The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-07 00:00:00

I.DECISION OP THE PEERS TO BEJOI
THE IRISH CHURCH BILL.

A meeting of Peers and Bishops was held on Saturday
at the residence of the Duke of Marlborough, St. James's;
square, for the purpose of considering what course should
he adopted in connection with the Irish Church Bill when
it comes on for the second reading in the House of Lords'
There were present—Duke of Abercorn, Earl of Aber'
gavenny, Earl Amherst, Earl Bandon, Bishop of Banger,
Viscount Bangor, Lord Bateman, Marquis of Bath, Ear;
Bathurst, Earl Beauchamp, Duke of Beaufort, 14°1"1
Berners, Lord Blayney, Lord Bolton, Earl of Bradford,
Marquis of Bradford, Marquis of Bristol, Earl Brownlo'
Duke of Buccleuch, Duke of Buckingham, Earl Cadogas'
Lord Cairns, Earl Carnarvon, Lord Castlemaine, Lord
Chelmsford, Lord Churston, Earl Clancarty, Lord C 01;
chester, Lord Colville, Lord Clarina, Earl Coventry, Far'
Courtown, Lord Crofton, Earl Darnley, Earl Dart.
mouth, Lord de L'lsle, Earl Denbigh, Lord Dentoas'
Earl Derby, Lord de Roe, Lord de Saumarez, Viscous
de Vesci, Earl Devon, Lord Digby, Marquis of Downshire'
Marquis of Drogheda, Earl Dunmore, Lord Dunbere'
Earl Dunsany, Lord Fgerton, Earl Egremont, EarlEldoa,
Lord Elphinstone, Earl of Enniskillen, Viscount Exmouth'
Lord Faversham, Earl Fitzwilliam, Lord Galway,
Bishop of Gloucester, Viscount Gough, Viscoum
G ormanston, the Earl of Haddington, Viscount Hardinge'
Earl Hardwicke, Earl Harewood, Earl of Harringtse'
Viscount Hawarden, Lord Headley, Lord Henniker;
Viscount Hereford, Lord Heytesbury, Earl Home, Est
of Huntingdon, Lord Hylton, Lord Keeteven,
Kilmaine, Earl Lauderdale, Earl Leitrim, Earl
,
Leven and Melville, Earl of Limerick, Earl s'
Longford, Earl of Lonsdale, Earl of Lucan, Lord Lyttost
Earl of Macclesfield, Earl of Malmesbury,
of Manchester, Earl Manvers, Duke of Bler'i
borough, Viscount Melville, Viscount Middleton, Vsr.„
Nelson, Lord Northwick, Lord Ormathwaite,
O'Neill, Marquis of Ormonde, Lord Penrhyn, BishoP sl"
Peterborough, Earl Portarlington, Lord Raglan, Iffiu
Ravensworth, Lord Redesdale, Duke of Richmond, Del
Rivers, Earl of Romney, Earl of Fosse, Duke °
Rutland, Lord St. Leonards, Marquis of Salisbl
Lord Saltoun, Earl of Sandwich, Lord Scarsdale, 104
Selkirk, Viscount Sidmouth, Lord Sinclair, Lord
mersdale, Earl Stanhope, Lord Sondes, Earl of Stradbroket
Lord Strathnairn, Earl of Tankerville, Viscount TeraPle.
town, Lord Thurlow, Lord Tredegar, Earl Verulat°'
Lord Walsingham, Earl of Warwick, Duke of Welliac
ton, Marquis of Wesmeath, Earl Wilton, Marquis sl
'Winchester, Lord 'Wynford, Archbishop of Dublin, Wi
of Kingston, Bishop of Tuam, Bishop of Derry, Earl °E
Harrowby.
The meeting was a strictly private one, and the leaded
firmly refused to give the slightest indication of the course
which had been agreed upon. Nevertheless we are ablie,
to present to our readers substantially what to&
place. As the leader of the party in the lIPPet
House, Lord Cairns spoke at considerable length
So far from wavering or being in favour of the passage
the bill, ho very firmly and strenuously urged that tbe
second reading should be opposed and the bill reiectes;
The leaders of the party, he said, did not wl I
to dictate, they were anxious that the judeglel;
of each peer should be unfettered ; but tit t
they felt that as the country had lie,chee
yet pronounced an opinion on the bill itself, and as
feeling of the *Upper House was so decidedly opposed ,a
it, the most politic course, the course most consistent
an
best under all circumstances, would be that their lord
ships should repudiate the measure. At the same tiele'
he did not think it right that the motion for the rejecti.oe
of the measure should come from the front OpPotiti.r°
bench. He therefore suggested that the Earl of Is' if
rowby, as an independent Peer, rather than hima%;
should move an amendment to the second reading•
doing so, the Earl would, of course, rely upon the Ine,/:8
tiers of the party for their support, which Lord Calf

hoped would be accorded to him.
The Marquis of SALISBURY succeeded Lord Cairns- sod
very earnestly deprecated the course which Lord C2jrn..ii,
had recommended. The agitation which 0177,s
succeed the rejection of the bill would be 02:
disastrous to the country, and would in the end do notwl
to save the Irish Church. It was better (he declared) tbl`
their lordships should accept the bill and modify it in Coci.
mittee than that they should renew all the ill-feeling
lay
excitement which had already prevailed to such a I'4

extent.
The Earl of CARNARVON spoke in the same sense, thoutriglie
the meeting appeared to be decidedly against him'
urged that the House under present circumstances 05.
a position to make terms for the Church, while it 1:03(g
not be so hereafter.
The Earl of DERBY spoke with great warmth, and 11itjIhs
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iresent,'

the manifest approval of the majority of those pl 4.0
favour of the rejection of the measure, contend•rig OP •
tear as to themselves should deter them from doing 1c

they thought to be right in the matter.
Lord STANHOPE counselled that the peers should Oil
the course marked out by the Marquis of Salisbury' rej
The Earl of DENBIGH, as a Roman Catholic, consiciehot
it his duty to vote for the Government in this matter, +who
the meeting impatiently refused to hear any baton
leaders of the party against the course proposed by

Cairns.
The Duke of RUTLAND also spoke in favour a 11:.:
rejection, and nearly all the subsequent speakers sc,i;
enthusiastic in their determination to throw out the bwij
It was finally decided that no formal resolution 011°Iiii-t
be come to by the meeting. The leaders bad se":,6l'
they proposed to do before the party, and had found 3 i
propositions to meet with favour. The Earl of Iferf°ll:he
it was tacitly agreed, should move the amendment to
second reading, and the influence of the Opposition 41

brought to bear against the bill. "
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The John Bull declares that the majority age t
bill will amount to eighty votes.