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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mdthode. rata Blure, J 2X 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 @ ^ t3 M Entered according to Act of the Provincial Legislature, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-tzvo, hy Heney Mflvillb, M.D., in the Office of the Registrar of the Province of Canada. THE EISE MD PROGKESS OP TrailT COLLEGE, TOROJVTO ; WITH 'b# A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF THE V f LORD BISHOP OF TORONTO, AS CONNECTED WITH CIIUKCH KDUCATION IN CANADA. '■^N ^ BT . ?«*5'i?S?'A5*^?^ . HENRY PROPESSOn OF SURGERY. MELVILLE, M.D.,.:^ \)' ^*^^M^^ V »?► TORONTO : HENRY ROWSELL. 1862. JAN 7 1966 TO TllU B E N E F A C T O li S OF TRINITY COLLEGE, TORONTO, THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED, AS A MEMORIAL OF THEIR CHRISTIAN EXERTIONS IN THE FURTHERANCE OF PI RELIGIOUS EDUCATION. COPYRIGHT SECURED. Entered in pursuance of the provisions of an Act of the Legislature of the Province of Canada, 4 and 5 Victoria, Cap. 61, i„ the office of the Registrar erf the Province, at Toronto, April, 1852, by Henry Melville. ,' PREFACE. The only merit claitnccl for this Work, is dnc to the industry required for the compilation of the materials of which it is principally composed, and the care bestowed upon its preparation for, and progress through the T^-ess. The motive which induced its publication, was a desire to preserve in a compact and more permanent form, than that in which they already existed, the various documents, which had from time to time appeared in the public Journals, connected with the establisiimcnt of this noble institution and the several interesting ceremonies which have marked its progress. Such a memorial of their Christian exertions on behalf of Religious education, and of the untiring and successful championship of our Venerable Diocesan, it was hoped, would prove acceptable to the promoters of the enterprisj in the Province, and the Church at large. In connecting the narrative of these interesting circum- stances, it was impossible to avoid all comment on the causes which instigated the movement for the establishment of a Church University, or the obstacles which have been Yl PREFACE. !1 . I i encountered in carrying out the de.«ign. For the opinions expressed in these commentaries iho compiler alone is responsible. He is under many obligations to the Lord Bishop for permission to use the various documents here published, as well as for the most important informraion and assistance in the preparation of the book. To the Honourable Chief Justice Robinson and the Venerable Archdeacon Bethune, his acknowledgments are due for permission to use their respective manuscripts, and for severa! valuable suggestions. To the Reverend Provost Whittaker he would also express his thanks for a similar favour ; and to the Reverend R. J. Macgeovge, for material aid in the completion of the undertaking. Not the least attractive part of the publication remains to be noticed. The Biographical Memoir of the Lord Bishop, which is incorporated with this history, has been prepared from the most authentic sources ; and is offered as a tribute of respect to those wl o know how to appreciate his sterling character, his benevolence and pastoral care, and who cherish the remembrance of long years of personal friend- ship and communion with him. INTRODUCTION. The earliest records of Collegiate Institutions afford co.ivincing evidence, that they sprung from an earnest desire entertained by learned and enterprising men, to disseminate among other? the knowledge they had acquired after careful and fruitful study; aud to awaken and pro- mote an appetite aud love for those literary pursuits which they had found so captivating and beneficial. In carrying out so noble and philanthropic a design, they associated themselves for the purpose of delivering public instruction, to all who were desirous of embracing the ojoportunity and advantage thus offered to them. The schools then formed, became the models on which the establishments of future ages were founded by public authority, under the style of Universities. The relative antiquity of the several schools of this early period has been the cause of much learned and keen controveisy. Whether Paris or Bologna should take pre- cedence, or wiietjier Oxford and Cambridge should not share in the renown of being the first pioneers of learning with their Continental contemporaries, although a question of peculiar interest to the antiquarian Scholar, is not alto- gether relevant to our present purpose. The principal and important points which \v<^ seek to establish are, that from their commencement, these institutions have been recog- 8 INTRODUCTIOiV. iiized and upheld by regal favour and public authority; that religious instruction was a primary feature, and forined the fundamental basis of the system of education ; and that they were closely connected with ecclesiastical establish- ments, and under the supervision and control of episcopal functionaries. ■f Much traditionary narrative is mixed up with the history of these primitive seminaries, in which their existence is attributed to the munificencp of kings, and the protection of royal authority. Although the result of voluntary efforts as already stated, there yet appears to be every reason for supposing, that they speedily attracted and engaged the attention of the reigning monarchs. To Charlemagne is ascribed the honour of founding the University of Paris. The character of this sovereign as recorded in the pages of history, justifies the belief that he was sincere in his efforts to " dilfuse among his subjects generally some por- tion of education, and particularly among the clergy and those designed for the sacred profession. For this purpose he enacted that schools should be established in all epis- copal and collegiate churches, and that these should be open to all students." (a) The public recognition of the University of Paris by other sovereigns is clearly established. In 1169, Henry II. of England offered to refer his dispute with Becket to this school ;(i) and we find that the influence exercised by it speedily aroused the jealousy of the Roman a. Professor Jlalden. on the Origin of Universities. [We acknowledge our obligations to this little work, for many of the statements here given. It is replete with information of the most curious and valuable description, and in the absence of many of tho authorities referred to, we have freely availed ourselves of the fruits of his industry and reseaiches.] b. Halhaii, Middif A ,'»-■.■*■ ciiap. IX. parr 2. i history itence is rotection y efforts ason for ged the lagne is if Paris. 3 pages in his ne por- •gy and purpose 11 epis- be open iversity n 1169, e with fluence Roman edge our ;n. It is nd in the ourselves INTRODUCTION. q Pontiff,. Decrees were issued by Alexander and Innoeent deelaring the qualifications of teachers, regnlating the fee.' and confirming the validity of title., and degrees. The' teachers and learners were not tardy i„ perceiving the advantages of the unity thus conferred upon them by the highest power in Christendom; and in the most ancient deed of the University which has been preserved, of the date A. D 1221, they adopt the style, " We, the University of the Masters and Scholars of Paris."(e) Durin.^ the ponttireate of Nicholas IV., the privileges of this Univt^sity were extended in a remarkable manner by a decree which conferred upon the doctors who were there approved the valuable distinction of being accounted doctors evcywl'tet and te power of teaching, lecturing, and directing public schools "(.) The right of any sovereign to erect a Univer! 2 m h.s own dominions was never questioned, but i, was he pope alone who could make the degrees va id beyond .hchmtts of the university in which they were eonf red and gtve them an authority through Christendom. T ,' N chT T? '° "'^ '^'"' -P--'y ^"-f Naples, celebrity, versities ; • the fact, iing him- curiously \ enough explains It by supposing, " that as Frederic was always denounced as the enemy of the Church, the degrees never received from the Popes that catholic extension, >( which the Pope alone was considered to have the power of giving." The oldest tradition concerning the University of Oxford ts, that it was founded by King Alfred, about the year 890 a statement which is thus defended by Mr. Hallam : " Since' a school for dialectics and rhetoric subsisted at Oxford a town of but middling si.e, and not the seat of a bishop, we are naturally led to refer its foundation to one of our kings ■ and none who had reigned after Alfred appears to have' mantfested such zeal for learning."(J) The accuracy of this tradmon appears to be questioned, but however this may be, there is no doubt that it received the countenance and favour of He„,y II. and Richard, and that during their re.gns u grew up into a most flourishing condition. It was called a University ;„ „ ui- . A D l^ni , "'^'fy '" " public instrument of John A. D. 1301, a date eariier than any at which the word is applied to Paris.(>i) Its earliest charter was conferred by John; Its privileges were confirmed and extended byHenn^ m Edwards I. II., and III., and by succeeding kings.(0 upon an act of mcoiporation, which was passed in the ,3,h aJso confirmed by papal authority, and was mentioned in the Vtenne A. D. 121, ; the authority of the popes, however, .;. Middle Ages, cha,..ix. part 2. k. From Dyer. /. Maiden. B \ \2 INTRODUCTION. ^ was but little regarded by several monarchs. Edward I. published a brief, which was confirmed by the parliament, against the proceedings of the preaching friars at Oxford, although supported by papal bulls.(m) Edward III. also issued an ordinance, in consequence of petitions from the Universities on the one hand, and the mendicant orders on the other, by which it was enacted, " that all bulls and processes issuing from the court of Rome, and procured by the friars against either of the Universities or any person in them, should thenceforth be absolutely null and void."(w) Collegiate foundations were established in Oxford at a very early period ; University and Baliol Colleges, during the reign of Henry Til. ; Merton College, in that of Edward I. ; and Oriel with the license of Edward II. " So little honour," says Professor Maiden, is " attached in history to the memory of this unhappy prince, that it will be charitable to bear in mind his connection with a foundation which is now the institution of the greatest utility and highest repu- tation in the University." In 1 109, Joffred, Abbot of Croyland, " sent over to his manor of Cotenham, nigh Cambridge, Gislebert, his fellow monk and professor of divinity, and three other monks who followed him into England. From Cotenham they repaired daily to Cambridge, and there, in a public barn hired for the purpose, made open profession of their sciences, and in a little time drew a number of scholars together. "(o) Such was the unpretending origin of the now famous University on the banks of the Cam. Mr. Hallam states that the /n. Ayliffe'a History of Oxford. n. Dyer. 0. Maldan on the authority of Djr«r. INTRODUCTIOM. IS g, is ill carhest menlio,, of Cambridge, as a place oflearning, „ .„ a passage of Matthew Paris, in which he states that in 1209 many students of Oxford migrated thither, and that they would not have gone to a town so distant, if it had not been already a seat of academical instruction. The period of its first meorporalion would appear to have been the 15th of Hen^, III. in 1231. There is also another royal enactment, of the 45th of Henry III., i„ which the privileges of the University are still more distinctly recognized. The first formal charter, however, would appear to have been gran^3d in the 20th of Edward I., which was subsequently much extended by Edwards II. and III., Riehard II. and Henry IV. ; they were also confirmed by Edwards IV. and VI. and Elizabeth; and finally ratified by an Act of Par lament for the incorporation of both these Universities, .n the 15th of Elizabeth chap. 29. ,n .he second year o^ the pontificate of John XXII., a bull was issued, in which t..e privileges conferred by former Popes and Kings were mentioned and confirmed. From the date of this Rule, Cambridge was fully recognized by all the Universities o Ch„stendom.(;,) It does not appear, however, to have been very much troubled with papal bulls and rescripts. The University of St. Andrews was founded in 1411, by Hemy Wardlaw Bishop of the Diocese; and upon the request of James I., the Bishop and the heads o Augnstinian Priory, a bull was issued in its favour by Benedict XIII. in 14IS Th. v , '"ivour by valn.hl ■ "^ "''" S''^»'^d '» i' many valuable privileges and exceptions. Several other benefae^ ratified by the King in 1432. P' Maiden. 14 INTRODUCTION. • ' I The University of Glasgow was established in 1450, by a bull of Pope Nicholas V., issued at the request of James II., who granted to it a royal charter in 1453, conferring the usual privileges. In 1572, the magistrates of the town conveyed to the College certain Church property which had been granted to them, making it a special foundation, and this endowment and foundation were confirmed by Act of Parliament. James VI. added largely to the endowment in 1577, and the charter then granted is the basis of its present constitution. The University of Old Aberdeen was founded in 1494, on the models of Paris and Bologna. Marischal College, in New Aberdeen, which claims to be a separate University, was founded in 1593, by William Earl of Marischal. The deed of foundation has been confirmed by Act of Par- liament. In 1582, James VI. empowered the Provost and Town Council of Edinburgh to make certain provisions for the accommodation of professors of all the faculties and liberal sciences, and for schools for teaching. In accordance with this license, they opened an academy, for the use and benefit of which the King, in 1584, granted certain property to the magistrates and Town Council ; and in 1612 he gave a charter confirming all that they had done. In 1821 an Act of Parliament was passed, by which the erection of the College, as a College for the profession of theology, phi- losophy and humanity, and all the existing Royal Acts in its favour were ratified. In like manner it might be easily shewn, that all modern INTRODUCTION. 16 institutions, however originating, have considered it neces- sary to seek for and obtain the Royal sanction and authority, . for establishing the validity of their privileges and the' powers they desired to enjoy; and that the Sovereign pre- rogative has been exercised in some instances without, and> in other cases confirmatory of, parliamentary incorporation/ Such instances are however sufficiently patent to the ordi- nary reader to prevent the necessity of recitation. One point of great interest in this argument must not be overlooked. We find in the history of those revolutions which have altered the political constitution of some countries, and are justly said to have shaken society in them to its foundations, that the immunities and posses- sions derived from such authority, have been almost inva- riably respected and upheld. Examples of this honourable and pious observance of chartered powers and vested rights are not wanting even where democracy is the ruling prin-i ciple. It is well known, that in the United States there are institutions which still retain their original charters and endowments, confirmed by the national government. To the character of the instruction imparted, even at the earliest periods of these schools, we find a religious ten- dency given-limited it may have been, in accordance with the spirit of the age-but still sufficiently distinctive. At the commencement of the 12th century, when the general gloom which pervaded Europe was dispelled by the mtellectual excitement of individual minds, we find the study of law and theology revived, and medicine assuming the character of a science. The learning of the East 16 INTRODUCTION. began to infuse a new spirit of activity ; the modern lan- guages were cultivated and formed ; and a tone of chi- valrous and devotional enterprise was engendered by the Crusades. The seats of learning then in existence, or springing into life, exercised a powerful and beneficial influence upon the mind of Christendom. Among these, the University of Paris certainly appears to have attained a leading status. It is recorded that the n*.ost ancient part of this University was the faculty of Arts or Philosophy. " But," says Maiden, " the event which gave a new life to the University of Paris, and from which in fact its existence as a University must be dated, was, that from the beginning of the twelfth century Paris became the resort of learned men, who attached themselves in some sort to the existing school of Arts, but leaving to inferior teachers this prelimi- nary learning, delivered public lectures in theology. Among the most celebrated of the theologians who flou- rished in the reign of Louis VII., was Peter Lombard, whose book of sentences became a text-book in scholastic theology. ( Conringius. «. Maiden. '\ c /'' ■fi^'M^ ^sttM* !20 INTRODUCTION. upon record is the Professorship of Divinity, founded by the Countess of Richmond, mother of Henry VII., a. d. 1502. (a) But long prior to this, the theological character of this University was fully established by the teaching of Gisle- bert and his associates* Some idea may be formed of the character of these studies, by the following stringent regu- lations prescribed for those Masters of Arts who were pro- ceeding to" the Degree of Bachelor of Divinity, under Ihe statute of Elizabeth, cap. a " A Master of Arts shall be a sedulous hearer of the theology, and a daily hearer of the Hebrew lecture, to which subjects he shall apply him- self seven years : in which time he shall dispute twice against a Bachelor of Theology ; once after his fourth year he shall respond in theology ; he shall preach in the Univer- sity Church, once in Latin and once in English. * * * And if in this time he shall have profited in theology, after seven years complete, and net before, let him become a Bachelor by solemn inauguration." The peculiar character of the endowment for fellowships in both Oxford and Cambridge, shewed that the general intention of the founders was that they should be a provision for students in theology. 3 "sft It is unnecessary to multiply the illustrations of this point. From the many noble examples of modern days in Great Britain and America, we find that the great principle of connecting religious instruction and secular education is fully acknowledged and confirmed. It will be sufficient to cite the cases of Durham ; Trinity College, Glenalmond ; St. James's, Maryland ; Trinity College, Hartford, &c. a. Conringius. INTRODUCTION, 21 led by the 0. 1602. (a) ter of this J of Gisle- led of the gent regu- were pro- under Ihe shall be a hearer of pply hfm- ute twice jurth year le Univer- * * * ogy, after become a character :ford and n of the students s of this n days in principle ication is fficient to lalmond ; brd, &c. m -It The failure of the first projected London University, pro- bably better known as " Brougham's University," and the subsequent erection of the present University of London, with its incorporation of separate Colleges, each governed by its own peculiar internal regulations, is the best evi- dence we could desire, of the futility of depriving educa- tion of this important and essential character; unless indeed we look at home, where the experiment is being \ conducted under all the advantages of competent endow- ment and violent party legislation. And who will say that success has attended this establishment ? But we should anticipate our subject by discussing this question here. We proceed with the remaining point of our argument, by adducing the evidence we possess that these institutions have always been under the discipline of Ecclesiastical authority. Thus in the University of Paris, although the Faculty of Arts claimed a superior antiquity, we find that it had a special connexion with the Church of St. Genevi^>ve, and that the Chancellor of this church was always the Chan- cellor of this Faculty ; the Bishop of Paris being Chancellor of the other faculties, and being considered as the Chan- cellor of the University at large, (i) And this authority vested in the heads of ecclesiastical establishments, to which according to ancient custom the schools were attached, extended to the exercise of a discretionary power in granting degrees, and in admitting masters to teach in the school of arts, and was frequently the source of papal ordinance, both V /' Maiden. 22 INTRODUCTIOIf. for restraining and extending the prerogative. At Bologna, the Bishop was the Chancellor of the University of Theolo- gians ; and Honorius III., when he regulated the promotions or collations of degrees in the school of law, made the superintendence and assent of the Archdeacon of Bologna necessary ; an authority which wag retained by his sue- cessors, who in time assumed the title of Chancellors, and exercised a supervision over all the faculties except the theologians, (c) I Our early Kings having taken the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge under their own peculiar authority, we do not find, at all times, ecclesiastical functionaries appointed to the chief oiBce, ex officio, as in the case of the Con- tinental institutions. Archbishop Laud was Chancellor of Oxford in 1636, and under his jurisdiction it was, that the statutes were compiled which still continue to rule the University, and these were ratified by the Convocation, the Chancellor and the King. But whenever necessity required a delegation of authority by the Monarch, an ecclesiastic was usually selected. Among other reasons why Oxford and Cambridge differ in some degree, in this respect, from the Continental and other Universities, is the fact that neither place was a Bishop's see ; and that from immemo" rial custom they elected their own Chancellors. But no layman appears to have been elected to the office of Chancellor until the Reformation. In Cambridge, however, the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Ely was distinctly recog- nized in ancient times. The internal constitution of these Universities, also, would appear to abrogate the necessity of f. Maiden. r INTRODUCTION. 23 t Bologna, of Theolo- )romotions made the f Bologna f his suc' ;llors, and ixcept the of Oxford ity, we do appointed the Con- Jhancellor s, that the > rule the :ation, the y required iclesiastic y Oxford sect, from fact that immemo" But no office of however, tly recog- of these cessity of one supreme ecclesiastical functionary. Composed of a number of Colleges and Halls, each is governed by its own peculiar oificial or head, who is necessarily, with few exceptions in either University, an ecclesiastic, however appointed, and who are themselves subject to the control or supervision of a superior dignitary. The Archbishops were in some instances visitors. The Bishop of the see was always Chancellor of the University of St. Andrews : and the Archbishop of Glasgow filled the same office in the institution of that City ; by his authority all its honours were conferred. In Edinburgh the Principal always has been an ecclesiastic. Thus have we endeavoured to show, that the principle contended for, in the establishment of the Institution whose origin and progress form the subject of the following pages, is founded on the experience and wisdom of past ages. That the only solid basis upon which the youth of a country can be properly educated, is by a close alliance of the religious and secular elements of instruction, is sustained by the consenting voice of all, who regard man as a being formed by his Creator for higher purposes than the mere accomplishment of temporal duties, however important these may be ; and that the testimony of denominational establish- ments in this country is strongly in favour of such a system, is evident from the circumstance of their obtaining Royal Charters, and seeking endowment from those in communion with them, and from other reliable extraneous sources. That the Anglican Church should contend for similar pri- vileges is only consonant with her position and influence, 4i' INTRODUCTION. as well as her principles ; that once enjoying, she should have been deprived of them, and that after a noble and voluntary effort to raise an endowment for a separate College, she should be denied its usual privileges, is a reproach to the age. Let us hope that time will soothe and overcome the violence of the opposition of those who now hold the reins of government, and that ere long Trinity College shall be in possession of its Royal Charier. she should noble and a separate leges, is a soothe and J who now mg Trinity er. TRINITY COLLEGE, TORONTOr ■€ h BIOGRAPHY OF THE LORD BISHOP. Intimately associated with the educational movement i« this Province, from the earliest efforts made by the patriotic Governor Simcoe, to the present moment, we find the name of our Venerable Bishop. Indeed it may well be said of him, that he has been the instrument in the hands of God for the good of his people in Upper Canada; for under his direction and energetic example, combined with sound judgment and great discriminating power, the men were produced who, in every position of life, have carried on the work of progression, and secured the prosperity of this country from the elements by which they were surrounded. This may happily be said, without fear of just contradiction on the one hand, and without the charge of sycophancy on the other. The favour of their Sovereign has rewarded some of those of whom we speak, with offices of the highest trust, and the voice of the nation bears witness to the ability and faithfulness with which the duties appertaining to those offices have always been discharged; while the position they hold, and the reputation they enjoy, place them beyond the need of praise. Others there are who have done good service to the state, and have passed to their rest ; and others remain, who may yet be required, and will still be 26 BORN AT ABERDEEN. i found able and willing, to promote its interests and uphold its stability, with the counsel which knowledge and experi- ence render so valuable. As a necessary and important preface to our narrative, the following biographical sketch of the Lord Bishop, offers much to interest the general reader, and will possess, we hope, a peculiar value for those who have reaped the benefit of his former care and instruction, and who continue to enjoy the advantage of his affectionate friendship and spiritual direction. The time has not yet arrived, and long may it be post- poned, when it would be proper to enter into a full detail of the important part which he has played in the government and progressive prosperity of this Colony, or in the extension and promotion of the welfare of the Church-such a task would involve a compendious history of both. We shall therefore content ourselves with tracing his labours in the cause of education, in which, since his advent to the province, he has been most actively and successfully engaged. John Strachan was born at Aberdeen, on the 12th of April, 1778. Hr; was educated at the Grammar School of that city, which is justly celebrated for the many able scholars and otherwise distinguished men which it has produced. In early life he displayed that indomitable perseverance and application which have always formed the prominent features of his character, and which have enabled him to encounter and overcome obstacles that would have daunted many less happily endowed by nature. f\ COx\rMENCES TEACHING. «7 J and uphold B and experi- larrative, the ishop, offers possess, we d the benefit continue to ndship and y it be post- full detail of government lie extension such a task We shall 3ours in the vent to the successfully the 12th of ir School of many able lich it has indomitable ays formed wrhich have itacles that dowed by In 1793 he was matriculated at King's College, Old Aberdeen, in which he subsequently took the degree of A.M. Shortly after this he removed to the neighbourhood of St. Andrews, at which University he attended lectures on Divinity, for although attached to the Episcopal Church, he was compelled to avail himself of the existing public' schools and Colleges of the country, as the Nonjurors at that time possessed no means of educating their youth. At St. Andrews, he formed several important and lasting friendships, among others, with Thomas Duncan LL.D , still Professor of Mathematics, and one of the profoundest mathematicians in Europe : a friendship which continues to this day with unabated affection. So also with the late Dr. Chalmers, which only terminated with the life of that great and universally esteemed philosopher and divine. In 1797, Mr. Strachan left St. Andrews, and established himself in the village of Kettle ; and here, at the early a^^e of nmeteen, he made his first essay in the great field ^'of educational labour, commencing life with a deeply rooted love for the cause, and with a foretaste of that success which has since crowned his efforts. It was his prac tice to study well and note the character and capacity of his pupils, and to his discrimination and correct judgment many owe the ultimate renown they have achieved. Imon<^ his pupils at that time was David Wilkie, since so weU known as one of the first painters of the age. Mr. Strachan quickly perceived Wilkie's unquestionable genius, and with some difficulty prevailed on his uncle to send him to the celebrated Raeburn, then enjoying the highest reputation in Scotland. It is pleasing to remark, that after an interval of I) 28 NEGOCIATION WITH DR. DROWN. .:ir forty-two years, the preceptor and scholar met in London, and renewed an intimacy so profitable to one and so honourable to both. They attended the meetings of the British Association at Birmingham, and saw much of each other during the Bishop's short stay in England. Often did Mr. Wilkie, then at the height of his fame, declare that he owed everything to his reverend teacher, since but for his interference, he might have remained in obscurity. Commodore Barclay, afterwards so unfortunate on Lake Erie, was another pupil. He was a youth of great promise, and his Lordship has often said, that he possessed qualities which fitted him to be another Nelson, had the way opened up for such a consummation. While at St. Andrews, the Rev. James Brown, one of the acting Professors of the University, a gentleman of great scientific attainments, and of conversational powers seldom equalled, evinced great regard for Mr. Strachan, and after his advancement to the chair of Natural Philosophy in the University of Glasgow, proposed to his young friend, in whose capacity and acquirements he must have had great confidence, to become his assistant, and in his absence, which from infirm health was not unfrequent, to discharge his duties in the lecture room. Difficulties, it is said, originating in high quarters, intervened to prevent this arrangement when nearly completed. Dr. Brown was induced to retire on a pension. The disappointment attending this result must have been very great to one of such an ardent temperament, to whom a career of hon- ourable usefulness had been opened, and whose ambition must have been naturally and keenly aroused. Then It SAILS FROM GREENOCK. t in London, one and so etings of the nuch of each d. Often did clare that he B but for his rity, late on Lake reat promise, sed qualities way opened n, one of the lan of great w^ers seldom n, and after sophy in the g friend, in 3 had great lis absence, o discharge it is said, )revent this 3ro\vn was ppointment it to one of eer of hon- e ambition I. Then it 29 'M was that the opportunity occurred of removing to another scene of activity, and in such a frame of mind he was the more disposed to accept of employment in Canada. Among the many schemes contemplated by General Simcoe for the benefit of the Province, was that of establishing Grammar Schools in every district, and a University as their head at the seat of Government. Anxious to put matters in train, the Governor gave autho- rity to the late Honourable Richard Cartwright and the Honourable Robert Hamilton, to procure a gentleman from Scotland, to organize and take charge of the College or , University which he proposed to establish. These gentle- men, whose memories are still dear to the Province, ap- plied to their friends in Scotland, who offered the appoint- ment to Dr. Chalmers, by whom it was declined. Overtures were then made to Mr. Strachan, who touched by his recent disappointment, was induced after some consideration to accept the proposal. He sailed from Greenock towards the end of August ^ 1799, under convoy. At the present day, we know nothing i! ofthe discomforts ofthis mode of voyaging; but some idea - may be formed of the tediousness of this journey, from the * fact that he did not arrive at New York until the middle of November. Such was the slate of navigation of the Hudson at tlie commencement of the present century, that it occu- pied eight days to reach Albany. At this city he first encountered the rigor of the winter of the climate to which he had migrated. There was a very heavy fall of snow, and as he had to travel round by Montreal in order to penetrate to Upper Canada, he did not arrive at Kingston till the last ■'A 30 ENGAGlilMENT WITH MR. CARTWRIGHT. day of the year, much fatigued in body, and not a little disappointed, it may be readily supposed, at the desolate appearance of the country. But a new and more severe trial awaited him. lie was informed that Governor Simcoe had returned to England, and that the intention of establishing the projected College had been for the present abandoned. Indeed the prospect of being able to carry out such an undertaking seemed very remote, as the country was justly considered to be loo new, and the population too thin. Leaving his native country, full of the hope of honourable and abundant employment ; arriving in a strange place and inclement climate at the worst period of the year ; finding the reasonable expectations he had formed completely blighted, and thrown completely on his own resources, we can con- ceive that the lonely position in which Mr. Strachan now found himself placed, was sufficient to try the fortitude of any ordinary mind. His firm and active spirit, however, enabled him to combat these difficulties, and subdue this disap- pointment ; accordingly we find him making an arrange- ment with the Honourable Richard Cartwright to instruct his sons and a select number of pupils during three years, and if at the expiration of that period the country did not present a reasonable prospect of advancement, he might return to Scotland. A strong attachment speedily sprung up between the parties. Mr. Cartwright was a man of great capacity and intelligence, of strict honour and integ- rity ; moreover he was a sincere Churchman from convic- tion, having read much on this as well as most other subjects of importance. A similarity of feeling and pursuit tended to confirm and strengthen their mutual regard, and this ripened into a warm friendship, which continued without the slightest change or abatement^ till death sepa- f » IS ORDAINED DEACON. SI rated them. Mr. Strachan was left the guardian of Mr. Cartwright's children ; no greater proof of confidence could have been displayed by any one. At Kingston, other friendships were formed among men of merit and ability, more especially with the Rev. Dr. Stuart, the clergyman of the parish and Commissary or Archdeacon of Upper Canada, whose sound judgment, sagacity, and other high mental qualities were rendered the more useful and attractive, by his courteous and kind demeanour, and a playful wit and humour that seemed inexhaustible. From this gentleman Mr. Strachan received the most affectionate and parental regard, from the day of their first interview ; and this familiar and beneficial inter- course continued ever after without interruption. At the termination of his engagement with Mr. Cart- wright, Mr. Strachan was prepared under Dr. Stuart's advice and instruction to enter the Church. Accordingly, in May, 1803, he was ordained Deacon, by the Right Rev. Dr. Mountain, the first Bishop of Quebec, and appointed to the mission of Cornwall. t 1 On taking possession of his mission, he found the con- gregation very small, and chiefly confined to the village or immediate neighbourhood. Hence his clerical duties were not burthensome, and left him much leisure time. He was therefore induced to listen to the solicitations of the parents of such of his pupils as had not finished their studies at Kingston, to continue to instruct them at Cornwall, and also to the urgent intreaties of many from both provinces to admit their sons to the same privilege, because there was Si SCHOOL AT CORNWALL. at that time no seminary in the country where the Pro- testant youth could obtain a liberal education. Such was the origin of the Cornwall School, which has deservedly acquired a widespread and high reputation in Canada. Duri.xg the nine years which it was under the gu.duiice of Mr. Strachan, it continued in the most ilou- nshing coiidition; and as the average attendance was commonly between Jifty and sixty, a large portion of the youth of both Provinces were benefited, and obtained such an education as enabled many of them to distinguish them- selves in the several walks of life which they afterwards adopted. Among his pupils at this time were the present Chiel Justices Robinson and Macaulay, the late Mr. Justice Jones, and several others, who have equally well sustained the credit of the School. Indeed the good fruits of the semi- nary have not only been universally admitted, but allowed to have been a blessing to the Province for the last forty years, and we fervently pray that they may continue to be so lor many years to come. In reference to this point, we quote with pleasure the following observations of one very familiar with these occurreiices, and himself a recipient of his Lordship's care and tuition:-" In laying the foundation of the system of Common Schools, your Lordship, it is well known, took a promment part; and at a still earlier period, as I well remember, it was at the suggestion, and upon the earnest instance of your Lordship, that the Statute was pro- cured, to which we are indebted for the District Grammar Schools throughout Upper Canada ; in which Schools alone, for more than twenty years, the means of obtaining 9 re the Pro- which has iutatiou in under the most flou- laiice was iou of the lined such Jish them- li'terwards le present Ir. Justice sustained the semi- t allowed last forty lue to be isure the th these ip's care J^stem of I, took a 3 I well earnest as pro- rammar Schools ►taininsr APPOINTED TO THE COUNCIL. 33 a liberal education were to be found, and which, throughout that period, and to this moment, have conferred upon the country advantages beyond our power to estimate. (./) In 1807 the University of St. Andrews conferred upot» Mr. Strachan the degree of LL.D, as a mark of its appre- ciation of the merits of its former Alumnus. In the same year the degree of D.D. was also given to him by his Alma Mater Aberdeen. In 1812, Dr. Slrachan was appointed Rector of Toronto .hen called Voric, the metropolis of the Province. He tmvelled with his family in a small schooner; while on .he passage between Brockville and Kingston, war was declared aga.nst Great Britain by the United States, and hey narrowly escaped the danger of capture before reaching the place of h.s destination, the future scene of his labours During the war, his various and active exertions to ameliorate its evils among the people were justly appre- orated. He joined the late Chief Justice Powell a.fd many others .n establishing and carrying on a most charitable association, called the Loyal and Patriotic Society, which comnbuted greatly to the defence of the Province and con- tentment of the inhabitaWs, under the sacrifices and pnvations incident to a war of invasion. Soon after the cessation of hostilities, he was made by Royal Warrant an Executive Councillor; and in 1818 was advanced to a seat m the Legislative Council. In both these positions the wisdom of the course pursued by him, his unswerving I. tf' '"m 34 CREATED BISHOI'. loyalty and constitutional policy were the admiration of many, and have been attended with the happiest results for the welfare of the Colony. But of his political career it is not our province to speak ; the records of the Legislature bear testimony to the fidelity with which he discharged his duties. In 1826 he was made Archdeacon of York, the duties of which position were at that time very responsible, in con- sequence of there being no Bishop in Western Canada. In 1836, he resigned his seat in the Executive Council, and in 1840, when the British Ministry adopted the measure of uniting the two provinces of Upper and Lower Canada,— a measure which he wisely always resolutely opposed,— he also vacated his place at the Legislative Council Board. In 1839 he was created Bishop of the Diocese of Toronto, which includes the whole of Western Canada, and at his advanced age continues to discharge his pastoral duties with an energy and activity seldom equalled. The chief purpose of his early mission to this country would seem always to have been an object of consummation with him. The part which he played in the establishment of King's College, the battle he fought for the continuance of its principles and the preservation of its rights, form the subject of the succeeding pages. 36 J miration of St results for 1 career it is Legislature scharged his he duties of ble, in con- rn Canada, 'ouncil, and measure of • Canada, — opposed, — moil Board. of Toronto, and at his itoral duties his country isummation tablishment Jontinuance ts, form the 1 ? THE FOUNDATION OF KING'S COLLEGE. When the independence of the United States of America was recognised by Great Britain, at the peace of 17S3, Upper Canada became the asylum of those faithful subjects of the Crown, who had, during the Revolutionary war, adhered to their King and the Unity of the Empire. Anxious to prove her grateful sense of their affectionate services in a way the most agreeable to their wishes and feelings, the mother country conferred upon them, by the 31 Geo. III. chap. 31, a form of Government similar to her own ; and in order that the State might be sanctified by religion, provision was made by the express command of the King for its support, by setting apart for that object a a portion of the waste lands of the Crown. It was justly believed, that in a new Colony like Upper Canada, lands are and ought to be the fnnd for the founda- tion and permanent support of all great public institutions, such as the Church, Universities, Schools, Hospitals, &c., because it can be done in this way, without being burthen' some to the people. But although provision was made by the Constitutional Act, for the religious instruction of the settlers, no appro- priation was then thought of for schools and Seminaries of learning. It is nevertheless pleasing to remark, that before the division of Canada into two provinces, even so early as n89, little more than five years after the Loyalists had E y 36 GENERAL SIMCOE'S VIEWS. Il begun their setllemenls in Canada, they addressed Lord Dorchester on the subject of education, setting forth the lamentable state of their children, who were growing up without any religious or secular instruction. His Lordship gave immediate attention to this application, and directed that eligible portions of land should be reserved for the support of Schools in all the new settlements. General Simcoe, the first Governor of Upper Canada, on his arrival in 1792, applied himself vigorously to promote the religious and secular instruction of tlie people. He not only took measures to render the Church property pro- ductive, but urged the Imperial Government to establish a University, to grow with the country, as one of the most effectual instruments of promoting the national religion, and attachment to the parent state. In writing to Mr. Dundas, Secretary of State for the Colonies, in Nov. 1792, His Excellency declares, "That the best security of a just Government must consist in the morality of the people, and that such morality has no true basis but religion. In his letter to the Bishop of Quebec, 30th April, 1795, he says, "The people of this Province enjoy the forms as well as the privileges of the British Constitution. They have the means of governing them- selves, provided they shall become sufficiently capable and enlightened to understand their relative situation, and manage their own power to the public interest. To this end a liberal education seems indispensably necessary, and the completion of such education requires the establishment of a University, to inculcate sound religious principles, pure morals, and refined manners." General Simcoe, as x,an 1 ff ssed Lord J forth the ■owing up i Lordship d directed ed for the mad a, on ) promote He not )erty pro- iftablish a the most religion, : for the , "That St in the i no true Quebec, Province British g them- ible and )n, and To this iry, and ishment es, pure as was* PRESIDENT RUSSELL'S INSTRUCTIONS. 37 very natural, desired that the Clergy qualified to fill the ^ chairs in the University, should, if possible, be Englishmen, * because none such Avere yet to be found in the Colony • and this to continue till we could bring them up among ourselves. A few pious and learned men, of rational zea'l and primitive manners, would secure the interest and union of Church and State, and constitute a University which might, in due time, acquire such a charpcter as to become the place of education to many persons beyond the extent of the King's dominions. Unhappily for the Province, General Siracoe was recalled to fill a higher station, before his wise and extensive plana for the prosperous advance of the Province could be carried out ; but his exertions in favour of Education were not altogether lost, for the Legislature, in the spring of 1797, soon after his departure, addressed the King, to appropriate' a portion of the waste lands of the Crown, for the support of Grammar Schools, and a college or a University. To this address a most gracious answer was received from his Majesty, King George IIL, through the Duke of Portland, then Secretary of State for the Colonies, in which His Majesty expresses his readiness to show his parental regard for the welfare of his subjects in the furtherance of an object so important as the instruction of youth in sound learning and the principles of the Christian religion.(e) For this purpose, Mr. President Russell, then Adminis- trator of the Government of Upper Canada, was directed to consult the Members of the Executive Council, and tha *. Apppiidix A.. No. 1. p. 1. 88 REPORT OF THE COUNCIL AND LAW OFFICERS. Judges and Law Officers of the Crown, to report in what manner and to what extent a portion of the Crown Lands might be appropriated and rendered productive towards the formation of a fund for the establishment of Free Schools in those Districts in which they were called for, and in due time for establishing Seminaries of a larger and more com- prehensive nature for instructing the youth in religious and moral learning and the study of the arts and sciences. (/) The report advises the establishment of two Grammar Schools, as sufficient at the time for the wants of the Province, and to defer that of the University as not yet necessary. It recommends the appropriation of five hundred thousand acres of the waste lands of the Crown, one-half for the Grammar Schools, and the other half for the endowment of the University when it should be required. (.^ ) But as lands in 1708 were only of nominal value, and without ready sale, even at 9d. currency per acre, or 8r/. sterling, it was found unadvisable to take any further measures at that time, because the whole appropriation would not have produced a sum sufficient for the reasonable endowment and building of the two Grammar Schools. or 3 Although necessarily delayed, the prospect of establishing a University was frequently mentioned, and never lost Sight of. In 1805, at the suggestion of the Rev. Dr. Strachan, philosophical apparatus was purchased by orde-- of the Legislature, for the purpose of teaching the youth of the Province the elements of the higher Mathematics and Mechanical Philosophy, and in 1807 a Grammar School was /. Appendix A., No. V, p. 2. g. Appendix A., No. 3. p. 3. org; n ERS. >rt in what \vn Lands awards the Schools in nd in due nore com- gious and ices.(/) Grammar ts of the 5 not yet ; hundred le-halffor dowment But, as without erling, it :sures at not have lowment Wishing ^er lost ev. Dr. )y order outh of ics and Dol was r *r SIR PEREGRINE MAITLAND'S DESPATCH. 39 established in each and every District as nurseries for the contemplated University. No further sleps seem to have been taken for many years to carry out theae suggestions, but in 1820, when a law was passed to increase the repre- sentation of the House of Assembly, it was, among other things, provided, " That whenever the University shall be organized, and in operation as a Seminary of learning in this Province, and in conformity to the rules and regulations of similar institutions in Great Britain, it shall be repre- sented in the Provincial Parliament by one Member." In December, 1825, His Excellency Sir Peregrine Mait- land addressed Lord Bathurst on the subject of the University, and of the incalculable importance of its imme- diate establishment,—" Education," continues His Excel- lency, " must have an ascendency to a certain extent in every country, and to provide for that education being / received under circumstances that must produce a common ^' attachment to our Constitution, and a common feeling of respect and affection for our ecclesiastical establishment islj an object so evidemly desirable, that I need not press it^' upon your Lprdship's attention. " Your Lordship is aware, that about four hundred and fifty thousand acres of land have been set apart for a provision for this object; but some of these lands, though they possess the advantage of being in large blocks, lie in tracts at present remote from settlements, and a considerable portion of them is not of the first quality. " It has occurred to me that if your Lordship saw fit to allow that an equal quantity of the best of these lands i f 40 LOUD BATHURST'S DESPATCH. were exchanged for that portion of the Crown Reserves which remains to the Government as being under lease, the latter could almost immediately be disposed of at an ave- rage price of not less than ten shilllr.gs per acre, and a sum thus be produced that would admit of the immediate establishment of an University oa a scale that would render it eflective." 