The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-16 00:00:00

MAY.

Chester . 5 I Bath
Eglinton Hunt 7 1 Wye
Winchester
York Spring
Doncaster Spring
I Salisbury l4 Paris 3l

JUNE
West Drayton 1 I Newton
Croydon 2d Summer ... 3 Hampton
Manchester 3 Newcastle 23
Ascot Summer 9 1 Bibury Club 23
Beverley, Hull, and 1 Stockbridge
East Hiding lO Alexandra Park 3O
I
Windsor Summer

JULY.
Chelmsford
Worcester Summer ... 2 1 Odiham l6
Carlisle 7 1 Stamford
Newmarket July 7 1 Radcliffe .. .. 2O
Hungerford
Pontefract
Reading
Down Royal Corp. l5 1 Goodwood

AUGUST.
Deauville
Leek 3 Oxford
Brighton
Brightdn Club 6 Canterbury
Lewes Summer
Wolverhamptou ll Derby Summer
Stockton
I Weymouth
Plymouth
Windsor August l3 1 Lichfield

Egbain
liastiugs
York August

'Tunbridge
Margate Bl.

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC Jol7lllVas.

The Times, in an article on the Irish Church, counsels
the Liberal party not to attempt too much. If a man
cannot trust himself, he may well be in.hot haste to accom-
plish his end while the fit is on him. If he has faith in
himself and his cause he can bide his time. The leading
journal does not conceal its opinion that there is. some
danger lest a great national object should be imperilled
by the unthinking zeal of mere ;partisans. On Monday
Parliament reassembles after the truce of Buster. On
Monday week Mr. Disraeli has declared he will be ready
tconeet the Opposition on the question of the Irish Church.
They three resolutions will become one after another the
subjects of discussion. Upon the first or critical resolu-
tion there must in any case be a prolonged debate. It will
probably be accepted by a majorityat least equal to that which
approved the proposal to go into committee. The second and
thi.-d resolutions follow. They deal with details. They
chalinnge discussion on legal questions, upon which inge-
nious advocates may expend hours, and even nights, of
talk. At the last, however, the second and the third
rcsolutioni: must also be accepted. What follows ? Reso-
lutions of the House of Commons are in themselves
vanities, save as furnishing a foundation for the introduc-
tion of a bill. A bill must accordingly be prepared in
conformity with the resolutions already approved. Those
who have fpthomed the intricacy of the subject know
what the bill founded upon the previous resolu-
tions must be like, and can measure the length of
the debates which must arise upon it. We are dis-
posed to ask ourselves already when they will he finished.
Such a course would not be wise. The better course is
clear. It is impossible that the resolution of the House of
Commons to go into committee can perish before it is put
into operation. Mr. Gladstone must persevere and de-
mand from the committee a resolution that the Irish
Church must, as an endowed Establishment, cease to
exist. Less than this cannot be satisfactory. To strive
after more would be suicidal. When this has been done it
will be well to cry " Halt." The determination of the
House of Commons will have been made manifest, and no
moral effect can he produced by attempting more. The
Irish Church must, as an Establishment, cease. Let so
much be declared. The Reform Act must be completed.
Let so much be accomplished. If there be delay, the im-
mediate object will be manifest, and the motive will not
be obscure. The present Ministry will be kept in office
for six months longer before meeting the country, and this
is a consummation no man who desires constitutional
government can wish to further.

