24> EDUCATION. 



"A scheme more liberal a bond more elastic could 

 hardly have been devised, capable of effecting, if desired, 

 the closest union capable of being stretched to almost any 

 decree of slight connection ; and even if some Catliolics 

 ^'ould still prefer a wholly separate system, tliey must, if 

 candid men, admit that the Protestant population here have 

 a right to demand that they should not be called on to 

 surrender, in order to satisfy a mere preference, the great 

 advantages they derive from a united College under State 

 control, with its efficient staff and national character. 



"If religious difficulties are met, and conscientious scruples 

 are not wounded, a sacrifice of preferences must often be 

 made. Private wishes must often yield to the public good. 



" In the first instance, all the boys of the former Collegiate 

 School have become students of the College : but probably 

 a school of a similar character, but affiliated to the College, 

 will shortly be formed, in which a large number of those 

 boys will be included. 



" That the headship of the College should be entrusted to 

 the Principal of the Queen's Collegiate School will, I am 

 sure, be universally felt to be only a just tribute to the zeal, 

 efficiency, and success with which he has hitherto laboured 

 in his office, whilst, in addition to these qualifications, he 

 possesses the no less important one for the post he is about 

 to fill, of a mind singularly impartial, just, liberal and candid. 



