The Archbishop of Canterbury has issued a very spirited address
to the clergy against the Welsh Church Disestab- lishment and Disendowment Bill, pointing out how severe -will be its effect in crippling the Welsh Church, how fatal are its provisions as against any new organisation of that Church after its disestablishment and disendowment, and how much -it will cost Wales in rates to replace the Church schools which mow exist, by the Board-schools which the Gladstonians -demand. The Daily Chronicle of yesterday compares with this address of Dr. Benson's a little paper signed "S. E. (1," which it attributes to the Rector of Hawarden (Rev. Stephen E. Gladstone), in favour of Disestablishment and Disendow- rnent, in a little penny periodical called Goodwill. But to our mind, our contemporary describes the contrast between them -very unfairly, when it speaks of the latter as much more "hopeful "than the former. Its characteristic is a mild piety and sad resignation, not hope. We should say that Mr. Stephen Gladstone, so far as his tone is hopeful at all
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