3. The Annual Outlay since the establishing of the said Schools, including staff of Teachers, Superintendence, maintenance and every expenditure not charged to Capital Account.

4. The names of the Persons in each year with their places of residence who have received instruction at the Normal School with the view of fitting themselves for teaching in this Province, and the average number of them who have made and are still making teaching their profession, and how many of such Teachers are now teaching in the Province, and in what Counties they are now teaching.

5. The average cost to the Country, including interest at six per cent. on the said Capital outlay, for the training of each Teacher who has made teaching in this Province a permanent occupation.

Mr. S. C. Wood-Return of copies of all Correspondence between any Member of the Executive Council of this Province, the Council of Public Instruction, the Chief Superintendent of Education, or other Member of the Council, since the passing of the Act, 35th Victoria, Chapter 30, "making temporary provision as to the Regulations of the Council of Public Instruction," and since the date of the last Return from the Education Department.

Mr. S. C. Wood-Return for a copy of the Regulations of the Council of Public Instruction, and other Instructions relating to the Admission of Pupils to the High Schools, or Collegiate Institutes.

2. A copy of the Order-in-Council, suspending, or disallowing these Regulations, and a copy of any Instructions issued by Government to Boards of Trustees on this subject.

3. The number of Pupils admitted to each High School and Collegiate Institute since the suspension of these Regulations, the name of the Schools and Institutes, and of the Examiner and the subjects on which the Candidates were examined, the extent of the Examination in these subjects, and the number of marks obtained by these Pupils.

4. Copies of any Reports to the Education Department, or to the Government in regard to the Examinations and Admissions from Inspectors, Trustees or other parties, and copies of any Correspondence, or Reports throwing light upon the operation of the Law since the date of the suspension of the Regulations on the subject

Mr. S. McCall-A Return stating the number of Scholars attending the Normal School for the purpose of qualifying as School Teachers for the years 1869, 1870, 1871, 1872 respectively. Also the largest number of Pupils the present Normal School is capable of accommodating throughout a Session thereof.

Mr. Cook-A Return of the number of First, Second and Third Class Certificates granted to School Teachers during the year eighteen hundred and seventy-two; also the number of Persons who have made application for Certificates and have been unable to obtain them during the same year.

Mr. M. S. McDonald-A Return for copies for all Orders-in-Council (if any) and Correspondence (if any), in reference to the establishment in Ontario, of any additional Normal Schools.

CHAPTER XXV.

ADDRESS TO THE CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION FROM THE OFFICERS OF THE DEPARTMENT AND NORMAL AND MODEL SCHOOLS, 24TH MARCH, 1873.

The Reverend Doctor Ryerson having attained the age of threescore years and ten yesterday, on the 24th of March, 1873, received Addresses of congratulation from the Officers of the Education Department, and of the Normal and Model Schools.

The

proceedings were of a private character, and were entirely unexpected by the Chief Superintendent. He has been in the public service since the year 1844.

ADDRESS FROM THE OFFICERS OF THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT.

To the Reverend Egerton Ryerson, D.D., LL.D., Chief Superintendent of Education for Ontario

REVEREND SIR,-The undersigned, who have had the honour of serving under you in the great work of devising, administering and endeavouring to perfect the details of our Provincial System of Education, some of us for many years, others for a shorter period, are desirous of availing ourselves of this happy occasion of the Seventieth anniversary of your birth, in order to express the feelings of high respect and warm affection with which you are regarded by us.

Your high character and your great public services to the Country have made the performance of our labours a matter of pride to ourselves as well as a pleasing duty. The equal temper, the courteous demeanour, and the impartial justice for which your Administration of the Department has been conspicuous, have always afforded encouragement to faithful exertion, and inspired confidence that, while there would be a little toleration for neglect of duty, there would be full appreciation of good service.

It is our earnest hope and prayer, Reverend Sir, that you may long be spared to direct the affairs of the Department in which so many years of your valuable life have been spent. It has been your privilege to devote a ripened and matured experience, and an extraordinary energy, to the work of fostering and promoting the intellectual wealth and the moral welfare of the youth of your native land. As you approach the evening of life you will enjoy the reflection that, by Divine permission, and with the ready co-operation of the people, you have been enabled to lay a solid foundation for the future development of mental culture and true civilization in a noble Province. Among the many who will always hold your name in honour, be assured, Reverend Sir, that none will be more devoted than ourselves, and we now beg that you will accept of our hearty wishes for your present and future happiness, and for many glad returns of the day.

