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Her Majesty may continue to retain her two great prerogatives as head of the Church, viz: the appoint- ment of Bishops, and the final adjudication upon appeal of all Ecclesiastical causes. In these particulars there is not in Victoria, nor, I believe, in Australia, any sympathy with the sentiments expressed by the Legislature of Canada. I cannot but suspect that the feeling of the clergy and laity of the Church in Canada is to be attributed altogether to recent circumstances, and will prove transient only. Upon this, however, I have no business to express any opinion: of the feeling in Victoria I can speak with the most perfect confidence.
As I am shortly about to return to my diocese, you will greatly oblige me if you can inform me at an early period of the views of the Government.
I have, &c.
(Signed)
C. MELBOURNE.
FO II!
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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