The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-06 00:00:00

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MR. GLADNTONE AND HIM CONHTITUESI'S.

ST. HELEN'S, WEDNESDAY.

Mr. Gladstone and Mr. H. R. (ri nfell, the two
liberal candidates for the south-western division of Lance-
t bite, attended a meeting of the electors, in the Volunteers
Hall of this town, this afternoon. Mr. T. D. Homer,
of Liverpool, presided, and about 1,400 persons were
present. Mrs. and the Misses Gladstone occupied seats in
a balcony reserved for ladies, and received an ovation
when their presence was announced.
The Owens, briefly opened the proceedings, and
introduced Mr. Gladstone to the meeting.
Mr. GLLDDIONE, who was received with enthu.uastic
cheering, proceeded to give what be termed some
account of the stewardship with which he had been
entrusted for three years. The Reform Bill had placed
the liberties of the people upon a firmer basis than that
which they enjoyed before. But he regretted that, owing
to vexatious restriction@ and exceptions, it could not be
pet regarded as a finished work. The right hon. gentle-
man then proceeded to point out that on the accession of
the conservative government, an increase at once began
in every estimate. As to Ireland, he could not de-
scribe his sense of the inlet...cm& which Mr. Disraeli's
remark "that there is matter for great congratulation iu
the prevent state of Ireland," beakers. When the toe-
. mattes of personal liberty are in abeyance, a country has
arrived at a point only one step removed from civil war.
He had looked the dark fact of Irish discontent in
the face, and with the great liberal party had
resolved to satisfy in full the demands of public
justice. As to the land question, it was his firm
conviction that a rational provision might be given to
the Irish cultivator for his security, with the fullest
to the rights of property. Passing to the subject regard
the
'filth church, Mr. Gladstone proceeded to criticise some
of the election addresses of nsinistenalists, in which they
express their willingness to remove the abuses of the
Irish church; but if these were taken away there would
be nothing left. These plans were only futile, like the
razor, carried to a certain fair, with respect to which the
man who had them said they were not made to shave
but to sell. The right hon. gentleman continued—
The plan of Irish church reform is made to sell, gentle-
men—(cheers)—it is meant to be sold to. you if you will
buy it ; if you will give the moderate price of yourpoli-
tical support. There are candidates abroad in this part
of the world, and in many other parts of England, who
will sell you plans of Irish church reform, as many as you
please, but they are not destined to !sae matterof practical
legislation. We have tried this already ;we tried it in
the year 1833 ; we then cut off ten bishops and pitched
them out of the carriage to the wolves, just as sometimes
happens in Rusin& when a carriage going over the plains
with a number of horses is pursued by hundreds of
wolves, one horse is cut off and then another, in the hope
of allowing the inmates of the carriage to escape.
(Laughter.) That is what we did with bishops in 1833,
and for a time the wolves fed on those ten bishops.
(Laughter.) But they are now in full cry again, and it is
raid that the commission that has been sitting is going to
recommend a repetition of the very same experiment, not
however on so liberal a scale, but what they are going to
recommend is that we shall throw overboard ten bishops
in the hope that the wolves will be satisfied for a short
time in devouring their camases. (Cheers and laughter.)
lam not for throwing over the bishops at all. I would
allow every religious communion to have as many bishops
as they please, and as their reasonable necessities require,
of which they must be the best judges. But I do not
exaggerate when I say that the day for changes of that
kind has gone. I will give you my proof. Yon have but
two plans really to judge between, and you must take the
option. You will either have to take away the Irish church '
establishment as we recommend, or else you must build
up some other bade" it. And with respect to those
Who tell me they are afraid for the interest of proteetant-
ism, I can not only beg them to observe the addresses
of candidates, but the facts which occurred at the begin-
ning of this year. We bad then a government in office
who declared its intention to propose an Irish policy. And
what was it? It was to maintain the Irish established
church; but not to maintain it alone; it was intended that
other religions should be kept up by the resources of the
state. That is a question entirely open to you. We
know that the intention and desire of the government was
to establish this system. Mr. Disraeli protests against the
destructive opinions of those who sought to remove the
present Irish establishment ; but he said, " Don't suppose
that I think things ought to continue as they are." - Nor
did he say "I propose to throw over four bishops to the
wolves." What he said was this—his words were enigma-
tical in form, but clear enough in sentiment—he said, " I
think there ought to be a great change in the condition of
the endowed clergy of Ireland;" that is to say, in the con-
dition of the clergy of the presbyterians, and above all
the clergy of the Roman catholic", who are the
ministers of the great mass of the people. What
was that great change? A further illustration was
