236 EDUCATION. 



Tiiiiidad, and Demei-ara ; and in Trinidad itself two Exhibi- 

 tions of 150/. a year eacli, tenable for three years, are attain- 

 able by lads of the Queen's Collegiate School, to help them 

 toward their studies at a British University. 



The ColleG^iate School received aid from the State to the 

 amount of 3,000/. per annum less by the students' fees ; and 

 was open to all denominations. But in it, again, the secular 

 system would not work. The great majority of Roman 

 Catholic lads were educated at St. Mary's College, which 

 received no State aid at all. 417 Catholic pupils at the 

 former school, as against 111 at the latter, were as ]Mr. 

 Keenan says " a j)Oor expression of confidence or favour on 

 the part of the colonists." The Eoman Catholic religion 

 was the creed of the great majority of the islanders, 

 and especially of the wealthier and l^etter educated of 

 the coloured families. Justice seemed to demand that if 

 State aid were given, it should be given to all creeds alike ; 

 and prudence certainly demanded that the respectable 

 young men of Trinidad should not be arrayed in two alien 

 camps, in which the differences of creed were intensified by 

 those of race, and in one camp at least by a sense of 

 something very like injustice on the part of a Protestant, 

 and, it must always be remembered, originally conquering, 

 Government. To give the lads as much as possible the same 

 interests, the same views ; to make them all alike feel that 



