On Thursday, in the discussion of the eighth clause, Mr.
Ormsby-Gore moved an amendment proposing that the glebe should be left in the Church's possession, which was rejected by 277 votes to 222, the Government majority thus falling to 55. The clause was then carried, the majority this time being 63. In this context we may note that the Welsh Dis- establishment Campaign Committee, at an emergency meeting held at Cardiff on Thursday, passed a resolution indignantly protesting against the Government's concessions, while the Chairman of the North Wales Baptist Union declared at Holyhead on the same day that they would sooner that the Bill should be wrecked than passed in its present form. " The Welsh nation," he went on, " would not be satisfied, as they had been sold by weak-kneed English Nonconformists who knew absolutely nothing about the requirements of Wales."
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