Both Houses of Convocation voted on Wednesday an address of
sympathy and admiration to the Bishop of Capetown, for his recent conduct in the affairs connected with the Bishop of Natal. In the Upper House the address passed, we regret to say unani- mously, in the Lower by a majority of 6 (11 to 5), the opposition being headed by the Dean of Westminster and Sir Henry Thomp- son. The exceedingly disingenuous conduct of Dr. Gray infra/ trying to get the power of the purse by asking the Propagation Society to make the colonial clergymen's drafts payable only with his or his nominee's endorsement, on the ground that such a step "would make plain to Dr. Colenso that he would be without clergy if he returned," and in then disavowing what he had done, and asserting that it was done for financial and not political motives, should alone, and quite apart from his procedure in the Natal case, deprive him of " admiration ," if not of sympathy.
