The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-29 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL CASTLE, OCT. 27.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian,
went out yesterday morning.
In the afternoon her Majesty drove to Birk
Hall, attended by the Duchess Dowager of Athole
and Miss Macgregor.

The Princess of Wales drove out yesterday,
at-
tended by the Countess of Morton.

MR. M. G IBSON AT ASIITON.

Mr. Milner Gibson, M.P., met his constituents
on Tuesday night at the Ashton Town Hall, and
was most enthusiastically received. Mr. Reyner
presided.

Mr. GIBSON said—Many of the newspapers were
complaining lately that the country was getting a
surfeit of political speeches, and probably he might
also come under their censure for repeating Wha,
others might have said ; but it was unavoidable, and
they must remember that great political truths
ought to be repeated again and again, in order to
make an impression upon that solid and dense mass
of prejudice which they knew too often existed ill
this country. (Cheers.) One of the great clues-
tons which pressed most urgently at the present
time related to what he would call the danger°l2s
condition of Ireland, which Lord Stanley ollti
fessed was the question of the hour. (Cheers.) All
Englishmen must feel that the time had coma
when they could no longer bear that the chronic
discontent which existed in Ireland—putting the
kingdom to vast expense and operating as the
constant cause of anxiety an(-4 apprehension'
should continue. The one great question fleet
sary to be dealt with—he did not say the onu
question—was the question of the Irish Church'
(Loud cheers.) They wished to see religll
equality established in Ireland, and an e°
put to the odious principle :of religious ascendancl;
(Cheers.) Speaking as a Protestant and a member
of the Established Church, he expressed his
opinion that the Protestant religion was not pro-
moted by the maintenance of the State Establish;
ment in Ireland. The cry that was raised, the
by the disestablishment of the Irish Church
they would remove the great security agalost
the spread of the influence of the 10°-
Catholic Church, was an old one ; it was enal.
menced at the time of the Catholic Emanci-
pation pation. in 1829. (Hear, hear.) It was a false
and unfounded cry then, and he contended that
was so now. Mr. Gibson then entered at BO°
length into the history of the Irish Churcb, inr
the purpose of showing that, as the endowments bad
been transferred by the State from the Roman e 3,
0
tholic to the Anglican Church in Ireland at t'ha
time of the Reformation in England, it was 11°11"0
equally competent for the State to take away t
endowments she had conferred. He contrastef
the policy adopted towards Ireland in respect °J
the Anglican Church with the policy adapt is
by William 111. towards Scotland. The POI)
of Scotland rebelled successfully against the Preo
vious attempts which had been made to imps
au Anglican Church upon them, and he believed
the people of Scotland would rebel again if it
could be conceived that the attempt should 1,0
repeated. (Cheers.) The Irish rebellion was °i
successful, and the Irish Church remained.
The consequences they knew had been that Se°t
land was united in the closest bonds of friendshiP,
with England ; ,the population was contented an:
prosperous, while Ireland was chronically (313ci
affected and had made no progress. He argue
that the adoption of the policy advocated ~
Mr. Gladstone would go a far way towards making
Ireland what Scotland was. He criticised at s°,lllo
length recently-published reports and recommellual
tions of the Irish Church Commission. lie said
the tithe rent-charge was to be paid to any parts
,
in Ireland in respect of religious objects, it wasi:,
violation of the principle upon which that tit"-
rent-charge was originally granted not to aPPr7
priate it to the locality in which it was c°;
lected. He ridiculed the idea of that bel„-"
called a " National Church" which would Pe'
if the commissioners' recommendations svee
ro
carried out, muddled up in a few corners of t'
country. Mr. Gibson afterwards spoke at se,
length on the subject of the Reform Bill. de-
claredlle his uncompromising opposition to the rs'',
paying clauses of the bill, and denied that ratePala
ing ought to have anything to do with the franchl's
at all. The abolition of these clauses, the adoPtl°o
of the ballot, and the large redistribution of seats
were indispensable to complete the work of 11;0
form. Mr. Gibson concluded by saying the
was a determined struggle going on betWeettin tea
two great political parties in the State. Ithe
might be the result he knew not. Whether 1'
present Administration was to continue in °ince:
or whether it was to be replaced by another octo
cutive, he could not tell ; but of this he was (111.131
sure, that experience proved that the practice
national policy of England must be based upon r
the principles of the Liberal party. (1I the
hear.) Ile believed in the wisdom and ,iot
justice of the future Parliament, seeing '.OO
it would represent a much larger 10:100
of the people than any Parliament had :obsr
before ; he believed that the Parliament which .0g
large measures adopted a policy which would 13,110 a
about a cordial union between Ireland and Ene
—and he believed further that their leg
guided as it must be by the Liberal party ge°o,
rally of this country and the opinion of that onllo/
try —would tend to the happiness and prosPerltf3o.
this country, and raise our nation among the ',
tions of the world. (Cheers.) Mr. Gibson
clea
swered some questions, and the meeting eonclll,bo
with a unanimous vote of confidence in the rig'
hon. gentleman.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

GRAVESEND, Thursday 3.10113;33

Wind, N.W.; fine.
Arrived, Oct. 28.—Engarthe, from Belize : GUY' °f Cirn-
lyle, from Bassein; Galullnere, from Colombo; Vr°na
1175,
Louisa, from Quebec; Elizabeth, from Riga; Geo. 6.-frloo
from
,Cronstadt ; Sourcoff, from Guatemala ; Fer°' ;soil
Rotterdam ; Mary Ann, from Smyrna ; Admiral .I:4°-
from Guernsey.
Arrived, Oct. 29—Leopard, steamer, from Rotterdlol
Chloe, from Calais; Palmyra, steamer, from Patras ; 13,00
ther, steamer, from Boulogne; Baron Osy, steamer'
,ter,
Antwerp ; Chas. Howard, steamer, from Malaga; Fr": i;
from Genoa ; Shealtiel and Crescent, from Geer Prod
Elizabeth Brown, from Paysander ; Edwin F t
Bombay (via Havre); Flecha, steamer, from GP-ri
Somersetshire, steamer, from Melbourne.
Sty
, North
Sailed, Oct. 28—Echo, steamer, for Calais
steamer, for Christiania. • 2r°ll-
- Oct. 29—Blanche, steamer, for Dunkirk ;
badour, steamer, for Rotterdam.
lieruil3s‘
Wind, W. by N., very fresh.")EAL, Thursday
got'
Passed—Aurora, screw steamer, from London, for
terdaru.

Anchored—Emulation from London for CllO-I°°,i yes'
Put back—Most of the' outward bound that s3"e-
,erday.

Tr 3'
Advices from New York state that the "—lv
sury Department had commenced to sell c°ll4tli
public an on tender. The sales beg the
vo
inst., and were to continue for ten sacc;:ca'
days,
the amount to be disposed of on eacli
sion being 300,000 dollars. During the putea
three days the amount applied for rePre3-
10,750,000 dollars.
According to a statement in the Canadian IVelocss'l
the delegation from the Canadian
ci
Governaletioo
1
in this country on the question of the incorPar`.looo
of the North-West Territory with the Pc:4'loi
of Canada are not disposed to agree to any Coin'
payment being made to the Hudson's 13'./ aro
pany. " Indeed," it is said, "we believe lv-901
in a position to state that the expectation thatnt of
money will now be paid by the Governille,,--b3a-
Canada to that corporation may at once be, -,Ocet
Boned, and that an announcement to that
-
will most likely be forthwith made."