ADDRESS FROM NORMAL AND MODEL SCHOOLS.

To the Reverend Egerton Ryerson, D.D., LL.D., Chief Superintendent of Education for the Province of Ontario.

REVEREND AND DEAR SIR,-It is with feeling of unfeigned pleasure that we, the Teaching Staff of the Normal and Model Schools for Ontario, embrace this opportunity to offer you our congratulations upon your having reached your Seventieth Birthday. We congratulate you on the fact that although you have for so many years laboured in the cause of Education, and striven to bring the Educational System of our Province to its present proud position, still the hand of time has dealt gently with you, and that to-day you stand before us, "with strength unabated," in the full vigour of a green old age, an example of what may be achieved by perseverence in the path of duty. We rejoice to think that your right hand has not forgotten "its cunning," but that, if needs be, you still are able, as of old, to wield "the pen of a ready writer."

The number of years during which we have acted under you as Chief Superintendent—most of us Graduates of the Normal School-varies with each of us; but we all rejoice to think that so auspicious an occasion has been presented to us for assuring you that, from the oldest to the youngest in our several positions, we entertain the most kindly appreciation of all your efforts to raise the status of our prefession generally, and of the many acts of kindness of which we may, from time to time, have been individually the recipients.

Once more, Reverend Sir, we tender you our heartiest congratulations, and beg that you will assure Mrs. Ryerson also that her joy is not unshared by us. That you may be spared for many years to preside over the educational interests of the Province, and to administer counsel to ourselves and our Successors, is the hearty desire of us all, for we feel confident that, so long as your hand guides the helm, the welfare of the Normal and Model Schools will never be neglected. But should you see fit to lay aside the cares of office, and enjoy the evening of your days in retirement from the anxieties of official life, we feel that in no case can the maxim be more truly applied than in yours,

The Addresses having been read, Doctor Ryerson made a verbal reply to the following effect:

MY CHRISTIAN FRIENDS OF THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT AND OF THE NORMAL AND MODEL SCHOOLS,-I am taken entirely by surprise; for among the last things that I had this day expected were the Addresses which you have just read. and I am entirely

*Deceased.

Not now connected with the Schools.

unprepared to address to you the grateful remarks which I might have made under other circumstances. The arrival to me of three score years and ten,-the highest period of existence which God has ordinarily granted to man,-has produced in my own mind feelings of deep solemnity, and has awakened thoughts similar to those of commencing a new state of existence. Among the most pleasing recollections of my past life are my official associations with you; in which associations I have never regarded you as Employés under me, but as Sons, and I may say of Daughters also, assisting me in a great and good work, and I can truly say that I have always endeavoured in the tone and character of my intercourse with you, to make you all feel as Members of one Family, in each of whose individual welfare I took parental interest. I have had no favourites; not one of you owes his, or her, position to any feelings of peculiar partiality on my part, but to your own virtues, qualifications and merits; and it is to me a source of unalloyed satisfaction that I have been enabled so to conduct myself towards you as to ensure your individual confidence, respect and good will. I derive also peculiar satisfaction from the reflection that, while I have required from every one of you a faithful discharge of your duties, I have had occasion in no single instance to administer reproof to any for impropriety, or neglect of duty. I cannot expect always to occupy my present position. I do not desire any release from labour, although I sometimes desire a change of labour. But whether I remain at my present post for a longer, or shorter, period, it will be my aim in the future, as it has been in the past, to do all in my power to promote your individual success, comfort and usefulness. I regret beyond what I am able to express that I have not been able to accomplish for you all to which I believe your services and merits have given you a just claim; but I can assure you it has not been for any want of effort on my part. I know that from this establishment, in its administration, and from its Normal and Model Schools, an influence has gone forth which is felt in the remotest parts of the Province; and I trust that the salutary influence of the past will be found only a faint emblem of that which will be witnessed in the future throughout the length and breadth of the land. I pray that the Divine protection may continue over our work and over us individually; and while I most sincerely thank you for your kind congratulations, I feel no one circumstance more consoling, with the sense of advancing years, than the conscientiousness that after so many years of official relations and united labour, I enjoy your individual respect and good will.

TORONTO, 24th March, 1873.

