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THE EXAmi! 
 
 tiwmm. 
 
 Toronto, Weilncsday, October 25, 18al. 
 
 The Clergy Reserve Bill. 
 
 The Ciorgy Uesorvea Bill of iho (lovern- 
 mcni, suljitiitled by the Hon. John A. Macdon- 
 aid lo Ihe Assembly, on Tuesday, the 17th inst., 
 wo copy at Icii^'tli in another column, as also his 
 sjiocch, explanatory of the measure. It differs 
 frou! the numsure oftlielalo Covernnient in 
 some particulars, 1st. In the adoption of the 
 tenu " Municipalities Futul" for • Clergy Re- 
 serves Fund,' and almndonin,^ sei)arnte funds 
 for " inveslnient" and " di^trihutioti ;" 2nd, In 
 the proposal to coninmte the stipends or ullow- 
 anr-es of present recipients, for a sum to he 
 estiniat'Ml |)y tiie riovernor in Council, when- 
 ever ihcy niuy deem it t'xpedii-nt ; 3rd, By 
 providing for the di.stribiuion oi" tiie prin- 
 ciple, as well as the interest ; and, 4tii, 
 By the declaration, that " it is desirable to re- 
 move all senddance of connection between 
 Cluirch and State." 
 
 There are, in our opinion, very grave objec- 
 tions to the measure, us a whole. While jiro- 
 posinfj to annihilate ail connection between 
 Church and iStute, it provides for a State-paid 
 Priesthood of the very worst description— a 
 Priesthood supprrlcd by State funds, but inde- 
 pendent of all State supervision or controul. 
 The Bill mi^fbt be condensed lUid sin»plified. by 
 11 single clause, d^ daring, after the preamble, 
 '■ tiiat all the Clergy Ranerve monies now in- 
 vested or in hand, shall be given over to incum- 
 bents, and ail to bo realized in future to the 
 Municipalities." This appears to us to be the 
 design of the Bill, and involves all its stipula- 
 tions, when stripped oi legal verbiage. 
 
 The pnyment of Incumbents, reipiired l)y the 
 late Imperial Act, is a most unwnrrimtahlo in- 
 terference with free legislation on our local 
 affiira We admit that individual cases of hard- 
 hhip among Incuiub.mts should have been pro- 
 vided for, in the final abrogation of this social 
 wrong ; but the local Legislature should havo 
 been allowed lo exercise its judgment iit mak- 
 U)H the proviiion. Aged men, and parties wh'. 
 had immigrated to the Province, relying on 
 such a provision, would huvo been ohjecUi for 
 
 ., •- 'ous consi<'-''«ioii ; '"• 'are nf you 
 
 priestliiigr., uui.Mid H' (t inny li.iv« beou, ai tlio 
 public coM», in «oni« of our public peminnrieii of 
 learning, or at least who.beini,' natives, were con- 
 versant with the intrn.e public ho-'ilily which 
 proviiiled against the.-e ecclesiastical reservations 
 niui knew that tlioLogislativf.\ssemhly had deler- 
 
 aniong life stipendiaries. But it will be said 
 thiit the Imperial act forbids nich an arratig.- 
 ui«;nt. The Imperial Government should be 
 made to understand that Canadians know their 
 rights, and will assert them. Let the House 
 patis u Bill with such provisions as wo liave 
 stated, and let the Imperial (loverument assume 
 the responsibility of its rejection. In doing this 
 the House wouiil only act with a dignity becom- 
 ing its own character, and our po.sition as " the 
 brightest gem in the British Crown," 
 
 But the most obnoxious feature in tho bill is the 
 provision that "the Governor in Council. wbeiiev- 
 erhe may deem it expedient,'" may commute die 
 salaries of i,i 'ividuals, or of nil the incumbents 
 belonging U> any pnrtiadur dcnominuduu. U;i'>n 
 nn e([uital)le adjustments of the term of incum- 
 bents, f(j<Ziri(/«oi commutafion if carefully guard- 
 ed, could not perhaps be opposed ; but to allow 
 a comuiUt.atlon of «//. belonging to. and for any 
 dcnomiiiatioii, is conceding the very point whicli 
 the friends of religious equlity have always resist- 
 ed, — the building up of a favored church in the 
 .',::!ld with fuiuls drawn from theState. The design 
 obviously is to submit the amount of commuta- 
 tion to be given to the Churnh of England to 
 the arbitration of the Governor in Council and 
 the Bishops, or to Sir Edmund Head and •' the 
 Society for the propagation of the (iospel [Epis- 
 copacy ?] in Foreign Parts,"— which Society 
 receives and manages ihe (church of England 
 f .jids derived from the Reserves. The amount 
 t . be given to the Church of Scotland, is to be 
 determined by the Governor in Council and the 
 i'^yuod or General ;\.tsembly : to the VVcsleyau 
 Methodists by the Governor in Council and the 
 Conference: to ths Roman ('alholics. by the 
 Governor in Council and the Rmiiish Bishops! 
 Tills scheme would at once drain every (iiribing 
 now invented, into the cofl'ers of these branches 
 of the " Holy Alliance." if it would not besides 
 tfwallow up a portion of the lands. We may 
 here notice that this scheme to arrange the com- 
 niutalion wiih religious bodies or denomiuntious 
 niay be inleiided to include for"THK Church," 
 an amount vvc have seen outereJ as puyahia to 
 Trinity College .' / 
 
