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Faaturaa of thia copy which may ba Mbiiographlcally uniqua, which may altar any of tha imagaa in tha raproduction. or which may significantly changa tha uaual mathod of filming, ara chaclcad balow. □ Colourad covara/ Couvartura da coulaur rn Covara damagad/ Couvartura andommag4a □ Covara raatarad and/or laminatad/ Couvartura raataur** at/ou pallieulAa □ Covar titia miaaing/ La titra da couvartura manqua □ Colourad mapa/ Cartaa giographiquaa 91% coulaur □ Coloumd ink (i.a. othar than Mua or blacic)/ Encra da coulaur (i.a. autra qua blaua ou noiral pn Colourad plataa and/or iliuatrationa/ D D D D Planchaa at/ou iliuatrationa 1% coulaur Bound with othar matarial/ RalM avae d'autraa deeumonta Tight binding may eauaa ahadewa or distortion along intarior margin/ Larriiura sarr4a paut cauaar da I'ombra ou da la diatoralon la long da la marga inlArtoura Bianic laavaa addad during raatoration may appaar within tha taxt. Whanavar poaaibla. thaaa hava baan omittad from filming/ 11 aa paut qua cartainaa pagaa blanchaa ajoutAaa lora d'una raatauration apparalaaam dana ia taxta. mala, loraqua eala Atait poaaibla, caa pagaa n'ont paa At* filmAaa. Additional commanta:/ Commantairaa tupplimantairaa: L'tnatitut a microfiimA la maillaur axampiaira qu'il iui a it* poaaibla da m procurer. Laa dAtaii* da cat axampiaira qui sont paut-Atra uniquas du point da vua bibliographiqua. qui pauvant modifiar una imaga raproduita, ou qui pauvant axigar una modification dana la mAthoda normaia da f ilmaga sont indiquAa d-daaaoua. □ Colourad pagaa/ Pagao da coulaur n Pagaa damagad/ Pagaa andommagAaa Pagaa raatorad and/01 Pagaa raataurAaa at/ou pailiculiaa Pag«a diacolourad. stainad or foxat Pagaa dAcolorias. tachatias ou piquias Pagaa datachad/ Pagaa dAtach^aa Showthrough/ Tranaparanca Quality of prin Qualit* in^gaia da I'impraasion Inciudaa supplamantary matarii Comprand du matArial supplAmantaira Only aditlon availabia/ Sauia Mition diaponibia pn Pagaa raatorad and/or laminatad/ r~?| Pag«a diacolourad. stainad or foxad/ Q^ Pagaa rn Pagaa datachad/ FT] Showthrough/ r~l Quality of print variaa/ r~n Inciudaa supplamantary material/ r~| Only aditlon availabia/ D Th« pot oil flln Ori bat tha aio otii firs aio or Th( ahi J\h wh Ma dit an^ bat rigl raq ma Pagaa wholly or partially obscured by errata slips, tissues, etc., hava been refiimed to enaure tha beat poaaibla image/ Lee pegee totelement ou partieilement obecurciea par un fauiilet d'erreta, una pelure, etc., ont M* fiim^ea i nouveeu de fepon A obtenir ia maiileura image possible. ..m,': Thia item ia filmed at tha reduction retio checked below/ Ce document eet film* au taux da rMuction indiquA ci*daeaoua. 10X 14X 18X 22X 28X 30X J 12X lex aDx a4x 2SX 32X Kl TYm copy filmad her* hat bMn r«produe«d thankt to th« gonmrotity of: Library of tho Public Arohlvo* of Canada L'axamplaira fHmA f ut rroroduit grioa A la a«n4roaltA da: La blbliotii^ua daa Archivaa publiqu.^ du Canada Tha imagaa appaaring hara ara tha baat quality poaaibla conaidaring tha condition and iagibiiity of tha original copy and in Icaaping with tha filming contract apacif leationt. Original copiaa In printad papar covara ara filmad baginning with tha front covar and anding on tha !aat paga with a printad or lliuatratad Impraa- slon, or tha back covar wh«>n approprlata. All othar original copiaa ara flimad l>aglnning on tha first paga with a printad or lliuatratad impraa- slon, and anding on tita iaat paga with a printad or lliuatratad imprasaion. Laa Imagaa aulvantaa ont MA raproduitaa avac la piua grand soln, compta tanu da la condition at da la nattat* da I'axampiaira filmA, at an conformity avac iat conditiona du contrat da fllmaga. Laa axamplairas origlnaux dont la couvartura an paplar aat imprimte aont film4s an comman^nt par la pramlar plat at an tarminant soit par la darnlAra paga qui comporta una amprainta d'Imprassion ou d'liluatration, soit par la sacond plat, aalon la cas. Tous las autras axamplairas orlglnaux sont filmte an commanfant par la pramlAra paga qui comporta una amprainta d'impraasion ou d'iilustration at an tarminant par la darnlAra paga qui compnrta una taila amprainta. Tha last racordad frama on aach microftcha shall contain tha symbol — ^> (moaning "CON- TINUED"t. or tha symbol ▼ (moaning "END"), whichavar appliaa. Un daa aymbolas suKrants apparattra sur la darnlAra