15 FEBRUARY 1873, Page 13

FRIENDS OF EDUCATION.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.")

Sxn,—One word as to your note appended to my last letter. I assumed that the concession of the Church party was made when the Cowper-Temple clause became law. To argue that it was not made because some clergy now strive to evade that clause, would be as unfair as to argue that the 25th Clause is not opera- tive against Dissenters because some of them rebel against it.

In fact, those who rebel have an advantage over those who evade. Evasion is considered discreditable, as the Collier scandal showed ; but disobedience is now an acknowledged form of legiti- mate agitation against a law, as is testified by the fate of Church- rates and Park regulations, and as will, I suppose, be some day 'shown in the case of marriage with a deceased wife's sister.—I am,