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 OF THE 
 
 UNIVERSITY 
 
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 At a meeting of the Board of Trustees 
 
 of the University of Queen's College, 
 
 Kingston, held on the fifth day of March, 
 
 1850, the following Extract from the 
 
 Records of the Commission of Synod of 
 
 the Presbyterian Church of Canada, in 
 
 connexion with the Church of Scotland, 
 
 was read: 
 
 '« At Kingston, and within St. Andrew's 
 Church there: the eleventh day of Oc- 
 tober, one thousand eight hundred and 
 forty nine years." 
 " The which day the Commission of the Synod 
 of the Presbyterian Church of Canada, in connec- 
 tion with the Church of Scotland, met, and was 
 constituted with prayer." 
 
 (Inter alia.) 
 
 "The Commission had read the Minutes of 
 last Synod, referring to them a Paper transmitted 
 to the Synod by the Trustees of Queen's College, 
 anent the best course to be pursued in regard to 
 the College; and the said Paper was read. — After 
 lengthened consideration of this matter, the Com- 
 mission appointed Dr. Machar and Professor Ro- 
 manes to draw up, for general circulation, through 
 the Church, a Paper containing a full statement 
 of the reasons which have induced the Board of 
 Trustees of Queen's College to resolve that they 
 shall use their utmost exertions to carry on that 
 Institution in conformity with its own Charter, 
 and to lay the same before the next meeting of 
 Commission; and the Commission also recom- 
 mended that this paper should contain a statement 
 of the Financial aifairs of the College. The 
 Commission further recommended that Principal 
 Liddell, as soon as convenient after his arrival, 
 should visitalltheCongrega'ions within thebounds 
 
 of the Synod, to explain the course of proceedings 
 which the Board of Trustees have deemed it 
 proper to pursue, and to set forth the duty of 
 such parents as have the means, to give a Colle- 
 giate education to their sons. — And further, the 
 Commission recommended that Presbyteries 
 should CO- operate with the Trustees of Queen's 
 College in the exertions they may make to obtain 
 subscriptions and collections in aid of the College 
 Funds." 
 
 " Extracred from the Records of the 
 Commission of the Presbyterian 
 Church of Canada, in connection with 
 the Church of Scotland, by 
 
 (Signed,) " Andrew Bell, 
 " Synod Clerk." 
 
 The Committee appointed by the Com- 
 mission of Synod to prepare a Statement 
 in terms of the foregoing extract, laid 
 before the Board of Trustees the statement 
 which they had prepared, and informed 
 the Board that, owing to the discharge of 
 their official duties in the College occu- 
 pying so great a portion of their time, 
 they had not been able to prepare the 
 document in time to be laid before the last 
 meeting of the Commission of Synod. 
 
 The Statement was then read and ap- 
 proved, and tho Committee were requested 
 to transmit the same forthwith to the 
 office of the " Presbyterian " for nublica- 
 tion, and to take «uch other steps as may 
 be deemed necessary to give it the widest 
 : circulation. 
 
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 The Trustees of the University of 
 Queen's College, .mving resolved to carry 
 on the Institution in conformity vvrith its 
 Royal Charter, irrespectively of the Uni- 
 versity Act passed last session of the Pro- 
 vincial Parliament, think it proper to 
 present to the people of this country the 
 reasons which induced them to come to 
 this resolution. 
 
 It must be premised that the Act lately 
 passed is not only entirely different from, 
 but, in all essential respects, quite opposite 
 to the measure brought forward, some 
 years ago, by the Government of this 
 Province. The one recognised religion 
 as the proper foundation and attendant of 
 education ; the other aims at their total 
 separation. The one provided for the 
 incorporation of the several colleges as 
 integral parts of the University, and for 
 a participation, by Queen's College, in 
 the public endowment ; the other gives 
 but a mere shadow of representation to 
 the several colleges that may agree to the 
 measure, and no share whatever of the 
 endowment. 
 
 xilthough tlie Trustees of Queen's 
 College, anxious to promote n peaceable 
 settlement of the question, would Live 
 agreed to the plan of union proposed 
 some years ago, notwithstanding several 
 serious objections to which such a plan is 
 liable, yet, from the entirely different 
 character of the new measure,— the appar- 
 ent impossibility of procuring a union of 
 colleges on Christian or equitable princi- 
 ples, and the rapid increase in the popu- 
 lation of the country calling for additional 
 seats of learning, they have, on mature 
 consideration of the subject, come to the 
 conclusion to maintain Queen's College, 
 not only for instruction in Theology, but 
 
 for all the purposes for which it was es- 
 tablished. 
 
