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Dr. Colenso remarks, in the same letter, on the rashness

of Lord Carnarvon in giving credence to information "furnished under the seal of secrecy," charging the Bishop of Natal with gross acts of persecution towards the clergy who did not recognize his autho- rity in Natal. Dr. Colenso states,—and a paper which we have seen, quoting the correspondence on one of the points in evens°, on that point supports him,—that these charges are all wholly untrue ; and he speculates, not without reason, whether the infor- mation furnished under the seal of secrecy comes from the same source on which the Bishop of Oxford declared, some time ago, quite falsely, that Dr. Colenso's Cathedral congregation at Natal were "almost all infidels." Lord Carnarvon committed a grave error,—quite unlike him, though like Dr. Wilberforce,—in putting forward publicly charges on evidence supplied to him "under the seal of secrecy."