 The names of all incumbents on the Reserve 
 Fund in the (Churches of England (and Scot 
 land?), wfl believe, were published about Ihe 
 time thfl late Imperial Act was passed ; but we 
 ihiiik it doiiblfui " that the iinmcs of the 
 Wesleyasi Missionaries, or Roman (Catholic 
 .'riests receiving a share were published. This 
 n«'.!V be the reason given for making provision 
 ■ 'ho P'" '"I" " '»ll'i vances" to anv other "' teV- 
 giouA bodies or dem mnations of Clirislians.''-— 
 This attempt to secure a commiilnlion with any 
 < hurch, as such, should In? rcsolulely resisieil : 
 if mndo in the case of the Weslcyaiis or Rmnan- 
 iots, the t;hurclies of England and Scotland may 
 demand iho same, and the result wi.i be iho vir- 
 
 don, in future, " all s 
 tion between Church ai 
 vince, only ou conditio 
 £500,000 or £600,000 
 aries ; or, in other wo 
 heretofore, in violation o 
 to well ktjown public op 
 their f'dlow citizens ain 
 to £:{r)0,0()0 ciirrency oi 
 up their respective sec 
 is a most iniiiuitoi.'s pi 
 rather refund what they 
 
 If tliero be any apj^rec 
 tice ill Parliament — any 
 Patriotism — its member^ 
 SUCH a scheme as the Bil 
 
 suggests. 
 
 ■W'ere we inclined to 
 with iucuiabents, we she 
 uriangeineiit as this, in 
 riddance of lliis curst;, 
 da, or stipciularies und 
 allowed their stipends ft 
 death: — all others from 
 ten years salary or until 
 years of age pay.nenl ( 
 to be excluded. Or, if 
 sidutely unavoidable to 
 for lii'f, besides allowiii; 
 £350,000 already paid ii 
 be iuliniicly better to 
 transferring at once Ihe 
 investment to the Mimic 
 the individual incumben 
 for the payment of theii 
 commutation vviih any 
 for all payments rn bloc \ 
 fore run.irked, be a vir 
 which the V\)luntaries ol 
 long contended — ^viz., p 
 all denominations. 
 
 The legal robbery of 
 tion of ("!aiiada. by the ( 
 her minor ally the (.'huri 
 ly thirty years ; — the eoi 
 (y'hurch leaders to plac 
 hood as pensioners for i 
 Protestant fund ;— and 
 thus bidding defiance b 
 and man. that the aim ol 
 the interests of the re 
 ruch a displ.iy of hypon 
 handed injustice, that 
 has been endured by c 
 much piuicnce. 
 
 With a zeal and pe 
 better cause, and a rraO 
 ness worthy "f the ai 
 darkness, havo ihe lea 
 Stale parly pursued a 
 menfs like a blood-hou 
 
 been allowed to evriiiNe ilf 
 
 ,'menl ill nink- | t|,;„t5 n donbilni ' ihu Ihe n 
 
 anus o 
 
 f II,,, I ibe iiilrreNis nf iIm< reiigiiui < 
 
lAMIMER EXTRA. 
 
 don, in future, "all seinblnnce of connec- 
 tion between Church and State" in the Pro- 
 vince, only on eonditiou of the payment of 
 £500,000 or £000,000 to present stipendi- 
 aries; or, in other words, to parties which, 
 heretofore, in violation of Jaw, and in opjiosilion 
 to well kuown public opinion, have plundered 
 
 " of your bill, providing for the confiscation of 
 " the Clergy Reserves, and I declare, without 
 '• hesitation, that it 18 the most atrocious speci- 
 •' men of oppressive legislation, that has appear- 
 •' ed i.ince die days of the French Convention.'" 
 Afler several hits of a similar character, and tht 
 onliuary tlireats about the confiscation of Ro 
 
 their fallow citizcn.-f already of from £rJ50.UOO man Catholic Endowments, this old chieftam 
 
 among clcrico-political criminals— professes a 
 kind of iioly resigntition to his fate and that of 
 his fellowconspirators in " the Church' ! lie 
 ,„ays— " but gloomy, and I venture to say, fear- 
 '• fid as the cuuseipiences are likely to be should 
 " this 11 ca.-urc of religious spoliation become 
 " law. in 'III not dcqmir, nor allow oursdvcs to 
 " dread the. nsuU." 
 
