Protestant Church like the chaff of the summer threshingfloor which the wind carrieth away? It is doubtless for a similar reason, for a similar offence.

POSTSCRIPT.

A Memorial, of which the following is a copy, in behalf of the Presbyterians of New South Wales and Van Dieman's Land, was recently submitted to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, together with the subjoined recommendation from the Right Honourable the Lord Advocate and other thirty-one Members of Parliament for Scotland.

"To The Right Honourable His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, &c., &c., &c.

"The Memorial of John Dunmore Lang, D. D., Senior Minister of the Church of Scotland in New South Wales, humbly showeth :

"That a large proportion-amounting to one half-of the free-emigrant population of His Majesty's Australian colonies consists of natives of Scotland, and of Presbyterians from other parts of the empire; and that this portion of the colonial population is rapidly increasing, not fewer than from one thousand to fifteen hundred natives of Scotland, and other Presbyterians, having arrived as free emigrants in New South Wales during the eighteen months previous to 1st July last.

"That although only a small proportion of the convict-population of these colonies consists of natives of Scotland, more than a third of all the convicts in the capacity of assigned servants, both in New South Wales and Van Dieman's Land, are maintained and employed by Scotsmen and Presbyterians.

"That the provision allowed by His Majesty's Government for the support of ministers of the Church of Scotland in these colonies is neither adequate to the actual wants, nor commensurate with the daily increasing amount of the Presbyterian population.

"That no assistance has hitherto been granted in either colony for the education of the children of the humbler classes of Presbyterians, although liberal grants have been made to the Episcopalian and the Roman Catholic clergy, respectively, for the education of the youth of these communions.

"That two additional Scots Churches have been erected in New South Wales and Van Dieman's Land within the last eighteen months, and that two others are now in progress in the former of these colonies;

but that nothing has been allowed by the Government towards the erection of these churches, while liberal grants, amounting to one half of the whole estimated cost, are made for the erection of Episcopal churches and Roman Catholic chapels.

"That the following are the sums allotted by the Legislative Council of New South Wales for the support of the ecclesiastical establishment of that colony, and for the education of youth, during the present year, viz.:

"For Episcopal clergy, including £500 for a mission

"That the provision for the Presbyterian Church in New South Wales was limited to its present amount, viz. to salaries for four ministers of the Church of Scotland, by the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Goderich, in a letter addressed to your Memorialist, of date 19th January, 1831; but as the circumstances of the colony, in regard to the amount of its Presbyterian population, are greatly changed since that period, your Memorialist humbly prays that the said limitation may now be removed, and that, in order to enable the Presbyterian population of both colonies to secure the regular dispensation of the ordinances of religion for themselves and their offspring in all time coming agreeably to the hallowed institutions of their forefathers, the Governors and the Legislative Councils of New South Wales and Van Dieman's Land, who, especially in the former of these colonies, have now a large and yearly increasing amount of unappropriated and surplus revenue in the Treasury chest, may be instructed to grant a salary from that revenue of not less than £60, and of not more than £150, per annum, for the maintenance of a minister of the Church of Scotland, in any town or district

in these colonies, in which the Presbyterian population shall themselves contribute a sum equal to two-thirds of the said amount for the maintenance of such minister; the payment of the said contribution on the part of the people to be guaranteed by at least four respectable inhabitants of the town or district, as in the north of Ireland.

"And your Memorialist prays, that the same assistance may be extended in future for the erection of Presbyterian churches in these colonies, as for Episcopal churches and for Roman Catholic chapels.

"And your Memorialist also prays, that wherever a Scots church is established in the Australian colonies, a small salary may be allowed in future for the support of a Presbyterian schoolmaster from the colonial

revenue.

"And your Memorialist, as in duty bound, will ever pray,
&c., &c., &c.,
"JOHN DUNMORE LANG."

(Signed)

"London, 1st March, 1834."

"We the undersigned Members of Parliament for Scotland respectfully and cordially recommend the above Memorial to the early and favourable consideration of His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies.

J. C. Colquhoun

M. Sharpe

J. J. H. Johnstone

R. Mac Leod

L. Oliphant
George Ferguson
Ormelie

James Wemyss
A. Leith Hay

Wm. Rae

W. Gordon

H. Arbuthnot

C. L. Cumming Bruce

James Loch

Robert Wallace

Al. Bannerman

F. Jeffrey

Ja. Ewing

John A. Murray
J. Abercromby
Chas. Adam
Andrew Agnew
George Sinclair
Geo. Elliott
James Oswald
R. A. Oswald

R. Stewart

R. Cutlar Ferguson

Robt. Pringle

Andw. Johnston

Dalmeny

J. A. Stewart Mackenzie."

I have since received an answer to the letter I addressed to the UnderSecretary of State along with the preceding Memorial, intimating that the Archdeacon of New South Wales is expected in England shortly,

and that the question of religious instruction for the Australian colonies generally will come before His Majesty's Government on his arrival. I trust the Right Honourable Secretary for the Colonies will not deem it necessary to consult the Archdeacon as to what provision should be allowed for the religious instruction of the Presbyterian inhabitants of these colonies. At the same time I cannot dispossess myself of the apprehension that he will; and in such a case it is not difficult to anticipate the result. At all events I have made arrangements for the settlement of other three Presbyterian ministers in the colony-one for the district of Argyle, one for Upper Hunter's River, and one for the settlement which it is proposed to form at Illawarra-in the hope that the Legislative Council will grant them salaries from the colonial revenue on the conditions and to the amount specified in the preceding memorial.

CHAPTER VI.

VIEW OF THE

STATE OF

EDUCATION IN THE

COLONY, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE ESTABLISH

MENT OF THE AUSTRALIAN COLLEGE.

Magnum opus et arduum, sed Deus adjutor noster est.
AUGUST. DE CIVIT. DEI; lib. I. c. 1.

THE consideration that induced me the more willingly to follow the leadings of the good providence of God, in embarking for New South Wales for the first time, was the high idea I had formed of the geographical position of that colony, as affording a fit station for exerting a salutary influence on a numerous, and by no means uninteresting, portion of the family of man. From the Heads of Port Jackson, the British philanthropist can look to the northward, and westward, and southward, over a vast and untraversed continent, which he knows the all-wise and all-powerful Creator has made to be inhabited, and whose hills and valleys, he knows, therefore, will at length teem with a numerous population. To the eastward, the vast Pacific with its myriads of isles lies outstretched before him; and though the multitudes of these isles are far remote