13 APRIL 1895, Page 15

THE RESIDUARY LEGATEE OF DISESTABLISH- MENT.

[To ray liorros or Tin "firrenTos."]

Sin,—The announcement just made that the Pope has issued a brief forming a separate " Vicariate Apostolic" for eleven of the Welsh Counties, indicates that the threatened blow to the Established Church is the signal for the friends of the Romish Church to be up and doing. Allow me to remind your readers of the declaration made at Oxford on December 21st, 1874, by Sir William Harcourt,—viz., "He is a purblind politician who does not perceive that the residuary legatee of Disestablishment will infallibly be the Church of Rome," into whose hands the supporters of the present Government are assuredly playing by their action with regard to the

Welsh Disestablishment am, Sir, &c., A CHURCHMAN.