In order to ju'3ge of the validity of the complaint preferred by the memorialists, it is necessary to possess some knowledge of the nature of the jurisdiction sunder which " for conscience sake " Mr Tooth and his confreres are suffering; The Pub lic Worship Regulation Act makes no new addition to the Rubrics which the "persecuted" clergyman .subscribed to when they entered* upon their livings, nor have the privileges of the Church, vested in Convocation, been infringed or treated with disrespect. The Court presided over by Lord Penzance has no functions beyond those necessary for preventing the applica tion of public monies to purposes. Avholly alien an® subversive of the special objects for which the State established a national Church. It is obvious that the " endurance of suffering" is susceptible of very different interpretations than a tender conscience, so long astlie clergy have full freedom to vindicate their convic tions, leavingthe Church, as others equally pious and conscientious have done before them. The memorialists assert that the existing relations between Church and State cannot long be maintained unless the very hinge on which the union has turned —the supremacy of the Queen —is removed, and Parliament absolutely re nounces all right to interfere with a purely ecclesiastical rule. The Church proper ties enjoyed exclusively by the Episcopalian body in England are estimated at eight millions sterling annually, and the memo rialists "'virtually ask that these large revenues shall be made an endowment in perpetuity to their ecclesiastical organisa tion, whatever form of doctrine or Avorslup may afterwards be sustained by resources derived from the public Treasury. If their prognostications are well founded, and it is true that existing' relations with the State cannot long be continued unless these demands are con ceded, the day of disestablishment is not far distant, for on no other terms can parliament comply witli their prayer. The memorialists express anxiety to " retain the relations of Church and State which have so long existed in this country;" and they display the genuineness of their profession by encouraging clergymen in a defiance of laws passed by the authority which alone guarantees the existence of the Episcopal system as a .national Church, The memorial is regarded By all true friends of establish ment xas exceedingly unfortunate and ill-timed at the present juncture. 