2 MARCH 1901, Page 15

THE ROMAN CATHOLIC PEERS' PROTEST,

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.")

SIE.,—Mr. Bertram Wilson's use of the terms " Church " and " Catholic " lays so very different a fundamentum divisionie from that upon which we of the Church of England build that I will not join issue with him in that regard ; but on the plain issue, as between the Spectator and him, I venture to submit that you have hit the nail precisely on the head in your words :—"The Sovereign must remain a Protestant" as I understand, against Papal claims and exclusively Roman teaching and practice] "but he must not officially condemn or in the slightest degree reflect on the religious opinions of his Roman Catholic subjects." You deserve, Sir, the thanks of all common-sense members of our Anglican branch of the Catholic Church for having so concisely and pertinently put

late Vicar of E. Caevodon.