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BISHOPS: NEW PLAN George, and the Bishop of Worcen-

OF APPOINTMENT.

CHURCH ASSEMBLY COMMITTE'S PROPOSALS.

London, June, 11.

the

tor are also stated to have made communications through chairman.

The report states that the re- commendations do not profess to be exhaustivo.

"It is thought by some of the Committee that the question of the Royal Supremacy must ere long he

AN ADVISORY BODY.dealt with more directly," it states; "and that this makes the soparate treatment in isolation of this parti cular item of the appointment of bishop undesirable; but the majori- ty of the Committee, nevertheless, are in favour of making provision. al suggestions to meet what they regard as the minimum require- ments of the situation."

The Committee set up by the Church Assembly six years ago-to study the appointment of Bishops, puts forward, in an interim report lasued last night, three majority recommendations as provisional suggestions to meet the im- mediate minimum requirements of

the situation."

The third recommendation urges that the Prime Minister, before advising the Crown on an episcopal appointment, should consult an advisory committee of the two Archbishops and five members of the Church Assembly nominated by himself without derogating his own ultimate responsibility.

The Committee explains that It final report be- cause the subject is only one aspect of the larger question of the relationship of Church and State, and of the Royal Supremacy, which "muat ere fong be dealt with more directly,”

has not issued a

The report will be presented to the Church Assembly, which opens on Monday,

J.

No hint is given of the nature of the evidence heard. Only a summary of the general arguments in favour of the existing system and against it are included.

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The Proposed Committee. The Committee to be consulte?! the Prime Minieter, roferred to in the third recommendation, it is suggested, should consist of not fewer than seven persons, includ- ing the Archbishops of Canter bury and York, to be chosen by the Prime Minister himself from the members of the Church Assem. bly. This committee with the exception of the two Archbishops it is further suggested, should hold office during the tenure of the Prime Minister appointing them, but not for longer than five years onPaunierum plon les

Sir Philip Baker-Wilbraham, Secretary of the Church Assem- bly, explains in a memorandum his view that the Committee suggested in the third recommendation might be the germ out of which an' Eecle- ciastical Appointments Committee advise the Crown directly,

"Not Drustic Enough." Important issues involving the relations of Church and State are raised by the engerly-awaited re-to pert of the Committee set up by might evolve. the Church Assembly six years ago to study the system of appoint ment of Bishops. It was publish; ed last night and will be presented to the Assembly at its coming 'session, which opena on Monday.

The report

The right of nomination of the Crown, he states, is deeply rooted but the concentration of practical] power in the hands of the Prime Minister is a later constitutional development which need not be is not unanimous, | regarded as final and immutable." and its majority recommendationa are put forward as "provisional suggestions" to meet "the in- médiate minimum requirements of the situation."

It is stated that the three re- commendations have been designed Le secure that no Prime Minister shall advise the King on the nomination for an appointment without having received advice from those best qualified' to give it, and to remove the "euspicion of unreality" from the ceremonies of election and confirmation. They are:

1. That the electing body should have the right to refuse to elect the person named in the King's Letter Missive without Incurring penalty.

2 That the Archbishops of Can- terbury and York should not be liable to. penalty for refusing to confirm or to, consecrate a person elected as Bishop.

3 That the Prime Minister, be- Tore submitting any recommendia- tion to his Majesty in respect to the appointment of Bishop, should consult an advisory com mittee, without in any way de regating from his own ultimate responsibility,

Lord Walmer's Regret, Outspoken comments are made in memoranda from certain mem- bers of the committee, which

н appendices to appear

the

report.

In one of them Mr. Henry J. Guest dissociates himself from the findings of his colleagues, with the observa tion: "I cannot agree with the committee's recommendations, which are not likely to be of any practical use, and appear to me to be singularly unprolific of the lengthy considerations of the com. mittee."

In a similar memorandum Lord Wolmer declares his regret that the report is not more drastic, and his desire "to see the Crown re- nounce all its patronage in the Church, as it did in the case of the Church of Scotland in 1874."

Though the motion on which the report will come before the Church Assembly asks only that it "be re- ceived," there is no doubt that it will rise to lively discussion...in which the question of the Estab- lishment must be prominent.

The Committee advances as one reason for not presenting a final report ita view that the subject is only an aspect of the larger ques- tion of the relationship of Church' and State and of the Royal Supre- macy which must ere long be dealt with more directly.".

Since the Diocesan Bishops ineet nt Lambeth to-morrow after ลด adjournment .from January, to begin their considera- Lion of the situation created by the second rejection by Parliament of the revised Prayer Book, it is pos sible that a statement may be made to the Assembly which would bring this question even more pro- minently forward.

Among those who gave evidence before the Committee are. Arch- bishop Davidson, the late Earl of Oxford and Asquith, the late Archbishop Lowther Clarke, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, when Prime Minis ter, and Lord Hugh Ceell. The date Lord Rosebery, Lord Balfour, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Mr. Lloyd

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