The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-02 00:00:00

•2'SE QUEEN IN SWITZERLAND.

A despatch from Lucerne states that her Majesty re-
etlxned from her excursion to the Furka last Tuesday, at
half-past seven, by the steamer Wrunkelreid. A large
number of people, chiefly English, assembled on the bank
of the lake to receive her Majesty, whose return had been
previously announced. The Queen left again on Thurs.
day morning to spend a few days on the Righi. In Lucerne,
as everywhere else, her Majesty has made a most favour.
able impression by her simple appearance and pleasant
manners. Not long ago the Queen visited the cattle-sheds
on the Gutsch, when a servant was just at that time
engaged in feeding the beasts. At first, when he per-
ceived who was his visitor, he was greatly confused, but
quickly recovering himself, he saluted her Majesty with
Good day, Madame Queen." The Queen laughed, and
ask3d various questions as to the manner in which the
cattle were managed. On another occasion, a few days
back, the Queen went to Goldau, and took a seat upon a
rook to draw, while her suite went on the Schritt. After
a time she called a poor woman who was standing in the
road, and sent her to summon the Royal suite to return,
for which service her Majesty amply rewarded her. When.
the company had all taken their seats in the carriages,
the Queen said to the poor woman, " You can go home
now." " No," replied the poor woman, " you go ;I am
at home."

MR. CARDWELL ON THE IRISH CHURCH.

The Liberal candidates for the representation of the
city of Oxford, Mr. Cardwell and Mr. Vernon Harcourt,
addressed a large meeting on Monday evening.
Mr. CARDWELL was received with loud cheers. He
did not profess to be a prophet, but it appeared
to him that what was going on at Oxford was
going on pretty generally amongst the constituencies of
the country, too, and he entertained no doubt whatever
as to the result of the elections generally. And when he
saw some of the most active-minded members of the
present Administration seeking for themselves agreeable
residences in her Majesty's distant colonial possessions, it
appeared to him that he might draw a somewhat sanguine
augury with regard to their estimate of the probable
result of the elections. One thing of great interest to him
and to the country generally had happened since he last
addressed the electors. When the resolutions respecting
the Irish Church were pending in the House of Commons
there was one circumstance which he observed with great
regret, and that was that one of the ablest and best
of public men in the country did not vote for them,
but was conspicuous by his absence from the
dig ision list. But during the last few weeks Sir Roundell
Palmer had vindicated Mr. Gladstone from the charge
brought against him of having taken up that question not
from sincere conviction and a true sense of public duty,
but from party motives and personal ambition. All the
cobwebs about the Coronation Oath and other similar
matters had been swept away by that powerful hand, and
that to him (Mr. Cardwell) had been a source of the
most sincere gratification. The question of the Irish
Church had not been brought forward as a religious ques-
tion, but as a question of justice and policy ; and it was so
regarded by the Roman Catholic laity. He was convinced
that in these days the union of this United Kingdom
could only be preserved by a policy of justice. It was an
an old, and unfortunately a true saying, that England's
difficulty was Ireland's opportunity ; but he asked
the electors of the United Kingdom to return to
the next Parliament men who would establish such
a mode of governing Ireland that there should be a real
and not a paper union between the two islands—
th I,t there should be no difference of sentiment
and of interest, and that when next the Crown and
the Government of the country shall be exposed to any
difficulty, there shall be no distinction between the three
parts of the kingdom in the cordiality with which they
will rally round our institutions.