BUTTERWORTHS, 7, FLEET STREET, HODGES, SMITH & CO., GRAFTON STREET, DUBLIN. On a recent occasion, the Archbishop of York gave notice of a motion for the appointment of a Select Committee of the Lords' House "to consider the connection existing between the Colonial Churches and the Church at home." This motion was to have been made on Thursday, the 21st of June, had not the House adjourned by reason of the ministerial changes then occurring, and no doubt it will be made at an early period. On the occasion alluded to the Bishop of London, at presenting a petition from Miss Burdett Coutts, read two opinions upon the recent judgments in the cases of Long v. The Bishop of Cape Town, and of Bishop Colenso against the same Bishop, the one opinion being that of Mr. W. M. James, and the other that of the Attorney-General, Sir R. Palmer. According to Sir R. Palmer these decisions have determined, as to Letters Patent-1st. That they create "no legal dioceses within the colonies." 2nd. That they create "no legal identity between the Episcopal Church presided over by these Bishops and the United Church of England and Ireland." 3rd. That they " do not introduce into the colonies any part of the English Ecclesiastical Law." 4th. That they confer on the Bishops "no legal jurisdiction or power whatever, and add nothing to any authority which the Bishops may have acquired by law or by the voluntary principle.” Mr. James, on the other hand, says, "The disturbance of men's minds on this subject has been produced by a perverse misapprehension of the decisions in the Privy Council. "As long as the Colonial Church is maintained, as a branch of the Anglican Church under the supremacy of the Crown, it will possess ample power for the maintenance of discipline, doctrine and moral conduct in its Bishops and Clergy. The decisions of the Privy Council have left untouched the power of the forum domesticum of every Bishop over his Clergy, and the power which, by the constitution of the Church in the colony as |