 The pious mail does not despair of gelling 
 along with another £;5r>0,000 from the public 
 client by way of commutation for the stipends 
 of the Reserve iiicumin uls : he does not dread 
 the result of getting possession of this at once to 
 invest 111 lauded r slate to endow "thk Church" 
 ill ))erpetuity. The £200,000 already received, 
 together with the Rectories (obtained by fraud) 
 ii"i numerous otiier possessions obtained from 
 'the Stale, he thinks, wilh that addition, may 
 sustain the sinking spirits of the Clergy— these 
 holy men(?)— in view of the spiritual wants of 
 our larg.' population ! " Labor not for the meal 
 that perisheth," says Christ : -'Labor for it above 
 all things.'' says the Bishop. "Seek first the 
 Kiiig<loni of Cod and its righteousness," says 
 Christ: •' Seek first an endowment from the 
 Kingdoms of this World," says liishop Straclian 
 and his allies. 
 
 \V<! learn that .ibout twenty-five of the 
 clergy of the Church of F.ngland have gone to 
 tlnebec to try their hand at doing a kind of 
 pious lobbying among the members of the As- 
 sembly during the present strnggl'J. Like black 
 w.dves in fear of losing their prey, they are out 
 in full pursuit. We hope they will meet with a 
 suitable reception. They haveprcsentedagenenil 
 claim to an average income of £200 perannuni 
 for the past : that is, they present back claims 
 for all who have had only £150 or £175 ' ! ! 
 F IKe men inureii to crime, " they refuse to be 
 ashamed." AOer robbing the Protestants of 
 I'rotestant fund;— and the plea set up, while (1^^^.^ (..^„„,j,, of iJOOy 00(1. they claim coni- 
 thus bidding defiance both to the laws of Cod pen^aiiou, because they deem thi.'i amount in- 
 ami man, that the aim of all this was to subst^rve suiHcimit ! We hope the House will have 
 the interests nf the religion of Christ !— form , j,,,,,^ rospcct for its own character and digni- 
 fuch a display of hypooi^y, violence, ami high- 1 jy ^^ ^gll j^g j-,,, t|„, riglitg of tho people 
 handed injustice, that we only wonder that it | gj.„p,„||y^ l,y repudiating their claims to one 
 has been endured by our popiilatimi wilh «e I larihing of the fuu<ls. giving whatever may be 
 much patience. j granted lis u mere giaUliiy to "li p.iupcis, lur 
 
 Wilh a zeal and perseverance worthy of a | »''« ^^*> "'" f'^^**"- 
 better cnn»e, and a crnftinew and unscriipiilon*- — — — r— — — ? 
 
 nesrt worthy of the aarnts of the prince of 
 
 darkness, hav., the icders of the Church and , The Wesloyans aud tlie Reserves. 
 
 Stale party pursued aOer these Htnto Kmoln- ^^^^^^^ ^.^^^^^ ^^^^ imimaled that some mudi. 
 ment, hke a blood-hound aOer lis prny. •••^«" | ,;,,,„,„„, i„ ,„.. workmgs of the We.leya., 
 
 to £:jr)0,000 cnrrency of imblic funds, to build 
 up their respective sectaiian schemes ! This 
 is a most iniquitou's projiosition. Let them 
 rather refund wh.it they have stolen from us. 
 
 If tlierc be any apjjreciation of right and jus- 
 tice ill Parliament— any of the spirit of true 
 Patriotism — its members ^vill never sanction 
 SUCH a scheme as the Bill now before the House 
 
 siiggeslb. 
 
 Were we inclined to make any co'.nmntatioii 
 with iiicuuibents, we should propose some such 
 arrangement as tlil's. in order to an ei]uital)le 
 riddance of this curse. Let all natives o'" Cana- 
 da, or slipciuiaries under TjO years of age, be 
 allowed their stipencis lor seven ye.ar.*, or until 
 death: — all others from .^0 to (30 years of age 
 ten years salary or until death ; and all over fx) 
 years of a^e payment during life ; all Rectors 
 to be excluded. Or, if the House deem it ab- 
 sidutely unavoidable to pension the incumbents 
 for liie, besides allowing them I'.e .£:!0(».OOII or 
 £'350.000 already paid into their hands, it would I 
 be iuliniiely better to get rid of the evil by 
 transferring al once the whole amount of the 
 investment to the Municipalities, and to give to 
 the individual incumbents fiovcrnment security 
 for the payment of their annual salaries. The 
 commutation wilh any religious denoniinalion 
 Ihr all payments m bloc would, as wc have be- 
 fore rcm.irked, be a virtual giving up of all [\)v 
 which the Voluntaries of Upper Canada have so 
 long conteiiiled— ^viz., perfect civil equality for 
 all denominations. 
 
