[TO THS EDITOR OF lila "SPECTATOS."] SIR,—Allow me to point
out that when, in your article on the above Bill, in your last issue, you compare surrendering the initiative in Rubrical legislation into the hands of the clergy of the Established Church to giving up the initiative in educational codes to the schoolmasters of the National Education system, you have done the former an injustice, by not taking into account that, in all their deliberations on such subjects, they claim, by virtue of episcopal ordination, to be 20 infallibly guided by the Holy Spirit, that defective judgment, self-interest and prejudice, are over-ruled by it ; and therefore, to them, and to them alone, the interests of the laity in religious matters should be unhesitatingly confided. It is doubtless such claims and feelings as these that make people like your correspondent, whose words you quote, feel that they would be "degraded, disgraced, humiliated" in their whole spirit, by being compelled to attend to the wishes of the laity.-1 am, Sir, &c., 117hitland, Carmarthenshire, June 28. A. BOYLE.
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