e giving aid to other institutions
than the Toronto University. 2. That the friends of Queen's,
Regiopolis, Victoria and King's Colleges did expect to derive
assistance from the University funds. 3. That the objections to Mr.
Baldwin's Bill on the part of the Presbyterians and Methodists
were, not that any portion of the University funds should be
applied in aid of their institutions, but that the portion proposed
was entirely too small. 4. That those who supported Mr. Baldwin's
Bill cannot consistently object to aid being given from the
University funds to institutions in connection with the Church of
England, Roman Catholics and Methodists. The amount and duration of
such aid is a mere prudential consideration; the principle is the
same, whether the amount of aid be five hundred or five thousand
pounds, whether the duration be five years or five hundred
years....

That there should be a Provincial University, furnishing the
highest academical and professional education, at least in respect
to law and medicine; that there should be a Provincial system of
common school education, commensurate with the wants of the entire
population; that both the University and the system should be
established and conducted upon Christian principles, yet free from
sectarian bias or ascendancy; that there should be an intermediate
class of seminaries in connection with the different religious
persuasions, who have ability and enterprise to establish them,
providing on the one hand a theological education for their clergy,
and on the other hand a thorough English and scientific education,
and elementary classical instruction for those of the youth of
their congregations who might seek for more than a common school
education, or who might wish to prepare for the University, and
who, not having the experience and discretion of University
students, required a parental and religious oversight, in their
absence from their parents; that it would be economy and patriotic
on the part of the Government to grant liberal aid to such
seminaries, as well as to provide for the endowment of a University
or a common school system;--these are views which I explained and
argued at length when the University question was under discussion,
from 1828 to 1834; these are the views on