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Beloved Brethren, Under the pressure of what I feel to be a very great necessity, I have ceased for a short time from my pastoral labours in the Diocese of Toronto, and have come to England to appeal, I hope not in vain, to the sympathy of the members of the Church of England in behalf of their brethren in Upper Canada. When, in the ye?r 1799, 1 made that distant por- tion of the British empire my home, it contained not more than 20,000 inhabitants. Even in 1824, the population had only risen to 150,000 ; but since that period the increase has been astoniahing, being now (1850) 800,000, or more than five-fold in twenty- six years, and according to its present rapid rate of increase, so much accelerated by steam navigation, and by the circumstances which compel emigration from Great Britain and Ireland, there is no doubt that many who are now living will see its popula- tion far greater than that of Scotland. Of its present inhabitants I may venture to say, that 200,000, at least, are members of the Church of England, and the greater part of them either emigrants from the UnHed Kingdom, or the children of such emigrants. Hence the Diocese of Toronto promises to be the principal seat of our Church in British North America. The present policy of the mother country, whether it be wise or unwise, is to confer upon her great colonial possessions almost uncontrolled powers of government, so that their subordination to Imperial authority is in fact rather nominal than real. Being left to model their civil institutions as they please, their moral condition and social happiness are de- pendent on the chance of their forming a right judg- ment of their best interests. And this, where suf- frat^e is almost universal, as it is in Upper Canada, leaves all dependent on the virtue and intelligence of the people. For the education of the great mass of the people in common schools, liberal provision has been made by the Legislature, under a system which is con- ducted with ability and zeal, but which, neverthe- less, labours under the vital defect of excluding all doctrinal instruction in religion, or, in other words, all practical teaching of religious truths. To secure an adequate provision for education of that higher order which is necessary to prepare youth for the liberal professions and for the import- ant duties of legislation, had been, for fifty years, the self-imposed labour of my life. In 1827, before which time the Province was scarcely qualified to receive it, we had the happiness to see in Upper Canada a University founded by Royal Charter, and liberally endowed by the Crown with a grant of land. So little exclusive was it in J its character, that its advantages were open to all ; no tests were required from Professors or Students, with the exception of the Professor of Divinity and of Graduates in that faculty. But it was avowedly a College in connexion with the National Church, and provision was made in the Charter for ensuring unity and consistency in its discipline and government. If it had been otherwise, the Charter would have been such as had never before issued under the Great Seal of England for the foundation of a University to be endowed by the Crown in any part of the British dominions. Yet, because it was com- plained of as unreasonable and unjust that a Uni- versity should be founded by the Sovereign in con- nexion with the Established Church of the empire, it was thought expedient to allow the Royal Charter to be so altered by a Colonial statute, as to leave no trace in it of a connexion with the National Chui Ji. This change was made in 1837 ; and, as was fore- seen by many, it half accomplished the ruin of the University. For though neither religious instruction nor Divine worship was excluded, and though in deference to the express wish of the Sovereign, King William IV., a Professorship of Divinity according to the doctrines of the Church of England, and the daily use of her admirable liturgy, were tolerated for a time, during which the University was flourishing, and rapidly rising in public estimation and confidence, yet the Colonial legislature, having been once allowed to mutilate the Royal Charter, has not stopped short in the work of destruction. c In the last session an Act was passed, which came into force on the first day of January, 1850, expressly excluding from the College religious in- struction according to any form of doctrine what- ever; prohibiting any form of prayer, or any act of public worship, and disqualifying any Graduate of the University, who may have taken Holy Orders, from having a voice in the Senate. By this measure, which I think I do not too harshly describe when I speak of it as impious, the munificent gift of His Majesty King George IV. (a gift the present value of which is estimated at 270,000Z. and which yields a revenue which is yearly increasing, of about 11,000?.) is at last worse than thrown away ; for, deprived of the respect and confidence of the sound and intelligent portion of the community, to whatever denomination of Chris- tians they may belong, the University cannot flourish ; or if by any exertion it can be sustained for a time, it must be at the sacrifice of the highest and most sacred interests. A deep conviction of this forces itself upon the mind of every religious man ; but the members of the Church of England, utterly despairing of, and rejecting, as they do, what was once King's College, but is now the antichristian " University of Toronto," do yet not despair of their Church, or of their cause. Relying on the blessing of God, and using their own best exertions, they hope soon to succeed in establishing a University strictly and unre- servedly in connexion with their Church ; a Uni- versity not confining itself to instruction in human 6 science, but a University of which the religious cha- racter shall be known and acknowledged, in which the doctrines of the Church of England shall be taught in their integrity, and in which her pure and " reasonable service " shall elevate and sanctify the labours of the teacher and the scholar. We hope to succeed in establishing for ourselves, without pecuniary aid from any public source, a University clearly and avowedly in connexion with our Church, receiving only from our gracious Sovereign what other religious denominations in the province have received, a Charter of Incorpo- ration, providing for the government of the Institr - tion, and conferring on it the privilege of granting Degrees. I am labouring, at an advanced age, to lay the foundation of a work which I believe will, at no distant day, be of inestimable value to that rising country. The efforts which I made in the Pro- vince, just before my departure, have been nobly seconded. "Within a few weeks, the contributions in money and land amounted to more than twenty- five thousand pounds. Yet this effort, astonishing as it is, considering the state of the contributors, struggling for subsistence in the wilderness, far from the land of their fathers, is scarcely sufficient to erect the necessary buildings. But does it noB constitute a claim all but irresistible upon the Members of the Church in this country, to supply the deficiency as to endowment ? Hence, having done our utmost, my people as well as myself feel ourselves justified in relying with filial confi- aence upon the enlightened patriotism, the religious zeal, the generous sympathy of our brethren at home, for enabling us to establish, in this populous and important Colony, upon a sound foundation and on a liberal scale, a seat of learning with which poli- tical agitation shall have no pretence to meddle, and which will assuredly pro-e an invaluable blessing to the country, and to many thousands in it who were inhabitants of the United Kingdom ; and not a blessing to those only who belong to the Church of England, but to all who may desire to avail them- selves of the means of education which such an In- stitution will offer. I trust God will put it into the hearts of those of our fellow-churchmen in this country to whom He has entrusted wealth, to give to us liberally of their abundance ; and that those who can only by the exercise of a prudent economy have anything to spare, may still spare us a little ; for what we have undertaken can only be accomplished on an adequate scale, by the co-operation of many. It is not long since an English gentleman, Mr. Smithson, bequeathed a princely sum of money for the promotion of science by means of an institution to be founded in the capital of the United States of America, to which country I am not aware that he was bound by any particular tie. If, happily, some other English gentleman, of equal means and equal philanthropy, should so far combine patriotism with benevolence as to make Upper Canada the reci- pient of as large a bounty, he would be laying the foundation of infinite good to a country rapidly 8 rising into importance, and would be doing more than it seems can be done, in present times, by legislatures and governments for the best interests of the people* I am, beloved Brethren, Your faithful and affectionate Brother, J. TORONTO. 19, Bjk* Sxuket, S . James's, Ju7ie 12, 1850. All Communications and Contributions are requested to be addressed ^ " Tha Upper Canada Church University Fund, 79, Pall Mall, London.'' Payments may be ma4© by cheque on a London Banker, crossed " Messes. Diummond," or, by a Post Office Order on Charing Cross, payable to " Mk. Edmund Fayerman." Payments will also be received at the Bank of Messrs. Glyn, 67, Lombard Street, and Messrs. Drummond, 49, Charing Cross. 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