The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-16 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUABY 16.

THE House of Lords was occupied last night
until the dinner hour in discussing the affairs of
the colonial branches of the Church of England.
How is this What has the House of Lords to do
with the affairs of religious societies in the colo-
nies ? The Bishop of LONDON—whose appearance
in Parliament we are glad to hail as a sign of re-
stored health—gave an interesting description, first,
of the state of affairs in the diocese of Natal, where
a number of the clergy have elected a second
bishop, and next of the proceedings attending the
appointment of a Coadjutor Bishop of the diocese
of Toronto. These are matters which we might
expect to see handled in Convocation ; but the
Imperial Parliament has no concern with them, the
Protestant Episcopal Churches in South Africa
and Canada being voluntary societies in colonies
having their own political representative institu-
tions. The Bishop's speech was apparently called
forth by Lord CA KNARVON'S letter, in which, fol-
lowing the Duke of Nswcssris's example as to
episcopal patents, the SECRETARY of STATE for the
COLONIES discontinued the issue of the usual Royal
license or mandate when the now Bishop of
Toronto was to be consecrated. He thought it
was not desirable to have parted with her
BLe.rmsrv's license ; these are not times in which it is
desirable that the royal supremacy should be over-
looked ; it is desirable to maintain the connexion
between the home and colonial churches, and
desirable to maintain the supremacy of law.
Lord CARNARVON, in a masterly speech, stated the
true position of the colonial branches of the
Church of England, and nothing more is neces-
sary for the complete justification of the course
he had followed. Thirteen years ago all connexion
between Church and State in Canada was abolished
by an ant of the colonial legislature, and the
Church of England in that colony received full
powers of self-government. The validity of this
legislation was subsequently established on appeal
to the Privy Council. There is thus no room in
Canada for any exercise of the royal supremacy,
and it is not fur the dignity of the Crown to main-
tain a mere show of power. The supremacy of
law, which the Bishop of LONDON is anxious to
maintain, is in no danger ; the Canadian law of
the Church, however, is not identical with the
English law, the Act of Uniformity not
extending beyond the United Kingdom. On
this point, as Lord CARNARVON observed,
there is no difference of opinion among
lawyers. It is very desirable that all illu-
sion on this subject should be abandoned. Lord
CARNARVON pointed out very clearly last night
the important respects in which the position of
the branches of the Church of England differ from
that of the mother Church, owing to the fact
of their being unestablished. Following the
judgment of the Privy Council, as delivered
by Lord Kt NGBDOWN, he said that in the colonies the
Church of England was " precisely in the same
" position as the Roman Catholics, or Baptists,
"or Presbyterians, or Independents. The right
" rev, prelate had said that it was very dangerous
" in these times to do anything that had the
" appearance of interfering with the royal supre-
" macy, but it might not be very easy to carry
" out the royal supremacy in all points in the
" colonies, and he had no hesitation in saying
" that where independent colonial legislatures
" existed, the power of the royal supremacy had
" not been exercised ; but when questions arising
" out of the proceedings of the legislature in the
" colonies had come before the Privy Council it
" had always been held by eminent lawyers that
" the matters submitted were beyond the coupe-
" tency of the Crown, and therefore it was quite
" useless to talk of the existence of the royal
" supremacy on such questions in the colonies,
" nor was it desirable for Parliament to interfere."
Lord TAUNTON, himself a former Secretary
of State for the Colonies, obeervisl that the
Bishop of LONDON in his remarks had res-sontsl too
much from principles proper to the Church of 1
England at home, but having no application to the
state things exi3ting elsewhere. Nothing could