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CORRESPONDENCE RELATIVE TO
graciously pleased to direct the necessary authority to be issued for the consecration of the said Alexander Neil Bethune as suffragan and coadjutor-bishop of the said diocese of Toronto.
By dosire and on behalf of the Synodd of the diocese of Toronto, this 6th day of November in the year of our Lord 1866.
(Signed)
JOHN TORONTO.
Seal,
J. HILLYARD Cameron,
Chancellor of the Diocose. J. H. HARMAN,
Registrar of the Diocese.
No. 30.
Copy of a DESPATCH from the Right Hon. the Earl of CARNARVON to Governor
Viscount MONCK. (Separate.) MY LORD,
Downing Street, November 29, 1866.
I HAVE received your Lordship's Despatch, No. 188, of the 8th November last, transmitting an Address to the Queen from the Synod of the diocese of Toronto, praying that Her Majesty would be graciously pleased to approve of the election of the Venerable Alexander Neil Bethune, D.D., to be suffragan and coadjutor-bishop of the diocese of Toronto, and to direct the necessary authority to be issued for the consecration of Dr. Bethune accordingly.
In reply, I have to request that you will acquaint the Synod that I have laid their 10th Oct. 1866, Address before the Queen, who was pleased to receive it very graciously, and I transmit, for the purpose of being communicated to the Synod, a copy of a letter which has been addressed to me on that subject by the Bishop of Montreal, now in this country, together with a copy of my reply, from which it will be perceived that, under the circumstances set forth in that correspondence, it will rest with the Bishop Metropolitan and the other Bishops of Canada, and will be in their power, under the Canadian Acts of the 19 and 20 of Victoria, cap. 121, and the 22nd Victoria, cap. 139, to determine, without hindrance or assistance from the Royal Prerogative, in what manner the consecration of the Bishop shall be effected.
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Viscount Monck,
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No. 31.
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I have, &c.
CARNARVON.
Cory of a DESPATCH from Sir JOIN MICHEL to the Right Hon. the Earl
of CARNARVON. (Separate.)
MY LORD,
Montreal, December 15, 1866. (Received, December 31, 1866.)
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch, marked "Separate," of the 29th November, stating that the Queen had been pleased to receive very graciously an Address to Her Majesty from the Synod of the diocese of Toronto in reference to the election and consecration of a bishop-coadjutor, and enclosing a letter to your Lordship on the subject from the Bishop of Montreal, together with a copy of your reply.
In obedience to your instructions, I will transmit to the Synod copies of the documents contained in your Lordship's Despatch.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon,
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&c.
&c.
I have, &c. (Signed)
J. MICHEL
COLONIAL BISHOPRICS.
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COPY of a LETTER from the Bishop of MONTREAL to the Right Hon. the Earl of CARNARVON.
Gadland, Southampton, October 10, 1866.
MY LORD,
I HAVE just received a letter from the Bishop of Toronto, informing me that the Synod of his diocese have, with his consent, elected the Venerable Alexander Bethune, Archdeacon of Toronto, as coadjutor-bishop of the diocese of Toronto.
Of course your Lordship will receive official notice of this fact through the Governor General.
The Bishop of Toronto, in his letter to me, says:
"I beg to ask your Lordship at what time it would be convenient for "the consecration of the coadjutor-bishop elect, or should your arrangements not allow you to preside at "of your being in Canada for some months, may I request your lordship to direct the holding of his consecration under the senior Bishop of Canada with as little delay as possible.
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"The propriety of conferring
a title upon the newly elected coadjutor has presented
"itself strongly to my mind, as being conformable to the usage of our Church, and as "imparting to the office its becoming dignity.
"I have settled myself upon the title of Bishop of Niagara, as Niagara is, next "to Toronto, the oldest town in Western Canada, and its name is so distinctively A Canadian."
I suppose, my Lord, that the course adopted in 1863, in the case of the present Bishop of Quebec, will be the one followed on this occasion. In that case Her Majesty's mandate, directing the consecration of the individual nominated by the Synod of Quebec, was issued to me as Metropolitan of Canada; and having given notice to the several suffragan bishops to attend and assist, I proceeded to consecrate. I shall not be returning to Canada myself till after Easter; but if Her Majesty is advised to issue Her mandate for the consecration of Archdeacon Bethune, and it is directed to me, I then call upon the senior bishop to act for me in my absence. As to the name I think the one sug- gested by the Bishop of Toronto is a very proper one, and in the case of Jamaica now, and of Quebec formerly, it has been usual with us to give a separate distinctive title to a coadjutor-bishop, and not simply term him "Coadjutor Bishop of Toronto, &c.," and as is the custom in the United States, and, I believe, in Scotland.
At his great age, being in his 89th year, the Bishop of Toronto very naturally is anxious that he may obtain the assistance of his coadjutor with as little delay as possible.
I feel sure that your Lordship will understand how much we feel interested in this matter in Canada, and excuse my troubling you with these details.
Should your Lordship wish to address any communication to me I have to ask that it may be directed to me at Kidlington, Oxford.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon,
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&c.
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I have, &c. (Signed)
F. MONTREAL.
COPY of a LETTER from the LAW OFFICERS of the Crows to the Right Hon. the Earl of CARNARVON. MR LORD,
Lincoln's Inn, November 2, 1866. We are honoured with your Lordship's commands, signified in Sir Frederic Rogers letter of the 30th October last, in which he stated that he was directed by your Lordship to cuclose a copy of a letter from the Bishop of Montreal, relating to the proposed appointment of the Archdeacon of Toronto to be coadjutor-bishop of that diocese, under the title of "the Bishop of Niagara," and his consecration in Canada.
Sir Frederic Roger further stated that he was also to enclose a copy of the answer which your lordship proposes to return to the Bishop of Montreal, and to request that we would favour your Lordship with our opinion whether the proposed answer is proper
to be sent.
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