HC Deb 30 March 1855 vol 137 c1403
MR. DUNLOP

asked the First Lord of the Treasury, whether—considering that by the Clergy Reserves Act, recently passed by the Legislature of Canada, and assented to by the Governor General in name of Her Majesty, it is declared in the preamble to certain of its enactments, that "it is desirable to remove all semblance of connection between Church and State,"—it was the intention of the Government to cease to maintain that connection in Canada, by no longer advising Her Majesty to nominate to vacant bishoprics in that Colony?

SIR GEORGE GREY

said, no episcopal vacancy had occurred in Canada since the Act passed, and he was not aware of any decision of the Government as to any alteration of the practice which had hitherto prevailed in respect to appointments to such vacancies.