The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-18 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

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HOUSE OF LORDS-THIS EVENING.

The LORD CIIANCELLOIL took his scat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

LORD NAPIER AND MR. RARSAM.
The Duke of ARGYLL laid on the table a letter from
Lot d Napier of Magdala, contradicting some of the state-
ments of Mr. Rat.satn, in his report of the taking of
Magdala in reference to the acceptance of presents of
cat►le from the Emperor Theodore atter the captives had
been delivered up to him.

STATE OF IRELAND.
Their lordships then proceeded to consider the causes
of the la:e murders and outrages in Irelaud.
[LEFT bITTING.I

HOUSE OF COMMONS._Tars EVENING.
The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock.

NEW MEMBEIC—
Mr. WHITWO1:T11 took the oaths and his seat for
Drogheda.

OBSOLETE STATUTES.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in reply to Mr. Had-
field, said the revision of the statutes, up to the 10th of
Gco. Ili., had been made, but be could not say whether
the revision would be completed during the present
session.

SNIDER IIIFLES.
Mr. CARDWELL, in reply to Mr. Dixon, said the
Government had ordered tu,ooo Snider rifles, and
order for a great quantity of other anus had been given.
THE CASE OF BL ATCHER.
Mr. BRUCE, in reply to Colonel Darner, said Blatcher,
the police-constable entered the force in 1847, and iu 1866
he was knocked down by a gentleman's carriage near the
apot *here the sent iphore now stands. He was much injured,
and he was retained is the forse with a pension of £32.
In Octobir he went into the hospital, and died soon after;
but as the swgeou refused .to say his death took place in
consequence of the injury he received, Sir It. Mayne did
not recommend his widow for a pmsion. However he
believed it was thought by those who knew him that his
death was owing to the injuries ha received, he should re-
consider the decision that had been coma to.

THE MAURITIUS.
Mr. MONSELL, in reply to Mr. Fowler, said there was
no need of apprehending a famine in the Mauritius, as
there was a good supply of rice there.
THE COLLEGE OF MAYNOOTEL
Mr. GLADSTONE said the proposal to give the sum
of X 361,000, or 14 years purchase of the present annual
payment to the College of Maynooth was founded on the
average of years purchase which was proposed for the
Episcopal and Presbyterian clergy.
VALUATION OF PROPERTY BILL.

Mr. GOSOLIEN said this bill, he hoped, would soon
be in the hands of members.
FENIANISM.

Col. KNOX asked the lion. Secretary for Ireland,
when it was proposed to dest: oy the bulwark of the na-
tion. (Laughter, and hear, hear.) He had had his atten-
tion drawn to a meeting at Cork, at which certain Fenian
speeches were made and loudly cheered.
Mr. C. FORTESCUE said he knew nothing about that
matter— (laughter)—and that was all the answer he could
give to the question. (Laughter.)
IRISH CHCRCH BILL.

Mr. Vance, Sir G. Booth, Sir S. Nortbcote, Major
Hamilton,.and a great number of other members on the
Opposition benches presented petitions from the Pro-
testants in various parts of Ireland against the Govern-
ment bill for the disestablishtnent of the Irish Church.

On the motion for the second reading of the bill brought
in by the Government for the disestablishment of the
Irish Church being made by Mr. Gladstone,
Mr. DISRAELI rose, and was received with loud
cheers. He said when the measure was first introduced
the right hon. gentleman said he submitted to the house
a gigantic issue, and he entirely agreed with him in that
statement, moreover, he thought that if ever there was a
motion that required the greatest deliberation, the present
was a case in point. He also thought it required much
moral control and personal forbearance, and he was forti-
fied
in that belief by the turbulent feeling that. was
oc-
casioned when the gigantic issue on one
years ago was submitted. He hoped that whatever
oecas
decision
was
consideration.
ct
was come to, the country would believe that the result
had been arrived at alter the most mature
The bill introduced by the right hon. gentleman proposed
a severance of
because
oh
haeodwaS:tattve.e,
averse
eandto haesAopbajraecttieodn to
of dtihse-
establishment•
ethought
e that,
if the severance w
Church from the Staaate.
ma(Hdee,artheheCarb.u) He
would
re-
duced to the state of a civil corporation, a position
he for ono most strenuously objected to. (Hear, hear.)
pre-
ceeded thirty years ago, us now religious questions were
The present time differed very much from that which
certainly arising, and it was greatly to be desired that the
det.ates that they called forth would be conducted with
the utmost forbearance and consideration. The right
hon. gentleman had himself said that a greater or
more profound question could not be submitted for discus-
sion, and he fully agreed with him, and it was so much to
be desired that iu the debate the Government should be
treated with that respect which the great subject
under consideration deserved. He considered the
possession of an established religion was the
great landmark by which we enjoyed religious toleration,
and without it he did not see the security we should have
for the safeguard of that toleration. (Hear, hear.) With
respect to disendowment, he believed that when a State
seized the property of a corporation without.any cause it
was an act of t-poliation—(loud cheers of bear, hear, from
the Opposition)—and under no circumstances could a
trustee appropriate to himself the property he was bound
to guard ; if that was so, no property could be secure and
the credit of the country would collapse. He was utterly
and entirely opposed to confiscation of the property of any
corporation, because it either resulted in civil war or pro-
duced a chronic disaffection for ages amongst our fellow-
subjects ; and of all confiscations that ho most disliked was
the confiscation al Church property. (Loud cheers.) Bethought the lauded proprietoty
}tad every right to exer-
cise their power and influence by every legitimate means,
but nothing could be mote short-sighted or more fatal
for them than io attempt to do that by what he
called sacrilegious spoliation. (r car, hear.) He
thought it would not be denied that discontent was
to some c taut prevalent in Ireland ; and one of the causes
was said to be that her Church was not connected with the
State, but the right hon. gentleman now said, " I will re-
generate the country, and have three churches not con-
nected with the State." (Loud cheers from the Opposi-
tion.) If the measure proposed by the Government was
passed, he did not believe it wouli cure Irish discontent.
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

Chicago is to have another female suffrage organ,
to be called the New Era.—Over ninety " Lives of Christ''
have been written during the past thirty years.—Mr.
Charles 0. Rogers, of the Boston Journal, is said to bo
dangerously ill.