28 MAY 1892, Page 3

The Committee on Law, to which the Clergy Discipline Bill

was referred, has closed its labours, and reported the Bill to the House. If this very useful Bill becomes law this Session, it will owe its passing as much to Mr. Gladstone as to the Government. Mr. Gladstone's indignation against the small Welsh party which wishes to prolong abuses in the Church in order that it may be the sooner disestablished, has known no bounds, and it is to his generous and ardent support of the Government that its passing, if it passes, will be due. The Welsh irreconcilables, however, threaten it with more obstruc- tion when it is reported to the House. Even Mr. Gladstone cannot shame these furious Disestablishers into modesty, or even into political decency.