The Herald is afraid that Mr. Forster and Mr. Edward
Baines must be incladed in the list of those candid but in-
judicious friends of Mr. Gladstone whose volunteered
revelations as to the aim and tendency of their leader's
policy must cause him considerable embarrassment and
vexation. It is not Mr. Gladstone's cue, at least for the
present, to stand forward as the enemy of all endowed
churches and of the union between Church and State. He
is conscious that the avowal of such a policy would be
fatal to the success of the conspiracy by which he hopes
to scale the Treasury benches. It becomes a very serious
matter when members of the Legislature like Messrs.
Baines and Forster, associated as they are with ultra
views, come forward, as they did at the inauguration
banquet of the Leeds Cobden Club the other day, to swell
the chorus of compromising eulogists. Mr. Baines is a
prominent Liberationist, the declared foe of all Esta-
blishments, the consistent denouncer of the union between
Church and State. He does not support Mr. Gladstone
in his crusade against the Irish Church, on the ground of
its inefficiency for the work with which it is charged.
If the Irish Church were a model of successful working, if
its congregations were large and flourishing, and if its
revenues were administered with unimpeachable equity.
his grudge against it would be intensified rather than
dim.nislied. Mr. Forster, as a possible Minister in future
Liberal Cabinets, is careful to separate himself from the
less guarded doctrines of his colleague. He says he has not
yet " ceased to advocate " a State Church in England, for
the simple reason that it is the Church of the majority;
but he allows us to understand that if that condition were
r,versed to-morrow he would cheerfully acquiesce in the
disruption of the English Establishment. The moment
the Liberationists and the Papists can shew a majority on
the other side, the English Church must share the fate of
her Irish sister, and Mr. Forster will be among the first to
cry Delenda est ! We repeat that, at a time when Mr.
Gladstone is sedulously endeavouring to create the impres-
sion that in spite of his attitude towards the Irish
Church he supports Establishments in the abstract, and
is passionately loyal to that of England in particular, it is
cruelly hard upon him that he should be saddled with such
dangerous allies and such compromising interpreters.
The Daily News notes that on several occasions Mr.
Disraeli has shewn a disposition to refer to the support
and favour of the sovereign, and to the royal choice which
has placed him where he is, as if there were something
more in his appointment than the regular action of the
constitutional machine, and something more in the royal
favour than the support due from the Crown to its First
Minister for the time being. If Mr. Disraeli were merely
a party leader, these expressions might be passed over
very lightly. But Arr. Disraeli is the First Minister of
the Crown, and its most responsible adviser. The non-
sense at which all the world is laughing would doubtless
be as harmless if whispered in the Royal closet as when
declaimed in the House of Commons. The good sense of
the sovereign is certain to repudiate the insinuations, or
rather accusations, it contained. But the suspicion that
the Prime Minister may abuse his own position and the
Royal ear by absurd, and, in their design, alarming sug-
gestions ; by calumnies on a political rival, the leader of a
great party, and the chief of a majority in the House of
Commons and in the country, whom his position and the
popular voice designates as the future Premier, cannot be
free from mischief. The wisdom of the sovereign will
doubtless rebuke and check the wild sallies of her Prime
Minister. But it is for the House of Commons to con-
sider whether, after the speech of Friday night, they have
confidence in Mr. Disraeli as the chief counsellor of the
Crown.

The Post hopes that what is now taking place in the
metropolis of Ireland will be the inauguration of a change
in a policy which it does not need the wisdom of a states-
man to discover must be destructive of the only real
bond of union between the governing and the governed
of which both may have just reason to be proud. It is
true that on the present occasion it is not the sove-
reign, but her eldest son, with his amiable consort, to
whom the hospitality of the Irish people is extended ;
but this circumstance, instead of robbing the pre•
sent visit of its significance, rather tends to enhance
it. The Prince of Wales is the heir to the throne,
and even in this country has now for some years past
discharged many of those social duties which ordinarily
devolve upon the sovereign. Ostensibly visiting Dublin
in order to be installed in its time-honoured cathedral as a
Companion of the Order of the Knights of St. Patrick,
he is, in truth, regarded by the Irish people as coming
amongst them in a representative character to ask for
pledges of their devotion and loyalty to the throne which
in the course of nature he will one day be called upon to
occupy. And they have responded by giving him a right
royal reception, and by an exhibition of enthusiasm which
will dissipate any ideas, if such existed, that the Irish
people, as a mass, are disaffected towards the reigning
dynasty.

