The Express.
London, England, 1868-09-08 00:00:00

A VERY IRISH AtteMl:Mar.-I%c Pall Mall
Gentle write*. of Dr. Trench's char-se :—After a few psra-
graphs of ecelesiasticid statistics, Isis grace announces
that, in deference to the opinion of the crown lawyer, he
has give n up his favounte scheme for holding church
synods in Ireland. And a very good thing. too, he aids,
for there is no place in synods for the laity, and therefore
synods are by no means altogether desirable. Why ha
himself promoted them the archbishop. omits to say.
Next, his grace takes for his text that ancient motto upon
which we have so long governed Ireland—" Fiat justitim
runt cesium." Fran says Dr. Trench, you must not
touch the edablislunent, because if anybody else has •
right to its revenues the Roman catholien have that right;
and inasmuch as the Roman catholic clergy refuse
to receive them back &gni°, Anglicanism ought
not to be disertalslished. There is no limit, in-
deed, to the nonsequiturs which an archbishop
may not passa upon his audience, espe.:ially in
Ireland ; but certainly a man must bo both an archbishop
and un Irishman to appreciate the force of the argument
that, because the Roman clergy deolined to be paid by
the state, therefore the protestant& have an indefeasible
claim to the property which was taken from Rome throe
hundred yeas ago by the king and parliament. Again,
says the archbishop, what if the ectablishment is a badge
of conquest ? 'Are not the Lord-Lieutenant and the Qteen
head badges of conquest also i' An wo have not the
smallest wish to insinuate that Dr. Trench is a Fenian in
di-faibe. this delightful theory must be set down us the
peeuliatiti• aof the archiepiscopal views on logic. Finther,
not bue that too Irish establishment has failed in its
mission, because something of the same kind may be
afaims d of every church under the cm;
ergo, says the archbishop, keep up the Irish
church. That is, other churches are partial
fannies ; and then fore do not abolish this one church,
which is a total failure. But the archbishop's views on
Irish histeny are fully up to the gawked of his syllogisms
The Irish Anglicans arc few, he admits, but the cause of
their paucity is the extent to which they were massacre:
200 years ego by the catholic*. During the rebellion of
1041 not less than 40,000 protestants were murdered by the
bloody pupate. Wow, says the archbishop triumphantly,
according to the ratio of inexease in the Irish population
these 40,000 would b 7 this time have amounted to 160,000,
and the whose Anglican body, which is credited with the
entire Increase, would have reached the number of 860,000!
Let not the reader imagine we are jesting at his grace's
expense. This assertion sa seriously put forward as a
ground for not touching the revenues of established
Anglwanien.
TOWIR HAMLET* FLORICULTURAL %MEW.—
This excellent society held its tenth annual summer exhi-
bition in the grounds of the Eagle Tavern, Mile-mid-
toad, yesterday, and will be continued to-day. The dis-
play of flowers far surpasses any previous show in the
loeulity, and the interest working man take in this milli-
vatinn of flowers, dr., for window and garden decoration
is highly commendable. The fuchsias, trained geraniums,
and tine foliage plants are in great variety and splendour.
his is the oldest omatoui floral nuebity at the east and of
London, and every year it adds to its members and improves
in the cultivation of Rowers, Le., in giving lectures and
making oceverts. Last evening a ball aril couesrt wore
given which added to the amusement of the nunsnemis
visite; r. A tine (inflection of ((Awn plunt.-; fur aortmitiOns,
Keret teed by Dr. Prestos', of Vic-piark., is a great
keitere iu the exhib.tioto.
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