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: . Ta EBRO CAN Shareholders In are respectful l y re minded that 11. 1h. ,1 , SATION COMPANY.„n e J. The I S econd Instalment of 41, . ' Mft is now in, course of payment, 130 .lect to a d e d uc ti on o f S i x 'M out h s ' I n t e rest, 'at the rate of 4 per Coif rest 1.1 - Per Annnum, u oon ith e origiftal deposit t 44. per share. Inte be charged on any payments in arreir after 31statarch next. NV By order ot the Directors. '','!‘:- ,4 9: ..; .`,' C. STEWART, Secretary. 4, Adarn's Court, Old Broad-stied, 28th Feb , 1853.. 0, - "' LONDON SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY-. , Conductor, Mr. SURMAN, Founder, and 2 0 years conductor of th e Exeter-Hall Oratorios. TO-MORROW ETZNING, Haydn's i E ATIOX, preceded by the Cantata :on the Birth-day of her Vesty Queen Vi c t or i a , compose d a nd conducted by Dr. J. G. Eivey. Ti ° Solo Parts will be sung by the Principal Vocalists—Mrs. Sunder- Miss Clara Henderson, Mr. Leckey, Mr. H. Phillips, fcc. .The hand and Chorus will consist of POO Performers. Tickets—Area, ; iteservet; Seats, area or gallery, 55.; Central Reserved Seats, "inhered, 10s. 6d.--to be obtained of the Principal Musicsellers, at the only office of the Society, No. 9, Exeter-Hall. Correct Books O f the Words, with 16 pages f the " Creation," 6d each. MANAGING DIRECTORS. J. Leander Starr and Charles Bennett, Esqrs. MEDICAL EXAMINERS. J. Elliotson, M.D., F.R S., 37, Conduit-street. X. S. Byrnes, M.D., 77, Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square. ACTUART. W. S. 13. Woolhoase, Esq., F.R.A.S., F.S.S., BANKERS. Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street. „,• i nsurances granted on lives, Joint-lives, survivorships, &c., imme '''at and deferred annuities, &c. Prospectuses obtained at the Company's office, 26, Cornhill, and agents. IMIE INDISPUTABLE LIFE POLICY COMPANY, No. 72, Lombard-street, and 24, Connaught-terrace. TRUSTEES. J[ Itleh rd C$ a Spooner, Esq., M.P. I Richard Manly, Esq., Q.C., M.P. mpbell Renton, Esq., M.P. I James Fuller Maddox, ] sq. . . William Wilberforce, Esq. T he POLICIES are INDISPUTABLE, in terms of the Deed of Set tlement s. of the Company, duly registered, and are thus ren dered C ERTAIN FAMILY PROVISIONS, and NEGOTIABLE DOCU 'sEIkI.TS of SECURITY. ft This Company has introduced, as more peculiarly applicable to ,72 Middle and Industrious SU Classes a plan of SELF-PROTEGTING RANCE, whereby in one Policy for one rate of Premium are ri bined an Insurance of a Sum payable either at death or on R ;wi ning a specified age, and a pension or annuity afte r that a g e ; a giving the lull benefit of all Premiums that have been paid, altt waih the payments should at any time be discontinued. ALEX. ROBERTSON, Manager. NEW FEATURE IN LIFE ASSURANCE. THE DEPOSIT and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 18, New Bridge-street, Bleckfliars, London. CAPITAL—ONI HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS. Chtfr,,, DIRECTORS. 11 —The Right Hon. the Viscount Dru mianrig, ''" r.c., it . l.MPtroller of her Majesty's Household. Q . 8-11ovrley Barnes, Esq., 11, Clty-road, Finsbury. Noel Clarke, Esq., late 17th Lancers, Junior United Service Club. / c i r le Coode, Esq., Portland-terrace, Wandswor th, and Belvoi r, St. Ste ' ue r's, Jersey, 112ewheit Cracknall, Esq., 1, St. John' s-gar d en s, Notting-hill, and 11, W, g, 'square, Lincoln's-inn. Lei4eB M • D Davies-street, Berkeley - square , and Luttemorth, El"tershire. L,At Icnox, Esq ., 15, Connaught-square, Hyde-park, and Tor Alex a L e. titailordshire. baThr e ,er Maclean, Esq„ Harrow-on-the-Hill. Will„ - • Poole, Esq., 32, Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square. " Prlusep Esq. 147, Leadenhall-street, and 8, Hyde-park , ace Dr Andrew Riddell, Esq., Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law. 1/ 4 ?ealilan, 21, Upper Seymour-street West, Connaught-square. ~. SPerllng, 14, St. James's-square. F. J. n AUDITORY. , Eaq„ 126, Strand, Actuary and Secretary to the Medical, Legal, and General Life Office. William Jones, Esq., Accountant, 3, Guildhall-chambers. A. Peck, Esq., 8.A., Actuary to the Engineers and Mason'c Life Office, 345, Strand. BANKERS. Sir Charles Price, Marryat, and Co., 3, Xing William-street, London. Messrs. ilopkinson and Co., 3, Regent-street. PHYSICIANS. Dr. Lewis, Finsbu r y - P lace. lir. Scanlan, 21, Upper Seymour-street West, Connaught-square. SURGEONS. T. Chapman, Esq., 16, Lower Seymour-street, Port an-square. •Atlchael Tee Van, Esq., 44, Gloucester -place, Hydepark-gardens. CONSULTING ACTUARY. Francis G. I'. Nelson, E=q•, F.L.S. INSPECTOR OF AGENCIES. F. P. F. Strousberg, Esq. STANDING COUNSEL. William Wellington Cooper, Esq., New square, Lincoln's-inn• SOLICITORS. Messrs. Mill and Mathews St. Mary-axe. RESIDENT SECRETARY. Charles W. Bevan, Esq. 11 Public Is respectfully invited to examine the principles of the ,_ePosit System of Assurance, which is based upon tables calculated and Is under the immediate supervision of, Francis G. P. Nelson, F ~oF.L S., the Consulting Actuary to the Company. twenty Tables to assure 5001 on death, by a person aged of,Al:lst birthday, on the ORDINARY and on the DEPOSIT system 0 cure the follow- nruh n —lnParison of these two tables it will be seen that a person leg r tlie novel stem of DEPOSIT assu ; 47 alitges, pis., Ist. For a less sum, paid_ annually, he can assure 2e o , l• Xer sum in case of death than under the ordinary system. i li ' L Y. In the event qf a desire tosurrender his Policy he ta can al r l ec a e g i e v a, e this company. by the above example, which applies system. 3rdly. In the event o FraZ times as much as on the ordinary of tl 'liability or omission to pay, his policy remains still his property, th e l a same value as it was, though he cease hlscurrent pa h y a me g i a its o system, bettlY number of years ; whereas on the ordinary tu t n g• athly He can at any time, . Should he require to increase or decrease the . I), ount of his policy, he can do so at pleasure. wh, g , lv lng a fortnight's notice, withdraw any part 1,.."`e arnount of his previous payments and with . ,e 4 Withdrawn part one year he can, by a single interest. frent lt up f t t e e r t h h he i ts „ e . or any time afterwards. raise his policy p greaterayinenot,r threeeven 111. 1 _ Mier amount ; and by this system he can at all times regulate b,;annual savings by his annual expenditure, with the facility in the 1 1 , gain of having a fund to fly to in case of necessity, the same as 4 bank with /•,,, t fur . this palpable advantage, however, family receive more than the his money, and in case of death his that he gets lnte such amount of his savings, In ordinary Life Offices be can do no he th ing, but his policy at once lapses or is cancelled the moment teuedeases to pay his current premiums, and, Instead of havinany* th e t ° XY to for aid, all his hartbearned savings become forfeited to rsociety, and his misfortunes serve to benefit the pockets of his '.04 fortunate co-assurers. ati,l , nn a sYstein iis too equitable and too striking to be ovehrloaonke. tel tiniv er ogre assurance is the only system of assurance whic i c a p r. th1.11: r8all Y recognized and adopted when the principles are mp _ co,d_a_anvassed, and its palpable benefits become widely difies ir ed It Of interest advantages than a bank because it allows afa ;ate ,h er , , er .!tt in case of withdrawal, and gives twice the amount in th_ in e ase '' of the Company to the representatives of the Depositor 1 _of death, thus combining the 41:11,ANT . r AGES OF A RANK WITII THE BENEFITS OF AN ASSURANCE COMPANY. In e Sygt e „ . aref endowment assurances t h e a d van t ages o f th e DEPOSIT System Al) til l more strikin g . D'v „.,„ —4. .. AGES OF THIS COMPANY UNDER TBE ORDINARY r, To BI N . LIFE ASSURANCE BRANCH. -.oooz -- a Who prefer this branch Policies are granted from 201. to Li„," %even' known principle thereof. rek et n, . all but the worst stages of disease, and such as have been etth ir • 2 , 0' other Offices, are taken at rates equivalent to the part!- tusease ru Perm • re al ~,_ hoi. and upwards granted on every kind of security, Ail'etuonal, on the most equitable terms to the borrower 140,,, t . w as of every description granted on very favourable terms. pee,etu orfeiture of a Pol cy —ln case of inability to pay the currant niark et Ts, the Directors will eitner purchase the Policy at a fair rest eo ' al ne. or give a new one in lieu thereof, less 5 per cent., inte h, rr,su rs , W ala I,a„ -- .,,g in amount to the whole of the previous payments ~ bet a ii"' "awl made. P o filt ed Prospectuswith tables in further illustration of the De w, ayst, •es " 1 1 to th e and any further information may be obtained on appii. Agents in the country, or ti CHARLES W. BEVAN, Resident Secretary. IT ' s •' — dents wanted lu all parti of the World. Ob• . No. 18,857.] fur be c onsulted , personally, or by it,.. V IL the various disorders of the nervous and generative system, resulting from juvenile irregularities and excesses, which have pro duced more misery in youth, degradation in manhood, and prema ture decay at all stages of life, than perhaps any other class of dis eases known to modern pathologists. Long and practical experience in the treatment of these diseases has proved that there are in exist ence secret causes of self -acquired miseries and disappointed hopes in existence, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which Nervous Debility, various forms of Insanity, Unhappy and Unfruitful Marri ages, Impotency, Local