imaga da chaqua microficha, salon la caa: la symboia -^ signlfia "A 8UIVRE", la symbola ▼ signlfia "FIN". IMaps, piatas, charts, ate., may ba filmad at diffarant raduction ratios. Thosa too larga to ba antlraiy included in ona axposura ara flimad baginning in tha uppar laft hand comar, laft to right and top to bottom, aa many framaa as raquirad. Tha following diagrams iiiustrata tha mathod: Laa cartas, plancliaa, taUaaux, ate, pauvant Atra filmte A daa taux da rAductk>n diff Arants. Lorsqua la document ast trop grand pour Atra raprodult an un aaul ciichA, ii aat filmA A partir da I'angla supArlaur gaucha, da gaucha A drolta, at da haut an baa. an pranant la nombra d'imagas nAcassaira. I.as diagrammaa sulvants iilustrant la mAthoda. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 CIRCULAR. ^ Southampton, March IB, 1836. ■ ■' . i :'.;i. Reverend Sir, - = Having felt a desire that the tenor and the results of those representations which I have been engaged in making to His Majesty's Government, with reference to the Ecclesiastical affairs of Ca- nada,, should be made known to my brethren of the Clergy in the Lower Province, with whom (contrary to the intentions with which I left Quebec) I am thus placed in a new relation ; and, having received an intimation from sufficient authority, that I may consider myself at liberty to communicate to them, in the manner here adopted, my correspondence with the Colonial Department of His Majesty's Government upon the subject in question, 1 have availed myself of that mode, as the readiest and most satisfactory in which my object can be effected : and I venture to extend the discretion thus given me, to supply the same information to some private friends. It is superfluous, perhaps, that I should guard against its being inferred from this circumstance, that the correspondence could be allowed to appear r, IV in the newspapers, or in any way get abroad before the public — a proceeding which would be most decidedly unrvarrantrtble and improper. It may not be inexpedient here to explain that the Bishopric of Montreal does not form an inde- pendent See. It is, in fact, a mere titular distinction attached to my office, which office is so constituted as to enable the Bishop of Quebec to delegate to me the episcopal charge in that portion of his Diocese, of the labours of wiiich he desires to be relieved. I reserve for some other occasion all expression of the motives, the feelings, and the views for the future, with which I have accepted this office; and shall only now add my request for your prayers, and my assurance that I remain Your affectionate brother, G. J. MONTREAL. CORRESPONDENCE OF ARCHDEACON MOUNTAIN WITH THE Colonial Department op His Majesty's Government. London, October 21, lS35, My Lord, The Bislioj) of Quebec having confided to me the task of laying before His Majesty's Govern- ment at home, some representations in behalf of the Church in Canada, as well as of endeavouring to effect certain an'angements, which have been for some time past under consideration in order to bis own personal relief in his extensive charge, I have to solicit the favorable attention of your Lordship to what I proceed to submit in relation to these two objects. It is now forty-two years, my Lord, since a Bishop of the Church of England was first sent out to Canada to take possession of the then newly erected See, in connection with which measure, the lands commonly called the Cltrgy- Reserves, had been set apart two years before, for the support of 6 the Clergy of whom the Bishop was to he the head. I need not say to your Lordsliip that the measure has heen also followed up hy a series of acts on the part of Government, in perfect consis- tency with the intentions thus indicated : a Cathedral Church has heen huilt : Parishes have been constituted: Archdeaconries have heen erected: and the Cler«^y in either Province have been formed into a Corporation for the management of the Reserved Lands. The progress of the Church in the Canadas has abundantly justified whatever provisions have been made towards its establishment. The evil in Ca- nada is not the excess, but the utter insufficiency of such provisions. Whatever future return may be calculated upon from the Clergy-Reserves, (presumip;; them to continue available for the object to which they were originally apj)ropriated,) the spiritual wants of the Church of England population, are so far beyond the means of at once supplying them from this or any other as yet accessible resource, as to create a strong necessity for at least allaying the sense of those wants by some distinct and determinate proceeding for the endowment of the Church. 