New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-20
THE DISSOLUTION or THE ENGLISH PAR
LI1MENT.

THE DISSOLUTION or THE ENGLISH PAR
LAMENT
After long deliberation and hesitation Mr.
Dsraeh has made up his mind to risk an APP
peal from the Liberal Commons to the people
or rather-as the people do not vote yet-tC
the voters of the United Kingdom. 1t has cost
the supple Premier a great struggle to arrive
at this resolution. At first his defeat seemed
to make him eager for speedy dissolution
Then he feared that the difficulties in the way
of an early dissolution would be greater than
| had been anticipated. Then, again, it wa:
officially announced that the Ministry could
not CHESS whether dissolution in the early
Autumn would or would not be possible. Now
at length, dissolution seems to have been
accepted as unavoidable. Even Disraeli begins
to smart under the weighty blows which Glad
stone, Bright, and other leading Liberals are
dealing out to his INSCRIPTIONS ambition and
| his cynic disregard of all principles. To break
| through the solid phalanx of the Parliamentary
majority has long been out of the question
and the alternative of either resignation OF
dissolution has become q necessity. Dlsraeu
of course prefers dissolution. And though he
has tried TO make the Tories believe that the
new electoral law may yet work in their favor
he prefers to stake his own interests on the
old laws which remain in operation during tho
current year. Accordingly, the dissolution y
to take place in October.
The electoral contest viii be one Of unusual
excitement. 1t will turn on one Single ques-
tion-the dsestablshment of the lrlsh Cburch'
II is not vet the general pripdple oil astkara-
tion between Church azd State which Is al
stake; on this quite number OF the followers
90 Gladstone ,voulS vote an emphatic no. The
oposticn IN no decided is whether it Is right to
mnlA ...s people of Ireland support any longer
3 church 10 which about one-tenth of the
ponulation belongs. The Tories demand that
this nonstrous and revolving state of things be
continned; all the other parties in Parliament
arc agreed that the commonest principles of
right and equity counsel its abolition, and that
the spreading discomfort of the Irish people
demands its immediate abolition.
So glaring is the injustice committed by En-
gland against the Irish people in forcing upon
them what Disraeli himself has felicitously
TENED an "alen" church. that no man of any
note has the courage to defend the system as
it exists at present. All admit that the reve-
nues of that church should be rearranged and
even Lord Stanley, in opposing Gadstone's res
olution, admitted that in his opinion but few
men could think "a mere Encouragement of the
revenues of the church would suffice. The
Tories generally admit that sweeping changes
must be made, and in conceding this much
they admit that Ireland has been grievously
wronged. The Liberals have, therefore from
the start, the great advantage that their oppo-
nents 20 into the great battle largely demoTa-
lied, without a firm convection of the Justice of
their cause but, Oh the contrary, with the out
spoken belief that the present state of things
has become untenable. The whole Tory party
has WINGED under the oyerpOwering force of
the speeches OF Gladstone, Bright and others
and they will have to work hard to neutralize
the speeches againss the Irish Establishment
which hundreds of the ablest men of the
kingdom are now preparing to launch upon
public opinion.
The attitude of the Tories during the great
Parliamentary debate sufficiently indicates the
tactics they mean to pursue during the electoral
campaign. Instead of wasting time in the de-
Tense Of the present condition of the Irish
Church, they will denounce the Liberals as
the enemies of the Established Church of
England, and as adherents of the Amer-
can principle of entire separation between
Church and State The charge is utterly false
There are number of Liberals who sincerely
go IN fol- the disestablishment of the Irish
Church, and who will live and die rs equally
sincere defenders of the Established Church of
England. To cause split between them and
the Free Church men, who heartily adopt the
,I,1. &C L.. Z
aim of the Tories; but the cordial agreement
between all fractions of the Liberal party in
Parliament is We hope, an earnest of an equal
unanimity among the Liberal voters.
Another weapon which the Tories intend to
make use of is the Anti-Popery cry. We are
sorry to see that the rawlings of madmen like
Murphy can still 'ectrify portions of the low
est class of the English population, and we are
therefore nct sure that the Liberal party may
not lose some votes among people who deny
that Roman Catholics can have any grievance,
and who in advance approve of any policy of
prescription and determination against the
Roman Catholic Church. Fortunately, the
plant Premier, in his efforts to purchase the
Catholic votes has gone so far that the Anti
Popery lecturers have taken no less offense
at his policy than at that of the Liberals He
has offered the Catholics n charter for the
Roman Catholic University In Dublin; and,
what no Premior has done befora him ha haa