The Express.
London, England, 1868-11-23 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS. MONDAY EVENT SG,

evil than their liendobance is a rental which they kites
to be wrong. It is not always to be Wowed. nit .t 's
always to be watched with eigesitc... always tat las eh s• •
cubed end put crew ire trial. • • •
Let me new endescsouy to state the off aloe of which 1 etra
held guilty. Jlle ys yea eseassfses: 1. the pars an who have
il
now 'accepted • abate of the respouaibility of an-
deineurisig to put to the existence of the Irish
choral, :is au 11.Aatal t, a 'Hillo the person who, of
all men in oftie'al. pa in pic life. did, until the
year 1141, IWOI.IIIII the highest and moist imp.-
, lieu" atoned., its moitatonsnoo.
31r. Clu.kosvotat then refers to his book. "Thu
" State in its Relations with the Church," pub-
lished in le3s : and quotes
an a letter he wrote
of hi to
Lord liAeAuratv on reading early aopy s
famous review. Eluding that the great Whig
Essayist assented that the author of the Church
and State book " contemplated not indeed parse-
- eution, but yet the trogressive process of
re
" disabling and disqualifying from civil office all
" those who did not adhere to the religion of the
" State," he addressed Lord MACAULAY in such a
way as to elicit a response expressing satisfaction
that the difference between writer and critic was not
so great as the latter had assumed. Still Mr.
GLAncroxe. does not attempt to conceal that the
main ides of his book was opposed to the course to
which he is pledged at present.
What I have now to show (he says) is the manner in
a hill 1 retreated from an untenable position.. To this
lomat. and the time and mode of it, I now draw
attentiem. My opinion of the Established Church of
lrcialial now is the direct opposite of what it was then.
Put 1 must venture to point out that, whatever ha the
..luii pie.. /4 this eoutrad.ctiou. it is one from which 1
nnilil met les.dbly escape by cudeavourin.: to me idea the
F.:40'141"i a:Martha [related on the principles on. which it
is now maintained. I challenge all my censors to impugn
cue wl.en I affirm that. if the propositions of my wart are
in conflict (as they are) with an assault upon the are
of the Irish telablishment, they aro at Wad as much. or even
more hostile to the grounds on which it is now attempted
to maintain if. At no time of any life did I propound the
'natio' sits/din/a that we were to maintain the Establish-

