MISSIONARY INTELLIGENCE. ships will be open for competition and Two of £30) Currency per annum each, All of the above bear date to the successful Candidates from the 1st October following. The Scholarships will be tenable for not more than four years, and the age of Candidates must not be under 19. NOVA SCOTIA.It is with deep regret | lege, Cobourg.-The following Scholarthat we announce to the Clergy and laity of the Church, the serious indisposition of the Bishop. His lordship was taken ill at the residence of the Rev. Mr. Filleul, about eight miles from Lunenburg, to which place he had been on a Visitation. Dr. Shreve having been called to his relief, it was found necessary to bleed him copiously. A large number of young persons were waiting to be confirmed at Chester, and although still suffering severely and greatly debilitated, his lordship proposed performing the service in his chamber, but his medical attendants, fearing the effect of such an effort, very properly advised him against it. He has since been removed by easy stages to Halifax, and although much weakened and subject to severe paroxysms he is decidedly better, and we trust he will be again restored to his family and the Church. It is some consolation to his friends that his sufferings result from the fulfilment of his sacred duties, and that sickness found him dispensing the means of health and peace to others. Great anxiety has been felt among friends and members of the Church, throughout the week, and public prayers were offered up for his recovery in all the neighbouring Churches; and we have no doubt that the same course of duty and affection will be adopted throughout the Diocese, and that the Pastors of the several Churches will gladly make the case of their Bishop the subject of special prayer, and hundreds in their congregations, who have shared his paternal care and blessing, will join to make it fervent and effectual.-Church Times, Nov. 23. TORONTO.-Diocesan Theological Col The Clergy of the English Church, with the characteristic loyalty for which they have suffered so much in America, are bestirring themselves in opposition to certain parties who are calling for the separation of these Colonies from Great Britain, that they may be annexed to the United States. The Archdeacon of York has preached and published a Sermon entitled The Duty of Loyalty." The experience of our older colonies (now the United States) abundantly proves that if Canada is to be retained by this country it will be mainly through the bond of sympathy supplied in the communion of the Church. Among the arguments advanced in reprobation of the project of annexing it to the Republic, it is asserted that in a treaty with the Mahometan state of Tripoli, the federal government of the United States has expressly declared that it "is in no manner a Christian government." FIRST CHURCH BUILT IN TORONTO.-(Rev. E. Hawkins's "Annals of the Colonial Church.") CHURCH AND STATE IN THE COLONIES. We present our readers, in this number, with a sketch of the first Church that was built at Toronto in North America; and we do so because this country is now arrived at a point in the history of our colonies which demands the most serious reflection from every true Christian. The Prime Minister has just submitted to Parliament a statement of his policy, of which that great organ of public opinion, the Times, uses the following weighty language:-"No British subject of heart and sense can rise from the perusal without feeling that he is present at a crisis of our national destinies, that he is taking part in great acts, and that he is standing at a point where the story of the past only serves to open the more splendid vision of the future. After many costs and toils, and in the midst of a great social contest, the British empire is с now on the point to be the mother of nations." As respects the value and importance of the temporal institutions about to be accorded to our Colonies, this language is not at all exaggerated. The ancient spirit of liberty, in which our first settlements were planted, but which was sadly straitened in the charters of Colonies of later date, is now to be extended to every portion of the British dominions. The arbitrary government, to which too many of our colonists have been subjected, is to give place to local and representative institutions, framed, as nearly as possible, upon the model of our own constitution; and no one that has carried an English heart to any of our foreign dependencies, at an age, and in circumstances, to preserve it from the bad influences of their present systems, will be disposed to undervalue the boon which is thus conferred upon the enterprising settler in distant lands. Neither is it easy to estimate the immense impulse which will be given to civilization, and the improvement of barbarous nations, by the experiment which is about to be made. Our Colonies are to stand forth as so many miniature copies of their mighty mother, each in its sphere is to run the course which she has run before them, with all the advantage of her example and her protection. Participating so heartily the satisfaction of the public, as citizens not wholly unacquainted with the political wants about to be remedied, it is with a pang that, as churchmen, we cannot find, in all this statesmanlike exposure, the remotest hint of any improvement in the religious condition of our Colonies. The Times, indeed, informs us that in the new Australian Constitution the payments for public worship are reserved, as before, for the regulation of the mother country. But we do not find that Lord John Russell himself makes any allusion to this subject in the course of his long and able address. We are reluctantly obliged to infer that, even when deliberately reviewing the errors and deficiencies of former times, and proposing to provide for our Colonies the best institutions the State can devise, our most liberal politicians do not feel any necessity for