A great and impressive demonstration of protest against the Welsh
Disestablishment Bill was held in London on Wednesday afternoon. A procession of clergy and laity, two miles long, including upwards of 10,000 Churchmen from Wales and 5,000 from Lancashire and Yorkshire, marched from their rendezvous in Regent's Park to Hyde Park and the Albert Hall. At the open-air meeting speeches were delivered by the Bishops of London and St. David's, Lord Weimer, Lord Robert Cecil, and others. In the Albert Hall the principal speakers were the Archbishop of York, Mr.Bonar Law, the Bishop of St. Asaph, the Duke of Devonshire, and Bishop Welldon, who condemned the inj ustice and oppressiveness of the Bill. Mr. Bonar Law was most effective in dealing with Mr. Lloyd George's contention that the Church was alien to the Celtic temperament. If anything could add to the misgivings of the Government as to their Bill, it would be the temper and the numbers of this remarkable demonstration.
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