The Express.
London, England, 1858-01-01 00:00:00

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It is well known that the Rev. Dr. Colens°, Bishop
of Natal, published some time since his opinion flint in cue
of a astir* convert being already in possession of more wives
than the Christian system did not require, or justify,
the of any of his several wives. The following
conwpondencs, which Bishop Colmmo has lately published
in the Natal tonraol, and which we find in the Cope niers
Ilea just arrived. will show that his view is supported by
the Archbishop of Dublin end the late Bishop of Norwich
Extract of a letter to a friend, from Bishop Hinds, late
Bishop of Norwich, and author of the " History of the
Early Church" in the Encyclopedia Metropolitans.
"May, 1866.
" I am very glad that you have swotted the sending
of Bishop Colenso's pamphlet to the Archbishop of Dublin,
and have forthwith acted on the suggestion. St. Paul, I
am pomaded, would bare done, and did, what the Bishop
of Natal decides on doing. I have asked Archbishop
Whately to tell me what he thinks of the question discussed,
adding that the writer needs rapport if he is right, and that
his error should be pointed out, If he is wrong.
"8. ?Tolima."
On permindon being asked to publish the above, Bishop
Binds wrote as follows:

"June, 1857.
" Give any publicity, which you may think likely to be at
use, to what I wrote on your mode of dealing with the poly-
gamy difficulty. The more I have thought of the matter,
the more sure I feel that mune which you are pluming la
rigb4iLtrinciple, and really better adapted to put an sod to
the
„co, than that for which your opponents are con-
The following is an extract of a letter to the Bishop cl
Norwich, from the Archbiahop (Whately) of Dublin

" May, 1856.
" Puiale-headed people are apt to oonfound togetherr the
nuking of a contract which is (in a Christian community)
not allowed, and the keeping to a contract which, when it
was made, was lawful. I hold with the bishop, that a man
who puts away a wife, even though he has another, • causeth
her to commit adultery.' "
On permission being asked to publish the above, the Arch-
bishop of Dublin wrote as follows :
" May, 1861.
" It was my design to give you, in the very just muss
you are engaged in, all the support in my power, of which
there seemed to be great need ; and accordingly I wished
and expected the publication of what I had written with that
view. The divorcee, which some of the missionaries advo-
cate, create .o manifest and great an obstacle to the
Lion of the Gasped, thatnothing could justify the adoption
each a Foosdura, exempt its being clearly a point of moral
obligatha ; Whist et wiled it is, I am convinced, a proce-
dure decidedly isamoraL " B, Duman:•

CBIMaI-RAM AT WOOLWICH.—Yr= at
saw a vestry meeting of the ratepayers of W ron.
mold by the ohnrchwerdens, wee hold et the parish ettarott,
bribe of making • church-NG for the 110Iniag
°hair was occupied by the Rev. Henry Brown
I:dor), sled the estimates having been ned, Mr. Morgan
proposed that • church-rata be made of twopence ia the
CaLThe Re,. T. Tudield (congregational minister), in
ewaree of • lengthened addrww, condemned the imposi-
tion of church-rates as unecriptural, *eat, and contrary to
the property@ spirit of the ago. He suggested that a
voirwitsey subscription should be entered upon in Ilea of a
rate, sad osacluded by proposing as as amanthasat that tee
ride be posted. Mr. Whale maxaded the smoodusst, sod
as • dhow of hands being taken, the root= for • rate wee
cemlell by • moan majority. Mr. Tufteld than demanded a
pel. WeTurn* arm the chairman decided should take place on IlloMardeg oil •