 The objections to the new University 
 Act, and the reasons for maintaining 
 Queen's College according to its Royal 
 Charter, may be comprised under the 
 following heads: 
 
 1 . The irreligious character of the Act 
 referred to. Not only is the teaching of 
 Theology prohibited in the University of 
 Ttironto, but all forms of Divine Worship, 
 all public prayer, every thing that can 
 remind either professors or students of 
 God, and the duties we owe to him, — of 
 our responsibility and obligations, is rigid- 
 ly and peremptorily excluded. And as 
 no test wh Uever is required of the pro- 
 fessors, not even belief in the existence 
 of God, there is nothing in the Act to 
 prevent infidels, atheists, or persons hold- 
 ing the most dangerous and pernicious 
 principles, from being entrusted with the 
 instruction of youth at that time of life 
 when evil impressions are most likely to 
 be made upon their minds. 
 
 2. Another objection is, that while the 
 Act thus banishes the vei^ semblance of 
 religion from the University, it makes 
 no improvement, and no provision for 
 improvement, on the existing system of 
 literary and scientific instruction. It 
 leaves entirely unreformed what chiefly 
 stood in need of reformation. It leaves 
 the management nearly in the same hands 
 as formerly. Tliere is indeed a show of 
 alteration by the addition of several mem- 
 bers to the governing body, but all who 
 are acquainted with such subjects, will 
 at once perceive, that in all practical and 
 essential respects, the management will 
 be the same as before. 
 
 8. The Act is liable to this further 
 
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 cbjection, that even although it made the 
 best provieion for the efficiency of the 
 University, yet the confining of all the 
 means of University edncation to one 
 place and one set of teachers, will of itself 
 ▼ery much impair that efficiency. In 
 education, more than in any other subject, 
 a wholesome rivalry, a generous compe- 
 tition, is of paramount importance; in 
 this department the deadening effects of 
 monopoly are more apparent thaii in any 
 other. And if such a system would be 
 at once condemned, if attempted to be 
 applied to ordinary trade or commerce, 
 what reason can be assigned for applying 
 it to a subject of such immensely higher 
 importance as the educanon of our youth. 
 
 To confine to one particular place the 
 means of a higher education, appears no 
 less injudicious and impolitic, than unjust. 
 A country of such immense extent, and 
 increasing so rapidly in population, most 
 assuredly requires more than one Univer- 
 sity. To require all the youth of the 
 Province to travel to Toronto to obtain 
 education, is, in fact, to pass sentence of 
 exclusion against the greater part of them. 
 Even in countries of far less exter , it is 
 found indispensable to establish Universi- 
 ties in many different localities: as, for 
 example, in Scotland, where four Univer- 
 sities have long existed, and are all fully 
 attended. Already the population of this 
 countj-y is equal to that cf Scotland 
 when her four Universities were estab- 
 lished, and we cannot doubt that Canada 
 will, at no very distant day, number a 
 population far exceeding that which Scot- 
 land even now contains. 
 
 4. There is every reason to fear that, 
 if Queen's College were to cease opera- 
 tions as to its literary and philosophical 
 department, the progress of nearly all 
 those young men, who are now studying 
 with a view to the Ministry, w^ould be 
 stopped. Of these there are now nearly 
 twenty, in different stages of advance- 
 
 ; ment. Many of them, from different 
 cauaes, could not attend at Toronto. At 
 Queen's College every possible exertion 
 is made to render attendance as cheap as 
 possible to students for the Presbyterian 
 Church. They are entirely exempted 
 from class fees, not only at the Divinity 
 classes, but from the very commencement 
 of their college course j and the boarding 
 establishment, while possessing every 
 needful comfort, is conducted with such 
 strict economy, that the expenses of the 
 students per session amount only to a 
 very moderate sum. The time of atten- 
 dance is so arranged as to permit yoang 
 men to teach, or be otherwise employed, 
 during the summer. None of these advan- 
 tages could be expected by them at the 
 University of Toronto; the full amount of 
 fees and dues would be exacted ; they 
 would have to board themselves in as ex- 
 pensive a manner as other students ; and 
 the times of attendance are such ns to 
 prevent any other occupation ; so that 
 none could attend but those who possess 
 independent means, or whose friends are 
 able to maintain them during the whole 
 college course. Besides all this, the 
 bursaries, now pretty numerous, granted 
 by individuals or bodies interested in the 
 welfare of the Presbyterian Church, 
 would, in many cases, not be given to 
 students attending an Institution like the 
 University of Toronto, in which these 
 individuals or bodies might not place any 
 confidence. 
 
