MR. DALE AND THE LAW.
(TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.")
Sin,—Allow me to call the attention of your readers, and especially of Mr. Voysey, to the following extract from a letter written to you by Mr. Maurice on April 1st, 1871, with refer- ence to the Privy Council's decisions in ecclesiastical cases :—
" Such decisions come to the mind of the Clergy with as little of the sanctity of law as the decisions of magistrates in a game case come the minds of their most ignorant parishioners. They fancy that it is the constitution of the Court which weakens their rever- ence; it is, in truth, a secret feeling that these are not subjects to which formal law can be reasonably applied,—that they arc too grand -or too paltry for its cognizance."
The italics are mine,—do they not show the real cause of the present distress 15—I am, Sir, &c., St. Thomas's, Charterhouse, B.C. STEWART D. HEADLAM.
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