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available to maintain the university £634 12s 2d. The bursar, who 

 appears to have been incompetent rather than dishonest, made up tha 

 balance from assets in his hands, and henceforth security was taken 

 from both bursar and registrar. But the inroad upon the endowment 

 which rendered impossible either the erection of buildings or the open- 

 ing of the university was due to the amounts already expended. These 

 were : — 



£ s d 



Loans to Upper Canada College ;W,408 15 2 



Expended for site (present park 168 acres) 4,391 2 1 



Improvements and care of grounds 6,805 10 fl 



Plans and preparations for building 1,108 16 10 " 



Furniture : 152 4 11 



Later in the year a commission appointed by the Lieutenant Gov- 

 ernor at the request of the House of Assembly, presented a report on the 

 entire subject of education. It proposed once more the consolidation of 

 Kings College and Upper Canada College making the latter a tem- 

 porary university. The financial situation had improved and the income 

 available for this project was estimated at £4,240. 



A peculiar part of this proposal was the establishment of several 

 theological seminaries for the education of the clergy of different deno- 

 minations. This proposition was probably due to a condition of affairs 

 already alluded to which arose in the province through efforts for the 

 establishment of higher education quite independent of the Government. 

 Upper Canada College provided for the superior education chiefly of 

 members of the Church of England. An Anglican divinity school was 

 conducted at Cobourg by Archdeacon Bethune. In the same town Upper 

 Canada Academy discharged similar functions for the Methodists, both 

 laity and ministry. Later, in 1841, this academy received college rank 

 by act of the Legislature, and the first session opened in October of the 

 same year. The Presb3'terians took the first steps towards founding 

 Queen's College in 1839 ; in 1842 it actually came into existence at 

 Kingston. In this latter city the Eoman Catholics had already estab- 

 lished a seminary of learning in 1837. So that wnen King's College was 

 opened in 1843, the problem of university education was no longer a 

 merely theoretical one. 



During the unfortunately brief administration of Mr. J. Poulett 

 Thomson (aftenvards Lord Sydenham) who came to the country in 

 1839 the condition of the university finances improved. The estimated 

 income from all sources in 1839 had been £3,803; in 1842, it was £11,718. 

 It was therefore with great confidence that Sir Charles Bagot, the new 



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