12 JULY 1890, Page 3

Mr. Gee, the editor of the Welsh Boner, has been

heckling Mr. Gladstone as to his intentions in relation to the Disestab- lishment of the Welsh Church. Mr. Gee's tone is decidedly uncompromising, and even a little cold. Welsh loyalty to Mr. Gladstone has been, he says, partially due to the expecta- tion that he was prepared to introduce a Bill for the Disestab- lishment of the Church in Wales. Mr. Gee hopes and trusts that Mr. Gladstone will undertake that task; but if not, "it will be far better that your intentions should be made known at once, than that the present state of uncertainty should be prolonged." Mr. Gladstone's reply is not the one which Mr. Gee desired. He declines to undertake to deal personally with any question but the Irish Question, and even with that only, of course, health and strength permitting. He expresses a general belief, which will afford no comfort to Mr. Gee, that any .difficulties in the way of doing what is necessary, "are capable of being confronted and overcome so soon as a favourable judgment of Parliament shall supply the necessary means." On that we would observe that even in relation to matters on which a favourable judgment of Parliament has supplied the necessary means, it has not been found easy in the present Session to confront and overcome the difficulties in the way of legislation, and that the example set by the present Oppo- sition in resisting Government measures to which they were opposed, has certainly not been of a kind to render it the more likely that if the Opposition should take the place of the Government, they would find it easy to pass their own measures.