18 MAY 1912, page 2

Before We Leave The Subject We Must Say One Word

more on the controversy over the Church lands question. On this matter more bad argument, bad history, and general folly have been disseminated than on any other question within......

That Is A Delightful Example Of Mr. Lloyd George's Logic.

It might do well enough if the Government were now engaged in plundering the grantees of the Church lands. Unfortunately for Mr. Lloyd George, they are not at the moment doing......

On Thursday Lord Hugh Cecil Opened The Debate In A

speech of great eloquence. He declared that they ought not 1,ghtly to part with the principle of the adherence of the Stale to religion, and therefore the Government ought to......

The Debate Was Continued On Wednesday By Mr. Asquith In

a conciliatory speech. He freely admitted the comprehensive attitude of the Church of England since the Reformation, but demurred to the relevance of this argument. He based his......

The King Took The Lands For Himself And Sold Them

at the best possible price he could get to the capitalists of his day, who happened to be our moderately old nobility in the making. The Dukes of Devonshire and of Bedford no......

The Debate On The Second Reading Of The Welsh Disesta.

blishment Bill was opened in the Commons by Mr. F. E. Smith. He met the argument of the practical unanimity of the Welsh Parliamentary demand by pointing out that on the basis......

Mr. Ellie Griffith, Replying For The Government, Said...

complaint in Wales was that the Church had legal, political, and social privileges ; the Welsh Liberals demanded that the Church should have the same rights and liberties as......

Mr. Harwood, One Of The Liberal Dissentients, Opened The...

on Tuesday with a courageous and interesting speech. He characterized Mr. Lloyd George's description of the Church in Wales as a " foreign" Church as just the reverse of the......