and Constitutional Weakness,. and their endless modifications owe their almost entire origin. It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are principles of personal management which cannot be violated without incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be remove% and how the evil and its cortißquences may be avoided, aid above all, that there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional derang ement to which the timely aid of scie n ce c annot apply a cure. DOCTOR LA'MERT has for a long series of years been engaged in an extensive practice in the treatment of these delicate com plaints, and is the only legally qualified Physician who, regardless of the taunts and envy of the hypocritical and mock-modest, has had the confidence, through the medium of the public press, to direct attention to these enormous evils,' from which no grade of society is tree. In selectieg Mi. , department of practice, he has been amply rev arded by the great success that has attended his efforts in the treatment of these cases, which are too generally confided to the care of unqualified aid ignorant empiries, who, with their pirated publications, assumed foreign names and titles, and pretended virtues of their patent nostrums, have inflicted serious injury on those who have been induced to place faith in their pretensions. At home fur consultation daily from Eleven till Two, and from Six till Eight. All letters mast contain the fee of ii., and advice and medicines can be forwarded to any initials or address. It is desirable that patients wishing to consult Dr. LA'MERT should first obtain a copy of his work on SE LF-PRESERVATION.' A Medical Treatise on the Philosophy of Marriage, and Nervous and Generative Debility, illustrated by fifty coloured engravings, and des cribing in detail the various disorders resulting from secret habits and excesses. The perusal of this treatise will assist in the correct description of their cases, and may be had, price 2s 6d, in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, or German, of Messrs. Piper Brothers and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Stogie, Titchborne-street, Haymarket; or free oy post for forty-two stamps, to any address from the Author's resi dence, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARA LONDON. IMPORTANT MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WORKS, Just published, by H. BaiMere, 219, Regent-street, Londum. No I. Bvo., in cloth, price ss. by post free, ss. 6d., ON TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA, with the View; o the Correction of wide-spread Errors ,n relation to the Treatmeat and Cure of Sufferers from Debility of the lenerattre System, -A' Sexual Hypochondrlasis. Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD "Dr. Pickford 's known to English readers by his frequent prime al contributions to German medical literature. This is the first ime, he informs us, that he has addressed himself to the noa-medl - reader. We trust this may not be the last, If he shall :etect u.ny other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his ..ower to correct."—London Medical Gazette, May 30, 1851. "We bronnscd in a former number that we should recur to this w ,r"A. iu order to exhibit its aim more clearly. The author lashes with great severity the impostors who make a livelihood by preying on the credulity of the public. The tribe of • Quiet Symathisers,' and • Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed ; and if this book could Mid its way into the bands of those who suffer from tit com plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many h mdreds would be raved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of less importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— much m0ney...... This volume is well qualified to put an end to the empirical system of treating Spermatorrhcea, and to place the treat ment upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore, likely to do much good."—Medical Circular, June 16, 1852. No. 11. evo., in cloth, price 3s. 6d., by post free, 45., THE CURE OF STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA, on Princi ples at once Simple, Safe, and Efficient, in even its most Inveterate apparently Intractable Forms, BY F. B. COURTENAY, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. • "In proof of his views he (Mr. Courtenay) has given he history of a great many cases successfully treated, as had as any which Mr. Syme adduced, and on which he had operated. such are cases ix., xi., xii., and xviii. No. ix. had resisted, for a period of twelve years, the treatment by dilitation, and was finally removed in as many weeks. But cases xviii. and xix. appear, both In duration, severity, and complication of symptoms, of a more ag gravated character than any detailed by Mr. Syme, and yet tha treatment adopted by Mr. Conrtenay proved eminently saccessitl." _Professor Lisars on the Treatment of Stricture. 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Lord ERSKINE, Chairman. - .. 411111 a -:, ' iletlicat . i -•,' ' SUPPERS, 6, _BALL And WED , 14 an5 advanced, in sums of 101. and upwards , grante d on a j oint DING BREAKFASTS provided in Towner Country, by promissory note, repayable by easy Instalments, or on the deposit Messrs. PURSsELL'S, Conlin!, including wines, and the hire of of deeds or other available securities. plate. linen, china, seats, tables, servants, carriages tents, awnings, • Bills of exchange cashed at moderate rates of interest. dancing hollands. &c. Ball-rooms lighted and adorned. Instru- ? er r of application may be obtained at the Offices , or on forward- mental MUSIC provided, Bills of fare sent per post for any number. in gl2 postage stamps. WM.. BROOKS, Secretiry. or one of the firm will wait upon parties if required. A magnifl- s- cont display of Bride Cakes for selection, decorated in a new and NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR- elegant style. All the Parisian novelties in W edding Stationery.— Messrs. PURSSELL, 78, Cornball (only). ANC]; COMPANY, 26, CORNHILL. • Capital £500,000. MEDICAL ADVICE ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF cOURT of. DIETCTORS. YOUTH AND MATURITY. 4. Campbell Barclay, Esq. I Thomas Nicoll, Esq. 4- Charles Bennett, Esq. E. S. Symes, M D. DR. SAMUEL LIIEERT, 117, BEDFORD-SQUIRE, LONDON, l ingk Croft, Esq. J. Leander Starr, Esq. Doctor of Medicine, and Matricolated Member of the University of John Elliotson, M.D., I.R.S. Clement Tabor, Esq. . 'On Moss, Esq. Joseph Thompsoa. Esq. Edinburgh, Honorary Memb er of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, See., Ecc. • ~. . IT ,_ --,1+,.,1 yulr sonallv. or by letter, on ON THE ORDINARY' SYSTEM. The sum the ordinary The sum the 'Life Offices would give ordinary Life him if he erew unable Offices would Itoay, or if hot una b l e At the His give him for pay his current end of policy the surrender annual premium of tt at Annual thirty at that or sale SI. Cs. 3d. after he has rerniurn yearsathen age, of his policy, paid into their coffers 0 assure the party in case after thirty 249/.75.6d., and which •" 500 i. is fifty of years'payments they have had the use 1 1 . years old, death amounting to of at compounl n hewill have will be 2491 . 75: 6 d. interest, or i paid into worth which theyhave the event of his death the office. had the benefit one hour after such of at compound omission or inability interest. to pay. le little more ("`• pa. 3d„ 2491. Ts.6d. 5001. than 801. NoTHING. perhaps 901. ON THE DEPOSIT SYSTEM. Ifun able to pay: or not desirous of paying or omitting topay,thePo licy would still remain of its FULL value, 5221.25.7d.ti1l death, if 20 years after, no fur ther payment beingre quired. Ifhowever the party, from any cause, wished to cancel the Policy, he could not onlydraw out all hehas 2Gput in, viz., 2251., but 103 Od 2251 . 522/.257d 2871. 28. 9d. a cain bonus of 62/. 2s. ert 9d. in the bargain, which is more than one-fourth of the whole of his payments, or he could either draw out a part, 201. or 501.,, diminishing the Policy only by the assured value of the sum se drawn out at the age when withdrawn. See pagess and7in detailed pamphlet, by F. G. P. Nelson, E . ... ' ~ . ,/- ..„.. , /.."'"- ;1- 4'..' • 4::) ' , :i . • . .y , . ' . ...... . . i .,, ,, I li , ...-- 7."/ ;.‘;'' ''', -• ' ' '' ' c 1 .. 0r . i F.:7. ---.•:, ,1" T , k T . t . -- . l ‘ 17,,,- , :y r T . . 4 r . r, r-,7 r, / . ''," I , ' :.0' 1 !' r T ... • /--- X "l 4e -('''7 , 0 0.0 f...# i r L .A- , ,-.' t`: '.. .. .. ._, I , i.. , r .., „ i ... 1 .:.... fl. 1.. u ... ~. i: . : . , 2 :, , ~ ~ , . : 1'179 • - 'i. -'l;'..N ' ~... „-- -..... • - ' ••- •• r .'' . ' l, - •••''' '''..: • ' ~•:.':. 