The Telegraph declares that by visiting Ireland the
Prince of Wales supplies the link between the people and
the Crown. In his address to the corporation yesterday,
his Royal Highness assured them that he had never
doubted their constant and undiminished attachment to
the throne. But it is not enough that the loyal feeling
should be latent—it must be active and diffusive, if it is to
secure contentment and discourage the emissaries of
sedition. That issue will surely emerge from the late
troubles and discords, if the intimacy now so well com-
menced between the Crown and the nation be increased
and extended. Happy will it be for Ireland if the idea
conveyed by the beautiful symbol of peace and amity
which was yesterday handed to the Princess of Wales he
carried out in practice ; if the white dove prove the
messenger of good tidiryto, and, her mission accomplished,
fold her wings in calm content over the hushed waters of
strife

The Star advocates the right of women to the suffrage.
Apropos of the Manchester meeting, it lays down that the
opponents of woman's suffrage, whether they be of the
school of wiseacre or zany, can only sound one stop each.
The argument consists in saying over and over again that
•
,o vote is no pal tof a woman's business the joke consists
in repeating, " What a funny thin," it. is for women to
want votes !" and grinning idiotically all the time. One
is almost ashamed to refer to any of the old stock argu-
ments on this subject. But we have always been struckb
by an astonishing inconsistency on the part of those who
take what we suppose they understand to be the profoundly
philosophical tone in opposing the concession of the
suffrage to women. In one sentence they speak
of the difference of sex as something which ought
to exclude, and 'does necessarily exclude, woman
from any share in the political workings of the world, and
the next moment we are told that this accident of sex
affects woman's nature and career so lightly, that if we
allow her to vote at a polling booth she will become
morally, mentally, and esthetically an unsexed creature ;
an undomesticated, unmaternal, unloving, unloyeable,
coarse, and masculine sort of being ; .a thing of which the
utmost that can be said to define it is that it wears petti-
coats and is not a man. Neither of these positions is true.
'I ll2 difference of sex has not prevented women from being
grt•at writers and artists and politicians, from making
books and making laws, from organising victories and
ruling kingdoms. The giving of a vote certainly cannot
410 what the wearing of a crown and the ruling of a State
to do.

The E.;tandarl expresses its gratification at finding that
Cie almost insuperable difficulties which seemed to oppose
themselves to this expedition have one by one melted
away before us. We Owe our thanks for this to the
indomitable energy and skill which have characterised the
operations of each branch of the service represented in
our brave little army:.- Above all, are we indebted. for
this success to the foresight and activity of the distin-
guished general ►vho has so nobly carried the British flag
across these unknown wilds to the very stronghold of the
savage who has dared to threaten and insult it. The
India Office made a good choice of a commander in Sir
Robert Napier. Those who criticised his plan of cam-
paign, and found fault with his calculations, must per-
force admit that hie foresight has been Justified by the
event.

THE REPRESENTATION OF FALMOUTH.

The representation of the united borough of Penryn and
Falmouth is in a transition state. The Reform Act of
last year, by adding the village of Flushing to the parlia-
mentary borough, and by restoring the old "scot-and-lot"
franchise at Penryn, will largely add to the number of
electors, which will henceforward be greater at Penryn
than at the much larger and more wealthy town of Fal-
mouth, to which it is politically joined. The new electors
belong chiefly to the class among whom Mr. R.
N. Fowler, the defeated Conservative candidate at the
last election, has much personal influence, and which, by
liberal donations to charities, by political and "No
Popery " speeches, and in other ways, he is actively culti-
vating. The borough now returns two Liberals; but at
the first election under the new Act Mr. Fowler would
have an excellent chance of being returned. Mr. Gurney,
one of the present members, has been so harassed in con-
nection with the failure of the Overend-Gurney Company
that he will not come forward again ; indeed, he has
been for some time past quite willing to resign
his seat as soon as his successor could be fixed upon.
The Liberals are likely to invite Mr. K. 1). Hodgson, late
Governor of the Bank of England, and a partner in the
great firm of Baring, Brothers, and Co. He is at present
the junior member for Bridport, which will lose one of its
representatives under the new Act. If Mr. Hodgson
consent to stand it is probable that he will later in the
session vacate his seat for Bridport, Mr. Gurney simul-
taneously resigning. Under the present register there is
little doubt but that Mr. Hodgson would then be elected,
perhaps without opposition, and would thus gain a position
of vantage in the real fight next spring, when, according
to the present tone of political feeling in the borough, it is
probable that the representation would be divided between
the two political parties, Mr. J. A. Smith, the present
junior member, going to the wall.—Western Morning
News.