an effort to supply them with the INSTITUTIONS OF CHRIST! Yet what says the Times? "It is enough to make any Englishman proud of his country and his age. He belongs to a country whose mission it is to sow half the world with free institutions, and he belongs to a time when that mission is fulfilled!" And again, after taking time to reflect on the proposed policy, this paper tells us that "Lord John Russell takes his stand on the principle that British subjects have the same rights in the Colonies as at home, and are equally entitled to representative institutions and a responsible Government. What, then, we ask, is become of their Christian birthright? Ask our English lawyers, and they will tell you that "Christianity is part and parcel of the law of the land;" that every native of these islands, not being unbaptized or excommunicated, has a common law right to Christian burial; that the Church, as by law established, is the free inheritance of the poor. These are rights anterior by many ages to "representative institutions or responsible government." The latter, indeed, are the children of the Church; owing their birth and nurture to the Christian institutions which they now ignore. To establish Christianity through the length and breadth of the land, to hand it down to remotest posterity, our ancestors willingly devoted their property to the erection and endowment of Cathedral and Parish Churches. Can any man explain the principle upon which the entire benefit of these endowments should be monopolized by that portion of their descendants who remain in the mother country, and those who "have the same rights in the Colonies as at home" not be equally entitled to Bishops and Clergymen as to representative institutions and responsible Government? The To this question we believe only one answer can be given. people of England are agreed upon the blessings of liberty, and the general nature of its institutions; but they are not so agreed upon the importance and ordinances of Christianity! In introducing State institutions, no more serious discussion arises than whether there shall be one House of Parliament or two. But, in providing for religious ordinances, we are encountered by the claims of a multiplicity of sects, upon which our governors have no certain method of deciding. In other words, as we have long perceived, the existence of dissent at home is the great obstacle to the Christianization of our empire abroad. Now, in whatever degree this may exonerate the Government, in the same does it lay the most stringent responsibility on the Church to accomplish, by the private and voluntary exertions of her members, that in which the State thus confesses its impotence and blindness. The Church was the parent of our English liberties, and she is now called upon to extend the same fostering care to the rising communities of the British dependencies. Every one knows that one main cause of the separation of the American Colonies from this country was the want of proper ecclesiastical functionaries to administer among them the rites of the mother church. The same result is again beginning to show itself in the demand which is heard from Canada for separation from Great Britain, and annexation to the United States. This demand Lord John Russell expresses his determination-the deter mination of the Queen, her government, and the best and noblest of her people-stedfastly to resist. But we are not the first to say this; the loyal Clergy of Canada have already bestirred themselves, and we venture to say that where the influence of the Church is felt, we shall hear little of "annexation." A friend of our own, a clergyman in Upper Canada, writes us under date 18th December last:-"I believe Upper Canada to be in the main loyal and true, if England will have it so, but we begin to think that she wishes to discard us. I can never be a Yankee. John Bull I was born, John Bull I hope to die." But there are more important matters than even the integrity of the British empire dependent on the exertions of English Churchmen. The population of British North America, which, in 1816, numbered 462,250, is now (as Lord John Russell is satisfied) not less than 2,000,000. We think we are correct when we state that no step whatever has been taken by Government, or by any public body in England (except the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel), to supply a single Clergyman for this enormous increase of souls. Canada is at this moment increasing its population in a proportion but little inferior to that of the United States; yet no measures are even contemplated to secure a corresponding increase of religious ordinances. And again: the total emigration from the United Kingdom in the last three years was 796,354 persons, giving an average of 265,450 This number is doubtless swelled by the pressure of the per annum. Irish famine; yet, the Prime Minister reckons on an equal amount of emigration as likely to continue for many years. Now this is only 40 or 50,000 less than the whole annual increase of the home population. Seven or eight years of such an emigration would transport the whole population of London, and leave the banks of the Thames without an inhabitant! This emigration is entirely of the labouring classes: its extent may be appreciated by the fact that not less than a million and half of money has been expended as the cost of their transit. Not a penny, except by the Society before named, is devoted to their spiritual improvement! The large sum we have named was provided principally by the labourers themselves, or their relations and friends, who had previously emigrated. Lord John Russell reflects with complacency upon this mode of securing a due amount of emigration in future; but it is obvious that such resources will avail nothing towards a supply of Churches and Clergymen. All that these classes can contribute will be expended on conveying across the seas the human beings who form the "raw |