 The legal robbery of the Protestant popula- 
 tion of CJaiiada. by the Church of Knglaml and 
 her minor ally the Church of Scotland, lor mar- 
 ly thirty years ; — tho consent given by the High 
 Church leaders to place the Romanist Priest- 
 hood as pensioners for many years on the saim 
 
 ty of expressing our opinion upou the Clergy 
 Reserves. 
 
 Resolved, \st. That it having been represent- 
 ed by a member in the House of Parliament 
 that the Wesleyan Methodist Church is willing 
 to fraternize with the Churches of F.ngland and 
 Scotland on the Clergy Reserve question : we 
 decbire that no person has been aiuborised to 
 represent our Church on this question in the 
 House, and utterly repudiate liie assertion that 
 our ("hurcb is in favour of a division of the 
 Clergy Reserve fund among the various religi- 
 ous denominations of the Province. 
 
 2nd. That we call upon the authorities of our 
 Church to refuse any participation in the pres- 
 ent pending settlement of the (Clergy Rosorve 
 (piestiou, Uy which the sum said lobe paid to the 
 VVe.-leyan Methodist Church in Ujiper Canada 
 is to be secured to it for a number ot' years, 
 pledging ourselves that any apparent I >ss '-us- 
 laiiied by sucli a refunding shall be more than 
 made up by our personal contributions. 
 
 3rd. That wc advocate and contend for, as 
 we have done for many years, a complete, entire 
 aud final Schetue of Seculari/ation, as tho 
 only one which will settle Ibi.s long agitated 
 question, — " according to the wejl-understuod 
 wishes of the people ;" and this must eniliruco 
 all the proceeds of the (-'lergy Reserve lands, 
 whether already realized aud funded, or to be 
 realized. 
 
 The foregoing Resolutions, moved by John 
 Beaty, .Fr., F,sq. M. F> , of Coboiirg, and second- 
 ed by.Fohn .>Fathevvsou. Esq., of Montreal, were 
 unanimously adopted. 
 
 (Sigued.) JOHN P. ROBLIN, 
 
 ( Uairman 
 M. Lavell, M. D., Stc'y. 
 
 Resolved, I'hat a copy of the foregoing Reso- 
 lution and proceedings be transmitted to .Attor- 
 ney General Drummond. 
 
 John BKATTY.Jr, 
 
 Cohourg. 
 
 T. BiCI.KE, 
 
 Hamilton. 
 
 J. H. Moore. 
 
 Brant ford. 
 
 W. W. Nki.i.es, 
 
 Mount IMeasani. 
 
 J. Bnoiisv;, 
 
 Matilda. 
 
 J McNf.n.r, 
 
 Fmilv. 
 
 Wm. Pktkh.^. 
 
 Port Hope. 
 
 Isaac Stevknson, 
 
 Maitland. 
 
 Thos. DniFFir-, 
 
 Bradford. 
 
 Chmii.k.9 Kkknch, 
 
 Melbourne, C. E. 
 
 MrrrHK.i.i. Nkivii.i.e, Newbiirg. 
 
 OwKN l{omii.v. 
 
 Consecon. 
 
 ISFlCHAEI ASSKLSTINK, WiltOU. 
 
 Wit.r.iAM Merkii.i. 
 
 ^orwicii. 
 
 John Hihhaku, 
 
 St. Johns. C. E. 
 
 M\rTMFw Dixow. 
 
 Stanslend.C E. 
 
 John H. I'huss, 
 
 Ruseliown, C. E. 
 
 John Deacon, Jr, 
 
 Perth. 
 
 Shfiufk Skvuer, 
 
 Owen Sound. 
 
 lioHEKT (lARPNEK, 
 
 Brampton. 
 
 Wm.F. ClTHBERT 
 
 Hunt ey. 
 
 Hamiei. Huri.buri 
 
 , Prescott. 
 
 JoHff VVir.HON,4th, 
 
 VongeSlrest. 
 
 M.Caukv, 
 
 Osgood. 
 
 F.I IAS S. Onn. 
 
 St. Andrews, C. E 
 
 Stephen Vouko, 
 
 Brightmi 
 
 ilvvin i* KO.ST, 
 
 SiH'lford. C E. 
 
 Wm Tyrheix, 
 
 Weston. 
 
 J 1'",. Fkntom, 
 
 Kichmond. 
 
 1). Mu><RO, 
 
 Barrie. 
 
 I'etkk MrluM, 
 
 Waterloo, Kingnlon 
 
 John BoNHAM, 
 
 St. <Jeorge. 
 
 Wm. Ml Briue, 
 
 London. 
 
 Jamks Uodiisoi*, 
 
 Whitby. 
 
