavc no more time at present to enter iuto tliis matttT, but we think that it 13 full time for the Parliament to step in and rectify the wrongs sustained by the Grammar Schoola. The whole history is one series of speculation and reckless exi)en(liturc. And to continue thi^ any longer is manifestly unjust and unfair. AVo give a f«w txtriicts to ghow the way in which money is frittered away. Wo conclude our present article wlt!i the fiiiiil word? of the Iteport, every word of which we heartily endorse, and only hope that ia this in- stance, at least, full and speedy justice will be done. From the St. Catharines Titoes, October 27. These arc a few of the facts, wliich, with a host of olli'jr> uf a similar nature, have been given to the country by the assiduous author of the pamphlet, and we doubt not that tlioy will raise a feeling of indignation throughout the Province, and a demand for the sweeping away of this huge imposition and incubus upon the Grammar Schools, and for th» restoration to those schools of the (JG,0(iO acres of land taken away from them to form an Upper Canada College Endowment. From the Owen Sonml Cojitef, October 23. Wo wondered, as we progressed in the examination of this subject when we saw how a tyrannical Governor would issue his orders in Council in direct opposition to measures introduced by a weak Govern- ment, and that the country would bear such barefaced plunder; but when we see the audacity of the Toronto Upper Canada College au- thorities, and the cowardly yielding to their illegal appropriations of Grammar School funds, we are surprised that they have not, by their former success, been emboldened to grasp the whole Grammar School apportionment, and IcaTC nothing to the Grammar Schools. This expose that is made of the misappropriation of Grammar School money, we hope, will have the effect of bringing the subject prominently before the local members and the Government of Ontario, with a view of put- ting an end to this disgraceful embezzlement of School funds. From the Otfcnva Citizen, October 31. What would the annual §23,000 have amounted to now, at six per cent, interest? Why to $2,20ii,000 and something more. What would the annual interest of 52,200,000 at seven per cent, comets? Just $154,000, and this is the yearly amount which, for all future time the cause of liberal education in Ontario loses at the hands of the con- cern. We have said about enough on this sickening subject, at any rate for the present. At some future day we may deal with other very im- portant matters reviewed in the pamphlet, when possibly our co-opera- tion may be of greater service than it can be to-day, and we therefore close with the last few words of the able writer to whom we have been indebted for our facts— not that thoy were unknown to us before, for wo hate given its current events more or less of our attention. oi'ixhiNs i>r Tin: iM!r.^i<<. In'om the Saruia Observer, Oct. 'M). It will now, after tlie foregoing diaclosures, surprise no one to Isarii lliat U. U. College has tiic imenvinble distinction of being one of the chief causes of the disturbances in 1837. In the celebrated Seventh itoport, in which tlie people of I'pper Canada enumerated their griev- ances to the Imperial (Jovurnincnt, the maintenance of U. C. College obtained a chief place. And after the Rebellion the I-hirl of Durham, in reviewing its causes in a lleport oa the affairs of iJritish North America, felt himself forced to mention the alienation of the Grammar School Keserves for the aggrandizement of I'. C. College. Duriug the three decades which have elapsed since the atlairof 1837,cvery grievance com- plained of by the l'i)[)er Canadians at that time, this alone exceiited, has been redressed. The L'ppcr Canada College grievance owes its escape ,for so long a period, partly to fortunate combinations of circumstances, which pressed other subjects forward and kept it in the background, and partly to the iniquitijus system of boanling and teaching the sons of influential men without exacting pnysuont, pursued there. On this latter head more will be said presently. From the Loivhni Adcerliaer, Oct. 3U. The birth of Fpper Canada College was attended by the following circumstances : Ordered not to be built at Toronto, it was built at Toronto. Demanded to do University work, it did not do it. Ilequired to be conducted with economy, it has been from its birth extravagant. Not a Grammar School in the proper and legal acceptation of the term, it has absorbed the Grammar School fund. Not a Common School, it has thrust it peculating fingers into the Common School fund. Not a University, it has absorbed all it could of the University en- dowment. A bastard among our educational institutions ; born of fraud, and nurtured hy spoliation ; having no recognized place, and no recognized duties ; " reaping where it has not sowed, and gathering where it has not strewed ;" living on the heritage of others, and doing no work that the country stands in need of, it is time that this illegitimate offspring of Sir John Colborne'a scheming brain should bo called to strict account. It must be compelled to show cause why it should continue to lire, when it was created in violation of law, has existed by violation of law, and is now but absorbing the legal incomes of other institutions which are doing the work it professes to do, Fruiu the Toronto Leader, Oct. 31. The fjuestions for the Government and Legislature to consider are, whether Upper Canada