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at least be infinitely preferable to the confusion in which we should be thrown, if we were to attempt GOOD HOPE to give practical effect, in a constitutional government of the Church, to the principles laid down by the
Master of the Rolls (cheers),
No. 19.
Encl. in No. 19.
No. 19.
COPY of a LETTER from the Rev. WM. LONG to the Right. Hon. the Earl of CARNARVON.
Mowbray, near Cape Town, February 19, 1867.
(Received March 27, 1867.)
MY LORD,
I HAVE the honour, by desire of my parishioners, to forward copy of a series of resolutions passed by them at a meeting held on Monday the 18th February 1867, and have to solicit respectfully the favour of your influence as a member of the British Parliament, in support of their views in regard to any Imperial legislation for the Church in the Colonies during the ensuing session.
I have, &c.
(Signed) WILLIAM LONG,
&c.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon,
&c.
&c.
Enclosure in No. 19.
Incumbent of St. Peter's Church,
Mowbray.
ST. PETER'S CHURCH, MOWBRAY.
A meeting of the congregation of St. Peter's, Mowbray, was held on Monday evening, the 18th in- stant, at which the following resolutions were adopted:
1. Proposed by Thomas Tennant, Esq., seconded by Thomas Watson, Esq., "That the members of St. Peter's Church, Mowbray, have learned with alarm that there is a prospect of the very objec tionable Bill submitted by Mr. Cardwell in 1866 to the Imperial Parliament being re-introduced in the ensuing session. They concur generally in the views taken of that Bill by the bishop, clergy, and laity of the diocese of Melbourne, as by them conveyed in petition to the Queen, and consider any enactment repealing the statutes which regard the United Church of England and Ireland in the Colonies as an integral portion of the parent Church to be an injustice to the members of the United Church of England and Ireland both at home and abroad."
2. Proposed by John M. Brown, jun., Esq., seconded by F. Rutherfoord, Esq., "That the members of this Church, whilst alarmed at the prospect of the re-introduction into the Imperial Parliament of Mr. Cardwell's Bill, are glad to find, from the evidence brought out in the recent case before the Master of the Rolls, that the contributors to the Colonial Bishoprics Fund never intended to create endowments for the establishment of separate and distinct churches in the Colonies, which should be at liberty to ignore the the royal supremacy in causes ecclesiastical, or to reject or add to the laws of the Church of England at their option; but that, on the contrary, a resolution was passed by the founders of that fund, that they should, in no case, proceed without the concurrence of the Crown, with whom an agreement was entered into through Her ministers, that the bishops consecrated by Her royal mandate should maintain in their completeness, amongst congregations of the Church of England in the Colonies, the doctrines and discipline of the Church of England. They also desiro to record publicly their obligations to Miss Burdett Coutts, the liberal founder of the sce of Cape Town, for her defence, by petition in the House of Lords, of the rights of the Colonial Church, and her protest which set forth that she never intended to found a Church of South Africa, merely in union and communion with the Church of England, or which should be independent of the appelate supremacy of Her Majesty in causes ecclesiastical; and would congratulate her that the decision of the Privy Council, in the case of Long r. the Bishop of Cape Town, as well as that of the Master of the Rolls, secure for the Colonial bishops endowed by her liberality à sufficiently effective ecclesiastical jurisdiction."
3. Proposed by P. G. Wilmot, Esq., seconded by D. Thompson, Esq., "That from the judgment in the case of the petition of the Bishop of Natal, which declares that the_legal existence of the bishops who were the parties in that proceeding (as bishops of the Chure of England) depends on acts which have no validity except on the basis of the supremacy of the Crown, and the question between them could only be decided by the Crown as head of the Established Church, and depositary of the ultimate appellate jurisdiction,' it is apparent to the members of this Church that unless Colonial bishops continue to be appointed as heretofore by Royal Letters Patent, and consecrated in England under mandate from the Crown, in the manner prescribed by the law of England, uniformly with the custom for the consecration of bishops for English dioceses, the legal relations between the mother Church and her branches in the Colonies will cease to exist, and the Church property now vested in trust to the bishops and their successors, under the titles conferred on them by the letters patent, is likely to be diverted from its original purposes."
4. Proposed by E. J. M. Syfret, Esq, seconded by S. Twycross, Esq., “That the members of the Church, for reasons embodied in the three foregoing resolutions, thankfully accept the status laid down for the Colonial Churches in the lucid judgment of the Master of the Rolls, and would express an earnest hope that no Imperial legislation may be adopted which will sever the Church of England in the Colonies, as a branch, from the parent Church, or disturb that security by the right of final
COLONIAL BISHOPRICS.
appeal to the Queen in Council, which guarantees to the Church of England at home and in the Colonies an uniformity of administration of her laws."
5. Proposed by J. Brown, sr., Esq., seconded by J. Fairbairn, Esq., "That the reverend incumbent be requested to forward these resolutions to the Archbishops of England and Ireland, the Bishop of London, and any other members of the Imperial Parliament likely to take an interest in the unity and welfare of the Colonial Church."
No. 20.
Copy of a DESPATCH from his Grace the Duke of BUCKINGHAM and CHANDOS to Governor Sir P. E. WODEHOUSE, K.C.B. (Separate.)
SIR,
Downing Street, March 30th, 1867. A PRINTED letter has been received at this department from the Rev. William Long, Incumbent of St. Peter's Church, Mowbray, forwarding, by desire of his parishioners, a series of resolutions passed by them at a public meeting. This letter is addressed to my predecessor in office, the Earl of Carnarvon, soliciting his Lordship's influence as a Member of the British Parliament, in support of the views set forth in those resolutions, in regard to any Imperial legislation for the Church in the Colonies during the present Session.
You will have the goodness to acquaint Mr. Long, that his letter has been received at this department, but that any letter addressed to the Secretary of State should have been sent through the Governor.
(Signed)
Governor Sir P. E. Wodehouse, K.C.B.
&c.
&c.
&c.
I have, &c. BUCKINGHAM & CHANDOS.
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