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of an archdeacon, fifteen chaplains, and a number of schools, there is 

 apportioned nearly 20,000/. a-year ; and to the Roman Catholic 

 Clergy and schools 2,200/., while the Presbyterians receive only the 

 paltry sum of 600/. ! This is much too bad ; considering that fully a 

 half of the free emigrants are Scotchmen, and attached both by prin- 

 ciple and education to the faith of their native land. 



We do not know precisely what effect the establishment of the 

 Episcopal Church may have produced upon the morals of the co- 

 lonists in New South Wales, but if its places of worship are no better 

 attended than those of the same establishment in Ireland, and 

 if its clergy serve up in the shape of sermons the same " babes' 

 meat" that the laity are fed with there, we may at least say that we 

 stand in doubt of it. Dr. Lang seems to be of opinion that its esta- 

 blishment in New South Wales has been but of little use ; and his 

 " account of the state of morals and religion" in the colony is ac- 

 cordingly a sufficiently lamentable one. We do not by any means, 

 however, lay the same stress upon his account of the " tendency and 

 working" of the Episcopal Church, that we do upon his account of the 

 jf tendency and working" of the transportation system. The doctor is 

 a native of the land that lieth beyond the Tweed that happy land 

 t *where the tenantry pay no tithes, and the poor support themselves ; 

 where there are no cathedrals except in ruins, and where the great 

 body of the people have, somehow or other, been made moral, without 

 the aid of either bishops, priests, or deacons. He has evidently a 

 strong and an ardent attachment to his native church, and is, more- 

 over, a descendant of one of the heroes of the covenant. In these 

 circumstances, therefore, it need not be reckoned wonderful if he 

 should shew himself no great admirer of the Episcopal Church ; and 

 we accordingly find that he hates and abhors her with all his might 

 and main, and, like the most of his countrymen, looks upon her as 

 little or no better than the " scarlet lady that sitteth upon the seven 

 hills." On this head, therefore, we reckon the doctor to be a pre- 

 judiced person ; and so we would recommend our readers to receive 

 his evidence on the subject in the same manner that the Scotch lawyers 

 receive the testimony of witnesses similarly situated, that is, cum nota. 



But we must have done with the author and his two pleasant and 

 very useful volumes. We have perused them with much pleasure, 

 and we have no doubt that many of our readers will do the same. 

 They have given to the public of this country much new information 

 on the two important subjects of Emigration and the Transportation 

 System ; and we have no doubt they will, both at home and in the 

 colony, secure that extensive circulation to which they are so well 

 entitled. 



