For example, take the very knotty subject of Welsh Disestablishment.
The Welsh Disestablishment Campaign Committee met on Tuesday at Shrewsbury, and insisted vehemently on not allowing this question to be postponed to any question but that of Irish Home-rule. They point out that, out of the thirty-four Members for Wales and Mon- mouthshire, no less than thirty-one have been returned in favour of the Disestablishment and Disendowment of the Welsh Church by majorities which average about two thousand. It is certain enough that this was the main question at the recent elections in Wales and Monmouth- shire, and that, moreover, the Welsh Members are very hot upon it. Now, Mr. Gladstone, though he has voted for Welsh Disestablishment, has insisted gravely on the enormous difficulty of the task of disentangling the interests of the Church of Wales from those of the Church of England ; and it is not known how far he is prepared as yet to go on the question of Disendowment ; while it is certain that the red-hot Welsh Members will not be satisfied without going far beyond the Irish Church measure of Disendovrment. We can hardly imagine a more effective apple of discord than this question of Welsh Disestablishment and Dieendowment, with its thirty- one eager supporters, will introduce into the ranks of the Gladstonian Party.
