BY W. ¥. D. BUTLKR, B.A., M.SC, LL.B. 35 



Churcli of England exclusively, for, on April 4, 1842, we 

 find Arnold again writing to Franklin: — "Your letter of 

 "18th August quite coincides with my wishes, and satisfied 

 "me also that I may, without injustice, act according to 



"them. . . . And I am happv to say that seems quite 



"disposed to agree with your views of the subject, and to 

 "make it a standing nile of the College, that the Principal 

 "of it shall always be a member of the Church of England 

 "if not a clergvman. Mv own belief is, that our Colleges 

 "of Oxford and Cambridge are, with all their faults, the 

 "best institutions of the kind in the world — at least, fo'.* 

 "Englishmen ; and, therefore, I should wish to copy them 

 "exactlv, if it were possible, for Van Diemen's Land. i 

 "onlv doubted whether it were just to Scotland to give a 

 "predominantlv English chai'acter to the institutions of i 

 "British Colony ; but your argiiment from the establish- 

 "ment of the English law is, I. think, a good one, and 

 "mixed institutions are, to my mind, so undesirable, that 

 "I would rather have the College Scotch altogether, so 

 "far as mv own taste is concerned, than that it should re- 

 "present no church at all. I have always wished, and I 

 "wish it still, that the basis of our own, as of other 

 "Churches should be made wider than they are; but the 

 "enlargement, to my mind, should be there, and not in 

 "the Schools ; for it seems a solecism to me that a place of 

 "education for the members of a Church should not teach 

 "according to that Church, without suppressions of any sort 

 "for the sake of accommodating othei"s. As to the other 

 "point. — of there being always an English and Scotch 



"clergvman amongst the Fellows of the College — , took 



"vour view of the case, and I yielded to him. I 

 "grieve over the difficulty about the name of the College ; 

 "it seem.« to me not a little matter. . . . But your leaving 

 "the question to the Government seems to me the wisest 

 "wav of settling it. ' ("Life," p. 26L') 



The inference in Arnolds letter that from the estab- 

 lishment of English Law in the Colony the Established 

 Church of England was carried to the Colonv was, soon 

 after he wrote this letter, held by the Colonial Office to 

 be erroneous, but the difficulties that Arnold met, and 

 the rivaln' of the various Cliurches, eventually preventei 

 Franklin "s ideas being carried out. 



In the Estimates from 1841 to 1844 the sum of £1,000 

 appears for the Queen's School, but no sum is reserv^ed in 

 1845. 



This, then, was the end of Sir John Franklin's at- 

 tempt to provide for higher education in the Colony under 

 the Stat€. 



The salient points of the scheme may be summed up 



