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ten yeare he found that that institution tum. el oat juet 160 tttttt in addition b other epsoiai etu "ttr-tttur making each graduate coat the country 8i000. Wrh reepoct to the other inetituiione. how etood the tech , During a aimiler period at ten yeare, Victoria College and Qreen'e Col- lege only coat the country together acme £3,000, while they turned out about two hundred graduated, babies a 'a number ot medical andother at»: 33 I ere thehon. gentleman read pcrtione rt memorlele from l, uren'e and Victoria kll hhh had 1);gi8b'hS-,hutihil,Ht1r1gr-Eh,,i,',1, theee memoriale It appeared that in Queen'e College theeutire amount of the Government grant hitherto received had been expended on the Arte department. Wee there any building up of eectarlaniem with the public money in that icetitutionl The money wee not em- ployedto teach the unarnliar tenote of thoee having control ot the Coiiege. And the eame thing we- dietinotlv etated in the memorial ot the Victoria Univereity. Queen'e Col. lege, he found. received in voluntary czntributioue 854.000, which tum had been expended in buildinge which were a credit to Kingetca and the Province. There were 676 etudente panning through the univoreity lince ite eetabiiehment, end they belonged to all detmninattorr.-thi denomination having control oi the inelitution having not more than one third tho numb. graduating during thie period. Ot the " clorgymeu eent out from thie ioeiitution only " belonged to the, denomination having ite control. Where; were the s'gid1'gul ate/gy', And the: . r-ame ht t reger clutch; igr,'g',.'." There were no aeotarian tute , young men from oi' perte ot the country want; there and got an education which would} compare iavourahiy with any to be given in the country. The original coat of the building wee $50 000 and ite expenece during 25 were were 8160 000, while the mammoth loutitut'on la tbie city in three yeare expend. ed more than that eum. Having charm the way in which three coilegee had been eup- ported in great part by voluntary contribu. the, (thin college having received voluntary contribution to the extent of $122,000. and having in addition during the laet two or three yearn piid " $40,000 of debt). the hon. gentleman went on to etete that in " yeare their graduatee were 1,398. Hon. Mr. WOOD-TU" were only 108 graduatee in arts Me. BEMTY eaid that with thoee in medicine, arte. do , than were 1,398, end thin he beiUved had no reference to those attending the Grammar School. Hon. Mr. WOOD-L, aria, 108 ' medici- clne, 377 t law, lO-makiog the total gre- duatse, 495. Mr. BEATTY eaid thin did not include thme etudente who went through to a cor. tala extent, but did not fully graduate A itl'ge number ot euch attended thoro inetitu- tiane. Tho hon g-ntleman next referred to the eyetern in the United Statee and Eat lend. 0mg, h" Its 19 coilegre and 6 hello --t.'te average entrance " each being about is per annum, and the average attendenc: " ', ouch about 80. Cambridge had lie I'; col- lagen and t hall, with " average attendance of about 140 tl tttLett were thru.AL mile- 9,! 1tthiytrhcto, ejmilniureiiiea 'hl'-d't Boarder which there wae the Landon 7'iiFitr, eetabliehed to take within ite told all denomination. Since ite eetablleh- went about 50 collegee had "come aeeoclated with it, and etndonte had received from that Univereity their degreee. Having a!" alluded to Durham no peered on to notice the t Freon connected with which were eerioe of ccllegoe and literary inetitutione ecatierod over the whole country. In Germany there were eevarel univoraitiee and many collegee ' la Swi'z'riend three exteneive univeraitiee, and awry Swlee canton had ite college. In the /,2gfiW,-St,fe whore the cleareet of lime were rawn etweeu Church and State. in 1859 there were 122 onliegee. moot ot them nevi og nuivereity powere. Now there were about' 150, and nearly all theee were denominational. No centralization there. In New York State they had acme 10 trar- herd. with univenity powere. and there do nominationai ooilegee received State aid. Hon. Mr. WOOD-ma. the hon. m amber moan to eay that the Leghleinre of the Sate ot New York makee an annual grant to denominational caiiegee , Mr. BEATTY eaid that State aid wee given to than icetltntione. and can: a li.t of grants to crilegee in that State. Hon. Mr. RrtJRht1De--Are theee epecial or annual grantel Mr. BEA'rry--istat granie. And here the Government of Ontario might learn a lee-on which ought to induce them to - before they carried out the ccuree they pro- poeed in taking away all government aid from the eecla an oollegee. m I wished to be practical. . it the preeent I grants were to he dlecantinutd, let another 1 " atom be inaugurated to meet the wente oi , the country in anothrr way. l Int no have a l Central Iuytrytt--tuaihiir,r-Gd "Ili. , atod with " all collegee that would conform 1 toe common ourricninn and come under a common ayatom. Let thoee ioeii'mtlone l .aiike receive Provincial eupport, " that they l _-a-_.-.--.--..-"---.),-) ___ _