The Express.
London, England, 1868-09-23 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY K

enough to declare his vote for Mr. Go4oloxis at
ri time when many of the eats-1)11AR sisegy sr*
not only opposed to that statesman, but strongly •
prejudiced against him. Pair opposition may bo
n•asenable enough, but what Dr. lama nails
" the unwarrantable imputatisia of barb motives"
is wholly unjustifiable, yet ttoro is always a
rick of these unworthy imputations when the
prejudices of a clam prevent the meroise of an im-
partial and indepondant judgment. We can under-
stand the MUNN) interest with which the clergy of
all denominations must regard the Irish Church
_ _

question ; we can understand bow many of them
may deem the diseetablishtuent of that Church an
evil, but we cannot understand the ill-fooling
which has been so strongly shown by some of the
clergy, unless upon the assumption that what are
called the interests of the Church must bo defended
at all hazards and in all ways. fly all moans let our
clergy interest themselves in great political ques-
tions, since there is a connection between politios
and religion which monot be dissevered,
and would exist as strongly as if the Church
wore disestablished to-morrow. On the other

hand, they should have nothing to do with more
party politico, and we think Dr. MILLaa is wholly
right in resolving to take no aotive part in the
buei nese of an election.

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Great
all sanguine tendencies, . amigning .
ful seats, all of which are to be contested, wholly
to the Conservatives; and the issue is a minimum
majority on the part of the Liberals of 136 in tin
new parliament. Mr. GLADerrolni, it mums, will
have quite 400 supporters.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

TIER OPAZISIZ

Observing that one of tho obstacles in the way
of Spanish »Taint:Mal/8 has always been the ddlloalty of
suggesting a new occupant in the smut.[ the *skim ef
the actual holder of power, the Ti.... premed■ to dimmers
the various possible oandidates for the vacantly ailiOald it
occur now. Bourbons of the Don Carlos branch are oat
of the quosticm, and Spain is not a region in whisk re-
publican theories will Ind substaatial favour. An amal-
gamation with Portugal is no less okinterkal. la (doming
the Duchess de Montpenier, Spanish liberals would not
►e retrograding from the principles on which they fought
the war of thirty-g» years ago; and the duke would
bring to public affairs the Orleanist capacity for busbies.
But the setting aside in her favour of Q neon Isabella'',
children would curse Spain with yet anot►er family of
pretenders. The accepting of the Queen's abdication in
her son's favour, with Marshal Serrano ruling dreier
the boy's minority, would better meet the eatiorgenoy. In
any use., Spain ought to be left free to choose for itself.

JSWIFN

The mem and revolting handbill which has beet cir-
culated in Deal against Mr. Worms, and which the liberal
nnilNhte bare indignantly repudiated, is in its spirit,
the Doily Nor, rays, essentially tory. But it appears
that the bigotry is not on one aide only. Mr. fiamuda,
a pellet/71W of Jewish birth, is strongly opposed
by the Jewish ehreselek, on the ground that no
instructed Jew, of mature and sound mind, can ever
be an lioneet believer in Christianity. Lord George for-
don, who from barium been an ultra-protestant became a
convert to Judaism, was sternly shut out from their privi-
legie, and was told on his deathbed that he could not be
buried among them. it appears from the language of
their organ, that if the Jews ehrink from a convert as
from a calamity they shrink from an "apostate"
as from a leproey. Bat, to take no higher grounil, they
are exceedingly imprudent if they allow feelings of this
sort to affect their pnliticel action. If the principle of
intolerance and nectarine exclneion is invoked, the Hebrew
race in England will not gain by it. They owe their
equality to the superiority of their Christian fellow-coun-
trymen to three malignant sentiments. Mr. Sammie may
or may not te• the best of the liberal candidate* for the
Tower Hamlet... But he is none the worse, politically,
(or having been a Jew, nor for having turned Christian.

ALCULATIOT 15 of the result of the general oleo- I
bi:gitrte amenmels siefknits %Two Ark
at prsieent keen t 'Conlerve-
idde. Mgt of that of lbeir op snob fore-
are bercising oommon. o9niemporar7
.Noatoic/briiiist, in its number cif #4kr, sari
is isirefelly analysed the list of ore for re
at Britain up to this time, sternly repressing ti
sanguine tendencies, and resigning 80 doubt- DI