1 venture, therefore, most respectfully to urge upon the attention of your Lordship the importance of bringing to an issue the long pending questions •respecting the Reserves ; and of either causing the management and application of the revenues arising from them, to be put in such train as to secure some tangible maintenance to the establish- ment, or substituting in some other permanent form, a fair equivalent for this appropriation. ft^u^ , ... I forbear troubling your Lordship with a minute detail of those circumstances wliich may be stated in support of what I have ahove advanced ; but I may venture to mention some leading arguments of wliich the force cannot, as I humbly conceive, be denied ; as, for example, that tlie Protestant population of tlie two Canadas has for several 3'oars past been gaining in rapid progression upon the Roman Catholic; that the emigration to Upper Canada was found not long ago to have doubled the population of that Province, I believe in tlie space of eight years; that a very great proportion of the persons emigrating are attached members of the Church of England; that in Lower Canada the Church of England, according to the Census taken in 1831, numbered among her disciples, I think very nearly one-half of the whole Protestant population of the Province and would, as I well know from long official experience, have numbered many more, had she possessed the means of establishing more Ministers or even had she been authorized to hold a more decided language with respect to her prospect of enlarged future support; that in the City of Quebec, since I myself assumed the charge of the Rectory in 1817, the number of places of worship of the Church of England has increased from one to five, and although some of these are but small, yet in three of them it has recently been necessary to augment the accommodation for the hearers ; that as it respects the new settlements, rising up one after another, the Ecclesiastical Authorities are exposed to constant solicitations for ministerial services which they are unable to supply, and which the circumstances of the country render it impossible that the people should them- selves provide ; that tlms the appalling prospect is opened of a population destined to spread over an immense surface of country, and still thickening from year to year, without having been formed to ^i 8 habits of Religion, or supplied in the present important jslage of their progress, with the means of transmitting to their descendants the faith and worship which they have received from their fathers. I hope I may he pardoned, my Lord, if I here very briefly notice an argument which has been often used to the prejudice of tliose interests for which I am pleading, — namely that the Episcopal Church is seen to flourish in the United States of America, without having the advantages of an establishment. It will be found, my Lord, in the first place , that where the flourishing condition of that Church is particularly conspicuous, which is in the City and Diocese of New York, it is main- ly attributable under Divine Providence, to her having retained the endowments which proceeded from the voyal munificence of England ; and it is known to myself that some of her most eminent living Bishops have lamented he. struggling condition, and unfavorable prospects in other quarters, from her entire dependence upon the system of voluntary support. In more than one instance,, indeed, within the last few years, her Bishops have appeared in this country in the character of itinerant solicitors for aid to uphold the Church in their own. The provision made for the Church of England in Canada, by the 31. Geo. III. c. 31., is not one which can press upon any class of His Majesty's subjects, or bring the Clergy into collision with their Parishioners, or others, in the exaction of dues. With reference to the Roman Catholic population of Lower Canada, who constitute a religious body far surpassing in point of numbers, any other in the two Provinces, it cannot be supposed that an adherence on the part of His 9 Majesty's