 0. The number of students at Queen's 
 College, and the almost certain proba- 
 bility of further increase, ought to 
 induce us to maintain it. After the 
 Secession in 1844, only ten studenta 
 attended — the number now is thirty 
 five, and the number anticipated next 
 Session is fifty. The increase in the 
 Preparatory School, which may be safely 
 regarded as an indication of the future 
 increase of the College, is most encourag- 
 
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 ing. In 1846, when the school re-opened 
 there were but six scholaas. The num- 
 ber now att-nding is fifty, nearly all 
 engaged in such studies as will fit them 
 for College; and from this source alone 
 a constant annnal influx of well prepared 
 students may be expected. The fact 
 that we can now point to upwards of 
 eighty, and probably next Session to one 
 hundred, of the youth of this Province, 
 enjoying the benefits of a superior educa- 
 tion, in connexion with Queen's Col- 
 lege, must undoubtedly tend to give the 
 Inatitution very strong claims on the as- 
 sistance of the Legislature, and the coun- 
 1 teuance of the community generally. 
 
 6. The Roman Cathol.c Church has made 
 Kingston the principal seat of their edu- 
 cational operations in Upper Canada, for 
 which purpose it is admirably fitted by 
 its central situation, and the easy access 
 to it from all parts of the Province. 
 Should Queen's College be given up, as 
 a Literary Institution, there would be no 
 Protestant College in the whole vast 
 distance from Montreal to Cobourg: and 
 thus the whole of the superior education 
 of those large sections of country, of : 
 which Kingston is the natural capital, ; 
 would be made over to a Roman Catho- ' 
 lie Seminary. 
 
 7. The manner in which the new mea- 
 sure has been received by the country 
 gives no hopes of its ultimate success. 
 All the most numerous ard influential 
 denominations have declared themselves 
 most decidedly opposed to its principle. 
 The adherents of the Church of Scotland, 
 especially, look upon it with suspicion 
 and dislike. Indeed, a meanire so utter- 
 ly opposed to Christianity, and so repug- 
 nant to the principles and practice of 
 Presbyterianism, could never be expected 
 to secure their confidence. The Church 
 of Scotland has always held that educa- 
 tion, from its lowest to its highest stage, 
 ought to be founded on religion, upon 
 
 which all the real prosperity of indivi- 
 duals and nations depends. And there is 
 ; reason to believe, that not only the mem- 
 '' hers of that Church, but many parentii 
 ; who belong to other denominations, will 
 prefer sending their children to Queen's 
 i College, rather than to one where every 
 j vestige of religion is proscribed, and is 
 > studiously and purposely rejected. 
 I The Royal Charter granted to King's 
 ; College, and the endowments therewith 
 '^ connected, having been given expressly 
 ^ " for the instruction of youth in the prin- 
 ; ciplesof the Christian Religion," as well 
 ; as in Arts and Faculties, it is held by 
 I many, whose opinions are entitled to at- 
 ; tention, that the endowment cannot be 
 : i-EGALLY or coxsTiTDTiONALLT diverted 
 from that purpose, such a ctiange not 
 being an amendment, but a subversion 
 of the Charter. But leaving this to be 
 determined by more competent authority, 
 our duty is clear. Whatever other Pro- 
 testant denominations may see it proper 
 to do in the present crisis, it seems to be 
 the imperative duty of the Trustees of 
 Queen's College and of the Ministers and 
 members of the Presbyterian Church in 
 this land, to maintain, to the utmost of 
 their ability, an Institution so important 
 to the Church and to the whole country, 
 and to extend, in every possible way, its 
 means of usefulness, that so there may 
 be in this great Province at least one i 
 University where Literary and Scientific \ 
 Instruction shall be combined with Reli- ] 
 gion ; where the Divine blessing is daily ; 
 implored upon the labors of Professors and S 
 Students ; and where Divine Truth is i 
 revered as the best and highest object of j 
 contemplation for the human mind, and i 
 the surest guide in the conduct of life. \ 
 
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 In regard to the financial affairs of the 
 College the Trustees are happy to be 
 able to state, that by the exercise of the 
 strictest economy in all departments, they 
 have avoided making any encroachment 
 on the capital funds. A full statement 
 of the income and expenditure will be 
 laid before next meeting of Synod. It 
 may be proper to observe, that, on 
 account of the increase that may be ex- 
 pected in the number of Students, it will 
 
 be necessary, at no distant period, to 
 erect a building of a more spacious and 
 commodious kind than has hitherto been 
 occupied ; and as it would be highly 
 imprudent to appropriate any part of the 
 invested capital for this purpose, it is in 
 contemplation to make an early appeal to 
 the friends of the Institution, to raise, by 
 subscription, a fund for the erection of 
 suitable College Buildings. 
 
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