e colony, _for all time coming_." And yet, adds the sagacious
Scotchman, in the very next paragraph, "the yoke must have proved
intolerable in the end, and would sooner or later have been violently
broken asunder during some general burst of public indignation." After a
grievous misrepresentation of the expenses incurred by the Church and
School Corporation,[183] and a sneer at the want of education which is
said to prevail among its members,[184] Dr. Lang contrives at last to
land himself, if not his readers, at the desired conclusion, namely,
that "ignorance is the mother of devotion" to colonial episcopacy!

[181] Gladstone's "The State in its Relations with the Church,"
chap. viii. p. 315.

[182] Lang's New South Wales, vol. ii. p. 317, &c. See also, at 265-6,
a series of similar statements. A good specimen of Dr. Lang's veracity
occurs at p. 267, where the Church and School Corporation is said to
have consisted chiefly of _clergymen_, whereas the majority were
_laymen_. See Burton on Religion and Education in New South Wales,
p. 21, and Appendix, No. 1.

[183] They are accused of spending 20,000_l._ a-year of public money,
under pretence of providing for religious instruction and education,
while nothing was really done; whereas, out of this sum, nearly
17,000_l._ were already appropriated for the existing ecclesiastical
establishment; and, during the continuance of the Corporation, the
schools increased from 16 to 40, and the number of children educated
in them from 1,037 to 2,426. See Burton on Religion and Education in
New South Wales, pp. 24 and 32.

[184] See the book just quoted for a list of the members of the Church
and School Corporation, p. 21. Whatever might be the education of these
gentlemen, it is evident that better educated men were not very likely
to be found in the colony than the great law officers of the crown, the
members of the legislative council, and the nine senior chaplains.

But it is time to turn away from the pitiable spectacle of a man calling
himself a minister of God's word, but far better qualified for his other
occupation, that of editing a party newspaper in a penal colony, and
taking our leave of Dr. Lang with feelings of regret that he has not
made a better use of those talents which have been given him: let us
turn to the statement given by Judge Burton, of the Church and School
Corporation in New South Wales. It is correct that one