given by Lord Mayo, who said that the present state of
things in Ireland was most unsatisfactory with regard to
its ecclesiastical establishment, but he objected to the plan
of levelling down. He raid there is no objection to establish
religious equality in Ireland, provided it be done by rais-
ing up and not by pulling down. What I want to show is
the actual state of things in which we stand. It is true
that the government have, under pressure, endeavoured to
explain the meaning of the words which they used. When
Lord Mayo said there was no objection to establish religious
equality in Ireland by raising up and not by pulling down,
these words meant that the Regium Donum given to the
presbyterians was to be increased, and that endowment
was to be
,provided for the Roman catholic. of Ireland.
(A Voice : They don't want it.") Was there any act
proposed which significantly indicated the mten-
tious of the
_government ? On tho contrary, they
proposed, in March last to establish a Roman catholic
university, which was to be supported, so far as respected
professorships, &c., out of the Consolidated Fund. Now, •
do not suppose I censure the government for proposing
the plan, because it is a plan that has bad in other times
the countenance of many of the great statesmen of the
country ; but we may perceive that it is not a plan that
can be accepted by the people of Great Britain, whilst, on
the other hand, it is repudiated by the Roman catholic of
Ireland. They, as I understand them, desire and respect-
fully demand religious equality ; but they entirely decline
to appear before you as petitioners, to be allowed to
support their religious edifices and their ministers at the
expense of taxation levied on your pockets. The religious
equality which they demand is that which is to be had
by removing what exists, and not raising the number of
other establishments to sisterhood with them. (Cheers.)
As I have told you, the government have at a more recent
period explained away the words to which I have referred.
It is only fair to give them the benefit of that explanation.
The First Minister declared that there was to be a great
change in the states of the unendowed clergy, and the
Irish Secretary said there was no objection to establish
religious equality if that was done by raising, and not by
lowering. For a long time no explanation was given, but
upon pressure being used the Irish Secretary said that his
meaning was that more liberal arrangements should be
made for Roman catholic chaplains in goals and work-
house*. (Laughter.) If the whole population of Ireland
were within gaols and workhouses there would be some
meaning in that explanation. (Cheers and laughter.)
But it is no explanation at all, in the proper
sense of the words—it is a covert denial and
retractation of the policy which had once been in-
telligibly proposed, but which was deserted and re-
nounced as soon as the prosecution of it was found
likely to be inconvenient. (Cheers.) When you recollect
the condition of the country as to the means by which
government is carried on, I think you will say I am jus-
tified in the main propositions which I have laid down,
viz., that the Irish church can't continue as it is • and
secondly, that the plans of church reform in Ireland are
really visionary and idle, and that the real choice is be-
tween creating a multitude of establishments on the one
hand and removing the establishment which exists on the
other. (Cheers.) The plan is this—Will the church in
Leland cease to exist as an establishment and no
other established church be created to take its place ;
(Loud cheers.) It is idle to shirk the issue ;
and those who are very tender on the subject of pro-
tesdantism will do well to recollect that we have amongst
us a tolerable number of protestant., nonconformists, in
this country. (Cheers.) It is made a reproach to us
that we are acting in concert with the Roman catholic"
of Ireland. Why should that be • reproach to us? Our
alliance is not for religious purposes peculiar to us and to
them—it is for purposes of civil juatice. (Loud cheers.)
I must tell you in this country, with respect to the votes
and support of the Roman catholic party, that when that
support was required by the party opposed to us, they
did not make any wry faces in receiving it, but said there
was a great deal that was good about the Roman catho.
lies, and that they were their natural allies. The tables
seem now to be sadly turned. The Roman catholic.
mem to have taken it into their heads that it is
not unnatural for them to desire religious
equality in Ireland, and now it is to be a reproach to us
if the Roman catholic, are enlisted in our rank". (Cheers.)
My answer to this is that we are combined, irrespective of
religious persuasions, for the purpose of achieving and
working out a design which is founded on the principle,.of
natuisFand civil justice, as all Christians—nay, all men
—are bound to acknowledge. (Cheers.) I will only
trouble you a very little longer. I think I have shown
you by referring to what was the policy in the month of
March of the two great parties hi the country—that the
real Sets lies between the removal of the Irish church on
the one hand, mid maintaining it on the other; be-
tween perpetual attempts to bolster it up by throwiugsops
to ether parties in the shape of state grants and state en-
dowments, and abolishing that church as an establish.
meat. (Chews) I need not say that lam convinced

ONE PENNY.

