A letter from the Bishop of Natal in last Saturday's
Times shows very strikingly to what gross misrepresentations of the struggle the Bishop of Oxford has, unhappily, committed himself. Towards the end of last session the Bishop of Oxford said in the House of Lords, in reply to Lord Houghton, that "Dr. Coleus() had received private remonstrances, brotherly counsel, the ten- derest and kindest counsel, from his seniors at home, and such counsel had led him only to new outbreaks of violence ;" and he sneered at Lord Houghton for his absolute ignorance of the facto, and his " natural " readiness to express that ignorance. Dr. Colenso shows that the Episcopal letter calling upon him publicly to resign his see, in March, 1863, was the first commu- nication of any sort he had received from his brother Bishops, excepting only a letter from the Bishop of Oxford, and a message from the Bishop of Cape Town to the effect that the Bishop of St. Asaph would discuss with Dr. Colenso his views on "the Romans." The marvellous tenderness, if any, then, was the Bishop of Oxford's own, and we all know what that must have resembled.
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