6 APRIL 1878, Page 13

THE LOGIC OF DISESTABLISHMENT. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—I would not seek to trespass upon the Spectator's great, I have sometimes ventured to think excessive, readiness to allow its own conclusions to be controverted in its own columns. But in his quotation from my letter, Mr. Joseph John Murphy has omitted what seem to me to be the material words, which I italicise:—"Logic, the Liberationists, and Sir Wilfrid Lawson declare

that the national churchyards and the national churches built upon them must go together, that the Burials question is iu reality the I)isestablishment question."—I am, Sir, &c.,

II stbutterwick Vicarage. F. W. HARPER, Vicar of Selby.