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THE 
 
 CLERGY RESERVE QUESTION. 
 
 To the Editor of The Church. 
 
 My dear Sir, — I understand that the chief objections 
 to placing the proper portion of the Clergy Reserves in 
 the hands of the Church Society, are — 
 
 1. The obstruction they would offer to settlement and pub- 
 lic improvement, from being interposed, in various parts of 
 the country, between farms occupied by actual settlers. 
 
 A ready answer is furnished to this objection in the 
 very grounds of the application made by the members of 
 the Church. Thty desire that these lands may be ren- 
 dered as largely and as speedily available as possible to 
 the supply of their spiritual wants ; and with this promi- 
 nent end in view, it is not likely they would keep them 
 in an unproductive state, or hesitate to accept the first 
 fair offer that might be mad.e fc^r their s»le or lease. And 
 supposing that according to the present system of sale, 
 they should fall into the hands of speculators, — as in 
 many cases they undoubtedly would, — would these last 
 be inclined to part with them, on any patriotic grounds 
 touching the improvement of the country, a whit sooner 
 than a corporate body? In the latter case, indeed, inde- 
 pendent of all individual inclination, it is easy to forestie 
 circumstances, from persons dying intestate and their 
 heirs being minors, in which delays would be interposed 
 to the actual settlement of these lands much more serious 
 than would be likely to occur if they were held by the 
 Church Society. 
 
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 2. That tfie Church Sucisty would give a preference to 
 purchaaera, or tetianta, who belonged to the Church of Eng- 
 land, 
 
 Now, all analogy contradicts this. The Church lands 
 of nearly the whole of Ireland are tenanted by Roman 
 Catholics, as are also the lands of the University of Dub- 
 lin. And we may challenge any person to prove whether 
 in that countr}*, or in England, any such distinction is made 
 as is here advanced in objection to the present petition. — 
 We may add, too, that it wonld be impossible to adduce a 
 single instance in the past history of the Clergy Reserves, 
 when the leasing of them was under the direction and 
 control of the Clergy Corporation, in which such favour 
 or partiality was shewn to individuals belonging to the 
 Church; while in the leasing of such lands as are now 
 held by the Church Society, being the grants of private 
 individuals, it is just as certain that no such distinction 
 
 has ever been acted upon or thought of. 
 
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 3. The power or influence which the possession of suck 
 a property would give to tlie Church of England. 
 
 The only influence that is sought for by the Church, is 
 of a religious nature, — to disseminate the truths which 
 are embodied in her creed and ritual, and to render her 
 children that peaceful, contented, Joyal, and virtuous 
 people which her principles and doctrines, if sincerely 
 embraced, are so pre-eminently calculated to render them. 
 
 Our Roman Catholic fellow-subjects, in Eastern Cana - 
 da, have large and rich endowments attached to their ec- 
 clesiastical establishment) and it may be asked whether 
 the possession of this property has infringed upon the 
 rights, privileges, or liberties of any portion of the peo- 
 
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 pie not belonging to their commtimon? If the inhabi- 
 tants of Canada East arc conscioas of no soch resolt ttom 
 these endowments pertaining to the Church of Rome,— 
 it may be asked, is the Charch of England less tolerant 
 than, she ; and is she likely to exercise an inflaence or 
 domination which the Church of Home in this Provinco 
 has never attempted? 
 
 Wise legislators, too, might argue that inasmuch 14 
 the Church of Rome is possessed of so much landed pro- 
 perty which may hereafter lead to the exercitie of a dan- 
 gerous influence, it is only prudent to proyide an equi- 
 poise to this possible domination, by investing the Charch 
 of England — the Church of the Empire and of the Queen 
 — with a corresponding endowment By such a step the 
 fears of Protestants would be allayed, while liberal minded 
 Roman Catholics could have no'objection to it. 
 Your very faithfhl senraat, 
 
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 Montreal, April 24, 1846. 
 
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