The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-03 00:00:00

TIIE YOUGHAL WRIT.

The proposition-of the Government to issue a new
writ for the borough of Youghal was opposed by
several Liberals. Those who voted against the
motion were Mr. A. H. Brown, Mr. 11. Campbell,
Captain Cholmeley, Mr. DiE:c, Mr. Dillwyn, Mr.
Fawcett, Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice, Hon. 11. W.
Fitzwilliam (Wicklow), Mr. W. Fowler, Sir Henry
Hoare, Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Hon. C. G. Lyttelton,
Mr. Marling, Mr. Monk, Mr. Morrison, Mr. Steven-
son, and Sir David Wedderburn. The majority was
composed entirely of Liberals. Mr. Glyn and Mr.
Adam acted as tellers for the Ayes, and Mr. Collins
and Mr. Raikes for the Noes.

MR. ROEBUCK ON THE HOUSE OF LORDS.

Mr. Roebuck has. changed his opinion on one
question. He canna say with justice that he is the
same now as he was when younger in all political
points. He has admitted that he now regards the
House of Lords in a very different light from what he
did formerly. The Eastern Post reports a speech of
his, givenattheLondon University College Debating
Society. The question to be discussed was "Is an
llereditary I louse of L cgislature desirable." The meet-
ing was evidently disposed to vote in the negative. Mr.
Roebuck, however, came to the defence of the Legis-
lative Chamber he has so often assailed. He said he
thought the House of Lords as perfect as any human
institution could be; his long experience bad taught
him that the Peers invariably acted with dearness,
dignity. justice, and impartiality, and that if we
attempted to disturb the stahtB quo, we should raise
a devil it would be found impossible to quell. It
was tree that in earlier years he had said bitter
things o 7 the House of Lords, but his long
life had taught him that he had been
wrong, and he bitterly regretted what he had said.
Mr. Roebuck seems to love " independence " for its
own sake, and not for the sake of the truth. Which-
ever way the majority takes, that way the late
member for Sheffield eschews. While most people
were for retaining the hereditary principle, Mr. Roe-
buck was its bitterest opponent. Now when the
greatest Tories are allowing a reform to be made
without opposition, Mr. Roeb,t-ek opposes it. Is this
a cruel fate, or is Mr. Roebuck wilfully fond of
opposition ?

ARCHDEACON DENISON ON THE BISHOPS.

Archdeacon Denison writes in the John Bull a
vigorous letter upon the conduct of the bishops with
regard to the extension of the Episcopate, He fully
concurs with the Guardian and ourselves in con-
demning their lordships for the line which they took
up with reference, to. Lord Lyttelton's bill. Ile says
the bishops very well know that if the three
new sees proposed were created, they would supply
in no appreciable degree the lack of epis-
copal strength. He reminds the bishops that
when they cbject- to " two sets of 'bishops,"
no rersons have done so much to bring
about this innovation as their lordships have by the
introduction of ex?colonial bishops into their sees.
He contends that there is no diocese in England the
work of which can be half done by its diocesan,
though he be iu the fullest health and vigour a
body and mind. His severest remarks are directed
against the right rev, bench for having made their
worldly position the most prominent subject in the
late debate. lie thus winds up a very vigorous
letter :

" The secular questions of income and -position, social
and political, are forced by the Parliamentary Episcopate
into the first rank, awl are allowed to hide from their own
eyes the question of the spritual necessities of the Church,
and all the real facts of the case. The world laughs,
and the Church mourns. We have a bill introduced
by the Primate into the House of Lords, on the part
of the home Episcopate, for ' Discipline of Clergy.'
There is not a word in it about ` Discipline of Bishops.'
The world laughi, and the Church mourns. I have some-
times doubted whether the conclusions of a pamphlet of
mine which went through three editions in 1851—' Why
should the bishops continue to sit in the House of Lords?'
—are sound. I have no doubts now. I think them alto-
gether sound."