WHAT TO DO. 231 



Protestant as about 2| to l.^ The whole of the more 

 educated portion of them, as far as I could ascertain, are 

 willing to entrust the education of their children to the 

 clergy. The Archbishop of Trinidad, Monsignor Gonin, 

 who has jurisdiction also in St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Gre- 

 nada, and Tobago, is a man not only of great energy and 

 devotion, but of cultivation and knowledge of the world ; 

 having, I was told, attained distinction as a barrister else- 

 where before he took Holy Orders. A group of clergy 

 is woi'king under him among them a personal friend of 

 mine able and ready to do their best to mend a state of 

 things in which most of the children in the island, 

 born nominal Roman Catholics, but the majority illegi- 

 timate, were growing up not only in ignorance, but in hea- 

 thendom and brutality. Meanwhile, the clergy were in want 

 of funds. There were no funds at all, indeed, which would 

 enable them to set up in remote forest districts a religious 

 school side by side Avith the secular ward school ; and 



^ In 1858 they were computed as : 



Roman Catholics 44,576 



Church of England 16,350 



Presbyterians 2,570 



Baptists 449 



Independents, &c 239 



From " Trinidad, its Geography, &c." by L. A. De Verteuil, ^M.D.P., a very 

 able and interesting book. I regret much that its accomplished author 

 resists the solicitations of his friends, and declines to bring out a fresh edition 

 of one of the most complete monogi-aphs of a colony which I have yet seen. 



