orate despatch.
On the 15th, Dr. Ryerson also addressed to Lord Normanby a long letter
on the same subject. In it he called the attention of the Colonial
Secretary to the following facts, which he discussed at length in his
letter:--

1. That the great majority of the House of Assembly in four successive
parliaments had remonstrated against the exclusive pretensions of the
Church of England in Upper Canada; and that the claims of the Church of
England to be the established Church of the Province had from the
beginning been steadily denied by such representatives, and elsewhere.

2. That the ground of dissatisfaction in the Province was not merely
between the Churches of England and Scotland, but between the
high-church party, and the religious denominations and the inhabitants
of the Province generally.

3. That from the beginning the House of Assembly had protested against
any appropriation of the clergy reserves being made to the Church of
England, not granted equally [for educational purposes] to the other
Christian denominations.

4. That notwithstanding the annual remonstrances of the House of
Assembly, large grants had been paid since 1827, to the Episcopal
Clergy, exclusive of grants by the Imperial Parliament and the
Propagation Society.

5. That under these circumstances it was not surprising that there
should be a widespread and deeply seated dissatisfaction. It is rather
surprising that a vestige of British power exists in the Province.

6. That Sir George Arthur has for the last five months endeavoured--by
official proclamations and other published communications through
public offices, and by military influences in various parts of the
Province--to prevent any expression of opinion on this subject, even by
petition to the Legislature.

7. That the Lieutenant-Governor has been induced to make himself a
partizan with the Episcopal Church in the clergy reserve discussion; the
entire influence of the Executive has been thrown into that scale; the
representation of impartial sovereignty has been made the watchword of
party.

8. That under the pretense of resisting brigand invasion, large militia
forces have been raised; violent penniless partizans have been put on
pay in preference to respectable and loyal men; and these forces have
not been placed on the frontier where invasion might have been expected,
but have been scattered in parties over many parts of the interior, in
order to exterminate discon