THE KING'S CONSCIENCE
SIR,—Because we have yielded some of our constitutional landmarks that is not a convincing argument for their total abandonment. Would Protestants receive the same liberal treatment under a Catholic con- stitution? I crow not —Yours faithfully, EDMUND BALDING. 6o Russell Square, W.C. .r.
SIR,—Precisely what Mr. Balding means by his question " Who is the keeper of a Catholic Lord Chancellor's conscience? " is not clear. As well ask who is the keeper of the Catholid Master of the Rolls—Lord Greene,—conscience ; or the Catholic members of the King's Household from time to time. Mr. Balding has not remembered that the principal work of a Lord Chancellor is judicial and in things touching the law in a general way ; his contact with the Sovereign, if the Court Circulars are any guide, is slighter than that of any officer of State. What " lovers of freedom " have to do with the legal help a Lord Chancellor, of any creed, may give to his Sovereign is also obscure. If a King, of the moment, needed " spiritual " aid he would go to his Domestic Chaplain, or even his Archbishop ; it never would occur to him to send for his
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