327
&
Bishop by Royal Mandate
without Letters Patent, which is
not essential
the
urgency
C.
claims
your
I'm the d I'll be
the
Cave
and the pie,
pressing
-creation of
the Church in China
attention'.
My opinion
on
China
Remonstrance, and complaints
have constantly reached me from
respecting the long delay in the arrival
of my successor
Some
of the Cantab
letter
effects are thus described in it
written to me by a friend from China,
on
his arrival in
England some months ago.
"
The spiritual
"destitution of the Colony is said in
the extreme.
All has gone
• gone wrong
since you left: scandal in high
"quarters, a
lower tone in society,
"more unbridled passions, disunion
&
- the one
G
the Clergy, the flock neglected
and opportunities of usefulness, for-
gone by
those
you
left behind to
maintain what you had wisely done.
I desire in conclusion to
submit to your Lordship these three
obstacles in the way of
your consenting
to the
early conse-
cration
of any great value to the China-
opric.
The endowment,
£1700
or
£1000
a year
is secured in the Colonial Bishopric Fund, and was principally contri-
buted by private donors (whose
names are
known to me)
as
"Brother and Sister" who are prepared
to claim
the repayment of the money
given by them, if the Bishopric
is suffered to lapse and remain unfilled by a new appoint-
ment.
The stipend has
been
made up
for
a
time
in the hands
of the Bishopric Trustees.
I remain,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's
obedient
humble servant,
George Smith
(late Bishop of
Victoria)