BRITISH POLITICS

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12408, 25 November 1908, Page 4

BRITISH POLITICS

THE EDUCATION BILL. . CLERICAL OPINIONS. TPbess Asbooiaswjh— OopybightJ iibncton, Nov. 23. Tne Bishop of Manchester insists thnt Nonconformists have gained every principle which they corit3nded for under the education compromise. He declared that there has been no such malversation of Church property since the Reformation, and that the Bill will cause bitter and protracted war ia.yiliages,, and probably some schools will not be transferred without physical force. He adds that the net result is tho Anglican Church's profound humiliation. % The Rev. Dr. Clifford (Baptist) says. the Bill is a solid gain to the educational work of the nation. Archbishop Bourne. (Roman Catholic)) expresses the - hope the nation may find the Bill a foundatiun for a peaceful settlement. The. Rev. J. C. L. Lidgett. President of the Wesleyan Conference, declares that so long as tho rights cf asdistantjtenchers to give deaominai tional instruction are ( safegaurded 'by adequate regulation?, the ment of the education question will not contain a braach of Nonconforrnisfc principles. Sir J. il. Kennaroay. M..P., states' that 19-20th9 of the Anglican laity will strongly suppoit tlie Archbishop of Canterbury and Mr Runciman, Presiflent of tno Board of Education. Father Vaughan strenuously condemns the Bill. The "-Ch roniole' l siys that the Bill ensures five-sixths of the cost of maintenanc of RomanCatholio schools, being derived from public funds. Regarding the protest by Catholic teachers against contracting out, tDo. "Chronicle" remarks that they view with natural rjitternesa-.tho prospect of schools being driven out of the natonal system. This was not the desire of the Liberals. It - was the penalty of the Catholic hierarchy's refusal to accept publio control.