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

THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN.

1 THIS EVENING, SHORT AND SWEET: Messrs Parselle, H.
J Turner • Mesdames Weathersby, Lovell. After which, BLOW
ir( at BLOW: Messrs. Cowper, •• eville, Parselle, and George
Honey: Mesdames Lydia Foote, Rignold, &c. To conclude with
LUCRETLI BORGIA, M.D.: Miss Fanny Josephs, and George
Honey.

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

ROYALTY THEATRE:
Tinder the Management of Miss M. Oliver.
This EVENING, at 7.30, A LOVINi; CUP. Mr. Dewar, Miss
M. Oliver. To he followed by CLAUDE DUVAL; Mr. Dewar,
&c. To conclude with FAMILY JARS.

PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE.
Under the Management or Miss Marie Wilton
Tuts EYENHNG, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montagne,
Addison, Glover. and Bancroft: Mrs. Buckingham White. Miss
0. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING
HAZARD. And INTRIGUE.

ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET.

Tins E r.Nixa, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S
MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: awl the Burlesque
Extravaginza, THE VERY GRAND DUTCH—S

(lIIRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, ETery Night, at 3
Wednesdays and Saturdays, at = and 3 all the year round.

ROYAL AL ITAMBR A PALACE. THREE BA LLET
Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. ls. Box-offic(
open from 11 to 4.

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Rego: l's-T.eak, OPEN daily (ex-
e:.pt Sundays). Admission, Is.; ou MPadays, 6d.; Children
mrlor twe!ve, Rd.

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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 and 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-
STONE 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 tho Irish
Church lie cannotagree with him! He 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,fetshte term,ranged an independentfromh
his party—
is, is, in the strictest sense of
member— instead of being. all that
cl:vpace ihavetyas jtuhset
now said, in his otherwise inevitable
Lord Chancellor in the newly inaugurated Liberal
Government.

Of course, we think him in error in this matter.
Not iu his decision, we neel hardly say, but in the
opinions which have driven himito it. Of course, in
that point of view, we consider Ifirn 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 us say, toe, the most profound
admiration ! We do—most unqu.ertionably. But, in
this, we are but an unit. simply among the thirty mil-
lions of the population. tiir ROUNDELL PALMER iS not
elevated to the Woolsack—but it would be difficult
to say how high he has raised himself in
the estimation of the entire mass of his
fellow-countrymen. Among ail the opponents
of the, measure now under discussion in the house
of Commons, not one will be rtfitsened to with any-