Happily there is little fear of the House of Lords
accepting the measure. If the Government and the Liberal Party really believe that the country is with them on the question, they will no doubt take its opinion. If that opinion is un- favourable to the maintenance of the Church in Wales, the decision will, of course, have to be accepted. We shall, how- ever, be exceedingly surprised if the verdict goes against the maintenance of the connexion between the Church and State. Perhaps in answer to this we shall be told that the Govern- ment will most certainly not dissolve on the Welsh Die- establishment Bill. In that case, all we can say is that they have been guilty of a criminal waste of the time of Parlia- ment, for they must know that the measure is one which the Lords could not accept without abandoning the function with which they are entrusted by the Constitution,—the function of preventing any capital alteration being made in the law or the Constitution unless they are convinced that such is the will of the people.
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