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 KoHKRT (rAUP'im, Braiuptou 
 
been aliowed to exercwe its jiulginorit in mnk- 
 iiii? the provision. Aged mun, and parties who 
 had immigrated to the Province, relying on 
 such a proviaion, would have beon objects for 
 a --• -'ous cousi<''""*«on ; '•* "ace of yon 
 priestliDjjfi, vittiiiud ip, u may have beon, at tlie 
 public coat, in some oC our public seminaries of 
 learning, or at least who,being natives, were con- 
 versant with the inten,5« pnblic hostility which 
 prevailed against these ecclesiastical reservations 
 and knew that thcLegisIativeAssembly had deter- 
 mined, twenty-five years ago, to abolisii them, 
 but, could not, by rei wii of unconstitutional 
 and irresponsible power — wo say, to be com- 
 pelled to j)rovidft for such (take, for instance, 
 tba sou of Alexander Dixon, the saddler, of 
 this city, Mr. McMurray of Dnndas, the son of 
 Judge Scott's coachman, and others of the same 
 class) is an outrage against the rights of the peo- 
 ple and of the Local Legislature, which should 
 not be tolerated. Many are the cases, we believe, 
 of this kind, where youths, whom chance has 
 ' thrown into the rfec," when they should have 
 been at the barrow or the plough, will by the 
 proposed IJill be reckoned as pensiomrs of 
 the Province, probably for fifty years, to the 
 tune of .i;i50 or £200 per annum ! What 
 claim has any one of this class upon the funds ? 
 None whatever. The claim is altogether on the 
 other side, aa we showed in our last number, 
 and in a *lip we subsequently sent to the Mem- 
 bers of both Houses of Parliament. |"^ So ftif 
 from Incumbents possessing any claim, by way 
 of indemnity, for the cessation of the payment 
 of tneir annual stipends, they are, as we clearly 
 ."howed in the calculation wc then uia'*^. bound 
 to TP.i'irn ahout three-fourths of all the Provin- 
 rial funds they have received up to this date, 
 before they can be justly entitled to the ordinary 
 benefits of the provision, when secularized. ^j».l 
 Uosides this class, there is another, whose 
 claims are still more monstrous and anjuit— we 
 mean the Rectors, who. since I83i>, have been 
 lu.vnriating upon property virtually stolen from 
 the Pi vincc — property which, in many cases, 
 has lieen yielding, and will yield them n com- 
 forfihle income of itself, uiilil thcyar<* compelled 
 to evacuate nr disgorge the spoil. What claims. 
 wo ask, have ihni upon the funds of the 
 co.inlry ! .Tu.st about as much as the bandit 
 who has driven the setller from bis home, and 
 tak'^n })OssHS«ion of his dwelltiig and rsiale. 
 
 Liokiiig at such cases vvilh an eye to impar- 
 ti:i! justice, and to I (doviiil rights, wc would 
 urge upt»u lh>' House tlui wisditiii and pnipnely 
 of milking a discrimination as to ihe siijiundiaries 
 on llio fund. Every idergyman educated in the 
 Province should not receive more, than seven 
 years' salary ; every rector's salary should bo 
 r'.-; (I'Tso loll!? as ;he rectory of which lo^ is the 
 iiicuiiiln'iil ..'Msti; and only mtu film al<>,| 
 tiliroiid, who havi' cniiio to the I'loviiice on th • 
 f.ith of a living on the fund, or ."peciiil cases of 
 men advanced in life, having, pe.'hnps. limiilies 
 d«f,>pnl"Ml 'ipo 1 ihein, should b • i lu.ssifsei 
 
 think it doubtful " that the names of the i 
 Wesleyan Missionaries, or Roman Catholic I 
 I'riests receiving a share were published. This 
 may be the reason given for making provision 
 ■" *ho P'" *'nr '< Hllovance?" to any other " reli- 
 gious bodies or deiir uinutions of Christians.'' — 
 This attempt to secure a commutation with any 
 (hurch, as such, should be resolutely resisted : 
 if made in the case of the Wesleyaiis or Roman- 
 ists, the Churches of England and Scotland may 
 demand the same, and the result wiil be the vir- 
 tual endowment of those bodies with the whole 
 of the Reserve Funds now invested, if not more. 
 This will be carrying out the secularization of 
 the Reserves in one sense, but in direct opposi- 
 tion to " th« well understood vvishos of the peo- 
 ple." As to the Wesleyan Methodists, the 
 House has the authority of the organ of Con- 
 ference, and of the Laity in Convention (see in 
 another column), against making any provision 
 for that denomination, and we hope it will res- j 
 pect the desire expressed by both to be released | 
 from all future connection with or participation 
 in this fund. As to the Roman Catholics and 
 the Government arranging for a commutation 
 of an allowance from a fund devoted for the 
 support of Protestantism, yet given for a long 
 time in the teeth of law and moral <lecency for 
 the support of Romanism — we should hope that 
 shame would prevent such a debasing proposi- 
 tion or attempt being made. Justice and equity 
 demand, as wo showed last week, that they 
 should refund £33,000, already received from 
 Provincial sources, before they can btcome 
 equitably entitled to the general secular benefits 
 of the fund: the Wesleyans £10,000; and the 
 old United Synod of Upper Canada about £10,- 
 000. 
 
