A conversation as to Dr. Tait's Public Worship Regulation Bill
-took place in the Howie of Lords on Monday, when the Duke of Marlborough appealed to the Archbishop of Canterbury to give
longer delay of the second, reading than till Thursday (which was the day at that time proposed), in order that the Bill might be -fairly considered by Convocation. Dr. Tait replied that it was impossible to give both the Convocations of Canterbury and of York time to consider it without a whole year's delay, and -that the question at issue in the Bill had already been considered by the Convocation of Canterbury, and that the Bill was in some respects founded on the report formerly made; but as the Marquis of Bath accused the Archbishop of "indecent haste," and Lord Cairns, while deprecating the Marquis's impetuosity, himself urged more time, the Archbishop was compelled to yield, though delay is against the Bill, as it always is against a solution of a vexed -question which will not hold water ; but the conversation showed -that the Conservatives are even more hostile to the Bill than -the Liberals. And on Liberal grounds alone,—the grounds of eomprehension,—we are convincedthat it should not pass.
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