word, upon the reason which induced us to go to that expense. Feeling a deep debt of gratitude to the subscribers, for the kindness and liberality with which they had responded to our appeal, we wished to give them some permanent and tangible memorial of the good work towards which they had cooperated. (Hear.) The cost of this work was 387., some part of which will be repaid by the sale of copies; but, at present, our expenses, including advertisements in Exeter, London, and Oxford, amount to the sum which I have already named. My lord, there are many persons in this room, who have not actually subscribed, but who are most willing and anxious to become subscribers. (Hear, hear.) On the part, therefore, of Mr. Armstrong, and myself, I beg leave to intimate, that we still continue to act, as agents for the cathedral fund, and that we shall be most happy to receive any contributions which may be given to us for that purpose. (Cheers.) I am happy to state that many warm and zealous friends of the Colonial church have intimated their intention to subscribe annually until the work be completed; and I have every confidence that, through the divine blessing, and by the active exertions of the Lord Bishop of Fredericton, should life and health be spared to him, it will be completed in every part. (Hear.) I have no doubt that we shall receive from time to time very interesting accounts of the progress of the work; and, that soon after his arrival in his diocese, we shall learn from him, not only that the site has been chosen, but that the first stone of the building has been laid. It will be our pleasing duty to communicate to those kind friends who have so liberally assisted us, such information upon the subject as we may ourselves receive. And I hope we shall be able to acquaint them, first of the completion of the chancel; next of the transepts; thirdly of the nave; and lastly that the topmost stone of the spire has been laid. I will now hand over to Bishop Coleridge, who is the representative of the subscribers on this occasion, a check for 1,400l., to be by him handed to your lordship, and by your lordship placed in the hands of the Lord Bishop of Fredericton. (Cheers.) The Right Rev. Bishop Coleridge then rose, and addressing the Lord Bishop of Fredericton, said, My lord, it is to me, I assure you, a source of peculiar gratification, to be selected to present to your lordship, in the presence of our reverend diocesan, and of this numerous assembly of your friends; and in their names, this parting token of esteem and regard. Other modes might have been adopted for the expression of our feelings, but none, I am assured more in unison with your own, than that one, entirely detached from all private considerations, which has been adopted. Called, as you have happily been, to preside over a distant portion of the Lord's vineyard, it must be a primary object of your solicitude, not only, under the divine blessing, to feed the flock committed to your charge, with the wholesome doctrine of the gospel, and duly to administer the discipline of the English church, but to exhibit also, before the eyes of the people-to their hearts and to their understandings—the scriptural liturgy of that church, in all the fulness and impressiveness of a faithful outward observance. For this end, you have rightly judged, my lord, in proposing to erect, with as little delay as possible, after your arrival in your diocese, a cathedral, worthy-I might hesitate so to speak, of the costliest achievements of architectural skill; but a cathedral-worthy, in some sense-with all humility be it said-of that Being, who though He dwelleth not in temples made with hands, ever deserveth the best from us. Built, as you are desirous it should be, on an ancient model, of singular beauty, and of cathedral appropriateness, and of sufficient dimensions not only for the ordinary services of the church, but for administering the more solemn rites of confirmation and ordination, it will accommodate also those large assemblages of the people which we see in the cathedral of this diocese, and which, we trust, will be annually brought together in your own, with the same gratifying results, at the pressing call of Christian charity. Your friends, my lord, entirely concur with your lordship, in the desirableness and importance of this undertaking, and they deem it a privilege to have been permitted to contribute towards it-they confidently

anticipate that the colonists in New Brunswick will heartily respond to your wishes and whilst they regret your approaching separation from them-a separation, however, which from the shortness of the distance, and the facilities of communication, precludes not the hope of your revisiting, from time to time, your native land-they depute me to express, and to assure you of, their fervent wishes and prayers. (Hear, hear, hear.) They depute me, let me add, to assure you, that you will carry away with you, from your native shore, their fervent wishes and prayers for the success of your spiritual labours, and to express to you their hope, that the pecuniary contribution which they now offer for your acceptance, may be an encouragement to you to go forth the more cheerfully, on your high and holy mission, and prove, as it were, a nucleus, around which the future contributions of the colonists may abundantly gather. We trust that it will be received by you, as a mark, however inadequate, of the very great and affectionate respect in which you are held among us, and of the lively interest with which-while absent in the flesh, yet present in the spirit-we shall watch your movements-joying-in the words of the great apostle of the gentiles-joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ. My lord, I will not trespass longer on your feelings-but as one who has trodden, with whatever steps, the same field of labour which is now before you,-and having richly tasted, through the unmerited mercy of God, of those blessings which, amid difficulties, privations, and dangers, still spring up to gladden the path of ministerial duty, I claim it as my special privilege, with my whole heart, and with much hope, to commend you to the Father of mercies, and the God of all consolation, in and through Christ Jesus our Lord. (The right rev. prelate then placed the cheque in the hand of the Lord Bishop of Exeter, and resumed his seat. His address was listened to with breathless attention, and made a deep impression.)