ment.
31r. Lanni:me then shows that he opposed the
grant to Maynooth in 1838, on the ground that it
was fatal to the main principle—that of being for
the benefit of the whole people of Ireland--on
which the Established Church was founded. Also
when the Appropriation Chaise was proposed Mr.
WattsToNE denounced it as strongly as ho could
do now; and when, in 1844. Mir HOBERT PEEL
proposed to remodel and enlarge the Maynooth
grunt he socoded from the Cabinet rather than be a
part• to the measure advocated by its chief.
The choice before me. therefore, was to support his
measure or to retire from his goventroeut into a position
of complete isolation, and, what was more than this, sub-
ject to a grave and general imputation of political eccen-
tricity. I can scarcely be guilty of a breach at confidence
when I mention that Lord Derby, to whom I had already
been indebted for much personal kindness, was one of
those colleagues who sought to dissuade me from resign-
ing my office. In the month of January, 184 if no
sooner. the resolution of the Cabinet was taken, and I
resigned. The public judgment, as might have been ex-
pected, did not favour the act.
After commenting upon this sacrifice of pro-
spects, fatal as it seemed at the time, Mr. GLAD-
STONE respectfully submits " that by this act my
" treedom was established ; and that it has never
" since, during a period of nearly five-and-ti►enty
years, been compromised."
Admitting that he did not then say that he was
prepared to vote for the removal of the Established
Church in Ireland ; he implies that he then lifted
anchor if be did not at once spread sails. But,
Moseover, it was a duty, from my point of view, corn.
pletely to exhaust every chance on behalf of the Irish
Church. lam still of the opinion that thirty-flue years
ago the religion of the Irish Church had not to her and
to our shame be it spoken—had fair play. Prom the days
of Elizabeth downwards, with the rarest exesptions, the
worldly element bad entirely outweighed the religious
one, whatever the intention may have been, in the
actual working of the ecclesiastical institattcas of Ire-
land. Mr. Burke has immortalised the binning shame
and the hideous mandate of those penal laws which,
perhaps for the first time in the history of Christen-
dom, if not of man, aimed at persecuting men oat of one
religion, but not at persecuting them into another. But
the time of awakening had come. The Irish Church had
grown conscious that she had a Gospel to declare. Even
with my present opinions I might feel a scruple as to the
measures now proposed, but for the resistless and aeouma-
lated proof of impotence afforded by the experience of my
►ifetime, and due, I believe, to a radically false position.
For thelrish Church has, since the tithe war of 1830-2 came
to an end, had not only fair play—that is, each fair play
as in Ireland the Establishment allows to the Church—but
fair play and something more.
And then, enumerating the countless advantages
under which the useless and doomed Establish-
ment has worked, Mr. GLADSTONE shows that the
" faintest impression" has been produced, and
that an ardent wish for removal is but a logical
sequence to the proposition previously laid down.
When strenuously opposing the Ecclesiastical
Titles Bill in 18,51, Mr. Giusniinfiff made no
attempt to " mitigate his offence " by any pro-
fession of attachment to the Established
Church in Ireland; and in 1863, as Sir ROUNDELL
PALMER has shown, he " had made up his mind
" on the subject, and should not be able to keep
" himself from giving public expression to his
" feelings."
The writer then refers in eloquent terms to the
renovating growth of religious life of which
Oxford was the centre ; and confesses astonish-
ment at finding in 1852 that, great as had been
the growth of churches in the Church of England,
the increase in Nonconformist places of worship
had been greater still, and thus expresses himself
as to the relation between Church and State :
It is, then, by a practical rather than a theoretic test that
our Establiamieuts of religion should be tried. An Etta.
blOhment that does its work in much, and has the hope
and likelihood of doing it in more ; an Establishment that
has a broad and living way open to it into the hearts of
the people ; an Establishment that can command the sot-
vices of the present by the tious and traditions of a
far-reaching pest : an Eqablishmeut able to appeal to the
active real of the greater portion of the people,
and to the respect or scruples of almost the
whole, whore children dwell chiefly on her actual
living work and service, and whose adversaries, if she
has them, are in the main uontent to believe that there
will be a future for them and their opinions—such an
Eidablishment should surely be maintained. But auEstab-
bailment that neither does, nor has the hope of doing,
work, except for a few, and those few the portion of the
community whose claim to public aid is the smallest of
all ; an Establishment severed from the mass of the
people by In impassable gulf, and by a wall of brass ; an
Establishment whose good office, could she offer thorn,
would be intercepted by a long unbroken chain of painful
and shameful recollections ; au Establishment leaning for
support upon the extraneous aid of a State, which be.
eases discredited with the people by the very act of
lending it—such an Establishment will do well for its own
she, and ter the sake of its creed, to dived itself, as soon
se may be, of gavels and trappings, and to commence a
new carom, in which, renouncing at once the credit and
the docredit of the civil emotion, it shall seek its strength
from within, foul put a fearless trait in the utesuote that
it beei►.

