I lament with you the various misapprehensions which have occurred respecting a ‘memorial’ and ‘statement’ of the Committee of the Church Missionary Society on the extension of the episcopate in India. They have been chiefly, however, echoes of a most unfair critique in the columns of a newspaper which has long been hostile to the Society, alleging that the Committee had repudiated episcopal superintendence over its missions, and had needlessly placed the C. M. S. in opposition to the S. P. G., and especially to the late revered Bishop of Calcutta, whose statements had been put forth by that Society in the forefront of their appeals for an extension of the Indian Episcopate.

The facts of the case, as explained in the recent ‘Minute’ of the Committee of the Church Missionary Society, dated March 30, 1858, negative many of these aspersions. But there are a few points on which I may offer further remarks for your satisfaction.

1. It will be satisfactory to you, and to many other friends, to know what was the judgment of the late Bishop of Calcutta upon the ‘memorial’ and ‘statement’ at which offence is taken. His son, the Vicar of Islington, has furnished me with the following extract from one of the Bishop's late letters, which will set this matter at rest.