Bishop Selwyn.

Bishop Selwyn, to opinions, frequently not his own, have recently been attributed, had a short but effective way of dealing with such a proposal, for we find that he, presiding as Bishop of New Zealand, over the session of General Synod, held at Christchurch in 1865, in an elaborate statement regarding the powers of Synod under the Constitution recently adopted, announced that he should "feel himself justified in refusing to put from the chair any proposal for altering the Fundamental Provisions."