dent an individual who
has thriven upon his political obliquities, and who owes his fame, or
rather his notoriety, to his unquenchable dislike to the National
Church. In a moment of danger we can forget the injury; but it must not
be thought that we shall sit quietly beneath the wrong.

Rev. Dr. Bethune subsequently changed his opinion of Dr. Ryerson, and,
when Bishop of Toronto, referred to him in some of his public utterances
in very kind and complimentary terms.

[127] In regard to this appointment, the Hon. Isaac Buchanan, in a
letter to the Editor of this volume, dated March, 1883, said:--I was one
of the first to see the necessity of our getting Dr. Ryerson to take
hold of our Educational system, and I shared the somewhat delicate duty
of getting our esteemed friend, Rev. Robert Murray (whom we had got
appointed Assistant-Superintendent of Education), to accept a
professorship at the Toronto University, when Rev. Dr. Ryerson succeeded
to the vacant post in 1844.

CHAPTER XLIV.

1844-1846.

Dr. Ryerson's First Educational Tour in Europe.

Dr. Ryerson left Canada for Europe in November, 1844, on his first
educational tour through Europe. He visited and examined into the
educational systems of Belgium, France, Italy, Bavaria, Austria, the
German States, and Switzerland. He kept a full diary of his travels.
Much of it is out of date, but I shall give those portions of it which
relate to his personal history, and his impressions of men and things.
The epitome of these travels which he had prepared is as follows:--

_England._--Scenery of Essex and Kent from the Thames; landing in
Holland; its scenery, palaces, school system, schools,
universities, museums, principal cities and towns, churches, canals
and roads.

_Belgium._--From Utrecht to Antwerp--cathedral, churches, schools,
museums; Rubens' paintings; Brussels--schools; Hotel de Ville,
etc.; field of Waterloo; Belgian school system; Howard's Model
Prison; convent; university buildings.

_France._--Journey to Paris; curiosities and peculiarities of
Paris; acquaintance with the Protestant clergy; my residence and
employments there for three months, to qualify myself to speak as
well as write official letters, etc., in the French language.

_From Paris to Rome._--Modes of travel; places viewed on the way;
Orleans, Loire, Lyons, Rhone, Avignon, Nismes, Montpellier, Arles;
an