The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-13 00:00:00

TIIE RospirAi. for WOMEN, Soho-square.
—Bankers : Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co.;
Messrs. Ransom, Bouverie, and Co.—The Committee
APPEAL very earnestly for CONTRIBUTIONS. The
Hospital is now open on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fri-
days to out-patients who are treated without letters of
recommendation.
HENRY B. INGRAM, Secretary.

THE ASSOCIATION for the WELFARE of
the BLIND, 210, Oxford-street, and 127, Euston-road.
Patroness—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.
This Institution affords employment in various ways to
172 blind men and women.
Pensions to various amounts are granted to the blind
who cannot earn their own living.
500 blind men and women aro applying for help, which
cannot ba given for WANT of FUNDS.
Contributions will be thankfully received by the Secre-
tary, Rev. O. B. REID, M.A.

AMORNING and EVENING DRAUGHT.
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and efficacious, preventing and curing fevers, Akin complaints,
and inflammation. It instantly relieves the most intense head-
ache and thirst, and if given with lime-juice syrup is a specific in
gout and rheumatism.-113, Holborn-hill, London, E.C.

MR. G LADS 7 ONE'S ADDRESS.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

MR. GLADSTONE'S election address resembles Mr.
DISRA.ELI'S only in its length. Though the Liberal
leader is as great an orator as his rival, he has
studiously refrained from resorting to rhetoric.
He had no need to do so, for on his side is logic.
There was no necessity for him to hide a no-meaning
behind a cloud of words. While Mr. DISRAELI
has chosen as his instruments the sounding
brass and tinkling cymbal, with which to amuse his
followers and to distract the public, Mr. GLAD-

STONE has girt on a sword of steel, and now calls
upon his party to rally to the great fight which is
impending. _ .

In surveying the past Mr. GLADSTONE need not
fear to refer to his former election addresses. He
is not in the position of those who hold " place
without power, which may gratify the vain,

but can never satisfy a noble ambition."
On the contrary, lie reminds his consti-

tuents that so soon as he found he could not
carry a Reform Bill he resigned, knowing that
thereby he would " secure the early triumph of
Reform." His anticipation was fully verified.

Those who declared that a £7 franchise would
" Americanise the Constitution," became parties to
a measure which, " strongly reactionary" at first,
was, through the efforts of the Liberal party, con-
verted into one far more Democratic than that
which they had failed to pass. It is not a perfect

.measure yet. Give Mr. GLADSTONE the oppor-
tunity of making it so, and he will do it.
This is only the beginning of what he will do. There
is the public expenditure to be reduced, the nation
to be educated (not in Mr. DISRA.ELI'S sense of the
word), and Ireland to be made loyal. In
the first achievement Mr. GLADSTONE will find
himself quite at home. In the course of five years
he reduced the expenditure three millions ; in the
course of two years his successors have increased it
by the same amount. It will be easy work for him
to bring back the taxation to its old level. But
we do not expect that he will remain content with
that. He is never content unless ho is
economising ; just as the Conservatives are
never content unless they are spending. In
close connection with this subject is the question
of local taxation. T his has been increasing, is
increasing, and will continue to increase, unless
those who have to pay it insist that it shall be
reduced. Hitherto all their complaints have
been in vain because there has been taxa-
tion without representation. Now they see
that it is useless for them to protest against
the extravagance of their rulers ; they must pro-
tect themselves by governing themselves. Hence
one of the most important reforms which the
Reformed Parliament will have to discuss is the
representation of ratepayers at county financial
boards.

With regard to education, Mr. GLADSTONE has
discovered a principle that should guide us in
legislating. Rather, he has reasserted the principle
which Earl RUSSELL laid down thirty years ago.
The youth of this country should be religiously
brought up, but the rights of conscience should be
respected. This, Lord RUSSELL'S successor believes
to be still the right course. For, while further
legislation is required to carry out the second part
of this condition, it need not interfere with the
first. Nevertheless, "it has become increasingly
desirable that the State should stand clearly apart
from responsibility for the teaching of particular
and conflicting creeds in schools aided by grants
from any national fund."
It is to the Irish question that Mr. GLADSTONE
devotes the greater portion of his address. It is
about this that the greatest curiosity has been felt,
although there has been none comparable to the
curiosity which waited Mr. DISRAELI'S manifesto,
just because while Mr. GLADSTONE had announced
a policy, Mr. DISRAELI had announced two. The
Liberal leader is still content with one. He
sees that what Ireland wants is not a succes-
sion of Habeas Corpus Suspension Acts, but
legislation which will convince the Irish that
they are equitably governed, which will make the
law respected and loved in Ireland as it is in Eng-
land. It is impossible that this can be while a

Church is maintained which is neither the Church
of the nation nor of the poor, which remains as

the memorial of every past mischief and oppres-
sion, and whose adherents are becoming fewer
every year. This Establishment, as Mr. GLADSTONE
contends, is not only negative for good ; it also mis-
applies funds meant for the benefit of the nation at
large. How they ought to be applied he will not
undertake to say, for " this can be suggested to
Parliament only by those who as a Government
may have means and authority to examine fully
the provision now made by law for the various
public and social wants of Ireland, and to compare
in each case both the urgency of the demand and
the facility of meeting it with general satisfac-
tion." Mr. GLADSTONE is of the same opinion as Sir
ROBERT PEEL, and is willing to make to the Tories
the answer Sir ROBERT made when the Whigs
asked him what measures he proposed : " Send for
me in the regular way, and I will give you my advice."
Only one thing Mr. GLADSTONE will undertake to
promise, and that is, that the funds taken from one
Church shall not be given to another ; for,
as he says, "it would ill consist with the
principle of the measure for which we are now
contending, if the State, having disestablished
the Church, were to apply its funds to the
teaching of religion in any other form." Mr.
GLADSTONE does not overlook the other half
of the Irish question—the land laws. He has not
overlooked it in time past. Already one Administra-
tion which he led in the Lower House has brought
in a Tenant-Right Bill. He is prepared to renew
the attempt which failed then. The House of
Commons, which his rival has reformed for him,
will enable him to do this and yet greater things
for the nation.