NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE week has been more Churchy than religious. The Epis-
copal Synod held its last sitting yesterday week, and it is now generally understood that the report of its proceedings is not to be published, but that it is to be laid up in the archives of Lambeth. That is, we suppose, a tacit admission that the dignity of the Assembly will be best consulted by drawing a veil over its discussions. In the evening of Friday week a meeting of the Society for the Propogation of the Gospel was held at St. James's Hall, in which the Bishop of Cape Town published the first un- authorized report as to what had been done, stating that the Synod had endorsed "the righteous decision of the Province of Canter- bury with regard to the appointment of one who should go forth as a Bishop to minister to the souls of those who felt themselves as sheep without a shepherd in Natal." As the Province of Can- terbury came to no decision, righteous or unrighteous, on this subject, Dr. Gray had subsequently to explain that the Synod had only endorsed the opinion of Convocation as to the proper steps for appointing a new bishop, if it were proper to appoint a new bishop at all. And he forgets to say that Convocation expressly refused to declare itself out of communion with the present Bishop of Natal. But, no doubt, the moral effect of what is rumoured to have been done in secret by these right reverend gentlemen will be pretty well what Dr. Gray says, and that is all he cares about. "Our beloved Primate" seems, after earnestly opposing the sending out of a new bishop, to have been brought over by Drs. Wilberforce, Gray, Selwyn, &c., to favour the schism. At least, he seems to have said at St. James's Hall that "it was eminently desirable that a sum should be raised to main- tain the gentleman to go out." After a schism promoted by the Primate, the next thing to look for is a rebellion authorized by the Prime Minister.
