Mr. Morley, apparently with the sanction of his colleagues, bas
placed the Disestablishment of the Church in Wales among the " active objects " of the Liberal Party. Mr. Stuart Rendel„ Member for Montgomeryshire, had asked him for an "explicit declaration," which, "if formally made by such a Liberal leader as you," would be received by the Principality " with joy and gratitude." To this Mr. Morley replies on October 30th, that Wales, like many active interests in England and Scotland, has good right to be vexed with the failure of promised legislation ; that Wales has " long enough subsisted on general expressions of sympathy " with her demand for Dis- establishment; and that, in his opinion, "the Disestablishment of the Church in Wales, whatever view we may take of the larger question, is a reform which cannot any longer be kept out of the active objects of the Liberal Party." Mr. Morley has always been in favour of Disestablishment, and he is correct in saying that the majority of Welshmen desire it ; but he has probably selected his time from other considerations. He hopes that the Unionists will be puzzled how to vote upon the ques- tion, a hope which, as we have elsewhere tried to prove, is vain- Whatever view we may take of the Welsh Church, its Disestab- lishment would wait during a war, and may wait now.
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