The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-22 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN.

Antis EVFNING, SHORT AND SWEET: Messrs Parselle, A.
J Turner • Mesdames Weathereby, Lovell. After which, BLOW
FOR BLOW: Messrs. Cowper, eville, Parselle, and George
Honey: Mesdames Lydia Foote, Rignold, &c. To conclude with
LITCRETIA BORGIA, M.D.: Miss Fanny Josephs, and George
Honey.

ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN.
Tars EVENING, the Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud
of 50 Horses; also Onra, Alfred Bradbury, A. Carre, &e

ROYALTY THEATRE.
Under the Management of Miss M. Oliver.
THIS EVENING, at 7.30, A LOVING CUP. Mr. Dewar, Miss
M. Oliver. To he followed by CLAUDE DUVAL; Mr. Dewar,
ic. To conclude with FAMILY JARS.

PRTNCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE.
Under the Management of Eliss Marie Wilton

'I ins SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montague,
Addison, Glover, and Bancroft; Mrs. Buckingham White. Miss
C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING
HAZARD. And INTRIGUE.

ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET.

THIS EVENING, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S
MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque
Extravaganza, THE VERY GRAND DUTCH—S

(MUSTY ➢IINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 3
Wednesdays and :faturdays, at 3 and 3 all the year round.

ROYAL AL HAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLET
Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. Is. Box-offict
open from 11 to 4.

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regerfe-pack, OPEN daily (ex-
cept Sundays). Admission, Is.; on Mondays, 6d.; Children
under twelve, 6d.

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LONDON, MONDAY; MARCH 22, 1869.

If anything can be said effectively against the
Irish Church Bill, it will be said this evening by Sir
ROUNDELL PALMER—the most conspicuously con-
scientious among all its antagonists. His conscien-

tiousness in opposing the measure he has made re-
cognizable to even the dullest observers in the
community; for, has he not sacrificed to his convic-
tions in this matter the grandest of all the great
prizes attainable by a member of the legal profession ?
A prize, but for his antagonism to this measure,
absolutely within his grasp—the Great Seal, with all
its accompaniments—a peerage, the woolsack, the
conservation of the Royal Conscience, the Leadership
of the Lords, the presidency of the highest
court of judicature in the realm, the right
of precedence before and above all the
Lords Spiritual aryl Temporal in the realm,
with the one exception of his Grace the Archbishop
of CANTERBURY ! All this when it lay completely
within his reach, within his grasp—he had but to
close his fingers upon it to secure the name, style,
and title, all the rights, privileges, and prerogatives
appertaining to the Lord High Chancellor—all this
Sir ROUNDELL PALMER has foregone because in his
mind, in his heart, in his soul, in his conscience, he
cannot approve of the Bill introduced by Mr. GLAD-
sivm for the disestablishment and disendowment of
the Irish Church. The Prime Minister is his inti-
mate personal friend--one to whom he is attached by
many years of cordial and sympathetic agreement. It
matters nothing ! Upon this question of the Irish
Church he cannot agree with him! lle is his friend still,
but he cannot back up this measure of Mr. GLAD-
' STONE'S for the pulling down of the Protestant Estab-
lishment in Ireland, for the realization there of the
Church Property, and for the appropriation of the
surplus funds thereby acquired to purposes so far in-
tensely Christian that they are purposes of benevolence.
Hence Sir ROUNDELL PALMER is still in the House
of Commons—is seated upon one of the back benches
—is temporarily, at least,etshtieratnegren, difaronmiuhdisei;rdtyen—t
is, in the strictest sense of
member—instead of being all that we have just
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now said, in his otherwise inleyvitianbablue,cuarpa
Government.

Of course, we think him in error in this matter.
Not in his decision, we need hardly say, but in the
opinions which have driven him to it. Of course, in
that point of view, we consi ler him to be altogether
mistaken. But, who is there in the three kingdoms
who has not for him, at the same time, the most pro-
found respect, and let u 3 say, too, the most profound
admiration ! We do—most unquestionably. But, in
4thi7i, we are but an unit simply among the thirty mil-
lions of the population. Sir ItOUNDELL PALMER is not
elevated to the Woolsack—bat it would be difficult
to say how high he has raised himself in
the estimation of the entire mass of his
fellow-countrymen. Among all the opponents
'of the measure now under discussion in the House
of Commons, not one will be listened to with any-