1 The proposed e: .3 was permitted, and on the 15th of March, 1827, a . .. months after, a Royal Charter was obtained through tlie influence of Sir Peregrine Maitland who, during the whole of his administration, was thJ strenuous promoter of education and pure religion In reference to Ihese and other particulars regarding the Uni- versity of King's College, the following, extracted from Lord Bathurst's Despatch of the 31st of March, 1827 to Sir Peregrine Maitland, is too important to be omitted : ' " Sir,-I have the honour to inform you that his Majesty has been pleased to grant a Royal Charter by Letters Patent, under tlie Great Seal, for establishing at or near the Town of York, in the Province of Upper Canada, one College, with the style and privileges of a University, for the education and instruction of youth in Arts and Faculties, to continue for ever, to be called King-s College, (h) " I am further to acquaint you that His Majesty has been pleased to grant one thousand pounds per annum as a fund for erecting the buildings necessary for the College, to be paid out of the moneys furnished by the Canada Company, and to continue during the term of that agreement. A. Appendix B., p. 3, ¥ I Reserves r lease, the at an ave- and a sum immediate lat would i the 15th larler was Maitland, was ths gion. In 1' the Uni- :ted from 27, to Sir i Majesty ' Letters near the ida, one i'sity, for 'acuities, ) las been s a fund e, to be )rapany, CHARTER OP KING'S COLLEGE. 4, " I have .0 authorise yon, on the receipt of .hi. Despatch, 10 exchange such Crown Reserves as have not been made over to the Canada Company, for an equal portion of the lands set apart for the purpose of education and foundation of a Umversity, as suggested in your Despatch of 19,h December, 82o, and .nore fully detailed in Dr. Straehan's Report of the 10th March, 1826, a,.d you will proceed .0 endow Kmg's College with the said Crown Reserves with as little delay as possible," &c. &c. (Signed) Bathcbst. The Charier thus obtained was the most open that had ever been granted, or could have been granted at the time by the British Government, and the endowment conferred npon the Uni..ersi,y which it created was truly munificent, and amp ,^„,,„, '° ''"^ '"'' *« ""J^-^'^ -hich George h Third had tn view when he directed the appropriatiL land to be made, vi. :_The instruction of the youth of \ lie Province m sound learning aiid religion. Nor were 1 these objects forgotten by King George the Fourth, for They I Zird-'^'"' '" "" ''''"""' °^ "'" ^'''""" ^^'hieh he • tZht TT ■■'""''' "^ ^°'™<=<' »"'' ""■'■=■•'«» Which "re On receiving the Charter, Sir Peregrine Maitland lost no time m forming the College Council, and sPcnnn„ .,,« endowment by Pa,e„. ; ,..d, had he not been promoted .„ a Ju; 42 QUEEN'S COLLEGE CHARTER GRANTED. higher Government, King's College would have very soon began the business ox inslruclion. In the moantime the enemies of the Church, deeming the conditions of the Charter too favourable to her Spiritual interests, made a clamour that attracted, in 1828, the atten- tion of a Committee of the House of Commons^ then sitting on the Civil Government of Canada ; and the members of the Church of England in Upper Canada, having been incorrectly stated as very few in number, the Committee in their report recommended the establishment of two Theo- logical Professors — one of the Church of England, and another of Ihe Church of Scotland; but thai, with respect to the President, Professors, and all others connected with the College, no religious test whatever should be required, but that the Professors (with the exception of the Theo- logical Professors,) should sign a declaration that, as far as it was necessary for them to advert in their lectures to religious subjects, they would distinctly recognize the truth of the Christian Revelation, and abstain altosrether from inculcating particular doctrines. Nothing came of this recommendation ; for the Charter, with the exception of the College Council, was more open than the Committee suggested, and steps to appoint a -Theological Professor of the Church of the Scotland were afterwards rendered unnecessary, as that Church obtained a Royal Charter establishing a College, with University powers, exclusively their own, and which is now in operation. («) But although no action was had on the recommendation of the Com- mittee, it did infinite mischief, as it appeared to imply that i. Appendix £., p. 21. » A PROPHECY. 43 ry soon jf ning the Spiritual le atten- 1 sitting ibers of 4 "1 ig been littee in 1 Theo- 1 fid, and | respect ed with squired, e Theo- is far as tures to ize the together ;ame of :ception nmittee 3ssor of sndered Charter usively It hough 3 Com- ply that a r^oyal Charter might be altered and remodelled; and ever after it became a constant object of annual clamour and attack. With reference to the uhimate fate of this Institution, and the peculiar circumstances attending it, we cannot avoid quoting the following almost prophetic language, uttered at a time when all was apparently bright and prosperous in its future : — « And yet speaking only for myself, there is, I confess, in my iTIiind, a drawback in contemplating the future, arising from a cause which I can only pray may net prove injurious to the pros- perity of this University. « I cannot forget that in all portions of the United Kinffdom to use the words of a celebrated writer, ' it has been chiefly'if not altogether upon religious considerations, that Princes as well as private persons have erected Colleges, and assigned liberal endowments to students and professors.' Yes, truly it is to religion we owe those noble institutions : and I own that I do look with misgiving and pain upon the apparently uno-rateful return of attempting, in modern times, to found Colleges and Schools, from which the influence of religion would seezn to be almost in effect excluded, in a spirit of jealous distrust. <' To have excluded from instruction in literature and the sciences, all who belong not to a particular Church, mirrlit instlv have been considered as illiberal and unwise; and to have allowed those only to impart instruction in these departments who professed their adherence to a particular creed, might have seemed a course as little suitable to this time and country. " The charter, as it originally stood, did neither : but it did contain some provisions, plainly intended to ensure consistency m the government, and harmony in the working of the institu- tion, and intended moreover to proclaim openly to all, what was the form of worship, and what the doctrine, which alone they ' might expect to be maintained and inculcated in King's Colleo-e 1 have always thought that some such security against confusfon and error, and against a danger greater and more probable— the danger of establishing an indifference to all religious truth—was i required upon the plainest principles of reasoning ; and that i without such security, the day might come when we should have to look in vain for the continued support of the virtuous and enlightened, whose influence, happily for mankind, prevails in general, sooner or later, against whatever rests for its support not ' t 44 THE OPPOSITION TO THE UNIVERSITY. on reason, but on the voice of numbers. Such men, whatever may be their creed, may not be found to look with ,, .rfecrcon- hdcncc upon any seat of learning, whose religious dmracter h not hxed and acknowledged. ^"aracier is Chufch whi.^'';r''4"''"''""''^ "^ ^^" ^°y^l ^^^^^ter, was that Church ^yhlch the fcovereign swears at his coronation to support nal parts o h,s dominion, except in Scotland ; and the S which denied to the Sovereign the right to endow from esoires which the constitution had vested iifthe crown, an Univers tyS Communion with the great Protestant Church of thT Ernie might, as It seemed to me, have been justly discountenance as an unreasonable spirit. And a little mention to the^Z of ^^nlt r'^'"" r ^-r ^/^--^ «^^ ^«^^, ^ Geneve, sljfl t S !i /^/!ir^"1;f ^^ ^'Pi'i\]^t of meekness, ln,t of uM- lion , -one that will be perpetually inclined to strive for the aremjt luuiUng examples to skew)—in the cJmnges of time, tvhere Tjri ^""^ ^'''' fi^'^'^ ^'y ^«'^. there becomes fixed ami s^ed fr^f; perseverance and ^^umagement, and ^Lbubly afte Zfrl llf; '';'^^''-^'^^^ '■*■ ^^^y o^tlyfear ; but I trust that lo.!- fi , °^ ^^'^ Government and the Legislature mav ffuard Tl mlv God^ '' ^""^^ "^ "* '''''' to-entertain th^e go^ 1 After Sir Peregrine Maitland's departure, the University met with much unworthy treatment, and no protection from the head of the Colonial Government; and thus eight years were lost in ceaseless opposition to an institution which would have conferred upon the youth of the Province that liberal education they desired, and the loss of which can never be retrieved. Unfortunately, this continued opposition to the University had at length an influence upon the Imperial Government, for in January, 1832, a Despatch from Lord Goderich, was j. Chief Justice Robinson's adHrPM nt fh" ors-^i'no- nf Tr,v-'- r v » REPORT OF THE COLLEGE COUNCIL. 45 laid before the College Council, proposing to the members of the Corporation to surrender their Royal Charter, together with the endowment, on the assurance from the Secretary of State that no part of the endowment should ever be diverted from the education of youth, (k) In an able Report, the College Council stated their reasons for refusing compliance with this extraordinary request, and that they did not think it right to concur in surren- dering the Charter of King's College, or its endowment. The College Council further observed, £; w' ^^ I ''''''''''^ *^ destroy a College founded by then bovereign imder as luirestncted and open a Cliarter as had d.frerent branches of he Legislature would he able o coucir in oft if CoS.r "'' '^'T "'^'^^ '"^'''^'^ ''''"' to the inhabitants 1 .f^^ ,? ^' "^'^'"^'''^''' generations, tlie possession of a seat of learning in which religious kiiosvleclge shiuld be dis- pensod, and ni which care should be taken to guard against those occasions of instability,dissension and confusion, th; Cst of of religion, in eacli Lniversity throughout the Empire, an indis- pensable feature in its constitution. ^ ' rende^ort^rrrf'''"''^^''''''^ ^^-^^^ ^'^""^^1 ^S^i»«t the sur- render of the Charter were not insurmountable, no stronger nd. cement could be ofTered than the request which his Lord- snnnniV ' '" > 5 '^^"''* •''^" ^^^^^ ^^<^^" ^^^tated only by a 3 To nr f .T ^°' "^'P^^'^?^ ^'^"^ established principles, in ordei to promote the peace and contentment of the colony! With oLST; ^r^"'' H ''''^' the Council entertain, and Vith the coC nff^ of forming these opinions which their residence in the setes^foH "^^"^^ ^^\'\'^ ^^^^^■'-^r stand excused to them- ttole witf fu ^^'^^ '''°''F ^^•■'"•^^^^^r the Charter, supposing as to th^ i '"'.fT^'''?!^"" ^'^ '^^^'^ ''^'^ '^tter uncJAainty state alZ'^'^T' ^^^^ r"? ^?'^°^^- '^^'"^ "^^^^1 «'^^1 religious nreltnt • T i'""-' ^T '^"^'^'"^ thousand British subjects Is at present involved m the proper disposal of these questions, and before many years will have elapsed more than a million will L If' Appendix H., p. 32. 46 DIOCESAN THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE FOUNDED. affected by them. The Council, thereflire, whatever results may be obtansed ])y other moans, could not justify to llu'mselve.s the assuminn; the responsibility of endan^erinpf the very existence of the Institution. They feel bound to look beyond the movements and discussions of the passincr moment, and could not, even if they concurred in the view of the present expediency, consent to pull down the only Ibundation whi(;h at present exists in Upper Canada for the advancement of youth in relijrion and learning, upon a system which has not yet been repudiated in any part of His Majesty's dominions." It would be tedious and witliout profit to enter moro minutely into the persevering opposition to the establish- ment of the University during the following five years. It is, however, melancholy to contemplate the Legislature lending itself lo destroy an institution calculated to cherish affection to the Government and the purest principles of religion. The dissatisfaction and distrust occasioned by these repeated attempts to interfere with the establishment of an institution which would enjoy the full confidence of the Church, as a place of preparation for the ministry, led to the foundation of the Diocesan Theological College at Cobourg, which was started under the following circumstances : In the month of October, 1841, a meeting of the following Chaplains of the Lord Bishop, viz, — Rev. A. N. Bethune Rev. II. J. Grasett, and Rev. H. Scadding, was held at Toronto, to draw up and report to his Lordship some plan by which the Students of Divinity in this Diocese might be brought under a systematic course of instruction in Theo- logy, preparatory to their being admitted to Holy Orders, and pending the establishment of a regular Collegiate Institution. This report having been submitted, the fol- lowing announcement was made by the authority of the SYSTEM PURSUED AT COBOUUa. 47 Lord Bishop, in " The Church " newspaper, of Nov. 27, I84I:— "The Lord Bisliop of Toronto has been pleased to appoint the Rev. A. N. Bethnne, Rector of Coboury, and one of his Lordship's Chaplains, to be Professor of Theology in this Diocese. Candidates for Holy Orders will in future be expected to place themselves under the instructions of the Professor for the purpo';e of passing throiiijh a prescribed course of Tht'oloincal study • but thc'y must previously pass an examination before one of the Bishop's Chaplains to ascertain their competency to enter with advantage on the appointed line of reading. At the end of the course, such students as are approved by the Prolessor, and can produce the necessary testimonials, will be permitted to present themselves as candidates for ordination." On the 11th December following, in consequence of the appointment thus announced, the following notice was given in " The Church " newspaper : — " The Rev. A. N. Bethune, naving been appointed Professor of Theolot'y by the Lord Bishop of the Diocese, begs to announce that he will be prepared to commence a course of Lectures in Divinity at Cobourg, on Monday the lOtli January next. Candidates for Holy Orders, desiring to avail themselves of this instruction, would tind it advantageous to commence with the regular course at that period, as it is designed that it should be regularly and svstematicallv pursued." ' ' During the first term of the Institution, ending at Easter following, seven students were present ; and almost imme- diately after fout more were added. After the long vacation, there was a further increase, and the number in October following stood at seventeen. During the whole period of the continuance of the Institution, the average attendance of pupils was about fifteen. At the commencement, lectures were given only three times a week ; but subsequently, they were given daily, Mondays only excepted. They embraced the Greek Testament, both Gospels and Epistles; The Thirty-nine Articles ; The evidences of Divine Revelation and of Chris- . tianity in particular, comprehending such as arise from undesigned coincidences ; The Old Testament History 48 SYSTEM PURSUED AT COBOURG. critically reviewed ; The Liturgy, including Dissertations on Forms of Prayer, and on the Ancient Liturgies ; Church Government, comprehending the Scriptural as well as Patristic Testimonies ; Ecclesiastical History, and Selec- tions from several of the Greek and Latin Fathers. Besides this, Sermons were required to be written by each student at stated periods, which were read b^- the students them- selves, and commented upon by the Professor, before the whole body. The subjects thus marked out would require, it was estimated, the attendance of Theological Students for three full years ; which was the period of residence, with few exceptions, exacted from all who entered. The students were required to attend the daily morning chapel, which at first took place immediately preceding the business of the day : subsequently it was changed to^half- past eight, and ultimately to seven, a. m., in summer, and half.past seven in winter. A distinctive dress, of cap and gown, was worn by the students, under the same regulations as at other Collegiate Institutions. Classes in the Sunday Schools were uniformly alloted to the students, as a becoming and useful exercise for candi- dates for Holy Orders : occasionally they were entrusted with a systematic distribution of tracts amongst the parishioners; and to several,— making the selection ac- cording to age and more particular qualification for the duty,— the performance of Divine service was assigned in various places which could not be regularly included in the ministrations of the officiating clergyman. SIR FRANCIS HEAD'S POLICY. 49 The Students were permitted to live in lodgings, approved of by the Professor ; and in some few instances, they pro- vided apartments and the expense of maintenance for them- selves. There was nothing in the shape of endowment annexed to the Institution ; all the stipend allotted to it being £100 sterling per annum, granted to the Principal by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, and the fees chargeable to the students, these being about equal to the sum annually paid by the pupils at respectable Grammar Schools. It having been deemed necessary to make a provision for maintaining and im- proving the classical knowledge of the students, that department of instruction was ordinarily assigned to the Assistant Minister of the Parish ; and a fee of £5 currency from each pupil under his instruction was his whole remuneration. The Venerable Society also instituted several Scholarships. The whole number of gentlemen, who were properly members of the Institution, admitted to Holy Orders from its opening in 1842 to its close in 1851, are forty-five. (/) Sir Francis B. Head, on his accession to the Government, guided by that ardent spirit and intuitive perception of whatever is good and noble which characterises him, saw at once the vast advantage of establishing the University ; and although he could not with prudence prevent the Legis- lature from making some changes in the Charter, (m) to which the College Council most reluctantly assented as a final settlement, he deserves great praise for discounte- nancing further innovation. I. For a list of the gentlemen who were prepared at this Institution, see Appendix L. m. Appendix C. p. 16. 50 CORNER STONE LAID BY SIR CHARLES BAGOT. The Charter having been thus settled by 7 William IV. chap. !6, which adopted all the alterations of its more reasonable opponents, Sir F. B. Head readily concurred with the College Council in devising the measures necessary for bringing it into active operation : but, just as the preli- minary steps were arranged,— contracts for the buildings ready to be signed, and Professors and Teachers about to be appointed,— the disturbances of 1837 broke out, and, for a time, suspended this and many other excellent measures projected by that able and independent ruler. After the suppression of the rebellion, Sir Francis B. Head resigned the Government, and, during the two following short administrations, no proceedings were had respecting the University worthy of notice or commenda- tion. When Sir Charles Bagot assumed the Government, King's College engaged his special attention. Being himself a scholar and University man, he saw the vast importance of such a seminary in a rising country, and he set his heart upon its immediate establishment. In accordance with his ardent desire on this subject, the first distinguished act of his administration was to come to Toronto, and lay the foundation-stone of the contemplated building, on the 23rd of April, 1842. (ra) * This was done in the most solemn manner, with prayer and praise, for it has been the practice of Christians in all n. An account of this interesting ceremony was published at the time. From one ofth« addresses delivered on that occasion we have quoted acme atrikine passages. • r PROGRESS OF KING'S COLLEGE. II ages, when undertaking any work of importance, to seek for Divine light and assistance. Although Sir Charles Bagot was not spared to witness the opening of King's College, which did not take place till the 8th of June, 1843, yet during his lamented illness, he never ceased to take the warmest interest in its welfare, and his memory in connection with that Institution will ever be kindly remembered. From the day of its opening to that of its suppression. King's College, notwithstanding the political bearing which the injudicious alterations in its Charter had greatly in- creased, proceeded vigorously in its academical career, and was obtaining, through its scholars, who belonged to all denominations, an influence which was rapidly incfeasing throughout the Province. Parents felt a confidence in its religious character, and as none but students belonging to the Church of England, were expected to attend the diapel morning and evening, sober-minded dissenters were not offended. On the contrary, the knowledge that prayer was offered up twice every day, pleased them, because it gave a solemn tone to the labours of the day and sanctified the Institution. I The students rapidly increased, and the strict impartiality of treatment was universally acknowledged. But instead of conciliating its enemies, these proofs of prosperity and fair dealing increased th.ir animosity. They became alarmed lest King's College, if left unmolested for a few years, would gain a popularity among all the truly religious ' " ' ""^ P^^*^^ ^'^eh in a position of safety '■( p Si ' ( 5S THE BISHOP'S LETTER TO SIR C. METCALFE. which they could not disturb. Hence they allowed it no peace. Session after session it was assailed, and, after defeating three successive measures for its destruction, its friends became weary, and the fourtli attempt has, unfortu- nately, proved successful. King's College was opened for instruction in June, 1843, and in the following November Mr. Attorney-General Baldwin introduced a Bill, by the provisions of which it would have been destroyed, and an University established in its room, altogether political in its bearing, cumbersome and unwieldy in its enactments, and from which religion was totally excluded. The general character and substance of this Charter are well pdUrtrayed in the following letter of the Lord Bishop of Toronto to His Excellency the Rig?it Hon. Sir Charles Metcalfe, G.C.B., then Governor General. Toronto, 2nd November, 1843. Sir,— Permit me to draw your Excellency's attention to the Memorial enclosed, whic^h I find it to be my duty to present to the ditierent branches of the Provincial Parliament, respecting the Bill now before the Legislative House of Assembly, on the^sub- ject of the University of King's College. I dare not conceal from your Excellency the great alarm which 1, and every right-minded person in the Colony, feel, in findino- that such a measure has been introduced by an ofRcor so high in the Government as Her Majesty's Attorney-General, and not, it IS natural to presume, without the knowledge of your Excel- lency. When I first heard a rumour that the Provincial Legislature was likely to interfere with the Universitv of King's College, I gave it no credit ; for although a few individuals had endea- voured to raise a cry against that institution, their selfish views and want of principle were so glaring, that the press and public opinion were evidently against them : nor did I believe it possible for any Government to lend itself to a movement whose object-* were so unjust. r THE BISHOP'S LETTER TO SIR C. iMETCALPE. 53 Had their unrighteous appeal been in any degree responded to I won d have naturally relied upon your E.4ell?ncy as C shield of protectioii o prevent any step from being taken LaLt tl. Lmvcrsity of Kings College, in the weliareVwSl fo ^rL ^'^ portion ol Her Majesty's subjects are concerned, till afLf refer ence had to the authoritias of the Institution nnrl fnii • and deliberatioi. on the part of your 31^;^^ ^'''^ '^"^""^ It was therefore with sorrow and ruortificatinn thnt t i 1 d„ru,. .„y v,Mt tluough the lower iCJsofZ J-^J^X^^^^ measure had been lirought into the lower branch of tTfr'.i? rr s;^ tyKrefrirerfi°?^^"^^° ^^ tion, so reinignaut to every rirmcmlV nP ;,,S i "^ '"''odiic- ment and » hostile to ul ^^^7^' n^'^T^.f^X in order to protiVrUnitl " fonreer''' Chaneellor, and attack ; and in accordami wi/l ,i ""T""'"'"'' '""'estation believing tllat any V'e o7 '"^l I dtS 0^^, "° ^'T'? ^« hillierto eonsnlted their l-'veenti, „ r- •, ^ t""rasity have mitted them to i^e e "' , ' ; 'Z^^^ 'X'"*^ 't "' ^'■ interests. Even at tlio time flv.t L, 1 . " "^ objects or Institution, would havi ^" uT vS i f^ s d v ,i wi^litr, f *° concurrence from the revolting cl>anges ,X Vth^ R 1 '■'""" plates; and which in mv lu,V„iJ^ ■ • ^^''' '^'''"«n- tendency the safety of tl7r,° 7T'",' "'™'™ '" "'«if Crown. ^ "'" ^"'""y "•"' "^ dependence 0.1 the Prerogative of t]u> Crown. ^ " '-ivasion of the ¥\ I '1 54 THE LORD BISHOP'S MEMORIAL. It seems to ms that before the (Governor of any colony sanctions measures involving, the rights of established Institutions, such as respect the education of the population, and the undoubted privi- leges of the United Church of England and Ireland, it is his bounden duty to be satisfied that they are just and constitutional. To admit of enactments of a different character, would expose him to the charge of departing from his high station, and of compromising the Royal Prerogative. And he is sworn to maintain and not to hazard the safety of the Colony. And indeed one of the great evils of which we have to com plain, since the unhappy perpetration of the union, is that neither the genial influences of the Crown, nor its firm support of con- stitutional principles, have been felt, if they have been exercised. In all Colonies, the Governor must be answerable to the Imperial Government, and not to any within the Colony : other- wise, it loses its dependence as a Colony, and becomes an independent state. The condition of that Colony would indeed be deplorable, in which it should be found that the Govern ^r or Administrator, whether from indifference, a deficiency of moral courage, or the desire of popularity, has ceased to exercise, in the spirit of firm- ness and justice, the high functions with which he is entrusted as the Representative of his Sovereign. Permit me, in conclusion, to implore your Excellency, as you value your well-earned reputation, and the connexion of this noble Colony with the Crown, to protect our University, as all the Chancellors at home do theirs, from threatened destruction. It is the only Royal Institution in Canada West which promises to pursue the glorious path and earn the reputation of Oxford and Cambridge, which have, for more than a thousand years, been the eyes of the British Empire. I remain, Sir, with great respect. Your Excellency's most obedient humble Servant, John Toronto. His Lordship also addressed the following memorial to the Legislative Assembly, in which the objections to this projected measure are most clearly and forcibly stated. The Memorial of John, by Divine Permission, Bisliop of Toronto, Respectfully sheweth, — That a Bill has been presented for the consideration of your Honourable House, intituled '< An Act to provide for the separate exeroisfi of the Collegiate and. University functions of t.hHColle''"e established at the city of Toronto, in Upper Canada, for incorpo- r THE LORD BlbHOP'S MEMOKIAL. 56 rating certain other Colleges and Collegiate institutions of that division of the Province with the University ; and for the more efficient establishment and satisfactory lifovernment of the same " in whicli J3ill enactments are introduced, which, in the opinion of your Memorialist, are subversive of the sacred rights of con- science, as well as of property, and altogether repugnant to the British Constitution, and to civil and religious liberty. And although your Memorialist deems it impossible for your Hon- ourable House to countenance a measure so deadly to the best interests of man, yet the very fact that it has been presented, is so alarming as to justify a brief reference to its objects, its cha- racter, and its consequences. I. Its Objects. 1. The leading object of the Bill is to place all forms of error upon an equality with truth, by patronizing equally within the same Institution an unlimited number of sects, whose doctrines are absolutely irreconcileable ; a principle in its nature atheistical, and so monstrous in its consequence, that, if successlblly carried out, It would utterly destroy all that is pure and holy in morals and religion, and would lead to greater corruption than anything adopted during the madness of the French Revolution, when that unhappy country abjured the Christian Faith, and set up in its stead the worship of the Goddess of Reason. Such a fatal de- parture from all that is good, is without a parallel in the history of the world ; unless indeed some resemblance to it can be found I in Pagan Rome, which to please the nations she had conquered, I condescended to associate their impure idolatries with her own. 2. In accordance with this godless principle, the second object of the bill is to destroy the Royal Charter of the University of King's College, and to deprive it of its endoAvment, and to apply . the latter to purposes which His late Majesty King George the Fourth never contemplated, much less those who petitioned suc- cessfully for the Charter and Endowment. Two things were prayed for, — first, the means of educating young men for the ministry of the United Church of England and Ireland, the Church of the Empire, and of which the Sovereign is the temporal head ; secondly, the power to open the College or University for secular learning to the whole population. Both were most graciously granted by the reigning Sovereign. The University was placed under the government of a Council whose rnembers Avere all of the United Church of England and Ireland, that in this, the most important of all points, namely, Relit^ion, there might be perfect unity. The Visitor was the Bishop of <4uebec, and the president the Archdeacon of York ; so that the religious teaching in the^ University might be that which the - oyal Founder professed and was sworn to maintain as the religion of the Empire. 56 THE LORD BISHOP'S ME.MOIUAL. ISow It IS to be remembered that liis late Majesty Kin^ Gcorffo the I'ourth had a.i undoubted right to gnint the CJuirter and J^^ndowment ; and being once granted, alter loug and careful enqmry and dehberation, as was the case in this instance, I con- tend lirmly but respectfully, that it is not competent lor any power or nuthority to take them away, or apply them to purposes foreign to, and inconsistent with, the Royal intention. The Jvmg, m virtue of his Coronation oath, had not the power to patronize or establish any other Ibrin of worship, within the tniversity of King's College, than that of the National Faith \ and It IS wel known that His Majesty neither did nor could profess any other ; and yet the proposed bill drops the principal object of the Charter, namely, that, so far as religious instruction IS concerne^l, the Christianity taught shall be that of the United Church of England and Ireland, and no other, and opens the door to every species of error taught by the numerous sects which have dissented from that pure branch of the Catholic Church of Christ. ^ So deeply was the Venerable Society for promoting Christian Knowledge impressed with this view of the subject, that thev presented a selection of the works of the best Divines of the Church of England, to the amount of five hundred pounds sterling, as a commencement of a library for the Divinity depart- 3. The third prominent object of this deadly measure is to restrain the Royal prerogative, so that no Royal Charter shall in future be granted lor the establishment of any Seminary what- ever, with power to confer degrees, except the proposed Institu- tion, and which IS to be constituted a complete monopoly of scie_nce,and of what it calls Divinity, and so to preclude any class ot Her Majesty's subjects, whatever their wishes may be from escaping its tyrannical and intolerant provisions, and prevent them from ei-ecting Seminaries for the secular and reli"-ious " instruction of their own youth : thus instituting a refinemeiit of intolerance and slavery unknown in the worst of times. I il'^/'^Vf'^' ''^'^^'^^ '^ insidiously and indirectly, but virtuallv and eiiectually, to proscribe in this British colony the Church of England, the l)uhvark of the Protestant faith, the Church of the Sovereign and of the Empire; to degrade lier ministry by excluding them from all professional education and academical honours, except with the sacrifice of conscience ; and such is the bitter hostdity manifested by the framers of this measure to the national laith, that they seek to insult the Church of Eno-knd in the person of your Memorialist, by inventing for him a^new title, instead of " Bishop of Toronto," conferred upon him bv his Sovereign with whom the sole power rests by the British con- stitution of establishing Bishoprics, and settling the titles of the jneumDents tliereof. :r THE LORD BISHOP'S JNlilMOIUAL. II. The Character op the proposed Uviversitv. 57 1. It IS decK ely irreligious ami revolutionary, since it not only attempts to hold up the Chr-stian religion to the contempt of wicked men by establishing in the same Seminary various deno- minations whose principles are hostile and irrcconcileable, but disturbs social order by unsettling the property of the wiiole country. 1 he University of King\ College holds its endowment by the same title l^y which the lands of the Colony are held bv their proprietors, and the Legislature may, with eciual justice seize upon and confiscate the property of individuals as that of the University. * 2. It is even worse than revolutionary, for the endowment of Kings College, New York, was lell untouched by the Kevolu- tion, and remains at this day in the sole possession of that Insti tut.on: the only change was the name, which, afler the T,eace of 1782, was altered irom kmg's to Columbia College. So far were our neighbours fR.in breaking down, or even molesting, literary mstitutions that they have at all times been zealously disposed to support and to build them up ; much less have they attempted tlie monstrous novelty of combining all sorts of religious sects in one great mstitution. On the contrary, they have been liberal ir bestowing grants on the Colleges of different persuasions, earh separate irom the other ; and they have been most scrupulous in all that they did to guard and protect the rights of conscience • they lelt that to establish and build up requires wisdom and ability, but to break down wliat is useful, venerable, and holy requires, instead of ability and talent, the mere exertion of arbitrary and reckless power. 3. The most proinhient result of such an experiment as that ofmiitmg all denominations of Christians, as well as persons of i no religion, m the management of the same institution, must of ' necessity be anarchy. It is certainly the first experiment of the i kind ever contemplated in any country; and to hope that a I niversity so managed can proceed in harmony and with eftici- 1 ency, is to set at naught all former experience. 4. It is true the Charter has been already altered by the Legislature, but such alteration had been previously assented to by the Crown, and it left the vital portions uniiiiured. The endowment remained untouched, and the Divinity Department was maintained on its original footing ; and while notliincr can 7i^°^«,0Pfn or less exclusive in its character than the Charter of fiing s College now is, yet it is secured from anarchy and con- nision, and its efhciency made certain, by vesting the powder of carrying Its provisions into affect, so far as appointments are TJ^r^^l- "' ^^^ P""^".' ^^^""'^ '^ °^^ght to be, and which 1 ftrmly believe to be satisfactory to the great majority of the m 68 THU LORD BISHOPS AJEMOHIAL, in. Its COXSEQUENCES. 1. It excludes from all jmrticipation of the ailvaniULres granted by tiie Royal Charter and J<:ndowment the Churci; lor whose beneht hey Avere mcne especially designed, except on conditions to which ha Climch can never consent. Lamentably would the Lnited Cluirch of England and Iceland descend ilrom her high and lofty ^wsition, were she to place the purity of her aoc- trine, and the teachers thereof, in the great school of her faith — the nursery of her Bishops, Presbyters and Deacons,— either directly or indirectly, under the control of bodies of whi^ch some have no acknowledged religious character, and otners are the avowed foes of her Articles, Creeds, and discipline. When I (sonsider the sacred responsibilities entailed upon those whom God has called to preside over the studies of the youth destined for the ministry of our holy Church, I feel it is impossil,le they can be ^iS ^'""'^ "' """^ ^"""^ """ Institution as that contem- If it be said that neither the proposed Caput, nor Board of Control are to be permitted to meddle with the D'vinitv Students then why should they be attached to an Institution so unna urally co,.l,ined as that which the Bill seeks feSabhsh! But this cannot be. The proposed University, through its Carmt Board of Control, and Convocation, legislate; for, fxecutesThe laws, and controls the several Colleges°as it may M^ Sf and Fnt7 7"" %>?^-'*'"'' '''''^''' '^' ^^"^^^"^^ °f the Church of England, nor the.r instructors, can be preserved from dangerous associations, and from the constant presence of error and sch Z against which we are bound to pray. scnisin, 2. The measure unsettles all property, bv denrivino- tli« University of Kmg's College of an lnL.Ln^S^i:ie gift SLf] % Tl; """"^ ^^" '^ introduces a precedent, the most destructive to the very existence of society. If the Patents for land are to be touched, there is an end to the permanency of any KhJ.Cn^Ztfi^''^ changing majority. The University of King s College holds its property by direct grant from the Crown. ^fich'thiV'l-' ^^'^V?^'S"^"y ^^""^ "^^^-^ ^1^^^ than that by r.U ti, ^^fl^g^°"s and Collegiate Institutions of Lower Canada ho d theirs, though very inferior in value and extent ; but if it is to be confiscated without reason, and applied at the will of the Legislature, it is only the commencement of an evil that all ^ood !fnf bT ^^rt°^^:„.'J^here may be a majority found (though! do no believe It) willing to confiscate the University of King's College ; but m a very short time, should so wicked a thin*, be consummated, another majority will be found, fortified by so unprincipled a precedent, to confiscate the like endowment^ in Lower Canada; for it is not to be supposed that when once eoi f THE LORD BfSHOP'S MEAIOKIAL. 53 fiscation once comraettces, it will be n^rrt.itt^ ♦ * especially since the temp at cm w. II >r?* ^"^ ^^°P' "'^'^^ endowment of the UnivSy S ZnLc .1?"'^ ^'^*'*- '^^« two hundred and twenfv fivp?hn^ «^^ ^^^^ amounts only to Fvty beloiiging ?o thfcdfe^te Z^^^ "^^r^^' '^' ^'^ Lower Canada exceeds two n^ Mil A r ^^^'^'ous Institutions of following tabic Z ''^^'""^ of acres, as apix^rs from the The Ursuline Convent of Quebec 1 « 1 n « The Ursulines of Three Rivers ^Jo'n^? ''''''"' Kecollets .... "-''^^ ^^'""^'^ 38,909 « ^shopand «emiAaVy';fQV^-bec.:\'::;::;::693,32+ « General Hospital, Quebec .... ^28 4^7 1 Do Do. Montreal... ^^'t^I Hotel Dieu, Quebec :::.v:;::;- u m 2,125,179 « should be he d lacre" Whatt o '' ,'" T/-^ . ?"'!»»«»■ aoid dowme,it of the iSerskv nf k' T''""''' f"'' ". "wt the Kn- -d that, if it he taCar/(tSh ^^^^jTTf? ^"'^l come, sooner or later wliPn J: ..J T^ lorbitl) the time will applied to then- coSal-r YcT^^^i^T^'r ''''' '^ that the Endowment of the Ur^^ersky o?SU r^^^^ ^^'^^^^ can, wiL any consi^:;^;^: fS^llTSLllLil-™ ^-^^^' JbrtiX'p'rhXtt^^^^^ ^^-"^^ it working of tirsr fh r n!f> ""^^^ ^^u**^*^ character and degraded in the e^^s of t£, '''''•. ,^^^ ^'^^''^ ^^i" l>e bo despised aLLXclfwaLmn^!^"^^ henceforth its gifts will the Sovereign ai d tl eXnrl?.^JV^^^ known. ^ ^ i^epresentative become unfelt and un- wicked /ZelrSr^tt^' '^' 'Y ""''''''' ''''^-^- that so Province. XattCt W .vf^^ ^^"^'.^ " ''^'^' "P«" the fessing Cliristianitv to rZ^u .f^"" '""^^^ ^" ^"^ ^^"'itry pro- men on an SStv\^f]?r ^ VH^"°'' °^^^^k r.nd wicLd made in PrS^LIvL^ZV'"'^^^ ^^ ^"^"^Pt ^as indeed scarcdy co^uSrev^enwr^e^^^^^^^^ were, the Lutheran and LTv!nfS!;'!!i:^°,f"^^^P»«.f5' ^. it naiiy iaiied. Men ftro «nf «xo«i." " •-"• -"^"««v;uii, out it nas sig- y i^uiea. iiien are not maehiaes, nor arc their minds malleable I » 90 THE LOUD BISHOP'S MKAlOIilAL. like iron. What u melancholy specimen of the march of intellect iSrf;^^^' "'"'"'^ '"'^ ''''' '^^^'^'^^'^^ -^^1 aUuicrunt met vnL'!;^.!!'^' °^»'^^"^"^^ °f ^l^c 'i^P-'^^i're is, that it cUstrovs the (value of academical degrees ; fur those it confers Avill at Inst be acknowledged only wuhm the Province, whereas dUrees con! §r"TshEmnire'l '''^^^' ^/"^'^'^ "^^ ''''>^^''''' throughout the liritishLmpire, because they emanate from the Crown. Thus he des ruction of the Charter of the University of lvino-\s Co! 6. Again, the provisions of the Bill preclude tlie slightest hone Pi .■n"^^"^- ^'" .^^7'. ^y gift or beVast,endowa°mera y or be found so foolish r.s to do so, under restrictions so absurd - restrictions which hinder the donor from giving the power of managernent of the endowment to whom htTchooses and n thcf way he dosirss, or to acqmre from the Crown the i.ui umiti "• cl privileges essential to a University, and which Sermon dignity and importance. ^ r»I" ^ ^''^^!u' pernicious consequence which must flow from this measure, is the precedent which it affords of meddlin.^ conti nlli and session after session, with Seminaries of learnin^'an vhiS ought never to be touched except in cases of extrem'e ecessiW Ihe senseless and unjust clamours raised against the Jw tv oi King's College, operated so far a few years ago upon a (Govern ment inore disposed at the time to yield to\.xpe licncy t ban adhere firmly to sound principle, as to induce it t. c. untJnat" certain amendments of the Charter (as they were caJlod) a in which, for the sake of peace, the College Council ivlucta t v acquiescd, and certainly in the hope that the Institu on w^u r^ never again be molested. But although its enemies w "re for a . ime, satisfied, yet the desire of novelty which o-ene rallv imrkt the absence of correct principles, has called up a ne ^0011 n^^^^^^^^^ against Kmg's;^College, and the result is the measurLiow before your Honourable House, in which its enemies see coXuv o agree (if in nothing else) in their implacable enmity to the Church of England, and are willing to surrender or modify their diStnc tive views anc doctrines, provided they can aLomplsh the ehn/"f '"'' > '''?i "'^^y ^^-'^'^-^^y ''"^d ^^'1^^'""« institut on o f any character within the province of Upper Canada. Precedents are Colwf ''^'h f ?'^^"^"^% ^^i^turbilig the Univers ty of K no': ..1 T; .""".f ^^stroymg that tmnquility and repose which are essential to the prosperity and well-being of seats of learn^i' IV. Having thus touched upon the objects, chamoter and consequences of the proposed miasure for distro;ing the Univer- sity of King's College, and seizing upon its endowments, it does not appear necessary for your Meniorialist to dw.ll upon the FAILURE OF THE BILL. 81 to ""t'T npoi, the .ninnr ohjnction ,eh as Ihi f ''"f'tance quaiiitivm-o with Jit.Tirv ' L« ..f ' , ''<^P'orable unac- nature (.the l)odies in whir-1. t •> 'n"<-'»'»ery, — tlie discordant It may bes.uficion^o r^ I k L T '°^^^'^^'- •^^«- 1)0 to destroy a nohle Tnst tmio, m I i ".m"*^ '"" °^ ^'^^ '>'" ^^^^1 in a short time si e d a e 7. l^t ho K 'f^L"""^"^^^'^'^' ^^'-^'^^ witho.it the slighles no 'esSv 2! , ''°^''. ^''™''<^ 5 ^"'1 this Legislature to" ffrant ™h> "? ? '' '^"'^^ '-'"'^Petent for the denonnnations asit Ly " . T"!?™'"''- ^' ^"^^ ^''"'^^^i^^^ the riohts of the (l./rdlofl' nl? ^'^°"";!*-'^'thont trenehing on versity of King's ('XgL '''"''' ""' ^^^" ^"^^Srity of the Uni- In eonehtsion, your" Memoriahst respectfnllv hut nf ■ u. claims the eoutiiu.ance of the same3f«.V ^' '!"^ '^^ "ght» immunities for the University of k'^^ ,1'""**^^^ '""' privileges and sessed, without hindrance rnoletai: hv ^V^'^'^ A^° I^^" '.ifthe con'lb^^^^l ,w hn^Tirn' Legislature, he has which ennnot he tlnally di^iZd ot'l,v tho p'l ''^- '^'"^^V^^^^^^res it deals with nnd comr)^W« f J ^ l''^ <^"lonial authorities, as revenled Kelig" n an m s?^^^^ nnportant principles' of ment: and ife leL I 'sf^nd ti ^T"* *n ^^^^ ^^^Perial Parlia- august body n the same iS ns ^'" 'T ^^'^^^^^ ^^ ^^at right princ pie umTnnrf di. "'^^'"?'' obnoxious to every social order, and rfascann J b'' f^f'.^^t° conscience and a Christian Wtior'C^™:,^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^ — ^ ^'^ Toronto, Noveaibpr, 1843. On c.ami„atio„, ,hi. Bill was fov,„d so elnmsy and ■mprac .cable in i„ details, and some of ,hem so puerile ™bee of general merriment and ridieule, and its author was glad to permit it to sink into oblivion. ment of pubhc affairs, and .heir opponents, who professed 'o be Conservatives, became the .dmf^j., . ., .. Government. ..a...,ni.,t.>.„.. „f ,„, :i ( I r: e2 THE LORD BISHOP'S LETTER. It was now hoped that King's College would be left in peace, and be allowed to win its way, as it was rapidly doing, in the affections of the people. But, instead of permitting it to proceed in its onward course, the new ministry, as they were called, yielded to the clamour of a most insignificant faction, and introduced a measure, in 1845, respecting the Institution, little better than that of their opponents. To oppose this measure, His Lordship addressed the following letter to the Governor General, Sir Charles Met- calfe, as Chancellor of the University of King's College. Toronto, March 6th, 1844. May it please Your Excellency t>,fV^ ^- ^'f ^ prevailing impression, that in the next session of f?, .f:f ?^^ "'^' ^'^^'^' independently of the Government Twith Its sanction, some measure will be brought forward for effJtinl changes I know not of what description, in the Un^efsi^y of King's College. And it is further reported, that Your Excellencv has under consideration some plan which would affect not onW the Government of the University, but the integr ty of The endowment conferred upon it by the Crown I know nothing of the truth of these reports ; and considering my early connection with the Institution, ind the posS which caSTw F "^Y'^^ ought perhaps to aSlun:, thati cannot be Your Excellency's intention to proceed in anv such measures as are spoken of without affording to me, as President of the College and senior member of the Council, a imeirop^r- tunity of expressing my sentiments upon them. ^ ^^ YonrTv'^iio^ "'^ "^'^^ ^""i "^y ^"*y *° ^^^^^' without reserve, to Your Excellency, upon such a reference, whatever views I miffM entertain of any project that may be suggested; and tSh your Excellency has not hitherto thought fit to refer to me o^a a^'rhoiTJi'l W ^' ' '"^^" r ^f'""^' ^ manner ^onn'cted- and though I have no interest or desire in it but such as becomes a member of the National Church, zealous for the advancem^n • -- '^^^ ^ "^^^ ^^ ^nis coumry, in which the greater TO SIR CHARLES METCALFE. 63 University, on this^n^Lrta^U ^^^^^ ^ ^^^"^«"°r ^^ the Your Excellency knows the early historv of ih^ ri.ovf beheve it may be truly said that J fhTf^^ ! Charter. I memberof the Crown LranvCoionii^r''^ '' "^^ ^^^^^^^ "° contemplated the foimd" ^and en^^^^^ whjch was not to have a known and Z^f rll^io^S the Ibundation in this couXv of T !• ^"^^ '^^«''«^ ^o lay Avhich had for a Js conferred ^"-t ^"lV*"*T '"^^^ ^^ ^^ose several iK)rtio„s o?fhe UnM llixSm ^^ ' advantages on the to constitute it, to some extent at ?lfn^ ^^^* indispensable munificence it wj to be endJwT ''" «=overe,gn, by whose Still there was as little exclusion or restrictio„ m tv.. nu » as was at all consistent with the object i^ v"ew ''''"'"' JprZr^^ttrtr;ic'nh\"i'"r'^'Y>.^ '■°"»^«' - .0 each; and it was a™ SSttioL m^ 1 S f^^^ been conferred by a Boyal Charte""mder the Great si w Tl , ™ University being made so oj^n as it was. nJiTen^iTir/tirCdlle'o^f '^rf'"^ ^"^^ f™ «»« the Church of England was S Yo ^r pt^^n"'' ""' "^""^'''P "^ be"°«tfe ."inTL' that no or^.i,.g doctS would security aganst the evi Z^l°^ "r"'] P'"™ a sufficient failh ^ ^^^ ^^^°"^ *° ^y Church or profess any A clamour was certainly soon raised against the Charter, in the ( t 64 THE LORD BISHOP'S LETTER. colony, upon no more reasonable ground than that it recognized a distinction between the Chiircli of Eno-lnnd nnr thl ^ • sects ^vhich differed from her doli^^-^X thS^ l^tTThe rnotives and objects wlncli led to these attacks were 3 under s ood and appr3ciated ; and it was impossible to ^ive credit to the" authors of them for honesty of purpUe, when ^t was perVeH'^^ ^ tl^^saXivt' %"lt,/hey pervertid and misstated tCcondt tions and eliect at the Charter of which they complained But being encourai,red and aided by a nartv in Enlk;^ . a not withstood by (Government, as they Si ave^Wn'w>f success, they became more formidable^han therwo^r W . been, if some degree of confidence had bepn di^. 7/ • ^ ^^^^ jvj^at was just and right. T^ Stl^Tor r^ting^ro^^^^ Charter encouraged more violent attacks ; and afte^ S,uri of deay and agitation, the Secretary' of S^ate in^f^d^T As^mbly to take the matter mto their oL lianf "'^ "^' iNo man, T believe, who values wliat is good and stnblp ,•„ government, can for a moment doul)t that thi^lZ. n V "^ and unihrtunate course. It was, ^ iik^^^^^^^^ '""T """"^^f were never more evident than they are now ' ^^ It was quite ol)vions and certain, that no sPtilAmo^f ^r tion could l)e regiirded as final which rested imon^^^^^^^^ ^ '^''^^- cf a Colonial Statute,-^xnd more esneeTnl't - ! provisions the animosities of rel o-io^ .ectrand tTp I r 'l"^'*Ti" ^^^^'^ pobtical flections, could^ C^ht Jo bear "'" "' '"^"^ '' very soon Iiare been fonncl liow viin l,n,l ;'"P°*f "'=' >t .would the best nnd most importan ntlsH of H,i i'"™,"''.^""''!™ of of having . respite tvL ?he it^ r alwioCj^of „; v tT -Kut though 1 cannot avoid dwellinff with iviinrni f^ r TO BIR CH 4.aES METCALFE. 65 It is therefore more to the T^fmit.T 'f'^''^ ^^^^'' ^^^ps. can be discovered fZn tL fZZlr^uf T'^'^r' '""^^^^ ^^^ and dissensions which Ave mis kXf struggles and changes College holds its CharterTy ^ r"I^^ method can be found for .avinff from ^h?! \^Z'V. ^"^ ^^^it vision, made in better times and Zl.rh' '^'^"' ""^^^ P^^" are the glory of the mother country iXulrf of '''"'"^^ ^'^^^^^^ to suggest any chancre • bnf it .'"':^>'-^ ^"o^'^d of course not desire whenirecollLt what took 1 VXa f "^ "'' to despau- of this! I see but two methods by whfcln^^^^^^^^ ^^^"• result could be secured anythmg hke a satisfactory ClS; K:i;:;s^h^C^^^^^^^ *^- P-^on of the ment (or other lands under their confronH f/ T'^^ ""^ ^^'"^ ^"^'^^^i" Christ\ans it may be thouglu pro,^^^^^^ ^-^^i^^ of manner, leaving, or I shSl Sp^J^ ''^^^^^^ University to whit it was or 4 '^'^ '^^' '^" ^''''''^ breakmg in upon its endowmenf ^ calculated to be, and without assigned to her out of t':^' cTeT'; il^^e^^^^ twelfths — and annlvino- th« . ^ i^cserves— that is to say, five- dowing Colleges for s2ottv?Jr^"'"'^.''