that it will be your wish, as ft was the intention of the
permit House of Commons. that the mast studious,
careful, tender regard should be had to every
personal and to every vested interest, and that all
relations of feeling that might arises should be con-
sidered in the most liberal spirit; for if we wish to
effect great means with a view to still greater ends,
this is the mode to set about them. It is only in
this way that you can gradually satisfy your
adversaries as to the real justice of your ends, that you
can disarm jealousies, allay passions, and satisfy them,
and make them contented to acquiesce in the success of
your wink. (Cheers.) I will only add, we must deal
tenderly as well as justly with all concerned in this
settlement, be they members of the establish d church, be
they presbyterians, or be they Roman cathoics, dealing
evenhanded justice to one and all. I am persuaded that
when this gi cat measure is accomplished we shall see a
satisfaction resulting from it such as few are at present
sanguine enough to dream of, and I for one am convinced
that it will be accomplished before a long time has elapsed.
It is a circumstance not a little notable that the preheat
House of Commons, certainly composed of men
of very moderate views, has already passed
by large majorities a bill the effect of which was to stop
for a time every appointment to bishopric*, dignities, or
ecclesiastical benefices in Ireland. I think we may draw
a favourable augury from the tone of the House of Lords.
I make no complaint against the House of Lords, although
I deeply regret that they rejected a moat venial and salu-
tary measure; yet I observed with satisfaction the tone of
the speeches by which those who differed from us de-
fended their votes. It is clear that the members of the
House of Lords are aware that they will best consult their
dignity by giving way to the ascertained wishes of the
I country. (Cheers.) Therefore I am sanguine as to the
attainment of our object. (Cheers.) It is said, on the
one hand to be dangerous to protestantihm, and, on the
Other, to be dangerous to the church of England. With
respecti
to the church of England, it appears to me that
not gis more idle than to attempt to draw • parallel
between the case of the church of Ireland and the case of
the church of England. The duty of • religious esta-
blishment is a duty to the nation at large. That idea of a
religions establishment ministering only to a handful of the
people is an unnatural and monstrous idea; and when
you have arrived at such a state of things, it is time that
establishments should cease to exist. But lam free to say
in many parts of the country the church of England is
the sole, and in many other parts the principal if not the
sole, religious agency ; and even in the mat populous
parts, where she is confronted by the friendly competition
of the other religious bodies, the church of England enters
into the natural life and purpose of the country, associated
in a great degree with the feelings, the traditions, as well
as the history of England, and there are very many
who do not formally belong to her communion who
would with deep regret witness her downfall.
(Cheers.) The great difference between the two churches
us summed up thus—that the Church of Ireland is a church
established by law, which neither does nor can do the
work of an establi hment ; but the Church of England,
established by law also, in most parts of the country does
the chief part of the work of an establishment. (Cheers.)
Great will be the responsibility of those who identify in
argument the case of the church of Ireland with the case
of the church of England. They have established against
themselves an argument which when the case of the
church of Ireland 121 settled may be used for objects for
which they and not we will be responsible.
(Cheers.) As for the danger to protestantiam,
I might be contented to rely for the warranty
of your pretestantiani on the support of that great body of
nonconformists who I suppose would not be denied
to be protestants by the most staunch members of the
church of England, to show that we are not combined
for purposes hostile to Protestantism. I might go further,
and show that our policy is to be considered absolutely in
itself with respe:t to what it is intended to arrest. Me
system is the one which had led to the establishment of the
Maynooth grant, which was intended to lead to the sup-
port of a Roman catholic university, and in com-
mon justice must be maintained. You now must be
prepared to give a great deal more to May-
nooth and the Roman catholics if you mean to
maintain the established church of Ireland. (Cheers.) It
is impossible to maintain, for the benefit of • handful of
protestants, the wealthiest handful too, such an establish-
ment, and appropriate for its exclusive use the whole of
the ecclesiastical property of Ireland, whilst with respect
to the poorer communions you say in effect—whilst we
claim for the minority the exclusive enjoyment of the
national property we leave you presbyterians to enjoy the
amount which you now receive, and you Roman catholic*
to find out the means of support for your own religion.
(Cheers.) That is a policy which is now quite
impossible, and it is for you to decide whether
the policy that we recommend is the proper one to sub-
stitute for it. (Cheers.) In former tames the responsi-
bility of this policy was shifted from the shoulders of the
people on to the shoulders of statesmen and of parlia-
ment. There was • time when you might say with fair-
ness that you were not responsible for this policy, because
you had no votes, and the majority of the House of Com-
mons was chosen by certain landowners and self-elected
corporations. As long as this state of things existed
that might fairly be urged on your behalf ; it is
not so now. A fundamental change has taken place, the
enlargement of your privileges is the enlargement
of your responsibilities, and it is the bounden duty
of every one of you to exercise • careful, intelligent,
and conscientious choice between the men who come be-
fore you for your suffrages, with reference to the various
great questions of public interest, with reference espe-
cially to the Irish policy, and most of all that branch
of it which concerns the existence of the Irish establish-
ment. (Cheers.) If it be, as I fear it is, undeniable that
the conduct of England towards Ireland is disapproved of
by the civilised world at large—and of this there is no
doubt, for beyond these shores there is no question
at all as to the impropriety of this strange policy
which has been maintained in Ireland—if it be
true that this policy is disapproved of by
the civilised world —if Ireland at this moment
is a grief, a scandal, and possibly a cause of danger to the
empire, the blame of this policy may possibly be thrown
upon others by whom you and your forefathers have been
governed. (Cheers.) It is no longer now that you are
invested with the privilege of selecting who are to go-
vern you. This is of all others the idea which it is es-
sential to bring home to the mind of the nation. (Cheers.)
The policy which is sketched out is for your con-
sideration and adoption. Yours will be the blame if the
painful state of things continua in Ireland—that shame-
ful state of things which has made it necessary for us to
suspend during the last three years the guarantees for
liberty in Ireland. Yours, too, will be the
phonour ersonal liberty
the praise, and yours will be the lasting
benefits, if now, uniting hearts and hands, and putting
shoulder to shoulder, .you join in • firm and
resolute effort to return such men to parlia-
ment as will address themselves to the con-
sideration of these great questions with • firm deter-
mination to deal with Irishmen as they would deal with
Englishmen or Scotchmen, and as they would wish
that Irishmen, if it had so happened, would deal with
them. (Cheers.) Yours will be the honour, the praise,
and the lasting benefit, if these' scandals, these diffi-
culties, these fears and misgivings, these unfortunate,
and I might almost say, these inveterate causes of
alienation should be, I can hardly say at once effaced,
for that is impossible, but at least subjected to • miti-
gating influence in the minds of the Irish people, whilst
an earnest determination to do justice, and open • future
of happiness, prosperity, and contentment, shall stand in
joyful -contrast with the past of that unhappy land. (The
right hon. gentleman concluded amidst loud and prolonged
cheers.)
Mr. Gaggrri.x, M.P., next addressed the meeting, and
was very well received.

