en Upper
Canada and the Imperial Parliament. As Canadians, and acting in
behalf of a large section of the Canadian community, the
representatives of the Wesleyan Methodist Church expressed their
convictions, their feelings, and their apprehensions to Her
Majesty's Government while the question was pending before
Parliament; but when the execrable Bill became an Imperial Law, it
was as much out of place for them as clergymen, or of any religious
persuasion to strive to fulfil their own predictions, or set on
foot a Colonial civil contest, as it would have been pusillanimous
in them not to have remonstrated before the consummation of such an
act of wrong against the people of Upper Canada. The question is
now being taken up in the right place, and, we trust, in the right
spirit.

10. Under such circumstances it is impossible that the question can long
remain in its present state, and it is for the Imperial Parliament to
say what shall be done. It is admitted upon all hands that the members
of the Churches of England and Scotland in Canada are more wealthy in
proportion to their numbers, and, therefore, less needful of extraneous
aid than the members of any other religious persuasion; and in
proportion to their numbers and wealth will be their comparative
influence and advantages in the proceedings of their own Legislature. It
is a grave question, whether the Imperial Parliament will place itself
in an attitude of hostility to the Legislative Assembly and people of
Canada for the sake of conferring questionable pecuniary distinctions
upon the clergy of the two most wealthy denominations in that country?
Should any members of Parliament be disposed to pursue this course, and
hazard this experiment, I beg them to pause and consider the following
questions:--

(1) Can the real interests of the Churches of England and Scotland
themselves be advanced by occupying a position of antagonism to the
acknowledged equal rights of the great majority of the people of Canada?
And is it desirable that these Churches should be the instruments and
emblems of wrong to a country, rather than natural and powerful agencies
of its unity, advancement, and happiness? Interested parties in Canada
may not be able to see this, but British and Christian statesmen ought
not to overlook it.

(2) Ought the members of the Churches of England and Scotland, who take
a part in public affair