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Would he have taken from the large share distributing rio belonging it to the dimcashenoftinEg bodies ngland wi of t t h ha t t he eo v un iew try of If he had done lie he would have met with as much opposi tion frdm the meitibers of the Church of England as they new make • and if he had proposed to 'take the fraction of a shilling he would have been asked by the right reverend w prelate, in the words which he used the other night, whether he dared to commit the sacrilege of taking one farthing of those funds. (Hear, hear.) The noble earl of said that the provinces Canada were not entitled to deal with those funds. Now, it was perfectly clear, from the wording of the act, that it was the intention of the Legis lature to allow the Parliament of Canada to exercise large powers, not only with re spect to the future distribution, but the futu re existence of the funds,.hecause it was pro vided th a t th e prov i s i on s h oul d b e var i e d or repealed by any act of the , local Parliament. It is quite clear that, er ht if i; the passin g in e c g m. f ol ao ile oa f t P t °b o o r ae ia ex n te i r e oc a f t .el h 7 a d t,hla i , t n t t e bpoy f w e r ew e dr: immedia tely n e a t foa llti •plete power over th e l arge= t portion of the funds, which, y passed out of their hands. (Hear, hear.) The noble earl, on the direct question of colonial policy, said it would be much better to abolish altogether the power of the enable main the object Colonial of the see existence retari of that of Engl a nd t o nega ti ve Crown to negative ac t s o f th e colonial Parliament, than to retain that power, if compelled to use it on p r i nc iples which may be adverse tour own. B u t h e f orge t s th a t the power is not to acts concerning domestic affairs which may be passed by colonial assemblies, but to decide whether those acts do or. do not affect imperial interests —whether they are or are not strictly confined to the internal affairs of the colony. (Hear.) When the present Government came into power they might have maintained intact the existing sy s t em 'without any alteration, or they might have abandoned the clergy reserves to the power of the colonial Assembly, leaving them to be dealt with as a question of purely internal concern. When Sir John Pakington penned his dispatch, did he consider the state of our Canadian poses- f, sions ? During the last ten' ears the population of Upper Canada has advanced at the rate of something like 10,000 a year, or about 101 per tent. The Earl of DERBY—It has doubled within the last 'ten years. The Duke of ARGYLL—Was it possible for the Im perial Government to have taken on itself the task of redis tributing from _time to time these funds in their proper - It was impossible to hive carried out such a plan with portions among the different religious bodies of "%nada? satisfaction to the country. You must take one course or the other. You must maintain absolutely the existing system, or else you must give over to Canada, as a question of purely internal concern, the distribution of those funds according to the changes in the population. The noble earl has intimated that in the divisions which took place, and which ended by giving a considerable majority in favour of giving the Canadian Legislature further powers over the clergy reserves, only a small portion of it consisted of the members of Upper Canada. But the members from Lower Canada representing the Roman Catholic interest would be more disposed to treat with hostility the Protes tant endowments in the Western Province. Now, I beg to direct the attention of the noble earl to the memorial of the Bishop of Quebec, whom I think the noble earl will acknowledge to be an authority on this point. At the end of that memorial the Bishop of Quebec states, that " the members generally frgm Canada East are understood to have regarded the question as one proper to Canada West, on account of the greater stake there existing, and the far larger proportion of Protestant inhabitants:" So that the majority of the members from Lower Canada are stated by the Bishop of Quebec—a great Protestant authority—to have voted, not as against the interests of the Protestant clergy, but solely because they thought this a matter more particularly affecting the people of the Western Province ; and if this statement of the Bishop of Quebec be true with respect to the motives which influenced the members from Lower Canada, and that a change of opinion took plass in the representative body of Upper Canada, the members from Lower Canada would support that majority, and not interfere to disturb the Protestants (-1 Upper Canada in the endowments they possess. lam confirmed in the im pression of the Bishop of Quebec by a portion of the noble earl's speech. It is perfectly true that a large part of the property, as it is called, or the endow ments of the Roman Catholic Church in Lower Canada, will be as accessible to the United Parliament of Canada as the reserves of the exclusively Protestant clergy. But ob serve the effect. There will be a great anxiety on the part of the Roman Catholic members to oppose what the noble earl calls the secularisation of those reserves, feeling thatthe result may follow that, if the Protestant reserves are secu larised, there possibly may be a great desire to put upon an altered footing the Roman Catholic Church in Lower Ca nada ; and therefore I maintain, if it is the opinion of the Protestant majority of Upp er anacla that those clergy re serves shall be preserved intact, and on their present foot ing, or re-distributed in certain other proportions, but still confined to purely religious instruction, it is extremely probable that, influenced by those motives, they will be supported in their resistance to the secularisation scheme by the Roman Catholic representatives of the Lower Pro vince. The noble earl, in the commencement of his speech, said this was not a measure which he should have expected from certain members of this house: It is true that the present Government does contain members of the Church of England, and at least one member of the Church of Scotland, who are all sincerely attached to the religious bodies to which they belong ; but it is no shame to us, as public men, that in connection, and with a g r ea t ques tion of imperial policy, we should feel it is not our duty to act in this matter as Churchmen only, but rather as statesmen intrusted with the great responsibility of advising the Crown on the principles on which the connection between this country and Canada shallbeLreaintained. I have no hesitation in saying f a_mem — her Chu:Mr - of fteot land, that be the interests of the Church of Scotland what they may, they must be represented, and represented only, by its own representatives in the provinces of Canada ; and it is not my duty, as a public man, merely because I happen to be a member of that Church, to act upon my own opinion as to what its interests may be in the internal affairs of Canada; but, on the contrary, it is nay clearest duty to agree in the measure proposed by the Government, being convinced as I am, that not only with regard to Canada, but with respect to all the colonies, the principle on which we must proceed in future is simply this, that in all matters of purely internal concern—the more if they are questions which rouse religious feelings and animosities in this coun try—in all these questions, be they what they may, of in ternal concern, we should allow the colonial legislature to deal as they think fit, and that the power of the Crown, as the noble earl suggests, should not be recklessly thrown away on our colonial empire, but that it should be main tained solely with the view of enabling us to judge in re gard to each particular act, and simply whether or not those acts do concern local interests, or are matters of im perial concern. (Cheers.) The Earl of DESART said, it was shown, in a dispatch which would be laid that - night on the table of the other house, but which was not sent to the colony owing to the change of the Government, that his right hon. friend (Sir J. Pakington) fully acknowledged the justice and propriety of that principle of constitutional government which gave to a colonial legislature the exclusive power of dealing with its own local affairs ; but his right hon. friend said in this case there was an exception, because it appeared there was an intention of taking funds which he considered the legis lature was bound in good faith to maintain in favour of certain vested interests. There was a very serious opinion prevailing in this country, that, in opposing the wishes of the legislature of Canada, we opposed the unanimous wishes of the Canadians. He (Lord Desart) did not think that was so. On the contrary, excluding Lower Canada, which he maintained he had a right to do, seeing that though there was a small portion of the reserves in Lower Canada, the Roman Catholics were in such a large majority, some thing like 750,000 to 50,000 members of the Church of England, it was quite impossible that their members could represent anything but the Roman Catholic religion, which was embodied there in a richly-endowed church and a well educated priesthood. But in Upper Canada how stood the fact? He had not had an opportunity of analysing the figures, but he could state, on the authority of Archdeacon Bethune, that in the Assembly of Upper Canada there was only one majority in favour of the abrogation of the settle ment of 1840. He (the Earl of Dosart) would say, in con clusion' that he thought this was a question in which the British Government were bound by considerations of good faith to protect and guarantee a settlement made by them, on the suggestion of the Canadians themselves, and not only made, but accepted by the Canadians themselves as a final settlement. . [PRICE SD. not deceive yourselves by supposing that the object of these parties is a better distribution of the revenues for the pur poses for which they were originally intended--the main tenance of the Protestant clergy, the support of the Pro testant religion, or the support of any religion whateirer. The object—the avowed object—of a large portion of those who are proposing to deal with the question is the secula risation of those revenues, and their application to other than religious purvoses. I know it will be said with regard to measures