^'^"-^^^^l^^h^ ^n en- tion as^may b? the'c^Vt^ttt TC .^^7 ^' '''' I'^^"^- tians it would rest withal G^v^rn:^^ f ^''^^- should receive, and to what exten Of *'"""'f what they such division, it would be lecessa v to^v, T''"' "' *^" "^'^"^ of each College, entirely rreet^rXlSS^rn"'" ''''''''? '^ entire connexion with its respective cC. i"^"^"^^' ^"^ in The different relioious Socfo^^es^^-P 7 denomination , their sense of what , n wi«! i J^^^^^a have already shewn and observat on cSi rn^^t^' Z\ T^ T"" '^""^^^^ (^^^ ^^^^ ^"^tory / a College can rest upon is thi .f T'*^ satisfactory foundation character. ^ ' '' *^^^ '^^ ^* ^^"^^^ ^^^ certain religious ( "pt'eXtntwhic^^^^^ ^ ^^?f/-^ «-- to split come yield as CrJ^f"^^^^^^^ many years' to Ployed; or woald ^Sde:j^£;^ ^^i^r^alSS^r^^ I 66 TILE LORB BISHOP'S LETTER. n^f!i?"'7/P°'' ^" ^^"^^^"^ ^"'i iibe^-^l scale. But it would be a less evil to encounter than that which we havp^n 1..7? k threaten^ with. It is unhappily t^lvil^^TLt f^^^^^^^^^^^ the nistitution m its integrity, as a means of diftl. Jnt ti blessings of true religion aVsoumi Crg^Ld'^Sg^ enhghteneci supi^rt to the cause of order and -ood ^ovenuSpn reqtures a degree of wisdom and firmness which we ^yl^k for in vain. The next best measure to be hoped for then it^h^?!- ' secured in some smaller and less adequatTi^Slon which beJnf enjoyed in peace, and dispensed upon mtiom? p'rinc nle^ m^f form at least a foundation of such a cLstitutioTL may £nZd the confidence of parents, and graduallv entitle it t^tST^ and respact of the enlightened ?ortioro^fn2n^^^^^^^^^ '''' '"""'^ / eve': z^ t^^::;:^:^^ iftSc^f 't' r must be a Church without govlrnn^e'n and whilf T^^'' ^^'-^^ ^ taught, it must be religion wiZnoctrine ^"'"" '^''''^''''' '' Above all things, I claim from the endowment the m^-,,.« r,c strsi; sri?i- 7cS.^^^^^^^ onginal application; -d°t wSfytl^SedTtr WeS Government, as is evident from the tenure of twrhtw ' "J blow at her very foundation, a^d to ^nt offthe pri.Xfadvfi'' TrSlr^^ry^la:^''-" "''-^ "''^'* ofC^L^Z^ I have the honour to be, with great respect, Your Excellency's most obedient humble Servant, (Signed) John Toronto. THE B.SHOP.S LETTEK TO EARL CATacAHT. 6T For us revolutionary character and demerits, it is suf- ficent to refer to the Memorial of the Visitors :f he Col lege, be.ng also the Judges of the Supreme Court l^l Appendix, (o) v^uun, in me let. r to H^ Excellenoy the Right Honourable the Earl of Cathearl, then administering the Govermnent. MvLoRn Tl,-, . Toronto, March 2nd, 1846. of the Charter, Vill have plTtyoXrShS *^ ='"''J<'<=^ then- opinions. ^ ^ "^^^P *""y "i possession of to 5ZtSpl^ i:iJt^;?t!n^ ^^ -* desire to sub.it embodied in the CounSl\ LlrT?1,i?r L^'^"^^ ^^°^^ ^^^se in the University, and the mrlwh rr'?'''"^"'^ P^^^t^o^ original Charter, I beer to be SmJi^; ^i""'^ '^ obtaining the tnnity of a personal co^nfereLe rth^o„'!?P^y '!'' ^^"^ «f oppor! interesting subject, by submrttinc^ to l ^°^t^"P «« this highly following explLatioLandTt:^^^^^^^^ I^'^rdship's attention th^ It IS perhaps superfluous to remark' tbnf ti,. r ■ your Lordship lias thus earlv -ivpn ^r^ ^ ^"^J^*^* ^^ which of the most iiUortan ifTottfrr T"' ^^'''^'' attention, is one the public conLler^ta. iXrS /sZ7'''"''S"^ ^^" ^"^^'s' too highly the degree in wh ch the fufnv. ^""'"'^^^ *^ ^^^"^^^e ness of Upper Canada may ^ nfltn^XC^''^^^ ""^ ^^PP^- what has been long familiarircaHed t^rTr ?^^^^ shall be finally disposed of. ^ ^'^ ^^^ University Question Ihe public character of the npnnl*> tu^ nency of their civil institut inslTn^sW^,^^^^^ Perma- pnrsumg hereafter the cours^most conTuci . ' fl^^^^^^y «f their and happiness, and to the welZloftT/.Z ^^t'' Prosperity by any relation connected-must delndTnrf '^^"^^ ^^^V are tion and training of those v^olr^^^^^u''^^ "P^" ^^'^ educa- the Halls of lI gislatS^^^^^Xhrcl^ 1 ^' r"?"^^ P^ ^ar.ely of the benefitsT-J^^a^t^^^^^^^^^^ 0. AppendicM F. p. 28, G. p. 30. I 68 THE LORD BISHOP'S LETTER PrT wSui ""^Iff ''"• ?" IfP^^^^r is large, and is increasing m wealth , the prospects of the learned professions are most sSwSh'^'^'T' '^'^^y "^"? soonposiess an influencTTn society which except m times of violence and confusion, must always attend superior knowledge and intelligence. ' Ihe interest too, which is attached to these considerations i^ much enhanced by the fact, which every one m ist seH^^ should feel very forcibly, that'it is in this glnerTtion the SnX^ tions are to be laid in Upper Canada, of a state of ?hinL which must operate favourably or unfavoumbly, at no dSnlhod uponsome millions of people. "" ui&iani period, Pn."^r^"'? ^*/he exertions which have been made in other countries for founding and endowing Universities,-and often bv means which can only be gradual in their operation Ld have Sn Z^r ^ ''''''''' eiIects,_i/cam;ot but bet;! siaered a most fortunate circumstance for Ui,per Canada that from the provident attention of the Government to th^sJwt a an early period, and by an arrangement afterwi^i^ 1 mppilv suggested and concm-red in by the Secretary of State, Li am 2 and magnificent endowment has been erected for the supnor of an University, nj^n a liberal scale, and by means wlS't is sTit ,, t'^ T'' l^^^"^^y ^^^^^ conclusively, cannoi; the slighteit degree have affected, except indeed^ beneficially t e prov ision made for other Educational purposes. ^^^^'^'^y* ^^^^ «. nnf i^"r T^''^' '"^^^^^^^ ™^y^t this moment be reo-arded as ample for the present purposes of the University is sure to risemvalue,if judiciously husbanded, as the coTilkion o^^^^^^ Province improves; and it is impossible that any one who takes ^To:t"S:fu^^^r^^^^?^ me inost grateful emotions, that without depending on the uncertain resources of private benevolence, or relyino- fpon s ud^ port from public charges, which might be borne wkhhZtienc? this province is now, at a comparatively early pe S of Its' history, secured in the means of maintaining an lIi iWv i non such a scale, that, while it opens inestimable advS'es to^aU ^"^^^^l^^P^^^V^^^itm^yho made to constitute the Leates attracting to it that description of emigrants from the United hZ Ti^'^^f ' wealth, intelligence, enterprise and sound prin- ciples, make them invaluable settlers in a new country. ^ It has been very often repeated, but seems nevertheless to be generally forgotten, that wlien the Sovereign bestowed thfs noble gift upon the country, and incorporated tlie University wS his Royal grant was to support, he\.onferred upon it a charter of a ess exclusive character than any that luu! before been granted to any University endowed by the Crown. It had, it is true a known and religiouscliaracter,-the intention bein^tharelS^^^ mstruotion was to be dispensed there a. m all oth?r Unive fS Hon, must TO EARL CATHCART. of Royal foiiiKlation, and nccorflincrtr. tk« 1 *• of the National CI nroh To "?^^ discipline foundation Ibr hannonv ki thp nn ?'^.""\^"^ *^ ^^Y ^he best reqaired that th6 ne hers o'tT^'c^T^n' Institution, it was members of the ChurcW Kno^^ ^" be as might not belono to that C urn m ^' Professors therefore Council; but, except tirPrSct of TV ""'^ T"^'^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ' have been members of ai% Xr Church in ^^'i^'^ "'^=^^ ^" religions denominations the Col Wp"r.^%?"' ^° *^^ y°"tl^ °f ^U tion in the sciences,-no test wh!t J'^-^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^struc matriculation, or fc^^bainSlanfw^^^^ ^^ '^^^ This was the Charted ,s If 'L u'""?'^^, '^^^^^«- when the Legislatuirof T Wr C^?Z 7 l'j«^.^ 5 and, therefore, IV. cap. 16, enacted that iTnuTu'' ^'^ ^^^'' '^^^^"te 7 Wm. bers o/the ColLgfc^^^Lil or " w ^^^ thatany mem- of the Church oi EngS oV X^i^f ''°^' ^^^^",b^ ^ "^^"^^er other than a declaratio tlmt Ih^Tlh^ ^ any articles of religion, tion of the Old and New TpI ^ believe m the Divine Inspira- Triuity • and wht ufeT tohr 'enacted tlT.t''" '^""^ °^ ^^^ qualification shall be recmired of Ll .1 i '^^ "°, religious test or within the Colle-e or of v T ^^^^^^ted or matriculated faculty therein-1 Ly'in te^^^^ '^ -y degree or fiuous, except as it reo-arderMlL , ^*'^^ "'^''^ ^'^^^^ly S"Per- singleVaculfy of Divmitf fo wi hTh J''' "^ *'^f. Council Ind^the required of iVofessor oKschoW bv^h^^^ ''''' '^^^« the alteration which the stSute rbVlL f ?""'!"' ^' ^^ '^«°^1- ^nd a declaration (very yasv^c^^^^^^^ nonewhatsoevW^L?l;^ireTS^^ "'^°""^ belief, Uerf abSd"bra'S"s;Xe'" ^"'^^^ ^^P^--^- -f having existed, so hU 1^4 t7e'dHS "^^^^ ^ '^^^ calm and clispassionate ^cons kW^^ knowledge of facts, and a prevailed in most "''7^^^'^"^^^^*^ration of them seemed to have ^iven rise to, mt up to th ''"'''"? -'^^""'^ '^'^ University his the resolutions poZlVtmbHe'''"' r ^'^^^ be observed, that in which are oircul ited L i^na '"Jf' i "'•^'' ^'^^^ ,"^ '^'^ P^ti'"«"« nisisted upon, that there Snpnn//" ^T"'^^ '^°'^* earnestly the Charter is alreadv ifer^nl ^^sts, and no exclusion, when nine years past eTeK[!f '^^ Tl' ^"^ ^'^^' ^"^ ^as been so fo? alone has rlq i.S by their ^f ^^'^^^^'^^ ^^^ich the Legislature tures,and in the Trinit;^ atS i^^l ffi^ n ^^^^^"^ *''« ^crip- any Charter could be m.'.l! '^'^''''^^ *^ understand ho v bound by any o o-nhnn ? T'"''^ °P'" *h«" it n«w is,-K)r less contain I ^StS^^ ^l^^^^"^ 'T^'' --1^«« "^deed it shou W an institu ion en owe wl i^^' *"-^'^™^ ^"^^ ^^^^^ ^barge of . Charter expresses tfn. f ^ ' ^^^^^^eign, and founded, as the I ofthe ChriK'reUgSn '' "'*""'"" ^^ ^^"^^^ "^ ^be principled / When It IS seen how easy it is to incite people to clamour for " 1 70 THE LORD BISHOP'S LETTER changes as being indispensable to the Dubhc neaoe ^nm^ ^r which very changes we/e made many yeC aoo W an Tct of S; r^om'ieTT,"^"" could beVade, becanse'thlJ stl of tmngs complained of has never existed, it musfnnnear to bp -. hopeless expectation that the University can ever ff nhced i inon thayootmg that it shall be no longL fouTfaJdfwltlS ■ .Jf'''' T ""^'y ""^^^'^y' "^y ^«^^' that it must be essential to the success of any institution, that the principles on wh c Us based vi n i^^rf'^^"^^'^^^^ confidence and favorbft o!e who , outrs, and that it would be most unwise not to ctnnll v r.c seat oisacred Aca(lemical kwnin.; f l^^^^.^'^ attribute of a those wlu,se prejudices are STed • I' Hn< "'T^t ^'' ^'"^^"^^ ^«r beuiostexceijei^t, to tind^^ y^^t cld^m^^^ ?T^'" ^° means au unreasonable clamour rfcri.^ condemn ; and by such all that it wa^ iniportam tHccom H^^ be sdenced, af that ^vere the sa.ne end be attained eve^ more ±^ '" "^^^^''^ "^"'^l^t the means of such an inst'Iu o^ coul ^"^^ ^"'^ 'i'*^^'^'''>'' ^^"^^ the ocean; which would t a S^^^^^^ «.»"k i„ ciple, thoujrh more direct in •'' J7^^^^"'g"i i^h the same in prin- uould be 'com;eten T "^l';^7^ .'""'^"''' ''f^ «« all manLud them. ^ J"'*°*' ^^' ^^ ^t were ])lamly i,ro]josed to on^r;^^St.^?s.st:s:ei^^ ^^'"^""' ^'-* - which it was founded it must hi TV^'® f ^^^ purposes for^ , respect and confidence of sTichfath.r, Tf^''''^'^ '^ ^« ^^"ract the(' ^ expected to send their chldrP th , f families as can alone b^ i thire would Prob^ nS foun"on^':^'T^'^"^^"^-»-^ \ who, for mere paltry purnosesnrpt I. ^^ ^'""^^^^^^ «^ thosei petitions respeJlm^SS'of^S'Svtae"^" intemperatei and mto which they will not trk^tL Sub e'tn"^ ^""^^^^ge, 1 being popular with those who disclab^ ' r!"" enquire. Jts I prelerence of any one relTi oiis ditrTnf t •'^^ ^""'"'^^^ t'^« '■ ' were all equally fkhe or 'n '*'^^""^. ^^ another— as if thev \ \ reeommendltiontothe '^e^eSitv'^of i^ mditrerent-will be no ' theh children a Universify ^dtSion^ '"'' ^^'° ^''''' *« ^i^« ^ coiSld^n^SfSTi^^^^^ ^e^ee state of thmgs wiUuHhrlvaL o^t^^'ir assuredly desire in vain to nJn .u ^ Institution, we shall other Universitie^; for thev will\n^^ ""'''"'' ,°* ^"^"^^"^ ^"^n o" j chance of siu«.cedinri„ ^Jv f n^r i"*"'""'* '^'''' ^^^^""•^^ ^ the ' judgment and feeling wiZm^temn^ fFVir'"'- '''^'^'^' ^heir , consideration, that if It is desTr^r iM i, .1"^ S^'^ '"'^ t^"« ^^^ther I a-s possible to' the ^outh of Canada Zn '^'' ^'^^r'^^ ^' "^^^"1 ourable distinetions^in tL mirsSs of s^.^ ^'"'"? '^'" '^^^ ^^ hon- to place it on such a foS^thTw ^^^'^f ^' *^^" ^^ is necessary and lK,nours respect'ed hi^l ^^^^ ^^ ^-^ ^ts degree! p-h:i9:;^^SiS:ssrL:si^^ ^y from such opposition and nreiWlli ^ / ^l"^""' ""'^ """^""ity wh.^.er is i^ellent t^tSntZ rtlLe "" ^"""^^^^ ''' '' one or tvvo points oTwS Twill ^nV fi,^ r^ ^^' ^^"^ ^^^^^^ ^re Your Lordshi-'s oiS' H^t ^^ ^-^^ ^'^^^^^ of remarkino-. .-..ni,.s onlj, act m connexion with the University ■if i n T2 THE LORD BISHOP'S LETTER havinj? been one ol'frrcai consideration and kimlncss, in inviting the College tloinieil to a live e.\[.re.s.sion of their wishes and opinions, It need not. I am satisfied, he ai)i)rehended that any unfriendly constrnction can be phiced upon their motives, in stating their t.),i.!uiiis unreservedly upon a jK)int with which y'onr Lordship h;i.|j).;ii,s },} be i)ers(.nally connected: 1 mean that pro- vision 111 the Cluirier which makes the Governor of the Province the Chancellor of the University. This has i)roved, I ain persnadsd, averyinjndicions and unfor- tunate arrangement, the efiect of it has been to produce inevitably a connexion hetween the University and the political feelings and movements t)!' the day wl id. (.. ,-y (,„e rmist have seen to be most injurions, us indeed it could scarcely fiiil to be. This must I am persuaded have been on many occasions embarrassing to the (T(jvernm(>nt, as it certainly has hcen most detrimental to literature and science. Jf it had not been lor the direct and nnmediate control which the Lieutenant Governor- of Upper Caiiada had, in capacity of (,:hancellor, over all the proceedinediments could not have been thrown in the way which rendered the Charter for many years a dead letter • and not only withheld from hundreds of the youth of Upper Canada advantages which to them have been lost for ever, but had the effect of furnishing an argument (though a very unrea- sonable one) for attacks u})oii the very existence of the Institu- tution. It was ungenerously nrged that the Charter was evi- dently impracticable and useless, because in so many years no use had been made of it, when nothing had in fact impeded the Corporation from carrying the beneficial de.sign of the Royal Foun(k>r fully into efU>ct, but the avowed determination of the Lieutenant (lovernor, that not a step for that puri^ose should be taken, till all cpiestions abont the Charter were satisflictorily settled ; in other words till the well-informed and ill-informed, the reasonable and unreasonable, should all cease to complain either of their own accord or at the bidding of others ; and until sects and parties, that agreed in nothing else, should agree in their ideas of an University. As the Charter directs, that no bye-law or regulation of any kind can be passed, which is not proposed by the Chancellor, it was utterly impossible to move a step towards the organization of the College so long as the Chancellor declined to act. I am not, my Lord, acknowledging that the Chancellor conkl warrantably mak(> that use of the authority whicli the Charter gave him. I am only relating the fact, that the Corporation was thus disabled from exercising its legal powers, and enjoying its legal rights, and it may with perfect truth be remarked, that if the Government of Upper Canada, could by a higher authority TO EARL CATHCART. 78 have been restmiued lu the same uiauner, irom nerforniinjr its functions wJien.soeyer u violent elun.onr vvus raised against it, it must. Ihroughou the same periotl have been pcrleetiy in abey- ance, and It m.glit as justly have been argned that because it had cSently!'^ "" '' """' '^'^' "'^' ^'^^^ ''''''^^' "^"^^^"^K The immediate connection of the Corporation with the Civil Government has led to other inconvenienc-e.s, which the Univer- siy deeply feels and which could not have haj,pened if the Chancellor had stood in sncli a position as leit hun tree o act ui^on his own judgment, unembarrassed by considerations which are elsewhere carelully excluded Irom the halls of learning and which can never be allowed to inliuence their arra ements without being fatal to their best interests ^'V^trntnis But t'.e question, what should be done as regards religion ami religious instruction within the College, is thatrvvhich no doubt Will appear to your Lordship the inost dihicult to determine 1 he Co ege bemg liberally endowed, possessing a very el "i llj site in the centre of the Province, aiul having°objects^ii v ew which cannot but recommend themselves to every virtu msHnd enhghtened mind, there can liardly be any serious^ Sy ht setthng upon a reasonable looting, whatever reg-ards manaSenl discipline and j)atronage. '«^"at,tmeni Whether, M'hat the Council have recommended, on the subiect ol religious instruction and worship, shall meet w th your Lord- ship^s approbation and support, I sfiall be very anxiouJ ta learu. If the College had been allowed to go into o], era tion underkM ongina Charter then the state of things would have bee this • It would have been understood and known to be a seat of learning in connection with the National Church, and in winch oiuy he doctrines of that Church .vould be taugl t, d ts S of public worship maintained. To prevent diVis on, and a rv rlX of n''' '"'"^^"'f ""^^ ^'^'"-^^^ ^^^ ascendency 'which the ^ reaSd tn rT^ ""nt '\''^'^ ^" engender, tlie Ccmncil were requned to be of one Church, as the governing bodies in the o her Colleges m this province, which have been^since d aired are expressly reqmred to be ; but all would have been admissible or thel"" r "V"" V''''''' "^y ^'^'^^"^^^-^ «^' reliL^u creed, Div nV; w 'm "^ ^"T- *"''' '-^^"i^* "^ ''^'^''^ to the fiiculty of iJivmitj, , which exception was inevitable if it were intended that It I'mlTn"; fT^.^r'''""^" *° ^""^ consistently maintained. vLth^L belief that no great institution for educating the Sn. tn'r'^'f-^ ^'''''''^?'^ "1'^^' ^ ^^"^^ ^'•^^^^^"^ ^^^»^l definite prin! c le as to its religious character and the nature of the doctrines th V tl ^'"'^'T' '° "^^"^^^^*'^^' ^^'"1 '^'' ^' f^'^'^^l to fulfil wir- 'lorm^lZ . ''r;-''^^ ^"'"H- ^''^ they k.tve uiulisturbcd'those ^loiious and venerable institutions which, being established uiioii r T4 THE LORD BISHOP'S LETTER wise and snored principles, have been elevating the national eliaructer fur ages, they may venture to make the experiment of erectnig other CoUeges in which religion slml! have no part, and which shall put forth, as their title to public confidence and respect, an avowed disclaimer of any preference for any one religions creeil above any other that the imagination of man has invented. Jt is plain that there are persons who, in opmsition to experience and to the general current of human feeling, are willing to believe that such Colleges A\'ill produce as good fruits M others, and will be as much honoured and resi)ected. In the United kingdom, those who entertain such opinions can be indulged with an opjKjrtunity of bringing their theory to the test of trial without depriving others of such a system of instruction tor their children as they know to be safe and good, and without compelling them to be content, in regard to the most interestincr concern of life, with a laxity of principles and aspecions liberality which they despise and abhor. But it is indeed a deijlorabk thing to see persons willing to commit the whole provision that .' exists in this noble province for academical education to the chance of an experiment agjiinst which the wisdom of |)ast a^res lifts up her voice, and which, when it has been tried in modern times, has shewn by results that the principles which its advocates are seeking to establish are rejected by the prevailing feeling and opinions of mankind. ^ Unfortunately, however, the point has been conceded here to this extent, that, by the Provincial Statute of 1837, these few provisions which had been deemed indispensable lor securin», *i.„„ i, i W.US (bresecu and Ibrft Ul v U, f J ? ^f >• kept np ever since what the (rc.verninen seL'e , /. \^^^ '^^ t" rogarclusaneces«ityTtmryb";i ;f '^ ^ •^»"''^' *« it was acquiesced irf ,y t erUf n f V' 'i "^"-^'' ^''"'"^''^ who did approve of it Ve e eonten f VT'T!^ ''^' ^'''^ '*"^''"'^« 1 i> J • wt-rc conient to make t ip si-wrKi...^ ;.. y its Charter aZ^^^^^ ^'> ^''"t it no lonoer most numerous bo.S^-S^^th:;'';V" ''''"■'"'"' ^'"^" ^''^'t''^''^' ''Inireh s..lic-ite.l an I o tWd C ''^^^^ ^" tl'o National cstabhsliMiffand suDiiortino- frM.» ^ i^> I'ltvtnt the ( rown from "lui roceiwd sunnart (him tl, J •/ " ""'*'''■' '''"■'' ^'li'-i'"! «™l,l a,,ly li^ ti.e XmZr S . '"■"■ .'""" ''"'«"'«. tl.o ,„«,r ll'»t n,e |,ri,^ip o oXl,,v7 '''■'' ?'"'■"," '" 'l'"-"vi;..i„„ <'"iio,es L u,o.'ou„,io';;:;;j',!'7 ''"'™' •" "='"'"'<•• "'^'i' vin;r„^'tl;;j:i,'„l"i^^;,;;!r[!^,"'"'7'""'i» V" '""'■■■'■' "' -iyuf .1.0 ,;o.ioge to .ru.c wh,icvi;ix'«t: ';;;i:;;;rz;E ^i 76 THE LORD BISHOP'S LETTER l)roper njxjn this iK)int, it became theii duty to consider the sub- ject carefully. They did not feel that they would be justified in excluding the study of Divinity fjom King's College ; ©n the contrary, they felt themselves bound to provide for adequate instruction in that, as in other sciences, under the sincere convic- tion that it is the most important of all. They have not attempted to embrace in their system of religious instruction a diversity of doctrine* and creeds, for which they must of course have pro- vided as many separate Professors, and as they could have given no good reason for establishing a Divinity Protessor in connection with any other form of doctrine rather than with that of the Church of England, they did that which the original Charter evidently contem-plated, and which the statute of 1837 in no manner prohibited, in providing a Professor of Divinity of the National Church. It did not appear to them that this course was one which they need be studious to justify by arguments. If they had so regarded it, they would not have failed to" consider that no unprejudiced person could entertain a doubt that a much greater proportion of the youth, wno would resort to the College for edu- cation, would be members of the Church of England than of any other, more, probably than of all other denominations combined, and that the three most numerous bodies among the latter had already separate Colleges established by Charier which placed them not merely under the direction of members of their respec- tive religious communities, but, in effect, of their own Clergy, an advantage which the members of the Church of England did not now enjoy. It is perfectly Avell known, however, that the Council has carefully avoided doing more than afford, to those who may desire it, the means of obtaining such religious knowledge as the Professor of Divinity imparts, and the opportunity of attending the public worship which is maintained in their chapel. No constraint or influence is used, and those who are not members of the Church of England are neither required to receive instruction in her doctrines, nor to join in her worship. If what has been done in the Council in this respect required anything further to be offered in its vindication, it can only be necessary to refer to the sentiments expressed in the despatch addressed to Lord Goderich, which accompanies the Report of the Council to Your Lordship, and to the recent despatch of Lord Stanley to the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick, on the subject of King's College at Fredrickton. The general tenor of these despatches, and especially of the latter, affords, indeed, strong ground for the hope that the Pro- vince will,aflcr all, be saved from such a calamity as the passing, of any such measures as were proposed in the two last Sessions of the Legislature would have inflicted upon it. I have much need of Your Lordship's indulgence for the great THE LAW OF 1850. 77 Canada, makes me anxious to nut vnnr T r.J^\ V • . ^"^^ °* Upper its nature, tendency and Win? nl? T i J ?T '" Possession of Lordship'^ kind plSLorto^fnrn 1 '^^^ ^/ happy, with Your that may be in m^rower ' " """^ ^^^'^^^ information I have the honour to be. My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient Humble Servant, John Toronto. It might have been hoped, that as each of the two parties had attempted to remodel King's College, and had signally failed. It would have been left in future unmolested. But «!... was not to be. The Conservatives made another attempt in 1S47, whieh though in some respeets better becanse there are degrees of evil, was, nevertheless, liable' the mo.st serious objeetions ; but, having been introduced late m the Session, it was allowed to drop, and soon after Its au hors were driven from power, and the Reformers agam held the reins of Government. This party, not discouraged by their former failure, intro- dnced the measure suppressing King's College, which became law on the 1st of January, 1 °50. It is by the sam» hand as the bill of 1843. though not quite so unwieldy" betng reduced from 102 to 82 clauses. It is, nevertheless equally bhghting in its provisions, and hostile to religion as wtll be seen from the Petitions anne..ed,(^) and remarks' on lis principal provisions here subjoined. In the preamble it is said that a College is sought to be established for the advancement of learning, and upon ;'• ApjmiHlix K., No. 1, and No. 2. 78 CHARACTER OP THE LAW 1S50. principles calculaled to conciliate liie confidence and injure- , the support of all classes and denominations of Her I Majesty's subjects, and which, under the blessing of Divine ■ Providence, would encourage the pursuit of Literature, Science and Art, and thereby tend to promote the best interests, religious, moral and intellectual, of the people at large. Now, it must be admitted that these are in them- selves noble and important objects. But upon what prin- ciples does the statute promise their attainment ? Could its framer believe that confidence was to be conciliated, the , support of the people insured, and the blessing of Divine J Providence obtained, and the best interests, religious, moral, ^ and intellectual promoted, by a College whose constitution ordains, in its twenty-ninth section, and repeated in the sixty-fourth, " That no religious test or qualification what- soever shall be required of, or appointed for, any person i admitted or matriculated," &c. ; "Nor shall religious I observances, according to the forms of any religious deno- minations, be imposed upon the members or officers of the said University, or any of them." To speak of the interests of religion being promoted by an Institution from which every reference to it is, by law, excluded, is an unworthy mockery. But on this point the people have already spoken. The four great denominations, embracing almost two-thirds of the population, have resolved to have no connexion with such an Institution ; how far their example will be followed by the smaller denominations has not yet been ascertained. CHARACTER OF THE LAW 18.io. _ "' t,u,urr" "" ''"'""''"™ "' "1'1» Cu,u„la was TheCMinrel.ofEnglalui-;/,;--;,-;,;;;-^— ••; 721,000 The cC;;';;;- si'^rr" """"^'^' ^-- ••• >^'.^'« The Kirk or Scotland, do ?.„''^^^ 453,721 Leaving to profit by t],is measure ZZ~ But even tins will, in all probab 1 iiVb'; ^^^'^^^ found too much in favour of the Inst tution for the Scottish Free Church and ConL S: tionahsts disapprove of the princ pie of excluchng rehgion from education, n which case^ they wdl soon have Colleges of thei Scottish Free Church ... ^, ^^ Congregationalists ['[''' on Toliefurtliex deducted . 85,101 Leaving to profit by the new College ^^^T^ But even from this mast be deducted many of the smaller denomtnations, who disregard Universities, and such know- edge as they impart. Hence the Statute establishing the Untversity of Toronto and destroying King's College, legislates for one-fourth of the population ; and as one-half of these will not use the privileges, the feelings and in.e- rests of the great majority of the inhabitants of Upper Canaaa are sacrificed to a small and clamorous fraction. Tho preamble next quotes a Despatch of Lord Goderich, dated 8th ol November, 1832, as the foundation of the statute, and which contains, it alleges, an invitation from H.S late Majesty King William the Fourth to consider i» whatmanner "the said University could be best constituted lor the general advantage of the whole sooiely." 80 rX)RD GODERICH'S REPLIED. Now, the Despatch thus referred to, was not written for the purpose of calling the attention of the Colonial Legisla- ture to King's College, or to legislate thereon, but is an elaborate document on a very different subject, being an answer to Mr. McKenzie's huge volume of grievances. It consists of fifty-six wearisome paragraphs, and touches incidentally on the University of King's College, which constituted one of the grievances, in three different places. Mr. McKenzie complained that the Provincial law of 1820 conferred on the University, when established, the power of sending one representative to the Legislature, and inferred that it would become a nomination borough, under the special patronage of Church and State. To this complaint Lord Goderieh replieii :— - "I should scarcely have anticipated that any man, and least of all a man devoted to literary pursuits, should have deniedThe propriety of giving a representative to the principal seat of learnmg in the Province. It would be superfluous to expatiaL on the importance of institutions for the education of youth in literature, science, and religion, especially in a newly settled country and I am well assured, that neither in the CouncTl nor Assembly, could a single gentleman be found who would not gladly receive as a colleague, a person representing the collective body of literary and scientific men in Upper Canada, and who would not g adly support, by that distinguished honour, the cause oi sound learning." ' In the following paragraph Lord Goderieh adds :— I do not here refer to an University const^n^ed in the manner proposed by the original Charter of Incorporation: so far from any anxie y having been felt by the King's Government to maintain that Charter against the kshes of tl?e grea^n™ y of the people every possible measure has been taken to refer to their representatives tlie decision of thecpiestion, in what form and on what principle the College should be founded " TO Mr.. McRENZIE. 8t After answering other complaints through twelve labo- nous paragraphs, the subject of general education comes up, on which Lord Goderich observes :— " That there is not one thing conncctec! witJi evprv pajt of his extensive domniions which His M-nVvf^r h„.. i / oi nis the genend dim.sion of ^^^^l Zi;:^ W /'"f more enlargecl sense of the term. This i^^m^ f^^t am consider m wmt manner the University can h! best cZmfited for the general advantage of Ihe whole society : am ll mSv has s ndions^y abstained from the exercise of his rlnnhl i"' ^ rogative of founding and endowing liS; o r ^ 1 1^^^^^^^^^^ tions until he should obtain the advice of he rep S e^ tatives of the people for his guidance in that respect" '"i'^'^'^e^^^tives ot These are all the passages in this extraordinary Despatch which touch upon King's College, and they arise acci- dentally from Lord Goderich's anxiety to answer the voluminous complaints of Mr. McKenzie, which were, recklessly made against every institution and ma. of character in the Province. i i^ f I 1 '. i ' I ' The Despatch, and the only one containing the invitation alluded to, is dated the 2nd of November, 1831, but as it strongly recommends " the permanent establishment in the College, on a secure footing of a Professor of Divinity of the- Church of England," (y) the promoter of the Act could not, with any decency, in the face of such royal recommendation, enact, as he has done in the twelfth section or clause, " That there sl.all be no faculty of Divinity in the said University, r.oi shall there be any Professorship, Lecture- ship, or Teauliorship of Divinity in the same."(r) He has. q. Appendix H., p. 32. r. Appendix J)., p. 17. 82 STATUTE 7 WM. IV. CHAP. 16. therefore, recour.se to the expedient of quoting a different Despatch which only refers incidentally to King's College. Another reason, equally disingenuous, for using the wrong despatch is, that the invitation contained in Lord Goderich's Despatch of the 2nd of November, 1831, was already fully satisfied by the Provincial Legislature in 1837.(s) In that year the statute of 7th William the Fourth, chap. 16, was passed, amending the Charter of King's College, in which all the reasonable objections made against if, up to that period, were fairly mot, and in which the majority newex would have concurred had they not believed that it was a final settlement of the question. Since then, no fresh invitation his been addressed by the Crown to the Govern- ment of the Colony, to interfere a second time with the Charter of King's College. So much for the truth and correctness of the preamble of the University Act, 12th Victoria, chap. 82, by which King's College is destroyed, (t) Having thus deprived King's College of its Charter, Religious Character, and Name, the Statute proceeds in the 32nd clause, to confiscate its endowment and to vest it in the new Corporation, and this in defiance of the faith of the Crown expressed in the words of three diJleroit Kings, and \ iWith as much coolness as if there had been no such pledges, ino vested rights, no corporation, no moral turpitude, in a proceeding Avhich strikes at the security of all properly in 6. Appendix C, page 16. t. Appendix f. CHARACTER OF THE MEASURE. 83 the Colony. But it is quite superfluous to extend j these remarks to the many clauses of the Statute 12 Victoria chap. 82. We have elsewhere observed that the leading features of the measure may be reduced to three : 1st. Con- tempt for the wishes of the people, for almost two-thirds are virtually excluded. 2nd. Bitter hostility to religion, and/ especially the Church of England, for no man dare legally* repeat the Lord's Prayer within the halls of the University! of Toronto. 3rd. Disrespect to the expressed wishes o| three Sovereigns, and hence to everything tending to thej stability of the Crown. Only two points worthy of notic^f remain. The Statute evinces a suspicious jealousy of all Minister3, Ecclesiastics, and Teachers of Religion, and even prohibits the Crown from selecting them to be members of the Senate, so that in a short time not one Clergyman will belong to the Institution, except it be one teacher from each of such incorporated Collegiate institutions or Uiiiversities in Upper Canada as shall, according to the requirement of the 43rd clause, surrender the power ofeonferrir j degrees in. Arts. Now such surrender of powers conferred by Royal' authority is not probable, because the Colleges, even if inclined to do so, upon what might be considered equitable terms, are offered nothing by the Statute in return, but loss of dignity. The connexion or ineorporalion merely consists! in the admission of one Representative from each of the Theological Colleges, to a seat in the Senate. Now thi^ body is to consist of tweniy-two or twenty-three Member«.J and what influence could one solitary Representative po,- sess for the benefit of his own institution ? Is it not evident that the affiliated Colleges, thus thrown in the shade by the colossal University of Toronto without religion or morale irammg, would become helpless and unable to extend theirl 1^ I'' 84 QUESTION OF THEOLOGICAL COLLEGES. discipline to their own youths of early age, or possess the \ means of enforcing it ? And were they to attempt to over- Icome this difficulty, by employing a greater number of I Professors to take charge of their own students they would / still fail, and the customs and regulations of the secular and ■ larger Institution, as having the greater number of students, : would certainly prevail. Instead then of incurring an ; expense by which they secure no equivalent, how much I more easy and beneficial to add to Queen's, Victoria, and i Cobourg Colleges, &c., two or three Professors in Arts, to I enable them to give their respective youths a complete f education, scientific and religious? To acquire the pure j; knowledge and practice of religion, it must enter into all ' their actions and cannot be separated from their daily life, I because the chief end of our being is to prepare for the V world to come. The very presence of these various Theo- . logical Colleges would have a most injurious effect : be- I cause the University of Toronto, which proscribes religion, I and treats all its forms as matters of indifference, will have I no disposition to enforce upon those Pupils, who belong not ' to these affiliated Colleges, any reverence for holy things. 4 Hence from the very first we shall a corps of infidels ? growing up, and like the wicked, eager to make proselytes, stirring up strife among the youth attached to Ihe dif- ferent Colleges, and holding up the Colleges themselves as a proof that there is no difference as to the comparative goodness between them ; that the opposite opinions that they hold, shew that truth and falsehood are the same ; that even the faith once delivered to the saints is of no value ; that the most pernicious heresy ever broached is harmless ; and that every man has a right to interpret the Scriptures as he pleases. EVILS OF THE SYSTEM. 85 Such a collection of Theological Colleges would becomer of itself a sort of standing protest against Gospel truth, andll be one of the most successful methods ever imagined of j'^ holding it up to the contempt and ridicule of flagilitiousi men. But, if we take the matter still more closely, we ^ shall find that the discipline and order of the affiliated Colleges could never be made to harmonize with those of the University of Toronto, and more especially with that belonging to the Church of England. As a Theological College, its inmates must religiously, observe all the fasts and festivals of the Church, the solem-. nity of Lent, the regular daily services of Passion Week and| Wl.itsun Week, with all of which the University would! fiiil to sympathize or provide for, by any change of discipline \ or attendance. So that, through the whole year, violence/ would be done, even by the common proceedings of thel University, to our religious feelings, and our most august ^ forms of worship. It should also be remembered that such / affiliated Colleges are not essential parts of the University/ but merely acccidental appendages, without which, desti- tute as they are of all power and authority, the University can proceed as well as with them. Again, the Degrees in Divinity would seem without value, inasmuch as they would be conferred by a petty College of two or three per. sons, and be felt insignificant when compared to the degrees in Arts conferred by ihe University itself. Besides, every / sect may have its College, or apology for a College, and thus a public sanction be given to all opinions, howevei mischievous and contradictory, and we should have Sooil nian, Mormonite, and Swedenburgean Doctors in Divinity' a result which would bring all such degrees into utter con-i I 11 I 80 EVILS OF THE SYSTEM. tempt. In fin< , the very fact of the Church affiliating its Colh'gc with such a University would indicate a tacit consent to its irreligious })rinciplcs ; hence nothing is left to the honest and sincere of all Christian denominations but to ily from the unclean thing. How is il in the great public schools In England, such as Eton, Harrow, Winchester, and Rugby — all of which are identical as regards habits of life, studies, and intellectual characteristics, and still more especially as to personal decorum, Christian morality, and tl)e pious observances enjoined by the Holy Scriptures ? Look at the stirring ser- mons of the late Dr. Arnold of Rugby, and more recently, those of Dr. Moberly the present Head Master of Win- chester, and of Dr. Vaughan of Harrow, and reflect on the labours and anxiety of these cmiAient men, not only to advance their pupils in scholastic attainments, but above all to make them feel, from their first entrance into life, that they are born for eternity. From this moral training they proceed to the University, where they are placed under the same religious supervision and instruction till they take their degrees and commence their different professions. Now if we reflect that the world, its dangers, its seductions, its menaces and troubles must be known and met, and con- quered, is it not of the utmost consequence that our youth should be prepared for this fiery trial by a training in hea- venward lessons of faith, diligence, and obedience, and thus awaking the soul by an habitual sense of God's authority and consciousness of His presence to hopes which are never to be satisfied but in the fruition of the life to come ^ -■'jsmi**..-^ ,»*.' THE BISHOP ISSUES A PASTORAL LETTER. at Instead of this, the University of Toronto offers us that spurious counterfeit which has sought in every age to usurp the name of Education, while flatly opposed to its true'\ object. It is secular education ; a training for this world ! alone, without caring for the next. It is made up of half/ truths perverted into falsehood ; of earthly facts divorced) from moral truth and religious obedience ; and of a pan-| dering to a corrupt appetite for unseasonable knowledge. " By thesL characters was it marked when it began in* Paradise, and these serpent features it retains — ' Your eyes shall be opened.' There was partial truth in the words, but the truth served only to gild the delusion, and do the work of falsehood. ' Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.' Here was intellectual progress set at variance with the will and command of God. And what were the natural effects ? Misery and death. Such was secular education at its birth, and such in its main features does it still con- tinue. May we never accept these apples of Sodom in X^ exchange for the living truth of God's holy word." (w) Finding that every effort to arrest the destruction of King's College had proved unavailing, and knowing that it was impossible for the Church to recognize the institution founded on its ruin, as the only resource left to him in furtherance of the great object of his life, the Lord Bishop addessed the following pastoral to the clergy and laity of the diocese, in which there is a forcible appeal, urging them to a vigorous exertion in founding, by voluntary means, such an establishment as would answer the demand «. Church of England Quarterly Revi«w for July, 1850, page 3. M Ir -^^^^1 1, l^^l i^^l^l ' T ^^^^^^^^^B < ' '^^^^^^^^1 ^v- s^H 1 'H *- ' o'^. IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 I.I I 1^ ^ 1^ 12.2 ^ 1^ 1^ L25 lllll 1.4 2.0 1.6 1 uuiugiapiuti Sciences Corporation 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. 14580 (716) 873-4503 ^ \ q V \ % :\\% % > X o ///A & 88 THE LORD BISHOP^S PASTORAL. for sound religious education in every department of learning, invested with the high character of university honours, and combined with wholesome collegiate dis- cipline : — To the Clergy and Laity of the Diocese of Toronto : My dear Brethren, On the 1st day of January, 1850, the destruction of King's College as a Christian Institution was accomplished. For on that day the Act establishing the University of Toronto, by which it was suppressed, came into force. There was, to the last, some lingering hope that a measure so pernicious would have been arrested. It was known that inquiries had been made concernini? it bv statesmen of high consideration, and that it had not been formallv SMictioned by the Imperial Government late in October. But no effectual impediment has yet intervened ; and fur a time at least, the experiment of a University from which the worship of God IS excluded, is to be tried in Upper Canada,— I say, for a time, because it is scarcely credible that such an institution can be long suffered m a Christian country, or if, unhappily, suffered, that it can prosper. n jj > Deprived of her University, what is the Church to do? She has now no seminary at which to give a liberal education to her youth. What is enjoyed by all the other large denominations in the Province is denied to her. Is she to sit down contented with her theological school at Cobourg, and leave her children to perish for lack of sinritual knowledge 1 Or is she to extend its provisions, and form it into a university capable of imparting a full course ol liberal instruction, carefully founded on a religious basis, as has been the case in all seminaries of learning among Christian nations since the ascen- sion of our Lord ? Happily the solution of this question offers no difficulty. It IS the boundcn duty of the Church, and ot every one of her baptized children, as they value the gifts conferred upon them in that holy sacrament, to come forward at this crisis, m the name of God their Saviour, to stay the plague which this, as It has done other lands, with darkness and guilt, and to honour His holy name. Here the faithful Christian cannot halt betweeh two opinions : the whole revelation of God tells him that religion ought to form the sum and substance of education, and that whatever other branches of knowledge may be intro- duced, ihey must be made subservient to the one thmg needful and sanctified by its purifying influener Canada, or forty thousand families. Now, were each family to contribute two pounds or two acres of good land, a very handsome endow- ment would be the result. But as there may be many poor, and some to whom God has not given generosity of heart, let us take one-fourth, or only ten thousand families, and claim from each, for the love of God six pounds in money, or ten acres of good land, as may be liiore convenient, and the University will be estal^lished. The difficiUtv therefore, in the way of endowing a Church University, is not so great as those who have not considered the subject "mav suppose ; and although we may not obtain the subscriptions in land, or in money, of ten or even of five thousand at once, vet we shall with God's blessing o])tain more in time : and as the Institution we contemplate is not for a short period, but for centuries, we can afibrd time, and be content to advance to maturity by degrees. But why should we not hope that the Church, among her two hundred thousand, will produce one thousand noble souls, ready to come forward Avith at least one hundred acres each, and in a moment complete the endowment? In regard to a solid commencement, we are not left to conjecture. The spirit of the Church has already begun to move Light thousand pounds will be secured to the University before t lis meets the public eye ; and I have some reason to believe that an equal amount is already set apart in England. Moreover we shall have £1200 per annum from the Venerable Society for Propagating the Gosi^el in Foreign Parts, till it can be relieved by the proceeds of our own endowment, and we shall have our Theological library restored. Hence it may be seen that we are commencing no Utopian scheme ; and that a very moderate exertion on the part of the true sons of the Church will place us in a commanding position 01 usefulness. * The Church ought to do nothing by halves. Her University must comprise an entire system of education, based on relioion. Lvery branch of knowledge cherished at Oxford and Cambndge must be carefully and substantially taught. She must also have her Eton, or Grammar School to supply her with scholars • the whole to be placed under the guidance of the Church, that her religious instruction may have no uncertain sound. We desire a University, which, fed by the heavenly stream of pure religion may cammunicate fuel to the lamp of genius, and enable it to burn with a brighter and purer flame. Thus the Arts and feciences, with all that adds real eml^ellishmeut to life, will be \ vi :1 1 .11 I ' tHE Lord bishop's pastoral* studied with more perseverance and order for moral ends ; and the faculties under such training, will become so pure and Unclouded, that perception will be infinitely more vivid, and rise to far greater elevation ; and all will be bound together by that pure principle of love which the Scriptures tell us is the beginninff and end of our being. For this reason, we will have in our University daily habitual worship, that we may possess a conscious feeling of the Divine presence; and this will produce such an ardent aspiration after goodness as will consecrate every move- ment. Hence the religious princii)les thus developed, will prove of themselves a system of education inlinitely superior to all others. Nor are we disposed to overlook academical honours, which have been evet held in the highest estimation. They emanated from the Church, and to the Church the jwwer of conferring them of right belongs. Hence the power was trans- ferred at the Reformation to the Sovereign, because the temporal head of the Church, and the fountain of honour within her dominions. In due time, therefore, we shall solicit a Royal Charter, that our degrees may be acknowledged in all parts of the world, and not be like those which the new Institution may atter.ipt to confer, which will not only be corrupted by passing through an irreligious channel, but be otherwise worthless, beinw confined to the colony ; for the 12 Victoria, cap. 82, is merely a Provincial Statute, and carries no weight nor authority beyond the Province. The Bishop or Bishojis of the diocese (for it will soon be divided) will be the visitors, that each new diocese may have an equal interest in the Institution ; for established on the extensive foundation which we contemplate, it will be amply sufficient for the whole of Upper Canada. The site will perhaps be decided upon by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, where it may bo most central and convenient ; because for a time it will have in a great measure to be supported by that venerable body. But the site may also greatly depend on the magnitude of the contributions and donations which any particular locality may be disposed to furnish. That nothing may be wanting on my part, it is my intention to proceed to England, should the encouragement I receive be such as I have reason to expect, and urge the prayer of our petitions to the Queen and both Houses of Parliament. When the facts of the case are fully made known, the whole nation will feel the same indignation at so flagrant an outrage on our holy ireligion, and the honour and dignity of the Crown, as those private friends do with whom I am already in communication on the subject ; and the consequence I trust will be, that the good and pious will hasten to help us. For in England the belief is all but universal, that religion ought to be the ground-work ot THE PETITION TO THE QUEEN. qq iMlucation ; that its lessons slioiildlje interwoven with the whole tissue of instruction ; and tl.ut its principles should direct the whole system of our lives. Nor will the lessons of reliirion be found less inipressive by bein- interspersed with teachincr of a different kind. The prayer of our forefathers always was, and the prayer of our universities still is, " that their learning rAi^^ht be sound, and their education religious." I shall have completed my seventy-second year before I can reach London, of which more than fifty years have been spent ui Upper Canada; and one of my chief objects, during all that time, vvas to bring- Kino-'s College into active operation : and now, after more than six years of increasing prosjierity, to see it destroyed by stolid ignorance and presumption, und the voice of toYear ^'''''''' banished from its halls, is a calamity not easy I shall not rest satisfied till I have laboured to the utmost to restore the College under a holier and more perfect form The result IS with a higher power, and f may «iill be doomed to dis- appointment ; but It IS (4ocrs work, and I feel confident that it oT!!v;\rbSiit''^"^^^ ' "^^'^""^ '' ^^^ -nappy instrument Having done all in my power, J sliull acquiesce submissively to the resul , whatever it may bo ; and J shall then, and not tiU then, consider my mission in this behalf ended. I remain, my dear brethren, your affectionate Diocesan, JOHN TOKONTO. " Thi,^ appeal was most nobly responded to throughout the Diocese. Meetings were held in the several parishes, at which resolutions were passed in accordance with the spirit of the Bishop's Pastoral ; and active measures were adopted to obtain signatures to the petitions, which his Lordship was to take, as well as organize a system for raising an endowment fund. The following is the petition to the Queen : — To tJw Queoi's Most Excellent Majestij. May it please your Majesty, — We your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, Members of the limted Church of England and Ireland in Tipper Canada, humbly beg leave to represent, that His late Majesty King George the \ 4 U r 'i! to ii 9G THK PETITION TO JHK QUEEN. Fourth, wns gmcioiisly pleiuseil, iu tlie eij,'litli yeur of his reign, to establish and incorporate by a lloyul Charter, under the great seal oll'^n^land, a ('oUene within the Province oi Upfwr Canada tcir the education ol" youth (a.s the said Charter si)ecialiy declared) in tlie principles oi' the Christian religion, and ibr their instruction ill tiu! various branches oC science and literature. Th.it His Majesty was jileascd to give to the said College the name of King's (Jollege, to confer upon it the style and privileges ol'an University, with power to eoiiier degrees in Divinity and in other Faculties, and to [)ass statutes and by-laws for the good goveniinent and iiianagenient of tlie said University, and especially for the perfbnnance of Divine Service therein ; and that J lis Majesty was liuther pleased to provide for the adequate sup|)ort of the Siiid University, by directing a grant of land to be made lor its eiulovvment iroiii the waste lands of the Crown in Upper Canada. We beg leave further to represent to your Majesty, that although by this Charter the University was to be open to all without exacting any religious test from either Professors or Scholars, except as regarded the Faculty of Divinity, yet it was so fiir in connection with the National Church, that the members of the College Council were required to be members of that Church, and subscribe to her articles, and so were the Professors of Divinity and all Students who should take degrees in Divinity. That some discontent having been excited in the Province, on account of these provisions, it was thought fit by his late Majesty King William the Fourtli, to allow the Legislature of Upper Canada to ])ass an Act altering the terms of the Royal Charter in these particulars, which connected the said University exclu- sively with the Church of England, and especially abolishing all religious tests or qualifications, except that it was required that the members of the College Council and all the Professors to be appointed, should make a declaration that they believed in the authenticity and Divine ins})iration of the Old and New Testa- ment, and in the doctrine of the Trinity. That under this altered Charter, King's College preserving its name and the munificent endowment granted by the Crown, was still capaljle of being made a seat of learning, valuable for all who can appreciate the blessing of sound religious instruction for their children : because, although the security of tests was removed, yet there was no prohibition against the establishment and continuance of a Divinity Professorship of the Church of England within the said University, and the regular celebration of Divine Service; and his Majesty King William the Fourth, when he was pleased to assent to the modification of the Charter, having especially re([uired that that advantage should be secured to the members of the National Church ; there was in fact a Divinity Professorship of the Church of England, appointed upon i I'HF. PETITION' TO TIIK QUEEN. 