We notice in the list of amendments to the Welsh
Dis- establishment Bill one of great importance under the name of Mr. Charles Bathurst. Briefly stated, it amounts to this, that the revenues derived from disendowment should not be applied to secular purposes, but should be " held in trust, appropriated, or applied for or towards the advancement of Christianity in Wales and Monmouthshire by such persons or bodies of persons and in such manner as to the Welsh Com- missioners shall seem meet." In other words, the funds taken from the Church are to be earmarked for religious uses. It remains to be seen whether such a compromise, which in principle would certainly be accepted by many Nonconformists to whom the commercialism of the measure as it stands is repugnant, will commend itself to the Government.
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