The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-03-09 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Motthar.—Shortly before five o'oloeir sharp quick
cheers announced the rising of Mr. Gladstone, who
straightway moved that the House go into committee
to consider the Acts relating to the Eatab!abed Church
of Ireland, the grant to lieynooth, and the first resolu-
tion oome to by the House last year. This done, on his
second rising he was more applaudingly received than
before. He began in quiet, almost gentle tones, whieh
indeed, with little exception, be preserved all through
a speech which was a model of clear and passionless en.
position ; in which, as Kr. Disraeli said, not a phrase
too mush had been need; and which was rounded off
by perhaps the finest and most impressive peroration
which he hes ever pronounced. There was a certain
simplicity in first reading the formal reeolation on
which the Irish Church Bill is le be founded, which, as
it were, struck the ksy-note of the style and manner
of the epeech. What may be called the history of that
which be denominated the "(Metal Church" of Ireland
sena full, though not too lengthy; and there wits a
palpable hit in the point which he put, that it had been
neceassry to give nationel grants to Maynooth and the
Prethyterians, in order to make it tolerable to the Irish
people, while it was still • When and symbol of amen-
dance. Taking up, as he said, the broken•off legislation
of last year, he urged the issue of the general election.
and the reignation of the late Government, as emphatic
proofs of the judgment which the people had paned on
this question of the Irish chart*. Al every seatenes at
this point he was cheered' mad more especially when he
asserted that, though the bill proposed to alter the Act
of Union, it yet tarried out the policy of Mr. Pitt in
effecting that measure. Having urged the necessity of
prompt legislation, and stated that his bill was complete
in all its details as well es in its principles, end that ire
object was that, when it was reseed, the lent shoald be
heard of the Inch church eontroversy, he proceeded in
bosineen-like fashion to state that his address would be
based on three fundamerital points of time. Them
were, firstly, the passing of the Act and its Immediate
effects; seeondly, that it would come into operation on ,
Ist January, 1871; and, thinsly, the moment when the I
winding up of the Establishment would be completed,
and nothing remain to be done but the appropriation of
the property of the Irish church. In regard to the
immediate effort, he said that the present Eoclesiastieal
Cammiesioe would be pet an snit to....and a new
Commission appointed for ten years, in which all the
property of the church would be vested, subject to life
interests. No new interests are to be created; bet
spiritual appointments may be made without giving any
interest is the church freeholds. Bishope may be ap-
pointed, but only by the prayer of the Episcopal body
itself is reference to particular individuals; but the
rights of Peerage would not follow such consecrations;
in feet, Irish bishops are no longer to sit in the House
of Lords.. All this is to be in Nen of the Suspensor,
Bill of last year. Next, all existing disabilities of the
(March are to be removed, to that it may constitute
itself • voluntary disestablished Church; and the bishop.,
elergy, and laity are thereate for themselve4a governing
body. On the Ist January. 1871. the union between
the Churches of England and Ireland is to be dissolve 4.
and the latter cease to be established by law; its
Eoclesisstical Courts to be abolished, all its eeelesiastioal
jurisdiction to tease, sad all its corporations to
disappear. There would he • technical disestablishoient
by the rearing of the Act, and a technical disieodow-
meat afterwards. In the period following the detail'
would be arranged, and would relate 1p the vested
interests of bishops and Incumbents, earths., lay
eltherst of the Cherub, advomions. glebes, graveyards,
the College of Ifeenooth, the tithe commutation rent•
charge, and the sale of Church lands. On all thew I
topic.' Mr. Gladstone proceeded to dwell with singular
ttompression of plinths, end yet with perspicuotte
clearness ; and it generally and mainly appeared that
the purpose of the meesursth regard to vested inknwis
is, that the amount of themes shall be theartaieed and
be paid to the incumbents so long as they perform
dot, ; or the income may be commuted into an annuity
for life—end both these are to be done under the
direction of their own governing body. The tithe
erommotation rent-charge will vest immediately in the
Commissiosers under the Act. In retard to cuestas.
if permanent noes, they will have an adequate emumn•
taloa of their commies for life; while more transitory
ones will receive gratuities. In regard to private endow.
manta, there will be 1 limitation in their date, the
Restoration in 16M1 being chosen as the starting-point'
mid Imre Mr. Gladstone gave • striking illustration of
the made in which private endowments were mad*
Ii
the *burob, by quoting the endowment' whieh Swift
bestowed in his living of Lamont., and In which he
seemed te have a provision that the dam would some
wham the Irish elinrsh voeld be disestablishes!. Them,
tos, will he made the waded of oompensetion and
idoliser will be meta fee keeping up tug national
orharrlal oresaurs r l&ferries Cathedra.