The Lord Bishop of Exeter then rose and addressed the Lord Bishop of Fredericton nearly as follows:-In spite of the apprehension that I may weaken the effect of that most touching address which you have just heard, I cannot permit myself to be made the channel of conveying to you this most interesting testimonial, without expressing my own special sentiments on this occasion. In you I have had one of the most valued and exemplary of my clergy. To me, therefore, and to my diocese-to this city especially-this day, though it is a day of thankfulness, is not one of unmixed gratification. (Hear, hear.) We regret that you are about to leave us; but we are thankful that you are called to a larger and nobler field of labour; and we humbly hope that the God who has called you to it, will give you strength and grace to work for Him there, as you have worked for him here. (Hear.) And let me express one sentiment—the only thing, as it appeared to me, wanting, in what has been said so well by my right rev. brother on my left-let me express one sentiment, which he, probably, was restrained by his modesty from utteringwe cannot adequately rejoice to see-that, while colonists are led forth to the distant possessions of this country-while missionaries go there to instruct them-they are no longer to go, without being blessed with the superintendence of that high officer of the church, whom Christ himself has appointed to be over her in his name. (Hear, hear.) I am not speaking theoretically; experience tells us of the great good which has been permitted to be achieved, through the carrying forth the episcopacy into our colonies. (Hear, hear.) When I look on my left, I see there a living proof of the comparable benefit of carrying forth the church in all her integrity. (Hear, hear.) The church in the West Indies, and especially in that diocese presided over by him, presents to us a very different aspect now, from that which was presented twenty years ago; and while our thanks are in the first place due to Him, from whom the gift of increase cometh, we may yet be permitted to tender our thanks to those, who have laboured for Him, and have been permitted to labour successfully. May it not be long, my lord, before we may have occasion to thank you for

the services which you have rendered. May it please God to give you such health and strength, as will permit you to spend, and to be spent by Him, in the field to which He calls you; and though we look forward with joy and hope, to the gratification of occasionally meeting you, may we always see you as about to return again, to rule over the church over which you have been called to preside. (Hear, hear.) His lordship handed the cheque to the Bishop of Fredericton, and resumed his seat amid much applause.