 Upon a commutation of the clain of the 
 
 Church of England stipendiaries, which one of 
 
 the High-Church Tory Jiuirnals esiimales at 
 
 about £20,000 per annum, the capital, of which 
 
 this .sum would be the interest at .-.i.\ per cent., 
 
 would amount ti> ahout £334,000 currency, or 
 
 !|!l,33t),000' The CliunJi of Scotland would 
 
 reap in this hiirvest ol luiciuity probab'y more 
 
 than .C 100,000. or .*4lti).tK)0; .ind the Roman 
 
 Catholics, the Old United Synod <if I'lijier 
 
 i Canada and the Wesjcyaiis (were they to n;- 
 
 I ceive it) the greaicr part if not the whcle ofthe I 
 
 balance of the funds now investcii in Uritish i 
 
 1 and F'roviuoial fSecuritifs. Well imglit Uishep 
 
 i Strachaii write every where to his (rieiids iid- 
 
 ! vising tii'im to accept of the (fovermnenl pro 
 
 pusal ! 
 
 The proportion accruing to the Municipalities 
 
 under snvh a category of I'rauils, would be all in 
 
 the distant huure from Sales of the remaining 
 
 Reserves. The propos«'d siili-di\ i!»ion id" the 
 
 tiiiicls :icc>iiiiiit« i" tile t'l'usns nfihr poiiuintinn 
 
 . generaily, is periinps tlie wice?! .Iiat could be 
 
 I adopted under all circumstances. 
 
 : The. Sehenio of the (loveminent Pill is. 
 
 1 in our opinii/'i, u tacit propo.-itinu to abaii- 
 
 the iiUorests of the religic 
 such a display of hypocrisy, 
 handed injustice, that we 
 has been endured by our 
 much patience. 
 
 With a zeal and persev 
 better cause, and a craftine.s; 
 ness worthy of the agent; 
 darkness, have the leaders 
 State party pursued aller 
 me'<ts like a blood-hound a 
 now, after robbing the Volu 
 million of dollars, and after 
 cotifusicu, and bloodshed o 
 the same parties, through th 
 evince a like spirit as in I'l 
 cry of that Priesthood still v 
 from the State, or Blood !" 
 
 And this is the final triutr 
 sible Government! — this is 1 
 Administration, latterly a 
 Both appear to have adn 
 stamina" of Lor<l Elgin, in ] 
 '• The Church ;"— both I 
 years to evade doing justi( 
 this vital question ; and 
 Lord Elgin) has finally m 
 Rolph, to toss him overboi 
 time has managed to bet 
 the hands of the enemy, 
 most inclined to believe thi 
 of the scheme of treachei 
 and aequiesced in by all of 
 working it out, Rolph has I 
 Hinck?. Our hope is, tha 
 not pass the Bill withoi 
 monts. 
 
 Renewal of the Wa 
 in full pui 
 
 Bishop Straehan, this old 
 sacks ofthe Church, has jr 
 under date the 20th install 
 Hon. Mr, .Moriii. on the C 
 it occiiiiies no less than abr 
 of the (■olonist. Ir is put 
 printeil in pamphlet form IV 
 members and others ; and i 
 tory to aimther campaign i 
 the iiulepeHdent eiidowmei 
 Eiiglanil and Scotland froi 
 from the Reserves. 
 
 We are convinced thm 
 meri' $tra1ngtm to pitt Hliern 
 Bishop .'"Jtraclian or his aj 
 an undoubted source, have 
 friends by all means to ac 
 meiit proposition, wliilo he 
 Press pmli'ss to take «troiij 
 the letter befori! us, addres 
 i:rarty ecclesiastic declarr 
 " iiad gone to pre^s, I wus 
 
the (ntorests of ihe religion of Chnsc .'-forui j ^„,„g ^^.p^^j ^^^ U^ ^^.^, character and digtii- 
 such a. lisplny of hypocrisy, violence, and lii-h- I jy^^^gj, j^, j.^,^ ^j,,. ^ig,,^^ j,,- t,,^, p^^pip^ 
 handed injustice, tlnit wc only wonder that it j genersilly, by repudiating their claims to one 
 has been endured by our population with so j ,-,^r,hi„g of the funds, giving whatever may be 
 much patience. j granted as a mere gratuity lo the paupers, for 
 
 With a zeal and perseverance worthy of a ! ^'''* =*'''*'' "' pe.ice. 
 better cause, and a craftiness and iniscrupulons- 
 ness worthy of the agents of the prince of 
 
 diirkness, have the leaders of the Church and j The WesleyaUS and the ReSerVeS. 
 State party pursued after these State Eniolu 
 
 mcts like a blood-hound after its prey. Even 
 now, after robbing the Voluntaries of about one 
 million of dollars, and after the toil, the social 
 coiifusicii, and bloodshed of about thirty years, 
 the same parties, through their agents in power, 
 evince a like spirit as in former days, and the 
 cry of that Priesthood still virtually is — " Bread 
 from the State, or Blood !" 
 
