5 OCTOBER 1867, Page 1
The Bishop of Cape Town has been presented by his
admirers, with Mr. A. J. Beresford Hope, M.P., at their head, with a
pastoral staff, in token of his " firmness " in dealing with his heretical suffragan. The legend upon it should have been taken from Wordsworth's Prelude:— " Blind Authority beating with his staff The child that might have led him."