[Footnote 209: "I would also earnestly recommend that provision be made for the schools, in which the children of persons of different religious tenets may be instructed without distinction, on the plan now adopted in Ireland. The means of education being secured, I shall feel disposed to leave it to the voluntary contribution of the inhabitants to provide for churches and clergy. To aid all where the creeds are various seems impossible, and a partial distribution of the public funds appears nearly allied to injustice."--_Despatch of Sir Richard Bourke, respecting land in Port Phillip, October_, 1835.] [Footnote 210: Despatch, November, 1835.] [Footnote 211: Minute, 1836.] [Footnote 212: _Rev. J. Lillie's Letter to Rev. W. Hutchins_, p. 13.] [Footnote 213: Arthur's minute, 1833.] [Footnote 214: "The whole of the objects which the congregation desired to maintain, are very clearly to be gathered from the second resolution, and these appeared to consist in maintaining their connexion with the church of Scotland by law established, and the control which belongs to ecclesiastical courts of the national establishment over the minister as well as the congregation; for it is evident that all grants are made to them as a part and parcel of the community of the _national church_ of Scotland _as by law established_: and it is only in that character that they have claims on the government, any more than the catholics, wesleyans, independents, or unitarians."--_True Colonist_, May 29, 1835.] [Footnote 215: "Accordingly we find that the majority, if not all, the protesters are not members of the church of Scotland, being either burghers, anti-burghers, independents, or episcopalians, and as such opposed to the Scotish church."--_True Colonist_, May 29, 1835.] [Footnote 216: "The assembly instructed the committee for the colonial churches to insist on the fair and full execution of the laws at present existing, and on the insertion in any new enactment for the government of the colonies, such clauses as will unequivocally place the churches in connexion with the church of Scotland on a footing as favorable with respect to holding property, receiving a share of government grants, and having their procedures in matters ecclesiastical carried out with as prompt effect, as are enjoyed by those branches of the church of England recognised in the same."--_Lillie's Letter_, p. 35.] [Footnote 217: _Lillie's Letter to Rev. W. Hutchins_, p. 9.] [Footnote 218: "I cannot see why the national legislature may not determine what will be the established church of the colony, with just as much propriety as it determines what shall be the prevailing law. A separate and integral part of an empire at large, can have no right to do this. As soon might a number of Cornish men insist upon their right to have introduced the peculiar laws and customs by which the mining operations of the county are regulated."--_Letter of Archdeacon Hutchins to Rev. J. Lillie._]