The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-03 00:00:00

TO 713 ISDNOZ Of INI ZUSIIIA.

823,—Wi1l you oblige Mr. Disraeli by publish-
ing in your columns the endased statement, which
he has addressed to the supporters of the Ministry
in both Rouses of Parliament am, Sir, your
obedient servant, MONTAGU CORBY.
10, Downing-street, Whitehall, Dee. 2.

" If Parliament were sitting, I should not have
adopted this course; but as the public acts of a
Ministry should not be misunderstood, and as
there are no other means of explaining their
motives, I have taker the liberty of thus address-
ing the Conservative members in both Houses of
Parliament.

" When her Majesty's Government, in the spring
of this year, were placed in • minority in the
House of Commons on the question of Disestab-
lishing the Church in Ireland, they had to consider
that the policy proposed had never been sub-
mitted to the country, and they believed that the
country would not sanction it.
" They therefore felt it their duty to advise her
Majesty to dissolve Parliament ; but to make an
appeal to the obsolete Constituency would have
been an absurdity, and the candid opinion of the
country coincided with that of Parliament, that
no course could be satidisctory unless the voices
of the enlarged Electoral Body were ascertained.
All means were, therefore, taken by the Ministry
to expedite that appeal, and a special astute was
passed for the purpose.
" Although the General Election has elicited, in
the decision of numerous and vast constituencies,
an expression of feeling which in a remarkable
degree has justified their anticipations, and which,
in dealing with the question in controversy, no
wise Statesman would disregard, it is now clear

that the present Administration cannot expect to
command the confidence of the newly-elected
House of Common.

" Under theee circumstances, her Majesty's
banisters have felt it due to their own honour,
and to the policy they support, not to retain office
unnecessarily for a single day. They hold it to be
more consistent with the attitude they have
maimed, and with the convenience of publics
business at this season, as well as more conducive
to the just influence of the Conesevative Party,
at once to tender the resignation of their offices
to her Majesty, rather than to wait for the
assembling of a Parliament in which, in the pre-
sent aspect of affairs, they are sensible that they
must be in a minority.
"In thus acting, her Majesty's Government
have seen no cause to modify those opinions upon
which they deemed it their duty to found their
counsel to the Sovereign on *lw question of the
Dissetablishment and Diesadownsent of the
Church. They remain oonvmoed that the propo-
sition of Mr. Gladstone is wrong in principle, pro-
bably impracticable In conduct, and, if practicable,
would be disastrous in its &bets.

While ready at all times to give a fair °milldam-
tics and willing aid to any plea for the improve-
ment of the Church in Ireland—to the policy
which they opposed last Session, rife, as they
believe it to be, with many calamities to society
and the State, they will continue, in whatever
position they occupy, to ear an uncompromising
resistance. "B. DISRAELI.
"Dowshirsizest, Des. 2."

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