This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...Peer--who had himself held the Colonial Secretaryship--criticized the withdrawal of the grant as being disendowment, and inconsistent as coming from the party then actually opposing proposals to disestablish the Irish Church. By the mouth of Lord Chancellor Cairns the Government endeavoured to remove the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...Peer--who had himself held the Colonial Secretaryship--criticized the withdrawal of the grant as being disendowment, and inconsistent as coming from the party then actually opposing proposals to disestablish the Irish Church. By the mouth of Lord Chancellor Cairns the Government endeavoured to remove the discussion from principle to mere financial expediency, alleging that it was only a temporary grant for a period of distress, the need for which had now passed away. Lord Carnarvon said it was a kind of right now, and Lord Granville agreed. But Lord Salisbury--then like Lord Carnarvon in secession from the Conservative Ministry--refused to accept Lord Carnarvon's point, and said that the grant was on a par with the Maynooth Grant to the Roman Catholics in Ireland and the Regium Donum to the Presbyterians, and was not in any sense property. The Duke of Buckingham said that he had assurances from the Colonies that the grant was no longer needed, and so the debate closed. The grant ceased, and whether Lord Carnarvon or the Government, were right, with it ceased at the hands of a Conservative Ministry all direct responsibility on the part of the Imperial Government for the support of religion in the'West Indies. It remained now for the local Legislatures to be set in motion. The amount of local government being less than in what are known as responsible Colonies--Canada, the Australasian Colonies, Cape Colony and Natal--the role of the Crown was not difficult. Even in Jamaica the pathway had been smoothed for Imperial action by the surrender of the rights of the old Legislature after the sad affair of Gordon and Governor Eyre. Governor Sir J. P. Grant therefore had nothing to do but to announce that as vacancies occurred in the Island rectories no...
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