College is doing a good work, and whether it is doing it at a cost in keeping with the results. Wo believe the College to be almost a necessity. A good deal has been claimed for it to which it has not been entitled ; but, on the whole, it fills a place which could not Avell be left unfilled. There are some things connected with its manage- ■20 THK IIM'EK CANADA COLLEGE yl'K.STlO.V. r!v'! ment which might, howeror, without disailvantago to the public, receive flome attention from the Government. The current accounts of the Col- lege, laid before the Legislature last sesssion, and published in tht Journals, show a hocus-pocussing in connection with salaries which has a very fishy look. Far be it from us to say a word which would have the effect of reducing salaries below a good return for services rendered. But, we protest that every swell who ell)ows himself into the coUoge should not live like a prince at the expense of tlie public. The Senate decreed a reduction a few years ago, which could bo very well borne in the great majority of cases ; yet, by a little subsequent finessing and filight-of-hand work the reduction of one year — made for appearance sake — is more than made up afterwards. Why, the position of the magnifi- cent principal, financially, is belter tlian that of the able president of University College, everything considered. We hardly think this is just or equitable. And, whilst we cannot for a moment fancy that the Legis- lature will medd'e with the endowment of the college, we think the Government might profitably examine the accounts with a view to re- trenchment in some quarters. We should think such a work as this would quite suit the Attorney-General. Remarks. — We liave above given an extract from tlie Toronto Leaifer in order to shew wliat can be urged in defence of Upper Canada College. The Editor, in a jjrevious paragrai>h, states that he " does not qiie.stion tlie correctness of tlie his- torical sketch " contained in tlie recently published Pamphlet. He further admits, in the (;xtract just given, that tlie Uni- versity honors claimed by lJ})per Canada College have been, in a great measure, illu.sory, and that the management of its finances has been most unsatisfactory. All former regulations for the good government of the institution are acknowledged to have been wholly fruitless, whether such regulations have emanated from Executive Councils, or from Parliament, or from the University Senate. Notwithstanding, however, these can- did admissions, the Leader still " believes the College to be almost a necessity." The Editor, in a paragraph preceding the one above quoted, states that the Grammar Schools " are doing a good work." But, while admitting that the Grammar Schools are doing a good work, the Lem/er would apparently wish to deprive them of the means by which their work may be still better done, and this in favor of an institution whose past hi.s- tory is conceded to be most discreditable. The history of a monopoly could hardly have failed to be a discreditable one. Where the principle of an institution is essentially bad, the management must almost of necessity be of like character ; and the more efficient the management, so much more effective for evil must the institution become. The Leadfr hopes for results OJMNIO.NS UK TIIF. I'UKSS. 21 in the future wlilch cfftiiinly nre Jiot in any d<*greo warr.mtod by the past. At all events, we take leave to lioubt that either tlie i)e()ple of Ontario, or their representatives in Parliament, will, in ])rospect of so distant a reversion, sanction any further alienation of the Grammar School Kndowment. MR. iiryTKirs reply to a rkckxt article in THE TOROXTO TELEGRAPH. To the Editor of the Telegraph. Sir, — You have thought fit to gire iasTtion in the Telegraph of the 3rd November to a quati editorial containing a most malicious and a most dastardly attack upon the author of the Upper Canada College Pamphlet. As you have, in your generosity, furnished to your quasi editor at least the assassin's mantle, it' not the assassin's dagger, I trust that you will, in justice to the '"Uhor of the assailed Pamphlet, afford him an opportunity of defence. The writer of the article to which I have alluded, and who, in more than one sense lepresents Upper Canada College, Rett out with a wilful fAlsificalion of my Pamphlet. In that document, (p. 25), I had, while illustrating the very meagre character of the provision at present made for the Grammar Schools, remarked that, except the sum arising from fees, there was no revenue available for repairs, for fuel, or for the other expenses connected with the comfortable occupation of Grammar School premises. I had then added, " But these fees are, except in a few schools, '' of the most trifling character, and are annually becoming more dis- " tasteful, on account of the happily increasing number of Free Com- " mon Schools," (p. 25). Will it be believed that my treacherous re- viewer substitutes for the word "free," which contained the|whole gist of the passage, the word " our ;" and that then this Master of Artifice spends much the greater part of a colnmn in ringing changes on the assertion falsely attributed to me, that the Grammar Sebools are found to be prac- tically superseded by the Common Schools. This disposes at once of about a third part of the 'Telegraph's orticle. The title-page of the Pamphlet sets forth that Upper Canada College was established in defiance of the Legislature ; and in the body of the Pamphlet it is, I trust, made sufficiently plain that Upper Canada College was established in defiance of the conditions precedent insisted on by the Legislature. Nevertheless, the reviewer finds some imaginary con- tradiction as regards this matter, between the title-page and the body of the statement. 