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" I... _ .. arm .-.-= . ,5 L=C.==_-------" l re. V ' TUBE I ONTARIO LEGISLA . --.------- ', Fourth Parliame It-ttmt Sessmn. 'i ------'-'---r LtatttiLAT1Ytt 1ksoornur, March g, The Speaker took tho chair at three o'clock. PETITIONS. The following petitions were prturenusdt-- Mr. Laidlaw-Worn A. Dixon and others. ot Guclph, praying that the sale ot intoxicatin" liquors be prohibited on holidays. . REPORT OF COMMIl'TEE. Mr. YOUNG presented the report of the Select Committee on ltailway Accidents. The report was received and adopted. THIRD READINGS. The following Bills were read a third time and passed "-. To provide for the division of the township ot Luther-Mr. Mekun. Respecting tile, stone, and timber drainage-Mr, llay. . For the relief of pernnncnt building 'ocitstitur-- The Atturactueueral. l ovens CANADA COLLEGE AND noun 1 GRAMMAR 50110014. K, 1 _ __ ' 133%."? (on t1. J Mr, CROOKS moved. til, adoption of the follow- ' inf; resolution t--" That this House doth ratify an Order in Council, dated the first day of March in- l l stunt. directing certain payments from the Perma- nent Fund ot t 0 Upper Canada College and Royal I Grammar School." Owing to an amendment to the Act respecting Upper Canada College and Royal Grammar School passed last session, it was necessary that any Order in Coun- cil should be submitted to the House for ratiiigation before it became law. It would be 3001] that the proposed expenditure ot '$0,c00 emanated from the Committee of the Senate of the University, under whose charge all the affairs of the College were placed by statute. The College derived an annual income of $15,000 from the original grant of ti ',000 acres, which had been con. verted into money. In addition to that it received . annually $l0,o0o from tuition toes. The boarding h0use now contained accommodation for 89 pupils. and it was proposed to extend the accommodation ' to 130. The fees received from day pupils was very T Cr large, amounting to nearly two-thirds of tho cost of i T the whole teaching stuff, It was designed to place h l ', the College in a position especially suitable to we , pare pupils thoroughly in classical and gent-rel \ '/ sub) us, so as to enable boys to go into i the University thoroughly equipped tor the ' most dilticult subjects which a university ., might lay down, especially with reference h T to the higher subjects which Wore required 'v. before outmuc- into any of our unchrsitics could k he obtaini-d. While the higher schools were felt ' , to bu a neeesiuty, there was nevertheless an absolute v. ant fir the maintenance of such an in- stitu ion at the Upper Canada College. Whatever the l'ncHitit'S were throughout the Province fut. prc- ', putting for entrance to the University-and it was j well known that many of the High School student! ' iii the country had been successiul in carrying oft C honours in the shape of "ltoursttips-tt the in- f terests of higher education certainly demanded . that U. C. College should in one of the assistant in- stitutions to prepare thoroughly any youth who Wished to error upon a University course. U. C. College had had a long period of success in connection With the history of the Provincis. It was quite exceptional for any one to be able to point back to an institution which foe halfa con- iniy has played such an important part in the cdu. I union of the country. lie could point to many ofits i old students new occupying positions othonour and i trust in the country. and their tstrieitstuV had mainly arisen from their Upper Canada College training. Suvual gentlemen new on the Bench of the Courts of Appeal. Chancery, and Common Law received their chief training in that institution. and the ': countiy had just reason to be proud of them. The zeal and carefulucss with winch the Committee had considered the question was prima facie evi- dence of tho soundness oi' the views they had on- lertatncd oit the subject, and he would urge the claims of the institution " one which we ctuld not h atrurd to allow to disappear or deteriorate. _ Mr. DEROCHE said that the time was coming when the usefulness of Upper Canada College would be gone. There are several collegiate institutes which were more successi'ul in sending up matri- culants to the universities than Upper Canada Col- lege. These institutions were Open for the -poor as well as the rich. The matter had been brought up rather suddenly. lie admitted the prestige of the Upper Canada College and the number of high names connected with it. llut the times had changed, and so had the educational facilities and appliances. Could not the money proposed to be used be better 0:- pended for the, support of the High and Model , Schools of the Province ? He would suggest to the Alttt; tor of Education the propriety oi withdraw- J ing this resolution at present. Mr. McLA UlilllilN agreed with the member for _ Addington Our lltgh Schools in late years had made. vast stsilets, and certainly mote than tilled the place which the Upper Canada Crollogo had once occupied. In these schools a young man could ro- Cl'lVO a training inferior to none. Upper Canada College was not in reality it Provincial School, but ' would be found to educate 'tiiiefiy the youth . of Toronto. Giving Upper Canada College this sum 1 of money would make it a permanency, and that was not il--sirublc. The Unchrsity of Toronto was the institution which merited an expenditure such / as the Minister contemplated. "I Mr. SlNCliAIlt echoed the sentiments of the last speaker in a certain degree. lint still he did not lh'lldvu that the time had yet come for doing away with Upper Canada College. As a member from the country, he thought it would be well still to give the College that support which would Keep it running for some years more. "Qu Mr. 1thX'Nu'it reminded them that an investiga-