Government to the original intention respecting the Reserves, would he an unpopular measure, while tithes and other endowmeiits are secured hy law to the Roman Catholic Church itself, and its Clergy are also permitted to dispose of large revenues, the legal title to which is (helieved to he) in the Crown : ^n the contrary it could not hut infuse into that hody a feeling of alarm even for their unquestioned means of maintaining their Church in the country, were they to witness the unconditional alienation of the property assigned to the support of the Protestant Establishment. They would naturally regard any such measure of interference with the vested interests of one Churcli, as but a step towards the spoliation of the other; and I have myself seen, and can produce an expression of this very sentiment in a Canadian paper conducted in tlie French language, which has an extensive circulation.* Whatever, therefore, may be the pui'pose of His Majesty's Government with respect to the Clergy Reserves, I would humbly trust that in the event of their being diverted from their original object, the Church will he assured of receiving an equiva- lent in substitution for them; but should any project of this nature be in contemplation, I would hope that an opportunity will be afforded to the Clergy Reserve Coi-porations of the two Provinces, to submit to your Lordship their views of the ar- rangements, which in that case will be necessary. I have reason to hnow that as far as Lower Canada is concerned, the outline of a plan of this nature, is under the consideration of the Board, with a view to communications to be made at home. • Gazette de Quebec, 16th June, 1835. 10 ii I c-^ c^y' With reference to the other suhject which I am charged to hring under the notice of your Lord- ship, I have only to renew those applications which have been received by yourself, and your predeces- sors in office, from the Bishop of Quebec; — strengthened as they now are by the broken and precarious state of his Lordship's health, since an alarming attack which he suffered in Apiil last. His labours in the charge of a Diocese 1300 miles in length, in some parts not to be travei'sed with- out hardships and fatigue ; his extreme devoted- ness in the performance of those labours, and his anxiety in conducting and closely watching the affairs of a Church composed in a great measure of newly formed and still increasing establishments, >vith a discouraging poverty of means at his command, are things whicli have unquestionably contributed to these inroads upon his constitution ; and if the extent of his duties was felt to be dis-. proportioned before to his powers, it has now (according to his own just estimate of episcopal duty) become impracticable to him without relief. I persuade myself therefore, that His Majesty's Government, alike upon public and personal go o ds , will see the necessity of acceding to his desire that a Suffi'agan* Bishop should be appointed to assist him ', and I have reason to know that the harassing anxiety which he experiences upon this subject, renders it particularly desirable in the present state of his health, that the arrangement should take effect with the least possible delay. It is proposed that the Suffragan should have charge of the Lower Province, and should receive a salary of £1000 sterling, per annum, to be assigned over to 1 .m from the salary of the Bishop himself; * This term has not been employed in the appointment ultimately made : but the effect proposed is equally attained. 11 and it is, I presume, to be understood that the appointment to this Office would carry with it the promise of succeeding to the 8ee. Your Lordship may possibly be aware that the Bishop of Quebec jrom the time of his first application to Government upon this subject, had done me the h(>nor to designate me as the person to whom, in consequence of my experience in the Diocese, he desired to confide the proposed share of his own labours. This appointment however, I have latterly, (for reasons which it is unnecessary to obtrude upon your Lordship,) signified my wish to decline; and I have a discretion from the Bishop to make whatever satisfactory aiTangement upon the subject I can be instrumental in carrying into elfect. Should it be the pleasure of His Majesty's Goveniment to divide the Diocese at once, (as expressly provided for in the Letters Patent appointing the present Bishop,) this plan would unquestionably be preferable to any other ; but I would venture to suggest the expediency, in that case, of imposing upon the new Bishop during the life of Dr. Stewart, the duty of assisting him in the Upper Province, to whatever extent might be required. I have the honor to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient humble Servant, G. J. MOUNTAIN, Archdeacon of Quebec. The Rlfjht Honorable The Lord Glenelg-. 