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MR. GLADSTONA"S CAMPAIGY.

Na. Geafirrosre continues his electoral cam-
paign its Lancashire with unfaltering energy, and
every one of his remarkable " utterances" is
characterised by an expanding pnrpose. The
good humoured indulgence with which the most
severe and penetrating criticisms of the policy
and conduct of his adversaries are tinged, betrays
in the pleasantest manner that calm confidence
in the justice of his cause and in the victory of
his principles which is itself an earnest of suc-
cess, and an inspiration to his followers. Com-
pare the tone and temper of these speeches with
the wrath and fury of the candidates of that cle-
rical and constitutional association which echoes
the PRIME MINISTER'S cynical cries, and then say
on whose side the charities and the decencies of
public controversy are to be found: To those of
the country clergy who have, unfortunately, taken
to the trade of agitators, we would recommend a
careful perusal of that part of Ur. GLAbstoxfs
speech at Orusskirk on Wednesday last which deals
with the report of the Irish Church Commission.
The "process of depletion" which that Report
recommends for the sake of saving a national
estuLlislinant by " blotching to death the spiritual
church" is humorously contrasted with the
policy of justice and conciliation which would
save the spiritual church by sacrificing a
national etitublishnient and effacing a me-
morial of conquest and ascendency. Taking
up the challenge teldresed to Lim by Mr.
Citoss, Mr. GLADereez answers the question
whether, " conic whltt may, he will support the
" Church of England ?" pled the present PREMIER
been eau d at the last election, whether, come what
might, he would resist the lowering of the suffrage,
his inventive and ela ,tic genius would, perhaps, have
found a more ingenious end evaiive mode of trelt-
so iinv rtineet u curioait y. He would certainly
I,a .1 t•• to the simple direetriess
.• I think these two
s:,:••, Mr. fit oN::;—" first of all the
• (1,;•;. 1, of 1•.ligl;l11,1 I. (11,0•StIALHAlcil
:OA •• e, I,lry, 1 tl.:1 k. it ought not to hi. (Ls-
'. • A. u practical operation of
Fiat, nain•Lip, it euiloot, in Mr. GLALSTUNE'S
['l.:Lida., lie ili,establialied, because, with a due
la geld to yu.t. d proprictury rights and to pri-
vate mid recant endowments, the Church of
Englund would " ctitiloonce her existence as a
" eels:Mary Eocitty with a capital of eighty or
" ninety 'millions ;" and it ought not to be dis-
establishcd, because, all things considered
" the weakest part of the Church of England is
" stronger " in the sympathies and recollections
of the nation, in capacities for usefulness, in the
conditions of its history and its life—" than the
" strongest part of the Church of Ireland "
etronger, for example, in Wales than in Ulster.
Clerical agitators are at liberty to make what
they can of these declarations. At South-
poi t, Mr. GLAIJSMNE, lifter an eloquent protest
against importing " considerations of theological
" contention" into questions of civil and political
justice, glanced at Mr. DISIiAELI.B abortive and
abandoned plan of " levelling upwards " in Ireland
by establishing and endowing the Roman Church in
that country. The PREMIER and his colleagues are
till equally anxious to forget that plan, now that
the good old cry, "Nu Popery," into be raised at the
Lustingsagaini,t the party who resisted anddideated
it in the Ileums of Commons. Mr. OuDsrosz
quotes from one of the two official journals of the
Court of Rome passages from anarticle warnilyeons-
mending Mr. his es Let and his policy, and apologis-
ing for the necessity which compelled him as an

Fnglieh btateemen to endow the protestant sects
as well as the Catholic Church in Ireland. The
Ossi rratore Romano eulogises Mr. Dismaet.t for
having uttered •• so nu►ny noble truths y defence
•• 4,f the Syllabus and Encyclical of Prtfr IX. as
•• should mite a blush on the face of those pigmies
" in Italy and elsewhere who pretend to be groat
•• men, while they resist decisions of the Pope, which
•• hare been filar:file', acknowledged. 'ondproclaime,l
" ere,. by a /antics/ the highest genius and the widest
•• re pulite ion, such as is the First Minister, Mr.
" DISRAELI." Put " OLADSTONR" for " DIS-
" SAHLI" in this passage, and what use the
Teny and clerical agitators would have made of
the Osserratore Romano ! They would have pla-
carded it on every dead wall throughout the coun-
try. sow, let the Protestant public only reflect
that these decisions of Pius IX. which have been
" justified, acknowledged, and proclaimed" by
Mr. DISRAELI condemn as pestilential all the pub-
lic liberties and all the sacred institutions most
dear to Englishmen, and then judge of the decency
and propriety with which this " heretic of the
highest genius," who presides over the destinies
of the constitutional party, sets himself up before
the British public us a Protestant hero, and
incites his deluded followers to raise a " No
" Popery• cry against Mr. ChAnerowa. The truth
of the matter, as we remember to have taken
eccabion to point out during the debates of
last Session, is, that the Court of Rome
and the filtered College are by no means
disposed to regard with a favourable eye the dis-
establishment and disendownient of the Irish
Church. They know too well the missionary anti
propagandist value of appearances of persecution
and martyrdom, and, living at Rome, they endure,
with perfect egnanizuity a civil and political in-
justice which prie•sta living in Ireland and sharing
the Fent iut ta and sympathies of their flocks
resent as Irish patriots and as subjects of the
British Crown.