1 AUGUST 1868, Page 14

THE BISHOP OF CAPETOWN'S MISSTATEMENTS.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—I request permission to contradict in your columns a state- ment made by the Bishop of Capetown in a pamphlet lately published by him in reply to the Archbishop of York, the Dean of Ripon, and Mr. Brunel, from which some extracts are given in the Cape Advertiser and Mail of May 13. The Bishop there says, "He [Dr. Colenso] is gathering around him men who have been constrained to leave other dioceses."

It is due to the only two clergymen whom I have received from other dioceses, the Rev. R. Gray, B.D., and the Rev. G. H. Mason, ALA., as well as to myself, to say that there is not a shadow of foundation for the above statement.—I am, Sir, &c., •

Bishopstowe, Natal, June 6, 1868. J. W. NATAL.