The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUN P., 14, 1569.

ously, as Mr. DISRAELI counted immediately before
the last General Election upon that ignis fatum, that
lata morgana, that mirage, that chateau en Espogne
of Tory Optimists, what is called a Conservative
Reaction. The anticipation proved, in November and

machinery out of gear, is not to be thought of. If
the Lords reject the bill for disestablishing the frisk
Church, the nation will speedily come to the•
conclusfon that it is necessary to disestablish the:
House of Lords. Therefore it is that we look forward
to the events of this week with so much anxiety.
. _

December, entirely visionary. It would prove quite as
v:sionary in July and August. The majority of
Sixty in favour of the Suspensory Bill rapidly ex-
panded, as we all know, into a majority of a Hundred
an l Twenty in favour of the Actual Measure for the

We say anxiety, for it must not be supposed that
in predicting what will happen we intend to threaten. 1,
We state simply what every well-informed, dis-
passionate statesman knows well, what men like
Lord SALISBURY, the Duke of RICHMOND, and Lc Ord
Dl:vox, whose Conservatism is unquestioned, know
well—that power has passed out of their hands into
that of the Commons, and that it is useless for them
to oppose the national will as represented by the
national assembly. They may regret this. Lord
SALISBURY and Lord CARNARVON, who opposed the
Conservative Reform Bill, may even reproach their
former colleagues with having brought about this
change ; but they recognise the fact that it has taken
place, Bml they are too wise to resist the inevitable,
or to aggravate it by attampting to resist it. They
and we believe that the abolition of the Upper
House would be a matter of deep regret. They and
we see that the Irish Church is only one of the sweep-
ing measures which will infallibly be brought forward
beforelong, and that moderate men of both parties and
men who belong to neither party, will be asking the
aid of the Upper House in order to resist changes
that are either hurtful in themselves,orcrudein their
conception. They and we shrink from a course which
would lead to the humiliation of one of the Estates
of the Realm. They and we see that all chance of
resisting hasty legislation hereafter will be destroyed
if the Lords attempt to resist the matured decision
of the nation on the present occasion. It is,these
considerations which make the week upon which we
have just entered so eventfuL Glad, indeed, shall
we be if prudence prevails, if, profiting by the crisis
of bliia Lime Lhree years, when the RUSSELL-
GLADSTONE Administration was defeated and a
moderate Reform Bill was rejected, only to prepare
the way for a sweeping Reform Bill and a
GLADSTONE-BRIGHT Administration, the Peers
determine to accept a moderate change, lest, by re-
jecting it, a worse thing befall them.

disestablishment and disendownment of the Irish
Church ! And tbi3 as the direct and deliberate and
most emphatic response of the enlarged constituencies
—to whom? To the very Minister who had sum-
moned them into existence as enlarged constituen-
cies ! And in answer to what? Why, in answer to his
earnest and even impassioned app al to the Con-
servative Reaction he was either s.ni3l:sly counting
upon, or, at the Last, afTec ink; to baieve in !
And in reference to wh-tt tneasure ? In reference to
this very measure relating to the lush Church—its

Ditesablithtnent and its Dismdowniint! Never did
the two great political p irtiei cam:: before the
country with a diotin ;ter cry on the part of
each. One was for the preservation of the
union of Church and State in Ireland. The other
was for the complete and immediate severance
of the bond connecting those two great institu-
It was a question of Yes or No. The
constituencies thoroughly understood that ques-
ion ; awl how they answered it is now seen by

ions.

the very constitution of the present House of Com-
mons. The Liberal Party were returned in
such overwhelming numb .rs that Mr. DISRAELI,
who has never once during the whole of his remark-
able career—the world knows it ! —lacked audacity, re-
signed the Premiership before the meeting of the new
Parliament, and resigned it frankly and chivalrously
into the hands of his arch antagonist !
Mr. DISRAELI might, ander the circumstances,
had he so pleased, have advised her MAJESTY to
send for Earl RUSSELL, or to send for Earl GRAN-
VILLE, instead of for the ex-Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, the now Prime Minister, the then very
recently rejected candidate for the representation of
South West Lancashire. Instead of doing which, Mr.
DISRAELI, refraining from any unnecessary delay of bis
own resignation and the resignation of his colleagues
at once, unhesitatingly, indicated to her MAJESTY as
his obvious successor in the conduct of her MAJESTY'S
counsels as the one only statesman to whom, un-
der the circumstances, ought to be confided
the responsibility of constructing her MAJESTY'S

LATEST INTELL MEM

(REU"'ER'S TELEGRAMS.)

