On Tuesday next, December 8th, at one o'clock, there is
to be a meeting of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, at the Freemasons' Tavern, at which the Rev. VI. G. Humphry, one of the treasurers of the society, will move to rescind the grant of /2,000 to the Dean of Pietermaritzburg and the Church Com- mittee of the Natal diocese, authorized by the resolution of Tuesday, October 6th. We doubt if the motion will be as successful as it deserves to be, for a more scandalous and irregular proceeding than for a Church of England society to grant money in aid of a schism, on the ground that it is a schism, and before the regular bishop of the diocese has been condemned by any legal tribunal, was never proposed. But as far as we can see, the party which shows itself so strong in the counties against the disestablishment of the Irish Church, is just as strong in the religious societies in favour not of the disestablislunent, but of the absolute destruc- tion, of the National Church in the colony of Natal.
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