In the House of Lords on Thursday the Archbishop of
Canterbury, in a speech of great moderation, and also of great lucidity, showed how unfair and bow impracticable were the new regulations for Training Colleges. Churchmen were quite willing, if they were given sufficient time to make the necessary arrangements, to admit to their Training Colleges students from outside, who need not be members of the Church of England, and who might take advantage of everything the Colleges offered, except the religious side, which they did not want. "We have set to work," said the Archbishop, "and spent money in doing it. We have been preparing our Colleges for those who would come in from outside, and, as I think, to meet the difficulty which the Nonconformists feel hy giving them in the residential Training College all the advan- tages the College offers, except the religious education. We intend to do that. Of course, it has not been done to any great extent yet ; we are not ready for the influx. It will take a little time to arrange about the change in our buildings, but large sums have been expended in the effort to do it."
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