The Nonconformists have decided to begin at once their Par-
liamentary attack on the Established Church, which Mr. Miall is to commence on Tuesday, 9th of May. The meeting in which this was decided on was held on Wednesday, at the City Ter- minus Hotel, and addressed at considerable length both by Mr. Richard (M.P. for Merthyr Tydvil), and Mr. Miall, as well as other distinguished Nonconformists. Their tone, as we have remarked in another column, was grave, resolute, and earnest, and ought to make members of the Established Church resolve to defeat them by, if possible, and so far as possible, includ- ing them within the National Church. Of course, we do not sup- pose that such men as Mr. Miall and Mr. Richard, who have lived their life on the Voluntaryist view, will ever under any circumstances enter a Church supported by the State; but we hope the result of the discussion may well be that many of their younger and less prepossessed followers will reverse their arms, and fraternize with the enemy they are preparing to assail.
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