HATLESS WOMEN IN CHURCH.

The hatlese brigade is increasing. At the seaside and' country health resorts this season, writes a London correspondent, scores of ladies have abandoned hats. The church or rather some- of its priests and .dignitaries, aro shocked that.women hare .dared io go into a consecrated' building ; withtheir heads uncovered. The English ,Chnrch 'tJnion it credited with favouring this movement, .but Lard Halifax,;its president, has nob yet made the'subject one of his usual dogmatic deliverances, .j, The dispute began, and it has been no email one, by the Vicar of Orantock, ,in Cornwall, forbidding women to gtyjlnto hie -churoh because they discarded,the headdress. The doings of a country vicar would,not have counted foiffinucb, if they had been alone; butane authorities of Canterbury Oa-thedrai have also posted up a notice forbidding hatless ;womcn io enter -that, sacred-, building. This has led' to a great newspaper controversy. The prohibition has been defended on the ground that it is not customary for women to go into church uncovered; that Linus, the second bishop of Roroe, -pronounced against that custom; ami because the'practice is condemned in iho writings of St. Paul. But it is argued, on the other hand, thai uncovered women go into the churches of France, Spain, and Italy, that the declarations of Linns require confirmation, and that St. Paul's passage related quite as much to the inferiority of women as to observances of w«niliip. ; •'■■■■••• ■•■'•■