THE ROYAL COLLEGE. 239 



" We are met here to-day to inangiirate the Eoyal College, 

 an institution in which the benefits of a sound education, I 

 trust, will he secured to Protestants and Eoman Catholics 

 alike, without the slightest compromise of their respective 

 principles. 



" The Queen's Collegiate School, of which this College is, 

 in some sort, an out-growth and development, was founded 

 with the same object : but, successful as it has been in 

 other respects, it cannot be said to have altogether attained 

 this. 



*' St. Mary's College was founded by j^rivate enterprise 

 with a different view, and to meet the wants of those who 

 objected to the Collegiate School. 



" It has lono- been felt the existence of two Colleges one, 

 the smaller, almost entirely supported by the State, the 

 other, the larger, wholly without State aid was objectionable ; 

 and that the whole question of secondary education presented 

 a most difficult problem. 



" Some saw its solution in the withdrawal of all State aid 

 from higher education ; others in the establishment by the 

 State of two distinct Denominational Colleges. 



" I have elsewhere explained the reason why I consider 

 both these suggestions faulty, and their probable effect bad ; 

 the one being certain to check and discourage superior 

 education altogether, the other likely to substitute inefficient 



