One of the few measures named in the Queen's Speech
is the appointment of a Royal Commission to revise the various forms of subscription "required to be made by the clergy of the Established Church," of which it is said the Archbishop of Canterbury will be the head. Of course, no very great simplification of the intellectual conditions now imposed on the clergy will either pass the present Parliament, or, in all probability, be proposed by such a com- mission. For any real expansion of these restrictions we must look to the legal interpretations of our highest Court of ecclesias- tical law, from which a judgment is expected next Monday that will, in all probability, greatly stretch the range of dogmatic meanings to- which the narrow school of theologians wish to limit the comprehension of our formulas.
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