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SAPIENTIA ET DOCTRINA STABILITAS

feeling entertained by the Cartier-Macdonald Government, and
the Country generally, of the injustice done to it, and other
Colleges in the Province, by the nonfulfilment of the provi-
sions of the University Act of 1853.

Mr. Baldwin's Act of 1849, already referred to, did
away with the Faculty of Theology in King's College, and all
religious tests in the appointment of its Professors, and made the
work of instruction wholly secular, at the same time alerting its
name of King's College to "The University of Toronto." Its object
was to remedy the evils arising from the exclusive nature of its
former constitution. The Act, however, not only failed to at-
tract public confidence to the Institution in consequence of
the irreligious aspect in which it was presented, but still left the
management of the affairs of the College in reality in the same
hands as before, and the Report of a commission of Enquiry
in 1852 brought to light a series of long continued malversa-
tion, and waste, of its finances, so that very few students attend-
ed its halls, and its usefulness in an educational point of view
was very small, compared with what might have been
expected from its ample endowment. A new Act, 16 Victoria ch. 89,
therefore, was brought in by the Hinck's-Morin Govern-
ment in 1853, and passed into a law, establishing the

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