EGERTON RYERSON.

CHAPTER XXVI.

VALEDICTORY BY THE EDITOR OF THE CANADIAN FREEMAN TO THE CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION, 1873.

NOTE. During the man" years the Separate School Question was being a subject of discussion between the authorities of the Roman Catholic Church and the Chief Superintendent of Education, the Editor of the Canadian Freeman, an organ of that Church, took strong ground in favour of the Separate Schools and in opposition to the views of the Chief Superintendent of Education on the subject. On his retirement from the Editorial Chair of the Canadian Freeman, the Editor penned the following graceful valedictory, referring to the Chief Superintendent of Education:-

As we are about relinquishing our connection with the Canadian Freeman Newspaper, we would wish to part on friendly terms with all individuals of every Denomination with whom we have come in editorial contact, or whom, as in duty bound, we have

conscientiously differed from during our career as a journalist. We do not now, and never did, bear any malice against any person whatever, not even towards the proprietor of The Globe; but it is impossible for the Editor of a Newspaper, especially a Newspaper representing a minority, to pursue his course without coming into collision with those holding opposite views. Men in power are always, to the other side, intolerant. In this Country, at least, they represent, or are supposed to represent, the majority; those who dissent from their peculiar views must fight an uphill battle; the crowd is against them, as the Jews of old opposed Christ, and the upholders of the Roman Empire His followers. But the Church to which we have the happiness to belong teaches charity; it says "Love your enemies," on matters of conscience do not give away an inch, maintain your rights, even should those enemies insist that "We will have no king but Cæsar." Before relinquishing the editorial pen, therefore, we should like to say a few words on a Gentleman whom we have for years steadfastly opposed, and whose opinions on many, but especially educational, matters, we have strenuously combatted, and nevertheless have in a certain sense admired, and would, were he aught but Chief Superintendent of Education, hold in the highest esteem.

We maintain certain views on the subject of Education, we believe that when our Lord uttered His command, "Go, teach all nations" he intended that those words should be taken in their fullest sense. You cannot bring up a youth in a Protestant, or nonCatholic, School, and expect that youth to be a firm believer in the Catholic faith. History, Morals, Geography, everything is taught from a Protestant standpoint, and of course the result must be that the Boy on reaching manhood will view everything through Protestant spectacles. The wisest of men has stated that a child will go as he is trained up. The same effect, therefore, is produced in a Catholic School or in a Pagan School, as to Catholic, or Pagan, principles. The Church alone in Christian Countries teaches with an infallible voice. On matters of faith she cannot err, and is quite likely to be right on educational or other things. This is our belief, therefore we hold it as a sine qua non that a Catholic child, where possible, should be reared up and receive its training in faith and morals, and on all subjects of learning in a Catholic School, and under the supervision of the Priesthood. In this view we differ completely from our venerable Opponent, the Chief Superintendent of Education.

The Reverend Egerton Ryerson holds what the civilization of this age terms "liberal" views; he advocates the advancement of the masses, or educating every one, no matter what his position in society may be. The best part of an eventful life has been devoted by him to carry out his peculiar opinions on this subject. He is essentially a man of one idea, and he is a very determined, resolute and personally courageous person. It is individuals of his stamp who have made their mark in the world. As to politics he has really none, but in free thought, in educating the masses he does Delieve. From the various Educational Systems of constitutional England, despotic Prussia, republican America, Holland, Ireland and Scotland, with the assistance of his own powerful intellect, he has perfected a plan, according to non-Catholic ideas, an improvement on all of them, maintaining their best, rejecting their worst features. He has been assailed by various Denominations and classes of our citizens, by dissatisfied Freeholders, by childless Ratepayers, by representatives of Churches, by Grit and Conservative Newspapers, by politicians and by Administrations holding the most opposite views, and yet he has managed to stand his ground, and not only this but to enforce his educational opinions on the great majority of the people of this Province. At one time he is reported by a Tory Governor as "a dangerous man," and a certain Toronto journal has pursued him with fierce malignity for years, and all kinds of politicians have at different periods attacked him in the bitterest way, and yet Egerton Ryerson has triumphed, and is at this day, in spite of all opposition, the great and successful Vindicator of free, universal education. This is the man whom Governments do not care to interfere with, and who cannot be crushed; who, in spite of his seventy years, is still as fresh and vigorous as ever, and as ready, in defence of hi