97 the organization (.Ctlio Collfir,., dur\n-ions education ofour youth, having been in this manner destroyed, your Majesty's petitioners feel that it lias now become their duty to make the most strenuous efforts for Ibunding an University or Collef>-e, in which instruction in the sciences may lie combined with a sound religious education ; and in which the truths of Christianitv, ns they are held by their Church can be taught without jealousy or reserve. We do not desire to see tests imposed of such a nature as could create uneasiness among the members of the Church and would consider the great object of religious peace and unity withm the College, sufficiently secured by requiring from all who are to have any share in its government, or any duties as Pro- fessors, Teachers or Officers, to be performed within it, the declaration that they are sincere and faithful members of the United Church of England and Ireland, conforming to her liturgy ; submitting to her discipline ; and believing in her doctrines; and pledging themselves that their conduct shall be always in accordance with that declaration. We entreat that your Majesty will be graciously pleased to grant your Royal Charter for the Incorporation of an University, / 98 THE PETITION TO THE QUEEN. to lie established oji this clcur and iinccjiiivocnl principle, and (<• be snpportod by nu'iius wliicli llu> niend)ers of the Chui-ch will contribute Irom tlicir own resources. The })rivileRe wliich we ask bus been already conceded to the memlH-Ts of the Church ofScuthiud in Tpper Cunudii, and will not, as we luunbly hope, be withheld from the members of the Church of England, composing as they do, the most numerous denomination of Christians in Upper Canada, and bting behind none in devotion to your Majesty's royal personam! government, in obedience to the laws, and in the proofs of a just and tolerant spirit towards all classes of their lellow-subjects. And your Majesty's dutifid and loyal petitioners will ever pray. (Signed,) John Toronto ; George O'Kill Stewart, D.D., Archdeacon of Kmgston ; Alexander Neale Bethune, Archdeacon of York H. J. Grasett, M.A., Cantab ; Stephen Le-j-t, LL.D., Clerk J. G. D. McKenzie, B.A., Clerk ; Arthur Palmer, B.A., Clerk J. Gamble Geddes, B.A., Clerk; Edmund Baldwin, M.A. Clerk; Richard Mitchele, M.A., Clerk; J. C. P. Esten Robert S. Jameson : Edward G. O'Brien ; W. B. Robinson , Thomas D. Harris ; L. Moffatt ; J. B. Robinson, C. J. of Upper Canada; J. B. Macaulay, C.J.C.P.; Wm. II. Draper, J.Q.B. U. Canada ; Alexander Burnside ; Enoch Turner ; William Natowd, LL.D.; Lucius O'Brien, M.D., Professor Med.. Jurisprudence, Toronto University ; George Crookshank ; John Duggan ; John B. Robinson ; M. Betley ; J. W. Brent; W. Stewart Darling, Clerk; James Gordon; J. Beaven ; Thomas Champion. Toronto, Upper Canada, 9th April, 1850. The petitions of which his lordship was the bearer were signed by 11,731 persons, a vast proportion of whom were heads of familie s ( v ) . Previous to his departure for England the several congre- gations of the city presented addresses to his Lordship in reference to his mission. That of the vestry and members of St. James's Church, which was presented by the parties whose signatures it bears in accordance with a resolution V. Appendix. ' it ADORESS OF ST. JAMES' VESTRY. 99 of the Vestry aiui his Lordsliips rrply thereto, are given below: all the others were eouehed in terrnn hreathiii:,' the same affectionate farewell and hojiefiil encouragonient : TO THK HONOURABLE AND RIGHT REVI). Till: LOUD lUSIlOP OF TORONTO. My LoRn,-The Menil.crs ,.f the Vc-stry of St. .fumcs's Church, roronto, benif^ asscni .ledo.ithe eve ofyoiir {.cnlshiiKs inteniU...! departure for hiifrlund, take occasion hi biiUliuir you tor a season a respecttul and allectioiiitte li.rewvll, to express their (h'ep seiLse of the great ])enelils coiilenvd up,,,, the Conm-ation of St. .lames s, by your I.ordsliip's zealous and })erseveriii.r ellorts to promote tlieir spiritnul and temporal weKare, during" the many yenrs you liave been their Hector. They have witnessed with tei'lings of sincere admiration and respect, the same benevolence and energy of chiiracter, constant ly displayed ni a wider tield since your Lordships elevation to the See; and they perceive that these invaaud)le qualities liave lost nothmgof their force, when they see your Lordship at ^rreat personal sacrifice, pniceeding to iMigland for the )urt)os"e of advancing, by your disinterested exertions, the grand obiect of procuring the foundation in Upper Canada of a L'niversity in connection with the United Church of England and Ireland.' Relying with confidence on the kind co-operation of our fellow- subjects in the United Kingdom in so good a work, we look forward with hope to the success of the Mission which your Lordship has entered upon in so noble a spirit, and we be'-- tf> assure your Lordship of our earnest prayers, that you may be spared to return in health to your Diocese, and may live to wit ness the happy accomi,lishmei£t of tlie object towards which a great portion of your Lordship's valuable labours have been unceasingly directed. (Signed) J. B. Robinson, H. J. BOULTON, J. B. Macaulay, FaEDERICK WiDDER. 1 Toronto, April 9th, 1850. REPLY. The kind manifestation of your affection, my dear friends, ,WriT ''''•f'' T''' ""^ "' ^^'^ ^'^'^''''' ^^^ri^es peculiar interest from its reference to my past labours among you, for nearly half a century, as Rector of this large Parish aSd Bishoi, of the Diocese. 1 may with trnth say, that a happier reciproca- 100 rUK LORD BISHOP'S RF.I'LV. tion of kind feeling iiiul ii,()(»il uliict>s,{liirin<>- so loti;^ a period, has jieldom taken place between a jkisIoi- aiul liis dock, and a Bishop and his peojile. In regard to the Mission whicli take? me to England, so late in liie, I am full of liope. The Chiircli of the Diocese has / responded most nobly to my appeal ; and I feel persnaded that thonsands and ten?- of thousands of warm hearts in the United Kingdom will evince tlio ni )st generons sympathy in onr canse, when the wrongs we have snffertvl are placed before them. I bless God that the memliers of the Church in Upper Canada, true to the faith of their iJithers, have so unanimously recorded / their opinion and belief, that r.o separate religion from education is to betray the Truth and dishonour the Saviour. Such an avowal and so universally expressed, will not only raise the character of my Dicce'e throughout the Christian \voi'ld,but'will become a claim on the generous benevolence of our fellow- subjects, v/hich is all but irrosistablc. My blessing T leave with you ; and thank you for your earnest prayers, and entreat for their continuance. Without prayer to God, we can expect no prosperous issue to our la])ours ; iiut with His help we Ciin do all things. (Signed) JOHN TORONTO. On Wednesday, the 10th of April, 1850, his Lordship took his departure for Great Britain, on his i nporlant mission in the cause of Christian education. So early as nine o'clock a considerable number of the most respectable citizens assembled on the wharf at which the steamboat for Rochester lay, a report having prevailed that his lordship was to leave at that hour. The America^ however, waiting for the arrival of the Eclipse from Hamilton, did not start till near twelve o'clock. Thoii;^h fine, the morning was rather cold ; but, notwith- standing a large concourse of what, without exaggeration, we may Icrm the diie of Toronto and its vicinity, remained to bid adieu to one so deservedly dear to them. THE B1S11()I"« DEI'ARTUBE. lOI His lordship, who looked remarkabiy well, and in excel lent spirits, arrived at the wharf aboul: eleven o'clock, and there held an extempore levee, at which were present Churchmen of all ranks,— from the Chief-Justice Robinson down to the toil-bronzed artizau,— who thronged around their good Bishop, to exj)ress their heartfelt wishes that he might be favoured with a propitious voyaj,e and a safe return to the scene of his multiform and onerous duties. On the bailing of the America his lordship was Greeted with three cheers, the energy and enthusiasm of which demonstrated equally the hold which he had upon the affections of the community, and the strong sense which they entertained of the righteousness of the cause he was about to plead in the mother country. Altogether, the scene was most gratifying; and the Bishop appeared sensibly affected by Ihe tokens of regard which accompanied his departure. At an early period after the publication of the Bishop's Pastoral, the Vestries, at their annual meetings, passed resolutions in answer to that document. The terms of these resolutions, as well as the character of the addresses by which they were moved and supported, proved how com- pletely the sympathy of churchmen was with the Bishop, and how zealously they were prepared to second his exertions in the establishment of the proposed University. As an example of the feeling displayed on these occasions the following extract from a speech delivered by the Hon. John Hillyard Cameron, at the meeting of St. George's Vestiy is given. Speaking of the Bishop's Pastoral he said : — 102 MR. CA.VIEROiN'S bl'EECH. "He felt tlmt tlie lan.^iiage used iji that document would be admitted by all Aviio read it to bo literally aud strictly applicable —that it was indeed a feeling and a ijouerlld iip])eal. It was, unhappily, not more poweriiil than the circumstances to which it relerred were deplorable :uid unprecedented. Not contented wjth depriving the Church oi'England other interest in a Royal endowment, as if the gi!t of a King were unworthy of the respect accorded to that of any private citizen, her enemies had consummated their injustice by taking aAvay the very Charter of her University also. Churchmen might, ])erhaps, had that been Icll them, have felt less cause of complaint ; lor there was Christian piety and lil)erality enough in the body to furnish, if needful, an()ther endowment ; but it was hard that the result' of years of toil and wisdom should be swept away in a moment, and the Church be reduced to the necessitv of reconstructing li-om the ibiindation all of which they had witnessed the growth and hoped, with Cod's blessing, to see the Ihiit also. "Down with It !— Down with it, even to the ground !" is the cry of those who would see the Church abolished, that the restraints of reli- gion might be abolished also ; of those who Avould see the altar overthrown beciiuse of the glory that burns upon it, and the temple destroyed because of the voice of righteousness, temper- ance, and judgment to come, that is heard within its walls. And who knows how soon, if present principles go unchecked, there ■may be seen on this continent, as the Old World has seen Christianity traini)led under loot— the " big ha' Bible" hauled in derision at the tail of an ass— and the infidel priests of an infidel generation tearing off the ecclesialtical garments, and announcin«r their adherance to a religion of " liberty, equality, and morality ;" and another Voltaire and another Marat, fit representatives of atheism and murder, declaring the creed of the people to be — ♦' Death is an eternal sleep ?" He felt that it was high time for the true sons of the Church to put forth their strength, and to show to their rulers that the rights of 200,000 peopfe were not to be trampled on with impunity. The University had been liberalized, but that was not enough. The Clergy Reserves must be attacked ; the Rectories denounced ; and all the rights of the Church of England and her children in this colony held as things of nought. What should be held sacred, and where would con- fiscation stop, if neither Royal bou- 'y nor Imperial sanction, in the most authentic act of the Legislature, could confer a title /beyond the reach of assault ? The Legislature had changed the character of the University— the fiat had gone forth, and the law must be obeyed ; but could not the Church of England build and uphold a college of her own in Upper Canada, throucrh the piety and munificence of her children ? If the Roman Catholic and the Presbyterian nnd the Mctliodist had each a seat of / learning, could the Church of England fail to establish a ;m •:■ i' m'l < PROVISIONAL COUNCIL APPOINTED. 103 University, which should extend the blessing of a sound religious education to the remotest posterity, and out of the evil of crafty and designing men create permanent and abiding good ? Edu- cation should never be separated from religion ; and yet the whole system in Canada was founded upon that separation, as if the thought of prayer and praise were never to weigh with the aspirations for intellectual cultivation, and the deadening of the heart to every Christian feeling and duty were the highest object of legislation in a still professedly Christian land. It had been said that the attention of Churchmen siiould first be turned to the common schools — that there should the purifica- tion be commenced ; but how was such a change to bs effected until the lawgivers of the Province were brought to acknowledge that secular and religious instruction should go hand in hand 1 — He thought that we were beginning in the proper place. Let a University be established — let the youth of the Church be educated there — and they will go forth to their various avocations throughout the length and breadth of the land strong in faith, and the belief of the purity of the doctrines of their Church ; and through them the people will learn and appreciate the blessings of religious education. It was but a small thing that each were called upon to do ; but how much good would the aggregate effect, and a feeling would be aroused in the Province that would awake the hearts of those who had been slumbering for years, and show to the Christians of every other denomination that the members of the Church of England were no longer supine, but with the aid of the divine power were determined to labour unceasingly to obtain sound religious instruction for their children and their children's children." A Provisional Council was appointed at a general meeting of the friends and supporters of the undertaking, and active measures were adopted to secure the co-opera- tion of Churchmen throughout the Province, by opening subscription lists for the collection of an endowment fund. A reference to the Appendix, in which is contained a list of benefactors, will afford testimony to the prompt and liberal response which has been made to these applications. The meetings of the Council were held at slated periods, and the progress of their exertions was duly reported to the Bishop during his stay in England. In the course of the summer of this year Drs. Hodder /i I 's 104 ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MEDICAL FACULTY. and Bovell projected and organized a School of Medicine ; the advertisement of the course of instruction to be pursued in which was advertised under the title of the "Upper Canada School of Medicine." With these were associated Drs. Badgley, Hallowell, Bethune and Melville. On his Lordship's return from his transatlantic journey, (y) a deputation from this School waited upon him, and tendered their services as the Medical Faculty of the projected University, should his Lordship have contemplated ex- tending the range of education to all the liberal arts and sciences ; and viewing the difficulties necessarily attendint^ the early progress of such an undertaking, these services were offered gratuitously until the revenues of the Univer- sity should be in a condition to warrant the payment of a competent remuneration. His Lordship cheerfully and readily accepted this offer, and as the usual period for the commencement of the Winter course of study had already arrived, he sanctioned the naming of a day on which the several teachers should begin the labours of the first session of the Faculty, by delivering the cus- tomary Introductory Lectures in public ; His Lordship kindly promising that he would himself open the pro- ceedings in a formal manner. Accordingly on the 7th of November, as previously announced by advertisement, the Faculty met at the Hall of the Mechanics Institute, the use of which had been vcy liberally granted for the occasion, and at which the public and friends of the University had been invited to attend. A most numerous and influential meeting was assembled on the occasion. At eleven o'clock, A.M., his Lordship took the chair. The Vi His Lordship arrived on the 4th of November, 1850. THE BISHOP'S ADDRESS. 105 Rev. H. J. Grassett, M.A., said a selection of prayers from the Morning Service, after which His Lordship thus ad dressed the audience : " He experienced much gratification on his return to the Province, when a deputation called upon hnn to inform him that several gentlemen of the Medical i)rofession wished to esta- blish a School of Medicine, to be attached to the future Church University, the principles of which — when in o^^eration they were disposed to adopt ; the leading principles of that Church University being, that religion should form the basis of the whole system ni education,, being by far the most important part of knowledge that man could attain, and that neither the advantao-e of individuals nor the prosperity of the State could exist unlels guided by religious principles. This being the case', and con- sidering that an efficient School of Medicine would be an advantage to the country, he felt it his duty to attend on the present occasion, and to make a few observations, which how- ever must be few, not having had either time or opportunity to make himself accpiainted with the details ; but he would observe one circumstance that established a coincidence between the gentlemen now commg forward on the present occasion and the King's College, London. He woidd now state to the meeting what had happened in respect of the University Colleo-e in London. There had been previous complaints of the want of more moral and religious care of the medical students of that great city, that they were under no sort of discipline, exposed to all sorts of temptations and misery — and in consequence it was not to be wondered that many went wrong. This was more conspicuous in the Medical School attached to that University and induced great numbers, as the evil was increasing rapidly to turn their thoughts to the remedy. With tluit vTew, they iulded to the course of instruction at King's College, a medical department; and the result has l)ee]i that King's Cd/eoe is now equal, if not superior, to the University College in that branch of instruction, and this has not only ])roduccd a salutary chau're on the students in the School of King's College, but on the* Hospital students also. It would be consoling to know that in\ England they continue to point to reliaion for their best example ^ and even among dissenters they were fully alive to the areat ' importance of religious instruction as inseparable from educa'tioii. In all the coimtries in which religion \\as not the; basis of in- struction, the most melancholy results followed. They had sad experience on the continent of its fruits — th(^y need only I u^kio the events in France and Germany. In the ibrnier couniiy the result was a revolution in 1789 and again in 1848, and bolli Prance and Germany are still in a sadly distracted state, and the only way to save England from similar misfortunes would be •J I sf i w r •; u ( 106 THE LORD BISHOPS ADDRESS. never to depart from those precepts which God Himself enjoined that religion should be busis — the only ground of happiness, both here and hereafter, and that we could only hope to prosper in proportion to the prevalence of religion amongst the people. Henceforward the prin9iple of this, the beginning of the Church University of Canada, would be that these gentlemen would see to the necessity of religion as the basis ol instruction — that by it, they would raise the minds of their pupils — shew their care of their bodies, and lay the foundation for the welfare and hap- piness of their souls. He would nere briefly allude to his reception in England. It was most gratifying from all quarters, fiave in one solitary exception, that he was attacked in a paper which he considered beneath his notice, and which, only in compliance with the wishes of friends, he should not have noticed, feeling that a life of fifty years — spent, he hoped, in the faithful service of his Maker — was the best guarantee for the purity of his motives and conduct, and he felt, if that were not sufficient to establish it, it were vain to expect to do so by means of a letter in a newspaper — for by that means a reputation could never be restored. On his arrival in England, he had addif^ssed himself to all the Bishops, in order to ensure their aid to promote his object, and from all he had received most encouraging replies and experienced much kindness and sympathy. In fact, there was but one opinion on the object of his journey, which was, that it was one worthy the labours of a Christian Bishop. It was a satisfaction to him to find that Sir Ilobert Peel, (now, unfortunately, no more,) and others whom he had also seen^ were fully sensible of the great injustice and hardship of the measure, which they said, could never have been countenanced in England, and which had robbed them of the fruits of years of toil and imposed their present labour upon them; but he felt pleasure in now announcing that they would begin the building in Spring, having obtained a sum which was considered suffi- cient to justify their doing so. Indeed his success under all circumstances was considered very gratifying. It would be so arranged that on the first of October next, the course of Instruc- tion would be in full operation ; not, certainly, on a great scale, but quite sufficient for a beginning. There would be three branches of education then ready to be entered on. Theology, Science and Classical Literature, as well as Medicine, this d'ay begim. He expected before October to have two gentlemen of high attainments to take charge of the department of Science and Classical Instruction — having made arrangements before his departure to secure their services ; and, as business increased they \yould be able to choose tutors, and assistants to take a share in the drudgery of the labour ; for this purpose they would hereafter be supplied with ];)ersons of character and solidity, and every eflort would be made to ensure the services of men to —- ** '*"~*i^!i(t*R«s - V .- PROCEEDINGS OF MEDICAL FACULTY. 107 promote that great object, by means of which, they hoped to rescue the youth of this Province from the sad oonseqiiences resulting from the want of religious instruction, which have blighted the youth in both Germany and France." (His Lord- ship here sat down amid loud applause.) At the conclusion of His Lordship's address, Dr. Badgley commenced his Lecture on Medical Jurispru- dence, and was followed by Dr. Hodder on Obstetrics, Dr. Bethune on Anatomy, Dr. Hallowell on Materia Medica, Dr. Melville on Surgery, and Dr. Bovell on Medicine. These Lectures w^ere adapted as much as the respective subjects would permit, to a popular assemblage, and were received with marked attention and interest. At their termination His Lordship again addressed a few remarks to his hearers, and terminated the proceedings by the benediction. The following remarks of the " Church " newspaper, in reporting this meeting, afford evidence of the favourable opinion entertained of this proceeding : On Thursday last the Lecturers of the Medical Faculty of the Church University delivered their introductory addresses in he Mechanics Institute Seldom we have witnessed in Toronto a more mteHigent and nfluential assemblage than tharXh filled the Hall on this deeply interesting occasion. Seldom, if ever, has our Province witnessed a more interestinir event than that which took place on that occasion. Gei erat on! ye unborn will keep that day in remembrance, connected afts with the hrst operations of a University founded to counte mc? i the infidel spirit of the age, and to combine the bless n's of I Science with the far more specious blessing of Christianity"" Regarding the ability displayed by tlie res])ective Lecturers but one opmioncan be entertained. Brief and popular a the wpT'. 'irT'']^ ''''''' '^''^ ^^^'^"i^^'^^l the most^olid assui- ance that the teachers of the newly-formed School are tn Iv competent for the effective discharge^f the dut est^li ^^^^^^ have undertaken; and that, under their fbsterinir earc h^ \' 10S TURNING THE FIRST SOD. \ On tlie 23rd of January, 1851, tlie Provisional Council })assed a resolution to the effect that Mr. Kivas Tully and Messrs. Cumberland and Ridout, should be applied to for designs for the intended building, the estimated cost not to exceed £8,000. After some deliberation Mr. Tully's design was adopted by the Council, and tenders were advertized for. On the 13th of March the tender of Messrs. Metcalfe, Wilson and Forbes was accepted for the sum of £7845, and and orders were given to commence the work forthwith. On Monday the 17lh of March the first sod was turned ; this interesting initiative act was witnessed by many friends to the cause, and was performed with solemn and impres- sive ceremony. The day was somewhat lowering and unpromising, but at noon the Lord Bishop accompanied by the Council, Architect, and Contractors, surrounded by those who had assembled on the ground, proceeded to the spot determined upon, when his Lordship thus addressed them : — " Gentlemen, — We are met, according to appointment, to give the commencement to this important undertaking, — and it is our intention to confine ourselves strictly to breaking the ground, as we shall soon, if it please God, find a more fitting occasion, when we come to lay the foundation-stone, for some of those tonus and cerenioiiies, which ancient ustige has prescribed and hallowed lor such occasions. It is, nevertheless, decent and becoming that we should mark the first beginning in such a manner as to convince om- friends, that we are in earnest, and to prove to the careless or the indifferent that our holy Church possesses a vitality, which no earthly })ower can sup])ress. '• We may seem to tliose who look only to earthly and outward appearances, as a feeble band ; and because we have little or no endowment, to be in danger of passing away like the summer cloud : but it is a work which has for its object the glory of God, and the extension of His kingdom ; and, therefore, if we prosecute it in the right spirit, it will obtain the Divine blessing, and be sure to jirosper. " We have indeed much already for which to be thankful : the contributions of the members of the Church, both here and at home, have enabled us to contract for a noble edifice, which THE BISHOP'S ADDRESS. 109 will, It IS hoped, not oiily ndurn, but become the channel of nuiii v hlessnigs to this city ami J)u.ce,se. Even ulmuly, wo st u al to worldly means and appbunces, much in advance of the two grea Lniversities in .ndaiid at their commencement, whose scholars, many years alter th.y beonn Ihe business of ins ri^ ion were so poor, iis Chancer tells us, as to be connvllecl o r rrv their own grist to the mill ; and irom so small a 1 e: ARCHIDIAC: EROR- A: BURNSIDE. ARMR HON: I: 15: ROBINSON REV: H: I: GRASETT. A:M: HON: 1: B: .MACAVLAY I: ARNOLD. ARM"' L: MOFfATT. ARMR HON: I: GORDON. HON: I: G: SPRAGOB P: VANKOVGHNET. ARMH HON: R: S: JAMKSON E: M: IIODDER. M;C:R: M: STItACHAN. ARM* 'A: N: MACNAB. ESQVS. COLLEGII. FIDl'CIARir REV: H: I: GRASETT. A:M: G: GVL: ALLAN. ARMH L: MOEFATT: ARM'' COLLEGFT. VECTIGALIBVS. PI'tAEFECTI HON: G: CROOKSIIANK. HON: GVL: ALLAN HON: I: GORDON T: CHAMPION. COLLEGII. SCRTNIARIVS K: TVLLY. ARCIUTECTVS I: METCALFE. A: WILSON. D: FORBES REDEMPTORES DEVS. TNCEPTO. KVKNTViM. DET. FAVSTV.M FVNDATOR. IDEM. QVI. ET. KVNDAMKN ECCLKSTAE. VMVKliSALI.S ADSIT. IIS. QVIBV.s. DISCI I'LINAE. CnillSTIANAE OMNESQVE. AJt'lXS. Oi'l'lMAK IN. HIS. SEDIBVS. SINT. EXCOLENDAB. 123 ' m m 124 TRANSLATION OF INSCRIPTION. Professor Hodder, M.C., read a translation of the in- scription : In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Allien. On the 30th of April, 1851, in the Fourteenth year of tlie reign of Victoria, by the Grace of God, Queen, Defender of the Faiih, and while the Risrht Honourable the Earl of Elgin and Kincardine \yas Governor-General of British North America, this Foundation Stone of Trinity College, Toronto— an Ini^titution established for the furtherance of the Christian Religion, and all the Liberal Sciences- was laid by the Honourable and Right Reverend John Strachan, D.D., LL.D., Bishop of Toronto. The College, now commenced, is built through the munificence of those who, at his earnest instigation, both in Britain and in thia Diocese, gave with willing minds, as to the Lord, gifts of money and lands, for the accomplishment of this object. To this devoted and persevering Prelate, who, throughout an extended life, labours that the youth of Canada may at all times be trained in Christian principles, let posterity render grateful thanks. With the Bishop, who is deservedly tlie first President of the College, have been associated the following, as the Council of the College : The Ven. G. 0. Sttiart, D.D., LL D., Archdeacon of Kingston. The Ven. A. N. Bethune, D.D., Archdeacon of York. Alexander Buritinde, Esq. The Hon. J. B. it^nson. The Rev. H. J. Grasett, M.A. The Hon. .T. B.^Macaulay. J. Arnold, Esq. L. IVHiflTatt, Esq. The Hon. J.^Sordon. The Hon. J. G. Spragtre. Philip M. Vankoiftiinet, Esq. The Hon. R.XJa meson. E. M. Hodder, M.C. J. M. Stik^an, Esq. Sir Allan N. ^cNab. ^ trustees: Rev. H. J. Grasett, M.A.; G. W. Allan, Esq.; L. MofTatt, Esq. . TREASURERS : TheHon.G.C^)okshank; ThcHon.TK^llan; The Hon?«li^Gordon. Thos. CI^mpion, Esq., Secretary. K. Tully, Architect. Metcalfe, Wilson and Forbes, Builders. God grant a prosperous issue to the begun labour! May He, who is at once the Founder and Foundation-stone of His Church, be ever present with those who shall, within these walls, devote themselves to v^hristian learning and the liberal sciences. .J SIR A. N. MACNAB'S ADDRESS. 186 The Arcliitect then handed the trowel to the Lord Bishop, and the stone having been adjusted, the Bishop said : « Our help is in the Name of llie Lord." " ^Inswcr. Who hath made made heaven and earth." « Except tiie Lord build the hou.se, their labour is but lost that build it." Upon which liis Lordship, having struck the stone three times with the mallet, said : " In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. I lay this corner stone of an edifice to be here erected by the name ol' Trinity College, to be a place of sound learnmg and religious education in accordance with the principles and usages of the United Church of England and Ireland. Other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, even Jesus Cliiist, who is God over all, blessed for evermore ; and in whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins." Amen. After laying the Corner Stone, Sir Allan Napier McNab addressed the Lord Bishop to the Ibllowing effect : My Lord Bishop, It affords me great satisfaction to congratulate you, and through you all the Churchmen of your extensive Diocese' upon this auspi- cious commencement of a work, the completion of which is ardently prayed for by all who desire the dissemination of sound religious and secular education ; combined, as on the very highest considerations they ought to be, m order that all things may work together to the glor>' ot God, and the advancement of Christ's kingdom on earth. 1 he realization of their hopes must prove likewise the accom- plishment of what a long, active, and useful life spent among us abundantly evince— is a great object, that you have for many long years devoutly and zealously laboured to effect ; I trust tliat the blessing of God will attend the exertions of yourself and mpportcrs to the end, and that we have here seen laid the foundation of an Institution that shall extend its blessed influence to the latest posterity. Ihis IS not a time, my Lord, to review the causes that have led to these renewed efibrts on your part, or to recount the exertions and perseverance, through which (impelled bv the highest qualities that dignify and adorn our nature,) you have \von the admimtiony esteem and gratitude of all who knows and appreciates your high merits, in the exalted and bacred office in which it has pleased 126 LATIN ORATION. Providenco to place you, for t)w j^cod of this community, and the welfare ol niankiiul— tli(>y have estal.Iislunl you in the hearts and ancctionH ol ,is i,!I ; aii.l 1 am sure tl,:,t I only exi)ro.ss the common leelins, when I pray thai you may loiiir emjov healtli and Htrenglh to prosecute your hi-h Christian .hilics with (^oalinuod success. We nil contemplate the happy issue of the i)reMf>nt work, not only in its construction, hut still more in itn cllicient operation, as of vital miportance to the i.rosperity and wi^ll I.eing of the memhcrs of our Llimcli ui particular, and also of all classes of Nociety in general • inasmuch as what.ver contributes to the one, necessarily nrovci beneficial to the other. ^ Master Johti Bethunc, a soji of iho Venerable Archdeacon, read the Address from tlie Pupils of St. Paul's Church Grammar School, as follows : Hon. et Revcrendo in Christo Patri Joanni .Strachan, S.T.P.,LL.D. Episcopo Torontonensi. Gratias tihi afrimus, Pra'sul Reverendissime, quod, per comitalem tuam, nobis hodie to adire liceat. Nostram crga te observantiam profiteri volumus, tibicpie, item que Provinciic, hunc lajtum diem- hoc apus tam felioiter inceptum — j^iatulari. Nos (|uidem, j|uamvis in primo iPtalis stadio, Ecclesiro veritates, histonam, instituta, pra'seitim Sacras Scripturas, magni ffistimamus. Hffic apud nosquam i)luiiimun valeiit; his incumbere, duce caro pra'ceptore, nos delectal ; ideoque doctriiiaiu sine religione, Htera- rum quoquo famam nisi Dei gratia acedat, parvi ducim'-;,. Optamus, igitur, et speramus Ibre ut in hac Academia, cujus fundamenta post tot curas tantosque labores(l)eo adjuvante) jecisti,perraulti erudian- tur adolescentes, non minus nuiiibus integris religiosis que quam scientia ornali, qui, cum in vita privata turn in rebus pubUcis capes- scndis, Ecclcsia) pra^sidium et decus evadaut. Deus O. M , noslris enixis precibus annuens, hoc sanctum opus ad felicem exitum adducat, teque ipsum multos annos, quos beata demum sequatur immortali(as, salvuin atque incolumem coneervet. E. Schola Sti. Puuli, Jpud Toronto, Prid. Kul. Mains, J. S. N., MUCCCLL To which his Lordship made the following reply : Gratidationibus vestris, Pueri carissimi, valde delector. De religione et doctrina consociandis rectissirae quidem judicastif" ; certe enim metuendum est ne quasi venenatum poculum fiai doctrina, nisi « antidotum suam" (ut est apud unum e nostris philosophis) religio infudisset. *^ ' THE lilDDJNO PIIAYER. 127 Fieri non potiut quin sumino dolore ulliceremur quum Colleffii Rfgalis ovcrHioru.n, vuliHsemus ; i„ |,ac. tart.on Acaclen.i.i Univerfli. tatem istam, uiKiuisHimo cverHuni, rosurgentem Hpectaro videmur • HI minus opibus llo.cntom, auHpiciiH tumon Banctioribus, quoniam erga Rcginam pan fidditate, Ecde:*ia. nostra vinclis arclioribuB con- jiincta erit. Frcti Dei piu-Hidio Imud q.inquam debitainus (|uin hujus operi«,— ad Doi .rionam, in Do. nomine suHcepti,-relicem exitum confulenter BpcranHiceat. 111., Opiimo, Maximo, prec^cH a.lhibeamus, ut Col- legium J5 S 1 rimtatis, cum eriiditionom ac Bcientiam— turn " Qiiidquid habent telorum armamentaria cffili » alurnnia buIb ministret. H6c magnoperc! l.etor ((uod a pra;ceptore vestro certior factUH sim. yos quibus studiiH vera; lauden comparantur, iisdiligenterincumbere m pra^sertim qua. ad pictatem erga Deum, a.l Dei Ecclesiam, ad liominum salutem, ad vitam sompiternam pertinent. Ha;c, Pueri caris8imi, excolere pergitote. atque ut parentum. patria', imprimis Dei gratiam vobismet concilietis summa industria onitimim. Jd si fecentis, exidtimationis integrw in vita presenU (lecus parabitis, m vita futura autem immortaliB glorias premium (JesQs Chriaii propter merita) vobia tribuetur. The Venerable Archdeacon Bethunb then delivered the Bidding Prayer, as follows :-— Let ua pray for Christ's Holy Catholick Church, that is, for the wort ;;^""^:^ff "/''/^'ristian people dispersed throughout the bdon ^^'^"'"''"'^^ ^""^ **'''* P"''^ and reibrmed part of it to vvhich we u ^T/'l ?.'"■''*,','''' Sovereigns, Princes and Governours, especially Her Most Excel ent Majesty, our Sovereign Lady, Victoriaf by t le Grace of God of the Unitrd Kingdom of Great Britain and Iriand, Queen Defender of the Faith, over all persons and in all causes witnin her dominions supreme : i/r "'! ^''•\^' Highness the Prince Albert, Albert Prince of Wales, and all the Royal Family. Pray we also for all those who bear office in this part of Her GeneS •' '"""""' ^""^ ^*'''^'" """"'^ particularly for the Governor For the Ministers and Dispensers of God's Holy Word and Sacra- men s, whether they be the Arclibishops, particularly John Bird. Lord Archbishop of this Province, or Bishops, particularly John Deacons 7 ^f.^^ is Diocese, or the inferior clergy, the Priests and Deacons ; for the Executive and Legislative Councils, the Judges, Magistrates and Gentry of the Province ; that all these, in then' several stations, may serve truly and faithfully to the honour of God D : 'iM msi :ill 128 THE REV. H. J. GRASETT READ PRAYERS. and the welfare of his people, always remembering that Btrict and solemn account which they must themselves one day give before the judgment seat of Christ. And that there never may be wanting a supply of persons duly qualified to serve God, both in Church and State, let us pray for a blessing on all Seminaries of sound learning and religious education, especially the Universities of our native country ; and, as in duty bound, for this religious foundation of Trinity College. Pray we likewise for the Civil Incorporation of this City ; for the Worshipful the Mayor, the Aldermen, and all that bear oflice in that Body. Lastly, let us pray for all the Commons of the Province ; that they may live in the true faith and fear of God, in dutiful allegiance to the Queen and in brotherly love and Christian charity one towards another. And, as we pray unto God for future mercies, so let us praise His most holy name for those we have already received ; for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life ; but, above all, for our redemption through Christ Jesus ; for the means of grace afforded us here, and for the hope of Glory hereafter. Finally, let us praise God for all those who have departed this life in the faith of Christ, beseeching him that we may have grace so to direct our lives after their good example, that with them we may be partakers of His heavenly kingdom. These prayers and praises let us offer humbly up to the throne of Grace, in the words which Christ himself hath taught us. Our Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name, Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into tempta- tion ; But deliver us from evil : For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, For ever and ever. Amen. The services were concluded by the Rev. H. J. Grasett, M. A., with the following Prayers : Let us Pray. Almighty God, who hast built thy Church upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the head cornerstone ; grant us so to be joined together in unity of spirit by their doctrine, that we may be made a holy temple acceptable unto thee : through Jesus Christ our Lord. — Amen. Almighty and Everlasting God, who hast given unto us thy ser- vants grace by the confession of a true faith to acknowledge the glory of the Eternal Trinity, and in the power of the Divine Majesty, to worship the Unity ; we beseech thee, that thou wouldestkeep us stedfast in this faith, and everujoro defend us from all adversities, who livest and reigncst, one God, world without end. — Amen. THE INAUGURATION. 129 Glory be to God on high, and in earth peace, good will towards men. We pra.se (hce, we bless thee, we worship thee, we gbr fy thee, we give thanks to thee for thy crreat dorv O Tnr/rnH Heavenly King, God the Father Almightv ^ ^' "^ ^°'*' OLord, the only begotten Son, Jesus Christ; O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, that takest away the sins of the vvorTd have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the sins of «ie world have mercy upon us Thou that takest awaythe sins of the wor d FaTher Zvr'""- ^^°" ''''' ^'"^^* '' ^'^^^V hand of GoTthe father, have mercy upon us. Ch^lsttZ^hi^r, ^rV *''"" ""'y ^'^ '^^ 1^°^^; thou only, O The Bishop. hJrtl^n'r^'^i ^"'^u^'t'"^ ^'''^^^' ^" understanding, keep your Jesus ctTn.V'i '^1 '"''t'lS' '"^"^^ ^''' ofGodand'of £Json Jesus Lhnst our Lord ; and the blessing of God Almiditv the CEREMONY OF INAUGURATION. At eleven o'elock, A. M., on Thursday, the 15th January, 1852, the Morning Service of the Church was celebrated in the temporary Chapel of the College, which was filled by those who were to take part in the proceedings of the day, the friends and benefactors of the Institution, and as many as could obtain access-the passages and staircases being occupied by attentive listeners. There were also many in the Halls and other apartments of the building who were disappointed in joining in prayer and praise, from the neces- sarily limited accommodation afforded by the room. The prayers were said by Iho Reverend Provost Whilaker. The Reverend Professors Parry and Irving, read the Lessons. 130 THE INAUGURATION. The Anlhem was taken from the Collect for the Seventh Sunday after Trinity, and was feelingly sung by the Choir of the Church of the Holy Trinity. The effect of the sing- ing, particularly of the Jubilate, under such peculiar circum- stances, was most thrilling ; the heart seemed carried away by the influence of the sacred melody, and the memory of similar scenes came afresh to the mind. The congregation then proceeded to the entrance Hall which had been very judiciously arranged for the occasion. At the north end, on the dais, sat the Lord Bishop, in full canonicals. On either side of him were placed the Coun- cil of the College, with the Reverend Provost and Pro- fessors, in their respective academicals, the Clergy in their robes, and the other College officials. Below the dais were seated the students and candidate matriculants — the rest of the space being filled by an auditory evincing the most earnest attention. Notwithstanding the severity of the weather (it being one of the coldest days during the winter), there were many ladies present. The proceedings commenced by the Reverend The Pro- vost calling upon the Students to sign the declaration of obedience to the rules of the College, which was in the following words : — « I (A. B.) do hereby promise and declare that I will, with God's help, during my residence in this College, Ihithfully obey the Laws thereof, and diligently attend to the studies required of me." The Theological Students then advanced and subscribed the Thirty-nine Articles. Each Student, after signing, withdrew to an adjacent room and put on his academical dress, and then returned to his seat. THE LORD BISHOP'S ADDRESS. 131 The Rev. Professor Parry presented each Student sever- ally to the Provost, with the following address :— " Pra3sento tibi hunc juvenem, bene quod scio moratum et satis doctum, qui inter alumnos nostros recipiatur." The Rev. the Provost then admitted them, using the fol- lowing formula : — TrilSfis'"' t;'''''< ""'^^ '"'"'"'''" '^"^'"^ '" '■" Collegium S. S. Tr nitati6 Tu aulem Deum t.meto, Roginam honorato" virtutem cohto. Disciplmis bonis in hos Collegio operam dato." The Lord Bishop rose and delivered the following address. My Brethren, — I feel it impossible to address eo respectable an audience on this occasion, auspicious as it is, without experiencing a strange mixture Z^^^^^^I^JT'-- -' - ^^^^ -cien?Poet C n„n^l'!^'T^'^f ^"T'!'