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already three Missionaries labouring in Hong-Kong. The number of Clergymen at present in the southern division is ten. Many of the Colonial Dioceses have commenced with a smaller number, and many have not a larger number at the present time, as Labuan, St. Helena, Orange Free State, Nelson, Dunedin, Grafton and Armidale.
Dr. Alford, after his consecration, wishing to retain the whole of China under his superintendence, objected to the consecration of Mr. Russell, but, upon further consideration, expressed his consent in letters addressed to the Archbishop of Canterbury and to Lord Stanley.
Letter from the Bishop of Victoria to the Archbishop of Canterbury.
MY LORD ARCHBISHOP,
18, CANONBURY PLACE, N. May 29, 1867.
I have this morning received from the Foreign Office copies of letters dated December 8 and May 26, addressed to the Earl of Chichester in reference to the appointment of a Missionary Bishop "to exercise episcopal functions in the parts of China and Japan north of 28 N. latitude," for the benefit of Missionaries and Native Clergymen of the Church of England.
I beg most respectfully to inform your Grace that I am happy to concur in forwarding the desired arrangement.
I am,
(Signed)
MY LORD ARCHBISHOP,
Your most obedient servant,
CHARLES R. VICTORIA.
At this time the Duke of Buckingham had succeeded to the office of Secretary for the Colonies, and His Grace hesitated to sanction the alteration in the Order in Council.
The delay has afforded additional proof of the necessity of the proposed division for the advance of Mission work in North China, so that the Committee have felt compelled to press the measure, and the Duke of Buckingham has kindly consented to receive a Deputation upon the subject.
Opinions of the Missionaries connected with the Ningpo and North China Missions.
The Rev. W. A. Russell, M.A. is the senior Missionary of twenty years' standing, and he has given sufficient proof of the importance which he attaches to the proposed arrangement, by declining the overtures for his own appointment to the undivided Bishopric of Victoria, in order to devote himself as resident Missionary Bishop at Ningpo.
The Rev. Frederic Foster Gough, M.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, of eighteen years' standing, writes- Permit me to say briefly, but emphatically, that I consider a Bishop in the South of China cannot extend an efficient episcopal supervision to the North of China and Japan, and I believe that Mr. Russell is admirably qualified for the North-China Episcopate.
The Rev. John Shaw Burdon, of fifteen years' standing, writes" It is rather strange, that before any news of what had been going on reached me, I had been led to write to the Secretary a letter, in which I expressed very decidedly my opinion of the necessity for an authority in our Missions, that authority, if possible to be a Missionary Bishop."
The Rev. George E. Moule, M.A. Cambridge, is of ten years' standing, and his brother, the Rev. Arthur E. Moule, is of six years' standing. Mr. G. Moule is now in England, and writes respecting his own and his brother's judgment in this matter" It is not impossible that my brother's views on the subject may have been mistaken, as mine were. My brother appears to have told Bishop Alford, in answer to questions, that he could not consider the Missionary Bishopric indispensable; but that he thought it desirable, on account of the
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already three Missionaries labouring in Hong-Kong. The number of Clergymen at present in the southern division is ten. Many of the Colonial Dioceses have commenced with a smaller number, and many have not a larger number at the present time, as Labuan, St. Helena, Orange Free State, Nelson, Duneden, Grafton and Armidale.
Dr. Alford, after his consecration, wishing to retain the whole of China under his superintendence, objected to the consecration of Mr. Russell, but, upon further consideration, expressed his consent in letters addressed to the Archbishop of Canterbury and to Lord Stanley.
Letter from the Bishop of Victoria to the Archbishop of Canterbury.
MY LORD ARCHBISHOP,
18, CANONBURY PLACE, N. May 29, 1867.
I have this morning received from the Foreign Office copies of letters dated December 8 and May 26, addressed to the Earl of Chichester in reference to the appointment of a Missionary Bishop "to exercise episcopal functions in the parts of China and Japan north of 28 N. latitude," for the benefit of Missionaries and Native Clergymen of the Church of England.
I beg most respectfully to inform your Grace that I am happy to concur in forwarding the desired arrangement.
I am,
(Signed)
MY LORD ARCHBISHOP,
Your most obedient servant,
CHARLES R. VICTORIA.
At this time the Duke of Buckingham had succeeded to the office of Secretary for the Colonies, and His Grace hesitated to sanction the alteration in the Order in Council.
The delay has afforded additional proof of the necessity of
the proposed division for the advance of Mission work in North China, so that the Committee have felt compelled to press the measure, and the Duke of Buckingham has kindly consented to receive a Deputation upon the subject.
Opinions of the Missionaries connected with the Ningpo and North China Missions.
The Rev. W. A. Russell, M. A. is the senior Missionary of twenty years' standing, and he has given sufficient proof of the importance which he attaches to the proposed arrangement, by declining the overtures for his own appointment to the undivided Bishopric of Victoria, in order to devote himself as resident Missionary Bishop at Ningpo.
The Rev. Frederic Foster Gough, M.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, of eighteen years' standing, writes- Permit me to say briefly, but emphatically, that I consider a Bishop in the South of China cannot extend an efficient episcopal supervision to the North of China and Japan, and I believe that Mr. Russell is admirably qualified for the North-China Episcopate."
The Rev. John Shaw Burdon, of fifteen years' standing, writes" It is rather strange, that before any news of what had been going ou reached me, I had been led to write to the Secretary a letter, in which I expressed very decidedly my opinion of the necessity for an authority in our Missions, that authority, if possible to be a Missionary Bishop."
The Rev. George E. Moule, M.A. Cambridge, is of ten years' standing, and his brother, the Rev. Arthur E. Monle, is of six years' standing. Mr. G. Moule is now in England, and writes respecting his own and his brother's judgment in this matter" It is not impossible that my brother's views on the subject may have been mistaken, as mine were. My brother appears to have told Bishop Alford, in answer to questions, that he could not consider the Missionary Bishopric indispen- sable; but that he thought it desirable, on account of the
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