The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-04-08

Head OF U1SRAkLis noo oA1z''->'- -->oD.s~ y
ih%tv. e;qht days when II sustained the de.
| feat announced in the telegram in this
paper, on Monday morning. Mr.. GLAD.
STONE had moved resolves the main feature
Of which was the declaration that 1t was
the opinion of the House that it is neces.
sary that the Established Church of Ire.
land should cease to exist as an estab'
lisbment," and directing the discontinu.
ance Of any further appointments to
all vacancies of the higher church Of
fces In Ireland, leaving full settlement
If the question to the next Parliament
Lord STANLEY moved to>postpone mes s..
resolves until the next Parliament, ana II
vas upon this that the question was put Oh
the night of the third of April. Six nun
sred members voted, and there was ma
| jority of sixty.fve against the amendment
~ ether ooaiast the Ministry. The vote
. clear indication of the disposition of
,he House of Commons in favor of the
. disestablishment the parliamentary
,srm) of the Irish Church.. O., the Eng
fish or Episcopal Church in Ireland.
Prior to the final debate and the vote,
the Prime Minister, Mr.. D1sRAEL1, moved
that when the House adjourn that night it
should adjourn to the 10th instant if in the
division on the pending question the Libe-
rails should have a majority. He stated
that in that case, when the House reassem-
bled on the 10th, it could 60 into commit
tee on the Irish Church, report progress,
and resume the debate on the 9th April.
The motion was agreed to.
What course the Ministry will take re-
mains to be seen, and the recess agreed on
by the House was no doubt desired to give
DlsRAELr time for reflection as to the best
step for them to take, The custom with
defeated Ministries, which has become
hardly second to law, has been, upon defeat,
to resign, or dissolve the Parliament and
appeal to the country. [Since this article
was written, cable telegram announces
that the Ministry had determined to re-
sign should the Liberals retain their ma
iority upon the reassembling of Parlia-
ment. In that case, Mr.. GLADSTONE will
no doubt be Premier.]
The debate upon the subject of the
Irish Church was very earnest and able.
Mr.. D1sRAELI made passionate. speech,
but one not at all characterized by good
Judgment. He made poor defence of
his own position, and an indiscreet attack
upon the other side. He confessed that
some beneficial change was possible, but
evidently desired to defeat any change by
the old strategy of the parliamentarians-
delay. He averred that the act of union
was a+solemn covenant between the Irish
and English Professionals, to be observed in
all its bearings! and sought to bring the
movement of Mr.. GLADSTONE into disre-
pute by stigmatizipg the agitation as an
effort on the part of "Ritualists " and
" Roman Catholics" to get all the power
of the Government in their hands. And
vet Mr.. DIsRAELI favored the bill recently
passed the Commons, which was another
act of &C emancipation" relieving the peo'
pie of England and Wales from the
compulsory payment of church rates
When it comes to Ireland, however, where
the injustice of the compulsory tithes tc
the Established Church is incomparably
more oppressive, he inveighs against the
same measure of relief for her people
Such inconsistency and intolerance in
man whose brother Israelites have been sc
long the victims of persecution in England
and who are not yet altogether relieved from
disability, is indefensible and contempt
BILE, How an eminent scion of the House
of Israel, with its prosecutions so fresh IL
his memory, could attempt justification
of the monopoly Of the vast revenue draw
by the Established Church from the alier
Irish population, is matter of establishment
But Mr.. D1sRAELI, with all his ability, il
by no means q well-balanced statesman o.
we'll suited to maintain the high standard
of the office of Premier of England.
Mr.. DIsRAELr had the exceeding folly tt
declare that if the pending movement sue
ceeded the Crown itself would be il
danger" Then, indeed, the Grown de
serves to be in danger. The remark wa
sensational. Why the Grown should be il
greater danger from the extending of a
act of Justice to Ireland than to Englan'
and Wales, we cannot see.
The London Times is better spokes
man for Epgland than Mr.. DlsRAELI. Tha
paper, as reported in the telegram in th
Dispatch yesterday morning, considers tn
vote of the Sd Of April in the House Q
Commons as the "dawn of united EN-
pre-" 1t adds " The wrongs Of ages are t.
"be ended, and right done amid the accla
"mations Of the nation"
The world will justly regard this yot
and the passage Of the bill abolishing com
pulsory church rates in England ant
Wales as the most important events tina
have occurred in England since the "Irisl
emancipation BILL"
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