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Mr. Disraeli's speech was, for him, unusually laboured and feeble,

and its whole argument was compressed into the remark that nobody thought of disestablishing the State when the State had outgrown the nation, but rather of opening the State to include the nation, and the hint that a similar remedy might be successfully attempted for the National Church. Mr. Gladstone, in reply, showed that it is still quite a problem whether the great majority of the nation may not again be included in, the National

Church, and on a division the motion was rejected by 374 votes to 89 (a majority of 285), a decided majority of the Liberal party voting with all the Conservatives against it.

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