hind et Liverpool last Saturday, 1. an. to
"he weighed as well es counted." The suite
of Protedunt Scotland and of Protestant
which lies declared against the Tor, policy of en-
dowing UOlll4ll Catholics out of the surplus
revenues of an indefensible Protestant es-
tablishment, most be weighed against the
voice of those counties in which Tory
landlordism has not relaxed its pressure, and
those boroughs in. which Tory corruption and
intimidation have compelled small tradesmen
to pray for disfranchisement, and carried poor rate-
payers drunk and helpless to the polling-booths.
Thu Bribery and Corruption Bill which Mr.
DMIIAELI was so touch extolled for forcing
through the last Ilona. of Commons, has been
proved almost a dead letter wherever there have
been candidates willing to bribe and constituents
waiting to be bribed. It may bo that the now
legal machinery for trying petitions will work with
a wholesome severity. When the steed baa been
stolen the stable door will bo double looked. But
the mischief will have been done and we can
only hope it will recoil upon tho perpetra-
tors, to whatever party they protean to
belong. It will not be without compensation
if it lea convinced high-minded opponents ,of
the ballot that roguery eau only ho defeated
by making it a doubtful bargain, and if it
has finally disposed of the rotten fallacy
that. snail' boroughs are worth preserving, in
order to enable young own of brilliant talent..
and lofty principles, but small means, to enter
railiument by the straight and narrow way, with-
out expo.ing their purity to eantamination.

nn)LEsrx ELSC2IOX.

IT will be more than aMisfortune—it will be a
disgrace, if at the close .f to-iw,rrow's poll a Con-
servative should be returned to represent the me-
tropolitan county of Mitlillesex. Of such a result
there is not the least fear if the Liberals are
only true to theumelvits and to their priuciplet. It
will be an abandomnimt of principle for any.
Liberal elector to split his veto with the Conserva-
tive candidate. Every vote divided between
either of the Liberal candidates and
Lord 0. /WI nmott is so much power transferred
from the Liberal to the Tory side. Every voter
should remember that union is strength. and
division weakness. Should Middlesex yield the
high position it has long held as a Liberal
ktronghold the Conservative organs will not fail
to trwiipet forth the fact as another proof—how-
ever untrue—that the important oonstituencies

are in favour of Mr. DISRAELI and hi. pulley.

THE AMERICAN FIVE-TWE.VTI" BONDS.

It has been stated in the American correspond-
ence of a leading journal that a majority of the
members of the new Congress would be in favour
of redeeming the 3-20 Bonds with irredeemable
paper. A gentleman, who is intimately acquainted
with the opinions of American politicians, and
who is one of the largest contributor.
in the United States to the Income Tux,
writes to us as follows on this subject:—" The
allegation that the next Congress will contain a
" majority of members who will be in favour of
' redeeming ' the 3-20 Bonds with irredeemable
" paper is such arrant nonsense, that it seems to
" me the story must have bad its origin among
" stock jobbers. At the time the letter wus
'' written, gold was steadily declining in New
" York, in token of the belief among business men
" that the Republicans would be successful in
" Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana, as they were.
" I presume you have scrutinised the declared
" principles of the two parties, so as to know that
" the Republicans are net in favour of paying
" bonds in greenbacks.' or of any policy which
" looks to a lessening of the public credit. My
•' own opinion is that if the Democrats were success-
" ful they would not carry out the policy of pay-
" ing bonds in greenbacks. They would manage
"to avoid it in some way. I am surprised that
the London money market should be so imper-
" fectly advised of the condition of things here."

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(TEI23 DAY.)

WILLS Til assarsowl MEAN.

The Deily Aiwa observes that the elections mean some.
thing more than the mere ratification of the principles laid
down by Mr. Gladstone. They designate Kr. Gladstone
as the future chief minister of the United Kingdom.
They are a vote of confidence in him personally. As
administration of which he should merely be a member.
in which he should occupy the place that be filled in the
governments of Lords Aberdeen. Palmerston, and Russell,
would not correspond with the demands of tho people.
. _ . . .

They desire an a.dministration of which he shall be the
head, an administration constructed by him, and directed
by him. Mr. Gladstone, however. is not content with
being member for all England unless he be member for
South-West Lancashire too. To reject him in the chief
teat of the enterprise and wealth which his policy has
fostered would be, in Macaulay's phrase, to condemu
Manlius iu sight of the Capitol.

been the very n.. Holds of radiez' bit (mkt
the Nernl4) &natter for wonder that with emem4 Ilke
three the C.MbOrtatics socoewes in Lancashire] wI alma
with contietit eptreamity tho Lime of dun esemiaters
to
ha fought out this week
l'he Jfandord eoutinoes to entertain • strong omilideees
that, in Fr its of the surcem which Tar. illadstone's sap-
porters have was by illicit mesas, he will not head a
Mods larger party in the new than in the old house, ad
formotaivi is moreover, quite certain that. with the
Mlle of the great centres of monseres and industry so
sly masitfeeted against him sad his policy, whatever
majority he may have ho will Dot be able to carry the
massures he will have to propose.