^'""'^^"^"^^^'"^'-^ College about ten years ago, I declared, as I then truly felt, that it was the happiest moment of my hfe, and that I had been anxiously looking and vvorking for during more than forty years, as a consummaSon of the ^n-eZst importance, and which, under Divine Providence, was eminentt calculated to advance the glory of God and the best interests of man . Again, m June, 1843, 1 was called upon to take a prominent pari in the proceedings at the opening of the same Institution for the busme^ss of Instruction, and in my address I remarked that we were assembled to celebrate an event to which many had been looking forward for nearly half a century-that it was a work of infinit? value to the well-being of Canada-and the proceedings with which It was attended would henceforth become a matter of history, while the College itself would shed the most precious blessings over e whole country. •= ^ But, vain are the hopes and labours of frail mortals : it was not permitted to proceed in its useful labours. For, in a fevv months ,t was ruthlessly assailed, and, although at that time unsuccessfully 'its enemies continued their warfare and accomplished its suppression before the termination of its seventh year, just as it began to bear Iruit and wm its way into the aflections of the people. On the 7th of February, 1850, or about five weeks after Kind's to lege uad ceased to exist, I sent a Pastoral letter to the Clennr and^Laity of the Diocese, informing them that wo had been deprived I !ng 3 ^cnlego, the gilt of our Suveieign, and that an University had been substituted in its stead, with which we could not in any /* 132 THK INAUGURATION. sense, BH reliffii'us men, co-operate, — that it therefore was incum- bent on ns to giicrifice endowment rather than principle ; and, as it was impossiI)Io for us, great as the sacrifice might be, to hold con- nexion wilh ;in Institution essentially anti-christian, though originally- bearing the honored name of its Royal Founder, George IV., and established expressly for religious purposes, it became a matter of necessity, as well as duty, to establish a University from our private resjiourccs, in close connexion with the Church to which we had the happiness to belong. To this appeal my people nobly responded, and subscribed in money, lands, and stock in building societies, about twenty-five thousand pounds currency. Yet, great and praise-worthy as this exertion was on the part of the Diocese, we have good reason to expect much more. For widely as the appeal was circulated, it did not reach many who would have, most willingly, contributed. Some held back on the supposition that the work was far beyond the ability of the Diocese to carry out— '.hat it might fail after much expense had been incur- red — and they did not feel satisfied to contribute towards a probable loss. Temporary inability, and other causes, prevented many friends to the object from coming forward at that time, but there was throughout one cheering circumstance — all bade us God speed. Encouraged by what was aciTmlly done within the Diocese, and fully persuaded that much more would be done when the College was seen in successful operation, I prepared to visit England, being convinced that the cause I had to advocate could not fail to command the sympathy of all who belonged to our communion and awaken their best affections in its favour. This step was indeed absolutely necessary, because scarcely one- fifth of the amount subscribed was in money, and which, even if paid up, was altogether insufficient to erect the requisite buildings, and lay the foundation of anything like an adequate endowment. On the 30th of April I reached London, and lost no time m address- ing letters to the Archbishops, Bishops, Clergy and Laity, Members of the Church, telling them, that under the pressure of what I felt to be a great necessity, I had ceased, for a short time, my Pastoral labours in the Diocese of Toronto, to appeal, I hoped not in vain, to their sympathy in behalf of their brethren in Upper Canada. The full explanation of the causes of my visit, my object and wants, was most favourably received, and munificent donations granted. In this the two great Church Societies and the University of Oxford took the lead. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts voted two thousand pounds, payable by instalments of four hundred pounds per annum ; and a donation of seven acres and a half ol land within the precincts of the City of Toronto, worth, at least as much more. The Society for Promoting Christian Know- threo thousand ; and the Ilniversitv of Oxford fivR ledge granted hundred pounds. The subscriptions from individuals throughout ^•m^ iJuala throughout THE LORD BISHOP'S ADDRESS. I33 England exceed four thousand pounds, in sums of tens, twenties and fift.es, up to ^104, from Liverpool. One generous benelS deserves pa't.cular notice, Charles Hampden Turner, Esxpu're F R S., Rooks Nest Park, Surrey, who has -iven us the princely' ft offive hundred pounds This gentleman takes a warm inteaS n Upper Canada, and ,s the munificent supporter of all enternrLs and Tf mTnklfd!' ''" '" ^'^'^ ^'J^^^ ^'^ ^^'"^"^^ -'^ teznporSreT^ Had I been able to remain six or eight months longer in En-dand to preach and to hod meetings in the large towns, and rnnkemv object more generally known, I verily believe tha I shou d have realized more than double the amount received-but it is It ton ate-a fresh appeal for farther assistance may be novv fi K made to our fnends ,n the Diocese, as well as in England, who have no^ yet given assistance. Nor need we hesitate to lay 'our case before our countrymen m the United States, and claim from them the'r good wishes and substantial aid in building up an Ins™ uUon m which they may plac;e full confidence, for theni-ture ami educa- tion of their sons upon the most correct and purest princip^s_he?e hey wi 1 be surrounded by a population truly Engl sh am all iCt earn wd be founded on a religious basis. The same may be said our fellow-subjects in the West Indies. Their youSliH he e find a chma e exceedingly healthy-they will, on their arHval find hemse ves domesticated in a large family, under a like disu'j'line as to regularity and order, as distinguished the great houselioldSnl On my return to the Diocese, on the 2nd of November, 1850 I StedT t£L''r? f ""''f ^"'"-^ ^^ ^''^'' -^ J -™- esults, which proved, as might have b.^n anticipated, highly a "a- factory to all our friends and benefactors. ' ^ ^ Our first pressing object was to find a suitable site for the Univer sity and in what part of the Diocese it should be placed. Ave^ fifty acres ot hmd close to the town, on which to erect the University buildings. T us was a great temptation, for there ,s not pcrS a beauty of the Town and District-its central position and compara. ve retirement, were much in its favour. A like olfer was made Zh bi^ 7' ''''' possesses many local advantages, and which had, for many years, been the seat of ourTheologicarSemin- ary Intimations were alsomade from Hamilton of great encourage- ment, should it be chosen for the seat of the Institution. But as^'t I'Xrly^'' ^^^^^^ '^'^^"^^ reasonable that the wishes of the subscribers, so far as it was possible to ascertain them, lil m lit 134 THE INAUGURATION. should be carefully vveis,'hed. First, it appeared that the donors in Enirland, lli()uu;h placing full ])ovver to determirio thi, and every other matter respecting Trinity Collei^e, in the hands of tlie Bishop, expressed a desire that it should be at or near the Bishop's See, that it mi^fht enjoy the benefit of his advice and superintendence. More- over Toronto, from its central situation, is more generally convenient for the whole diocese than any other place, and the greater portion of the amount subscribed within the Diocese was contributed by its inhabitants, much of it in the expectation, if not on the condi. lion, that it should be at or near it. These difl'erent grounds decided the question in favour of Toronto, and to the general satisfaction, and what was very pleasing, by the dilferent towns which had r^r^op liberal overtures for its presence. The next step was to choose an eligible site, and after a . search we had the good fortune to secure one of twenty acres, fronting Queen's Street, and commanding a view of the Lake and harbour. It is considered, by every person capable of forming a correct judgment, to be the most beautiful and convenient for the purpose that could have been selected in all the neighbourhood. Having purchased the site, another question arose, as to building or not building for a few years, which would have been not a little perplexing had we required merely a Hall, Lecture rooms and Chapel ; but as our College was to be one of residence there was no alternative, for we could not even commence till we had suitable accommodation for the Students. Proper buildings could not be found to lease, and if they had we should not ordy have had their rents to pay, but, in addition, the interest of the money laid out in the purchase of the site, and which would remain useless till built upon, Our only profitable course therefore was to forward the erection of the College buildings as quickly as possible. Plans were accordingly advertised for, and contracts entered into for erecting such a portion of the one preferred as our funds would enable us to meet, postponing the remainder till our increased numbers and resources made it convenient to complete the whole. Thus it appears that in all our proceedings we have consulted, in the most courteous and liberal manner, the feelings and wishes and opinions of our benefactors, in as far as was practicable, and the best proof of it is, that on all sides we meet with their cordial approbation. And now that we are assembled in a large and finished portion of this splendid structure, which is allowed by all to bean ornament to the Capital and creditable to the Diocese, we may honestly con- gratulate ourselves and one another on the great and rapid progress which we have made in our undertaking — and lift up our hearts in thankfulness and prayer to Almighty God that as he has so far blessed our endeavours, he will continue to bless them to the end. Some of our supporters, living at a distance, may, no doubt, have wished to be with us in all our steps of progress, and we should have cordially haded their presence and profited by their counsel, but this THE LORD BISHOP'S ADDRKSS. 135 donors in /ery other a Bishop, ! See, that . More- onvenient 8 greater Dntributed he condi. Is decided ction, and lad rr^.i\p tera . ity acres. Lake and forming a it for the ■hood. building lot a little ooms and ;re was no id suitable Id not be had their lid out in s till built •ward the tered into ids would increased e whole, [isulted, in i'ishes and nd the best probation. ;d portion ornament lestly con- 1 progress r hearts in baa so far the end. oubt, have lould have el, but this could not be. They are several hundreds in number, scattered over all England and Upper Canada ; and, as is usual in all such cases, ihe burthen and responsibility of carrying outtheir views were, of neces- sity, thrown upon those who were near enough to make their attendance not particularly inconvenient. All has been publicly, and It IS hoped, well done. The minutes of proceeding have at all times been oQjp to subscribers-half the Council was named by them, and the otherlialf by the Bishop, in his own behalf and the subscri- bers in England who honour him with their entire confidence While vve wcrcaclively employed in preparing for the opening of Trinity College and the commencement of instruction, a Committee offourof the morst eminent Clergymen in London were prevailed upon, at the Bishop's request, to undertake the selection of the gentlemen who were more especially to preside over, and conduct die Institution. After much trouble and many disappointments, this Committee have discharged their onerous but most important duty, m a manrier highly creditable to themselves, and, it is believed, to the great benefit of the Listitution. The Provost, who is also Pro- fessor of Divinity and Head of the College, the Professors of Classical Literature and of Mathematics, are now present and pre- pared to begin the discharge of their respective duties. Thev brine with them the highesttestimonials,andieputationsof which we may be proud, and which cannot fliil of calling our infant Institution into speedy notice ; but I dare not, in their presence, proceed any farther on this part of my subject. Suffice it to say that we shall commence the business of instruc- tion in greater efficiency than has yet been attempted in any of the IJritisli American Colonics, under five departments— Theolo-^y, Classical Literature, the Mathematical Sciences, the faculty "of Law, and the faculty of IMedicinc, including Chemistry. All our arrangements arc of the most liberal and satisfactory kind. The care bestowed m making our various appointments, whilst proving our great anxiety for the success of the College, offijra a sure pledge of future watchfulness over its interests. Cherishing the hope of conlerring a lasting benefit upon the Church and the couni.y, we shall proceed with double confidence in every department- for though we naako religion the basis of all our teaching, there will be no neglect of any of those secular branches of knowledge which are embraced m the most extensive and approved systems of Academi- cal education. Having thus brought the history of Trinity College down to the present hour, I will now, with your permission, proceed to make a lew general remarks on the beneficial results which we an- ticipate from the discipline, training and instruction which are to be employed. This is perhaps the more necessary because the larger portion of our young men will come to us from a distance, and it will gladden the hearts of their parents to know that, though not immediately under I ■, 136 THE INAUGURATION. their watchful eye, everything will be done to supply the place of paternal counsel and maternal tenderness. As there is no system of education to be compared with that which is carried on at the domestic fireside, so that which in advanced years comes nearest to it, is unquestionably the next best. Now, one of our principal objects in this Institution will be to bring back to the hearts and affections of our youth the fresjfcind innocent impressions of early infancy. With what deep emotions do we find the best and greatest of men recalling, in after life, the blessed influ- ences which they imbibed under the paternal roof— the holy truths communicated and the first faint accents of prayer which a pious and tender mother whispered in their ears, invoking the protection of their God and Saviour before she kissed them and consigned them to their night's repose. On such sweet and pure recollections they delight to dwell, for at home all our best and holiest charities and affections begin, and from this centre they extend through an ever widening circle. Our desire then is to build upon this holy founda- tion, to form ourselves, in as far as possible, into a large household, and keep as near as may be practicable to the order and economy of a well regulated family. There will be daily and hourly intercourse between the youth and their instructors — reverence for superior age and attainments, and a prompt obedience to all their reasonable commands. There will also be among the young men themselves an affection- ate brotherhood, confidential and salutary companionship, noble resolutions, aspiring hopes, useful conversation and friendly intimacy, on terms and with an intensity which nothing but a College life will admit. But, were they scattered about and living here and there in lodgings, these advantages, great and precious as they are, would be altogether lost. In regard to discipline, we cannot surely be required, in 1852, to shew that it is unnecessary, — on the contrary, the experience of all ages and countries points out the advantage of subjecting the passion- ate and enthusiastic period of youth to salutary control, as well as the great difficulty of rendering it effectual. This difficulty it will be our endeavour to surmount — not that we hope entirely to reduce to order those who are determined to be vicious, for, to a certain degree, all plans of restraint, however judiciously carried out, will be found deficient — yet a steady and just system of control, firmly but affectionately exercised, will do much. Even residence alone, will be found highly conducive to the encour- agement and preservation of correct moral conduct. It removes many from temptation, who are too weak or timid to resist — it keeps others from vicious practices who were at first open to no higher motives :— and even where offences may have been committed, it prevents the habits of vice by the watchful supei-vision employed — the certainty that those who persist in cvi! courses will at length be discovered, condemned, disgraced and expelled. THE LORD BISHOP'S ADDRESS. 137 Moreover, it sets up and establishes, if not always the hichest. yet a respectable standard of morals' and behaviour, which will become purer and more elevated ay tiu y advance in life Let it be added, tiiat the young gentlemen who come hero, and who niay, m future years, become leading men in society, as Clertrv- men, Lavvyers, Physicians, Statesmen, Merchants and Landed Pro- pnetors, &c.,are to be subjected to this salutary vigilance and con- trol, not in boyhood, but from sixteen to twenty-two, or during the who e of the.r residence at College. To be thus under a well regu- ated restramt for several years, during the most critical period of their lives, IS an advantage of great value, and gives the surest guar- antee which It IS possible to obtain that they will leave the Institu- tion vvith characters and attainments honourable to themselves and full of promise to their country. On the other hand, we may rest assured, that even to young men naturally well disposed, the effects will not only be calamitous, but in many instances blast their prospects in life, if they be cast loose as It were in a large city like this, without a friend or counsellor whom they revere, without any moral discipline, left to choose their abode, and their hours and companions as they please— to attend, or not attend the worship of God, and fall a prey to every corniption. _ Doubtless, in some cases, under all these disadvantages, early impressions of religion, through God's grace, may preserve them from evil, and bring them out of the fiery trial, corrected, strengthened and improved. But is this the natural result that we are entitled to anrcontfon '''''''"''^ °^ '''^^''''^ supervision, discipline It would therefore seem that nothing is more likely to benefit Students than to afford them an opportunity of living together in society-of which the regular attendance upon religious ordinances, the observance of correct and gentlemanly habits, and obedience to a wholesome restraint, would form prominent features.-Thence we infer that without residence within the College, the full benefit of collegiate life and education cannot be obtained. The facts of attending daily service in the Chapel, morning and evening,-listening to the religious lectures-dining together in the Hall-conversations on their progress in their studies-cheerfullv conforming to the rules of order and regularity prescribed, will seldom fail to produce good habits j and, as we are the children of habit we may, by God's help, gain those that are good more easily than the wicked learn such as are evil. When we speak of education based on religion we mean, bv rehgion, the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, and%hat instrS m this the most important of all knowledge, shall not be confined to public worship, but shall enter largely into the studies and training of every department of the College. Thus the Students in the Arts and Sciences, as well as in Theology, must attend lectures on, the Holy Scriptures, and the doctrines and duties of Christianity, in con- 138 THE INAUfiURATfON. formity with the leaching of the Church of England, several times week, and be, from time to time, examined on what they have heard and learned. And it will be well for Students who are attached to the Law and Medical departments, though not required to reside within the walls of the College, to attend the religious instruction thus afibrdcd them as often as possible — for such instruction is necessary to all men, to sanctify their thoughts and actions, and qualify ihem for a higher state of existence. For the embodiment of the doctrines of Holy Scripture, as they have been universally received in all ages by the Catholic Church, and their adaptation to public worship and teaching, we point to the book of Common Prayer as our guide — that is the whole Prayer Book— the Creeds — the Catechism — Articles and Otliccs for the Holy Sacraments, &c.— but in doing this, the Church of England neither supersedes the supreme authority of the Holy Scriptures, nor adds to them, for they contain all things necessary to salvation ; she merely seeks, in the most approved and certain manner, to lead us to the right understanding of the Christian Faith. Hence we find the doctrines taught by the Bible expressed, in nearly the same words in the Prayer Book, and feel assured that we are in possession of the truth. In no branch of the Catholic Church are the Scriptures so extensively used in the public services as in ours. Wc hold the Book of Revelation in special reverence, and no person can attend on the ministration of our Church, for any length of time, without becoming intimately acquainted with its contents. Associated with the Book of Common Prayer, the Bible, as has been beautifully said, fits every fold of the human heart, and is felt to be God's Book. It is also felt to be man's Book, because it satisfies all our thoughts and feelings, and leads us willingly to receive it as divinely authorised, and the scheme of human and divine things which it presents as essentially true. How comes it then, that this, the most precious of all books — the rule of faith— the light that guides to eternal life, and which, till lately, was revered by all professing Christians, is now excluded from our schools and plans of education, or only doled out in shreds and patches, and even these deprived of all vitality by the divorce- of the doctrines — the sum and substance of revelation 1 — We answer that it is a fearful sign of the times, and of the prevalence of infi- delity. It is true that some few of what are called the good and wise of this world are not unfavourable to this proceeding, because they are labouring under a delusion, and perceive not the hidden purpose of the man of sin to deprave the heart — corrupt the moral taste— and keep religion and the Holy Scriptures constantly out of view. And yet no man can open the Bible with a sincere desire to findittrue, without being convinced ihatitis a revelation from God. Does he look for a ground of veneration — he finds it in an antiquity unrivalled. Does he search for evidences of its truth — he meets THE LORD BISHOP'S ADDRESS, 139 them in the tostimony of miraclos nnd prophecy~in the ministry of men and angels— yea, even in God manifest in the ilesh, blessed for ever more. Does he ask for it.s authority— it speaks from heaven in vision— m prophecy, directed by the Creator of all thinL's, and the giver of every good and perfect gift. In regard to its truths, we find tiiem lovely, sublime and holy, as God is holy. Arc we anxious to know what benefits it olfers-all who read it will reply with ono voice, that humility, resignation, purity, order and peace—faith, hone chanty, are its blessings upon earth. ' i > Now, if we are really sincere in our Christian profession, wo ought to exert ourselves to the utmost of our power— nay at tho haxard ol our lives— to remove this profanation and restore the Bible to Its true position in education from the first school to the hif^hest seat of learning. But if we stand aloof and surrender our chifdren to a system of instruction which not only excludes the Book of Life but places It under a ban, and permit them to be fed widi the husks! instead of the bread of Heaven, we are guilty of a serious olTence beJore God and expose ourselves to his just displeasure. In Trinity College I trust that the Bible will ever occupy its true place as containing the whole revelation of God,the source of all our hopes, and the safe foundation of all our teaching. In turning to you, my young friends, who are now about to com- mence your studies in this College, time warns me to be very brief- and it IS the less necessary that I should detain you on this occasion because, I trust, I shall have many opportunities of conferring with you on your duties, hopes and prospects. Sutler me to remind you that in this College you will enjoy every facility and incentive to active exertion which you can desire— and do not forget that the spirit of the times in which we live has pro- nounced knowledge, power— and ignorance, degradation. Nor can the youngest among you fail to perceive that he who wastes in idle- ness the opportunities of early life, will lose caste in after years, and lull back from the honourable companionship of his former associates, and Irom the station in society which he might iiave claimed. Above all, whether you pursue your studies with the view of advancing in the several professions to which you are destined, or merely for the cultivation of your minds, never omit to improve tho means of regulating your moral conduct and forming your hearts. Hold fast the conviction that you are following the allotted path of duty, under the guidance and protection of One witli whom is the result of all your labours, and under a deep responsibility to One with whom IS no variableness neither shadow of turning. To you whose destination is the sacred Ministry, I would say : lo what nobler aim can you dedicate your facuUics and acquire- ments tlian to vindicate the groat principles of our common faith, and oelend them from the assaults of inildelity. Be not content with mediocrity— aspire to that eminence which has been attained by the great preachers of other ages, the honoured champions of the Protectant Faith. i it 140 THE INAUGURATION, Latiies and Grntlemen, — This risint; University lias been hap- pily named tiio child of the Clmrch'd advprnity, [;ecaiisc it is the olTsprin^'of uncxnmplod oppression— a solitary plant in n thirsty land, which may yet suHor for a reason, iind^r the frown of those whoso duty it is to nourish and protect it. T3ut the God whom wo serve brings good out ofcvil, and makes the wrath of man to praise him. We tiierefore take couragi', and ll;el assured that as he has smiled upon our undertaking this far, he will bless it to the end. In (he meantime, 1 trust diat Trinity College will hcneeforfh he aflectionately recognized by every lay and clerical member of our communion as the legitimate child of the Church, and entitled to the benefit of their protection and daily prayers. It must have been a gratifying consummation to the Venerable Bishop's holy ambition, when concluding his eloquent speech, he looked around and saw the crownin" efforts of his lifelong exertions participated in by many whose earliest intellectual culture had commenced under his own direction, over whose spiritual welfare he had so long and successfully watched—and pardonable indeed would it be, if amid the many emotions called forth by the occasion, there was a mingling of mere human gratifica- tion. Rarely has it been permitted to man thus to wit- ness the fruits of his springtime labours brought to such ripe maturity. Nor could he who succeeded the Venerable Prelate in addressing the assemblage, have failed to parti- cipate in many of the feelings thus faintly shadowed. Side by side they stood, the master and the pupil— both having compassed the highest attainable honours in their respective professions, and sharing in the good work in hand. The Chief Justice, who was warmly received, spoke to the following effect : My Lord Bishop — . . ^ You have, my Lord, from the fullness of your^ Seart, addressed this assembly, on an occasion in which you may be supposed to feel a stronger personal interest than in any other public event of your life. From the Venerable Archdeacon of York, and from the Reverend . ...-Tvot, Av cUaii near ■vvuii piuaauru ine observations buggested to THE CHIEF JUSTICE'S ADDRESS. |4| ll.om l.y a day «o full of cnco„rr,irinp l.op.s for (l.o Chnrcl. of Enc land and for this country ; and I trust I ,sl,al| „ot bo thou!du to to an-sunung .i pa.t m tins ^ralilyin. ceremony which .Iocs n t prmu^r v belong to me,d I venUuv, on hehalf of a lar^c hody ornn o J inty would .icsiro to have said, in connection with the scene before And fir«t, my Lord, I am persuaded that I speak what is unner jnos m the mu,ds of all who are aroun.l mo, when I lur^vw Lord«lnp of our conhal sympathy with those feelinc.. which must possess your nund when you look upon the build ^.i^vhich^ve ^C^Si^ta^^^^^^ ''' ^'-^- which CtHlla^u^ w. I some day be acknowledged that it wouhfhave been no le s fo tie advantage than the honour of this Province if it ln7?n lo d-irerent termination. Many who, under trsaLcicu^^^^^^^^^^ jusineu Ji tiiey had then given wav to despondency ; and thev wni.l,] p obably have eft to another generation the seen.i^gi; ho 2sTS a luclcd to, no excuse for despondency, but rather a caU for ra„ odTate It has been long ago said, in a noble spirit of Dhllantliroiu^ thnt I ought to be the aim of every man, wiii/e pa.sinf u^7 i^e ?o eave behind him some enduring proof that he has not lived in vain^ some usefu monument of his labours, by which his name mav he Sdia^orL ?r"^"" ^f"^^^''°"^- '''' tha^lSraSvv! leclgo that your Lordship, standing under thereof of Trinitv Colle-re and in he presence of its duly appointed Profc'soi^ has fX' acquitted yourself of this debt to' posterity, while ksa't the samo .me our peculiar advantage to 'know ?h'at as fi 1 res laveTot vmrLoiZin^n', K . convinced, wlio can be so inllucntial as Sn ^ whatever remains to be done for placin-this Insti- U^ on on a secure and adequate foundation; nor is ere one of whom all the friends of the Church can say,'with > n udi reason that they are sure his utmost o.xo.ninns will to hi« h - r. ? k ' devoted to its service. — -"-"^ win, to ins latu.i moment, be 142 THE INAUGURATION. Our prayer is, that it may be permitlod to your Lordship to witness, for many years to come, the growing usefulness of this seat of learning, which owes its existence to your well directed perse- verance ; and to assist with your countenance and advice those who have been selected to lay the foundation of its system of instruction. To these gentlemen we can readily believe that this day must be one of anxious interest ; for they cannot but feel that our chief depen- dance is on them, for the success of what has been undertaken in so hopeful a spirit ; while on that success must again, in a great mea- sure, depend the satisfaction and comfort which are to attend them through the remainder of their lives. We may be assured that tliose friends of your Lordship, who kindly undertook in England the very delicate and dillicult task of selecting our first Professors proceeded under a deep and anxious sense of the responsibility which attended it ; and that they were most solicitous to acquit themselves failiifully of the trust. As one of the College Council, appointed under the Statute, I may be per- mitted to say thai we acknowledge ourselves to owe them a great obligation for the successful manner in which they appear to have fulfilled it. Of the higher qualities necessary for the discharge of such duties as are to be performed here, I do not take upon myself to judge, but there are others of which I can form an opinion, and which are so far essential, that there could be no hope of success without them. Speaking in reference to these, which will be understood to include disposition, judgment, and discretion, I have sincere pleasure in stating my conviction that the learned Professors, whose duties in the Institution are to begin this day, will be found possessed of excellent qualifications for the charge they have undertaken. They are, I believe, as fully satisfied as wo can be, that in those who arc relied upon for preparing the minds and dispositions of youth for the business and duties of bfe, moderate exertion would be no more suited to this time and country than moderate attainments j and, on the other hand, it will be satisfactory to them to feel assured, as they doubtless may, that they can in no other way so strongly recommend themselves to the friendship and confidence of the Members of the Church of England in Upper Canada, as by bringing up the youth committed to their charge, to be zealous, fiiithful, and undoubting Members of their Church, and firm and consistent sup- porters of her rights — loyal subjects of their Queen, lovers of order, cheerfully, and from principle, obeying the constituted authorities, and the laws; and just and kind in all their intercourse with their fellow subjects, of whatever class, — religious or political. And it cannot but be most satisfactory to these Reverentl Pro- fessors to reflect that, not distracted or checked by consiilerations of political expediency, they will be under no obligation to withhold from God any portion of what they believe to be his true and reason- able service, from deference to the dissensions, jealousies, or pre- !^, (■■ THE CHIEF JUSTICE'S ADDRESS. 143 judices of men, but can teach sincerely, and without reserve, as they know they will be expected to do, « all things which our Church instructs us a Christian ought to know and believe to his soul's health. I do not for a moment imagine it to be any part of my province to offer counsel to our young friends who have just matriculated in 1 nnity College. They will have better and abler instructors. But, as It does sometimes happen that advice is more kindly received when It does not come attended with authority, I will venture, in a few words, to express my earnest hope that the young gentlemen who will be sent here to receive the inestimable advantage of a sound rehgious education, may at all times so conduct themselves as to prove to their instructors that, in regard to disposition, deportment, and moral conduct, the youth of Upper Canada stand in no disadvan- tageous contrast with the youth of other countries, as, it is admitted, they do not m point of natural endowments. And, in particular, I trust they will bear constantly in mind of what consequence it is that they should be careful, no less for the sake of the College than for their own sakes, to repress all disposition to insubordination, to vicious indulgencies, or degrading habits, con- vinced, as they must be, that while these cannot fail to bring discredit on themselves, and the most bitter disappointment to their parents and friends, they must also prove injurious to the reputation of this College, and, m a great measure, frustrate the benevolent intentions of Its founders. It may be admitted to be true that, in the course of the liberal studies to which they will be invited within these walls they will find some instances, (though they may be few in proportion) of men in whom the light of genius will shine so brightly as to be seen, though with greatly diminished lustre, through the un- lovely mists which their vices and folies throw around them ; but they will also find that those who, by common consent are spoken ol as the lights of the world, and have been remembered from age to age as the benefactors of mankind, were men to whom the restraints of early discipline were never irksome,— who had no youthful excesses to repent of, or youthful extravagances to deplore, but who left the seats of learning, as they had left the parental roof, with minds uncontaminated and characters unspotted. How enviable the lives of such men, who, haunted by no reproaches for time wasted or energies abused, or faculties perverted, can look back with grate- ful and affectionate remembrance on the years spent in their College as the period when the foundation was laid of an honourable career in life, and of those Christian dispositions and principles which can best afford to them a happy immortality, and uest prepared them for Its enjoyment. I have yet something to add, with ycm Lordship's permission, upon the condition and prospects of this Institution, not however descending to details, for which this would not be a fitting occasion. \ 144 THE INAUGURATION. It must have been evident to all v^^ho have duly reflected upon It that the most formidable difficulty attending its establishment is the difficulty of proceeding gradually in such a design, on account of the necessity that exists for making the system of instruction sufficiently comprehensive from the first. Whatever preference parents might feel for the sound principle on which it is founded, it could not be expected that, in order to sustain it, they would consent to place their sons under present disadvantages, which could never afterwards be repaired. An imperfect system of education would scarcely be accepted at first, and would not be tolerated long. When we look around us we see that, in all that regards public instruction, the pro- gress is rapidly onward. The great efforts which our Legislature has of late years made to improve and extend the system of common school education, is a highly honourable distinction of the present time. The revenue raised expressly for that object is large in pro- portion to the population of the Province ; and the system of instruc- tion which it supports is conducted with acknowledged ability and zeal. The many Grammar Schools, besides, which are being estab. lished throughout this portion of Canada, cannot but assist greatly in raising the standard of intellectual attainments throughout all classes of the community. It must follow as a consequence that those who are to fill the learned professions, or who are likely from their position or property to aspire to a lead in public hfe, will require superior qualifications. If they are to be eminent, it must be above those who will stand upon a higher level than the great bulk of the people could before attain to. There seems then to be a strong necessity for commencing at and upon such a scale as shall be reasonably suited to the requirements of an age remarkable for its rapid advancement, and wonderful dis- coveries in the sciences and arts, and for the practical adaptation of those discoveries to the useful purposes of life. And besides, the pursuits of commerce have become of such increased importance, its interests so varied, its arrangements so multiplied and complicated, and the competition they give rise to so keen and so incessant, that not only a quicker application of the faculties, but a much wider range of knowledge, has become indespensable for those who are engaged in the active business of life. The professions demand higher qualifications. Wholly new departments of science and of art have been created ; old errors have been exploded, new processes and combinations adopted ; what a few years ago were subjects of speculation and cautious experiment have become established facts, and engage attention and claim obser- vance in the current transactions of the day. The Members of the Church of England cannot, if they would, withdraw, for the sake of religious harmony and peace, into a sequestered haven, and let the great current of human affairs roll by them ; they must, like others, adventure upon the waters, prepared to bear their parts, with the best equipments they can provide— THE CHIEF JUSTICE'S ADDRESS. I45 studious above all things « not to make shipwreck of their faith " their ourfr' "' '' '"'' '"^^ ^'^" '^'^ ^^^^* -^'^^ is to dire'ct Relying upon the blessing of Providence in so good a cause the Councl has concurred with the Lord Bishop in gofng to the 1 mi of their means m appomting the scale on which the College is t™om mence Its operations ; and they feel it to be their peculiar Lodrr tune that the faculties of Medidne and Law, for which thevwouIH otherw.se have been at present unable to p^ovd^wm ^^^^^^^^ placed on a h.ghly efficient footing by the zea lou servTces of We ought, perhaps, to congratulate ourselves that the course nf events,inai,sp,c.ous as it has seemed to be to the United cCh of England and Ireland, has at least this eifect, that it has led to the establishment of this College, for the education of her son In perfect and unreserved communion with her faith-standing, in that rLpect on a footmg more entirely satisfactory than King's CoHele did even under its original charter. ^ ^ojicge aid, even That this principle of avowed and unreserved connection is that on which such institutions can be conducted with the best prosoec of harmony and efficiency, seems to be a truth as clearracZw lenged and acted upon by the other large religious communities ?nTo which the popu atiou of this Province is divided as by us • and surely it would ill become the Church of England to be Ss ea'rnesi Z~' ^'^"^^^^'^^^^^-^ doctrine, and the puHrof iS Ph^r'ih %v Tlf^' J* '' "°* ^^°"^ *'^« Reformation that the Church of England dates her existence. We are not separated from other Christian communities in consequence of any recent adont^ on our part of a doubtful interpretation of some text of SiptJe o, any modern scruple in regard to forms. Nothing else that we most fondly venerate-not the glorious flag of England, nor the g^a char er of our liberties, has, from its antiquity, so stron^. a claim to our devotion as our Church. It is the Church which from age to age, the Sovereign has sworn to support ; centuries hav^ paiedSfnce holy martyrs have perished at the stake, rather than denv her 7oc- ^.nes; and the sod of England is hallowed by the dust of count ess worthies who have sunk to their rest professing her creed, and nvok mg blessings on her labours, after lives illustrated bvpiet; andlearn mg and devoted in the purest spirit to the welfare of mankiml May the honour be conceded to Trinity College, in the progress PsLrity "' ^ ^""^ ^ '"' *" ^^^ ^'"^"'"^ admiration of t 146 THE INAUGUKATKJN. The Venerable Archdeacon Bethune said — My Lokd Bishop, Ladies and Gentlemen: We have, as Christians, the peculiar comlbrt as well as advantaoe of possessing the direction of Divine Revelation in the minutest points of duty — in all the particulars that relate to the conduct of life, and to the necessary preparation for eternity. And, as a part of this benefit, it is highly important that, at a moment when even pro- fessing Christians have fallen into so great a conflict of opinion upon the subject of education, we should have the guidance of the Divine will, communicated in the Bible, as to what the training up of an immortal being should be considered to comprehend. The very admission,indeed, of our immortality should be regarded as deciding the character of the education we are to receive. Although much of it must of necessity refer to what will qualify us for the ordinary occupations of life, there should be an accompanying and habitual training for that existence which is to have no end, and the main enjoyment of which is to consist in ihe knowledge and love of God. It is not necessary to explain how powerfully objects of sight and sense operate upon infirm beings, placed, as they are, in the midst of their seductions ; and how likely these are, from the connected claims of present interest, to exclude the higher objects of faith. To this we are to refer the wantonness of speculation, in which mankind too commonly indulge in contemplating the claims of these respective objects ; and the preference they are led to give to what is visible and present over that which is unseen and eternal. Hence the disposition, too prevalent and unhappily growing, to regulate systems of public education so as to bear exclusively upon the interests of time, and to shut out, if not the knowledge, at least the recognition of our position as immortal beings. I have said that, amidst the doublings and contentions which these comparative claims have begotten we are much favoured in not being left to the imperfect light of reason, or to the native prompting of the heart's affections ; but that we have the benefit of a heavenly direction — -the recorded injunctions and recommendations of the Church of God from the beginning. In a far distant era of its history, we are furnished with the Divine commendation of Abraham's anxiety and care in the religious instruction of his household : " I know him that he will command his children, and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment." We have the same duty embodied amongst the precepts of the law as reiterated by Moses : " And these words " — words which referred mainly to obligations to fear and serve God — "which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heartland thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when i\\n\\ lipst down, and whfip fbon rispst tjn " T^t^ mvtA David's injunction was, " Come, ye children, hearken unto me j 1 will teach Hiiilii'W ARCHDEACON BETHUNE»S ADDRESS. 147 you the fear of the Lord.'' And this was the well-known advice ol Solomon, the wisest of men : « Train up a child in the way he Bhould go, and when he is old he will not depart from it " That the Jews so understood all this is evident from their cistom, after a steady preparatory training in childhood, more completely to instruct their children in the obligations of the law at the age of twelve because they were considered amenable to those obligations at the age of thirteen. This explains our Lord's being in the temole amongst the doctors, hearing and asking them questions, at the aee of twelve ; when their astonishment was expressed at his discrimi- nation and judgment in proposing such questions, and his ability in answering them. -^ That our Lord designed the training of children to be correspon- dent under the Gospel dispensation, is sufficiently evidem from these his own words: ''Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not ; for of such is the kingdom of heaven." Our Lord's Apostles were not negligent in pressing the same duly, as their epistles to the Churches abundantly testify— containing frequently amongst other practical exhortations, injunctions like these • <♦ Chil' dren, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. And ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath; but bring them un hi the nurture and admonition of the Lord.'' We know too that they bequeathed to their successors the same care and duty ' and we are well assured, at least when Christianity was permitted to breathe from Its trials of persecution, that this was a duty formally included in the responsibilities of the Church. At an early a^^e we are informed of the appointment of persons whose office it was to instruct the catechumens in the first principles of religion and thereby prepare them for baptism ; and, although the highest orders of ordained ministers sometimes engaged in this laudable service, we read of an order of men specifically appointed to this duty, who had never been admitted even to the lowest grade of the ministry of the Church. In corroboration of this, we find the following cornparison m an early Christian writer: "The Church is like a ship : Christ is the governor; the bishop, the pilot; the presbyters, the mariners- the deacons, the chief rowers ; the catechists, to admit passen-^ers into the ship; to shew them the conditions they were to perform- viz., repentance, faith and new obedience, in order to their admit- tance into the Christian ship, the Church, in which they were to pass through this world to the kingdom of heaven." We have i testimony also of the existence of schools for catechetical lectures and Christian instruction, in various branches of the Church, as early as A.D. 181 ; and of one at Alexandria it is specially said, that " it 1 was a school of sacred learning from ancient custom lon<^ before " ' As an evidence of the connexion of these places of learning with the Lhurch,the proper guardian and director of all learning, we observe an incidental allusion, in an ancient ecclesiastical historian, to Julian the apostate, that, "in youth he frequented the Chwch, where in 148 THE INAUGURATION. those days the schools were hcpt?'' It is recorded of Orlgen, one of the most learned of the early Fathers, that he entered upon hia religious course in the catechetical school ; and a canon of the sixth General Council of Constantinople recommends the setting up of charity schools in all country churches. Upon the long night of spiritual darkness which followed — over- clouding the truth, and well nigh excluding the pure light of the Gospel from the world — I need not here dilate; suffice it to say, that those clouds were dispersed, and, in our own maternal land at least, the beautiful structure of the visible Church was preserved in the' integrity of its proportions, while the superinduced corruptions of a supeistitious age were cleansed away. Yet we know full well how in the wantonness of that young freedom, many an innovation was introduced, and many a holy usage abandoned ; and how, amongst the abuses of this recovered liberty, there followed gradually the abolition or decline of many systematic and national arrangements for the maintenance of a religious education. In these latter days, to render the education of the young a mere devise of the world bounded altogether by earthly views and interests — and so to trample under foot the regulations of the heavenly wisdom — mighty efforts have been put forth; high powers of understanding have been exerted ; the craft and seduction of appeal to the grosser and more susceptible feelings of mankind have been sedulously tried. Against the strength of this warfare, Christians, duly instructed in Catholic truth and practice, have had to gird on their armour and interpose the shield of faith. A secular and selfish policy has come in like a flood against us, to overturn, if possible, all the ancient barriers set up against unbehef and ungodliness. The blighting tendency of such a system of unsanctified education cannot ])e denied or disputed. For grant to it the full ex.'cnt of the world's boastful assertion on its behalf: grant that, in the phraseology of the mere utilitarian, know- ledge is power, what more does it amount to than the ability of doinc more either of good or evil than other men — but with the chances fearfully strong in favour of the evil, while no accompanying correc- tion is furnished against the continual impulses of a corrupt nature and a seducing world ? A S3'-stematic effort, sanctioned and encouraged by parliamentary enactment, has been made in this Province to inculcate the same pre-eminence of secular learning, and the same exclusion of that which sanctifies all knowledge and renders it really beneficial to men. But it is not my province, in an address like the present, to dilate upon the character of our Common School system, nor attempt to shew the extent of infidelity and ungodly living' to which, in pro- cess of time, if pursued upon its avowed principles, it must infallibly lead.* Nor need I do more than allude here to the boldness of the • I may observe hen; that the present Superinttndpnt of Education in Canada West, Dr. Ryerson, would avert this effect, if he could ; but such is unque.stiou- abiy the influence of llie system. ARCHDEACON BETHUNE'S ADDRESS. UQ impiety which, for the upholding of such a svstem tvnnl.l on i to abstract violently and^ in opp'o sitio^to laT^ ^^^^^^^^^^ been formally and so emnlv civen to Gn,\\ rh,J\ J"''"^" ^\"^* "^^ heritage; which would rutl^le^ ei.e , on th Iff '" '"^''^"^^'^ and religiously set apart for theUTnTenaCVi^?tSrTV''''^T practice of Christian ty, and employ the hWIp.- ^"^ ^^g« ^"^ ixtending a character of edSSrwhi?I^mns^ •" ^^''^t^'"^ ""'^ be more and more sensible of the enormitv nftl l , ^ nowcver, to a protest has recently been exXJsed ' hi ^^"'^^^'^"e^^J «»d against it, that we cJn harc%Sw trsekt I'hi-""'^."^'"^ prove the absolute nJd of fuveShX "7 '''T '" the principles of Christian tn 1™ T^f ^ea an^ n,Z,rf ''' f P™ venerated Diocesan have provoked manvlo^li 1? "^ T en.erprisei and i 168 PROVISIONAL STATUTES MEDICAL FACULTY. PUOVISIONAL 11ULK8 TO DS 0B8BBVBD BY THE STUDENTS IN MBDICINK. 1. Students in Medicine may either reside within the walla, or at their respective places of abode in the city. 2. All Students who reside in College will be amenable to tho rules and regulations governing Students of Arts. 3. Occasional Students who reside without tho walls will lie expected to comply with tho same rules when within tho walls, except as regards the attendance at Chapel in tho case of those who are not members of the Church of England. 4. All Studints intending to graduate must either take a Degree in Arts, or pass .ho usual Examinations appointed for Students at the University of Cambridge. 