isation of the rest of Europe: and that must be
done by a secular, and not by an ecclesiastical system of education.

The higher education, in Trinidad, seems in a more satisfactory
state than the elementary. The young ladies, many of them, go
'home'--i.e. to England or France--for their schooling; and some of
the young men to Oxford, Cambridge, London, or Edinburgh. The
Gilchrist Trust of the University of London has lately offered
annually a Scholarship of 100 pounds a year for three years, to lads
from the West India colonies, the examinations for it to be held in
Jamaica, Barbadoes, Trinidad, and Demerara; and in Trinidad itself
two Exhibitions of 150 pounds a year each, tenable for three years,
are attainable by lads of the Queen's Collegiate School, to help
them toward their studies at a British University.

The Collegiate School received aid from the State to the amount of
3000 pounds per annum--less by the students' fees; and was open to
all denominations. But in it, again, the secular system would not
work. The great majority of Roman Catholic lads were educated at
St. Mary's College, which received no State aid at all. 417
Catholic pupils at the former school, as against 111 at the latter,
were--as Mr. Keenan says--'a poor expression of confidence or favour
on the part of the colonists.' The Roman Catholic religion was the
creed of the great majority of the islanders, and especially of the
wealthier and better educated of the coloured families. Justice
seemed to demand that if State aid were given, it should be given to
all creeds alike; and prudence certainly demanded that the
respectable young men of Trinidad should not be arrayed in two alien
camps, in which the differences of creed were intensified by those
of race, and--in one camp at least--by a sense of something very
like injustice on the part of a Protestant, and, it must always be
remembered, originally conquering, Government. To give the lads as
much as possible the same interests, the same views; to make them
all alike feel that they were growing up, not merely English
subjects, but English men, was one of the most important social
problems in Trinidad. And the simplest way of solving it was, to
educate them as much as possible side by side in the same school, on
terms of perfect equality.

The late Governor, therefore, with the advice and consent of his
Council, determined to develop the Queen's Colle