The Lord Bishop of Fredericton rose and said,-My Lord Bishop of Exeter, Bishop Coleridge, and dear and valued friends-so many of whom I meet on this occasion, with very mingled feelings-feelings indeed of a very painful character for one cannot separate oneself with whatever hope one goes forth, from friends so loved and valued as mine have been to me, without pain -though I trust that feelings of faith and hope do triumph and will triumph over those feelings, which would swallow up the rest-I hope I may say, without any want of humility, that I feel that God has called me to this post. The circumstances under which it was offered to me, the circumstances which preceded it, with all that followed and accompanied it, have been of such a character as to leave no doubt upon my own mind that it is God's calling; and how untrue and unfaithful a servant of the church should I have been, if, having this conviction, I had not obeyed the call. (Hear, hear.) Bishop Coleridge, and you, my Lord Bishop, were quite right, when you said that a present made in this particular form was much more congenial to my feelings than it would have been in any other. (Hear, hear.) It would, indeed, have been most painful to my feelings-most unmixedly painful-if any other form had been adopted-if any of those personal testimonials, which are now so common and so cheap, had been presented to a bishop of the English church, going out to perform a spiritual duty, in an important diocese. (Hear.) I should have felt that our own tone had been lowered by it-that we had gone back from the spirit of the gospel to the spirit of the world—that we had exchanged good gold for wretched dross-and had sacrificed high and solemn considerations in order to gratify a momentary feeling of vanity. (Hear, hear.) In accepting this valuable tribute, I do it as the servant of the church -as your trustee for the fulfilment of a high and holy trust. I accept it as a proof that you believe the doctrines of the church-that you love the principles of the church-that you are prepared to live and die in the service of the church-and that whatever differences of opinion there may be, upon some points, between different individuals among you—you are in the main agreeda body of sincere, and faithful, and conscientious churchmen. (Hear, hear.) Upon no other condition could I consent to accept your gift; but I do accept it, because I believe I have interpreted rightly the feelings with which it is presented, and it will be, I assure you, a matter of great gratification to me, if I find that it is received in the colony of New Brunswick with that cordial welcome, which I have reason to believe awaits it. As a proof that I have ground for this hope, I may mention one fact; a gentleman connected with my own family, who is a missionary in New Brunswick, had sent home to his friends in England to solicit contributions towards the restoration of his own church, which was falling into decay; but no sooner did he hear that a cathedral was to be erected at Fredericton, than he wrote to me to request that no such collection should be made, but that his friends should contribute in lieu of it to the cathedral fund. (Hear, hear.) I am happy to be able to say, on behalf of the gentleman who manifested this strong interest in our work, that those valued friends of his, who had intended to contribute towards his church, gave their contributions still, but they did not, on that account, withhold their aid from our own cathedral. (Hear, hear.) The occasion on which we are met is doubly pleasant to us all, inasmuch as it evinces a growing power of expansion in our beloved church; it shows that the time has come, when God will lengthen her cords and strengthen her stakes; and it shows that, whatever divisions may arise among us-and no man can lament

them more than I do there is, in the church herself, that growing power which proves her to be sound at heart, and which could not be manifested if there were not soundness of heart. We all know that coldness, in a person who is about to die, begins at the extremities; and where we find that the extremities are warm, we hope that the heart, and all the vital organs, continue to perform their functions. So also, when we find the church sending forth her missionaries to the distant colonies of the empire, and her clergy, and her bishops supporting them, we may feel assured that God is giving His blessing, and that, somehow or other, all will come right at last. I am sure, that in going forth to a distant colony, unless we do go forth in the spirit of hope, we may as well not go at all. With what advantage should I go forth, as the missionary of the church, to a distant land, if I were in despair of the church at home? What use would it be for me to attempt to carry out the liturgy of the church among the colonists of New Brunswick-to express an affectionate zeal for their welfare-to multiply churches and clergymen among them-and to exhibit to them there the church in all its fulness, if I felt all the time that the church at home was going to decay. But I have no such feeling. I am confident that the more we exert ourselves to give to those who are at a distance the church in all its fulness, and in all its efficiency, the more surely shall we find it return in blessings upon ourselves. (Hear, hear.) I will now take the_liberty of stating to you what is the actual position of the diocese of New Brunswick; and, in doing so, I shall pass no censure on any. I must, however, remind those who hear me, that the state of things there is totally dissimilar from anything that we find in England. The government, from whatever cause-for I know not, and will not stay to inquire—are acting, in the colonies, rather upon the numerical principle-giving assistance to various denominations of Christians, but scarcely recognising the church as an established church, and only allowing her to take her own position, as she may be able by her own exertions to attain it. Whether this is right or wrong, I will not stop to discuss. It is sufficient that the fact is so, and we should be very foolish indeed, if we did not consider it in all its bearings and effects, before considering what we ought to do for the colonies, with a view to