 And this is the final triumph of our Respon- 
 
 Some lime ago we intimated that some modi- 
 fications in the workings of the Wcsleyan 
 System were contemplated at last meeting of 
 Conference. Since then a meeting of Jay- 
 delegates has been held in Kingston, to confer 
 on some matters relating to the denomination, 
 the particulars of which we have not seen re- 
 ported ; but one document has appeared of 
 considerable importance at the present time — 
 I the unanimoiis opinion of the Delegates on the 
 
 sible Government!— this is the fruit of Ilincks's I i^jserve (Question. This opinion substantiates 
 Administration, latterly aided by Kolph !— | t|,e views we have always taken of the Wes- 
 Both appear to have admired " the princely | i^v^n, lujty i,, opposition to many of the preach- 
 
 stamina" of Lor<l Elgin, in playing his game for 
 '• The Church ;" — both have managed for 
 years to evade doing justice to the people on 
 this vital question ; and llincks (aided by 
 Lord Elgin) has finally managed, after using 
 Rolph, to toss him overboard, and at th«i same 
 time has managed to betray Reformers into 
 the hands of the enemy. indeed, we are al- 
 most inclined to believe that the great outlines 
 of tiie scheme of treachery were understood 
 and acquiesced in by all of them, but that, in 
 working it out, Rolph has been check-mated by 
 Hincks. Our hope is, that the Assembly will 
 not pass the Bill without material amend- 
 ments. 
 
 Renewal of the War : the Clergy 
 in full pursuit. 
 
 ers, and the declaration copied below is highly 
 honourable to the denomination, and equally 
 valuable at this time when the Ex-Mayor of 
 Toronto— the notorious John G. Bowes of De- 
 benture celebrity — has been attempting to com- 
 mit the body of which he professes to be a 
 member, and of whose opinions he professes to 
 be the. exponent, to a line of policy relative to 
 the Reserves, which the laity repudiate. 
 
 In a late number of the Christian Guardian 
 the Editor thus honorably repudiates the inter- 
 pretation of Wesleyan opinion by Mr. Bowes. 
 
 '• [n the speech of .Mr. Bowes in the House 
 of Assembly on the Clergy Reserves question, 
 he is reported as stating that the " Wcsleyan 
 .Meth(Mlists are most likely to accord in their 
 views with the members of the Church of Eng- 
 lanil, Scotland and Rome, in opposition to tliH 
 seciilarizatiun of the Reserves." Wc cannot 
 tell from what data Mr. Howes lias come to this 
 1 coiichiMoit, for so far as wc know the senti- 
 ments of the Weslevaii Methodists with respect 
 
 Robert Gakdser, Brampton. 
 Wm.F. CtiTHBKRT, Huntley. 
 Samuel Hurlburt, Prescott. 
 John WiLsort, 4th, Yonge Street. 
 
 M. Carey, 
 Ei-iAs S. Orr, 
 Stephen Young, 
 Divm Frost, 
 Wm. Tyrrell, 
 J. E. Fenton, 
 
 D. MUNRO, 
 
 Peter McKim, 
 John BosHAM, 
 Wm. Mc Bride, 
 James Hodgson, 
 
 Osgood. 
 
 St. Andrews, C. E- 
 
 Brighton. 
 
 Srietforu, C. E. 
 
 Weston. 
 
 Richmond. 
 
 Barrie. 
 
 Waterloo, Kingston. 
 
 St. George, 
 
 London. 
 
 Whitby. 
 
 Kingston, October 19, 1854. 
 
 Bishop Strachan, this old Hrtm.in of tlie Cos 
 sack.s of the Church, h.is jnst published a letter | to i|ii.< (juestion. wc'believc that nineteen twen 
 under date the 2<lth instant, addressed to the I tuMlis. if ii i.iiiety-nme hundredths, are de- 
 „ yr \t ■ .1 oi M . ,, 1 I cidcfily in favor of apptopnatiiig the Reserves 
 
 H.m. Mr, Monii. on Ihe Clergy Reserves, and : ^^^ ^J^^ ^^,j^^^^. ^^,^.^.^^, •/,,,,,} ,,, „..rHnpporl of the 
 
 it occupies no less than about tiv(!\vi<lei'olnniii.s I (.j||u.j^.|„,^ of aiiv (leiionuiiation ; and (certainly 
 of the (■olonist. It i.s put up cvideniiy to h^^ i ilic opinion of Mr. Bowes m his speech, as re- 
 
 printed in pan-phlet ftun. lor d.sinbunon amon. ; l..-.;;-;i. ;;;. 'I-'^.;':;™;; Imlong' Z They have conimenced the agitation, tlu.y have 
 
 Ml lli(idi;!t- on this subject." 
 
