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

TIM POLITICAL CIVISIB.

The Daily News states that if the Irish Church ,
Dill were rejected, Mr. Gladstone would advise the
Queen to prorogue Parliament immediately, begin
another session as quickly as possible afterwards, pass
the bill through all its stages in the Lower House
without any speeches from the Liberal side of the
House, and create a sufficiency of new peers to
carry the bill through the Lords. The Post points
out that it was the Conservatives who appealed to
the country on the Irish Church question, and that
they are bound to accept the verdict of the country.
The Times calls upon the independent peers to oppose
the fatal policy attributed to the Conservative leaders.
The Advertiser fears that the threats of what will
happen if the Peers reject the bill will have the effect
of making them reject it.
The Conservative organs this morning directly
contradict each other. The Standard denies that
the l'eers had come to any decision, and is
scandalised at the supposition that they would do so
prior to the meeting at the Duke of Marlborough's.
The John Ball repudiates the Standard altogether,
declares that the famous article counselling the assent
to the second reading was in no wise authorised by
the Conservative leaders, and that Lord Cairns would
propose to the meeting of Peers that he should move
the rejection of the bll. The John Bull goes on to
say that the division will probably take place on
the 18th, the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, a
clay, of all others, when Conservatives should not
shew the white feather. Our contemporary may
like to be reminded that it was. on that day the
Russell-Gladstone Administration was defeated, and
the - Constitution was saved from the ruin which
would have been wrought by the passing of a £7
suffrage bill.. The seq 4. tY tnat event need not
be told.

It is fortunate thatflaard warns Walt no bones. If
the contrary had beenv.:i.ris case. bat& Gladstone would
long since have had to-abaicate his functions as
leader of the Liberal party. The Orangemen of
Ireland grow more desperate as the Established
Church of that country gets nearer its doom. The
meeting of these infatuated people at Dublin on ,
Thursday evening furnishes another instance of the
untenable ground taken up for the defence of the
Church. One of the speakers asserted that "if
there were but ten men in the country that adhered
to the truth of Protestantism, the Established
Church should be maintained." Another stated
that the endowment of Maynooth was a national
sin, which had been attended with national judgment
in the shape of civil war in 1798, and famine and
pestilence at subsequent periods. All the speakers
brought in an unlimited supply of adjectives in de-
nunciation of the bill, and Mr. Gladstone was styled
an infidel, and spoken of as " that wretch." The
Rev. Tresham Gregg, who " deeply deplored that
they had met together to contemplate the lament-
able prospect of the decline and fall of the British
Monarchy " (which dated from 1829), was especially
wild in his remarks. He believed that "if the
spirit of God came upon some member of the House
of Commons, endowing him with courage and re-
solve to impeach Mr. Gladstone of high crimes and
misdemeanours, the country might yet be saved."
I I e suggested that Mr. Johnson, of 13allykilbeg, should
be invited to undertake this agreeable duty, a pro-
position which was received with Kentish fire. Dr.
Gregg said that if Disraeli had known his duty in
that crisis he would have saved the Constitution, and
become the first statesman in the world. But he
missed it. He wrote to him, expressing a hope that
a man who had borne the glorious name of Israel
would
.stand by God and the country ; but Mr.
Disraehdid not. Dr. Gregg appropriately pronounced
the Benediction at the close.
The enthusiasm in the north of Ireland seems to
ue falling off. The great Perry meeting was a complete
success. But the second one, which was to be
.much
of the same character, has been a decided failure.
While 40,000, if not more, attended the one, only
some 3,000 were assembled on Friday night. The
meeting was not held at Belfast, but at Cookstown,
on the other side of Lough Neagh. The usual
speeches, the usual resolutions, and the usual peti-
tions, were made and adopted.