of this kind, that if such an attempt were made the right of the Crown still remains, and the Secre- tart' of State might interpose the royal veto upon such an act. I hardly think the noble duke the Secretary for the Colonial Department will rely upon that argument ; be cause the argument of the present Government is, that with regard to these affairs the colonial legislature is the best and the only judge. And to give the colonial legisla ture the power of dealing with these revenues, and then to controul them in so dealing, in granting a boon which, if you would maintain your position, would be a mockery, and which an attempt to maintain must lead to indescrib able discord and confusion. (Hear, hear, hear.) Grant :that the local legislature have the power f dealing with ,these clergy reserves, I will defy you not to follow up this principle, and say that the mode in which they deal with them is a piestion as exclusively within the right of the colonial legislature as the right of dealing with them at all, and that from the moment you sacrifice any authority or control which the Crown and the Parliament possess you give up the rights and property which the Crown and Parliament have guaranteed, and are bound to maintain, and you practically constitute an independent country. (Hear.) I speak with a full sense of the gravity of the alternative when I say that if in truth it be the desire of the people of Canada that they should exercise a wholly in dependent power of legislation—that they should in no re spect be checked by the authority of the Crown or by the interposition of Parliament—l say far better admit that principle frankly, and at once reli e ve th e Muter of thG • British Crown from a nominal an d often vttr.Y,PAinful;Mr.' sponsibility—declare o p en ly th a t over - the legislation of Canada Parliament exercises no influence, and refuse to go through the farce, as it will then be, of advising the Crown by a responsible minister to assent to, or withhold its assent from, any specific measure that may be passed. Admit the independence of Canada, and if the colony be still con nected by the tie of the Crown with this country, in that case let it be distinctly understood that the Crown acts upon the advice, not of the Imperial, but of the c o l on i a l legislature, and that you, stand towards Canada in the same relation as you stand to Hanover. Ido not say that such an arrangement would not give me much cause of regret, but it would be far preferable to that doubtful position in which you at present stand, affecting to exer cise a control which you dare not exercise, and responsible, or nominally responsible, for the approval of measures which—whether you approve or whether you do not ap prove—whether they be in violation of a plighted faith, in violation of the guarantee of the Crown, in violation of the rights of property—you equally hold yourselves bound to assent, on the general and broad principal that the colo nists are the best judges of their own affairs ; and that that which the Legislature of the colony has acceded to, the Crown is not justified in forbidding in this country. (Hear, hear.) In a pecuniary point of view, no doubt the advan tages of such a separation would be very great. With regard to the friendly relations which may still be con tinued, I do not despair but that those relations might be maintained and upheld, and perhaps even improved, by the absence of a nominal control ; and if the province de sires to place itself in that position, I, for one, would not be the person to withhold the assent of Parliament. But as long as the province remains a province —so long as the Minister of the Crown is charged with the vindication of the rights of British subjects —so long as Parliament re serves any portion of colonial legislation in its own hand, and maintains the rights of British subjects guaranteed by that legislature —so long, whatever might be the hazard, I would not be a party to assent to the sacrifice of those rights, or to allow any interposition with regard to the rights of property which I would net sanction in this coun try—which I would not sanction with regard to the rights of the Church of Scotland—which I would not sanction with regard to the rights of the Church of Ireland—which I would not sanction with regard to the rights of any por tion of the community whose rights and whose property were guaranteed to them under the faith of the Crown by an authority competent to guarantee them. (Hear.) Do not flatter yourselves, my lords, that if you pass this bill you will by so doing avoid future controversy and future religious discord. You will more probably perpetuate, and aggravate, and embitter it. First of all, when the colo nial legislature should be enabled and empowered to deal with these clergy reserves, arises the bitter strife between all the contending parties who seek to appropriate these reserves each to their own body, and between that larger body still which seeks to deprive them of all, and to secularise the whole amount of these revenues. Remem ber that this is a question which mainly applies to the province of Upper Canada. But in Lower Canada there are very large endowments in land ; there is a very large property '• • there are very l arge com pulsory payments i n a id of the Roman Catholic clergy. These rights rest on a footing not a whit more strong than the clergy reserves. (Hear, hear.) The two noble dukes opp os it e (th e Dukes ofNewcastle and Argyll) cheer that observation—do they foresee, do they believe it possible that with the sanction of the Goverment principle of secularisation once intraticed, the Protestants of Upper Canada and the Protestant minority of Lower Canada would be satisfied with the assertion of that prin ciple that there shall be no dominant Church as relates to the Protestant body—that all territorial and other revenues appropriated to the purposesof the Protestant clergy should be secularised and converted to other purposes . And do they believe that that same body of men, with that sanc tion on the part of the Legislature and the Government, will tamely submit to the continued endowment of the Roman Catholic Church with such enormous revenues, as the only endowed church, after the British Parliament shall have sanctioned the confiscation of the onlyprovision which our ancestors have made for the conservation of Pro testant worship in the Protestant portion of the colony ! From that moment arises a bitter feud for the alienation and confiscation of the provision made for the Roman Catholic Church in Lower Canada —from that moment all the differ ences of race and creed are brought into immediateand hos tile conflict. At the present moment the superintending and controlling authority of Parliament keeps all these ele ments in check; but the instant you sanction this new prin ciple the differences of religion and race again rise, and you aggravate, embitter, and perpetuate those differences and dissensions whi c h, for so long a time, were the bone and curse of Canada, and the obliteration of which, by one great act of justice, was the object of the union of the pro vinces in 1840. (Hear.) Do not flatter yourselves that by a dereliction of principle you escape from the difficulties of asserting the jurisdiction and supremacy of the Crown. Do not think you will introduce peace into the province. You will introduce perpetual and increased discord, and when you have made thisgreat concession you will find yourselves, step by step, involved in difficulties in which,in vindication of the rights of property, of the Crown, and of your fellow subjects, you are unable to i n t er f ere, an d one after another you will be compelled to give the unwilling—l had almost said the degrading—sanction of the British Legislature to objects and purposes of which the Legislature, perhaps, cannot approve. If I refer to this subject strongly it is because I feel that the honour and dignity of the Crown is endangered by the bill. I know there may be risk from the firm but temperate maintenance of the right of the Crown; but whatever risk there may be, none can be so great to a British statesman as that of abandoning, for the purpose of expediency, the claim of principle and of justice, and the rights of property. (Hear.) And as while I had the honour of holding office under the Crown, not unaware of all the temptations t o h o ld a di fferent course, I was prepared to risk the existenc e o f th e Ad ministration upon the mainte nance of the rights o f property, and so in my pl ace as a peer in Parliament I cannot refrain from entering my protest against Parliament being induced to do that which, as a Minister of the Crown, I never would consent to do. The noble earl concluded by laying the petitions on the table. The Duke of ARGYLL--My lords, it is true that in the course of 1851 a deputation came over from Canada, representing the' interests of the Established Church in Scotland, and placed in my hands certain petitions against a bill at that time in preparation by the noble earl then at the head of the Colonial-office—a bill similar to that which has recently been introduced in the other house of Parlia- - The Bishop of EXETER, said the noble duke (the Duke that he had said on a farmer night in reference to this question. It was flattering to him to be quoted by the noble duke; but he ventured to hope that the next time a d t to the applied subjects bj observations eno tgouf such hhwe h errid.h as a h h d ad uke do d n i e d him him th th e ehohnoonurourto of re f s e t r at t• i a ng som hi e s th ( :he i o s f nthote nrse-idsftorii.brue..taisiontiofbutht e io s , e r n e- i Bishop of Exeter's) opinions he would do so correctly, and not incorrectly. (A laugh.) If any of their lordships had t o h f e Ar n gy ob i l l e ) addressed to them on a former occasion on this subject, their Royal Mistress that she ought to aeq done him th tre e is h cho o pu n e o ac ur rtlita t: mae a tn t h te t: n willh d serves. What he said was this—" Will your lordships, t wil c h r l y l w t w n h , e oul te ß u ri d which is for confiscation ?" It was upon the ' ‘ e ' sce sac i rii n e a g m e" eas in ure sPe w aki hi n eh g point - not be fiscation that he said th e sacr il ege would be ' c of conurred. He said if property was once given t o Almighty in God it cou ld recalled again from the sacred had been given witho u t sacrile purposes for w hi c h it ge. It was to the seculari sation of those reserves that he • that he applied them still , applied those words, a nd to The Duke of ARGYLL be gged reverend prelate if he had to apologise to the right the occasion to which h .misrepresented what he said on A rg yll' s ) impression had e had referred. His (the Duke of late had used the term , been , that the right reveren h t h Pr k a; (the Duke of Argyll) had stated ; s•c.ege" in the sense w The Bishop of OXFORD said he felt called upon *.