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London, England, 1865-03-29 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29.

MR. Du.LwYN has done well in calling the
attention of parliament to the Ecclesiastical Es-
tablishment in Ireland. And if the arguments
are only those which we have heard before, his
desert is all the greater; for they are such as have
long since convinced the public opinion not merely
of this country but of the whole civilized world.
But in truth, when the simple facts are known,
there is little room for reasoning.
At the last census of Ireland there was • I
population of 5,728,000, of whom more
than 4,000,000 were Roman Catholics, and the
Church established by law in Ireland is Pro-
testant. This fact appeals with irresistible
force to every mind in which the sentiment
of justice is not either perverted or extinct. I
Everybody's heart tells him that it is a public
wrong. It is to no purpose to say, as was
said in Parliament last night, " But the Roman
" Catholics have civil and political rights ; they
can hold land and buy and sell, and give evidence
in courts of justice, and vote for Members of Par-
liament ; and as for religion, they are free to go
to their own places of worship." They can do all
this, and so can Englishmen and Scotchmen, who
have separate religious establishments, in har-
mony with their own convictions. An
attempt was once made to do for Scotland what
his been done more successfully in Irelsod ; but
the Scotch, instead of permitting the establishment
of an alien form of religion, took up their broad-
swords, and did not lay them down until they were
safe from that insolent pretension. This is not a
question of rival churches or creeds, but of public
justice., Some members on both sides of the House
undertook last night to show that a religious esta-
blishment need not be adapted to the belief of the
people among whom it is set up. It need
not if it is desired to make it a monument of con-
quest, a symbol of subjugation. For there can I
be no greater pretension to exercise the rights of
a conqueror than deliberately to take the public
property of a country and employ it so as to
effect • change in the religion of the people. This
is what is meant by calling the Irish Establish-
ment a " Missionary Church." If the
SrLTAN pretended to make his people
pay missionaries sent by him to convert them,
how keenly we should all feel, how eloquently we
should denounce, the injustice. But neither the
Stsrair, nor any other prince—Heathen, Mo-
hammedan, or Christian—assumes to do what we
are doing in Ireland. The Irish Establishment
stands alone in history ; it is perfectly unique,
the opprobrium of our Government, the at
of the world.
There are people who believe that the institu-
tion of which this is true, nevertheless serves
England and the English people. Those who thus
think must contemplate a system which can die-