4. All the Students, whether matriculants or occasional, will be required to register their names with the Dean of the Faculty, at the commencement of each Michaelmas and Easter Term, and to observe strictly all other rules or by-laws which may bo passed by the Faculty from time to time for the regulation of their studies. UULK3 TO DB OBSEHVED BY CANDIDATES FOB TUB DEQBEB OF M.D. 1. The ordinary period of Medical study will extend over Twelve Terms, and the Students who have kept all their Terms, and acquitted iliemselves satisfactorily in their Examinations, will then be entitled to a Certificate from the College, or, in the event of the College having the power to grant Degrees, to the Degree of M.B. or M.D. 2. All Candidates for tho Degree of M.B. must produce evidence of a. Having attained the age of twenty-two years. b. Having taken a Degree in Arts in this or some other recognized College, or having passed the Examination styled " The Little Go Examination" at Cambridge. c. Having attended not less than two courses of Lectures during two Terms, upon each of the following branches: Anatomy and Physiology, Practical Anatomy, Institutes of Medicine, Practice of Medicine, Principles and Practice oi ourgery; OP TRINITY COLLEGE. 160 And ono courne of two Terms upojj Materia Medica, Chemistry, Midwifery, Medical Jurisprudence ; And a course of ono Term on Practical Chemistry and Botany, d. Three consecutive Terms nt least must be kept in this College ; and no Certificate of attendance^ win be recognized from any institution in which two subjects are taught by the same individual, except in the case, of Chn.cal Med.cne and Clinical Surgety, which mav be taught respectively by the teachers of tile Principles and Practice of Medicine and of Surgery. ^ Having attended the practice of a recognized Hospital for eighteen months, and some Obstetric InstituUon for six months. /. Having passed Examinnlions in all of Iho above suWecIs g. Having wntlen and defended a thesis on some medical De'a t F^cX """''"'"' °"' "^"""^ '' "■" e. THE DBGREB OP M.D. ,1, '^I'i'p^f^'''^ '"''y ^^ *^^^" ""^ ^^"^ «"'* °f t^vo yt- ars, after taking If cSridgr''''" ''™' '° *^°'' '" ^^•■'' "' t'le University So .soon as the Ruloa have received the sanction of the Council they will be published. 170 PROVISIONAL STATUTES OF TRINITY COLLEGE. FxYCULTY OF LAW. 1. This Faculty shall observe the same Terms as are prescribed for the Lectures of the other Faculties. 2. Every person shall be admitted to attend the Lectures of this Faculty, upon and subject to the following Terms and Regulations — that is to say, he shall pay at the time of his admission a fee of £1 5s., which sum shall be the fee paid in each year for attending the course of Lectures in that year j and the same shall always be paid at the commencement of each academical year, or at the time in each year of the .^.dmission to the Lectures for that year : he shall, on paying his fee, enter his name in a book to be kept for that pur- pose, wherein, under a prescribed heading, shall be written by him, at length, his name, his place of residence, and that of his parents if he be under twenty-one years of age, the date of his admission to such Lectures, his calling, occupation or present pursuit, and the Church or form of worship which he belongs to or adopts : and he shall further undertake to conform to and obey the By-Laws and Regulations of this Faculty in respect of Students or persons admitted to or attending at Lectures ; and No one shall be admitted to the Lectures until he shall have complied with these Regulations. 3. That the several Professors shall have power to maintain order at Lectures, and to exclude therefrom or from the Lecture Room any person or persons who, in the opinion of the Professors or of any of them present, may be disorderly or guilty of any contempt towards the Professor or Professors, or any other Professor or Officer in the College, or who may violate any By-Laws or Regulations of this Faculty, and to permit any such person to return to Lecture as they respectively shall think fit ; and no person who shall be so excluded, or who for any cause shall cease to attend at Lectures, shall claim or be entitled by reason thereof to receive back a fee or fees paid for admission to or attendance upon Lectures, or to be exempted from payment of any fee or fees by him contracted to be paid for such admission or attendance. ^1!; ^fff CORPORATION OF TRINITY COLLEGE. THE HON. AND RIQHX Rl^V. THE LOUD BISHOP OP TORONTO. 9^-^ .1 ^rufltcffl M-- REV. U. J. ORASETJ M.A. GEORGE W. ALLAN, ESQ. LEWIS MOFFAT, ESQ. e^v^ HON. GEORGE CROOKSIIANK. HON. W. ALLAN ^^tU HON. JAMES GORDON. ^^ ,^> - " Council : PROFEysoR VANKOUGHNET. REV. PROFESSOR PARRY. , R£V. PROFESSOR IRVING tSe' ™ r^Si'^^r^riL^D'^'or/"^^^^^^^^ - ™-on. ALEXANDER BURNSIDe! EsJ' ^ ' ^"^""^^^ON OF YORK. tSe re?- T;''^"^'' ''''™^ ROBINSON. ruh REV. II. J. GRASETT, M A THE HON. MR. CHIEF JUSTICE MACAULAY JOHN ARNOLD, ESQ. ^^^a^lay. LEWIS MOFFAT, ESQ. THE HON. JAMES GORDON THE HON. MR. VICE-CHANCELLOR SPRAQGF THE HON. ROBERT S. JAMESON. ^'^^^"*^^- JAMES M. STRACHAN, ESQ. SIR ALLAN MACNAB, M.P.P. CHARLES M'GRATU, ESQ. (Dfficcrs of tl)£ (JlolUgc. provost: llEV. OEOUGK WIIITAKER, M.A., QUEEN'S COLLEGE, CAMBIUDGE. PROFESSOtt OF divinity: TUB RKV. TUB PROVOST. PI10FE36OE OP ciiBsica : llEV. EDWARD 8T. JOHN PARRY, M.A., BALIOL COLLEGE, OXl'ORD. paoF£SSOn OF UATIISMAIICS : REV. GEORGE CLERK IRVING, B.A., ST. JOHN'S OOLLEGB, CAMBRIDGE. FAOULTY or MEDICINE. frofbssobb: Obstdrici ' B. M. UODDER, Esq., M.D., M.R.C.S., Eno. ImmtUes of Medicine JAMES BOVELL, Esq., M.D., M.R.C.P., Ena. n-inciplaand Practice of SHrqery...... HENRY MELVILLE, Eso . M.D., Ewn. Anatomy a7ul Physiohey N. BBTIIUNB, Esq., M.D., M.R.O.S., Bm. I'raclice of Medicine F. BADGLEY, Esq., M.D., M.R.C.S. Eww. MaUriaMcdieaandrJierapcutic! W. HALLOWELL, Ebq., M.D., M.R.O.S., Ewn. CMmiitry FACULTY OF LAW. J. II. IIAGARTY, ESQ., Q. C. THE HON. J. H. CAMERON, Q. C. P. M. VANKOUQUNET, ESQ., Q. C TRINITY COLLEGE CHARTER. VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith. To all to whom these Presents shall come, lHljcrca ©W-Ptittg ; by an Act passed by the Legislature of our Province of Canada, in the fifteenth year of our Reign, intituled, « An Act to incorporate Trinity College," there' was constituted and established in the City of Toronto within the Diocese of Toronto, in our said Province of Canada, a body corporate and politic under the name of Trinity College, in connexion with the United Church of England and Ireland ; which Corporation is by the said Act made to consist of the Lord Bishop of Toronto, or in case of the division of the said Diocese, of the Bishops of the several Dioceses into which the Diocese of Toronto might be thereafter divided, and also of the Trustees of the said College, and of the members of the Council of the said College, not to be less than three in number, which said Trustees and the members of the said College Council, it was by the said Act provided should be named in the first instance by the Lord Bishop of Toronto, and in the event of their death, removal from the Province, dismissal from oflice, or resignation, shall bo replaced by other persons to be named in like manner, or in such other manner as may from time to time be directed by any Statute of the said College, to bo passed for that purpose. ii 'I 174 i:rinity college charter. '^nb W)!)ercaa it is by the said Act further provided that the said Corporation of Trinity College shall, besides other corporate powers and capacities necessary to the well ordering of their affairs, have full power to make and establish such rules, orders, and regulations (not being contrary to the Laws of Canada, or to the said Act) as they shall deem useful or necessary, as well concerning the system of Education in, as for the conduct and government of the said College, and of a Preparatory School to be connected with, or dependant on the same ; and for the management of the property belonging to the said Corpo- ration, and shall have power to hold for the said College real and personal Estate and Property, and to sell, alienate, convey or lease the same, if need be ; provided that the total yearly income from the property so acquired shall not at any time exceed the sum of five thousand pounds of current money of our said Province. ^ni) prouilrelr alao, that no rule, order or regulation which shall be made and established by the said Corpora- tion in manner aforesaid, shall be of any force or effect until the same shall have been sanctioned and confirmed by the said Lord Bishop or Bishops as aforesaid. '^nb mljtvtas, since the passing of the said Act, the Council of the said College have, with the sanction of the Lord Bishop of Toronto, by their Petition to us humbly set forth, that in pursuance of the provisions of the said Act, Trinity College hath been duly organized, by the appoint- ment of Trustees and of a College Council, and that certain Statutes, Rules, and Ordinances have been made by the said Council r with the approval of the Lord Bishop of Toronto, and further thit a suitable Building has been erected, and a Provost, and Professors in the faculties of Divinity and the Arts, and in Law and Medicine, have been duly appointed, and arc now engaged in the educa- tion of a considerable number of Scholars, duly admitted TRINITY COLLEGE CHARTISr; 175 according to the Statutes and Ordjaaaces of the s aid Cor- poration, and the~^ai3~roirege being, according to the" intention of the said Act of the Legislature of our Province of Canada, in strict connexion with the United Church of England and Ireland, and supported wholly from funds contributed by the members of that Church, and humble application hath been made to us by the _said Corp oration^ and many of our loving subjects in fhe~said Province rtf Canada, that we would be pleased to grant our Royal Chapter for the more perfect establishment of the said Col- lege, by granting to it the privileges hereinafter mentioned. ^OtU linOtD lie tijat llU, having taken the premises into our Royal consideration, and being willing to promote the more perfect establishment within the Diocese of Toron- to of a Cpllege in connection with the United Church of England and Ireland, for the education of yo^th in the Dop- trine« and duties of the Christian Religion as inculcated by that Church, and for their instruction in the various branches of Science and Literature which are taught in the Universi- ties of this Kingdom, have of our special grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, willed, ordained and grant- ed, and do by these presents, for us, our heirs, and succes- sors, will, ordain and grant, that the said College shall be deemed, and taken to be a University, and shall have and enjoy all such and the like privileges as are enjoyed by our Universities of our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, as far as the same are capable of being had or enjoyed by virtue of these our Letters Patent ; and that the Students in the said College shall have liberty and faculty of taking the degrees of Bachelor, Master, and Doctor in he several Arts, and Faculties, at the appointed times, and shall have liberty within themselves of ^.-forming ail Scholastic exercises, for the conferring s'ich Degrees in such manner as shall be directed by the Statutes, Rules and Ordinances of the said College. ^ntf, in order that such Degrees may be in due form 176 TRINITY COLLEGE CHARTER. granted in the said College, Wc IlO further will, and direct, and ordain, that there shall bo at all times a Chancellor of the said University, to be chosen at and for such periods of time, and under such rules and regulations is the College j^ Council, by and with the sanction and approbation of the Lord Bishop or Bishops aforesaid, niay^bj: lho»-Sla^tes, Rules, or Ordinances, to be from time to time passed for thaTpurpose, think fit to appoint. 3lnb that the Chancellor, Provost and Professors of the said College, and all persons admitted therein to the degree of Master of Arts, or to any degree in Divinity, Law or Medicine, and who from the time of sucIa their admission to such degree sJiall pay the annual sum of Twenty Shil- lings of sterling money for and towards the support and maintenance of the said College, shall be, and be deemed, taken and reputed to be members of (he Convocation of the said University, and as such members of the said Convo- cation, shall have, exercise and enjoy all such powers and privileges in regard to conferring degrees, and in any other matters, as may be provided for by any rules, orders or ti regulations of the s aid College Cou ncil, sanctioned and '* confirmed by the Lord Bishop or Brshops' as aforcLrtii, so far as the same are capable of being had and enjoyed by virtue of these our Letters Patent, and consistently with the provisions thereof, and with the said Act of the Legis- lature of our Province of Canada. !3lulf iDfi n)Ul, and by these Presents for us, our heirs and Successors, do grant and declare, that these our Letter? Patent, or the enrolment or exemplification thereof, shall and may be good, firm, valid, sufficient, and effectual in the Law, according to the true intent and meaning of the same, and shall be taken, construed, and adjudged in the most favorable and beneficial sense, and to the best advan- tage of our said College, as well in our Courts of Record as elsewhere, and by all and singular Judges. Justices, TRINITY COLLEGE CHARTER. 177 Officers Ministers, and other subjects whatsoever of us our heirs and successors, any mis-recital, non-recital, omission, imperfection, defect, matter, cause or thing whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding. In toitne00 toljerwf, we have caused these our Let- ters to be made Patent. toitnC0fi (Dnradf, at our Palace at Westminster, the Sixteenth day of July, in the sixteenth year ol our Reign. By Her Majesty's Command. EDMUNDS. JIvfTH; Tivcrrr ){\%'r -2tud\ -lO 'S^f iH) :\y(\tr' '-H. ( 'r)vnim liii'^nn ^}i: "KfO In •.Wl^'Vt!- ■Uji^i. v-A\ APPENDICES. A. EXTRACTS FROM DESPATCHES AND DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THB LANDS SET APART BY HIS MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY KING GEORGK THE THIRD, FOR THE PURPOSE OF SCHOOLS IN UPPER CANABA 1. Extract of a Despatch from the Duke of Portland to Mr. President Russell, dated Whitehall, ^ih November, 1/97/'"'^'*^ nf ?il^^''''Y ^' * r^" "'J° ^^" ^y^l considemtion the petition of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, ImmWv imploring Mlis Majesty that he would be graciousl/, leS to direct His Government in this Province to appropriate a certain portion of the waste lands of the Crown as a^knd for the estab hshment and support of a respectable Grammar School in eich disrict thereof, and also of a College or Unive sSv for hi instruction of youth in the different Lnches of 1 £l know! h?wW^;?^ ^fT^ ^^r>^' ^^^^^y *^ ^^^^^^ hi« parental regard for the welfare of his subjects in the furtherance of so important an S^'exeTtion: oft"T" "' ^"t' ""^ ^^ ^^^^^ aiul 'enfolge the exertions ot his Province in laying the foundation for nro- moting sound learning and a religious education ieliS^ Zt lesceiKled to express his most gracious intention to'compW wkh the w shes of the Legislature of his Province of Upper Canada m such manner as shall be judged to be most effect^ ^irst, by the establishment of Free Grammar Schools in thosp districts in which they are called for, and in di e prress c^^ me by establishing other seminaries of. larger and more com^e- (2) lieusivc nature lor the |iroi)i(»lion ol religions aiul moral Iriuning and the study of the itrts and seicnees. With this view, 1 am to direct you to cou^*lllt the memhers of His Majesty's Executive (.'ouncil, and the Judges aud Law Officers ol' the Crown in Upper ('aiiiida, and reixjrt to me, in what manner and to what extent a |x>rtk)n of the Crown frauds may be appropriated and rendered })roduetive towanls the formation of a fund for the above pur|K>ses, out of which llis Majesty may according to liis pleasure allot such salaries as he shall judge proper for the school- masters of such free schools, who are to be apjK)inted by His Majesty Governor, or the pt^rson administering his Majesty's (lovernment within the Province for the time being, subject to His Majesty's approbation, signified through one of liis principal Secretaries of Estate. 2. Circular from the Honourable Mr. President Russell to His Mojesti/s Executive Council, and the Judges and Laio Officers of tlie Crown, in Uj^per Caiuula. Council Chamber, 6th November, 1798. Sir, — Having received directions from the Duke of Portland, one of His Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, to consult the members of His Majesty's Executive Council, and the Judges and Law Otiiccrs of "the Crown in Upper Canada, and report to His Grace, in what manner, and to what extent, a portion of the waste lands of the Crown may be apprf)priated and rendered productive towards the formation of a fund for the establishment of free (xranmiar Schools in those districts in which they are called for, and in due process of time by establishing seminaries of a larger and more comprehensive nature for the promotion of religion and moral learning, and the stvidy of the arts and sciences; out of which His Majesty may, according to his pleasure, allot such salaries as he shall judge proper for the school-masters of such free Schools, who are to be appointed by His Majesty's (4overnor, or the person administering His Ma- jesty's Ciovernment, subject to his Majesty's approbation. I am to request you will ])e pleased to meet the Chief Justice and the members of His Majesty's Executive Council, at the Council Chamber, Oii Friday the 9th instant, for the i)urix)se of taking the al)Ove subject into your consideration, and re^x^rting to me your opinions thereon, that I may transmit them to the Duke of Portland for His Majesty's information. I have the honour to De, Sir, Your most obedient humble servant. (Signed) Peter Russell. Inn Dins (3) The Report of His Majesty's Excci^Hvc Council and the Judges and Laiv Officers of the Crmvn. ° Connoil Chamber, 1st Dec, 1798. your order of the 6th ultimo, the nicMnhfrs of His Muiesty's Executive Council the .ludges aud Law Otlicers of the (Wn met together in this place on the nineteeutli ultiiuo, and on' several occasions since and took into their consideration the ' r,nn^.r S. 'T' '^^ m"^^ oH'ortland on the establisliment ;j Grdmniur Schools and otlier places of K.^ ,t ion in the Trovince It IS not to be expected, that on a suhjeci of such extent, the opnnons of so many persons as were as.send>led to consider of it should exactly coincide; I have, however, the satisfaction to' say, that in our general views of the system to he adoDted we are nearly agreed, and that the dilference with respect to the siderallle '^ '^ ^"^ ^^ '''''"*''^ '"^'' ''^^^''^' '' "^^ "^^'y ^"•^- As it was your Honour's pleasure that the Chairman should collect the opinions of the several meml)ers of the Board, and digest them into one report, I took the liberty of distributing the subject into the five following heads, and of requesting "tlieir thoughts on each, viz, : — i & » 1st. The sum to be raised. 2nd. The number of acres to be appropriated 3rd. The purix>ses to wliicii the fund is to be applied. 4th. Ihe number of Schools an.l places where thev are to be erected. r)th. The number now necessary • It IS novv my duty to state to your Honour the general result of the whole, and should I either misrepresent the sentiments of he Board, or fail to give the effect they deserve, 1 trust that your Honour will impute the blame to me only, and do iustice to the several members by referring to the opinions of each, which J liave sujoincd by way of schedule. When the subject was first opened, it seemed to be the unani- mous opinion that the intention of the lloyal founder of the free Grammar Schools and University of ITpper Canada could not be effectuated, but by a liberal provision for their establish- ment and maintenance, and each member of the Board seemed deeply impressed with a conviction that in making his estimate of the extent of that provision, it would l)e much safer to allow too much than too little ; for as the application of the funds will alu^ys be directed by the beneficent wisdom which has created It, the excess may at any time be applied to other puriwses equally worthy of the original intention, and equally conducive to the happiness of the Province ; but it will be difficult and perhajis imi^ssible, if the present moment be neglected, to find at V', W '^.r,; IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-S) k // /. f" -iif fei 1.0 I.I 11^ 136 |12 M mil 2.0 IL25 ■ 1.4 m 1.6 ^^ V] ^>. # •:oV# v Photographic Scierjces Corporation ^•N^ *.«*' ■1>' <^ 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. 145B0 (716) 873-4503 O i; 6^ '•.r- f // ^ ^^4e. ffj,^ fe C/.j. % ^ \ '•/■ • ^ ^ T (4) a future period the means of eftecting the object before us, with- out much expense and a delay almost subversive of the purpose. Under this impression, the Board proceed to consider ni detail the purposes to which the proi^sed fund should, when raised, be applied, and seemed to be unanimous in thinking that they may be reduced to three : , ., ,• 1st. The erection of the necessary buildings ; 2nd. The payment of the salaries of the masters ; 3rd. The keeping of the buildings in repair, the purchase of books and philosophical apparatus,and other purposes essentia to places of education, but in general too costly to be provided by individuals. i i ^i +• 1st With respect to the sum to be expended on the erection of the necessary buildings, the Board conceived that, m taking the aveia.re price of labour in the four Districts of the Province, the sum oi' ^^3000, provincial currency will be sufficient to erect a plain but solid and substantial building, containing a school room sufficient to hold an hundred boys, without danger to their health from too many being crowded together ; and also a set ot apartments for the master, large enough not only for the accom- modation of his family, but also for the very desirable purpose of enabling him to take a few of his pupils as boarders, bome tew outbuildings may also be necessary, for tne use of the master, which, if they will not come within this estimate, will not m.uch exceed it, and may easily be provided for hereafter. 2nd. As the extent of the salaries of the masters is expressly reserved for the Royal consideration, we do not presume to mention any particular sum as sufficient for that purpose ; but, as it is necessary for us in making our estimate to calculate I pon some given sum, and as His Excellency the Lieutenant (iovernor thouglit the sum of JEIOO provincial currency a sufficient allowance for the master of the school erected under his auspices at Kingston, — w^e beg leave to take that sum as the average for the salary of the masters of each school, and half of it for the salary of an uiidcr-mastcr, in case it should be thought expedient to have one. , 3rd. The sum of £30 per annum seems to be a sufficient sum for keeping the building in repair ; the provision for the purchase of books, philosophical apparatus, &-c., relates to the endowment of the University rather than to that of the Grammar School, and is only mentioned that it may not appear to have been forgotten in our calculation. . . n ^. t> i It appeared, therefore, to be the general opinion of the Board, that a sura not exceeding £3000, provincial currency, and an annual income of £180, will be amply sufficient for the establish- ment and support of a free Craminar School m each District. The next object was to consider the mode by which that sum and that income are to be raised. V.iK 1 of the Board, rreucy, and an (5) With respect to the former, the Board had but one opinion, viz., that it can only be raised by the sale of part of the waste lands of the Crown. If the institutions in question are to be deferred, until they can be providoJ for from the annual income of any quantity of land that can be appropriated for them, they will be deferred either until they have been superseded by other institutions, or until four or five generations of ignorance and vice have rendered them useless. The annual income must equally be derived from the waste lands of the Crown, and may, in the apprehension of the Board, be raised by one or other of the four following modes : 1st. By the sale of so much of those lands as will raise a sum which, if invested in the British funds, will produce the sum of jE 180 as interest. 2nd. By reserving such a portion of those lands as, when leased, will produce that sum as rents. 3rd. By appropriating to the same purpose such parts of the present Crown Ileserves as are capable of yielding a present rent ; or, 4th. By selling a portion of the waste lands of the Crown (always distinguishing between waste lands of the Crown and Crown Reserves) and laying out the proceeds in the purchase of lands which, from their quality, local situa- tion, or state of cultivation, either yield or may be made to yield a present rent. ^ On each of these modes the Board begs leave to submit the following considerations : "With respect to the first, it ol)serves that, besides the disad- vantage of the daily decreasing value of an income which is to be applied to a permanent purpose — and which arises from money or which is reserved in money ; it will require the sale of a quantity of land, considerably beyond any that the Board would venture to mention, to raise a sum which, at the rate of five per cent, per annum, would yield the sum of £180 as interest. For we conceive it to be generally, though perhaps not universally true, that whenever lands in this country are capable, from quality, situation or any other circumstance, of yielding a rent, a capital laid out in the purchase of those lands is much more productive than one lent at interest on either private or public security, and there is this additional advantage on the side of the former, that both the real and the nominal value of rent will increase with the increasing prosperity of the country, while the real value of interest decreases with tho decreasing value of money, in a proportion to which the increase of our prosperity is not a counterbalance. The Board, therefore, considers this mode of raising the income required as wholly out the question. Of the remaining three modes the Board considers that which * -1 >':'"i By Writ of Privy Seal. n (Signed) Bathurst. .\m .- ; \ • > ( i6) ''/.. c. ALTERATIONS WADE IN THE CHARTER OF KING's COLLEGE!, By Ith William the Fourth, Chap. 16, entituled, " An Act ta amend the Ckxrier of the Universi.j of King's College ^^ in consequence of Lord Goderich^s Despatch of 2nd November^ 1831, and by which it was believed that all the requiiements of the said, Despatch ivere fully satisjied,. " Whereas certain alterations appear necessary to be made in the same, in order to meet the desire and circumstances of the Colony, and that the said Charier may produce the benefits intended : "Be it therefore enacted, by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, &c. &c. &c., and by the authority of the same — " That for and notwithstanding anything in the said Charter contained, the Judges of His Majesty's court of King's Bench shall, for and on behalf of the King, be Visitors of the said College, in the place and stead of the Lord Bishop of the Diocese of Quebec, for the time being ; and that the President of the said University, on any future vacancy, shall be appointed by His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, without requiring that he should be an incumbent of any Ecclesiastical office ; and that the Members of the College Council, including the Chanci Uor and President, shall be twelve in number, of whom the Speakers of the two Houses of the Legislature of the Province, and His Majesty's Attorney and Solicitor General, for the time being, shall be four, and the remainder shall consist of the five Senior Professors of Arts and Faculties of the said College, and of the Principal of the Minor or Upper Canada College ; and in case there shall not at any time be five Professors, as aforesaid, in the said College, and until Professors shall be appointed therein, the Council shall be filled up with Members to be appointed as in the said Charter is provided, except that it shall not be necessary that any member of the College Council, so to be appointed, or any Member of the said College Council, or any Professor, to be at any time appointed, shall be a Member of the Chiurch of England, or subscribe any articles of Religion, other than a declaration that they believe in the authenticity and Divine inspiration of the Old and New Testaments, and in the doctrine of the Trinity ; and further, that no religious test or qualification be required or appointed for any person admitted or matriculated as scholars withm the said college, or of persons admitted to any degree or faculty therein '" ?? ( 17) oat Excellent and in case D. EXTRACTS FROM AN ACT PASSED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF CANAb ON THE 30TH MAY, 1849. 12TH VICTORIA, CAP. 28. TITLE. iovtlc fl / '' ^^"^'*'^ ^''''S Geor^/tke Fourth, to a^i ^' lit ^•''^T.f'T-:^' connected ^vith the same, PREAMBLE. rage the pursuit of Literature, Science and ArlS there v snnn V t f f ^""^'^^ ""^ ^^''"^ = ^"^^ whereas, with a view to supply the want ot such an Institution, His late M-iiostv K^.^ SS;.'};; fi^'^'^ 'f I^-y^ Ciianer,'be^^c£'S^^^ minstti, the fifteenth day of March, in tlie eighth vear of lis reign was pleased to establish at Toronto, then called York in Mo ^r"" f '^"' ^'^V^'' ^ ^^^'^^^^ Institution wft 'the to^encW f;?;^' rf r^.-^ niversity, and was afterwards plea ed uieurowii,na that pp t of the Province: And whereas the neonlo of this Province cons.s. of various denominations of Chr sti-m? to ^StXtn^Ht '^"';^^^ ^---nations yl^s^S^'S e .tena all the benehts of a University education, and it is thorn h 4";^^"'^ ''!"' ffl I-^titutiou, to enable it^o ac.lpl b i?; higli ,in-i)ose, should be entirely ft-ee in its rim^mfra^iv "w^* =vn said Act shall ( 19 ) ^ilTof ^I^.Tt't'^"'*'^'"^ *« "^ ^y^'« *<> ^ ^Wished by a fetalute ot the said University to be passed for that nnrrw^Jll -and wh ch shall make such%rovisK,r the Xie^TsM insure, that, as nearly as may be, one-third of the ^^^Titiona o^e'hfrd oVt'he^^T m- '^ i''^ ^T^" ^ afore^lIi?rnd S tho -1 /-I, ^^ '^ additional members so to be apnoiuted bv the said Colleges, shall respectively vacate their site ?n such Z.^ ">'"""= Chancellor, and m his absence the Vice-Chancellor and m the absence of l»th the Pro- Vice -Chancellor nndTr, S ateence of all, then the President of the tS Un'W^Uv ,M r .ts« ^o -rss' -s 5 3Be1 be appointed either by the Crown or by any such iroriirated &o?Ma:t'rfA;r'®"nv"'^"^'-^"»°"'»"^^^^^^ S»ct':-rs!:rp-^^^ one thousand eight hundred and sixty." ^ ' ^""'"^ CLAUSK XXIX. . CLAUSE xxxrr. S.:hoi; s I er« lu^'^^'Z^ '"" C"''"'"'"". I'residSnt and iHersons. hereinbefore Trustees on tl e first dav of If a'^ ^Tlr"'^- "^^^ ^°«^d of Synod in the year 1844 a^adth.^? t'^'^'f ^'l^'^^ °^ ^^^ «aid tion of seven new me nberln ''''' ^t '"^^^^'^^^^^ ^y ^^^ addi. Three other MiSr^Zd fi>L 0^^^'" ^^^'^^"^'^^^^r mentioned, next to those in these on^T It 5'T ^^^?^" ^^^"^^ »^^n^« stand jnenihprv i,i , ^"i^iwieu oy ine acklition of seven new "emah "g MinTt^ 'and X'"^' '"™"™^'' ' »'"' «- "w^ ftvfnerMSrfnThir '""'",*" """P""" ''y 'he addSof on the first d^vnf'.. "?"'' hereinafter mentioned. And ^u me nm day of each succeeding Annual Meeting nf ii,. "j Synod, three Ministers nnrl fn.., t„ ™eeting ot the said .. -36, snail b. uuusen by the said Synod on the first day of ^ ■,'i (24) Cveify Auiiual Meeting of the same, in such manner ns shall sceni ])e.st to the said Synod ; and the four Laymen or three Laymen as the case may be, shall be chosen also on the first day of every Annual Meeting of tho said Synod, by the Lay Trustees remanmig after the others shull have retired ; and shall be chosen from a list of persons made up in the following manner that IS to say: each Congregation admitted on the Roll of the' said Synod, and in regular connexion therewith, shall, at a meeting to be specially called from the pulpit for that purpose in every third year, nominate one lit and discreet person, bein"- a member in full communion with the said Church, as eligible" to fill the office of Trustee of the said College : and the persons' names so nominated being duly intimated l)y the several Con- gregations to the Secretary of the Board of Trustees in such form aa the said Board may direct, shall be enrolled by the said Board and constitute the list from which Lay Trustees shall be chosen to fill the vacancies occurring at the Board during each year And the'namcs of Members thus added to the Board of Trustees' shall be placed firom time to time at the top of the roll of the Board, the names of the Ministers chosen as new Trustees bcincr first j)laced there in such order as the said Synod shall direct! And the names of the Laymen chosen as new Trustees beiiif^ placed in such order as their electors shall direct, immediately after the names of the said Ministers. Provided always that the retiring Trustees may be re-elected as heretofore provided, if the Synod and remaining Lay Trustees respectively see fit to do so. And provided always, that in case no election of new Trustees shall be made on the said first day of the Annual Meeting of the said Synod, then and in such case the said retiring Membere shall remain in office until their successors are appointed at some sub- sequent period. And provided always that every Trustee whe- ther Minister or Layman, before entering on his duties as a Member of the said Board, shall have solemnly declared his belief of the doctrines of the Westminster Confession of Faith, and his adherence to the Standards of the said Church in Government Discipline and Worship ; and subscribed such a fonmil to this effect as may be prescribed by the said Synod ; and that such Declaration and Subscnpticn shall in every case be recorded in the books of the said Board. And we do further will that the said Trustees and their Successors shall forever have full power and authority to elect and appoint for the said College a Principal, who shnll be a Minister of the Church of Scotland, or of the 1 resbytenan Church of Canada in connection with the Church of Scotland ; and such Professor or Professors, Master or Masters, Putor or Tutors, and such other Officer or Officers as to the said 1 rustees shall seem meet : save and except only, that the first .1 rincipal of the said College, who is also to be Professor of Divinity, and likewise the first Professor of Morals in the said '*WU-i-.v (26) S'JS;''omecKhTi„'r^'=^P°'""'J"r "' «>« General standard, of the ChuJoh of 1.0.^;,/" """ "'">"«"« '<> the and worship, an'dsSbfsfcSiTSeffVf"''''"" we further^l St if the bynod may prescribe. And miy seem sood-ProvMed .1^° ^T\ of""'''"?, as to them £°Se^h!X1:s:!-\7^ri;t''i°r'''?^^i^^'"^^^ have power and aufhnritv 1 / ^ ""'l*^ then- successors shall any other matter or tZg^C^Sl^'!!^^ T^ °™"""'»g f^^''S^ttfhra„fi"^l:Slr'=^^^^^^^^ revoke, renew, augiLnt o? alter «l!;^^' ""' Ordmances to Cfaf„x ' -Tf , ' «*"fc,'ueiu or alter, all, every, or anv of the "•n'r? statutes, Eules and Ordinances, aa to them shall se'em mejt and a ( 26 ) expedient ; Provided always that the said Statutes, Rules and Ordinances, or any of tliem, shall not be rcpu«>nant to these presents, or to the Laws and Statutes of the said Trovince ; Pro- vided also, that the said Statutes, Rides and Ordinances, in so far as they regard the })erformance of Divine Service in the said College, the duties of the Professors in the theological department thereof, and the studies and exercises of the Students of Divinity therein, shall be subject to the inspection of the said Synod of the Presbyterian Church, and shall be forthwith transmitted to the Clerk of the said Synod and be by him laid before the same at their next meeting for their apjiroval ; and until such approval duly authenticated by the signatures of the Moderator and Clerk of the Synod is obtained, the same shall not be in force. And we further will, that so soon as there shall be a Principal and one Professor in the said College, the Board of Trustees shall have authority to constitute under their seal the said Principal and Professor, together with three Members of the Board of Trustees, a Court, to be called « The College Senate," for the exercise of academical superintendence and discipline over the Students, and all other persons resident within the same, and with such powers for maintaining order and enforcing ol)edience to the Statutes, Rules and Ordinances of the said College, as to the said Board shall seem meet and necessary : — Provided always, that so soon as three additional Professors shall be employed in the said College, no Trustee shall be a Member of the said College Senate, but that such Principal and all the Professors of the said College shall for ever constitute the College Senate, with the powers just mentioned. And we further will, that whenever there shall be a Principal and four Professors employed in the said College, the College Senate shall have power and authority to confer the Degrees of Bachelor, Master, and Doctor, in the several Arts and Faculties. And we further will, that five of the said Trustees, lawfully convened as is hereinafter directed, shall ])e a quorum for the despatch of all business, except for the disposal and pur- chase of Real Estate, or for the choice or removal of the Principal or Professors, for any of which purposes there sha i be a meeting of at least thirteen Trustees. And we further will, that the said Trustees shall have full power and authority, from time to time, to choose a Secretary and Treasurer ; and also once in each year or oftener, a Chairman who shall preside at all meetings of the Board. And we further will that the said Trustees shall also have power by a majority of voices of the Members present, to select and appoint, in the event of a vacancy in the Board by death, resignation or removal from the Province, a person whose name is on the list from which appointments are to be made to fill such vacancy, choosing a Minister in the room of a Minister and a Layman in the room of a Layman, and inserting the name of the person so chosen in that place on the roll of the Board in (27) which the name of the Trustee in whose stead he may have been chosen stood ; and that the person so chosen may be as to con Unuance m office and in all ^ther respects J l^ I'erZslc^M have been by whose death, resignation, or removal the varncv was occasioned. And we lurther will that the Jst 13 meeting o the said Trustees shall beheld at Kingsln, uJi^s^^^^^^ a day within six calendar months alter the da?e of th^ e our Letters Pa ent, as shall be fixed for that purpose by he Trustee first named in these presents, who shall be then livfn" of whLh meeting thirty days notice at least shall be given by noUfim on m writing to each of the Trustees for the time bein^., who S be resident at the time wilhm the Province of UpiferC Lower Canada ; and the same shall also be notified at the ame ti^e by ProvS^^^^ '' 'r?^' '''' P"^^'« newspapers of thTLiJ l-rovinces. And the said Trustees shall also afterwards have tCy^h^llTV^rt^^'^^^'"^^^'''^^^^^;^^- ^' «-h oto pLe a^ iney snail fix lor tliat purpose upon their own adiournment and likewise so oilenas th.y shall be summoned by the cEman or m his absence by the senior Trustee, whose SeniorysSaU' be determined lu the first instance by the order in which the sa^l in'wMcrJh "'"!","; '^^"? P-seii^ts,andaiterwardsby tl eo 5^^^ m which they shall be subsequently arranged pursuant to the powers hereinbeibre contained, Provided alwa/s hat the said T 'Xr, "\ '^'"^'^ ^'T' '^^^^^ "°* ^^™^"" a^meeUng of the Irustees unless reqmred so to do by a notice in writing from three members of the Board; and provided also, tha he cause notice of the time and place of theUl meeting to be given ^ one or more of the public newspapers of the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, at least thirty days before such meeting' and that every member of the Boafd of Trustees resi Lnt withfn' he said Provinces shall be notified in writb g irthe Waiv Tan an,n l^ T IT'"''' ^"^ "^' ^"^^ ^'''''' ^''^ successors do grant and declare, that these our Letters Patent, or the enrolment SI ffiS ancf ;'f?.?T'1^^^^ "^^y ^^^ g-^' fi-- -"S sumcient and efliectual m the law, accordinjr to the tnip intpnt and meaning of the same, and shall be taken° cons^-ued and adjudged in the most fixvourable and beneficial sense for the Cl advantage of our said College, as well in our Courts of Record i £7s ei?iiJoth^ ""'' r^ -"f ^- J-^ges, Justices Office" Ministcis and others, sul^jects whatsoever of us, our heirs and dSTnt^^ ""^■'"'"'' non-recital, omission imperf ction, fhpW ''' ''''"''' or anything whatsoever to thi contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. ^luicvry In witness whereof, we have caused these our Letters to bo made Patent. Witness ourself, at our Palace at Westminster this sixteenth day of October, in the fifth year of our Rein.. ' ByWritofPrivySeal. . .^^^^^^^ € (8«) F. TO THE HONOURABLE THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY Of TUfl PROVLNCE OF CANADA. The Petition of the Visitors of King's College. RESPECTFULLY SHEWETH : That your Petitioners have learned, with much concern, that certain bills arc to be brought into the Legislature during the present Session, which they have seen in a printed form, and by which it is projiosed— to deprive King's College of all the privi- leges and powers of an University, which it holds under the assurance of a lioyal Charter, including the power of conierring Degrees in the Arts and Sciences— to remove from the CoUeoe the President appointed to it by the Crown, and to appoint another to be President in his room, in disregard of the Koyal Prerogative, and in contravention of the express terms of the Charter, which vests the right of appointment and removal in Her Majesty — to take from King's College the property conferred upon it by the Crown by Letter Patent, and all moneys and securities arising from the sale of its lands so granted, which are now in possession of the College, « or to which it is legally or equitably entitled," and to vest whatever is at this moment by Royal Grant the property of the College, in a new University, to be established by an Act of the Legislature : which University is to be prohibited by its constitution " from passing any statute, rule or regulation, for religious observances by the students ;" in other words, from prescribing as a duty any act of religious worship. We beg respectfully to state to your Honourable House, that when the Royal Charter, which was granted in 1827, by His late Majesty King George the Fourth, was altered in some respects by an Act of the Legislature of Upper Canada, passed in 1837, all interference with the property of the College was care- fully avoided. We believe that to have been the first occasion in which the provisions of a Charter imder the great seal of England had been altered, with the Royal Sanction, by a Colo- nial Statute ; and we believe also that there were many who, though not convinced of the regularity of such an Act, were yet led to acquiese in it under the hope "hcV, 'f the concurrence of the Crown were obtained, it would I : . "ua! ineasure. We now beg to be permitted ^^ pni •..• to your Honourable House our earnest petition, that no sucli Bills as are about to be (29) introduced for aboiwhing tho privileges and taking away tJie property of King's College may be allowed to pass,— because wo are liilly persuaded that, except in times of civil tumult and violence, no example of such an invasion of chartered rights and the rights of property can be found in the history of Great Britain or any of her Colonies,— because we are satisfied that such a measure, besides being pernicious in its example and destructivo of that conhdence which our constitution and laws entitle us to repose in lioyal Charters, would inriict upon this rroviuce great and lasting injury,— because no such legal grounds us may have led, in some cas'js, to an iuterferenco with the rights of propcrtv in countries governed by British laws, have been shewn or can be alleged as a foundation lijr the proposed mcasurcs.—because not merely in every part of the TTnited Kingdom, but in many of the Colonies there exist corporate bodies, having no other gua- rantee for the continuod possession of their property and privileges than can be shewn by the Corporation of Kiug's College : but which have always felt as secure in their enjoymcut as imlivi, duals feel who hold their estates under the same description of title. * Because there have been for ages, and are at this moment in Canada, endowments of very great value, appropriated to the support of religion and the advancement of learning, which rest on no other foundation, but which have been alvvays hitherto scrupulously and justly respected ; and to this day there exist similar endowments for Colleges and Churches in various parts of the United States of America, which having been made by British Monarchs at an early period, were safe, even amidst the Violence of revolution, and although tlie Government, which made them, lost all power to protect them, they have survived every political change. And because, if an experiment is desired to be made of establishing a seat of learning within whose walls no religious doctrine is to be inculcated, and no religious duties or obser- vances prescribed, such an experiment, we most respectfully submit, ought, in justice to King's College, and to all who value rehpious truth as the noblest and most important of the sciences to ., !.: ,rlo l.y means of sources which are bylaw at the disposal of thH _. r iture, ar ( r.ot by taking from a College, founded by K-'i'.' ^Uc^xter, for the advancement of sound religion and learning, the endowment which our Sovereign bestowed upon us. (Signed) Toronto, March 10, 1845. Jno. E. Robinson, J. Jones, Arch. McLean, Chr. a. Hagerman, Vititori King's ColUgt. i'i I (30) Q. RESOLUTIONS OF THE COUNCIL OF KING's COLLEGE, IN MARCH 1845 AGAINST THE UNIVERSITY BILL OF 1845. ' ^ Wliereas the College Council have, within two days, been mit m possession (not officially) of three bills which ..re sSecUo have been already introdnced into the Legislative Assembly, by one of wl ch It is among other things proposed to be enacted that no? withstanding anything contained hi die Charter ^tle University of King s College, the said College shall not hereafterhave exercise or enjoy any of the rights,"powers and pSles of In University, or hold any convocation, or confer any de'rfes And by another of the said Bills it is proposed to be ena^ctal! thtt there shall be erected and estal)lished, at or near the City of Toronto an University to be called " The University of Upper Canada » with power to " confer degrees," but from which thfJutl o4y is to be expressly withheld of « passing any statute, rule or r;^- "y '?' rncf rtf T""^? ',^ '''' ^^^^"^« ^' t^- saiS uS: sity And by the other of the said Bills it is proposed to be enacted - that, as soon as the intended new UnivSv^han be e^ablished, all and every, the land and othe? lea estate and effects which have been granted by the Crown toKii glSege and all moneys, debentures and securities for nioiily of what nature or kind soever, arising from the sale or rental of Iny llnds so granted us aforesaid, or purchased or procured, or take/by for or through the means of any such lands, or an^' sale or lelsin' thereof, or for the security of any debtdueto tlJsakl UniS of Kng^s College now in its possession, or to which the sad King's College is legally or ec.uitably entitled, shall be\Sed and become the pix,perty of the University of Upper clnada " fV.: n 'T ''^^ ^y\^ remarkable project of transferrin o- from the Corporation created by the Crown all the property to wS by h?CoL?;^l ^t"''?^ ''''''''^' *° T''''' CoVration c'eaJeS by the Colon alLegislature,seems to have been founded unonan assumi>tion that, by allowing the Colonial LegiSature Zos" unvvisely as the event has proved,) to make a few alte UioS" the Royal Charter, chiefly for the purpose of dispensing with tests which are only matter of positive regulation, in regaM o disc - phne, the identity of the College has°been destroyed, so that its estates have become common property, and may be applied to the support of any other institution. ^ ^^ ^ !J MARCH 1845, aw, aai it is (31) been made the ground of these measure!; consk erh!^ t at th^ « e Representative of the Crov.n in this Province is W the Rov^f Charter, Cliancellor of the Universtv of Kino-'s CoZlf^ by these Bills it is proposed to leave Queen's Col lege and Victoria College the option of retaining all the privileges of the r ChaS- or surrendering them at their cliscretion, and%f attSn^them I selves to the intended new University, no such opho fs to T afforded to King's College, which is to 'be strip u7 peremptorily Imdef itTSalf '" ^''''''' ^"^ I-pert^U^TS "o^I I 5. That, except. by a short and imperfect memorandum mm municated to two of its members, which they weTeTt at Hbe^^^^^^ to notice or to make the ground of any disciLion o? proceedm/ no opportunity whatever has been afforded to the Councd S knowing, s il less of addressing themselves officially o the Government in respect to those measures vvhich se^m to have been deliberately resolved upon, of annihilating the privi eces of the Col ege, and depriving the Corpomtion of fts property!