the relief of their spiritual destitution. Its disadvantages of course are obvious, and I need not, therefore, dwell upon them; but let us look for a moment at the other side; and let us consider in what way a bishop of the colonial church is affected by such a state of things. It leads him, then, not to look to his connexion with the state, so much as to the spiritual power and authority given him by the Lord Jesus. It leads him to look far above men, or the smiles of princes, for support; it strengthens the tie that binds him to his flock; and it makes him feel that, in proportion as he can unite the richest and the poorest of that flock in one brotherhood with himself, in that proportion will his church flourish, and, let princes smile or frown, he will still be enabled to carry out the gospel of Christ, in all its fulness and apostolic purity, and to make Jerusalem a praise and a glory in the earth. No person will understand, that, in the remarks which I have made, I intend to cast censure, either on the state or on individuals; but we cannot shut our eyes to the plain fact, and we cannot help seeing-when no distinction whatever is made between truth and error-and when it is openly professed that the State cannot have a conscience-that the church must rely more and more upon its own resources, and that we must tell the people of England that they must come forward yet more zealously to support that church which depends, in a great measure, on their exertions. (Hear, hear.) There are in the colony of New Brunswick eighty-seven parishes; when this division took place I am not able to inform you, but the number is quite clear. For these eighty-seven parishes there are thirty clergymen, and forty-seven churches. A single clergyman has often the charge of two or three churches, separated by great distances from each other, and it occasionally happens that one clergyman has charge of a district of 120 miles in extent. Many

parishes are left without the ordinances of religion, ministered in such a way, as we, of the church of England, believe to be the right way, and to be most conducive to the purity and spread of the gospel. I only mention this that you may see what is necessary to be done, and I trust, if God's blessing shall attend me, I may yet live to see the day when the same result shall follow, which gladdened the heart of my right rev. friend, Bishop Coleridge, in his own diocese of Barbadoes-when the clergy of New Brunswick shall be doubled-trebled they ought to be at once, to secure even an approach to efficient pastoral superintendence in that important sphere of labour. (Hear.) Bishop Coleridge, allow me to thank you, in the name of the diocese of New Brunswick, as well as in my own, for that most touching and affectionate appeal which you have made on our behalf, and for the warmness and kindness which you have shown towards me, on this, and on many other occasions. That kindness will not be forgotten by me, and I shall always rejoice to recollect the time, when I met you in this place, with one whom but lately I was accustomed to look up to, as my spiritual father in Christ, and from your hand received this valuable testimony of affection and respect. One word more as to the wants of the colony of New Brunswick-and first we want men; we want men who will go forth to minister as the servants of the living God; we do not want the refuse of England for the diocese of New Brunswick-we do not want men to be sent out there because they cannot be employed at home: we want the best blood of England, in order to show what England can do. (Hear, hear.) Therefore, if you send out clergymen from this country to gladden my heart, send out men who have a due appreciation of the work in which they are to engage-men with missionary hearts, and missionary spirits-men who are anxious for their own eternal salvation, and are therefore desirous to communicate the blessing of salvation to others; send not men to me whom the Bishop of Exeter would refuse; let not fathers place their children in the church, in the belief that anything will do for a distant land. (Hear, hear.) Such men as these we do not want; but we want holy men of God-men of earnestness and pious zeal-of reflection, of consideration, of judgment--better men, if possible, than you have need of at home. (Hear, hear.) At the same time, allow me to observe, if you do send men out to New Brunswick, let them be earnestly attached to the communion to which they belong-men anxious to carry out all the injunctions of the church, and ready to yield due obedience to her rulers-let them be men possessed, in every respect, of the spirit of the gospel. Then shall I hail their approach with joy-shall receive them with brotherly affection, and my only delight shall be to minister to them by every means in my power. We must have men. It is impossible that a population, comprehending at present 150,000 souls, and constantly increasing by emigration, can be rightly ministered to without a great increase of labourers. I had hoped to have taken out persons from England with me. Alas! only one, at present accompanies me. I had hoped that there was more of the missionary spirit. I will only appeal to you, and through you to those who shall hear my words, though they do not listen to my voice, to recollect how great is the reward laid up for such as possess the missionary spirit and the pastor's heart, and who think it a joy and an honour to embark in their master's cause. I will only remind you that though absent in the body we may still be present in the spirit; that in that cathedral which we shall build, the same strains will be sung as we have been wont to listen to here, with so much delight-that those who worship there will use the same liturgy, will have the same church to embrace them, the same Spirit to animate them, and the same God to love, to bless, and to reward them. I have now to thank you, my lord, for all that kindness which you have shown me during my stay in your lordship's diocese; for, at your hands I have never received anything but kindness, which I know I have too little merited. I thank also, all those who, with the utmost zeal and affection, and Christian feeling, have contributed on this occasion. I have received