8fc, Sfc, S^e, 12 Sir, Dooming Street, November 10, 1835. I am directed by Lord Glenelg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 21st ultimo, bringing mider his Lordship's notice the present state and tlie prospects of the Church of England in Canada, more especially with reference to the subject of the Clergy Reserves. Lord Glenelg feels that it is unnecessary to assure you of the interest which he takes in the welfare of the Church of England in Canada, and he has accordingly given the fullest consideration to the observations which you have addressed to him. The question is indeed one which had previously occupied much of his attention, but as it is necessaiily involved in the enquiries which are to be i>rosecuted by the Commissioners noAv in Canada, his Lordship regrets that it is impossible for him at the present moment to communicate to you any definitive answer upon the subject. I have the honor to be. Sir, Your most obedient Servant, GEORGE GREY. The Venerable Archdeacon Mountain, (SfC, (^C, ^c, Southampton, November 17, 1836. My Lord, I have the honor to acknowledao ;i, letter from Sir George Grey, written by desire of your Lord- sliip, on the 10th of the present month^ in answer 13 to my representations of the claims of the Church in Canada, and the urgent need experienced hy the Bishop of Quebec, of assistance in the labours of his Diocese. Your Lordship having been pleased to inform me that the questions affecting the Church Esta- blishment in Canada, and especially as it regards the Clergy-Reserves, must be decided, upon the Report of the Royal Commissioners who have been sent to that country, I have on?y, with all respect, to express, on behalf of those interests which I have been deputed to represent, my most earnest hope that the instructions conveyed by His Majesty's Government to the Commissioners, will direct their attention to the subject in all the serious, and I surely may be allowed to say, the sacred importance whicli belongs to it — involving as it does, njt only the security of those pledges given to the Church, the maintenance of whicli, as I humbly conceive, is a matter wholly independent of any adjustment of political differences, — but the present and future provision for the religious wants of a rapidly increasing population, wOio, mthout such provision, have prospects before them, such as it is afflicting to contemplate. The disposal, however, of the question which concerns the Church-Establishment at large, being thus left contingent upon the Report of the Commissioners, and the Bishop having the advan- tage of communication with them upon the spot,* the Church ought to repose in the confidence that the issue will be favorable to her claims, and to reserve all further plea addressed to the Home Government, till a necessity for it shall appear. I pass, therefore, under permission from your Lordship, to the other point to which I was * The writer was himself ia communication, by letter, with the Bishop. '.».! f 14 charged to solicit your attention; and beg to renew my application for the appointment of a Suf&'agan Bishop in the Diocese of Quebec, upon the footing stated in my former letter. Whatever may be the ultimate character of the more "general ecclesiastical arrangements in the Canadas, the necessity for this particular measure (which carries with it no expence to His Majesty's Government, and, as I have been given to understand, is not conceived by Government to envelop any objec- tion) has, I trust, been made sufficiently apparent; and I have received letters from the Bishop of Quebec expressive of his anxiety to be speedily informed, that provision is made for his relief. I take the liberty of adding, that there are reasons which render it particularly desirable that time should be afforded to put all matters connected with this arrangement in satisfactory train, before I am myself obliged to leave