^ b. I hat, upon M'hatcver considerations the Govern nent of this Province may have thought it right to deny to the Cornorntfnn he protection of those legal principles to whidi othe? corpor iSn^ - hroughout the British dominions owe the secudty <^f thS iS S and property, it is in our opinion, the duty of the Collegl Co iSc? to contend to the utmost against measures which the/believe to be unsanctioned by any precedent or authority ; tha[if i Ihaii become necessary, they will appeal for the purpose to the Government in England, and will pursue every legal remedy within their power to the last resort, feeling a stLng assmSnce hat when the subject comes to be calmly discusse "anrclearTv Sfsrie^^d tolh ''d '- ^'r^^? ^"^^ ^'^ ^-^ of c^seqS Sciples whict l^:^"''''' '^T '^^°'' ^'^^ '^"^^ constitutional piincipips which are everywhere essential to the security of m ( 32 ) That if, at the last, it shall appear that the intended destruction of the rights of the Corporation which we represent must be successful (which we do not think possible), we shall at the least have the consolation of having done our duty in resisting mea- sures such as we believe will have been, up to that time, wholly without example, but to which cupidity and the love of change, when found to be unfettered by any legal restrictions, will render it difficult hereafter to set bounds. H. DESPATCH FROM LORD GODERICH TO HIS EXCELLENCY SIR JOHN COLBORNE, K.C.B., LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR OF UPPER CANADA. Downing Street, 2nd November, 1831. Sir, — Amongst the subjects which your correspondence, public and private, with this office has brought under my notice, there is none more important than the question of public education, and particularly that part of it which relates to the existing constitution of King's College, at York. There can be no doubt that that institution was established with the view of giving to the Province of Upper Canada the benefit of complete instruction in all the hicher branches of knowledge, and of connecting, in the minds of the provincial youth, those associations which belong to the scat of early educa- tion with their luture progress in lite ; and it is greatly to be regretted that any thing in the constitution of the establishment should have tended to counteract, if not to defeat, this laudable design, and practically to deprive the Province of the advantage which was contemplated from its adoption. It cannot, however, be denied, that the exclusive and restrictive character given to King's College has had this effect; and a plan which was intended to bring together, and to harmonize, in the pursuit of the common object of useful knowledge, all classes of His Majesty's subjects, has had the opposite effect of causing uneasi- ness, complaint and dissension. It is obvious in this state of things (too notorious to require proof), that it is the duty of His Majesty's Government to consider what course of policy is most likely to remedy the evil, and to ensure to the Province a real enjoyment of the advantages intended to be conferred on it. Had the recommendation of the Canada Committee of the House of Comiiions upon this subject been successfully followed up at the time they were submitted by you to the Provincial Legislature, under the instructions given to you by my predecessor, and had the restrictive clauses of the Charter been then removed, there is every reason to presume that ■! nisuijT uneasi- (S3) Uve' ''Even nowtlf '""' ^^"'^ ^^"^^^ sati.fl.ctory and effec uvc. Ji.ven now, that measure appears to aflbrd the most easv and simple mean, of meeting the difficulty of the case • and without entering into a discussion of the probable c^^i.sesof the delay in carrying the recommendations if tircommrt ee in o effect some additional facility for now adoptino them mav be found in the circumstance, that while no posiivelterimve been iTl^lf'^XoV" '"'f ^ '^'''''^t -y practical e'xii'i^ce, the new college which you have established has been forward Pd Touth'Tit"?!? "1"''/' ""' ^^ "^^^' °I-^ f*- the instru in of r eci that imdefthr^' T""'-'^'' '^'''' experience has demon- sirated tnat undei the peculiar circumstances of Upper Canada a college with restrictive tests is altogether inoperitive Ibi anv useflil purpose, and that all that is wanted is such a sys^en^o^f regulations to be established by a law of the Cvinc? for the mS^r'^tf ''' ""^^r^"^ '' "^^ UPP- Canadl Collegc'as mght give It the requisite extension and development without n the eyes of those various classes of the community for whose I am confirmed in this latter observation by referring to a aJslTkeV tf '?."? """^''T' '' P^-«"°"»ced upon the advan- Collegi:!!^ '*""' '^'' establishment of Upper Canada '^ Resohed— That this House trusts that no hoped for modifica- tion of the present Charter will suspend the exertion of ffis Excellency to put into operation Colhorne College, and by Z observance of those liberal principles vvhich His exceT^icy has a read>^ been pleased to patronize ; and recommend to CM^^ivvvitT infeH 't.'l "-^^ ''' possible opportunities of education noway inferior to those contemplated by the proposed University." LiKler these circumstances, I am to convey throuo-h you to the members of the Corporation of King's College, tl.. earnls 'reconi: "Sw ;r '"'^ ""^r f^^ ^''^^^J^^^^'^ (^'ovemment, tluxt they do foi lav ith surrender o his Majesty the Charter of Kino's College to S?" r"'' ' "T' ^^^M^"[^^ ''^''''^' "^^>' ^'^''' ^^«^^^ granted to thein. I persuade myself that the counsels which a?e thus grind" '^rS^i'^^'^f the spirit of the most perfect respect ftu-^ the ndividualsby whom it is composed, will not be diireoard-d • fin '" ""'' / f assumption that I proceed to notice the ^ulterior mea^sures which, upon such surrender, it will be convenient to m^nf^'nArTll^' ^' necessary to say that no part of the endow- ment of the College would ever be diverted from the great object .i^^^V.^?"? " ''^- ^T*''- ^' ^^"^^ ^^« regarded as a lUnd wcrertly and permanently appropriated to that objectr 1 presume (34) that the general concurrence of all classes of society may 1)q anticiinited in favour of the erection of a new Colleo-e ui)on a more enlarged basis. ° As it is the intention of His Majesty to manifest his desire that the internal concerns of the Province should, as far as possible be regulated by its own Legislature, I abstain from instructinf^* you with any i)articularity on the subject of the general regula- tions which it may be expedient to apply to the government of the new College. They will doubtless 1x3 well considered by the Legislature, and adopted in a spirit of justice, mutual harmony and good will. But there is one object to which I must direct your attention, and which you will not fail especially to recom- mend to the considenxtion of the Legislature : I mean the per- manent establishment in the College, upon a secure footing, of a Divinity Troibssor of the Church of England. This is a matter of great importance to those of His Majesty's subjects in Upper Canada who belong to the Church of England ; and His Majesty as Head of that Church, cannot be insensible to the duty which' belongs to hira of protecting it in all parts of his dominions. It is not Irom any desire to give an undue preponderance to the colonial members of that Church, either as regards the Colley whicli alone His Majesty^s suiSs can be Se th^ ?"' T'^'T ''''' ^^ "^"^^^^^ attacimenrwScrcon! stitute the strength, and mature the prosperity of nations. (Signed) I have the honour to bo. Sir, Your most obedient, humble Servant, GoDERICH. ( 36) I. PETITION TO THE HONOURABLE THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OP THE PROVINCE OF CANADA. The Petition of John, by Divine Permission, Bishop of Toronto, MOST RESPECTFULLY SHEWETH : _That a Bill has been introduced for the adoption of your Honourable House, intituled " An Act to amend the Charter of the Lniversity established at Toronto by His late Majesty Kinc t^eorgc the Fourth ; to provide for the more satisfactory (^vern- ment of the said University ; and for other purposes connected with the same, and with the College and Grammar School forming an appendage thereof." ' That this Bill contains enactments which are, in the humble opinion of your Memorialist, of the most blighting character, and by no means in accordance with the title ; for instead of being eonhned to some modification of the Government, they o-q to deprive King's College of all the privileges conferred upon it by its Boyal Charter, and apply the endowment granted for its sun- port by the Crown to the establishment of an institution wholly different, to be created by the passing of this bill. That King's College, thus sought to be destroyed with the avowed intention of taking for other purposes the property and estates which it holds under a Royal grant, has been for six years in successful operation under its Charter,— that it is leoally incor- porated by Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of J^ngland,— that no ground of forfeiture has been shewn, such as mit^ht subject a Corporation upon a proper lesal proceeding to the loss of Its privileges, nor is it even pretented to be in fault ; but it is assumed that your Honourable House is at liberty to deal at your pleasure with the Constitution alid I'roperty of King's College, as if neither the Corporation nor the one-fourth at least of the fnha- bitants of Upper Canada interested in the objects it was intended to promote, had any rights under it to claim or protect. That your Petitioner has observed with extreme regret that this measure has been introduced into your Honourable House with the sanction of the Colonial Government, but your Petitioner will not yet abandon the hope that they will not persevere in urging enactments to which he believes a large majority of the population of Upper Canada are in principle opposed, and which they not only consider unwise but would feel to be unjust. ( 37 ) That tlie pretences upon wliich some persons profess to relv for jiistifynig such an mteriereiice witli cori>orate privileo-es Vnd vested rights, which is in its nature and decree unprecedented are wholly groundless, and can be in the plaines «e^^^^^^^^^^ proved by the public official Acts, and Communication of the Imperial and Colonial (Governments : that the nower wL^Kr I^ subvert a Royal Charter granted for such a ;urpr,"n t [ak^ from a Corporation its property in the absince of any alleged abuse has never been assumed by the Jniperia] Parliainent fnd hat the exercise of such a power by the ('olomal LegSaturc his instance would be inconsistent with that measure of protec tion which similar institutions, founded in British Colonies by the same authority, have received li-om the ruling power even after the countries in which they were founded had become foreign to the British Crown. That it is entirely without reZn that the despatches of the Secretary of State fbr the Colonies to a former Lieutenant-Governor in Upper Canada (of the 2nd November, 1831 and the 17th June, 1835,) have been advanced as a foundation for this farther interference with Kino-'s Colle-e because, since those despatches were written, the Colle-e has be^en placed, and IS now actually conducted on the very fbotine which his late Majesty was pleased to recommend in his lloval communication of 2nd November, 1831, in which His Maiestv stipulated in the most earnest terms for the permanent establish- ment m the College of a Professor of Divinity, upon a secure footing, of the Church of England, declaring it to be a ma ter of great importance to those of His Majesty's subjects in UpT,er Canada, who belong to the Church of England; and that hIs Majesty, as the head of that Chm-ch, could not be insensible to his doi^ belonged to him of protecting it in all parts of The scheme embodied in the bill introduced to your Hon- ourable House IS cumbersome, expensive and unwieldy, and has never yet been tried in any part of the world, and must in prac- tice create jealousies and distrust, and destroy everythina: like harmony m the working of the institution. ^• \ our Petitioner farther represents that the leading feature of the bill IS the express exclusion of all religious instruction and wor- ship, and so jealous do its whole tone and provisions apiiear on his miportant point that they admit not of the slightest Reference to this, the basis of all true education, and even proscribe Clerff^'- men or Ecclesiastics from any share in its Government. And thus the men best qualified to gain a living influence over the hearts and minds of the youth, are prevented from communicatin.r with them on the most important of all subjects. "^ That such an utter interdiction of every thing religious as this bill seeks to establish by Legistative enactment, is ^-ithout pre- cedent among Christian nations, and can never be submitted to '•■'I I .:1 ( 38 ) l|y mcMi really serious mid i,i earnest. An institution whicli dnves au-ay a 1 tlio.se wlio, ironi their livin,ir fidtli, warmt o f disposition ancs.ucenty ofpurpose, are the I.est qualiliecl to trah the youno- to all that is pure, lovely, and .sublime in relu^ion,," noble lu science,niust become the abhoriTuce orchristianpare.its r^|.oT/"f;'^''^y'^" "^"^''^'^- ^i^'^^t than that of an inl fi Colle8e,dead to all sense of religious truth, and unworthy of the blessing ol Heaven. ^ ^ That this bill in its enactments not only exhibits a strikino- oppc^ition to religious truth, but also implie.s pecS Ln iv S the Umted Church of England and Irilancl .vhiie at K^^^^^^ line the rights and privileges of the Colleges of other denoiiW tio IS, M-luch are lar more exclusive thaiAhe Charter of K ^^ College has ever been, are scrupulously maintained. "" i our letitionerliirther submits that should this measure become law, the noble endovvmeiit granted by our late SoverS ior the support of lMng\s College,^vlll be wasted in tl e vah a tempt to sustain a University upon a system which enlightene leason and conscience must ever condemn, which is not !^mc tioiied by experience in any age or country, nor, as your Peti- tioner believes, by the feelings and opinions olaiW coiisiderUile number oi those (of whatever religioL clenoininatJon) who can best appreciate the objects of a University education and who alone are likely to avail themselves of itj advTn a"es for t le instruction of their children. ci ivania^es lor the That your Petitioner need scarcely declare to your IlonouriblP House that the United Church of England and Snd cThave no connection with such an institution ; for she is bmnicriy her interpretation ol Christian truth, as embodied in her articles a id formularies, to repudiate and reject a system of ed cattii no founded on religious principles, and he, thereibre, mos rZestly en reats your Iloiiourable House not to sanction a measure Sh tends wliolly to separate the Members of the Provincial Un ver sity, and to deprive their youth of all the advanta-^es of a collegiate education for which the endowment bestowed L he Crown was intended to provide. ^ That your Petitioner would deplore this sacrifice the more ec use he IS aware that while King's College mi^it be presem5 m 1 ts integrity there are most ample means within the powe ot the Covernment of endowing Colleges in connexion witl/other denominations, upon principles which they have all shewn tl em- selves to lu-eier; or King's College might surrender mrt of its endowment for the support of a Medical College, lieino-^restoi^d to the position m wlimh it ^vas placed by its original Charter with such modifications only as would separate it entirely fom anv thing bke political influence or agitation, might serve t lo'Jh I S offac.ently ban wis at first intended, for the education of the members oi the United Church of Kniland a.id Jrehind (30) Your Petitioner fiirtlier renresent«i tlmf ..ri.nf motive for brin-in..- tbru--irre- never been meddled witli w A' IKm^^^^ •;»^"'{':'^ "'"'^ ^^^« poly over mind, which of all tl n"^ o.o U , t , '^'^^^^^^^^^ ^^^"^ la tlie,r rctitiou fur aid to their CouXT^^Zm ^^fT'^ rtar C lartors place them, in houo,«-, by the i le of 1*^; , ' ' Tmversitics ; but ivero tliey so re^iraie^."of nh l, ^'l .uterests as to listen to the inritatio? Ss b.l revZu sh-'l" into pulation or LTp,,er Canada is ^ ToToSn The Church of England, which cannot connect ' Ihe Church of Rome do 1-^3 707 The Wesleyan Methodists, who do'not'require ^ ' rn, iJ'*J'^V'"J?^^ ^^'^llf'gc of their own 90 363 The Kirk of Scotland, do ^9 900 Those who will not profit by the pro^sed ' Leaving to prolit by this measure ~26772q J^ven this is too much in favour of the measure, ior the Scottish Free Church, and your 1 etitioner believes the Congregationalists, disapprove ol the principle of excluding religion from education, in which case they will soon have Colleges of their own. Scottish Free Church 64.729 5^]^^^''"'^^ ••; ::*.:.*.7.;:;:::::: 20,372 10 be farther deducted gg jq. Leaving to profit by the proposed College 182^ wh^'d.r''" (7,^\ this must be deducted many denominations who disregard Universities, and such knowledge as they impart tTiese' wi/fn'^l" '"'t''''- '"^^ '''' "^^^" one-fourlh, and I B of ese will not use the privilege, the Legislature will, by passing mnioHr^p'A "''"'\''Z "^" *^^^"^S^ ^"^ "^terests Jf tli Irll ihJ^ZF^^'^'r? ^^'-^'^' '"^'"'^*''^ t^'^t ^ «ti" "^ore perfect test of learning, uould be found by ordering a return of the Students attending such institutions, and of the denominations to wS their parents respectively belong. This beyond every othe argument would show the imix>licy of this bill, and the grel mjustice which it inflicts. ^ .n Jr;' K^f'^'I'f, .^^^^t'^^^- represents that the argument used by th t whinh " T Tr-'''\ "" '^'^ S-^""^'"^^ ^^'-''^ it is similar to that which Avas adopted in the Parent State for the foundation of certain secular colleges in Ireland, is altogether falacious, since whatever may be thought of the principle there adopted, it did not sacrifice the interests of the National Church as this measure does. No class could complain of injustice, however much they might deplore the avowed indifference manifested to the Christian (41) ';d.'^is'':il ^!'\ '*'' ^f- '"f ""^ >'""^ """o^ruble House not only aloptsal tlmttyvilui the Irish .u.-usurc, h.it ikrther deprived tIu.nieniher.o( fu.(;in,rc-h of Kno land ol' their riglas and ^^^^^^^^^^^ on. owmen Mu.l ,jves to the hill . rovoh.tioM.r;c.huracter ^ \onr letiliuaer heo-s peniiissioi, iu all due respeet, to re.iuest ti o aL M T-''^ roasou M'hen they learn that the Lci^is- iS -md m^^,i;'^ Canada,a.reat portion being Uoinan CatJio- e^f li hi?, ' "■''''" "-^^f y'^"'-"'"'^ ='"^l Methodists Charters t.sUblshniir Colleges and also pee.u.iary assistance to a con- s.deral,lean.,>m.t while the same Jegiilative hody not only dq.nved the Church of Engh.nd olthe Charter of KnJr's College grinned t,, her by our late Sovereign King (iec.r^e tic IWh' hut despoded her of the whole of the endowment/lhe gift of tl J «-inie sovereign, and refused to alh.vv her to retain even « ^a^s^ ,H.U.m of her own property, to enable h^l'^lnc:: e ^ >outh o( her Connnunion lor the dilferent professions, and the .•ontnniance of her Ministry, and to supply vm^uicics conCiallv happening hi that Ministry, anc >^een her miniinent • anger, and that the ]nost cruel of all oppressions, that of sliackhng the mind, and withdrawing the mins of acu. rhig a liberal education for their children, is impending upon more tLi one-fourth of the inhabitants of Uppcr^;anada^^ h L^^ ^^^^^^^^^ appear, ironi no other reason than that they belon^ tT 1 e established Church of the Empire, which the Sovereicrn has sworn to manitain inviolate. ^uvtrci^n nas From all which your Petitioner, with all due respect to vouy Honourable Ib.ase, enters his most solemn Protest hi behaffof he Church of England against this bill, and the i ovLions hereof as most injurious to her interests, and ^d.versive of her just rights and pnv,leges_as imconstitutional , and pre- iLt with future evds both to Tapper and Lower CanadL ^ " AH which IS most humbly submitted ; and your Petitioner as m duty bound will ever pray. ^ x^cuuoner, as ! iA John Toronto. April 13, 1849. ( >i ) K. 1. To the Qurni\ Moat ExccUcnt Majnty. May it plonso yofir Alujosty, — Wo, your Ali.jcNfy's iii.vst .liitifiil and loyal subjects, the Cloi-v n'ul i^nty of llK. rniU..I Chun-l, of Knjan.l an.l Ir -hm.!, . .T.- L.t.ng ha part (»!■ liritisl. North AnuTira winch loriucrly c.. . 1H.S...1 the Provmco oC rj.prf Canada, ii.ost !i-.Mid,Iy represent. ihat a(h-r the peaee <.C t7S3, tins portion of your Majesty's . oniunons JH-eanie the asyhnn of those laithlid Loyalists, who dnnnfr the Kevoh.tionary war w.th the Colonies, now the I nited Mates, shed their blood and saeriliced their property in ndheringtothe.r Kin-undthe Tnity ofthe En.pire. ^ ^ thnir . ""d that it m,.st .y^t ion of ft }'' Vf^ 'T''''^^ mH.nuucMKis to the eonsich-ra- C^L^cof^lvT '^'''<"n''''-i^''''''^^ ostahlislnuent in the o hoi • F' r''"*'"- ^ ^<>l><- 'I "'Htter of oreat importanee Chmch.,f J,„.i,,nd, and that IJis Majesty, as head of t • t U urch, eould not he insensihie to the dnty wluel beL ed t inm of protectn,g it in all parts of his dominions. ■= '' iiat in accordance MJth tJie ^^-ishes of yonr Maiestv\ Tvovi? Incle, he .Statute 7 Willia.n i\\ chapter W, Avas as e■.!,, juv^Limi'u ouiv ii Transient cahn J he enemies of the National Church, implacable in their hosl.'ll; •aged by unlooked-for success, again assailed Kin.r\s' ter it lUlo hi^on 111 1-VI-/1CM „■.,.,„... i- . f . '' ' ., . ' "^''gecl by iiim,v;j\i;ii-ji,j Miccess, College, after it had been in prosperous operation fi.r more'tlian oniSt''''^'"" I any complaint as to its management or ma m' of ms ruction, and without any second invitation on .he par of mrti^ ohn' """'^ n' ''"''''' ^'^<'^e««''''.-"ot merely in effectin<' partial changes, but in accomplishing (he comj.lete destruction .W' (44) Your Majesty's dutiful siihjects would further represent that the Act thus i)assed by the Legislature of Canada, on the 30th of May . ast, not only destroys King's College, and in effect confiscates the whole of its endowment, but establislics a secidar Colleso^ connected with tlie an appendage thereof"' ° "^'^ Grammar Seliool fonning His late Majesty Kin' G^Sr^flV on k^ J '\^ granted by one thousand ei^ht hunSlnd twentv ^^^^"^^^^^Y of March year of his reivernment the irosperity and objects of the as to educate )fessions as in named in the at in accord- e Charter for li of England, at the same ted to all the •oceed to any sver. Hence 5 government (47) under the Church of England, yet all the benefits which it was able to confer were accessible to the youth of the whole ponula- tion, with the exception of the Divinity department, which would only be desired by those who were members of the National Uiurch, unless other doctrines were to be inculcated. Indeed there was nc period before the repeal of the Test-laws when there thntn riT? /'"' 'f /'f ^ '^'^'^'' .^^^ expecting or even imagining tha a Char er establishing a University so open in its provision! could have been granted and endowed by the Crown except in connexion with the Church of the Empire. ^ That although King's College was the most open University Which up to that period had ever been established by the Crown a clamour was rtiised against it in the Colony upon no more reasonable grounds than that it recognized a distinction between tlie Church of England and the various sects which differ from iier. Ihe motives and objects which led to this clamour and consequent attacks, were in this country well understood and appreciated. It was impossible to give credit to the authors of them lor honesty of purpose, when it was perceived with how little scruple they perverted and misstated the conditions and eifect of the Charter of which they complained. But, beinjr encouraged and aided by a party in ;^^ngland and not withstood by Grovernment as they might have successfully been, if some degree of conlidence had been shown in supporting what was ju,st and right, they prevailed, and after some years of delay and agitation, the Secretary of State invited the Legislature to sucro-est such alterations and amendments in the Charter as thev mieht deeni useful and expedient. ^ ^ Your Lordships' Petitioners most respectfully represent that no man who values what is good and stable in government, can tor a moment doubt that this was a most unwise^and unfortunate course. It was wholly without example, that a Colonial Assera- biy should be allowed, by their acts, to nmtilate a Royal Charter winch had been granted by the government after long delibera- tion, under the great seal of the United Kingdom. The mischiefs which were sure to flow from snch a proceeding iiave been apparent from the moment a course so irregular and unconstitutional was permitted, and they are brought to the worst passible result in the Act which has just passed. For instead of conhning itself to some modifications of the Royal Charter, the utmost extent to which that invitation could with propriety be construed, this Act totally destroys King's College and creates an Institution of a character wholly different. Instead of being religious, the leading feature is the total exclusion of aU Unistian worship, and so horrible are its tone and provisions on tJHs important point that it even proscribes clergymen from giving any professionul instruction whatever on the-most ininor- lant of all subjects. Such an utter interdiction of everything ( 48 ) religious as this Act seeks to establislj, is without precedent anion ir Christian nations. It drives away all those who from their living Faith, warmth of disposition, and sincerity of puriKtse are best qualified to train tlie young to all that is lovely and sublime m religion, pure in morals, and noble in science. Your Lordships' i)etitioners would further represent that the Koya pledge given to the Church of England in the provisions of the Charter is altogether disregfirded— the property and estates, m effect, confiscated, every vestige of Christianity banished, and Jimg s College abolished, and its property applied to purposes as different Irom those intended by the Royal donors as liffht iroin darkness. That no ground of forfeiture has been shewn such as might subject a corporation upon a j)roper legal proceed-' mg to the loss of its privileges, nor is it even pretended to be in lault; yet the Act deals with the constitution and property of Kings College as; if neither the corporation nor the numerous inhabitants of Uj)per Canada interested in the object it was mtended to promote had any rights under it to claim or protect. By the documents annexed, it is distinctly shewn that more than three-fourths of the population of Canada West are in prin- ciple opposed to this Act, or to any educational institution divested of a religious character ; and that not only His late Majesty Kmg George III., who first set apart the endowment, and His la e Majesty Kmg George IV., who granted the charter intended the College so to be established for the education of youth 111 sound learning and the principles of the Christian religion but his late Majesty King William IV. was also pleased distinctly o recommend in the most earnest manner the perma- nent establishment in King's College of a Professor of Divinitv even when consenting to some minor alterations, declarino- it to be a matter of great importance to his subjects in Upper Canada who belong to the Church of England, and that Hii Majesty, as head of that Church, could not be insensible to the duty which belonged to him of protecting it in all parts of liis dominions. iour Lordships will perceive that, while the acts and earnestlv- expressed wishes of three British monarchs are set at nouo-ht more than two millions of acres for educational and charitable purposes, for the benefit of the French population in Lower Canada, as ifto shew how far British feelings can be insulted and the commands of Louis the XIV. held sacred, and the French Colleges supported and cherished. Not that your Petitioners desire the confis,^ation of one of these acres or the suppression of one of these Colleges; but surely it is not too much for British hearts to expect that the wishes of no fewer than three of their own Kings should meet with as mucli reverence as those of one foreign prince. At present the contrast is truly humiliating. Your Lordships' Petitioners would further represent, that an Act so iniquitous and unjust could never, n.^ thpir believe havo (49) passed but for the iinhappy union of the two Provinces Th« French members, added to a certain class of membi s in ul^r Canada, will commonly be found an n^r^r.. hlu^ H^'^ where the interests of the ChuJch 1 a sinTw ft !"^ '^''^''''^y Mother Country are conLrne 1 A^ 1 f attachment to the injustice of thi7«riS aL^ --.^he not, it is believed, have been fo ulr to ,ai^i » tVT"' T'^ Council, had not 'the constituUr been 1nfr nied L H^''-^'/''" duction of twelve addition-jl nZn^h.. "?^^.f"igea by the mtro- step was taken, the LeSat ^ "c^^^^^^^^^ ,4"^^ w.;" "f^Vr^ a check against sudden and unh sf e'o^IS^^^ opunon, become utterly incapable' o^aSdtr^^;^^^^^^^^^^ endowment of any insSutlon .. in ti "''''''^'^'^' "^' ^^^ without cause. Moreover no dass in Lu^ '' n ^^^^^^^^^^^ed because King's ColIe^gr^uAl^be^n''^."^^^^^^^^^^ :ndr^surircrrr'wi?,rie"rr''^^ statute . the destruouon of King's College; andlttoufisStSu (50) of its property, by the exercise of power which the Imperial Par- liament has never assumed in the worst of times, and which our most able Judges liave declared to be unconstitutional and revo- lutionary: the truth of which opinion is proved from the fact that smiilar institutions to that of King's College, founded in the British colonies, have received IVom the ruling jxjwcr ample pro- tection, after the countries in which they were founded had become foreign to the British crown. Thus the colleges founded by the Kings and Queens of England in the colonies, now the United States, are still cherished and preserved, and their endowments not only held sacred but largely increased. Permit your humble Petitioners to entreat the attention of yoiu Lordships to the position in which this Act seeks to reduce the Church of England in this i^pulous diocese. While the Roman Cathohs, the Methodists, and the Church of Scotland have col- leges exclusively their own,— the two latter under Royal charters from the Crown, with the power of conferring degrees in arts and divinity,— the National Church, with nearly as many mem- bers as all these put together, is deprived of her one college, and driven to have recourse to a temporary institution for training some of her young men to the ministry ; otherwise her vacancies could not be supplied or her light extended to the waste places of the Province. Nor was even the site of a few acres reserved on which your Petitioners, by their own contributions and the assistance of their friends, might hope to erect buildino-s for the purpose of the secular and religious instruction of their'children Your Lordships' Petitioners feel sadly humbled thus to be compelled to supplicate for relief from an act ,of complicated oppression, which seeks without cause to crush the National Church, and even to peril her existence in Upper Canada ; and not only this, but to shackle the minds and destroy the eternal hopes of the rising generation, by compelling them to adopt a system of education which as Christians they must always abhor • and all this, it would appear, for no other reason than that vour Lordships Petitioners belong to the Church which the Sovereir"'^^ ^f having one ^n which theiVouth ma^^^^^^^^ the ciwn, secular knowledge. As tWefL li? t /ff^'^^^^ «« well as rehgion and the imity of t e emSe^r ^^^''^f^P^/f Terence true entreat the disallowance c^^tlSct • atSt' ^''i;"." '^" Petitioners, protest, as injurious to our ho v Chilrof r^'? '^^ solemnly rights and privileges as LSmen ',' i ""^i -^^^^'^^si^e of our «me uncoAstitutional, at^ r™'t wm^r^' ^' ^' '^'^ '^^"^^ Canada and the British EmT)Se A n!l • '^ "'^^^^^^^ ^^^1 to timt justice may be ^o^^etX-^^^ZT^"^' '' r>'' pledges of three illustrious Soverei^V m.v f ^'^ '^^'^^" Jgi^ed, by .commendmg the restc^^oiS^^Vi^S^^ ^^And your Lordships' Petitioners, as in duty botmd, will ever Allen, J. W Tr- Anderson, Gustavus'.'! mT'^T*^ Bartlett, P. G. .. ^^^^^^^^k, Bay of Quiute. Brent, Henrv.. S^^w m England. Bousfieid, Thomas*:::::;:.;;; wo^fff'^', Belt, W '^ oil Island. Bull, G. a;::;;;;; ?/"^^^s- Barrett, G ^i^. Catharines. Brown, charie;:::;;;;:;; mITa- Bov/pn P .'■* Malahide, • '"'■"• ^ Sydenham. : 1 i F '? Ml t ) ii ' ( 58 ) Bcck,J.R. W nice Lake. Clarke, W. C Pakeuham. Dillon, M. M Antigua, West Indies. Edc, J. H Now in the West Indies. Edge, John Now in England. Fauquiere, F. D Zorra. — ^ (U^ Garfett, Richard Brock. Godfrey, James Niagara District. Groves, F.J. J Victoria District. Harding, Robert Emily. Hickie, John Fenelon Falls. Hamilton, James Now in England. Harris, James Eastern District. Ingles, C. L Drummondville. Jamieson, Andrew Walpole Island. Johnson, W. A Scarborough. Ker, Mathew March. Kennedy, John Mohawk, Grand River. Lampman, Archibald London District. Logan, William Cartwright. McKenzie, J. G. D Toronto. Merritt, R. N Barton. Mockridge, James Warwick. Muloch, J. A Adolphustown. Patterson, E Stratford. Plees, H. E Kemptville. Read, J. Bolton Port Bur well. Ruttan, Charles Paris. Shirley, Paul Camden East. Shanklin, R Oakville. Simpson, J. E Deceased. Stimson, E. R Mount Pleasant. Thomas, J. Lloyd Deceased. ^ ^' Tooke, J. R Marysburgh. i^M.^rvs^ Wilson, John Grafton. Worrell, J. B Smith's Falls. X (53) Corn'mdenceo/a^LoriBUh^MH, RigHt HmorabU Lord Uref, Semlaryof Stale for the Colonic. London, Bury Street, St. James's Mx Lord, * May 17th, 1850. ri,i D°T- "''"' "'""■Se of petitions to the two branches of tbn Jmn. rial Parl.araent on the same subject, but these I trult I illl „ .f ' I have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient servant, The Right Hon'hie ®'^"'''' ^OHN TORONTO. Lord Grey, H. M. Principal Secretary of State for tlie Colonies. ! ' ! (54) London, 19, Bury Street, 8t. James's „ , a9th May, 1850. Mt Lord, I beg permission to enclose a Memorandum of the scheme alluded to in the letter, which I had the honor to address to your Lordship on the 17th instant, for establishing, without assist- ance from the Colonial Government, a University in connection with our Church, and receiving only from Our Gracious Soverign what other denominations have long enjoyed— a Charter of Incorporation providing for the government of the Institution and granting it the privilege of conferring Degrees. Your Lordship will, I trust, do justice to the course which I thus seek to pursue, and which, if concurred in by your Lordship, will enable the Church quietly to withdraw from further discussion on the subject in Canada, and to leave her enemies in the unmolest- ed enjoyment of the Royal Endowment of which we have been most unjustly deprived, since it would appear that the Imperial Government can offer no remedy. In this way the proposed Church University will be entirely separated from political agitation of every description, and be able to proceed in her work of religious and scientific instruction, though perhaps on a diminished scale, in security and peace. I have, &c., (Signed,) JOHN TORONTO. The Right Honorable Eahl Gkey, &c., dzc, &c. 174 Memorandum of a Scheme for EstaUishing a Church University Upper Canada. To be endowed from private iources onJy. Building Fund. 1. The contributions and donations already made in the Colony, and which may be expected to increase beyond their present am- ounf, £25,000 provincial currency to £30,000 currency, or £36,00© Sterling, to be expended in erecting necessary buildings. The endowments to arise from two sources : First,— k Queen's letter for a Collection in all the Churches of England, the proceeds of which may be assumed at £20,000. The reasons for granting such a letter in this case are very strong, I may with truth say irresistible : — 1st. As regards precedents, a Queen's Letter, as I am informed wa^j granted many years ago towards the Establishment of. Bishop 3 College at Calcutta, and half the proceeds of a Queen's (55) Letter was recently ^ivon to the Bishop of Newfoundland towards S"? "f ^'f ';'''"'• ^ ''^ I^'^^'^"'^^'^'' ^J'^t "^«"y others are to bo found but to which, as a stranger, I have no access. tnhv K , nT""" 1 ".''' ^^"^ °"'y reference to the Members of the Es- tabhshed Church. It is a collection at Divine Service, to which tho Worshippers may contribute or not, as they see fit. It therefore im! poses no hardship on any one, much less a compulsion to give, but n 7£'V "^ ^'^^'-.''^'t ^''' ^' °"^ ^''^"^h of the Churlh being ;he'r;st^thTip:s^^^^^^ '''"' ^"°''^^^' -^ '- ^- P-tised sincf rhnJ^.r p'" i''^'" ^PP"!" ^^"^^'^ ^•'^^ P^^"^'^'" ^'^'^^'"s upon the Church of England, not only as a weak child requiring f^terinir care but because the Colony has been for many years^ the chTe? Asylum of poor Emigrants from the Parent State, of whom thou ITrt^'^ Church people, and being commonly destitute when they rnZ '• T /° ^"^ '^'S'^y ^'''''^^' ^"^ «"«h assistance always comes m the largest measure from the Members of our Church — It may indeed be truly affirmed, that more is sometimes given in one year, m private charity to these destitute Strangers, than the amount assumed as the probable proceeds of the Queen's letter, ♦u Yu ^"^^^^^'OOO Emigrants who came to Quebec in 1847, more than three-fourths reached Upper Canada. Of these 40,000 landed at Toronto bringing with them a malignant fever, and although the Government had done a great deal to mitigate their distress, much more remained for the charitable to do. And what rendered matters more afflicting, many of our own people in their eagerness to relieve the sick Emigrants, became themselves victimsto this virulent and contagious fever For several months, indeed during the whole Summer, more than 1,200 Emigrants were sick in the Hosnha s and temporary buildings erected for their accommodation. The principal agents in all this were my Clergy and people. Surely the saving to the United Kngdom of the great exp'ens'e of suppSg 97,000 perishing Emigrants becomes an irresistible claim to I Queen's Letter as some small return. " " '° » 5. Moreover it will only be doing for us what the Church of Un per Canada, poor as she is has already done for this great country A collection was made in all our Churches, Chapels, and Stations during the recent famine in Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland giving two-thirds of the amount to the former, and one-third to the la ter On the whole, we have already contributed more than ten fold the proceeds of such a Royal Letter, and are still continuing year after year, to give more than it is likely to produce. And yet such a mark of Royal consideration would be most gratefully re after do^^ ^ precious renumeration for all we have done or may hear-' 6. In fine, as far as I can learn, the Members of the Church of England would gladly welcome the grant of a Queen'^ letter in this case, as aftording them an opportunity of manifesting their love for the Church m Canada in a way «lter thoir own hearts. Ill II ( 56 ) Eo%^:-^?^St'''''' '^"^ ^^"^l'° ^^°^l«« ^"d Individuals in But should Ihr Mttjosty the Queen condescend to bestow a Roval dIw'w^I^ '^'' ''•:*'' '^^ ^ ^''^^^ ^^"«^" »« believe llLomSo One TLnllp^'^'V' r^P'^''^^ '° ^°' ^° ^^« «^'«"t at tl e S of One Thousand Pounds, tiio amount of this source might bo talien a twenty mstead of ten thousand pounds. ^ "^ awa;. 2r ' r'^'^'P^.°'^""y «"^™'' that were Her Mnjestv aware hat we have been deprived of a lloyal gift worth £2'I()nm consisting of Lands under Patent from the CrownlySlf I^ nue of Eleven Thousand Pounds per annum, and uSged W UireJ Soverigns-^she would hasten to repair, in as far Ts may bo ir hnr power, the great loss and injury wi have thus sustained.^ ^''' In conclusion, I would with all respect and deference submit ihut n IS no slight argument in favour of tlds scheme, that tsadopS wil Canada. *'^"^"''"y ^"'^ P^^^« ^^^ scarcely be hoped for in Upper (Signed,) JOHN TORONTO. Mr Lord, Downing Street, 13th June, 1850. thp 9«fl! nu- ^ ^"""^ ^^® f'^""'" ^? '■''°"^® yo"'* Lordship's Letter of he 29th ultimo enclosing a Memorandum on the stbject of tho proposed establishment, by Royal Charter, ot a Univers"^ in Upper byTotia!F3r°""'''^^'^ ^''"^^^^ of England, an'd unaE I need scarcely observe to your Lordship, that Her Maiestv'^ Government are always disposed to regard favorably pi^pSls ttnt Z SrhLfr T-'"'"^ r' """'''''' ^ '''' means'^^FElSuca- iion in the Biitish Colonies, and more especially when those prom sals do not involve the necessity of a Grant of Public MoneTf 8ha.l therefore be ready to considei with the utmost attentioT the s'itf TnToTc ir r ^'T' '^^ ^^^ incorporation of I new Unive ? mJwUh K.ft nTtIf' y:tT''I^V ^^^'^'^'"P «hall have favored t^ pise Untflf'l iff • ""'^'"'^ "^"^ ^/ ^''"''^ ^'^^q^^t- ^«r ine purpose. Until I shall be m possesion of such Draft I am oh viously not in a position to form any judgment upon U e orom-iPtv of recommending Her Majesty to give^ her co so t to t^ie^ Se ired measure 1 may observe, further,'' that 1 should feel it v dutv tn communicate llikwise with the Provincial Governn ent o7a ml r (57) your Lordship, that I S non .on ° '*''''''"' ^ ''"^° '° '"^^rm of State fur tho Ho, ne £S?ortir"''"''"« ^'"' '^'^ Secretary entertained to tho uiuhipE ^ f\ u^^ ""T '^T^' °^J«^''«" '« of Her Majesty's sul^^^eX a 7 -t a^' ^ '^ ,'^r-olenco the existnig arrancernent thn a,\ZJ e r} ' ^"^P°' *•««» ""der three yearf, by whidi a^ip ^ i ? ^° °n" ^"^^"'« L^"«'- ^"ce in the Church'in tho Co onS I Lr it wnr"fr^ ^°'' ^''^ ^"PP^'-t ^^ with your request rail fvemw^^^^^ before a decision has been formed ai to" he GranK"' n^ '"^ "*i Incorporation to the proposed University ^ °^ " ^'^^'^"^ °^ lastwtTyC^lt'n'^^'tS ^^^^^^-/'«t«^ the 9th April United Church of pShnd ami TrJ T .T''''''^^'^'"^^'-^ ^^ the estabh;sh.ent of tho pVo^lT'l^Stl" f E^^o""'"' "^^'"^"^'"^ Lordsh p that Her Maipet,, «,„ i Y ' ^^^ ^^ acquaint your your Lordship communicated to mp nt tl/n e ^- ^*"^°" ^^'"'^h Clergy and L^aity of the amrchS-^E .tn ^^;::'Cr"c^^^^^^ '''' pressing their objections to the Act passed in .elKs.'V T Wslature-of Canada for the amendment of Kni^CoE^^^^ to, and praymg that measures mnv l>« ♦„! 7" ^ 'college Toron. lege to L efficiency, :?rh"rh'"iitS 7i."SSn °,°'- as shall separate it entirely from nnUfj^o tt "^o^g'nal Charter judging from the terms i^U ehif ex'^ess.r/^lfl'^'^^ have been delivered to meTeviousirto^^^^^^ r°"^^'-^ apprehend, referred to, I have been una^bfe to advis;Her M^^^^^^^ '^'^'^ ^^^ C(»mmands. ""viso iier Majesty to jsssue any I have, djc, The LoHD Bishop of Toronto. ^^'^"'"''^ ^^^Y' My Lord, London, 19 Bury Street St. James's 18th June, 1850. osi«v,.ul!jr >vnen U« ,,rop«,al3 do not involve the GVairt'o^'publio 'i 3P Hi (ill Mi (58) Money ; and that your Lordship will consider, with the utmost attention, the suggestions I may offer for the incoroporationTan Umversitym Upper Canada, whenever I shall have furnished a uratt tor the same. Such Draft 1 have now the honor to inclose, in the full confi dence hat it will receive your Lordship's appr'obation. Is little' mo le han a transcript of the Charter of the late King's College o? wl ? 5.?' ^T^ ?-f'^' "°^ ^" °P^^^^^°" ^t Kingston, cfn^da West, with such modifications only as may attach the Institution h seeks to establish to the Church, and sepaJ^te it fi^om al poSa mfluence whatsoever, and enable it to proceed in its work ofrel 3 ous and scientific instruction in security and peace But while I thank your Lordship for promising'to give due at ention to the Draft of the Charter, in order to be" in f msit?o„ to inn^^ f. ^^1 P;;°P"^7 of recommending Her Majesty to granrHe? your Lordship will see cause to relinquish any such referenceon th^ subject to Canada as may impede or delay its issue, and for the fol! lowing among other reasons :— > « u loi uie loi- K/'?'JU^*^''^''r^'^'"'^"^^°"°^the promoters of the Statute by which King's College has been superseded and its endowmem devoted to the establishment of a new University, from which Teli gion IS by enactment excluded, to make that University he on v one m the Province ; and for this purpose they have invhed thouih as yet without success, those religious bodies who havrCollegesTf ThXw??""'"^'' '^"' ?r^^' ""^ '' «ffi"-te themseWes as Iheological Seminaries around the new University. Now so lon^ as this desire is cherished on the part of the Provindal Government fn^Tptriit^r ^^^^" '' '''''''-' ^ ^^-^ vn^^:k fn,,; r ^T^^'' °f ^^^ ^'^"'^^ °^ E"gl^"d being more than one- fourth of the population, and in number more than two hundred thousand, furnish nearly three-fourths of the youth who desire an University Education, as was shewn from the lists of the names of Ch'uSh rt "^ ^"^ ' ^°"-^S^- N°"' ^" *'^-- will goTo the Chuich College, as soon as it commences the business of instruc- jon ; and if to these be added the youth of the different deiom na tions having Colleges of their own, the Toronto University as "ts friends well know and admit, will be left comparatively empty : Eence they will object to any seeming rival. ^ ^^ Third Had the Bishop and Members of the Church of England besought Her Majesty for something new and uncommon, it would have been reasonable to communicate with the Provincial Govern ment but they merely ask the advantage which every o her body of Christians in Upper and Lower Canada enjoy, namely, one College supported by their own means, in which their ynnth'^! (59) bllthS'rltl^^^^^^^ and as n cannot your Lordship will perceive that to Sak« ^f^^"^ "^^n'^est injustice, or caprice of those by whom that CWoh I k'^""^ "P°" '^^ ^" win be felt to be nothing les^ hai^ro'i^' been deeply injured, Fourth, I would further mvTJ/^''r .T^ intolerance, we request is clearly SntLRovarpr^^^^ '"^'"^■*' '^^' ^J'«t cm be granted to us, as it has bee7to otrp?^''''l*° ^"^^°^' «»d cause of offence to any one sinrr;/K ^'^'V-'^'^^^"* S^^ing just with party or politics/ ' ""^ '' ^"^ "°^^^"g to do whatever likely to place th! &hu ch of Eritnd ^'""^''T -'^ ''^'''^'^ ^^ ever been allowed to intervene SLn .^ '"''^ i"ipediment has and any other denominatLn IfX 'IStVl ''' ^^-^^T^" stand between the Queen and Her own Chumh Jl T'""'""^ *^ special duty to protect <-hurch, which it is Her totteS^cT^f sTotL^dVcrad^ ^^ ^-n S-nted shall be proud to act. Al ow .^fh ' ?n r^^'' f '^ " ^'^^^^^^ ^e will, in consideration of Vhe reaTonfwh/ h tT' '^t^ y°"'' ^^''dsbip suggest, and the justice and 'f^n J naLp T "^ '^' ^°"°^ ^^ the prayer of our^ Petition ^y^Ta^yZZleLTLr''' ^^^"' Give us no reason, I beseech vnn m,r T i f ^ ^^^^y* bours of the United Stales of AmpnV^ ^u"^' *? ""^^ on"" neigh- of a Charter, such as we prav for K' ^^T '^''' '' "° ^*"«tance of circumscribing the r CollS and Sohn S 'r? ''^'^''^' ^"^^ead people take delight in the^r m^u tinlicalfon V'^'l?^^^' '^"^^ ^<^"te they in this respect, that therhave S f^ T ^^f*^.^ Jealous are Institutions as had been Tunded bv tt r^ ""^''"''^''^ ^" «"«h Revolution, and such have recefved from the^B°"n ^i''^^"' ^° '^^ protection after these Powers hlTh.^ r-'^^ Powe.s ample Empire. Thus, the cXges fie.uT?/T^" ^° '^^ British England in the Colonies are sU^lL^ ^^e K,„ „j q^^^^ their endowments not on I SeJd s cred f.nff "f"^ .Preserved, and ^ As your Lordship has seen fit [o dt r ^'^'^^ ^creased. Letter to assist us in the endowment nf^"^ ^'^""H''^ ^ ^"««n's bow with due submission BTtTmaf be :il^^^^^^^^ University, I request was by no means unreasonS P f ^° '''^^' '^^^ "^^ ing; and the reasons assigned Tn"mMo ''"?"'' '1^' "°' ^""^- such a favor, are, in the fud Lint n^f ^i^^^^^'^ndum, for granting but irresistible. J^^g^ent of others as well as myself, all I have, &c., (Signed,) JOHN TORONTO, ir The Right Honorable the Earl Grey'. \l SlB, (60) 19, Bury Street, St. James's, 20th July, 1850. I have the honor to enclose a Memorandum of two fnterviewa with which I was honored by the late Sir Robert Peel, in the hope that the support, which my application for a Royal Charter to estab- lish a University m Upper Canada in connection with the Church of England, would have received from that eminent Statesman may be made known to the Right Honorable Earl Grey, Her Ma' jesty s Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, and induce His Lordship to give my petition both an early and favorable consideration. ^ *«»uia,uiu I have, &c., (Signed,) J©HN TORONTO. B. Hawes, Esquire, &c., &c., &c. A memorandum of the Bishop of Toronto's two interviews with the late Sir Robert Peel : — On Friday, the 7th of June, I called on the late Sir Robert Peel, with a letter of introduction from Chief Justice Robinson of Uppe^ Canada, for I was anxious to interest so great and good a man in the object which had brought me to England. Soon ?fter I sent in my card and letter, the servant came and told me that Sir Robert was very sorry that he happened at that moment to be particularly en- gage^, but would make an early appointment to see me. bir Robert Peel presents his compliments to the Bishop of Tor. onto, and will have the honor of seeing him on Monday morning " at one quarter before eleven." ^ On Monday, the tenth of June, I called at the time appointed, bir Robert was at first distant and reserved, but nevertheless courte- ous and encouraging. He heard my statement of the many struff- gles and final destruction of King's College, and the establishment ot a College in its stead, from which religion is virtually excluded, with the most patient attention. " It seems a strange and outrageous proceeding, so far as I understand it ; but I shall require toltuHy the matter, and make myself acquainted with all the details, that ,, %"?Y f fully satisfied in my own mind before I can ever think ot interfering. Indeed, I have so little influence that my interference "wltitfT'f -^^ °^ little use. I suppose (he said) that the new histitution of Toronto University is something like the London ' CoUoge or the Irish Colleges." Pardon me, f replied • the Lon- don College preys upon no other interest, and is supported from private sources; it unhappily drops religion, but it goes not so far as to exclude it, by legal enactment, as the Toronto University does. terviews with (CI ) " T'>at certainly makes a diftbrencf " r» Auv , . Colleges in this-that the 11^^,,.^* ^''^"'^ "'^" ^''^''^^ the Irish Government, and their esKhl Lh ^^^^^' ""'"^ supported by the any other institution! But the CohJ'" "°V"t--f-e with or inji" founded on the ruins of K nl'' Co if ^\U"'\,^'*«'ty of Toronto is repealed under the pre enel^nf 5^' '''.^'°''' ^^^'^-^^ Charter it has of Eleven Thousand' ptannl'^^^^^^^^^^ ''' ^"'.7'^°^^ Endowmen the Crown, and gnaranteeT by Ihe ^L^e Ttk'^ " r?-^^^"^ ^''"^ hasse.zedand appropriated to itself ^Th v^r^^ Kings, it has said Sir Robert, " the Governm.nf\!' , P^"' '^ ^ understand it," ;;had they seized upon SrCoHo.t n^Kr"^"'^ ^ P^^^"«' ^^- "stroyed its religious charactPr hn "^' 1^''"' ^"^ "°t on'y de- " the new Colleges/' SucrTon't'""'' ^''^ its p rope rt/ all exactly parallel i^f so ''conlinuTT^'?' Z'u'^ '^^^^ ^^«" -ease "case of singular injustice Td onm. '''' " '' """"^^ ^'^""^ ** '•havetakenl,IaeeinSl^^^^^^ what eould never ;' on this point." He t h efrequir n 'T' ''^ r""^ ^"">^ '^'^^^^^^^ Statute, and such other papers '1^.'??'' ^T 'V^P^ "^^ ^^e subject, and he pmmisnd fo'g^vTihen , eTrfn 1"''^'^' f ""'^'^^^ ^''« On my return to my lodgTu^s sent tho f ''"""'f'- documents required, and ^Wtl the mn 1 ^'^''owi"S letter, and tho got evidently interested n the Lvor .?''"'^^-^' '^^^""^^^ S''" ^^^bert and became more frank an cSj the reserve with which he me7mn' f TT''^'"', ^''^'' ^ ^^^^ ^ha peared ;— ""^^ "^° ^^^ first Jjud altogether disap. London, 19, Bury Street, St. James's, Sir, 10th June, 1850. f repealed, and it^s end "„ n^J^med t^ II'"^' '" ^'"-^^^' C'^-^- rnst.tution, from which roligfo t vfrUn Iv ov^T'TT' °^ "" ''''^^''^ I likewise add printed oonie^, nf P • • ^ f'^cluded. two Branches of the Imp S 1 ,"''''""! ''' »''« Q»«^n and the eleven thousand .signatures a;^ InntfT' ^ ^"'''"'^ "P^^«'-d« of ftionto the Legislature of C-?nT''' "V' ''^ ^'^'P^ of n^J Pe- was in progress! ^'"'^■^' P''^'^^^'^^ while fhe measum sotet^:^.-^tjJ^;;.