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Catholic clergy are derived from grants of land 

 made to them under the ancient regime, and 

 the usual contributions ordained by their ec- 

 clesiastical government, which are, perhaps, 

 more cheerfully paid by the Canadians, and 

 collected in a manner much freer from vexatious 

 exactions than in any country v/hatever. The 

 spiritual concerns of the Protestant part of the 

 community are under the guidance of the Lord 

 Bishop of Quebec, nine rectors, and a com- 

 petent number of other clergymen, who are 

 supported by annual stipends from the go- 

 vernment, by the appropriation of one-seventh 

 of all granted lands as provided for in the act 

 of the constitution, and the other sources of 

 revenue peculiar to the church of England, in 

 a degree of moderate affluence, exempt on the 

 one hand from inordinate impropriation, and 

 on the other free from penurious parsimony ; 

 thereby giving to the clerical order the degree 

 of consequence in the superior ranks of society 

 that is due to its ministry. In the unrestrained 

 exercise of two systems of divine worship, so 

 widely differing in their tenets, it is a pleas- 

 ing fact, that the discipline of the two churches 

 never encounters the smallest obstruction from 

 each other ; on the contrary, the greatest good- 

 will and harmony is observed to prevail, as 

 well between the pastors as the flocks com« 

 mitted to their charge. 