tliis Country. I have the honor to be. My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient humble Servant, G. J. MOUNTAIN, Archdeacon of Quebec. The Right Honorable The Lord Glenelg. Sfc, (Sfc. 8^c, Sir, Donming Street, December 26, 1835. I have the honor to inform you that I have devoted much attention to the representations, made in your letters of the 2 1st of October, and 15 17th ultimo, on the suhject of the appointment of a Suflfragan to the Bishop of Quebec, for the purpose of assisting his Lordship in the discharge of the laborious duties attached to his extensive See. I need scarcely assure you, that in the consideration of this question, I have been most anxious to give effect to the wishes and the recommendations of the Bishop of Quebec. The subject was first brought under my notice, soon after I received the Seals of this department; but as the scheme at that time proposed, assumed that a permanent endowment would be made for the Suffragan Bishop from the Clergy Reserves, and from the casual and territorial Revenue of Upper Canada, I found myself compelled, however reluctantly, to decline acceding to it. The considerations which have been latterly urged by you, both in writing aiid personally, have induced me to resume the subject ; and I proceed to inform you of the only terms upon which it appears to me practicable to afiford to the Bishop of Quebec, the assistance which he requires. You are aware of the pledge which was some time since given to Parliament, to discontinue the annual vote towards the maintenance of the Clergy in North America, whenever the tenure of the present holders of Clerical appointments should expire. To that pledge His Majesty's Government feel it incumbent upon them strictly to adhere, and no change can be contemplated, either in the amount of the provision for the Clergy of the Church o. England in North America, or in the duration of that provision. It appears to me, therefore, that the only mode in TwMch I can gite vay aid to the attainment of the 'object in View, is by jNmetiomag the appointmeivt 16 as SuttVagan to the Bishop of Quehec, of some Clergyman who may he willing to undertal^e the office, without any addition at the charge ol the public, to the income to which he may be at present entitled. I can hold out no secular inducement to any one, to assume the labour and responsibility necessarily attached to such an office. I am aware that when it was proposed to me that a Suffragan Bishop should be appoint- ed, with a permanent Salary, you expressed an unwillingness to accept the appointment, although the Bishop of Quebec was most desirous that you should be selected for this station. Sensible, however, as I am of the disinterested anxiety which you have evinced, to promote the welfare of the Church in Canatla, I am encouraged to hope that under the circumstances which I have stated, you will not refuse your personal assistance towards carrying into effect the arrangement in question. If upon consideration you should feel yourself able to accede to this proposal, I shall have much jdeasure, with the concurrence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, in sanctioning your appointment, and in submitting yonr name to His Majesty as Suffragan Bishop of Quebec. I cannot doubt that much benefit will accrue to the interests of religiDii in North America, from the zealous and efficient discharge of the duties which will devolve upon you in that character ; and in addition to this consideration, it will afford me great satisfaction to have been enabled in any v/ay to meet the wishes of the present Bishop of Quebec, whose active and indefatigable devotedness to his laborious office, during many years, e:?tilie3 him to every con- sideration on the part of His ilajesty's Govern- ment. I am not forgetful of the disinterested offer which has been made by the Bishop, to 17 give up a considerable portion of his income as a provision for a Suffragan; but I do not feel that this is an arrangement to which the official sanction of His Majesty's Government is necessary, and I therefore abstain from con- sidering it as in any degree essential to the adoption of the proposed scheme. , I have the honor to be, v Sir, '^ Your most obedient Servant, GLENELG. The Venerable Archdeacon Mountain, Sfc, S^c. 5fc. Fulham Vicarage, December 28, 1835. My Lord, ' I have the honor to acknowledge