The Gilchrist Trust of the University of London has lately offered annually a Scholarship of 100 pounds a year for three years, to lads from the West India colonies, the examinations for it to be held in Jamaica, Barbadoes, Trinidad, and Demerara; and in Trinidad itself two Exhibitions of 150 pounds a year each, tenable for three years, are attainable by lads of the Queen's Collegiate School, to help them toward their studies at a British University.
The Collegiate School received aid from the State to the amount of 3000 pounds per annum--less by the students' fees; and was open to all denominations.

But in it, again, the secular system would not work.

The great majority of Roman Catholic lads were educated at St.Mary's College, which received no State aid at all.

417 Catholic pupils at the former school, as against 111 at the latter, were--as Mr.Keenan says--'a poor expression of confidence or favour on the part of the colonists.' The Roman Catholic religion was the creed of the great majority of the islanders, and especially of the wealthier and better educated of the coloured families.

Justice seemed to demand that if State aid were given, it should be given to all creeds alike; and prudence certainly demanded that the respectable young men of Trinidad should not be arrayed in two alien camps, in which the differences of creed were intensified by those of race, and--in one camp at least--by a sense of something very like injustice on the part of a Protestant, and, it must always be remembered, originally conquering, Government.