15 JULY 1871, Page 3

The Ecclesiastical Titles' Act Repeal Bill passed through Com- mittee

in the Lords on Tuesday, Lord Russell giving in his adhesion in a weak, confused, grumbling speech, which it would have been much better altogether to suppress, as he could not • bring himself to acknowledge the great blunder which the Legisla- ture is now undoing. Lord Russell's true excuse is this. The nation went temporarily out of its mind, and Lord John sympa- thized, as he was apt to do, with the nation,—no such great fault, after all. But it is childish, this trying to make out that what he did was wise, and not foolish.