The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-10 00:00:00

IRISII NOTES.

The Churchmen of Ireland are getting more
violent as disestablishment becomes more a
matter of certainty. Rev. gentlemen in several
districts are in effect calling upon their flocks to
rebel. One peaceful pastor, at Monaghan, asked a
recent meeting if
they had any great desire to go
through the operation of being trampled upon.
Nobody appearing to answer in the affirmative,
he was encouraged to continue his questions.
" Would the sons of the men who would
not suffer a tyrant king to deprive them
of their rights allow a tyrant Parliament to
doso ? The Protestants of Ireland were ready to do
just as their ancestors did, and before they would
stand to be tyrannised over they would rally round
their Queen, and resist their and her enemies to the
utmost ; and if a treacherous Ministry dare to bring
her into a difficulty, she would find her Protestant
subjects of Ireland prepared to stand by her." But
even the Queen was not to be sacred. A. Justice of
the peace, who came after this speech, declared
they were ready to stand by their Queen
as long as she was prepared to stand by
them, but no longer. They would stand by the
Queen and Government as long as they maintained
inviolate the national contract, but not one day be-
yond that. The Government of England at the
present moment had fallen into the hands of men
who, for their own purposes, were endeavouring to
break the Act of Union. It was most likely the bill
would pass in the Commons in a modified form, and
he doubted if the Lords would have firmness to
resist the pressure that would be brought to bear on
them. Then the great point would be to support the
sovereign in her duty, which plainly would be to
exercise her prerogative, and put her veto upon the
measure. To put against this we have news that a
most enthusiastic meeting was held in Belfast on
Thursday night in connection with the Presbyterian
Cork contradicts once again most
Association, and in support of Mr. Gladstone's bill.
The Bishop of
emphatically the statement that he consigned Mr.
Gladstone to the devil. As a bishop and as a gentle-
man we are bound to believe him. At a recent
meeting at Dublin, his lordship asked all the papers
which had published his alleged speech to publish his
reply. He said : 66 The sentence I never used. These
words, or words embodying such sentiment as they
do, I never used. The sentiment expressed in them I
or implied by them, I utterly abhor. Such words
would not use, could not use. Such sentiment I
could not entertain towards the meanest creature
merely a land of strong lan-
guage lives, and bow far less towards the eminent
person to whom they refer."
But Ireland is not ere
; it is a land of violent deeds. Threatening
notices are becoming very common, and that they
are' not merely
threatsdeem
IS proved by the way in
which so many of them have been followed
by their fulfilment. The Times correspondent
says that in some instances the persons who
have been menaced it necessary to have
a guard of
police constantly with them for
their protection, and when they go abroad are
accompanied by one or two constables. 66 It is not
now thought a very extraordinary circumstance to
see a gentleman, when going out to hunt, escorted by
two policemen for some piles until he crosses the
borders of the district within which he apprehends
dangers when he dispenses with their attendance,
but has a strict appointment with them to meet him
again at a certain place when returning home." The
following is an extract from one of the notices
recently sent in Westmeath :—" If you or any-
one else violate the laws laid down in
the public notices you shall receive the re-
ward, that is, your_lives will be the forfeit. If
you have already taken the grass farm, retract the
bargain—Every one must have an equal chance of
getting grass for his stock the poor as well as the
rich you will be no worse than another. Do not be
deceived by any false counsels the laws are made
and must be carried out effectually as sure as the
sun arises land or stock will be of little use to a dead
man. However if you incur the danger of taking
the grass farm—We advise you to get your life
insured for a pretty good round sum in order that
some relative may be the better of you bear in mind
the bullet awaits you We remain enemys to oppres-
sion. Give up farm if you care to live."