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22 are met by proposals which are entirely new, and an assurance which is calculated to weaken our reliance upon your representations.

I beg to ask whether your Committee will proceed upon the basis referred to and already settled, and whether you will supply me with the names which I asked for on 4th July, in order that they may be approved, and that I may propose the names of different persons to act on our side.

I remain, yours faithfully, . To the Rev.

Mr. Goodhart's communication of the 13th July was followed by a letter from Captain Layard:—

London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews.

July 20th, 1866.

,

I have the honour to inform your Lordship, that a special meeting of the General Committee of the Society has been summoned for Tuesday next, the 24th instant, at 12 o'clock, to consider matters in connexion with “the Conference.”

We shall be glad to receive any communication which your Lordship and your colleagues may have to make in answer to Mr. Goodhart's letter of the 13th instant, enclosing a resolution of our Committee of the same date.

Awaiting your Lordship's reply,

I remain, Your obedient Servant, (Signed)    , Secretary.

The Right Rev. the

To which the following answer was sent:—

21st July, 1866.

Your letter of 20th July to the Bishop of Rochester has been placed in my hands to answer.

Mr. Goodhart's letter of the 13th instant, forwarding a resolution of your Committee, was considered at a meeting of the members of the late Conference, and the friends with whom they were acting, and the accompanying resolution passed.

I hope, for the sake of the cause we have at heart and the Society itself, it may be possible to form a fresh tribunal of several persons, as proposed by yourselves and assented to by us, and I will take this opportunity of stating my conviction that there is no other way of preventing what is most undesirable, if it can be avoided,—the placing before the public of questions and differences which must tell injuriously upon the interests of the Society. We have really wished to avoid this, and I am grieved to find that not only have our wishes been frustrated, but our motives have also been misrepresented. I address this letter to you for the information of the Committee, and remain,

Yours faithfully, (Signed)