The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-23 00:00:00

Mr. Moncrieff, M.P., and Bishop Coleus°.

Mr. Moncrieff has at length replied to Bishop
Colenso's letter of May 10. He says :—" It is no
question as to verbal or plenary inspiration which
separates us. You disclaim the popular traditional
sense of the term inspiration. The meaning you do
attribute to it, if it be not equally applicable to all
author who inculcates truth or holiness or virtue, I
have not been able to gather from your expres-
sions. I cannot, therefore, admit that I did your
lordship anything but justice in the representation
I made of your views ; and I have no doubt that the
public accepted that representation in the only
sense in which it was made. On the infallibility of
Scripture I say nothing, because here, as on the
question of inspiration, your language is entirely
ambiguous. You may either mean that parts of it
are fallible, or that no part of it is infallible ; that
If
it
is not all reliable, or that it is wholly unreliable.
your opinion is expressed by the first of these alter-
natives, it would be desirable to know with preei'
sion what parts of it you regard as infallible
and reliable. If by the second, any Itir-
ther dispute would seem to be superfluous. ICIIO
second ground of complaint is, that I said that your
lordship's doubts aro strange to be entertained by
a bishop of the Church of England. Excuse rao for
still thinking that they are so, and entertaining and
expressing that opinion without implying any Per
sonal discourtesy. If the views your lordship ha°
published are the teaching of the Church of Beg-
land—l speak of her teaching, not of her law, ei,c
her want of law—if the Church of England too a
her people that the Pentateuch is partly a myth al3
partly a forgery, positively false in most respeetB.i
and possibly false in all, I was wrong. But
these books are read in the hearing of the congrf;
gation as the Word of God, in order that t
people may accept what they contain as revea%
by God himself ; and if in the very Articles of tta
Church they are, with the rest of the canon, referrost
to repeatedly as the only infallible standard, I the
be allowed to think it strange that a bishop of is
Church should teach his flock that this standeru_
mainly false in itself, and its supposed inspiratiotnto
delusion and a dream. lam sorry, therefore,
be able to give the retractation which your lords
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has done me the honour to ask for."
DIPLOMATIC APPOINTMENTS.—AdmiraI Ilarrte iSa
now her Majesty's Minister at Borne, has been sPl3°.iolliof
to the mission at the Hague, vacant by the resignaoli 1,0
Sir John Milbank° iluskisson. Admiral Harris w,ibeeo
replaced at Berne by Mr. John Lumley, who had ill 5' wo
appointed Minister at Dresden when that irdssl°!2_u• of
abolished in consequence of the virtual annex
Saxony Saxony to Prussia. (tilt,
FIFTEEN QUARTS OF ALE IN A mA" ba,a
inquest on Wednesday on the body of a wall w",, Dr•
drowned himself in a fit of delirium treraen7 ,00
Laukester said he had long been trying to find °u,
rover
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ablemteo
aworkingscertai
um. h3daiord of
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drunk in a day, and his answer was he did not
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had only served him with fifteen varts of ale .n
col!'
men
erhinakd joancaedaasykebdutthheelanro bio
The next day the man was dead, Working it
stand more than any one else, because they
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off, and navvies could stand most of all• 'tailors
to IP
not stand much: and his advice to them -was absta
altogether.