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CORRESPONDENCE RELATIVE TO
CEYLON. Synoa, and, in my own name, to assure him of my entire intention to keep my own acts within the
limits of the powers legally assigned to my office as a Bishop of the English Church.
I have, &c.
His Excellency the Governor,
&c.
&c.
(Signed)
PIERS COLOMBO,
COLONIAL BISHOPRICS.
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CANADA.
No. 29.
CANADA
No. 27.
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No. 27.
COPY of a DESPATCH from Governor Sir HERCULES ROBINSON to the Right Hon. the Earl of CARNARVON,
Queen's House, Colombo, Ceylon, September 29, 1866.
(Received, November 3, 1866.) (Answered, No. 117, November 8, 1866. page
(No. 222.)
MY LORD,
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In continuation of my Despatch, No. 129*, of the 23rd June last, I have the honour to forward copy of a letter received from the Bishop of Colombo, transmitting a copy of the Resolutions passed at a recent meeting of the Synod having reference to ↑ Vide Papers Mr. Secretary Cardwell's Despatch, No. 126†, of the 8th May last.
prosented 17th May 1866, p. 16.
I have, &c. The Right Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon, (Signed) HERCULES G. R. ROBINSON.
COPY of a DESPATCH from Governor Viscount MONCK to the Right Hon. the Earl of CARNARVON. (No. 188.)
Quebec, November 8, 1866. (Received, November 21, 1866.) MY LORD,
(Answered, Separate, November 29, 1866, page.) I HAVE the honour to transmit herewith to your Lordship an Address to Her Majesty the Queen from the Synod of the Diocese of Toronto.
I have to request that your Lordship will be so good as to lay this address at the foot of the Throne.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon,
&c.
&c,
&c.
า
(Signed)
I have, &c.
MONCK.
&c.
&c.
&c.
Enclosure in No. 29.
No
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Enel, in No. 37. HON. SIB,
No. 28.
• Above.
Enclosure in No 27.
Colombo, September 24, 1866, I BEG to inform your Excellency that at a meeting of the Synod on Thursday last, September 20th, I duly laid before that body your Excellency's letter communicating the reply of the Secretary of State for the Colonies to their application that every appointment to any ecclesiastical office in this "diocese be made in future upon the undertaking of the person so appointed to sign the declaration in "Ceylon," and the Synod accordingly passed unanimously the Resolutions, copies of which I annex, and requested me to forward them to your Excellency as their acceptance of the Secretary of State's decision and assent to the opinion of the Law Officers of the Crown communicated through his despatch.
I have, &c. (Signed) Piens COLOMBO.
RESOLUTIONS BEFERRED TO.
1. That the Secretary do read Resolution VI. and the portion of Resolution VIII. which have lapsed in consequence of the terms of the Secretary of State's despatch.
2. That No. VI. and the proviso of No. VIII, having lapsed as above, and the Bishop having announced in his opening address that the former part of No. VIII, will similarly lapse, No. VII. be rescinded.
3. That a copy of the Resolutions just passed be forwarded by the Bishop to his Excellency the Governor, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
"True Copies,"
No. 28.
(Signed)
PIEBS COLOMBO.
Downing Street, November 8, 1866.
COPY of a DESPATCH from the Right Hon. the Earl of CARNARVON to Governor Sir HERCULES Robinson. (No. 117.) SIR,
I have received, and have read with satisfaction, your Despatch, No. 222*, of the September 29th, enclosing a letter from the Bishop of Colombo with copies of the +Vide Papers Resolutions adopted on the 20th of that month by the Synod of the diocese of Colombo presented with reference to the decisions embodie.l in my predecessor's Despatch, No. 126†, of the 17th May 1866, 8th May last.
I have, &c. CARNARVON.
p. 16.
(Signed)
To Her Most Gracious Majesty Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, &c.
HUMBLY SHEWETH,
The Petition of the Synod of the Diocese of Toronto,
THAT the said Diocese of Toronto was erected under and by virtue of Letters Patent granted by Your Most Gracious Majesty on the 27th of July, in the third year of Your Majesty's reign.
That by an Act passed by the Canadian Parliament in the 19th and 20th years of Your Majesty's reign, entitled "An Act to enable Members of the United Church of England and Ireland in Canada to "meet in Synod," and by another Act, passed by the Canadian Parliament in the 22nd year of Your Majesty's reign, entitled "An Act to Explain and Amend an Act intituled 'An Act to enable the "Members of the United Church of England and Ireland in Canada to meet in Synod,"" it was enacted, among other things, that the bishops, clergy, and laity of the United Church of England and Ireland in this Province may meet in their several dioceses which are now or may be hereafter con- stituted in this Province, and in such manner and by such proceedings as they shall adopt, frame constitutions and make regulations for enforcing discipline in the Church, for the appointment, deposition, deprivation, or removal of any person bearing office therein, of whatever order or degree, any rights of the Crown to the contrary notwithstanding, and for the convenient and orderly management of the property, affairs, and interests of the Church in matters relating to and affecting only the said Church and the officers and members thereof, and not in any manner interfering with the rights, privileges, or interests of other religious communities or of any person or persons not being a member or members of the said United Church of England and Ireland provided always, that such constitutions and regulations shall apply only to the diocese or dioceses adopting the same.
That under and by virtue of the said recited Act the bishops, clergy, and iaity of the said diocese of Toronto duly assembled in Synod at Toronto in the said diocese on the 16th of June in the year of our Lord 1865, and then and thiere duly passed and enacted a certain canon rule and regulation for the election of a suffragan and coadjutor-bishop of the said diocese which canon was duly confirmed at a meeting of the Synod of the said diocese held at Toronto in the said diocese on the 10th day of August in the year of our Lord 1866.
That after the passing of the said canon rule and regulation, and in accordance with the provisions of the same, the Bishop of the diocese of Toronto did, in writing under his hand, signify to the Synod of the said diocese, that he was desirous of having a suffragan and coadjutor-Bishop nominated by the Synod thereof, so soon as the Laws and Rules of the Synod providing for such nomination should allow, and that, in accordance with the further provisions of the said canon, the Synod of the diocese of Toronto did thereupon resolve that the election of a suffragan and coadjutor-bishop is desirable and
necessary.
That in accordance with the said canon rule and regulation, the said Synod of the diocese of Toronto duly met at Toronto on the 19th day of September in the year of our Lord 1866, and then and there duly elected the Vonerable Alexander Neil Bethune, Doctor in Divinity, to be the suffragan and coadjutor-Bishop of the said diocese, and that the said Alexander Neil Bethune has given his assent to the said election.
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that Your Majesty will be graciously pleased to approve the said Alexander Neil Bethune, Doctor in Divinity, to be the suffragan and coadjutor-Bishop of the said dincese, in accordance with the said recited Acts of the Parliament of Canada and with the canon lawfully made by the Diocesan and Provincial Synods in that behalf, and that Your Majesty will be E 2
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