The Sun.
London, England, 1835-02-21 00:00:00

NEW BRUNSWICK.

The Legislature of New Brunswick met on the 20th inst.
Charles 51mmonds: Esq., was chosen Speaker, when the
Session was opened with a speech. •

EXTRACT.

Mr. President and Honourable Gentlemen of the Legislative
Council,—The Act of the last Session for increasing
the representation of three of the counties in the province,
one of which was without any distinct representative,
having received the Royal assent, I thought it right to
put the law into immediate effect. It affords me much
satisfaction that I can congratulate you on the pros-
perous circumstances in which, compared with former years,
this province is placed. It has pleased Providence to
reward the industry of the agricultural part of the community
with an abundant harvest ; our commercial interests and pros-
pects stand high, notwithstanding all the difficulties with which
public credit has been assailed in countries exercising a direct
influence on the commercial welfare of our own. From this
favourable state of things, useful institutions have been ex-
tended, which is hoped willl prove highly beneficial to the rising
spirit of enterprize.

Frankfort Papers of the 15th inst. have been re-
ceived. Their contents are of some importance, and
will be found in another column.

Letters from Berne state that the Swiss Government
is prepared to resist the despotical and unjust claims
of Austria.

As we were obliged by a press of matter on Thurs-
day, to leave out the concluding part of the article
which we had prepared on LADY HEWLEY'S Charity,
we now resume the subject.
We have clearly proved from the words of the
VICE-CHANCELLOR himself, that he removed the
Trustees, because they did not hold the religious
opinions of LADY HEWLEY ; and we contend
that were the principle of His Honour's decision
admitted and acted upon, it would oust the Protestant
Trustees of every Catholic foundation in the King-
dom. Let us take an instance. Suppose the Trus-
tees of some of the foundations at Oxford, established
before the Reformation, were to be brought into the
Court of Chancery, as Lady HEWLEY'S Trustees
have been, by Relators who think they ought to be
displaced—the process of removal would be much more
simple and summary in the one case than in the
other. There would be no necessity to move the
Court to order the parties to answer on oath as to
their belief of this or the other doctrine ; the Christia❑
world would be spared the edifying spectacle exhibited
by one dissenting sect letting loose the powers of the
law upon another, to compel a declaration of faith.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR would say at once, these
gentlemen have subscribed the thirty-nine articles—
they are members of the Church of England—they
cannot be the trustees of a foundation established by a
believer in transubstantiation, purgatory, &c. The
same argument will apply to the trustees of parochial
charities, who, though Protestants, hold not the opinions
of the founders, and who are often appointed in virtue
of holding some parochial office. As to the assertion
of our correspondent, that the property of the Catholic
Church was taken from the Catholics, " because they
had misapplied the funds," he surely cannot be serious
in making it. The property of the Catholic Church
was applied to the purposes intended by those who be-
queathed it ; but the State disapproved of those pur-
poses, and asserted its undoubted right to alter the pur-
poses, and to dispose of the funds in me manner which
it deemed most conducive to its own interests.
Our correspondent has mentioned the " Improved
Version," but he has omitted to mention the use the
VDCE-CHANCELLOR made of it. His Honour made
it a handle for displaying his knowledge of the
Greek language and of Biblical criticism. HOw
far he succeeded, we shall not here stop to
inquire ; we shall only say that his criticisms