 Important Decision. — A decision has jiist 
 been made by the Court of Common Pleas in 
 New York City, which is of pretty general 
 interest. It is known that tlie wholesale 
 merchants of New York have an agent in 
 every town and village of important o in the 
 country, who»o traders purchase their goods 
 in that city. These agents inform themselves 
 as to the standing of said traders, and report 
 accordingly. The case just tried was between 
 a house in Columbus, Mississippi, as plantiff, 
 and the New York agent, or spy, in that place, 
 as the defendant ; and suit was brought to re- 
 cover damage for an alleged libel on the part 
 of the defendant in having written disparagingly 
 of the plaintiff. The issue has now been tried 
 for the second time, the defendant having, on 
 the first trial, been mulcted in damages to 
 $6,000. and moved for a new trial on the ground 
 of the rejection of legal evidence. No new 
 facts, however, were elicted, and the jury 
 rendered a verdict for the plaintiff for the sum 
 of |5,000 — N. Y. Courier. 
 
 No Mope Slave States.— There wap a 
 time when the North would have lonsented lo 
 annex Cuba; but the Nebraska wrong has for- 
 ever rendered annexation impossible. For good 
 cause and in vindication of our national honour, 
 the North would consent to wrei-' Cuba from 
 Spain; but it would only be for the purpose of 
 establishing in the island a separate Repub'ic 
 under our protection. The Nebraska outrage 
 has settled for ever the annexation of slave ter- 
 ritory to this Union. When Missouri was ad- 
 mitted there was a condition annexed, ttiat 
 Slavery should not exist north of ;{9® iW, but 
 this condition has been repudiated by the South. 
 When Tring was admitted, tlx're was a condi- 
 tion ami.-xed that th' "e should be three other 
 slave States formed out of her territory. The 
 North will, in tniitiitiiin i/' the South, rvpuiiuilc 
 thi» condition : and wo now tell our Soutiierii 
 brethrun to be prepared for the consequenceii. 
 
 members and others; and is evidently pr.^para 
 tory to another campaign to secure if possible, 
 the independent endowment of the Churches of 
 Eiiglaiiil and Scotland from the funils derived 
 from the Reserves. 
 
 We arc convinced that the movement s ^r. 
 Mfrr stratagem to pitt lihcrnls off' t'xrir jtuuih.- 
 Hishop Strachan or hi* agents, v.o learn from 
 an undoubted source, have been wrili'ig to his i 
 friends by all means to accept of the Govern- 
 ment propo«iition, while ho and ih' IIi!(ii-chinoi 
 
 To this testimony w add tlie nnnnimoun de- 
 claration of Ihe lay Delegates at the Kingston 
 Convention, not only repudiating denominati n- 
 ul siili-division III any lorm, hut repudiating the 
 proposiimi (if the (iovcrnment. in their present 
 C'leigy Resi'rve Kill, to provide lor the payment 
 for a certain number of years, of liio inmH 
 heretofore paid to the V/csleyan Church. 
 
 '•We. lav-inemiier" of the W.'«icyan M»'iho- 
 dl.»t Cliiucii in Cuiaila, aisembled at KingHlon. 
 
 set the (ixample of repudiaiuig the most uacred 
 ccmipact, and of disregarding their honourary 
 engagements ; and just as certainly as wo now 
 write, pist so certain is it that no new slave State 
 will ever again be admitted into the I'nioii, and 
 no slave territory ever again be annexed to il. — 
 N. Y. Courur Sf Emjmrer, 
 
 It is now certiiin that three of the screw 
 steam liespatc h gunlioats are iutemied for ser- 
 vice in the nia.;k Sta— the Arrow, the Beagk. 
 and the Lvnx. The only >!<rew st. :-m despatch 
 gunboat nent to the Ralt'c up to tin- present time 
 • i^the Wranjjlrr, Li-HtrrKint-C-Miiiiander RiJik- 
 ' The Nipcr. I,ii'iiteii inl-Couimander l.o<ld'>r. i.'* 
 
 Press p.oli.ss to take .Irotig.rou.id ngamst ,t. in j iy-,,;||';;,;;;;;,,:,;:;,,,,;i:. ;,,;,,, ,,,,, ^est. rep.e- ; in do.:k-at Woolwich, pi. p.^riug li-r sea, an.Hl.e 
 
 the letter befor.> us, addressed to Mr. .Moriii, this 
 
 sentina; as we believe, the opinions ol our 
 
 crafty ecclesiastic declares— *• After my lelter | (^;|,„r,:h on ail matters concerning the temporal Wrangler pa-^seij l-lsiu'-re o 
 " hud gone to pre^, I wun favored with a copy j lutcrests of our tMiur.h.eml.ra-.e this opportuni- >m the fleet under Sir L. Na 
 
 talc is having her engines put on board. Th" 
 
 on th»' fOlli lii^i to 
 pier.