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SAPIENTIA ET DOCTRINA STABILITAS

tions on the subject gratuitously. The Trustees, with great pleasure,
cordially accepted the offer, and in the meantime appointed
him Lecturer in Modern History.)

The University Commissioners appointed by the
Government having reported substantially in favor of the
University reforms which Queen's, in conjunction with Trinity
and Victoria Universities, had proposed, the services of the
Honble Alexander Campbell were engaged for the purpose of drawing
up and bringing in, a legislative measure for the settlement of
the University question, on the basis of the plan recommended by the
University Commissioners. The Draft of the new University Bill
proposed to be introduced into Parliament was submitted to the
Meeting of Trustees on the 26th February 1863, and ordered to
be transmitted, with a copy of the suggestions of the Principal re-
garding the same, to the Honble Mr. Campbell at Quebec. About
this time, however, political parties in the Country during the
years immediately before Confederation were very nearly balanc-
ed. Repeated Changes of Administration took place, and the
conduct of public business was greatly impeded. Thus the
Macdonald-Cartier Government, which was understood to be
favorable to the plan of University Reform proposed in the
Report of the University Commission, had been in 1862,

1862-63