CHAPTER XIV.
Importance of Religion—The Lord’s Day—Habits of duly observing it nearly lost among many of the inhabitants of our Australian Colonies—Opposition to Improvement—Religious strife prevails where religious union is needed—Sir R. Bourke’s novel system of religious Establishments—Its practical working—Efforts of the Church coldly seconded or else opposed, by Government—Petty Persecutions—Similar opposition to National Religious Education as to National Church—Blunders respecting the Irish System of Education in 1836—Attempt in 1840 to banish the Creed and Catechism from Protestant Schools having Government support—Schools of a higher rank in New South Wales—King’s School, Paramatta—Sydney College—The Australian College—The Normal Institution—Proposed College at Liverpool—Other Schools—Population of New South Wales in 1841—Emigration—Conclusion.
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| Map of Australia | [Frontispiece] |
| Reduced Map of Van Diemen’s Land | [1] |
| Travellers in the Bush | [8] |
| Explorers finding the Bed of a dried-up River | [42] |
| Opossum Hunting | [97] |
| Natives of the Murray Islands in Boats | [120] |
| Sydney in its Infancy—View from the South | [186] |
| North View of Sydney | [243] |
| Hobart Town | [266] |
| Cape Pillar, near the Entrance of the Derwent, Van Diemen’s Land | [286] |
| Conveying Cattle over the Murray, near Lake Alexandria | [325] |
van diemen’s land.