° r v° utterance to th • • • o d upon the e Opinions which he entertain subject under their lordships' consideration. He had the many years taken a very deep interest in the'welfare o f 1/ 1 colonial Church, and had long b e en on terms of personal ilnterco rho intercourse with the right rev. prelates at resent a t _ head of the Church in Canada, and it was with no sma ll regret that he felt compelled, by a. s t. n _r e ci t f h j e u m s t h 0 , r everse to a conclusion upon the question vewr elates had arrived. The of that at which those right ievo.dpr him to the c onclusion to first consideration which had 1 the case of the Parliament which he had come was, thatooinnfwooti on of the clergy re of Canada requiring, not a Imperial Parliament to give serves, but calling upon th e. Iluy., with them themselves, he power of dealing he to them the of jus tice, in whose way,thought , perceived a claim • should stand. The Go- Per •of mere expediency no question country h a d given, • or professed to of this Go vernment f settling her own internal give' t o Canada a Power ,e. . tice to admit the claims affairs, and they were bound in JUS _ . _ ea rs ' to deal with any matter which concerned of the colonists their own affairs, unless it could be shown that it interest. The noble earl op. matter of Imper ial was a ma to convince them that' evening Le d endeavoured polite ha d masterly eloquence which he in so eminent a de leth that . , r i ss posses sed , of the necessity of maintaining - intact those endowments which formed the subject of that discussion. H e (the Bishopof Oxford) confessed that much as he desired to come to the same conclusion as that at which the noble ear l bad arrived, he felt bound altogether to dissent from the views which the noble earl had expressed. The noble earl had argued that the imperial legislature of 1791 had so completely dealt with that question that it would be unjust now to interfere with the settlement which had then been made. Now the very terms of the act were inconsistent with such a conclusion. But the noble earl had quoted the opinions of the judges in favour of his view of the case. Ho (the Bishop of Oxford) must beg their lorcishins to re' ment. But it is not true that lin any way expressed my decided opinion upon the policy involved in that bill. (Hear, hear.) The petition was brought to me at a late period of the session, and I thought it extremely improb able that a bill could then be introduced. Although I said. nothing in the house with reference to the subject, certain _ . communications took place between me and the noble ear from which I gathered that no measure would be intro duced, and I have to-night heard, for the first time, that any representations of mine had the slightest effect in pro curing the delay. But this I will say frankly to the noble earl, and to the house, that upon the statements made by the deputation from Canada, my own private feelings were rather against the measure than in its favour. But had all the facts been before me at that time, my opinion would have been different from what it then was. At that time the Session in Canada was approaching its close, and a new Parliament was about to proceed to be assembled, and I thought it was much better not to proceed with such a measure until the opinion of that new Parliament should bo expressed. The question has been fairly considered, and a considerable majority has declared in its favour. (Hear.) As the measure will come before your lordships at a future period, and ample time will then be afforded for its discus sion, I will not now enter into the whole subject ; but I wish to make one or two remarks. The noble earl has re ferred to the settlement of 1840, as a final and conclusive settlement of this great subject. But wh a t was the course taken by Sir John Pakington, the Colonial Secrete z uhned.er the noble earl ? In one of his dispatches, in ti m ated that he was not prepared t o proceed 'with the m• 111- sure proposed by Lord Grey, h e sa id no ground Was left e fo a ; any reasonable complaint on account of undue favour any particular religious denomination, but the to ment thougt it might possibly be desirable,G"ern count of the chapges taking place in the hdaarafrcotenrtooimnf time to population, that the distribution of the funds time should be considered. (Hear, hear.) N ow , I w i s h t o ask on what prin c i p l e the noble earl (u e prod in such distributio n o f th e funds "pose G e ar, hear.) Mr. Pr to proceedicer, a Commissione r o f the crown lands, and the originsto and mover of the resolution of 1850, said that three-fourths of the people believed the arrangement was made in injustice and partiality. Do your lordshiPe suppose that a settlement which three-fourths of the peo ple of Canada consider unjust can be considered a final settlement ? (H ' hear.)amount ear,Although member of the Church of Scotland, I have no jealousy of anyrigshoWd be being enjoyed by the Church of England, n uncha ..n. e d. glad to allow the existing settlement to "It I find that although the members f land are hardly more than one-fourth I the upper province, they get con ) half. 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Cation. ; 4 I 5 14_ - I - IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS--(YESTERDAY.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took hiA'seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. `Trie Archbishop of YORK presented several petitions, praying for inquiry into the College of Maynooth. The Archbishop of CANTERI3URY p re sented a pe tion, praying for Parliam en t ary papers . The Earl of MALMESBURY gave no tice that he would to-morrow move fo r cer t a i n re t urns relative to • accidents; on railways during the last year, and that he would draw the attention of the Government to the sub- j ect. The Duke of NEWCASTLE presented a petition from Portsmouth, in favour of the admission of Jews into Parliament. REGISTRATION OF ASSURANCES BILL. Lord ST. LEONARDS gave notice that on the motion for the secon,d'xeading of this bill, which stood on the paper for Thursday next, he should move that the bill be read a second time this day sia months. The Earl lof DERBY presented several petitions against the admission of Jews into Parliament. The noble lord said that if the bill which had been intro ducedinto the other house by a small majority were brought into this house, he hoped that their lordships would deal with it as they had dealt with former bills. The LaW pf Evidence (Scotland) Bill was passed through committee. CANADIAN CLERGY RESERVES. The Earl of DERBY again rose and Said.—My lords, I I have now to call your lordships' attention to the prayer of 64 or 65 petitions- to which, .. , .portance of the subject to which they - vela z; right; to call your lordships' attention by placing a notice on the papers of the house. These petitions are from various bodies be longing to the Church of Scotland in Canada. [His lord- ship here enumerated several of the bodies from whom the petitions emanated, but the names were inaudible in the gallery; 59 of the petitions were from congregations con- nected with the Presbyterian Church of Scotland in Canada.] It is right, the noble lord proceeded to say, that I should state that the object of these petitions is all the same, though expressed in various terms. They pray that your lordships will preserve inviolate the arrangement en- tered into in the year 1840, and that your lordships will not interfere with, nor suffer to be interfered with, that arrangement with regard to the clergy reserves in Canada. It is quite right that I should state that a portion of these petitions were prepared so long ago as 1851, and that they were then brought over with the intention of being pre sented against a bill of a similar character, which was at that time before the Legislature. It was then the inten tion to place them in the hands of the noble duke, the Lord Privy Seal (the Duke of Argyll), to whose active and unremitting services the house and the country were mainly indebted for the withdrawal of that bill. The withdrawal of that bill rendered the presentation of those petitions unnecessary, and equally unnecessary was it, after the de claration of