Mr Miell introduced his resolution condemnatory of the Established Churches
of England and Scotland on the evening of yesterday week, too late for our last impression. With his usual magnanimity in dealing with this subject, Mr Miall touched but lightly on the injury to Nonconformist interests caused by the wealth and dignity attaching to the Established Church,—he preferred to insist on the injury to the Established Church itself caused by the legal restraints to which she was subject. "Her groanings," said Mr. Miall, were as
continuous as they were distressing." Members of that Church, in Synod or Convocation, or less regular meetings, were always craving leave to do something which by law they were not per- mitted to do. He could not understand what was meant by Members (like Mr. Hughes, M.P. for Frome,) who assert that greater freedom is secured to the Established Church through the restraints of the law on her clergy. Long sunk in a state of something like torpor, she had lately awakened partially to the claims upon her, and was now in that condition of half-restored circulation commonly known as "pins and needles," still too hampered by restraints to recover her full vitality. He asked the House to declare by resolution that her native state of free- dom (and poverty) ought to be restored to her.
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