The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-31 00:00:00

THE BISHOPRIC OF NATAL.

Tha Scotch bishops met at Perth yesterday, in
reference to the consecration of Mr. Monorie, when tele-
grams from the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop
of Capetown, suggesting delay, were read. The recom-
mendation was adonis&
aMatallowing letter from the Bishop of Leaden to the
unman is paidisied in the Berea papers :
7 630 IMUists,Mttltotilestgar"Va
'yoerof
the 25th this day received, which from its form I take to
be a eircallar inviting as expression of my opinion. I
trust that when the bishops of the Scottish Episcopal
Church come to consider in council the Bishop
of Oapetown's request to allow the use of one of
*dr churches for the consecration of • new Bishop
of Natal, they will be kind enough carefully
to weigh what I have said to you in a former letter, which
I eheuil feel meth obliged by your reading to the bishops.
I would ventsire also to ask that they would oonaider what
bum been Nail in published letteralto the Bishop of Cape-
town
_by INS Archbishop of York and =pelf. Feeling •
deep Murat in the Scottish Episcopal Church. and know-
ing well the ecclesiastical condition of Scotland, I cannot
but be very anxious that no steps should be taken likely to
mate divisions in that church, or to nt it as in any
way separating itself from the lished church of
England, or putting itself in opposition to English law.
Yon thy in your letter of the 25th that his Grace
the Archbishop of Canterbury informs you that " be sees
no objection to the oonsecration taking pleas in Scotland,
in accordance with the request of the South African
bishops." His grace, in so expressing himself, no doubt
naturally looks not so math to the interests of the
Scottish Episcopal Church, with which he must necessarily
be but imperfectly acquainted, as to his individual view of
Bishop Coleuses deposition. Might I suggest aka that his
ghee has made no public declaration that his opinion
differs materially in this matter from that of the Archbishop
of York sad myself, and that such a private expression
of opinion as you allude to is something very different
from a formal and public request that you would facilitate
the propoied consecration . If I might venture to suggest
to the bishops of the Scottish Episcopal! Church, I would
say that they ought not to presume his grace's concurrence
nt4 sanction without some formal approval and request.
Without this it se: ms to me unfair to his grace to to rte P.)
onions • step, snd in any way to make it rest on his graces
single private authimity, unsupported by any public docu-
ment expressing Lis official decision or the decision of any
meeting of his suffragans oonvoCation, or elsewhere.—
I ion. , "A-C. I, iNt....P."
The Bishop of Ripon has written as follows to the
Bishop of Moray, :

" Tke ranee, Ripon, Jan. 29:

" Right Bev. Sir—l have the bobbiur to icktowledge
your letter of the 2.5 th ix which yoinform me of
the steps which Bishop Gray has taken with to con-
secrate a rival bishop of Natal in sob
cher& in Scotland.
No one cem mote deeply deplore than I do the existing
state of things in the diocese of Natal. But I sincerely
deprecate the course which Bishop Gray is adopting. The
case of Bishop Colenso has never yet been tried on its own
merits before any tribunal which the law of the land re-
cognises as competeot to deal with the question. Till this
has been done it appears to me that the consecration of •
sisal bishop will tend to eggravate the existino strife and
ensfuglon. without producing any coiuiterveding advan-
tqe.—l have the honour to remain, right rev. o 'dr, ylar
faithful Melee, " B. Rims."

