240 EDUCATION. 



for etHcient teacliiiig, and small exclusive schools for a wide 

 national institution. 



" I knew that, whilst insujjerable objections existed to a 

 combined education in all subjects, that objection had its 

 limits : that in America and in Germany I had seen Pro- 

 testants and Catholics learning side by side ; that in 

 Mauritius, a College numbering 700 pupils, partly Pro- 

 testants, partly Eomau Catholics, existed ; and that similar 

 establishments were not micommon elsewhere. 



"I therefore determined to endeavour to effect the estab- 

 lishment of a College where combined study might be 

 carried on in those branches of education with respect to 

 which no objection to such a course was felt, and to sup- 

 port with Government aid, and bring nnder Government 

 supervision, those establishments where those branches in 

 which a separate education was deemed necessary were 

 taught. 



' I had, when last at home, some anxious conferences with 

 the highest ecclesiastical authority of the Pioman Catholic 

 Church in England on the subject, and came to a complete 

 understanding with him in respect to it. That distinguished 

 prelate, himself a man of the highest University eminence, 

 is not one to be indifferent to the interests of learning. His 

 position, his known opinions, afford a guarantee that nothing 

 sanctioned by him could, even by the most scrupulous, be 



