Feb. 7.
A motion in favour of general approval. of the amended Prayer Book was submitted in each of the three Houses of the Church Assembly to-day.
"The mover in the House of Laity pointed out that general approval did not commit any member as regards the ultimate vote on any proposed: amendment.
Considerable differences of opi were manifested in each House.
Mr, Athelstan Riley, proposing in the House of Laity the postpone-mont of the measure until 1931, predicted a revolt of the whole High Church party against the measure.
Dame Caroline Bridgeman said that postponement would mean that the ery "No Popery" would be Taised at the General Election.
Sir Thomas Inskip declared' that the Book was impossible while a perpetual reservation was retained therein, The motion for postponement was defeated.
The House of Clergy voted general approval by 247 votes to 35 and the House of Bishops by 35 to 5, the minority in the latter ease comprising the Bishops of Norwich, Worcester, Birmingham, Exeter and St, Edmundsbury and Ipswich, The House of Laity has adjourned until to-morrow.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.