her Majesty's late Government, of which I was a member, to present any petition or petitions during 1852, but upon the accession of the present Government, those who were connected with the Church of Scotland felt it to be their duty to renew and reiterate the expression of their former opinions, and they have authorised me to state that these opinions of the congregations of the great body of the Church of Scotland remain unaltered. And un- doubtedly these petitions would have been placed in 1853 as in 1851 in the hands of the noble duke opposite, but that the petitioners apprehended that they would thereby cause some embarrassment to the noble duke, who might not feel himself at the same liberty in 1851 to afford his valuable assistance to the petitioners; and in consequence of the position now occupied by the noble duke, I have been requested by the petitioners to present their petitions in place - of him who would have stated their case with much more ability and power, and to pray the earnest at- tention of your lordships to this subject. I confess that it is without any surprise ,that I saw the present bill, of which notice has been given to the other house, introduced by some portion of the Government. I regret undoubtedly to see that it has been taken up by the Government, and that it has been brought forward by them as a Government measure. I regret it because, without meaning any disre spect to them, I cannot but look upon this measure as one that will deprive the Protestant Church in Canada of rights which they as ministers are bound to defend, and as a viola tion of the rights of property of which they are the legiti mately constituted guardians. If I could look upon it in any more trivial light, I should not be insensible to the many conveniences and temptations to a Minister to acqui esce in the introduction of the bill, because I do not seek to conceal that the object of this measure is one greatly de sired by a large portion of the people of Upper and Lower Canada, by a largo majority of the people of the united province, and by a considerable portion of the people of the upper province. I cannot deny also the general plausibility of the argument that it is right to leave to the colonial legis lature the management of their own property and regulation of their own internal affairs ; and I am not insensible to the advantage to be derived to any one who proposes to Parlia ment a modewhich can recommend itself to their consciences of getting rid of a considerable amount of business, in re gard to which they feel themselves imperfectly informed. But my sense of public duty as a Minister compelled me to refuse to assent to that of which I saw the expediency, but of which I felt the viciousness of principle ; and the same sense of duty which led me, as a Minister, to refuse my assent, leads me on the present occasion to support the prayer of these petitioners, and to entreat your lordships not to sanction this measure. I have said, my lords, that I admit the plausibility—nay, I admit much more—l admit the justice of leaving to the colonial legislature as far as possible the management of their peculiar internal affairs. In 1840, when the civil list was reserved by an act of the Imperial Legislature out of the revenues of Canada, that interference with the property of the colonists was held by them to be highly objectionable ; and although under the circumstances it was impossible to avoid coming to such a measure, yet it was with great satisfaction that I gave my assent as Secretary of State to the introduction of a measure by which, upon the colonial legislature passing by its own authority, sucks civil list as might be accepted by the Crown, the sta tute of the Imperial Legislature dealing with their property wad repealed. The consequence was that that civil list rested on the authority of the colonial legislature. My lords, I will go further, and say that I do notthink that the mere impolicy of aparticular as it might strike a Secretary of State or the Mi arrangement,nister forthe time being, would be a sufficient reason for refusing the assent of the Crown to that which might be proposed by the colonists and passed by the colonial legislature. In 1850 the Government which preceded me had refused upon more than ens occasion their assent, upon the ground of impolicy, to measures passed by the colonial legislature for countervailing bounties and privileges granted to American seamen by the American Government, by coun tervailing duties on the part of the colonial legislature, and in refusing to assent to acts passed by the colonial legislature the ground taken was that those measures were at variance with the general principle of free trade. My lords, I mention this merely for the purpose of showing that with regard to acts of the colonial legislature I am not averse to leaving them the management of their own affairs bearing on their own interests; and consequently, without expressing any opinion with regard to the policy of granting bounties to colonial seamen on the part of the Legislature, I consented to the measures of my predecessors, and I permitted the colonial legislature to deal with their own revenues as they thought fit for the promotion of their own interests. But my opposition to the measure now under consideration is, that in this case the colonists are seeking to deal, not with their own property, but with that which never was their own property, over which they never had the right to exercise any control, and which, by competent authority and the strongest guarantees, had not only been otherwise appropriated and taken out of their jurisdiction previously to the establishment of their constitution, but which upon two occasions was made one of the funda mental conditions upon which that very constitution rested. It was as early as the year 1775, when the Crown exercised an uncontrolled authority over the then province of Quebec, that it was thought necessary and expedient, when the principal guarantee was given for the exercise of the religion and the maintenance of the property of the Roman Catholic inhabitants of Lower Canada, to afford inducements to Protestants to settle in the province of Quebec by the promise that they at all times to come should have the security within that province, as an in ducement, to Protestant churc hes of one - seventh part of the lands of the Crown, to be guaranteed and appropriated as those lands accrued. There are at present residing in Canada many of the descendants of those who, quitting the United States, settled in the province on the strength of that guarantee, and on the faith of the British Crown, that in all times to come provision should be made from the lands of the province for the Protestant clergy, and the dissemination of the Protestant faith. My lords, I from that time to this mention it to the credit of th e United States, that there are at this moment, in various of those st ates, endowments to the Episcopal Church of this country, ceipnldeowmof that ents g which were created previous to the revolutio n , an d w hi c h werereat whollyßepublic, which,othe been held sacred, bu and the r i g hts of property have in' have favour of that Church been respected and upheld. What we ask is, that the British Parliament shall not be less just than the Republic of the United States has been to its own sub jects and to the Episcopal Church. I said that in 1775 this provision was made by royal proclamation. In 1791, as your lordships are aware, the two provinces of Upper and Lower Canada were separated—these institutions were remodelled and a constitutional government was given to the province of Upper Canada; and lot me observe in pass ing that it is mainly, though not perhaps exclusively, to the province of Upper Canada, or that portion of it to which this question relates, that constitutional government was given, and in the very act which constituted and esta blished that province there was reserved, by the power of the Legislature, and confirmed by the Crown and by the act of the Imperial Parliament, that reservation of the clergy reserves which had been previously given by royal proclamation in 1775. I am not speaking of the policy of that endowment, or of the reason or farsighted ness of the separation of the two pr ov i nces . I am not speaking of the meaning which may be i nvo l ve d i n the terms " Protestant clergy," but there is no doubt that at the time when that grant was made, that time being pre vious to the establishment of the constitution itself, and of the rights of the subjects of the Crown in Canada, that special reservation was made of one-seventh of the land under authority perfectly competent to make it, and made, too, in the most solemn terms by the act of the British Parliament for the maintenance, for all times to come, of the Protestant clergy in that province. Therefore, I contend that the alienation of that one-seventh, being already alienated and appropriated by authority perfectly competent, being sanctioned by the highest au thority of the Crown and act of Parliament, being de r dared to be a permanent endowment, and being the in ducement by . which many loyal Protestants were led to settle in that province, on the faith of the Crown and of Parliament—l say this is not a subject with which the provincial Legislature can claim to deal; it is private pro perty, withdrawn and exempted from their jurisdiction at .the very time when that general jurisdiction was conferred :upon them. For a very considerable period of time those reserves were altogether unproductive. They