FRANCE.

PARIS, June 14.

The Official Journal of this morning publishes
an account of the disturbances which have taken
place at Path, Nantes, Bordeaux et Saiut Etienne.
It says :—" The authorities had very exact infor-
mation that a certain party, using several organs of
the Press as weapons, had determined to raise an
an entente upon the 6th and 7th inst. The precau-
tionary measures which were taken prevented the
agitation from assuming a more seriousaspect. After
reciting the particulars of the disturbances, the Official
Journal proceeds to say Justice is now in pos-
session of evidence of all the facts which provoked
and accompanied those deplorable outbreaks. It
belongs to justice to trace their authors and origina-
tors, and also to discover the tactics whereby these
revolutionary agitations were set on foot, which are
not only hurtful to the pubic welfare, and specially
to commerce in such large cities, but are also at-
tempts against the law of the country. It belongs
to justice to show by evidence collected and by the
proofs obtained what complicity might exist be-
tween the instigators of the various movements
referred to.

Government—the junior member for Greenwich, the
man whose name as associated with the projected
abolition of the Irish Church as a Stae institution,
had given to the Liberal Party its overwhelming
m ijority in the new Parliament. Mr. GLAD-
STONE, as the recognised Leader of the Liberal
Party, found himself carried to the height of
power and backed by a larger majority than has been
at the command of any Premier since the House of
C munons was first reformed—to the express end that
he should in the first place deal with this very ques-
tion of the Irish Church, a question which ha I just
then been distinctly put to the country, and to which
the country had, then and there, quite unmistakeably
responded. All this—as the immediate consequence
of Mr. DISRAELI'S reliance upon the so-called Con-
servative Reaction, and as the response to his
impassioned appeal to what proved quite as
imaginary, the ardent enthu.:dastri of the
Electors of the United lit ngdom for the
maintenance in Ireland of Protestant Ascendancy I
Ireland being known all the world over as inten,ely,
inerralicably, incontrovertibly a Catholic country.
the dogged maintenance, there, over Catholic Ire.-
laud of that cruelly, unnaturally, and most
tyranically place I Protestant Ascendaacy.—which
Mr. GI.ADSTONE, al d the House of Co oinms, and
the people of the liaited Kiag !om are firmly resolve
shag no 1011.4f-1- be tuaiutained—ii t Lord DERBY.
ao,i his dwindling folio vers in the IlouAe of
Lords is now cinfi leatiy bent upn, l y the help (I
that Will o' the Wii) the soi-dis.iint Cons,rvaire
11.2acti,Ju —in spite of Mr. GLAD-s-rose and of
the Liberal Party, an I of the Ihuse of Com-
mons, and of the Peoplc of the Ui ite I Kingdom.
A formidable Cave, precisely at the v orst moment for
Lord DERBY, is opened in the House of Lords on the
ti le of the Opposition. A Cave so formidable that,
sine.; it first cane to be recpgniz there have
been au li 1:!, at intervals, more or less con-
fid,nt rumours, that the new and the old
leader of the Conservative Party, meaning of cJurse
Lord Dr.nv an I Lord CAIRNS, had, in the pres nca
of it, and at the approach of the eleventh hour,
fairly caved in. The antieip ition of any suet lower-
ing of the lyttth pennon by the RUPEIrf of
Dcbate before the :hock of arms had aetually
commenced, has, however, as any one might
readily enough have conjectured would prove to he
the cast,, turned out to be altogether Bias )ry. The
Forlorn Hope of the Irish Church Defen lers, will be
lei into the breach this evening, with what result the
Nation, ra her than the House of Lords, will, sooner
or later, have to deci

