The Bishop of Capetown, Dr. Gray, took part on Friday
week in a very Ritualistic service in St. Michael's, Shoreditch, of which the Rev. H. D. NMIl has just been appointed incumbent. "The ser- vice was commenced," says the Pall Mall, " with a processional hymn, the first note of which came from the vestry at the north-east corner of the church. A youth, habited in a bright red cassock, held on high a large golden cross. He was followed by a long train of surplice choristers, men and boys, bearing banners containing various emblems; three or four clergymen, whose hoods showed them to be Bachelors of Arts of the University of Oxford, one D.C.L., who wore a crimson and scarlet hood, and one who had a simple black hood, who appeared to act as chaplain to the Bishop. The Bishop name last but one, followed by a deacon, who bore a large white flag, on which there was a cross. The procession moved from east to west along the north aisle, and then west to east down the nave to the chancel, where all took their places."
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