In one way we regret the proposal that the work
of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council should be in any way restricted, for the judgments of the Committee in the past have been invaluable in preventing intolerance and sectarianism from getting the upper hand. The Judicial Committee has helped vastly in keeping the Church of England national and comprehensive. On the other hand the clergy generally wanted a change and the compromise offered ought, as it seems to us, to work well enough. The Bishop of Durham has said that it really abolishes the Royal Supremacy, but surely that is an exaggeration. We expect that if the proposed plan is accepted it will in practice leave the lay judges with corisiderable power just as the Parliament Act has left the House of Lords with more authority than the sterner critics of the Act foresaw. •
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