22 JANUARY 1898, Page 17

THE ST. ASAPH MEMORIAL

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—Yon were right and "X. X. X." wrong. The memo- rialists are entirely to blame for making their agitation public. The fault was theirs, not the Bishop's. I enclose a cutting from the Church Times of December 3rd—the day before the Bishop returned to England from Italy—which abundantly proves my statement. I could add corroborative testimony from other newspapers enough to fill the Spectator. Probably the last person in the diocese to learn what was going on was the Bishop himself. The agitators have now started the preposterous plea, that they may accuse their Bishop corm populo and hear his defence in camerd.—I am,

The Deanery, St. Asaph, Jan. 19th. Dean of St. Asaph.

[We cannot publish any farther correspondence on this subject.—En. Spectator.]