Your Lordship such information as it is in my power to afford, premising that I am unable to supplement that information by any reference, as intimated, to the Bishop of Victoria, no successor to Bishop Alford having yet been appointed.
With reference to the motion of the Bishop of London in the House of Lords, embracing seven points respectively to the seven by it, I have to observe as follows:-
(1). The late Bishop (Alford) of Victoria was appointed to his See in May, 1849, and resigned in January, 1873 (not 1965, likely OCR error for date), receiving a conditional pension of £500 from the Colony. I am only aware of one local Ordinance in which the authority of the Bishop of Victoria is recognized: No. 5 of 1850, in which certain powers are given to the Bishop in connection with the Cathedral which were previously vested in the Colonial Chaplain under Ordinance No. 2 of 1847;
(2). The Revenue of the Bishopric is £1,000 a year and derived from the Colonial Treasury, as appears from the Parliamentary Return No. 2 in Return forming Enclosure No. 2 in Your Lordship's Circular;
(3). It is difficult to ascertain the number of Clergymen subject to the Bishop of Victoria, without a reference to himself, as it includes Missionaries within the territories of the Emperor of China, who are quite unconnected to the Government of this Colony. Of those within...