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London, England, 1869-05-29 00:00:00

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LONDO.,V, c'ATUIZDAY, MAY 99,

The Rejection of the Irish Church Bill by the
Lords is hardly in reason to be anticipated. Still
there is the possibility, of course, of such a contin-
gency arising out of the motion for the second read-
ing. It is the consciousness of this which lends an
interest to the gathering about to take place of a con-
siderablenumber of Conservative Peers at the town re-
sidence of the E.lrl of Hannowsr. It is the realisation
of the same fact which imparts a Urvour to the enthu-
siasm manifested within these last few weeks by the
persons attending one or two rather notable Orange
assemblages. But for the sense there is that the
Peers may just possibly reject the Bill, which
on Monday night or Tuesday morning, is
to be passed triumphantly through its final
stage in the House of Commons, but for the
knowledge there is of that as a bare possibility the
bitterest antagonists of the Government scheme of
Disestablishment and Disendowment must have
yielded to the depressing influence of the universal
appreciation of their powerlessness.- The " tyrant
majority" wielded by Mr. GLADSTONE 111 his position
as Prime Minister at the head of the great Liberal
Party, must, but for this remembrance of a forlorn
hope, lying in ambush, as it were, in the House of
Lords—must, we might say, by necessity, have awed
into silence and into the seeming apathy of despair
the worsted sticklers for maintaining the Irish Church
Establishment as it is. Still, now that the date
is fast approaching when there will be put practically
to the test the capacity of the Conservative Opposi-
tion in the Upper Ilonse of Parliament to deal hostily
with the Government measure, to the extreme length
of throwing it out on the motion for the second read-
ing, it is scarcely possible to conceive that men of
profound s•g-city and of extended experience like
the le,adcrs of the Conservative Oi positi)n,
not only in that house, but in the whole country,
could do anything so insensate or so ill considered in
their own interests as to venture upon a course so
rash, so idle, and so utterly suicidal as the one referred
to, and still seriously spoken of by certain dealers
in political canards as actually in preparation. The
running of one's head against a stone wall, in the
br9ad Loonday light, would be nothing to it. The
leap in the dark cannot for an instant be-regarded as