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annum. In 1859 two Church of Scotland students were 
admitted into Bishop’s College on certain conditions. 
Later on all the exhibitioners, 16 in number, were ad- 
mitted. In 1868 an annual grant of £200 was given for 
repairing the building, and in 1872, the salary of the 
Training Master was raised from £200 to £300, in addi- 
tion to which, the Institution cost another £400 yearly, 
most of that sum being provided by the Bishop. The 
Training College, thus established by the energy and zeal 
of the venerable Prelate, continued to produce many 
well educated schoolmasters until 1878, when it passed 
into the hands of the Government. Its abolition was 
one of the aéts of the governorship of Sir H. IRVING. 
But this is anticipating. The report of 1851 insisted 
upon what amounted to so-called secular education pure 
and simple. The Commissioners, however, were not 
unanimous upon the subjeét, while the Protestant 
churches were unanimously opposed to any scheme in 
which religious teaching did not occupy a prominent 
place. The Anglican Clergy and some of the laity, the 
Scottish Presbytery, and the Wesleyan Ministers, sepa- 
rately memorialised the Governor and the Court of Policy, 
and urged their respeétive views regarding the propriety 
and necessity of instilling moral principles into the minds 
of the scholars through the medium of religious instruc- 
tion. The Governor sent on the Memorials to the Com- 
mission who resolved in the following polite and charac- 
teristic terms :— 
‘Firstly, that the Commissioners having full confi- 
dence in the desire and ability of the clergy of the 
different denominations in this colony to afford religious 
instruction to the youth of their respeétive flocks, 
