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According to the last news from Natal, the highest Court

of the settlement has decided as the Archbishop of York predicted a fortnight ago,—that Natal was a Crown colony, and not a colony with " representative institutions,"—when Dr. Colenso's patent was issued. His patent is therefore held to be good and valid in point of law. Whether the Archbishop's other point as to the equitable right of Dr. Gray to have hie old and valid patent restored, since the consideration for which he resigned it turns out to have been bad, will prove sound too, is, we fancy, more doubtful. M present, Dr. Colenso is Bishop of Natal by a valid patent, and Dr. Gray is not Bishop of Capetown by a valid patent.

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