^;^;i"^ in our behal, educate their children fromTheii^^^f '' '"'^ "^ (^'I'urchmen to I have, &c., (Signed,) JOHN 'tUi{t)NTO i$ m Ihe Kight Honorable Sir Robert Peel, By «it., M. p. (62) As I had no (lesiro to take any «tep.s of!l-n«ive to the, Governnie.it I had abstained from getting n,y Putitiony ,,ro8m.t...d to the two Houses of Pa,huu,ent, and felt disposed to withhold them alto-other IV p^'"'^^^ ^^^''c granted us to secure more easily the pro' perty which we and our friends liad subscribed, and enable us to gran Degrees; but finding from a letter from Earl Grey, Her Ma- jesty sPrmcipa Secretary of State for the Colonies, that there might be difficulty in obtaining it, although a Royal Charter had been granted to the Members of the Kirk "of Scotland in Canada, I thought It nght to solicit Sir Robe ^ Peel's assistance and advice and accordingly addressed to him the following note, with such ad- ditional documents as this new obstacle seemed to require :— gj^ ^9' I^URY Street, St. James's, 15th Juno, 1850. In compliance with your wish, I have the honor to enclose a tuF , K?"u •'^'^"'^ *° ^'"'^ ^"''^"' sol'^'^ing a Royal Charter for ^.e establishment of a Church University in*- Upper Canada, and a JJraft of the Charter we desire. It is little more than a transcript of the Charter of the late Kina's s^Pk/to^'7 I r T r ''''''''^'^"' /'" '"'^y ^'-^l'^"'^^^ ^'»« Institution" it seeks to establish, from any political influence whatsoever, and en- able it to proceed in its work of religious and scientific instruction m security and peace. frn^"t^ ^''n ^''^ '"'"'"' ""^ ''^"'"S °" y""' ^ ^1^^^^ ^-^ceived a Letter iromJiarl Gray announcing a condition to the granting of the SsaT.' ' ' "°' '""''''''' 'P^'""-"' ^^ ""^ tantamotmt to u Perhaps you will permit me to show you this Letter, and add to the many obligations I am under, the benefit of your advice. I have, &;c., (Signed,) JOHN TORONTO. The Right Honorable Sir Robert Peel, In a very few hours I received the following note :— « Whitehall, June 15. " Sir Robert Peel presents his compliments to the Bishop of Poronto, and will see the Bishop at one o'clock on Tuesday morn- Jng. Sir Robert Peel would have named an earlier appointment, but he IS obliged to leave town for a day or two." On Tuesday the 18th June, I was in attendance. Sir Robert met me as an old acquaintance, and came forward and shook me cordially by the hand. - 1 have read your papers, which fully ^^ substantiate your statement. It is a case of great hardship and injustice. But I think you have exercised a wise discretion in not presenting your Petitions to the two Houses of Parliament: and a HO uouDt will be duly appreciated at the Colonial Office— for (63) " S ItyToHl J's It^- ,^"^ '"^-^' - ^'- Colonial '' University in ifssSh,,^'^^^^^^^ the Toronto "do not well see what ^e P«r ^ ^'^'? ^«"fi'''ned here, I "matter." I said th7p4sttaUo>TnT "'"^^ ''^^^ ^^"« '" »''« the Petition.s would havrmadl Z^ ^^^-^^l^"* publication of at least, have multiplied o^frien if fn F""'""^ ^"^^"' «"^ »''"S to help us. « Not perhaps soTuch n '"""'^'"^ '^''' disposition "no discussion on petitirs wllnl 7°" '"^^^'"^ ' ^^'^ ^''^'"^ *« "cially called up, tL ra^er could^ nTJ'^' T^ '^ ^'^^^ "« ^«P«- " Government might h^ave been n„^"f ^^""^ ^""" g'-''^"^^^' «n'i the " would have natumllybeLmoirr '"T '"^^"^'^"'•ence, and " for a Royal Charter.^ AtT event. T'^ ^' ^'^'°'' >^°"'- f^^''''^" " for a Royal Charter (vvhhou Jnvlnr ^'Z"''"" ^''^'"^^ »« ««k " cate your children frlm yoJr oTn relS^.^" -sistance) to edu- ".so just and reasonable, and vo.rnrJ i^^ '. '''''>"^'* ^^^^« "and moderate, that I do not.Snr' ^"^'- '''' ''''" '° ^"'^^ I then showed him Earl 3.0^''?? •"7 ^'''T ^'^J^^t'on." 1850, on the subjeer of a new Ly^r'^^^^^^^ f / - ^'h of June, very carefully. 1 novt nlacplnh? ^'^'^'^t'^''' «;'"o»> he read over «end to the Colon a Office t his TnT' '1"-' ' ^ '^''^'' P^'^n^'-^d to iong,helikewiseroad2;'ly'o,o ^tf'af;: ^''^' '''^""-"l! '•^''-• ation of one or two passa^^es C nr.T ' '^"f .«"?.?«^^t'ni? the alter- c.min. dignity, force'" d'mi'^;"""^/;';^'^ ^'—"t of be- that Lord Grey would not refo e'quo,tion of''^T'^ " ^'^^ grantmg the Charter to the aufhorif i's ?n Can !jf ,^7'". "f .''' "^' so great injury, and made the an icXn n;^ ' "" ''''^^^"^ "« that to refer it, would be little L^Xfl "^cessary ; and added, •such reference would not be pt LdTn ^haf h ^^^ \'f ^^'^ ''^^ Mr. Hawes on the subject and f n.! ' he would speak to were both honorable meCnd not lisn'XTnH ^r' ^r:>^' "^^ reasonable or unjust He thnn.?M Tfu ?^?^^ '''">' *hing un- reference had no fin suffic enSv con i f' ^Z"^''?'' '^''' ""^^^'^^ been entertained. I sai^tt Trantr n r '. "^ " ^'""'^ "«' ^^^^'- the Royal Prerorrative and wo! M n"° l''^^' '"'^^ clearly within only be'obtained^at t^e Je'u^rof oL?ermies°.' ttt^ni^V^^^"^^ diment has ever been allowp' I ai^ not suririsoH ^,^ your warmth, for the case is very aggravated ; and Sal «' would be better to go at once and sta^e vour c'lse to JnZ^i . ;; Russel, who would,"l belive, do what is'r^M Tut tlds we ^ ,1 "consider : should the Colonial Office fail vou You mn«t l T ;;be patient and hope the best. I shaTl d'o"wLTlTn,' ee7u:^ ^^EifCpoJeT'/ '"^ ' '""^^ ^^"- -"^"^ y-' that "^l I then told Sir Robert that the Duke of Wellington was favnrnK]« o our proposed Church University, and was about to Tranlfer to U some valuable property which His Grace possessed in Canada to found Scholarships. Sir Robe.t expressed great pleasure at ths communication and when I took leave, he accompanied me to tt door and shook hands, and parted with great kindness Not having heard from Sir Robert Peel, 1 determined to leave my name at his residence on Saint Peter's Day ; but after proceed mg some way through the Park towards Whitehall, I thSiT t might appear somwhat intrusive or premature, and that it would be better to wait a few days longer. But alas ! on that very day the accident happened, which terminated so fatally to himself and family the nation and the world. iumny My Lord, Downing Street, y6th July, 1850. fh. iflfi! w on'r°' of receiving your Lordship's letters of the 18th ultimo and 20th instant, on the subject of the Establish- ment, by Royal Charter, of an University in Upper Canada exc u- sively connected with the Church of England ( G5 ) considered the suggestions' bvwhH.tt '^ ^ ''"''.*' ')'"'' carefully regret to be undef the i c^^itv of st ui .;TaTr- ''' ""^-/M * me to come to any decision onVnnZf ^ V^ impossible for me, without having had an opnortunhv 0^" ^"" ^""' '"^^'"^^ *« ceived His Lordship's report upon the subject' ^^""^ '"' my"dry^^lVe:rb^^tle;::;^ -^^^^^ ^ ^eel it statements contained in vour MomnrTn^ reference to some of the had with the late sTr Robert P e Ith.t inrl'"°J"''^^^^"^ ^^^ ference to the Governoi of the Colonv " r^^ ^"^ ^^ P'"°P°^'''^ ^^- cordance with the rule whif T h. viTi.^' ? " ""T'^ ''^^^"g '» ««- heretosmee I htet^ttlV ^n oS ment (and in which I believe I am fnllmvin ^ j °^^'"^ Depart- been forwarded to Te °L„u° h |,e JIovorT'Tn "'f '!^''°;:''' ''"^ subject of suci, taportance, to the people o^CaTada """' "" " I cannot conclude this lettor witlmnf ^^.,,. • '.1 with which I have ob c^rveran etr^^ great regret your interview with Sir Rober Peef wb o ^"^f^ Memorandum of there been anything i„ -he condnctTflL'teEC.wh^rs^er. to me to justify tlio smallest doubt of bis entertai,^n»,n lIlnlT j ss'rr 'f-'v'" "? '■"'"y ""■' '^p"S y^owrre'vrr^ . i "'I I ^fh^H- ( 6G ) I shall postpone transmitling this Correspondence to 'the Governor General, unt.l I am informed whether thire are any furtho, obser vauons on the subject to which it relates, whiph you would Sesire to have brought under notice. I have, &c. The Lord Bishop of Toronto, &c., &c., &c. (Signed,) GREY. London, 19, Bury Street, St. James's Mr Lord, ^^^^ *^"^y' ^S^^' .1.. oal ''T !^^ ^TuV "'^'^"««^l«dg<' your Lordship's Letter of the 26th instant, and had not my attention been called to two words EfpTl^K uT'"'^'r"''"'^^ interviews with the late Sir Ilobert Peel, I should have been content with oxpressinir my regret at the course which your Lordship has been pleased to adopt. ^ Ihat lamented Statesman knew as well as I did, that the words our enemies" do not nclude or apply to .le Earl 'of Elgin, who is not believed to oe clothed with sufTieient authority to interfere with elTect under wha^ is called Responsible Government In regard to applications made from a Colony to the Imperial Government, back to the Authorities of that Colony, it may be con venient as a general rule when the subject matter is new, unknown' L^rf ""^^^•?^*^.^^- «"t I «"bmit that the question if grantin"; the Charter I desire is not exposed to any of these objectfons. It has been acted upon in the case of the Kirk of Scotland in Upper for"an Academ '''^''' body, who enjoy a Royal Charter T shall nevertheless, hope against hope, that the Colonial Authori- ties may see the miquity of refusing their assent to .i measure so reasonable and just, now that the responsiblity is thrown wholly upon themselves. wmmy I have, &c., (Signed,) JOHN TORONTO. The Earl Grey, &c., &c., Cc. I I { «7 ) N. To the queenh Mmt Excellent Majesty. May It jplease your Majesty,— mlmbiti,,/ that ,„rt o/ ^11!^ Nur h 1 . '*'""' .."""' ^"'■■""'. Most humbly represent :— tJ'':utL^„ri:^";r4sr^rv™ agreeable to their M'ishes ami litli,,! r /' ""'^^ ^^^ "^"«^ I791,aforrnofGove m^^^^^ T '"'"'^ ''^^'\ "^^"^' '" that the State, as at ho 2 nTl^^^ ""|^ ?" ^^'^^^ vision was made -it tlu^ ^^IZlF s,dnct hetl by religion, pro- grandfathe^^'^l^S^SES'St; tf'" "'^^^^'^'^ ^^^^^ to the form of the Unitrl 'hn i r\?^ "* support, according setting apart Ltwf^ ^"S^^"^^^ ^"^l Ireland, by «upp3rt o, i;r- ^^^^^^^^^^^ especially for the thei^eJmp'tt '''i'' '"'''^ ^'"^^^ ^"^^^^^ ^'^s returned, granting. so irnportant as thiSrS^of ^l". ^ '^-^^^ and the principles of the Cluistianrehgir "'^ ^"'"'""^^ I«,t,K,„ed, it wa, never lost sight of ' Td'tr ISo'v'at'yHl i 1 1 (63) cjmrtcr was pmiitc»l by His lalo ATiijosly Kino- (leorgo the Fojft.h^ erecting a college or university within tlic Province of Tipper Canada, iu which the Avishes vi' Win royal father are enibo«liecl, as it provides " lor the education of youth in the I»finciples of tlic Chri.stiau religion, and for their instruction in th3 various branches of science and literature which are taiiglit in the miiversities of thin Kingdom." Your Majesty's liumble petitioners would represent, that steps were immediately taken to secure by royal patent the valuable university, und connncnc- ing the business of instruction ; but before -his could be accom- plished, a despatch was received by the Livjutenant-Caovernor, Sir John Colborne, (now Lord Scaton,) beariugdate the 2nd Novem- ber, 1831, recommending, at the express desire of His Majesty King William the Fourth, such reasonable modifications as rnight satisfy certain advers.iries of the charter, but at the same time stating that no part of the endowment of the college would ever be diverted from the great object of the education of youth, and that it must ever be regarded sacredly and permanently appro- priated to that important oliject; and His Majesty earnestly recommends to the consideration of the Legislature the perma- nent estxiblishment in the college of a professor of divinity of the Church of England upon a sure looting, declaring it to be a matter of great importance to those of His subjects in Upper Caiiada, who belong to the Church ot England, and that His Majesty, as head of that Church, could not be insensible to the duty which belonged to him of ]irotecting it in all parts of his dominions. That, in accordance with the wishes of Your Majesty's Royal Uncle, the Statute 7 William IV., Chap. 16, was passed by the Legislature of Upper Canada, which, satisfied by its modifica- tions, all the objections o{ the more reasonable of the opponents of the Charter ; and as they neither Irencheil on the endowment of the University, nor on its religious character, though, in other respects objectionable, the authorilies of the College, for the 5:ake of peace, were reluctantly induced to acquiesce in their enact- ment. That, these modifications like, all unreasonable concessions of principle to factious clamor, produced only a transient calm. The enemies of the National Church, implacable in their hostility and encouraged by unlocked for success, again assailed King's College, alter it had been iu prosperous operation for more than SIX years, without any complaint as to its management or man- ner of instruction, and without any second invitation on the part of the Crown, and were again successful ; not merely in effecting l)artial changes, but in accomplishing tlie complete destruction of what might liave been the noblest Seminary on the continent of America. Your Majesty's dutil\il subjects would fnrtliev represent that i; (leorgo the ic Province of ^ul I'utht'r are youth ill the instruction in h are taiij^lit L'sty's liumblo 5(liately taken nd conimenc- Likl be accom- ■(jovernor, Sir e 2nd Novcin- ■ His Majesty tions as might le same time fe would ever )£ youth, and nently appro- sty earnestly ! the permu- ivinity of the s; it to be a cts in Ujjper and that His nsible to the 1 parts of his jesty's Royal xssed by the its modifica- lie opponents ! endowment Ligh, in other , for the rake their enact- Dncessions of it calm. The icir hostility ailed Kina-'a )r more than lent or man- L on the part ■ in effecting estrnction of continent of nrescnt thiU ( 69 ) Mav^f,/ w ^Tl ^^ *he Legislature of Canada, on the" 30th of clined for thp H.,i„ m- ■ . J'"""'' f »'i traming of such as were n- the rd™Tf?^%'°^°' 'V'^j'"? ''""''^'- ''P'*^'^-'. «-« they have prevent it. ^ exeicise ol your Royal prerogative to been S 'o'S^l^.t ^"nTbereet r±™r.L"'f ' "^^ =..,d the people; „„■■ were ibey pZZJlfZl~'L^''7'f'' «cyal p«r.«auve, and U,e jus. clLl of-the Natad £?„'rch manl" I'll 4i I i ( 70 ) feated by the late Act, whiclrAct they consider more unaccountable and unjust, because the same Legislature ban abundant means at its dis. posal of endovvinjT as many Colleges a8 it pleases, without the slight- est detriment to any one ; and ol" leaving that of Her Sovereign and her Religion, free and untouched. For, all we ask is simply to re- tain the advantage which is actually enjoyed by every other body of Christians in Upper Canada, of having one place of public Educa- tion in which their young men may be religiously instructed, and Buch as desire it trained to the holy Ministry ; and not have an en- dowment wrested from ua which our Sovereign has granted for that purpose. Your dutiful and loyal subjects, may it please Your Majesty, would further observe, in deep anguish of heart, that there was a time wheri the word Sovereign was felt to be as secure as the stability of the Emjjire, and shall such a time be allowed to pass away 1 The truth of the Sovereign and the affection of the people are co-relative, as the one cannot live without the other. Yet, nearly one-third of the inhabitants r f this noble colony are suffering in their dearest rights and interests from an act which they feel to be extremely oppressive. They are deprived of their University and Endowment, although thrice guaranteed by the Crown, and by this they lose the power of conferring degrees in Arts and Divinity, which virtually passes on them a sentence of proscription from all such offices of profit and honor as require a degree to qualify for their attainment, — above all, they are deprived of the means of bestowing on their children an Education based on Religion, the only Education worth possessing. Under such trying circumstances, to whom can they go for redress but to Your Majesty, in whose maternal affection they put their trust, as many of them now far advanced in life have done in your Majesty's predecessors. Permit us then to hope that your Majesty will lend a gracious ear to this, our humble application ; that, influ- enced by your exalted position as head of the Church, you will cause the pledge of three Sovereigns to be redeemed, by the restora- tion of King's College in all its efficiency, with such modifications of its original Charter as shall separate it entirely from politics, and allow it to proceed on its work of scientific and religious instruction in security and peace. And your Majesty's dutiful and loyal petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray. Signed by above 125,000 p'ersons. V Government House, Toronto, 4th February, 1851. My Lord, ^ With reference to your Lordship's Despatch, No. 514-, of the 29th Jlllv last- T hai7/a iha hnnnr- *r\ attU^,t /*„- „„. — •.-!• .•-.. iU - ^. J ...^ ..vl.vl IV cuuiiiii, xui JOUl IlllUi'illUUUII, inu I i r- unaccountable iieHnsatitsdis. hou\ the slight- Sovereign and i simply to re- ' other body of public Educa- risfructed, and )t have an en- ranted for that klajesty, would •e was a time the stability of away ? The ire CO- relative, ly one-third of their dearest be extremely ;i Endowment, i they lose the vhich virtually luch offices of !ir attainment, •wing on their lucation worth go for redress hey put their 5 done in your your Majesty n J that, influ- irch, you will by the restora- lodifications of politics, and )us instruction in duty bound, nary, 1851. 3. 514-, of the lOFmaiiori, ihu ( 71 ) Upper Canada, exclusively connected with the Church orSni ill 1,! „ I • . Government is prepared to afford the Rishon ?u ioi vvhi^h ',?"r'' '"^^'""^^ '"•"^"'•'"^' ''"'• the Educ t orml S St^e sL'rf.cil^^^^^^^^ establish, a Charter of incorporati^i^, Government apprehends that the multiplication of LEs hav n^ l^l'y.^i'^^\'?^^827, „:,e„ Lord^Bathurst a Hoya. Charter, e^tfe',".^;: t^.'^'jf^^ ■fvrcnaeacuh of lork. PrpssiHnnf „ j ---j^j .v.... lo uc Visitor, thp Co.n.,, seven «r vvh^-^S- ntnttp^t^t A: ( 74 ) required to subscribe the Thirty-nine Articles. When its contents were made known in the Province, great indignation was excited which found a vent in addresses fVoni the popular Branch of the Legislature and public meetings. It was urged that the rei)resenta- tions, on the faith of which the Charter had been granted, were erroneous ; that its provisions were unsuited tc the state of the Province, and inconsistent with the intentions of the endowment. The justice of these remonstrances seems to have been admitted with very little contestation. They found an echo in the House of Commons. The Lieutenant Governor was instructed by the Secretary of State to endeavor to obtain from the College Council a surrender of the Charter; and, finally, the Local Parliament was invited by the same authority to amend it, in terms which imposed no limits on its discretion. It was not, however, till 1837, that an Act passed for this purpose, in which both Branches of the Legisla. ture concurred. 4. During the whole of this period the Charter, in so far as the object of Education was concerned, was practically in abeyance. A considerable expenditure of funds took place, which was the subject of much criticism at the time ; but the University was not opened for instruction till the year 184<3, when it was organized under the provisions of the Act of 1837. 8. By this Act the preferences which the Church of England enjoyed under the Royal Charter were altogether abolished. That U did not, however, in its operation, give satisfaction to the Province, is proved by the fact, that between the years 1843 and 1850, no less than four sweeping measures of amendment w(?re introduced into Parliament, two by Conservative, and two by Liberal Administra- tions ; of these four measures that of 1849 alone passed into a law. 9. The main cause of this dissatisfaction was undoubtedly the attempt which was made, notwithstanding the tenor of the Act of 1837, to keep up a connexion between the Church of England and the University in various ways, and chiefly by the establishment of a Divinity Professorship, and of Chapel Service. Whether these measures furnished a reasonable ground for such dissatisfaction, is a question on which I do not feel called to ofler an opinion. The only point for which I now contend is, that the charge against the good faith of the Canadian Legislature, which is insinuated in the parallel that has been instituted between a supposed confiscation of tlie property of Trinity College, Dublin, and the Acts of the Local Parliament on the subject of King's College, cannot, on a lair con- struction of those Acts, be made good. If in this parallel, the special privileges conferred on the Church of England by Royal Charter be referred to, I have shewn that these privileges, which were never acquiesced in by the popular Branch of the Legislature, were actually abolished with the consent of the Crown, which granted them before the University, as an Educational Institution, came into operation. And if allusion be made to any su])poBed rovvn, which cannot be dee..ed a hrZ^^^^^Z^^^^^^^^ LoJ.I I '/■"''^'«" subsisting beiween 2 ^^ "^''^^ ^egi.s]ature. tZ ^^^'-^ ^^"••e and the C rovvn vvas?n T^"'"'' ^''^^^-h of the when even its Ministers in the r2 ^""^^ '" PecuJiar, at a time the Provincial ParJiament thaMt ^' rT '^''°"3' i'-'-esponsfble^o practically useful purpose '.uer.^l" in" '" ''^^^'^"^^' ^"^ ^nv novv d,scussing. It J,ig,., howev r b'^ont '? 7'"^'^ ^ '^^^^ been at east, of reason, that a closer mr.iii^"t^' '^''^ ^'^^^e show College than that which has b.Pn f"" '^^^^ ^he history of KiS any «'trictures^ofTvSth\7oi."!?'-"" *" '•'^^^•'' '" t^^se remarks in ^ay have been maie Ihtobj: t ' ^'r''" V"'--'ty of^Totnto d rect provision for instruction in RpiL ^'■°?'^ ^^ '^« containing no are persons, whose opinion^ ar^d^^fcof' '" '""•^' ^^at tfere an Educational Institution, which la W^ o^^respect, who hold that only useless but positiveh rnL. ^^ ""^^'" this defect is nnJ entuledto employ^lan ^^ wh" I^CJ,- ^ l^ey are un7ju e3ly of their convictions. I c-iniTX^^^"^^ adequately the streno^ h that the framers of thi« r -^ '^. "l'°" '"yself. however to nffi^ that the zeal of the .evera^dinL^'''^. ^^^^«>'« hoped and believed provide Schools or Colleges in th! •'"•""' ^«"^d^•nduce them to rehg.ous training of thr^.h of ^-^ °^^'^^ ^"-ersity tb^he They entertain the conviction ilJu '^^P^ctive communions and morals of the Students Sd'tLn''' ^'^^"'''^y ^°r the fakh by these means than could tL,^K''^''''''y^^*'' be furnished operation in King's College l ;"?'"^ ^r the system late t in objects in their n^ure incTompal ll"r:^"'•V"^''■"^ *° --bin^ equally proposed to e^t.^:^],^ ^^^^^o^s, ^^ ... I have, ic. ^ ^''^Prov.ded ibr. Ti'e Right Hon. EAuiS ^^^^^ ^"^ KINCARDINE. rii (76) ill Downing Street, 11th March, 1851. My Lord, I have to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's Des- patches, Nos. 20 and 29, of the 3rd and 17th ultimo, in the former of whicli, you transmit the copy of a Correspondence which has recently passed between the Provincial Secretary and the Lord Bishop of Toronto, on the subject of the proposed establishment, by Royal Charter, of an University in Upper Canada, and in the latter a draft Charter, which the Bishop desires to substitute for th»i Charter submitted to me by His Lordship last year. 2. f understand from these Despatches, and the Correspondence they enclose, to all of which I have devoted a very careful consi- deration, that there is no objection, on the part of the Provincial Parliament and Government, to granting to the proposed Church of England College or University all the necessary powers of a Corpo- ration to manage its own affairs, and also the power of granting Degrees in Divinity : but that it is considered advisable to endeavour to raise the value of Degrees in Arts, by confining the power of granting such degrees as nearly as possible to the University of Toronto, with which the separate Colleges of different denominations are in connection, as King's College and University College are with the London University in this country. It is not distinctly stated in your Lordship's Despatch, but it has been so explained to me by Dr. Ryerson, that this policy of confining the power of granting Degrees in Arts to the University of Toronto has been obstructed by the existence of Denominational Colleges having the povi^er, under old Charters, of giving Degrees in Arts, but that the Provin- cial Government has been negotiating with these bodies for the surrender of their privilege, which has been obtained, except in two cases, referred to in the correspun' ence. 3. If I am correct in this understanding of the case, I have no hesitation in stating that it is clearly one in which the British Government ought not to interfere, to defeat, by the grant of a Royal Charter, the policy which is considered best for the Province by the Assembly, and by the Executive Council, which possesses the con- fidence of the Legislature. It appears to me, therefore, that there is no ground for the interference of the Imperial Government, and believing the local Government and Parliament to have no indispo- sition to deal justly by the Church of England, I consider it better that it should be left to them to determine on what terms the pro- posed College or University should be chartered, than that a Charter should be issued in this Country under Her Majesty's direct authority. 4. Your Lordship will have the goodness to communicate the substance of this answer to the Lord Bishop. I have, &c. (Signed) GREY. The Right Hon. The Earl of jl^gin and Kincardine. except in two imunicate the ( 77 ) Mv Lord, ^°^=«^ment House, Toronto, Ut May, I85i Collegis with the mZZ ofTo^nT'^'T "'' ^^"O'^inationa! . /2 Vie. cap. 82 ,• and I th4 t "li;; ""f^ ^'^ ^^""■•''^'^' ^^^ before communicating to the Lord BisI on ^r t'^""^«^ <« remove it, on his applicntion for a Royal Char e L thT' r"!^ y°"'' '^^^'^^'^n proposes to estabhsh. ^ ^ '°^ *^® College which he r^^^^^XS^;^"^^,^^ - -* d'stinctlyso of confining the power of ..•antinrn!.^"''^ i" ^^^ ''^^t *'>« Policy of Toro„to;has b'een ob^frSr, y^hTe'^L ^"'--^^ Colleges, having the power, under ohl Phn 1 ^^^^^^^"om.national 'n Arts, but that the Provincial PnJo ^^'""'^^'f' "^ g'ving Degrees with these bodies for tr u'rt^^^^^^^^ ^^^^ been negotiating been obtained, except in tvvo case/ rpf. ? P^^^'eges, which has donee. This view of the case Ts not t'"^ '° '" '^'^ correspon- Queen's College, Presbyterian • nn^l v T^''^;^' •""^^'"^^^^ accurate, are the only lVnominaS"col egel'^'^^.^^^^ ,u..on^has been conferred, and itTslr^'^^lt SnXiS that c^z^!::S:r:^hX:u'-'''' '''-'/ ---* *^ ^^^^^ placed under the aLng^mrnt now in T''^'^ ^^'•""^^ ^i" be that Institution precis JySarr I n^^Z-'f';' ^" ^^^^^^^^ and University cSlege st'ari^t the Un ver^^^^^^^^ to the very limited resources which oi!-^ ^^ondon. Looking tional Colleges hitherto estabuE n i?J"^^^^by the Denomina! Queen's and Victoria ColWestI to h^^P"' Canada,-(for both in a great measure, on annual erans of tl?/r''^'''' ^^^ dependent ance of which cannot brguarrntedV it ?'''"'"'".! '^'' ^'^"''"«- advisable to propose that StXnfs n/tl"; ,^^' ""* ^^^" deemed Colleges shoild be rel evLl t -om 1 p 1 '^ *^'"'^ Incorporated the University, and of rttemnnVunir'^^^^ "^ ^''P'"^ ^^™« at qualify them 7or UnivLSy Degfee^ ThL^f '*"''^^' ^" ^d^^' ^o the resources of these ColWef w,n bl / . ^T P'-^s^med that ployed if they are exclSy LvotoH f^^^^^ advantageously em- Religious Listruction fo he vS of h . r "^'^""^ of providing they may respectively belono ^'^ ^ 1' !.^,"'"'""'"°"« *° ^hich establishing the Universiiv nfTn. w , ,'' ^^^^^^^^^er, of the Act* vation of Colleges am ^ofv3"?' T^'''^ ''^'^^*^ *" ^he Incorpo- contain notlung^nW.aHvfc,n;h^ ^"f^^^^ '^he copy, I ' Ml / • 12 Vic. cap. 82, sees. 17,15 aiid 19. ( 78 ) signify a desire to affiliate it to the University of Toronto in the way in which King's College and University College are affiliated to the University of London, and should shew that the resources at their connmand enable them to furnish sufficient instruction in all the necessary branches of learning, there would be no legal impedi- ment to the consideration of such a proposition by the authorities of the University. • 4. I have thought it right to submit these explanatory remarks, before communicating the substance of your Lordship's Despatch, No. 564, of the 11th March, to the Bishop, lest it should appear that your reply to his application had been written under any misapprehension of the facts of the case. At the same time, I trust that you will still be of opinion that it is not expedient that a Royal Charter, containing such ample powers as that for which his Lord- ship has applied should be granted to any Denominational College, while negotiations for the surrender of the Charters of Queen's and Victoria Colleges are still pending. I fully expect that it will soon be in my power to apprize your Lordehip of the issue of these negotiations. Meanwhile, I cannot but observe, that a decision on the application of the Lord Bishop, which might have the effect of withdrawing the members of the Church of EriTUind generally from all connection with the Provincial University, may be attended with serious consequences, and that it ought not to be arrived at without full consideration. They are at present largely represented in this Institution, and I much doubt whether it would prove to be eventu- ally conducive, either to the interests of the Church itself or to those of sound learning in th« Province, that they should cease to exercise within it an influence proportioned to their numbers and weight in the community. I have, &c. rru „. , ,r (Signed) ELGIN AND KINCARDINE. The Right Hon. The Earl Grey. ill I! • Secretary's Office, Toronto, 11th Jan. 1851. My Lord, I am directed by ths Governor General to state for your information, that a Correspondence between your Lordship and the Colonial Secretary, transmitted to His Excellency by Earl Grey in August last, and comprising, with other documents, the Draft of a Charter for a proposed University in connection with the Church of England, *as engaged, for some time past, the anxious attention of His Excellency and the Executive Council. His Excellency regrets to find in this Correspondence statements reflecting on the course taken by the Provincial irovernment and Parliament with respect to the University of Toronto, which he ( 79 ) desired by His Excellenrv 7 r'"'''""' '^'^'^ ^«^' Grey, I am desirous Lt i^e'^Z'll^^'r^'' -'^''^ he fs' U" branches should be placed Lextpn?^ Education in its highest reach of the Youth ^ the ProW h'o^ "' ^''''^^^' ^'thinShe grave objections to the muScatio; of T"?""'' '^^' '^^'^ ^re having authority to grant DiSs'n Ah! ^'''^''"'""' Institutions number of young men who cai devot^to T ? T'^''^ ^''ere the ferredrthl^U trmS^^^^ ""^'^-- has been con- It may be doubtful, CXr wl LS 1?'^ '^ ^"^'^"'^ ^"^ Victoria, any essential benefu fZ hs eTe'c Le n n l'''' '"k^^*^^'' ^^'"-^d Excellency is inclined to think tinf . ' *?".*^^ ^^ole, His question furnishes an argument rnl, '^'^ °^ ''^'^ Institution in conceding such povvers^1anrfavo!:^,J^-•-^ the expediency of U may, however, be observp.? thof v , had not been originally in S to C.( ''^r 7'"^^'""^^ character of granting Degrees to'thosH X nitT f 1 ?'^^"'"^^ '^' P^-^^' I-ordship and the Members of ircChnrp'^f^'?^^^ ^«3'our It appears to His ExcelIenrvhn;?°^^"Sland generally. I-ordship's immediate drrectionand^ ''^ ^ ' '"'^^'' ""^^^ y«« security for the faith and morals of tl^'V'^^l^^^ ^^""'^ ^ better might frequent the UniverX o? TnJ /^"? ^^ *^^ Church who Constitution of Kino's rnllpf/r'r> *han was given bv the ^ ^ My Lord, l^our Lordship's most obedient servant, The Honorable and Right Reverend ^ ^"^"^^ ^- I^ESLIE. The Lord Bishop of Toronto. Sm, Toronto, 20th January, 1851. o. thl !;.r4fVfr: *° ^^^^^nowledge your Letter of^i,, ^th ^L ' -""' ' '^ '^' ^''^'^'^ Church of EnglandUnivelsit"and i| ( «o ) in answer to the obscrvolion with which the proposition maJe by desire of IIis Excellency is inlrodijced, I beg leave to remark, that I should be much grieved to liud an impression prevailing in ]Iis Excellency's u)ind that I had, on any occasion, failed to remember the respect due to His exalted station, or the courtesy which it is equally my inclination and my duty to exhibit towards His Excel- lency personally. You do not, indeed, intimate that His Excellency entertains any sucli impression. With regard to any statements which are to be foujid in my Correspondence, rellecting on the course taken by the Provincial Government and Parliament with respect to the University of Toronto, I have only to observe, that it would have been diHi.-ult for me to have expressed myself more strongly than I Jiave felt; for It is my sincere conviction, that we should look in vain in the history ofany country governed by British Laws for an instance in which such an entire disregard had been slievvn for Chartered Rights as in the destruction of King's College, and the appro[)riation of its property. I have said nothing on this point which I do not believe myself fully able to maintain ; and am under no apprehension of my state- ments being successfully opposed in any quarter whero I have an opportunity of being heard. I have given my best consideration to the remarks which His Excellency has done me the honor to submit to me, for the i)urpose of shewing that it is of small importance to the Members of the United Church of Ejigland and Ireland in this Diocese, containing, I thmk, about 800,000 inhabitants, that they should possess an University with the privilege of conferring Degrees in the Arts. The other Religious Denominat:)ns which at present enjoy this advan- tage by tlie favor of the Government, do not, as it appears, estimate It highly, and I cannot say that I feel the force ofany reasons which have been yet given for hesitating to grant the same privilege to the Members of the National Church. Theirnumbers in this Diocese (not less, I suppose, than 200,000^ certainly give them a stronger claim tlian can be urged on the same ground by the Members of any other Religious Body, as the pub- hshed Returns of the Population shew beyond question. It may be apprehended that, if the proposed Church of England Unive'rsity should be incorporated according to the prayer of the Members of that Church, its success might be injurious to the Toronto Univer- sity, which has been raised upon the ruin of King's College and supported with its Funds. But I can hardly persuade myself that, because it has been thought expedient to deprive of its property and its charter a CoUege founded by the Sovereign, in avowed connection with the J!.stablished Church of the Empire, it can be thought a just policy to withhold from the Membei-s of that Church the possibility of repainng the injury, by denying to them the same privileges that ( 81 ) connected with their ri...rr.|. :^ i ^ !■ ? <-oIlege stnctly SEISMS'"' rrr—t£ ™endat,on, grant a Cha^r of I 'orjrtio^'tlfoSf U^ no greater extent than to give them the usua/Zm^ ^^.'"^ the.r property and affairs, diey wouTdri have /rdoni p^^'"'^'"^ very considerable advantage "'^^' ®^*®®'" '^ ^ intention of affiliating with the Toronto Unive'"ftv ''""'•''' -.Yuir uiat j>couand, wiien its wJiole popu- ( 83 ) lation did not nearly equal that of Upper Canada, contained five Universities granting degrees. "•"amea nve I have the honor to ho, Sir, Your most ohedicnt Servant, ThnMr. T T (Signed) JOHN '^(vy».; TO. 1 he Hon. James Lesltr, » v. Secretary of the Province of Canada. My Lord, S^^'^e^^^y's Office, Toronto, 24th Jan. 1851. I am directed by the Governor General to acknowledee the renf^ th rw' p"'^' n ^^ ^'"^'' "^ '^'^ ^^th instant, and ITS in reply, that H.s Excellency will be haj,py to aflbrd such aid as it is nsl^LTwLh v"^" •'""''^'^ l"^^"'-'"^^ ^- iheEducaiona rh.S r r , r" 'l^f'^ ^'^ ^'^•'^'''''^'^ i" connection with the Church of England a Charter of Incorporation, giving the usual facilities for managing its property and aflbirs. ^ ^ 1 am further to add, with reference to the more perfect Charter to which your Lordsh.p alludes, that His Excellency vvould con ider should no other alternative than this ultimately present itseH at t' would be a lesser evil to multiply Colleges^^^thin the P oW authorized to confer degrees in Arts, notuithstanding the man ?est tendency of such a system to detract from the value of^hose degrees than to subject the Members of the Church of Endand to inSe Hej^3nothovvever,prepared to abandon t!,e hope/that theMembers of the Church, as well as of other denominations pos.e 'in. i^cor! porated Colleges may yet be induced to particii>itc in the^'advan. tages offered to Students by the Toronto Univeriity. I^Teanvvhfle he must not be supposed to admit that he concurs in the opinion tha the members of the Church of England in this ProvincernTm-' bering, according to your Lordship's computation, 200,000, a^e unanimously in favor of the establishment of a denominational Umversity upon the principles embodied in the Draft cSer sub mitted by your Lordship to Earl Grey. On thrcontmrv ^s" evst?myuniZ".fS-'"^"^ "^^ most'.ealous sup oSf t of rrLr.h nr ^'^"f^t'r ^f-,'"'"^ '"^""'"^^J^ ^"'-^^hed Members of the Church of Engand: while, as regards others, he has reason to beheve that considerable difference of opu.ion preva Is S^^ i^snec to the terms in which a Charter for an exclusive Unversy ought to be conceived. ^^mvcisiiy With respect to the first clause of your Lordship's Letter I am ?SfA^^ His Excellency to assui you that n'othing c^'umZ h.H hL ^•' i"'"?'"" '^"'^ ''^ "«"^^^y t'^e imprcssion^that there thh Z ""^NT ''^ "I ''"'*''J '". ^""'' ^^--^^hip's communicat ons with him. No such ground of complaint, in His Excellency', •nfained five ( 83 ) and is too Bincerely (le.iroVs HrfvP .. "! "'^"^ "nder discission, encompassing Ft, v^l.icl/sha 1 ' ^o "i J ^ SlJ'""/ ^'^^difficulties the moral and social interests of th P. ^^ °^*;""'^'«"^«w^ himself to allude to a mere ploL o^ '^ ^''^^'^ P^^'^'^ed Ah your LonLship, hoVcverrciE " "\!"''\^ *™^'- serious charges vvh c h you have "f '" *^"' ''^"^^ ^^e very against the Provincial Goven ao^ Z/vT "'''''""^' °^^«"^eJ •s your sincere conviction tharholin^ '"'^'"S that it of any country governed 1 BH^sl In r' '" ^^'" ^" *'^« history such an entire dLegard 1 ad been si o^' " n? '"'''^"^^ ^" ^^hich Excellency considers hL elf ^^ ' • " ''''"^ ^'■^^^^' "'» strictures, if j„st, apnlv moi^ rnr 1^ /i l^"?^'' *° remark, that hese 7 Will. IV. ip/l8?vSuT:upreS ^he V"TS"^ "' ^'^^ ^<^* away with all tests, even as reSs plr ^^^ ^^"""^^'^ ^"^ did Acts passed during the last t^Soss^^'T/^ ''*^" ^'^ '^"^^^ °^ the ment. Moreover, L u!us ob Tve S t the tI ' f '^'"''^^ ^''^''^' characterized by your Lordsl.in It'« Legislation so severely establish in the kL"nce bv fcl ri "?'^'^'^'?; °" ^" ^"^'"Pt to by Public Funds, on princiLt^atS^^^ ^mversity supported of the Legislature repeiteXanSiL ''.''' '^^ P°P"^^^ branch was resorted to by thi local Parha.S?^ Protested, and that it sive .'Secretaries of StateTnd G vp n. " ^"^ "^^''"^''^" «f «"^es- by this n.eans to avelMh^t^^^riS S^'air^ ^'r'^^ ^'^^'^ recognized the improviilence. ^^"''''^ °^ ^'^ ^^'t of which they I have the honor to bo, My Lord, Your most obedient Servant, The Hon. and Right Rev. (Signed) J. LESLIE, The Lc.RD Bishop of Toronto. Secretary. ilM Toronto, 7th February, 1851. Sir, and blgta™^tre;r^i;rav°''^ '^';r "^ *» ^^t^ ">.., General, for his kind con" enfot in t",- " "^^ *'"' «°™™»' 10 aflbnl such aid as il i^in I i! ' l'"« """ ''<= "''» be hapnv for .he Univer"ur e*^,ro".':,l ° ''''""' '°"™'^ P'-'"="'in^ Chnrch of Englaml a Srte of w'^^^^^ "• connoclion wilh thi t taH rr-' "^ p"XnaSr'°"' ^'™« "><= -», .i"n".^HsEVdler; ^' y^^^ elf an act of wledgnients ol' 'x\ IiiliabituntH '• present state n this matter, ) Charter we iment, should :iaJly because isfaction, and ed peace and ssion to with- rl Grey, and neet the pro- de of confer- n the former nd the docu- ajiprobation vaht, HON TO. ...^fi-^^' SS'^ BENEFACTORS. ^„h,f r'^*'!; ^"'■'??l!''' ^t« »>« '"'•f by will) John, Bishop of Toronto-land m / ' i.;;A ^^^^^ ^ Andrew Merrer— land in. V '. money, £250 joon ;-c'^...^he Hon. KoberttiSr''5.io-*--''--r---^ 00^ .•./^.\. *? scription) .Cy.-""" ? aT":^*^' ""'^^^ choice land (first sub- Jarn^s M. Strachan-fbur '(own Inl in «' ' ■ 50" The Hon. M- /'i.;..r r I'. '°l^n 'ots in Harrie ___ jqq V /;i.<: ^^^ .WmC; quarleiiy .. '^'''"'">--t'>0, l.y instalments of £5 V u S'''^''"''^-'""''. 100 acre, if.r" VVn'" J- H. Hajjarty— 9] acrp^ of h., i',7 ' , " '" "^oney William Armstron.' ''"'^ ^'"■'' '^"bsciiption) ^ John Armstrong " Thomas Hilton Sc^U^.i. •• •••• •••«! ■ • • • ■ ■ / o ■ • ■ • • I /T ^r" ••-• ••••! « ■••••fl ■•«« William Wi„ ?,""i^ "" ""<■» °f taJ in C, ■ ■" • • • • • I •• •••• *•••«« r- ' f '// "^ P William Winder, iVI 1) Lewis Moffatt— 2nn ..^,"' */£* V", 'umberland '.V. .'r.*;V.V~ 225 loo 100 . 25 100 125 5 5 5 100 ^v< /^-^d ' .nr„„ !,.-.,_ , -^'S^'t Shares Cuildinrr sWi„f„ ^.'""•^••"^ .A 2 10 .. ?> f'. 0„ /.-•/<■ /<'• ^// ■ ^ V- ^illi r. ^ ■••• •••• •« 100 50 100 100 50 10 30 1 George Brock-fourSrSTR'^'?r'''"^'''°'^'^*^>' ^lock J. Lukin Robinson-m,«? '!'''''"- '^'^'^'^ty Stock PeUrPa,.3onniS;:S ^'^^^^^^.Uf^U^^^ DaSltle^,'^^^-^^-i'«p'of'T;^^^^^^^ johnH.Pocock::::::;: ^ fD.Doujflas ... ' James P^rncst Thomas Taylor...' Henry Hayward . JohnDiig^ran Clencus, as a tribute of resnect 'to 'thV '^■v"-V^ >J. J. Grasett, CJerk !'////.!;;; ' 20 * m 2f\ • ••■••• ... 10 5 i 50 J^^^^/'-i — >y^7:<^ ( S6 ) ^ yt// ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, TORONTO. €f. W. Allan— £100 in Church of England Building Society, and > jGIOO in Upper Canada Building Society t # 1/ I'l W. Gooderham— £10 for each child ./^. ..' i^^n-KtwIK^ jj_ A.Joseph— land; present value.. fC- *r\ H r^.*1r. h:%:fi'^^'. T. Haworth ' ' _ . 1- ic'^y^ 1^ /UaJ. Lee — hetiee-and lot on- Ki7»g»at. ; present value ' . Samuel Piatt R. Mitchele, Clerk J. G. Worts W. H. Lee '.'.]['.'.[[[.[[[[ James Home. . .^Tt^ W - .V. ' : . . Vt^ .''^ . y. \ B. Jack.son , W.Rolph R. and J. Pempsey , F. W. Coate James Shuter. J. G. Beard (first subscription) R. G. Anderson George Gurnett (first subscription) Thomiis Collier Thomas Brunskill, Building Society Stock.. Ferguson. Frederick J. Roche. Henry Blong Sam. Mitchell John WiJmot ST. GEORGE'S CHURCH. The Hon. John H. Cameron — land £100 ; cash £50 . . . , Stephen Lett, Clerk— three Shares M. B. Society Captain Lefroy, R. A.- one Share ditto The Hon. William Cayiey — four ShareL ditto Dr. Beys , , William Spragge , John Beverley Robinson, jun John Arnold— four Shares Metropolitan Building Society , John G. Home— 50 acres of land. ^ ij. , i 7 ir,,-, .- Mrs Boulton (The Grange) .( .\ . T. Mrj. Colonel Loring 200 (y ■ 50 • -^Syof 140 9^ no- I 150 1 50 1 50 1 12 10 2 10 2 10 12 10 50 a Sii«o do •■•• ?2 " » i^ssfc? =r I- S S •••• '«s f-h-mS!?".-™!....'!'".':... •''"° *'» :::: lim?, Mrs. Plees -^^^'° f^'-^s ditto ^ "•• 25 Ho^n^ =^:£^ £ 1^ :::: SiS S BurVcT^a^^^^^^^ SIS :••• 111 ^nH^-r-!??- ^_ £ :;;; ilH James Magrath. CJerk '^' ''^™'''' ^^'^^^^/cREw,: ' ^ ^ Joseph Adarr^on ::::::::::::::; •.;::::::; 1^*2 s . Alexander Sanson, ClerT ''"'"' '""^°"'"'^«^«i^^^^^ ' ' ' Francis rCT.v. :::::::::: !' n X — Edward Nanton... J S ^ JohnTayW. J^ £ James Sena ::: i! ?, J « John Van Nostrand ::;•;. :..'::.*::: '5 S John H. Savignv " o ,^ '^ George shuttfelnh.'.:;:::: •••■■::::::: I S S P-G.Hewett «An ^«reph Nightingale. ■;.•;;:: ' .;:;;:;: 2 S o * *l/ u 2 JO ( 88 ) Henry James 2 10 Robert James ! i . . . ! i , . .' ^ 2 JohnTaylor ..\V/^^'^['.'.'.'.'.''.'.'^V.'. 10 Alexander Cathcart 5 Henry G. Papst 5 n n O. H. Revil OHM j.D. Finch .'.*..;.'".';;.'';;.".';;;.';:.';:;:; i o o William Marsh ."!!"" 2 d William Janson. .. • *....'...'..'."..'. ' 150 John Bales , - ^ WilliamMiiler '.".'.*.*".'.".*■.".'.■■.'.■■.■.".■■■.■.■■.■.■.'' J TIIOlfNIIILL. Francis Boyd 25 William Davie 10 Robert Paget, fivd Shares Metropolitan Building Society ......'.'.'. 62 10 NEWMARKET. S. F. Ramsey, Clerk jq q q BROCK. J.W.Ellis n n n R. Garrett, Clerk '..".'.'.".'*.'.■.'.'■.'.■■*.'.■.'.'.'.*.'.■'.'.*. 5 SCARBORO'. W. S. Darling, Clerk, B. S. Stock 75 q q BARRIE. James Pafon, eight Shares M. Building Society 1 00 n S. JVI. Sanfjrd, two ditto ditto 25 n S.B. Ardagh, Clerk, two ditto ditto .'.'.'.'" 25 ft Edmund Lally, one ditto ditto loin n Dan -1 Whitley, one ditto ditto '.'.'.'..'. 12 in II. £ Kopkms, one ditto ditto ' '" 12 10 "Kr ^T '^r^'^^""^ ditto ditto ..::::::::;::::: 12100 W I >nsall,one ditto ditto 1210 «. F. Savjgney, one ditto ditto 22 10 WEST GWILLIMBURY. * Arthur Hill, Clerk, two Shares Metropolitan Building Society 25 HAMILTON. Sir Allan N. McNab, 200 acres of land XIOO And two lots in the city of Hamilton 150 /- l-l' CaiA v'ot Richard Juson, 100 acres of land £100 ; cash £2b. " 125 '^v^-'^^ Thomas Stinson, two city lots../.*. .<:.«' .i:..'.',^'V .'• ••'<■ ' * io.-i n n-W'>v>, Miles O'Reilly (half land, half money) .'!.".".".".'."." 100 H. C. Baker, (£6 per annum till redeemed by jeiOO) "' 100 J. G. Geddes, Clerk, one Share G. D. B. Society 50 J. Mackelcan ditto ditto.. ^n n n . McKinstry, one lot in Hamilton, .t. . .'. .-r ■ .' V'.'./.V. . 40 ' '^'^^ '♦ Thos. Blakeney, one village lot in Oakville *-~. ^ //■ ,/, / ., ,/ 1 G.L.Beardmore, 10 acres of land in Flamboro' East, or equivalent) ' ^ ^ m money > 20 T.N. Best '.'.".■.'.■.■.'.'.'.■.■.'.'.■.'.■.'.*.■.■.',■.'.;■/.;., 20 J C. Geddes, two Shares in M. Buildinjj Society ,. *' 25 R. 0. Duggan, 50 acres in Essa .'.".' 25 J. 0. Hatt, one lot in Dundas \\[] ' 50 Rich. Street, four Shares in M. Building Society. ....'. 5o ^'A" • Xf"'^o"ghnet, 100 acres of land. . Ji. V>. .//. .7. p's?^'.^'. '. 50 C- M M C.G. Gilkinson, one Share in G. Building Society 50 W. Atkinson, X3 per annum, till redeemed 50 Richard Hardiker, ditto ditto " " " ^n n n 2 10 2 10 5 5 2 2 2 1 5 1 5 1 25 10 62 10 10 5 5 75 100 25 25 12 10 12 10 12 10 12 10 12 10 12 10 25 250 125 0/^v«'^'^>^ 125 0-<^>^>' 100 100 50 50 40 ■ *«^>i 't 20 20 25 25 50 50 50 c ^ )i" 50 50 ^n n n ( 89 ) M. W. Brown, £3 per annum fill redewied W. Leggo, oueSharein Uoro District r,,;m""c*". 50 Peter H.Harnil,on one Io,,n£;X'''^^^^^ ^0 2 R. J. Hamilton, in land 125 Q o John M.Simons 50 ilichard Fairclough 20 Frederick W. Gales .'." 20 W. L. Distin 20 John iVlitchell [[ 20 Thomas A. BIyth, one ciVyi;u;';^^\i;; 7/37 20 ^ Ihomas Giilesby .'...... 40 o r ^/ - -• f"^'-^- Benj. Milman t]it,o 50 Jc"U< ^3i/^ry^ ti. t . Thomas 25 E Zeland, ore Share in M/B'uild'i/igSoViaV ^" ^ ^ Richard Fish ditto ditto ^2 10 James Clemow ditto ditto '2 10 John Clemow ditto ditto 12 10 J. H. Ede, Clerk, ditto ditto ^2 10 Kichard Terry 12 10 C.G.Crickmore.£3 per aimum;uf;tii;ed;jrned: :;:;:::;:;:;••• 50 '^ ^ li J. L. Alexander. Clerk ^^'^'!^^,^^!'^'^- ^ " ^ . . ^ „ ST. JAMES'S PAIUSIL DU\D4S ^ ^ Andrew T Kerby, IGO acres of land. GeorgeRo]phtovvnlot..y..^-..,..i. J~>'--^V/;r.-AV 50 William McMuiray, Clerk, Building So'cklVsto^k ^^ ^ ^ 1l^c^J6-/^i' Ralph Leeming, town lot. . . ^'^ly iswck 50 James B. Ewart, ditto. .„.. 30 Q ' l^y\^i^wL»- Joseph Webster, one Share Building ' s;ci;-ty Stock." W J? j" « Daniel Showers, 1 00 acrl o? l3 '"™'."^^^^^,f ,^?:w ,' ' ' ' ' ^ ^ Preserved Cooley, 25 ditto ^ •^^-^r.^^.^.S. . . loo o 5^ /'^^rr rhomasHammill.25 ditto 25 ^red.G Snyder 25 ditto 25 John Almas, 12| ditto 25 John Gage, \2\ ditto 12 10 Alexander S. Mine, village lot.. 12 10 Q GeorgeByrns 25 0^i>-^--i^- ' A. F, Atkinson Clerk •. . . . R. Shanklin, Clerk .'.'.'.'.*.'.'.'." ".".'.'.'.' J. P. Merritt, town lot.. X.^A'.AK. ^V }q-X A f>^^^'^ F. Mack, M. D !..'.'!!.' .'.* George Rykert .*.'.'.'.'.'.'.*.'.'.'....' A. K. Boomer ' James R. Benson. R. McDonald, 50 acres of land.^ ^,%'£,'(il U^il. 50 12 10 12 10 12 10 t i-if^i r f < X^»^ . 12 10 . 12 lU U . 50 . 12 10 . 12 10 . 12 10 U Ut. ^t >^i t<^ »>♦*■ S'o'-Ci.'' f%.\ ^ . 60 u-u^ h- [y^//;./.1;//.\ T i;i00 s "^"^ h^'f/fA " Eightshares Metrop. Build. Soc. 100 1 D. Campbell, land in Seymour iqq q q Henry Ruttan, 1 00 acres of land ....-:;. ^ ;./'; ^. ^ .7 .. . ." ." ." ,' ." .' .' .' ."" ' 1 00 ■«: «^v, *^ Hon. George S. Boulton, 400 acres of land. ^J/i .V. >- ^ 'J .?. i;' . ' 'T^.' . T j?- 150 \ Hon. Z, Burnham, 100 acres of land .f.y.i,..Uv'.. .'\.^.<5y,S-.\'rh. 200 /''''"'' S. E. McKechnie (in money) '. *.".". '.'.' 1 00 J. S.^ Thomson, two shares Metropolitan Building Society. .!!.!!! 25 T. G. Anderson, two shares ditto 25 D. E, Boulton, one share ditto ...".'.. . ." 12 10 R. D. Chatterton (in money) 12 10 H. B. Jessopp, Clerk, one share Metrop= Building Society ,, 32)0 10 10 100 ? irUl (rv\^ ifj> t m 20 12 10 25 25 12 10 50 25 50 50 50 12 10 12 10 12 10 12 10 12 10 12 10 12 10 12 10 12 10 12 10 12 10 12 10 12 10 50 30 25 12 10 12 10 25 5 3 12 10 2 3 1 5 5 ■ 200 . 100 100 ■tt^'^i ^ 150 200 /c''"^'! 100 25 25 12 10 12 10 . ( 93 ) H. Covert, two shares M.B. Society, £25; money, £25 50 G. M. Boswell, one town lot, Cobourg . . ^l ' " James Cockburn, one share Metrop. IJuild. Society." .*.".'.■.' To u) n AsaA. Burnham, 100acresoiland.//.^..>v."/Pl'ios. Kiiicpatnck, 100 acres and one town lot. -~- ~ '* >^^ c^ ^/PeterDiehl, M.D., 365 acres.. J'. /}..('/:-'/ '''^«/>.^.^**. i„n ,, „ /► '- ^ •'*" / ^«^ . Srn\?;t&n?"""''''''""^'^ '''•"'• •'^^•••'■'^^ iS S oV^/^."^ H.Mulkins, Clerk .".".' '.".*.'.'■ ^^ " '^ John McPherson,m)ac«s£Iand, ami io^ 50 2 ^ - ^^ >*^ /e 8T. MARK'S CHURCH, BARRIEFIELD. Henry Brent, Clerk, two shares Metrop. Build. Society 25 ADOLPIIUSTOWN AND FREDERICKSBURGII. Job Deacon, Clerk D.McWhiston 5 E.D'Lalaurs ^ Peter V. Dorland ^ ParkeiAllen .".'.".'"'." , n " RobertLeatch ..!..!'...*. « Boltus Shewman ' , ^ *^ Philip Dorland ^ ^ ^ Thomas Dorland 19^ John G. Dorland X ^' Thomas Neelson .'.".'!.".'!!!!!!!."."'.*. J ^^ " John Hopper 10 r D.McKenzie .'.. ' .[ " I ^ ^ Simeon "W. Trumpet *"* U"" A ,H ^ John Church..... 10 n ■"'" = ■ • «^^ > A-^iu (^ 1 • J ^iyi^^ L-t^m^lt^ tj ^tl tC o ■ I'v p i rlMx (94) NAPANEE. Voted at the Vestry Meeting, two shares M. B. S 25 TYENDINAOA. Voted at the Vestry Meeting or ,. f. G, A. Anderson, Clerk, two shares M. B. Society ".'.!."."..' .' .' .' '.".'.'.'.''. 25 fl PICTON. Cecil Mortimer e,v „ , R.Low 50 50 John R. Toolce, Clerk jy „ PORT TRENT. William Bleasdell, Clerk, one share M. B. Society 1210 HILLIER, Vestry of Christ's Church, Hillier, per Rev. R. G. Cox, B. S. Stock. 25 CARLETON PLACE. A. Miiloch, Clerk, B. S Stock 25 BYTOWN. • B Lewis ... - - r.:iherwood r n S.S. Strong, Clerk, first subscription .".",'.'."'.' ."."'.." i n^ r. B.Lyon, 100 acres of land .".*.".*.".'.'.'.".'.".".* ' 25 BROCKVILLE. George Crawford, 200 acres of land. . . f. V 7 ' '^^ ' <" ^^ inn n .. , D. B. O. Ford, land ;:;;; JJJ 0^. Ormond Jones, land J^ " « George Sherwood, land ^"- y. ^ J. Crawford, 50 acres of land H ^^ Edward Kerston, land f^ n n John Weatherhead ^Y m ^ Thomas Webster "' '^ Charles E. Jones, land '.'.'. o- n li W.B. Maclean .:.;.••: fa James Jessup, two lots in Prescott wn n n Richard F. Steele. 50 acres of land in Marmora" " h a"'"/ '"■,'<■" 1 ' , , p T> „ _- ^. EDWARDSBURGH. R. D. Frazer. 100 acres of land. MATILDA. SenryT'"p[S°i£^'''''"^^''"''^""*=^^ 25 ' 25 PRESCOTT. J. S. Me'win, 100 acres of land £37 10s., cash i:25./. 1 rt 25 2.5 ' 62 10 -yio. " " -^-^-it "the" before "Universities" /l.lme 8-after "of" insert "supporting" " " " 10-for "paltry" read ;,ar/y. " 73 line 3 from bottom-a full stop after " designed. /4,bno 1-for" sacred' read so.„rf. " 75, line 26-for " members" read ministers. " 113, line 25-for " begotton" read begolten " 143, line 28-for "may" read «,,//. " 29-for" will shine" read A