THE iIITITORTO.
The Te:graph urges the &Wilton al the British hust-
ings. The outrages =vastly oormaitted at a Devaluation
MCADOO] represent the brutal desire, on the part of the
semi-barbarous and reckless dames in Land" to create
a distuthaisoe, vex the polio*, and sanoy the orderly see.
lion of society. Open air amalaations were namable,
and probably useful, in days whim aswepapers were few
and far between. But at present a verbatim report of
the proceedings at the pettiest board of gnardiaas can be
obtained a few hours after the meeting has taken place;
while at the open air norothations where the candidates
are expected to say important things, the reporters have
the greatret difficulty, through the outrageous turmoil
outside the hustings, in exercising their vocation. Every
ueedful publicity timid be secured by holding amalua.
titles ceder corer.

211” 1:11ECIII 01 TUE UtWORU *ILL.
'The Times observes that /although the Reform Bill has
answered good purpose, it has disappointed in its home-
results the two extreme parties in polities. ft has
disappointed the levies by showing that they have not
reached a stratum of electors favourable to their views,
and it ha' disappointed the radicals by showing that a
wovking-elars parliament is precisely liku its predecessors
in composition. But between those two parties lies the
great mass of the nation, and them, as the trees hopes
cwt trustA there will be Colt no disappointment at all.

sais SOW IN TIM user KAM OF rrtsoownr.
The Deily Awe rays that the withdrawal of a million
steeling in gold tress the Bank in a single day is precisely
ono el those unprecedented events that strike most for-
cibly on the public mind. The first consequence of that
withdrawal was a depreciation In the public funds
alone of some 3,n00,0001. to 4,000,0001., and
in other securities, home, colonial, and foreign, of
at least es much more. Why the withdrawal of
this large sum should cause an eightfold loss in the quoted
value of permanent investments is one of those que..tious
which cannot be explained ou purely economical grounds.
The advance in the Bank rate of discount cannot he con-
sidered in the light of a protective measure, since it has
come after instead of before this export of a million. and
when it was evident the exchanges were already turning
in our favour. The rise may thus be regarded as a conse-
quence of the withdrawal rather than an effort at its
prevention.

!Mc court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 2L

The Queen, acoompanied by Princess Beatrice
and Prism Leopold. drove out yeeterday afternoon, and
her Majesty and Princess Beatrice went out in the Home-
park this morning.
The Crown Prince and Priam, of Prussia and
Princess Lades Mae walked in the Home-perk.
Prince Leopold drove out, attende4 by Mr. Duckworth.
Prince Arthur, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Elpbin.
stone, arrived at the Cantle yesterday.
To-day being the birthday of the Crown Princess of
Prussia (Princess Royal), the band of the Ist Life Guards
assembled in the morning on the South Terrace, and
played • selection of music, under the direction of Mr.
IT aterson.
The Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia visited the
Kensington Museum yesterday, and honoured the per-
formance of the Sacred Harmonic Society et Exeter-hall
with their presence is the evening. Their royal high-
nesses afterwards returned to Windsor Caetle. Countess
Holienthal, Count Plustenstein, Count Ealenburg, and
Captain You &Malaita were in attendant*.
Prince and nutcase Christian of Schleswig-Holstein
visited the Queen to-day, and remained to luncheon.
The Prussian Ambassador and Countess de Bernstorff
Mesa:rived et the Castle.
Colonel H. and the Hon. Mrs. Ponaonby had the honour
of dining with the Queen and the royal family yesterday.
Nov. 2t.