CITY POPULATIONS ANDISEASES. COINTAGIOUS

A very influential meeting was hold at the house
of Mr. Dlitford, M.P., in Cavendish...inane, yesterday,
to tonn an association having for its purpose the preven-
tion as far as possible, of contagious diocese*. The
association has been commenced under the auspices of
very eminent men. smoog whom are Sir Henry L Ander-
son, K. 5.1., Sir Hemy Ihompeoo, surgeon extraordinary
to the King of the Belgians ; Dlr. James Paget, sergeant-
, surgeon extraordinary to her Majesty; Sir James sinnp.
son, the Very Rev. the Dean of Westminster, Sir Mr
Ferguson, Bart., the Rev. W. Rogers, Sir T. Wat-
son, Bart., Dr. Trench, Dr. Peg-et, Surgeon-Dlnjor
Wyatt, Mr. Cesar Hawkins, and Sir Walter Crofton, C.B.
Among those present at the meeting were Mr. Mitford,
' M.P., who occupied the chili., Major-General Downing,
Skil (late president of the Royal wings,,
of Surgeons), Mr. Ernest Hart, Dr.
Sir Henry Thorupste, Dr. A. Vintrao, Dr. C.
Inglis[ Mr. DevereU (at Cosharn. near Portsmouth).
Dr. Nt • Stuart. Dr. Gibbon Dr. Tilbury Pox, Mr. J. P.
' Lase, Kr. G. Gasortyne, Mr. It. H. Dunn, Mr. C. Wake-
ning, Mr. Spencer South, Mr. Holmes boots, and Mr.
Myers. The first business brought before the wetting
I was the presentation of letters received by the hon. 'were.
tithes, Mr. Berkeley Hill and Mr. Breed/et Curgeeiven,
from clergy, enn ii.ot medical men, and members of tenni.
cipal councils in ditlerent parts of the United Kingdoei,
all supporting the purpcnes of the proposedissuciation.
In the course of • loot conversation which took photo in
the meeting it was laid down that the association should
press for the extension of the Contagious Diseases Act of
hen to the civil population of the Unite' Kingdom ; that
It
should promote noessuree for increasing the hospital
accommodation for pour persons *Meted with these
diseases • and that it should assist in every way the
establislinsent of refugee, or PIOTIMI In connexion with
these hospitals, for those inmates who might desire to
leave their previous mode of life ; but that, under uo
circumstances, would any countenance be given to what
is known as the " continental system" in any shape
ADMIRALTY. JAN. 30.—AerOtnYMENTFL—Nave- .or way. It was pointed out that the set had Leen proved
geting•Lieutenant Chas Love additional, to the }lewd ; to have operated most beneficially, not only in checking
Navigating Sith-Lieuteaant 'George A. Broad, to the inunorality, but in actual wring of life and health, and
Supply[;
; aud Naval cadet, noliduated, the Hop. Patrick this could only ho done by legalised repressive measures.
Maurice Hely Hutchinson.
Mr. John Weeks has been appointed honorary The Rev. Mr. A. IL Webster, rector of St. Mary's, Chat.
ham, pointed out that the moral objection* of the clergy there
lieutenant in the Ruyal Naval Reserve. , to the set had been vestly modified by the experiet.ce of the
Rev. J. G. Railey, the chaplain of M. litutholoinew's
Hospital, Clisthaw, who stated his conviction "that the
act was the means of bringing under religious and/moral
instruction many scores of degraded women who had
never been under such influence before ; and that during
his chaplaincy of only ten moths no less then :OM
these unfortunates bad been restored to their homes, or
induced to enter reformatory institutions." It was stated
by one medical man present that, in bis opinion, one bell
of a certain class in London were diseased, and spread
dieresis to a far greater extent than could be understood
• except by the medical profession ; and the Surgeon Extra.
ordinary to the Queen said, " Every year an untold
number, far greater than is yet reckoned, die of these"
preventible diseases, "at what, but for these diseases,
might have been their time of fullest power ; while many
more, after Wesel sickness, die in youth and childhood.'
Other physicians urged, that es them disethes were open-
muskets' to innocent persons, it was the bounden duty of
society to tate some steps to prevent the misery thus in.
veins& Resolutions to draw up roles for governing the
thsoeistion, and for obtaining the public support, having
been passed, the meeting adjourned, after rioting a vote
of thanks to the chairman for presiding, and for the
use of hie rooms.

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The Landrail, 5, screw gu-Tessel, Commander
Horatio L. A. L. Ife n
tland, arrived at Spithoad during
the night from the West Coast ot Africa. and will proceed
to the eastward to be paid out of cotnenlesion. The Victoria
and Albert, royal yacht. Captain bin Serene Highness the
Prince of Leiningen, will be brought down the harbour to-
morrow, mid removed into the steam basin, to be docked
and re-embellished, to be ready for her Majesty by the
lab of May.

TRH IMO'S LYNN DOClB.—Notwithstaitiiing
the late unfavourable weather satisfactory progress has
bean made with the works, and men are employed day and
night in the erection of the softer-dam for the tempt= of
concrete Mose, large quantities of which are already pre.
pared. Permanent water pipe. from the town main at the
east end of the week, are likewise laid dowa. for tlessupply
of the engines used on pile driving. Additional inters*
of them works from
has beau nuintietted in the progress
the fact that his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales been
expreseed his intention of being present at the ceremony
of their being °posed in the enauisg autumn.
RAILWAY AND OTHER BILLS 1111,0 Its PARLIAMTWT.
—Yoataplay the proceedings before Mews Frees sad Pai-
r:nee, the examiners of standing order proofs of railway
WI. now pendiag in parliament were resumed. In Room
it,=ded over by Mr. limn, the standing orders were
to have been complied with in the eases of the
subjoined pened petitions (—The Groat Western
Railway, the W-aterford and Mewl Railway, and the
Melywell Railway bills. Before the same examiner it was
announced that the munition had been withdrawn to the
Liverpool Tramways Ball, which consequently passed
standing orders. In Mr. Palgrave's court, held in COM.
mittewrooss No. 17,the exsuniner declared that thesteading '
orders had been complied with in the mess of the un-
opposed petitions of the Tower Subway. the Lancashire
and Yorkshire Railway, and the Shropshire Union Rail-
ways and Canal. The oossideration of the adjourned
petitions (opposed) of the Isle of Wight Central Railway, I
and the Sirbowy Railway woo again adjourned. The
opposed Isle of Wight (Newport Junction) Railway Bill
was postponed.
A Cora Denman!). —A fruit farmer in
Ohio is planting a marrunoth orchard, which will meek*,
of 5,000 apple trees, amerced kinda, 10,000 peach trees,
6,000 pear trees, standard, 2,000 dwarf, 2,600 cherry tress,
1,500 plums, six acres of quinces, twenty acres of evrawber•
ries, twenty acres of taapbeeeles, eight acres of lenekleses
ries, eighteen saes of grapes • grease pert of the teem
are siseady dug, and are ready far early spring plinting.—
Bono* Advertiser, Jan. 15.
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