The Express.
London, England, 1852-09-22 00:00:00

CANADA.

The I.egislative Aasembly conelnded the debate
on the address on the ialth nit. When the division
aa• tak,n, there were for the ministerial answer to
11..„ ,ruall, on the Fret amendment 47, and against it
- ; .vat the second amendment, 44 to 19. Then
1" re members absent from the division.
111 r. 'hocks, the thief minister of the colonial
iernment, wit to move on the 7th inst. the fol-
ion ing
aEsiiLrTlONfr ON 21111 CLIIOT
1. That an humble ',lards be presented to het mast
Grouses Maj.sty, to assure her Majesty that this house
jetty regrets to learn from the despatch of the Right
g,,er'Sir John l'akington, her Majesty's Principal &m-
-use of State fur the Colonies, that het Majesty's imperial
maiden are not prepared to introduce • bill to repeal the
Imperial Act 1 and 4 Viet., cap. 78, intituled, " An Act
to roseate for the sale of the clergy reserves in the
ravines. of Canada, and fur the distributional the proceeds
teener
2 That whatever difference of opinion may exist among
th, teeple of Canada as to the best mode of disposing of the
revenues derived teem the lands known as Clergy Reserves,
threat mass of the people will ever maintain the rein
e:ple r. cognised by the Right lion. the Earl (hey, then her
itlaj,t)'• Trincipid Secretary of State for the Colonies, in',
1..0,h Taub of 27th Janur.ry, 1851, to the Right lion. the
E..t: .t Elgin and Kincardine, that the question whether
the existing arrangement " is to be maintained or altered
is one so delusively effecting the people of Canada that its
decisian ought not to be withdrawn from the provincial
kg:slature, to which it properly belongs to regulate all
matt. nconcerning the domestic interests of the province."
3 'Chat while the people of Canada:are devotedly attached
to her Majesty's person and government, and mast anxious
to maintain inviolate the connexion which binds them
to the great empire over which she rules, yet
this brume is bound by a high sense of duty to
inform her Majesty that the refusal on the part of the
WIN-rid parliament to comply with the jest demands of
th,Cans.ss people on a matter caciutively affecting their
owo ii..erests, will be viewed as a violation of their itersti-
tsttiomil rights, and will kakis sleep and widespread die.
Mtisfarstion among her Majesty's Canadian subjects.
4. That this house in well aware that attempts have been
made to induce her Majesty's imperial ministers to here
that the present representatives of the people of Canada
entrrtain opini ;ris on the subject of the repeal of the Clergy
Reserves Act Itlrrint from those expressed by the late
parliament.
.1. That this honer confidently hopes that when her Ma-
jestv's eninieters shall coovineed that oho opinions of the
people of Canada and of their representatives on this subject
are uneltered oust %maitre-ibis., they will consent to give
effset to the promise made by their pesdeceesnes ; and this
house is coanrrised in th, hope by the suggestion in the des
spateh of lb* Right Honourable Sir John l'alungtoo, that
hit Majtesy's mir.isters are prrpared to recommend amend-
mews in the Imperial Clergy Reserves, with • view to
satisfe the wishes of fir: Canadian people.
6. Pilot this house can seareely doubt that the principle
of ani,hdine the present act being admitted, her Majesty's
ministers will yield to the strong feeling which pervades
the Canalisn people, that any new legiolative enactments
regarding the clergy reserves should be framed by their
can ri peek ntatives instead of by the imperial parliament,
which, being necessarily unacquainted with the state of
ooieion in Canada, cannot be expected to concur in
a me.isere that will give pun/neat satisfaction to its la-
des tarts.
7. That this house desires to assure her Majesty that, in
thus giving expression t the public opinion of the country,
it is by the strongest feelings of loyalty to her
Majesty, and by • sincere desire to prevent those lament.
sm.• !Isamu's:tees which must he the result of a collision
Unwed the imperial and provincial parliaments on • guess
tia“ on which very stront feelings ars known to prevail
among the people of this province.