change had been made in conformity with some Romish prelatical appointments to sees which had recently been given effect to in the United Kingdom.

3. "Bishop Collier entirely concurred with me in opinion, that I could not acknowledge, on the part of Her Majesty's Government, the validity of any such appointment or designation, expressly at variance with the provisions of your Lordship's Circular Despatch of 20th November 1847; and he further explained, that his object in calling upon me was to express this opinion, and thereby to anticipate any imputation of a contrary bearing to which he felt he might be exposed by allowing the notice, received by himself from Rome, to reach the local government indirectly.

4. I should hope that the Bishop of Ceylon, when visiting Mauritius, would be commissioned to assume his definite designation, as including this colony also under his pastoral Anglican charge.

I have, &c. (Signed) W. M. GOмM, Lieut.-General."

COPY OF A DESPATCH FROM EARL GREY TO GOVERNOR SIR G.

Sir,

ANDERSON.

Downing Street, 25 June, 1849.

I have to acknowledge your predecessor's despatch, No. 45, of the 14th February last, in which he mentions that he had received a visit from Bishop Collier, Vicar Apostolic and Bishop of Melevè, to inform him of a communication lately received from Rome, notifying the withdrawal of those titles, and the substitution of that of Bishop of Port Louis or Mauritius.

2. Sir William Gomm did not apply in that despatch for instructions as to any proceedings which he was to take in consequence of that notification; and I collect from his despatch that the course which he meant to adopt was a perfectly proper one. In order, however, that there may be no misapprehension on the subject, I think it as well to transmit

to you the same instructions which I have recently issued to the Governors of Colonies on the like occasion.

3. In official correspondence and intercourse, the local Government should recognize that rank which Roman Catholic prelates are by the members of their own church recognised as possessing in it; that is, the rank of archbishop, or bishop, as the case may be, with the proper honorary prefixes attached to those titles. They must be styled, as directed by my Circular of the 20th November, 1847, by their names, as,

"The Most Reverend Archbishop

"The Right Reverend Bishop

"" or

and not by the titles which are assigned to them by their own church; or else, as,

"The Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church at

which last would be the proper title in various instances; for example, in a deed or public document, of which the provisions apply to the bishop for the time being.

I am not prepared to sanction the adoption by the Roman Catholic prelate, of the style of

without the addition of some words showing that it is only of the Roman Catholic Church that he is bishop, since this might create doubts as to the position of a prelate of the English Church, should the Queen think proper, hereafter, to appoint a bishop of that church in the Mauritius.

I have, &c.

APPENDIX H.

Copy of the Queen's Licence to consecrate Dr. Alexander Bishop of the United Church of England and Ireland in Jerusalem.

Victoria, by the Grace of God, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. &c. &c., to the Most Reverend Father in God, William, By Divine Providence, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England, and Metropolitan, greeting: Whereas, by an Act passed in the fifth year of our reign, intituled "An Act to amend an Act made in the twentysixth year of the reign of His Majesty, King George the Third, intituled, An Act to empower the Archbishop of Canterbury, or the Archbishop of York, for the time being, to consecrate to the office of a bishop, persons being subjects or citizens of countries out of His Majesty's dominions," it was amongst other things enacted, that it should and might be lawful for the Archbishop of Canterbury, or the Archbishop of York, for the time being, together with such other bishops as they should call to their assistance, to consecrate British subjects, or the subjects or citizens of any foreign kingdom or state to be bishops in any foreign country, whether such foreign subjects or citizens be or be not subjects or citizens of the country in which they are to act, and without the Queen's licence for their election or the Royal mandate under the great seal for their confirmation and consecration, and without requiring such of them as may be subjects or citizens of any foreign kingdom or state, to take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, and the oath of due obedience to the Archbishop for the time being. And whereas, it is by the said Act further enacted, that such bishop or bishops so consecrated may exercise, within such limits as may from time to time be assigned for that purpose in such foreign countries by Us, spiritual jurisdiction over the ministers of British congregations of the United Church of England and Ireland, and over such other Protestant congregations as may be desirous

of placing themselves under his or their authority. And whereas it is by the said Act provided, that no person should be consecrated a bishop in the manner therein provided until the Archbishop of Canterbury, or the Archbishop of York, for the time being, should have first applied for and should have obtained Our licence by warrant, under the Royal signet and sign manual, authorising and empowering him to perform such consecration and expressing the name of the person so to be consecrated, nor until the said archbishop has been fully ascertained of the sufficiency of such person in good learning, of the soundness of his faith, and of the purity of his manners. And whereas, you, the said William, Archbishop of Canterbury, have humbly applied to Us for Our licence by warrant, under Our Royal signet and sign manual, authorising and empowering you to consecrate The Reverend Michael Solomon Alexander, Clerk, a British subject, to be Bishop of the United Church of England and Ireland in Jerusalem, you having certified to Us that you had fully ascertained the sufficiency of the said Michael Solomon Alexander in good learning, the soundness of his faith, and the purity of his manners, and praying that We would be graciously pleased to assign Syria, Chaldea, Egypt, and Abyssinia, as the limit within which the said Michael Solomon Alexander might exercise spiritual jurisdiction over the ministers of British congregations of the United Church of England and Ireland, and over such other Protestant congregations as may be desirous of placing themselves under his authority, subject to such alterations in respect to the limits of the jurisdiction so to be exercised as may hereafter be made by Our authority. Now it is Our Royal will and pleasure, and We do by this, Our licence, under our Royal signet and sign manual, authorise and empower you, the said Archbishop, to consecrate the said Michael Solomon Alexander to be Bishop of the United Church of England and Ireland in Jerusalem. And We are graciously pleased to assign Syria, Chaldea, Egypt, and Abyssinia, as the limit within which the said Michael Solomon Alexander may exercise spiritual jurisdiction, pursuant to the said Act, subject, nevertheless, to such alterations in the said limit, as

We from time to time may be pleased to assign. Given at Our Court at Buckingham Palace, the sixth day of November, 1841, in the fifth year of Our reign.

APPENDIX I.

Copy of the Queen's Letters Patent, erecting the Church of the Holy Trinity within the town of Gibraltar into a Cathedral Church and Bishop's See.

Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith: to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting: Whereas it hath been represented unto Us by the Most Reverend Father in God, William, by Divine Providence, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England, and Metropolitan; and by the Right Reverend Father in God, Charles James, by Divine permission, Lord Bishop of London, that the clergy and laity of the communion of the United Church of England and Ireland, resident within our possessions of Gibraltar and Malta, and divers places within the islands and countries situated in and around the Mediterranean Sea, being, from the divided state of Christendom, and from other causes, destitute of the pastoral superintendence of local bishops and ordinaries, have been customarily subject to the jurisdiction of the Bishop of London, in subordination to the metropolitical See of Canterbury, but that, owing to the remoteness of our said possessions, and of the other places aforesaid, and to the increased and increasing number of the clergy and laity of the said communion, resident within the same, the said clergy and laity are exposed, in matters spiritual and ecclesiastical, to grave detriment and inconvenience. And whereas the said Most Reverend and Right Reverend Fathers in God have further represented unto us, that the evils aforesaid might, in some degree, be remedied by the erection of a bishop's see within our town and territory of Gibraltar aforesaid, and have prayed of us that We would,