Iii the House of Lords on Thursday it was resolved,
on the motion of Lord St Aldwyn, to appoint a Select Committee to inquire into certain matters connected with the Welsh Church BILL The first question for consideration was whether the constitution of the Convocation of the English Church has ever been altered by Act of Parliament without the assent and against the protest of Convocation. The second question to be submitted to the Committee relates to the petitions of Welsh Nonconformists against the Disendowment clauses. The Rouse of Lords was, in our opinion, fully justified in taking the coarse it has taken. It is true that, if the Govern- mint choose, they can pass the Bill under the Parliament Act without paying the slightest heed to the action of the Peers, bat for all that the Report of the Lords' Committee will have weight with those sections of the nation which are not wholly given over to the frenzy of party.
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