The Official Journal bears witness to the admir-
able patience, firmness, moderation, and courage
displayed by the authorities and their civic and
miitary organs. Nowhere, it adds, has the Govern-
ment been compelled to resort to the use of arms, a
procec ing which, the moment it had been neces-
sary, would have been no less decisive than terrible.
The Government sees with satisfaction that it has
succeeded without 'oloodshed in quelling the distur-
bances everywhere they have occurred, and that it
has fulfilled its mission of protection and humanity.
The same journal aneounced that M. Sipiere I as
given a sum of 10,000 fr. to b 3 flistributel among
those public agents who by their firm yet moderate
conduct had made good their claim upon the grati-
tude of the citizens of Paris.
No fresh disturbances occurred. Perfect tran-
quillity prevail.,.
Yes' erday at 3 30 p.m. the Emperor visited the
Viceroy of Egypt. The interview lasted more than
an hour.

WE have entered upon what may prove to us the
most eventful week of the century. There have been
grave crises before now which threatened serious
results ; a battle of Austerlitz which I.dd Europe at
the feet of NAPOLEON ; a Reform Bill rejected by
the House of Lords ; a free trade controversy ; a
Crimean collapse ; an Indian mutiny ; but the
mischief which these events brought with them was
corrected. NAPOLEON was sent to St. Helena, the
Lords accepted the Reform Bill which they hi-xl
thrown out, free trade was yielded, Sebastopol taken,
India reconquered. The foreign influence of England,
the social prosperity of England, the colonial empire
of England, the political constitution of England,
remain unimpaired, nay, incre:liied and improved.
But who can 13,2lieve that the last of these will not
suffer if the Conservative Peers carry out their
threatened purpose and veto the Irish Church Bill ?
The acceptance or rejection of the measure is a com-
paratively small matter in itself, but it involves con-
sequences of the greatest magnitude. No one supposes
that the success of that measure will by itself restore
tranquillity to Ireland ; few persons suppose that it
will seriously affect the stability of the Church itself.
But it is a very serious thing that a measure passed
by an overwhelming majority of the House of Com-
mons, elected for that very purpose, should be rejected
by a body which in no way represents the nation,
and which e:ists only upon sufferance. It is
a very serious thing that this measure,
Pcblytne contains,
majorityaai
nhlsiaving been brought for judgment be-
fore the two million electors whom this kingdom
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the Irish Church (though after the elections of
List November that is a large sssumption), still the
country (ices care a gi eat deal about ha' ing its clearly
and decisively-expressed will set aside by a couple of
hundred persons. No one can suppose that if the
English Constitution were to be drawn up now for
the first time, the existence of such a body as the
House of Lords would be tolerated or dreamt of.
That house exists because it has existertd for so
many centuries, because it is a pa of our
constitutional traditions, and we in England
are slow to make organic changes, pre-
ferring rather to reform than to destroy.
But that this body should have the power of stcppiug
! legislation, of throwing the whole legislative

DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST THE IRISH I lington for the occasion, was crowded in every part, the
CHURCH BILL I red coats of the Life Guards, a large number of whom
were present, forming an effective contrast to the more
sombre apparel of the majority of the audience.
Lord George Hamilton, M.P., occupied the chair, sup.
ported by Lord F. Kerr, Lord Augustus Hervey, M.P.,
and Mr. W. H. Smith, M.P. The usual resolutions were
passed with acclamation.

The Conservative papers are full just now of demonstra.
tions against the Irish Church Bill. Manchester,
Liverpool, York, Kidderminster, Bolton, Cambridge,
Chester, &c., &c., obeyed the beck of the Conservative
organs, and turned out in full force on the two last days of
the past week to express their abhorrence of "the Glad.
stone Robbery Bill."

BOLTON.

There was a demonstration of Conservatives at Bolton
on Saturday. The various Orange lodges and Constitu-
tional associations in the neighbourhood assembled on a
large space of ground adjoining the Church Institute. A
petition urging the House of Lords to reject Dlr.
Gladstone's Irish Church Bill on the second reading was
adopted.