Convocation has been engaging this week in its usual bigoted
and impotent shrieks,—chiefly on the old score, the deposition of Dr. Colenso. This time the theme was introduced in the form of -a report from a Committee of the Upper House,—dissented from by the Bishop of London,—which affirmed that whatever the 4egal effect of the Capetown trial, "substantial justice" had been ,done on the Bishop of Natal. Against this affirmation Dr. Tait strongly protested, declaring his belief that the Bishop of Natal was in every intelligible sense as good a bishop as any of their Lordships, and asserting that, in his opinion, many of the doc- trinal assumptions made in Dr. Gray's judgment, deposing him, were unsound, and would not have stood discussion in a proper -Court. The report of the committee was, however, carried, and was ordered to be sent down to the Lower House of Convocation, with the Bishop of London's paper .of criticisms and protests.
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