in
both Arts and Medicine below what it was before the passing of the
University Act in 1853.

Instead of confining the expenditure of funds to what the law
prescribed--namely, the "current expenses," and such "permanent
improvements or additions to the buildings" as might be necessary
for the purposes of the University and University College--new
buildings have been erected at an expenditure of some hundreds of
thousands of dollars, and the current expenses of the College have
been increased far beyond what they were in former times of
complaint and investigation on this subject.

Your memorialists therefore submit, that in no respect have the
liberal and enlightened intentions of the Legislature in passing
the University Act been fulfilled--a splendid but unjust monopoly
for the city and college of Toronto having been created, instead
of a liberal and elevated system, equally fair to all the colleges
of the country.

A Provincial University should be what its name imports, and what
was clearly intended by the Legislature--a body equally unconnected
with, and equally impartial to every college in the country; and
every college should be placed on equal footing in regard to public
aid according to its works, irrespective of place, sect, or party.
It is as unjust to propose, as it is unreasonable to expect, the
affiliation of several colleges in one University except on equal
terms. There have been ample funds to enable the Senate to submit
to the Government a comprehensive and patriotic recommendation to
give effect to the liberal intentions of the Legislature in the
accomplishment of these objects; but the Senate has preferred to
become the sole patron of one college to the exclusion of all
others, and to absorb and expend the large and increasing funds of
the University, instead of allowing any surplus to accumulate for
the general promotion of academical education, as contemplated and
specifically directed by the statute. Not only has the annual
income of the University endowment been reduced some thousands of
pounds per annum by vast expenditures for the erection of buildings
not contemplated by the Act, but a portion of those expenditures is
for the erection of lecture-rooms, &c., for the Faculties of which
the Act expressly forbi