A reeolution expressing confidence in Mr. Gladstone
and the determination of the meeting to support the right
hon. gentleman and Mr. Grenfell iu the coming election
was thento passed, and the proceedings closed with a vote of
thanks the chairman.

CONVOCATION AND THE DIOCESE OF LONDON.-
There will in all probability be a contest in the diocese of
London at the forthcoming election for the seats in the
Lower House of Convocation. The diocese is divided
into two archdeaconries, and each archdesoonry elects
two clergymen, whose names are submitted to the bishop,
who generally selects one from each archdaaconry to sit
in convocation, although he may, if he pleases, select the
two from either archdeaconry. At present the diocese is
represented by Mr. Hempe, the Rector of St. James's,
and the Rev. Michael Gibbs, Rector of Christ Church,
Newgate-street. In the axebdeaconry of London there is
not likely to be any change, but in the archdeaoonry of
Middlesex a *bong effort will in all probability be made
by the high church party to return Mr. M. W. Mayow,
vicar of St. Mary's, W eat Brompton, with Dr. Barbera
vicar of Roehampton, in which owe Mr. Mayow would,
is expected, be selected by the bishop, as he wasonihe
last octal/ion returned in conjunction with Mr. Kemp&
He sat in the Lower House of Convocation as proctor for
the diocese of Salisbury, and took a very prominent part
in the debates.

WnrDeoa AND ETON REGATTA. —Yesterday
thew annual aquatic contests took place, the racing being
waned to a course between Clearer-point and Windsor-
brdw. Notwithstanding the overpowering hest of the
weather, the matches altogether were spiritedly contested.
VALON OF CITY PIOPIRTY.—A freehold estate
extending frog Mincing-lane toMark-lane, and known as
Dander-court, covering a superficial area of 14200 feet,
was told yesterday by Yews. Fox and Bonifield, at
their auction mart, for 34,2601.
For 30 years Roraima and Co. have 00-operated
through ta, to=l7 tea aa oars advantageous Mama *as
by the ; tit* to. nasalise the eimaair la tita
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