The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, accompanied
by the Crown Princess of Prussia (Princess Royal).
Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holatein dined with the
Queen yesterday.
The Prussian Ambassador and Countess de Remised!,
and Lord Augustus Lofts. bad the honour of dining
with the Queen and the royal family.
Mr. Arthur Helps has arrived at the Castle.
Her Majesty's private band played in the drawing room
alter dinner, before the Crown Prince and Princes of Prus-
sia (Princess Royal), Prince Christian, Princess Louise,
Prins Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice.
The ladies and gentlemen in waiting were site present.
The band played the following Medial et musk :
Overture, " Egmont," Beethoven.
The Church Herne, " Faust,"
Andante sad Mask treat &warts is 0 mislay,
risadoete Mr. W. O. Coins:Neadelsooka.
Illsrebe Wiser*, "L'Atrieskse," Xeyerbeer.
Overture, " Massalads," Ressisi.
" Der Praia:bats " Weber.
The following ladies and gentlemen had the honour of
being invited after dinner :—Viscountes Beldport. the
Hon. Miss Hood, the Hon. W. Hood, MN., General C.
and Mrs. Grey, the Duchess of St. Albans, It., Mademe,
and Miss Van de Weyer, Major-General Sir T. M. and
the Hon. Lady Biddulph, Kiss Georgina Seymour, the
Dean of Windsor, the Dean of Exeter, Colonel the Hon.
D. and Lady Elisabeth Da Ros, Colonel 11. and the Hon.
Mrs. Ponsenby, Viscount Jocelyn (Ist Life Guards), Mr.
Sabi, Mr. Collins. and lir. Woodward.
The Queen, the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia
(Princes Royal), Primus Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince
Leopold, Princess Beattie., and Princess Charlotte of
Prussia, and the Ladies and Gentlemen iu Waiting,
attended Divine service this morning in the private
chapel.
The Very Rev. the Deanof Exeter preached the sermon.
The Prussian Ambassador and Countess de Barnsturff
have left the Castle.

Despatches wore received on Saturday at the Colonial-
oflies from the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope and
Heligoland. Despatches wore sent to the Governors of
tho North American Prosiness, British Columbia. Ber-
muda. and the Bahamas.

Tier Majesty the Queen and the royal faintly
will, it is tr' erstood, reside at Windsor till after the IL ith
December (the anniversary of the late Prise C .nsort'a
death), and then proceed to Osborn, for the Mei tau
holidays.
Tux Qi nEN 01' llotr-txn.—ller Majesty the
Queen of Holland is especial' to leave ringlaml in the
count of this week for the Coatiitent
Their Royal Highnestwe the Crown Pritioe and
Princess of Prussia are expected to remain in this country
abeot six weeks longer, and will probably spend Christ-
mas with the royal circle. The Whams Royal bears a
strikiag resemblance to her Majesty.
The Duchess (Dowager) of Cleveland ham bet'n
receiving oempany at Downhata Park during the peat
week
_ .

tienorid Cord Louis Avogadro de hittaregua
has arrived at the Clarendon hotel on a special guipi.rn
from the Court of Italy.

Lord LondaaborOugh leavos Grosvenor-equar
today for Grislier= Park, Yorkshire, where his lordship
will receive duriag the week his Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge, the Prince of Teok, and a large shooting
iwrt!•
The Primo Bariatinsky ham arrived at the
olaitaldoll Huta

The Luke and Dm:llokm of ltexburgho are still
lojournulg at the CIaMOOD HOtel.
Lady Emily Fed Wag safely delivered of a
daughter on &duality afternoon. at the family ru,idonee
In Whihiliull-gerdioix. Mir cod infant am doing
%nil.

Mr. Butler-,Toliiistimr, low nrriveit at tht•
Alexandra llotel. deluirk -cmet..
Tho mortal relnaius of tho late Lord Soniorville
ware removed from KlbwortL, noar
Friday last, to Aston Somerville, Ulowiestenbini. The
twang Mel pito timpionoir.