This morning the Bishop of London clamed his clergy in
the Cathedral Church ; a large crowd of the laity was added to the numerous attendance of the diocesan clergy. He reviewed the Gorham controversy, and maintained the decision therein is insufficient to justify secession : then passing to the subject of greatest in- terest, he declared the assertion now first made of the Pope's right to erect episcopal sees, to be "not only an intentional insult to the episcopate and clergy of England, but a daring, though powerless invasion of the Supremacy of the Crown" ; he warned his younger clergy against the various instru- ments of Popish propagandism, expressly naming the Oratorians, and dis- suaded them from controversial theology ; finally he advised the furnishing of means for worship to the thousands who will be here in 1851, and the translation of the Prayer-book into foreign languages.
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