Those who are attacking tbe educational system of the Colony ate loud in their pro testations that they have no wish to injure it, that they only Beck to improve it. These protestations, in some cases at all events, may be Bincere, for those who make them may be bo blinded by zeal for the " improvement " which they wish to make in the system, aB to be unable to foresee what must inevitably result if their action be successful. The friends of education, however, are not likely to be misled by Buch professions. A. few minutes' dispassionate consideration of the position will lead to the conclusion that if the demands of any section of the advocates of religious education be granted, disrup tion of our present system of education must enßue. Wete $he Scripture Text book introduced into the State schools, the claims of religious bodies which did not accept that book, for a grant of public money to enable them to teach what they wished their children to learn, could not in equity be resisted. Were a grant made to the schools of one denomination, it would be impossible to withhold State assistance from those of others, and applications for such assistance would pour in thick and fast ; for the churches which now have no schools, and are content to leave the secular education of their children in the hands of the State teacherß, would soon see that they were at a disadvantage compared with those which had the help of the State in propagating their doctrines— for, no matter whether the advocates of denominationalism admit it or not, that is what granting public money to denominational schools really meana. Therefore, the churches which now have no schools would be perfectly justified in establishing them, and in de manding State aid for their support. Some of thorn, undoubtedly, would do so. Giants could not, in justice, be refused them, and, in the course of probably not a very long time, the education vote, or a large parb of it, would be split up among the religious bodies, and our education system would be seriously, perhaps fatally, crippled. 