were more than unproductive, because, there being no power to sell any portion, bul only power of leasing, in a country where leasing was unknown, and the possession of property was l'essily acquired, it was impossible to realise any consider able sum for the maintenance of the clergy, and in the mean time the lands remained uncultivated and waste, an impediment to the advancement and general progress of the provinces. In 1819, a question arose, and an opinion was g iven by three very learned persons — Lord Gifford , then Attorney-General, Sir Christopher Robinson, and a noble and learned lord, who was at that time Solicitor- General, Lord Lyndhurst—to the effect that by the term " Protestant clergy " was meant the clergy, not merely of the Church of England, but the clergy of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland, and the clergy of other denomina tions. Ido not pretend to say how far that opinion might have been in accordance with the original intention of the royal proclamation and the Act of Parliament. If I might venture to hazard an opinion, it would be that in 1791 the endowment of the Church of Scotland did not enter into the intentions of the founders of the Canadian consti tution, but that it was intended to endow the Church of England merely under the terms " Protestant clergy.' However, the opinion being given, and on very high au thority, that whatever might be the original intention, the terms " Protestant clergy " did not include the Church of Scotland, from that - time Secretaries of State and Governors of Canada successively acted upon that principle, and in point of fact the proceeds of the reserves, such as they were, were apportioned between the Church of England and the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. In 1827 the inconvenience lo Widish , I haps before,,adverted was - ad - flinch - inerearect, - Th'iran act of Parliament was' passed, not by the colony, but by the Imperial Parliament namely, the 7th and Bth Gee. IV., by which authority was given, not only to lease, but to sell a certain amount of the reserves, and invest in British security the proceeds of such sales, the proceeds of course to be applied to the same purposes as the land. Under that Act of Parlia ment the rererves gradually became, more productive and more an object of interest to the various denomi nations ; and I cannot conceal from your lordships that at that time the province of Upper Canada, being largely increased in population by inhabitants from the United States amongst whom there was a strong feeling against any endowment of any religious denomina tion whatever, there did spring up a strong and earnest desire to deal with those clergy reserves, some persons de siring to appropriate them to the general maintenance of all denominations, some being anxious to devote them to purposes of education, while some were willing to secu larise them all together, and to devote them to the pur poses of the State. This was a subject of frequent con flict from 1827 to 1840. At that period a great change, as your lordships are aware, took place in the Government of Canada. After the suppression of the rebellion it was deemed necessary, or, at all events, advisable, to provide for the future government of Canada, and it was hoped that in so providing for it dissensions between the two paervinces might be avoided by amalgamating in one Chamber the legislatures of Upper and Lower Canada. At that time it was fejt that, with regard to the religious endowments, more especially, that amalgamation of the provinces must produce an extraordinary change of circumstances ; that whereas, to a certain extent, by provision of the act of 1791, the provincial legislature, subject to the control of Parliament, had a prospective power of altering the arrangements with regard to the reserves, and of modifying the future allotment of the proportions, it was a very dif ferent thing to have that power vested in a united legisla ture, nearly one-half of whom were Roman Catholics, and who, by a union with the minority of the upper province, might have the power of altogether secularising the endow ment, and of diverting it from its original purposes. It was felt, therefore, that it was necessary at the time of establishing the union between the two provinces again to confirm it in the most emphatic manner, and in the strongest terms, the original appropriation of the reserves or the proceeds of them to the purposes of the Protestant clergy, and to make provision for the permanence of that arrangement, whatever might be the future views of the united legislature with regard to 'those endowments. Mr. Poulett Thomson, wlsen Governor-General of Canada, ob tained, with considerable difficulty, from the legislature of the upper province an act which, to a certain extent, car ried into effect the original intention, by securing an en dowment, though only a partial one, for the clergy of the Church of England and of the Church of Scotland. An act was passed by which those reserves,. and the proceeds of those reserves, were ever hereafter set apart for the en dowment in certain proportions of the Church of Scotland and other denominations of Christians, for the mainte nance of public worship. When that bill, in pursuance of the provisions of the act of 1791, was submitted to the Parliament—for it was one of the provisions of the original act that the measures of the colonial legislature must be submitted to the consideration of both houses of Par liament before receiving the sanction of the Crown —upon laying that bill upon the table of the house, the question arose whether the local legislature had not, in so dealing with those reserves, exceeded the Power conferred upon them by the original act. Questions were submitted to the consideration of the judges whether in three specified points the Legislature had not • exceeded their powers; and the judges, by the mouth of Lord Chief Justice Tindal, on the 4th of May, 1840, stated that all the judges, with the exception of Lord Denman and Lord Abinger, were unanimous in their answers to the questions which had been put to them. They were unani mous in assorting that the words " a Protestant clergy" did extend beyond the narrow construction which would have limited the clergy reserves to the clergy of the Esta blished Church. And when asked what other denomina tions might be included besides the Church of England, they added that the Church of Scotland also might be in cluded. They were asked whether the effect of the 41st section, by which the local legislature, subject to certain condition, were authorised to modify the appropriation, was to be considered as applying prospectively or retros pectively, as applying to the allotments and appropriations previously made, or such as might be the produce of sales thereafter to be made. Upon that subject the judges were unanimous in declaring that the colonial legislature had exceeded their powers—that they had no power under the original act to deal retrospectively—that the rights of pro perty were beyond the control of the legislature—and that all they had the power of doing, even subject to the control of Parliament, was the prospective disposal of the funds thereafter to be raised. They further stated that they were all of opinion that the legislative council and assem bly in Canada had exceeded their authority in passing an act to provide for the sale of the clergy reserves, and the distribution of the proceeds thereof, in respect of both the enactments specified in your lordships' question—that was in reference to the power granted in-1827 to sell certain portions of the clergy reserves, specially vesting the pro ceeds of the sale in British securities ; whereas, the colo nial legislature had appropriated the proceeds of the sale, and vested them in colonial securities. Upon all these three subjects the judges were unanimously of opinion that the local legislature had gone beyond their powers, and had dealt with subjects over which they could exercise no control. It was, therefore, necessary to introduce a measure into the Imperial Parliament to remove the seri ous difficulties which had arisen to the settlement of that great and important question ; and after grave discussion and deliberation, after no slight amount of objection from those who thought that by the act so introduced their rights were seriously infringed, Parliament, with tolerable unanimity, sanctioned the adoption of a measure by which a settlement of the dispute in question was made, and by which, for the second time, in establishing anew the con stitution of Canada, the right was secured to the Imperial. Parliament alone to deal with the question of the clergy re serves, which,as smatter of property,were again withdrawn from the control of the colonial legislature. That bill was introduced by the noble lord the present leader of the House of Commons, and it was impossible to exaggerate the strength of the expressions with which the noble lord al luded to the partial departure from the act of 1791. He emphaticallydeclared that it was all-important and essential that this great question should be finally and at once with drawn from the possibility of future controversy, and that a settlement should be made which should be accepted by all denominations as final, and which should ultimately re store, by the authority of the Imperial Parliament, peace upon this much vexed question to the legislature of Canada, by withdrawing the question from their jurisdiction. (Hear.) And to show the animus by which the Govern