BY W. V. D. BUTLER, B.A., M.SC, LL.B. 43 



Another leading article says: — "We rejoice to know 

 "that the establishment of the College is secured. The 

 "colonists have nol)ly responded to the call for aid in this 

 "important work. . . . That the Church of England had a 

 "perfect right to assert her own principles and carry out 

 "her own views on this matter few will undertake to deny. 

 "Within her pale, the project of such an institution was 

 "conceived. By her munificent bounty the necessary 

 "funds have been supplied. To her ministry the sacred 

 "guardianship is entrusted. . . . The regulations will show 

 "that though attendance on Divine worship, according to 

 ''the forms of the Church of England, will be required a3 

 "indispensably necessary to the maintenance of uniformity 

 "of discipline and systematic cnforcemont of religious ob- 

 "servances, no tests will be demanded, no barrier of bigotry 

 "erected, no obstacle interposed except such as party feel- 

 "ing and inveterate prejudice, in their gratuitous and un- 

 "hallcwed exercise mav determine to create. There will 

 "will be no exclusion but the self-exclusion of sectarian 

 "animosity."' ("Courier, " May 13th, 184G.) 



What the "Colonial Times ' scornfully describes as 

 "that hotbed of bigotry, his College, as he calls it," ap- 

 peared to the "Courier"' to be conceived in a spirit of 

 enliphtened charity — an institution which, though necessar- 

 ily 'restrictive, " would not be by any means "exclusive. ' 

 There was something to be said for each view of the caso. 

 On the one hand, Franklin and Arnold's dream of an un- 

 sectarian and inclusive College had failed of realisation, 

 stifled as much by the exclusiveness and arrogance of one 

 religious party as by the bitterness and suspicion of their 

 opponents : while the new scheme stood forth as the emblem 

 of a clerical domination whose despotic designs had yet been 

 barely defeated. On the other hand, the "Coimer's ' 

 boast was not without reason. The scheme, in its new 

 shape, by its identification with tlie strongest and most 

 cultivated of the contending sects, bade fair to become a 

 practical reality, while it had not lost all the glow of 

 Arnold's noble liberality and large-heartedncss. 



Considering the exclusive character of the English 

 ColleP:e<5 at this period when the religious tpst? which 

 guarded their sacred precincts were yet unrelaxed, the 

 scheme of Bishop iCi"^on can only be regarded as an en- 

 lightened and broad-minded one, being both inclusive and 

 tolerant, and mav fairly be judged to be an earnest attempt 

 to provide not only for the different educational require- 

 ments of his own communion, but also, as far as possible, 

 for those of other denominations, without, on the one hand, 

 interfering with their religious convictions, or, on the 



