The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-19 00:00:00

THE BISHOP OP ROCHESTER AND BISHOP

OOLEN3O.

The following letter has been addressed by the
Bishop of Rochester to the Bishop of Natal :
" Daoebury Palace, Chelmsford, Dee. 9.

"My dear Bishop of Natal, —I am led to address you with
real sorrow and under a painful sense of duty, to make the

request that you will not, under any circumstances, be in-
duced to take part in the religious services of the church
within the limits of my diocese. I have read and con-
sidered carefully your recent publication, with intense regret
thatyou have been sogrievously misled from the truths which
you professed to hold at your ordination and subsequent con-
secration ; and I see no other course to be pursued for the pro-
tection of the coogregatioas and parishes entrusted to my are
than to submit this remonstrance against your officiating

in any ehurch of my diocese. Neither the intimation given
in the preface of your book (p. xxvii.), that you cannot com-
ply with invitations to preach, &c., nor the confidence I feel
that no clergyman with whom I am officially connected who
bad read your book would invite you to minister in his
pariah, supersedes the necessity I feel for this letter.
" In so other manner can I divest myself of the respon-
sibility I should incur if I heard of your officiating in these
parts, than by • knowledge that I had emphatically pro.
tested against your doing so. I ought to add that it will not
be possible to avoid some measure of publicity attending
this communication, because it will be my duty to send a
copy of it to my archdesooris for the information of the
clergy.—l remain, &c., "J. C. ROCHESTER."

The St. George English line-of-battle ship, with
Prises Alfred out board, hr arrived in the Bay of Naples.
_. _ _ . .

Hia Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
arrived at Apthorpe Hall on Wednesday evening on a
visit to the Earl and Countess of Westmoreland. The noble
earl and countess have recently returned from a visit to the
Emperor and Emmen of the French, at Compiegne.

The Earl and Countess of Craven and family
have returned to Ashdown Park, Barka, where they intend
to pass the Christmas holidays.
The Earl and Countess of Verullm have been
receiving a sucoeniou of visitors at Csosimornury.

The Earl of Wilton'is entertaining a select party
at Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray.
Viscount and Viscountess Castlerosse arrived at
their residence in Eaton-place, last evening. from Paris.

Lady Harriet St. Clair has left Claridge's Hotel
for Paris, on her way to Nice.
Sir Frederick Johnstone has taken a residence at
Melton Mowbray for the hinting season.
The remains of the late Lord Monson reached
Lincoln yesterday afternoon, for interment at South Carlton.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has been elected
President of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
ja Foreign Parts. The council have adopted the following
resolution :—" That the society is bound by every principle
of duty and respect to place on record the large debt of
gratitude which it owes to its late president for the kindly
interest which he uniformly evinced in its welfare, his
liberal contribution to its funds, his ever reedy co•operatioo
in the great designs of the society, his frequent public
testimony to the vast importance of its missionary
operations, and to the consequent claims for support
upon all, the members of the church." _ . .

The Post etatee that the court of inquiry which
has now for some time been occupied with the investigation
of the turf scandals thst have recently become the subject
of public notoriety, has concluded its labours. " After a
minute inquiry, in which every charge and insinuation that
could affect the fair fame of the gentlemen implicated was
thoroughly searched into, the court have given it as their
opinion that Colonel Burnaby and Captain Aunesley have
'thoroughly vindicated their honour.' It hu been found
that there were no grounds whatever for the reports at
eertain clubs and the inferences of arisen journals. The
Duke of Cambridge, betore whom the prowsedinp sad
Boding of the court were laid, gave to them his ' cower.
ream' sod 'approvoL'''