BY \V. F. I). BUTLER, B.A., M.SC, LL.B. 49 



It'svirely is not without significance that the Governor 

 communicated with the Trustees of the College Schema 

 and not with the Building Committee in regard to the 

 use of the proposed gift, and also granted the ground 

 to them, and also that the Surveyor-General was required 

 to communicate with the Rev. J. P. Gell, and not with 

 the Headmaster of the School. 



Considerable exception was taken to this gift by Dr. 

 G. Lillie and others, who sent in a Memorial for trans- 

 mission to the Secretary of State, which was forwarded 

 with Despatch No. 118 above quoted. 



In order that the Secretary of State might be 

 authoritatively informed as to the School and College His 

 Excellency wrote to Archdeacon Maniott (30th August, 

 1847), requesting him to fui'nish him witli all the facts 

 relative to the establishment of the School and of the 

 College, which might show the footing upon which each 

 was placed, both with refv^rencc to ea^-h other and to the 

 colony. 



The Archdeacon forwarded this to the Rev. J. P. 

 Gell, who replied on 4th September, 1847, forwarding the 

 Prospectus above-mentioned, issued in 1846, and referring 

 especially to the Abstract of Statutes, and to the mention 

 of the Schools therein above quoted, and also setting out 

 the then present position of Christ's College, and adding : 

 — "The previously existing Schools of the colony had pre- 

 "sented so inadequate a result as only seven qualified 

 ''students. We undertook the remedy, by receiving into 

 "the College 20 Candidates under preparation, and by 

 "establishing in Launceston and Hobart Town two Gram- 

 "mar Schools, both under ClergA'men of the Church of 

 "England, and both containing from 27 to 30 pupils. At 

 "our last cxamiation of the College and Schools, between 

 "80 and 90 boys came before me, and this, I conceive, a 

 "very fair proportion to be under classical instruction at 

 "any one time in a colony of this population. I trust, 

 "therefore, that you will explain to His Excellency that 

 "we have in the first instance planted the College as a tree 

 "whose seed is in itself, and that the first few years will 

 "require a good deal of elementary work on our parts, 

 "which must not be confounded with the mere routine of 

 "a Grammar School, never rising to anything higher. 



"The Hutchins School is in strict connexion with the 

 "College, and is established for the more especial con- 

 "^venieuce of the inhabitants of Hobart Town. It is under 

 "a clergyman of expeiience in the system of English 

 "Grammar Schools, and it is designed to satisfy a want 

 "which has long been felt and often expressed. But the 



