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Then comes a most extraordinary resolution, appointing a Com- mittee

of seven (unnamed)plus the Bishops of London, St. David's, and Oxford, and all the Colonial Bishops, "to consider the con- stitution of a voluntary spiritual tribunal, to which questions of doctrine may be carried by appeal from the tribunals, for the exer- cise of discipline in each province of the Colonial Church,"—this -committee to report to an adjourned meeting of the Conference. The Colonial Bishops are all doctrinal martinets, except the Bishop of Natal, who cannot be consulted, so that we suppose the result will be to approve such courts of appeal as Dr. Gray held in Cape- town. And what the Committee approves will probably be carried through the adjourned Conference.