The Bishop of Durham has issued an address to the
Arch- deacons of his diocese, in which he deals with the Welsh Church Suspensory Bill as the beginning of an attack on the Estab- lishment in general, and not merely in Wales, since he regards the Welsh dioceses as no more separable from the National Church, than any other dioceses of that Church. The revival of the Church throughout England and Wales during the last fifty years has, he says, been splendid, but nowhere has it been more remarkable than in Wales. To attack it there is, therefore, to attack it throughout the Kingdom, and that is, we believe, the real wish of nine-tenths of those who are instigating the Welsh movement. The Bishop therefore raises the greater question,—Whether the disestab- lishment and disendowment of the Church would not be a great blow to the people of England and Wales, and one of which no Nonconformist bodies, however able and zealous, could undo the mischief P Nonconformist ministers necessarily feel that their duties are owed chiefly to their fellow-believers. The ministers of the National Church feel that they are re- sponsible for every citizen of the nation who does not resent, but will in any way admit, their services.
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