22 Tin; IPrEU t.VNADA ( Ol.I.lCiii: CoUr-gc, dclilM.'ratcly subuliluting tlic word II ifi'i-r' (•(„• t|,(. ui,i(l *fi)ur' in the piisiivKo wlioro tlie Duke buys lliat "on the govcrniufiit gniuts y'oMr Grnnimar Schools were to constitiitr " the first elmrge." My reply is, that in the Duke of Portland's Deapntcli the ironl /our ilDCf. nut onrr orrur, but that on the contrary the fullowiiij^ pa.xsage does oecur : "lie, (Hid Majcj'ly (leurge HI.,] has eondesccmled " to express Ifis .Must (Iraeious intention to roinply with the wishca o( " tho Ijegislaturn (;f his I'roTince of I'pper Canada in iuich manner as "shall bo judged mo.-t ell'ectual : lirsl by the establishment of Firr " (Irammar Schouh in tho districts in which lliey are called for." I trust that our fiCgislatord will, while within easy distance of tho journal.! verify this i(Uolalion. it will he found in the journal of the Assembly for I8;tl, appendix page Kt.'i, (York: John Ca^ey, IS!!!.) The rcles;r(ip/i's reviewer then declares tliat he limls it slated (falsely) in the Pamphlet, (p. U),that the (tovernor referred in tho opening speecli of 1830, to tho support of Ipjier Canada College. My reply is, that the reviewer linds in thu i'ani[ihlet no statement of the kind, but that he and every one else may liiul (on page 9), a statement to the etfcct that the Governor in a Mcssas^r (sent down to the House on F*b. 4, 1830), inggestcd the maintenance of Upper Canada College by rarlianient — which, as a matter of fact, he did. •My accuser charges that, in citing an Address of the IIouso of Assembly in 1^31, I have ijiioted the Address as containing the words " (irummar School Reserves." My reply is, tiiat here, as in other jdaees, my amiable reviewer generously supplies the nuotaJon marks, and then charges tiiat the mannfactnred quotation is not correct. The exact words of the Legislative Address arc, tiiat His Kxccllency " may be pleased to " communicate to the IIouso copies of all such documents ai His E.Tcel- " lency may be in pcLSsession of, which authorize t!i3 survey, reservation, "sale or npiu'oprialion of certain lands in this Province called School "Townships;" (Journal of Assembly, 1831, Friday, Jan. 21). Now, does my rcTiewer on the one hand deny that the Grammar School Re- serves are, by the language of tho Legislature, intended ; or does he, on the other hand, aflirm that any school reservation other than that for Grammar Schools exiited in this Province in 1831 ? If he does not deny the one, or nflirm the other, wherein can I be justly accused ot ialsifying the records of Parliauient, when I say in my Pamphlet, (p. 10), without jirofessing to give an exact quotation from the Address, that " Jn .fd- ^^ dress was passed requestim; His Exrpllennj to lay before f he House all "docitments relating to the Grammar Sciiool Reserves." My accuser charges that in a quotation from an Address of the House in 183G, I have interpolated the word '^secret." My reply is that my reviewer here states what he must bo fully aware is a malicious un- truth. The quotation supplied in the Pamphlet, (p. 17), is strictly cor- rect, and may bo found on the journal of the IIouso of Assembly, 183C, Wedneiday, Jan. 20, p. 41, fToronto : M. Poynolds, 1830.) (IIMXIONS oV nil; I'UKsi. '21) Tlic next count in tliu iiKlictitirnt charges llmt I hnvi uttriljuted (d tlir Legiiliitiire wlinl win tlic mere indiviiliml opinion of Mr. Mackcnr.i* ri'KariiinK L'ppL'r Cnnadii Collcgp. My rejilj is, tiuit in lliis matlcr I hiiTc tiic lienor to aij-.ec witii tlic Iniiiciihl (iovirnnient, and llio miafor- tiiiie to diffiT from my snpiicions rcviowcr. In the Ini|ieri(il Degiiatch appointing !^ir T. !i. Head, Licuteniiiit (JovcTnor of Upper ('aiiiidu, dutrj Downing street, Sth Dcccnibor, 183,', and sij,'npd " Cilcncig," tho pnssaga (luotcd in tin; l*iinii>hl(t, (\k If)), li given iu lull, and i.s most distinctly referred to by tlic (-'oloniiil Secretary as expressing the opinion of the Honse of Assemhiy of Upper (.'anada. In fact the question of the further inaintenaiu'o of Upi>or Canaila Colleg*; occupies no incon.iidcrablc part of the whole Drsiiateh — an importance whicli it would be absurd to lup- po,^c that the Secretary for the ('olonies would h,ivc attributed to the individual opinion of any man. This Despatch hn.> been jirinted iu the form of a «niall duoileriino, bearing the following title ; "Message from Hit " Kxcellency the Lieut. (Jov., of the :^Oth Jan. 18.'!(!, transmitting » " De.Mpatch from Her Majesty's Government. Printed by Order of the Ifon the Legislative Council. It. Stanton, Printer." A coi)y will, no doubt, be i( . d' in the Parliamentary Library, where, I trust, it will be copiously cv suited. The charge, however, on whicli my reviewer lays most stress relates to the attendance of jiupils at U. ('. College. Ilo says: "Again wa " are told that all the pupils that could be driinimej u|) for the College " in 18,'V_', numbered only forty— these being the sons of persons enjoying " goveriimont favors.'' Here, as el.'^ewhere, the reviewer (irst falsiiies tin narrative, and then complains that it is false, In the lirsi place the year 1830 and not 183'J, is most (Mstinctly reforre