I have explained my views upon the subject at considerable length elsewhere.  I think that the nucleus of an Irish Roman Catholic emigration must be ecclesiastical, I think they are debarred from going upon the land and settling socially, by the want of the ordinances of their church; I think that the first and most important element, in an Irish social settlement must be religious and ecclesiastical."[285] Again he is asked:  “At the present moment, has it come within your knowledge, that the want of such spiritual care and assistance checks the progress of settlement among Irish emigrants, and, consequently, to a certain extent, discourages emigration?” “Certainly,” Mr. Godley answers, “it prevents them from going upon the land all over America.”  “How does it,” he is further asked, “prevent them from going upon the land?” “In this way,” he replies, “they being too poor to take the priest with them to the wilderness, in order to partake of the ordinances of their church, and to enjoy spiritual advice and comfort, remain in the towns, where they are simply labourers, and are checked in going upon the land as rural settlers."[286] Question 1819:  “How do you propose that the priests should be paid?” Answer:  “By a grant from this country or from Ireland.” Question 1820:  “Do you mean simply the expense of their emigration, not as a permanent endowment in the colony?” Answer:  “I never entered so exactly into the detail as to say in what manner I thought the endowment might be best effected, and, consequently, I do not consider myself as committed to any particular plan of endowment.  The probability is, that the most effective way of endowing them would be, to a certain extent, in money, and to a certain extent by land in Canada; but that is a part of the plan which I did not consider necessary to draw out in detail.”  The following question and answer explains what Mr. Godley meant by “aids to location:”—­Question 1848:  “What is the practical mode in which you would set about the establishment of a colony?” Answer:  “I would open the country by means of roads and bridges, build mills, endow a clergyman, and build a school.  Those are the leading features of a social settlement to which I think a company, or any body that wanted to establish a settlement, ought to attend first.”

The memorial to Lord John Russell, praying that the Government would give its sanction and support to Mr. Godley’s scheme of colonization, was signed by one archbishop, four marquises, seven earls, three viscounts, thirteen barons, nine baronets, eighteen members of parliament, some honourables, and several deputy-lieutenants.  The memorialists were, in all, eighty—­that is, eighty of the leading peers, members of parliament, and landowners approached the First Minister, to beg that he would aid them in sending two millions of Irish Catholics to Canada, to reclaim the land in that colony.  Everybody knows that the statement of Sir Robert Kane is accepted