THE ACCESSION DECLARATION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 920, 13 September 1910, Page 6

THE ACCESSION DECLARATION.

' ; "APPROVAL. BY PEERS'bP ALL'': ! .'._■■' ,;./; .;.' ...";■■>.; , ;'• ! . To, 'advance the King's 'Accession De» ..claratioh "Bill :f and. other measures the House- of /Lords; sat: on Monday .'.(August' 1); .although the Commons were .enjoying, a bank, holiday. .'. .■.'',-.' '■''.[.: „■' ;. '... . : On the Accession Declaration'■Bill; Lord. Kinnaird tried iii;vain to secure a postponement 'until'the autumn.' session.:' "} icanriot. help thinking," said Lord,-Grewa I "that the only,-object of ,this .propost-. .is'the' hope ; that the : Government wiL ; be intimi'lated or worried into dropping tho subject". The - proposal -..' was- negatived without a division."' " :''•

Prom every corner of the House warm approval was .expressed of;the;new form, of the Accession, Declafationj ...wjiich. calls upon the King to declare himself, a faithful'. Protestant and nothing more. ;.• Lord Crewe proposed- it for the .Government. Lord Lansdowne approved it for / the Opposition. The Archbishop of .Canterbury, for the. Church,■• not only, approved,, but said that he had '•■ had .a share ./in, the drafting of the new form.; The Duke of Norfolk, the most .illustrious Roman Catholic layman in the realm, expressed /his gratitude/to'the Prime .Minister and the Government; Lord Halifax, the most intense of the High Church. Peers, .was equally definite in his approval of the new form of words. ,• . - ~■■

Lord Crewe-'stated: that :.thVi Government ' were steadily . considering : -the change, during the lifetime of King Edward, before it was known or feared that a new application was. imminent. The Archbishop of Canterbury: said: •We are now reaching_ the end of a feud which has been mischievous and vexatious in the highest degree. Before Mr. Asquith mado his speech I. wrote to him, on behalf of myself ,and one or twoothers of high position in -the Church, saying wo were prepared to support an enactment in this particular form. I should have, objected,,in any case, against the phrase, '-. fProtestant ■ Reformed: Church," as an adequate description of the Church of England. The proposed change will ; relievo the Sovereign from an unpleasant obligation, and. will be to the credit of' Christian common sense. (General cheers.) .'.-■■_ ■ ;' Lord Lansdowne. remarked: We'are.at the end of the reign of a Sovereign conspicuous for his broad-minded views. We stand at tho beginning of a reign of thoi happiest ■ auspices. We do not-wish its oponing days to.be disfigured by religious animosities. If I may trust myself to prophesy, before many months have passed "the public outside will have.'forgotten tho details of this discussion.. - After two and n half, hours of 'debate'tho Bill passed its second. reading without a division. Tho Bill, passed its other stages on Wednesday (August 3) and re-1 ceived : the ' Royal Assent; ■ -

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