ment of that day, composed of a large portion of the mem bers of the present Government, were actuated, I may state that they, in a most marked manner, omitted from that new act the conditional permission granted in the act of 1791, to deal prospectively with any portion of the re serves. Under that act an arrangement was made by which a distinction was drawn, following the decision given by the judges, between property already realised and property thereafter to be realised. Two-thirds of the amount already realised was reserved for the clergy of the Church of England, and one-third for the clergy of the Church of Scotland ; and these reserves were vested in bodies constituted for the purpose, and charged with the administration of these funds. The funds so dealt with amounted to but one-fourth of the estimated amount of the whole of the clergy reserves ; and with regard to the other three-fourths, similar arrangements were made. The three-fourths were divided into two equal portions. With regard to one of those portions, it was divided between the clergy of the Church of England and the clergy of the Church of Scotland. The other half was left entirely to the disposal of the colonial legislature, to be dealt with as they might think fit for the great object of promoting religi ous worship, and even going such a length, in their desire of conciliating all parties within the province, and to leave no cause of complaint, as to omit the words " a Protestant clergy," and to allow the application of a portion of that half to be applied not only to Protestant dissenters, but to be employed for the purposes of the Roman Catholic clergy. The Governor-General of Canada, on that occa sion, went the length of saying that, unless this question were then finally and for ever disposed of, the union of the two provinces would be useless, and worse than useless ; and up to the year 1846 the most liberal members of the provincial Parliament held the strongest possible language with regard to the finality of that arrangement, declaring that they adopted it as a permanent and final settlement, and that they would look upon it as a curse to the country if it was not observed. My lords, it is the maintenance of that establishment, of that contract, and of those rights of property so solemnly and so repeatedly guaranteed, that the petitioners, not desirous of disputing the rights of the colonists to deal with affairs exclusively their own, pray that your lordships will not sanction a departure from the great settlement then made—will not deprive them of the rights and property guaranteed by the highest au thority—and will not again introduce into Canada the con sideration of elements of religious discord which must lead I to interminable confusion. (Hear.) The object of the great bulk of those who are seeking the right to deal with this property is not, as your lordships might be led to sup pose, an appropriation and allotment amongst the various religious denominations, more in accordance with their re spective numbers, and with the liberties of a country in which no dominant Church will be tolerated or supported. The object is one of a very different character. The object is to alienate from religion altogether that provisio the piety of former sovereigns and former granted for its support, and to introduce throughoutll parliamentshlceh length and breadth of Canada the republican voluntaryism adopted in the United States. ( P l s l i llici r e °f ear. Do •the Passages marked • are rurkdireet7, Fore Cabin. Saloon. To or from Gravesend and London.. •• • • .... 10d. .. Is. 2d. Gravesend and Blackwall or Woolwieh Bd. .• Os. 10d. Between Gravesend and Intermediate Piers.. 6d. .. Os. bd. BOAT TICKETS.—TweIve Months, si. Os. ; Six Months, 3/. Os. ; Three Months, V. Os. ; to be had of the Collectors on board the Packets; or of Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend. Fast and Commodious Packets to Let fonExcursions. For Terms, apply to Mr. W. Morgan, Agent, Star Office, Fenchurch-street Ter minus, Blackwall Railway. February 13th, 1853. METROPOLITAN SEWERS. Yesterday a special court was held, Mr. R. Jebb in the chair, the object being the annual audit of the ac counts of the commission for the past year, in accord ance with the 127th clause of the 11th and 12th of Vict., cap. 112, i.e. : " And be it enacted, that the commissioners shall, after such audit of the accounts as aforesaid, cause an account in abstract to be prepared, showing the receipt and expendi ture under this act for the preceding year, under the several distinct heads of receipts and expenditure, with the statement of the allowance of the auditor or auditors, if he or they shall have allowed such accounts, or of the parts, if any, which ho or they shall have disapproved of such accounts, and also a summary statement and report of all contracts entered into by the commissioners in such pre ceding year, and of the monies owing to and debts owing by the commissioners on the 31st of December, in the year named." Sir J. Fellowes, Bart., and G. S. Smith, Esq., were also present. The SECRETARY (Mr. Woolrych) read the report of the committee in approval of the auditor's examination of the state of the funds. A copy of the document was ordered to be transmitted to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in compliance with the terms of the statute. Subjoined is the extract : General cash balance due Dec. 31, 1851 23,355 11 3 Total receipts during the year 131,999 18 5 £138,355 9 8 Payments during the same period 122,098 11 11 - . Cash balance Dec. 31; 1852 The statement having been unanimously - passed, The AUDITOR begged leave to say, in the presence of the. Commissioners, that his thanks were due to the gentlemen connected with the secretary's and accountant's depart ments of the commission, for the ready and valuable assist ance they had invariably afforded to him in the prose cution of the arduous work in which he had been engaged. (Cheers.) Tenders for works having been entertained and disposed of, the Commissioners adjourned until this day. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 28. The Thomas Arbuthnot, freight-ship, with the head quarters of the 48th Regiment on board, sailed last night from the Motherbank for Corfu. The Black Eagle, Admiralty steam-yacht, Master- Commander Petley, returned this afternoon with the Ordnance inspection party from the Channel Islands. The London, 90, Captain Mundy, sent up topmasts and topgallantmasts this morning, bent sails, and crossed royal yards in readiness for going to Spithead to-mor row. The Duke of Wellington, 131, Captain H. B. Martin, C. 8., has been docked to-day to be coppered. Her Majesty's yacht Victoria and Albert, Commodore Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, G.C.H., Captain Crispin second in command, was docked to-day to undergo her annual refit. The Illustrious, 72, was docked to-day for conversion into a block-ship. PLYMOUTH, FEB. 28. The screw steam-frigate Desperate, Captain W, Cham bers, which left Plymouth at one p.m. on Thursday, for Cork, was 25 miles north of the Longahips on Friday at 12, with the wind at W.N.W., when a sea struck her, and knocked in her stern ports and window sashes, and destroyed the contents of the captain's cabin, washing the stores, Vic. about in all directions. It was with con siderable difficulty that a temporary planking was fixed inside, and this only partially stopped the leakage. We are afraid that the Desperate must be classed among the already large number of useless ships in her Majesty's nav y. Her stern gun, 95 cwt., was removed after the experience of her insufficiency in towing the ships of the Arctic Expedition from Scotland. She now has six 68's and one 95. Her machinery is excellent. The great disadvantage of the Desperate appears to arise from defi ciency of beam ; the length is about 182 feet, and breadth only 36 feet ; her quarter falls in, and, having a screw weighing 7 or 8 tons, the stern is plunged deeply into the water, whenever a heavy sea is encountered. She was built at Pembroke, from designs furnished by the School of Naval Architecture, and was fitted at Sheer ness. The Nimrod, 18, was taken out o f No. 5 dock last evening, and the Australian, mail packet, was taken in the same tide. This morning two waggon loads bags have been taken out of her and conveyed to Ply mouth, where they will be properly dealt with. They appeared to be completely drenched with water. with Th e Diligence, transport, bound Devonport, stores from Pembroke, will load at once again with iron ballast ; 800 tons will be required for the James Watt by the end of March. Mr. William Browett, mate of the Devon, lighter, has been appointed master of the Tortoise, vice Harris, s uperannuated. In the Sound—The Queen, 116 ; Vulture, 6 ; and Argus, 6. In Harbour—The Impregnable, St. George, 120 ; Vengeance, 84 ; Edinburgh, 58 ; Hogue, 58 ; Valorous, 14 ; Desperate, 14 ; and Sylph, Avon, Nautilus, Con. fiance, Devon, and Tortoise lighters. VICE-ADMIRAL ATSCOITGEL—This gallant officer was taken alarmingly and dangerously ill on his journey from his residence at Southampton to Folkestone, en route to Paris, but succeeded in reaching Boulogne, where he ob tained the eminent services of Sir Robert Chermside and Dr. Lucas, and though the life of the admiral was for two days' despaired of, we rejoice to state he is so far recovered as to g ive g reat hopes to his friends an d anxious family of his perfect recovery.—Naval and Mil -1 tary Gazette. 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