your Lord- ship's letter of the 26th of the present month, in which you are pleased lo signify to me, in answer to representations addressed to your Lordship by myself, the views and intentions of His Majesty's Government in relation to the Church of Engla^id in Canada, and to propose to my own acceptance the appointment of Suffragan Bishop in the Diocese of Quebec. For the honor which you have thus done me, and for the terms in which you have been so good as to convey the offer, I am bound to render my best acknowledgments to your Lordship ; and as the conditions stated by your Loi dship are such, as almost to preclude the hope of finding any other person who could afford to assume that office, while the emoluments attachei'i to my ecclesiastical duties in the Colony, will enable me, though not without some sacrifice of prudential considerations^ u iQ Undertake it> I am induced^ with the apptoha- UoD 9I His Grace of Canterhury, to whom I have ecimmumcated your Lordship's letter, to avail myv imM of the contideiide which you aj^ pleasediiitai repose i^ my qualificationa^, and to close witkthc pifojeete 1 arrangemeot. -^ I am very sui^, however, that your Lorid will pardon me, if I respectfully request that my acceptance of this office may not he understood to carry with it the acquiescence of my own mind, in the dedsibn to \v^ludi His Majesty's Government iMVB <s&BAe respecting the provision to he made for the support of the Ecclesiastical EstabUsta^entin Canada, nor construed as implying in whole or in part, an ahandonment of what I conceive to he the claims of that Establishment^ aa I have already had the honor of representing them to your Jjord- ^hip; Although the exigencies of the> Church and the want of relief personally experienced by tiie excellent Bishop of Quebec, scarcely leave, me a 'choice as to the cOur.se which I shall now ^dopt, I tiannctbnt feel not only that my own efficiency will ^e unavoidably and most distressingly criijpl'e^, jsliould t survive the Bishop and succeed to lus eAtire charge, by the want of any income attacke^d ttt the See, liut that the discoura^ng changes ^vitji idiieh the Church at large in Canada has, witliiii Ifiie last few years, been llireateued, are such as it is the imperative duty of the Clergy to seek to ja^ert, by every means left in their power.* llTnder the influence of tliese impressions, and referring ti3 the notice of the Clergy-Reserves teported in the papci*s to have been taken hi the Speech of tlic Earl of Gosford, at the opening of 'the Session of the Pro\iiicial Parliament of Lower Canada, which has reuclicd me since Ilasthadihe • The writer in engaged in endeavours to effect wbatftven littte'tatyifce hoped for f<om his single excrtioas^, duritag; the remainder of his etftxjn ^MM.t 1 ■ . t , - . • I < ■ ;, T* * ■ ■ , . ■ M f ■ 1^ t 'fl ' ' 1 .' * 'WBgHMlk -•--'■■.-*-•••--'• J -^ - y ■• ■ V V .- - .■ . . . 10 honor of addressing your Lordship, — 1 venture to express my earnest hope that instructions may be sent to the Royal Commissioners in Canada, to take into consideration the statements submitted to your Lordship in my letter of the 21st of October ; and since the intervention of the local legislature is regarded as necessary in order to any measure which would prevent the alienation of those Reserves, or provide an equivalent for the party whom they were designed to benefit, I trust that it may not be deemed improper, that in making so vast a sunender, an attempt should be made to obtain some stipulation in favor of the Church. ^ Should I receive any encouragement from yoiir Lordship upou this point, I am prepared to submit to you the outline of a plan for such a purpose; which, however, if y you shj^uld judge it more advisable, can be foywa^dod to fhe Commissioners by the Clergy Reserve Corjioration of Lower Canada, upoA their receiving directions from your Lordship to apply fdr it.* * I have the honor to be. My Lord, Your Lordship*s most obedient humble Servant, G. J. MOUNTAIN, Archdeacon of Quebec. The Right Honorable The Lord Glenelg. * This proposal was answered by an offer to forward any representa- tions to be addressed directly by the writer to the Commissioners, which offer was declined upon the ground that the Bishop of Quebec was him- self in communication with them upon the spot. .. •«». i: I V <^H--y T. KING, I'KINTKIt, 22, HIGH-SI HEET SOUTHAMPTON.