The Portland daily press., 1868-05-04

NC DeIe8t Oh DASroCAAs
Gen. Napier came to the aid of the English |
ministry with his Abyssinian victory too late,
for its fate was already sealed On Thursday
Mr.. Gladstone's resolutions directed against
the Irish church were debated at great length
and on the final division the ministry was de-
feated by majority of Go. Disraeli then an
nounced that this result so changed the rela-
tons OF the ministry to the House of Com
mons that the government needed time TO con-
slder. A motion to adjourn till to-day was
then carried and Mr. Disraeli went to Us
borne to consult with the Queen on Friday
night This means either dissolution of Par
lament and new election or the resignation
of the Tory ministry and the return to power
of Gladstone and his Wing associates. The
London papers regard the division as decisive
The Times says: "No one can deny the I'M
mense significance of this event. Since the
motion to go into committee, the Tories nave
gained three seats in the Commons, yet the
60 majority has grown to be CT. Dissolution is
talked of merely to frighten members. The
following is the Geographic abstract of the
closir speeches of the two opposing leaders
in the House of Commons Thursday night:
At late hour, in the presence of q full
house, there being an unusual attendance of
members of both parties in expectation of a
division, Mr.. Gladstone rose and was loudly
cheered. He began by saying that he could
not complain of the result of this long debate.
these eleven nights of discussion had fully
demonstrated that the Irish church establish
ment never did and never cOnld fulfil the end
of its creation. 1t was not the church OF the
nation, it was not the church of the poor, nor
was it missionary church. 1t existed only
for the nurDOSe of sustaining DOllulcaI SUI
premacy in form most painful to the people
on which it was imposed. This was unenuura-
BILE. No minister dared TO say that 1t should
continue to exist. Now was the time to apply
the remedy. Ministers had raised question
and had preached policy in regard to 1t upon
which they subsequently failed to agree. lie
would say nothing concerning the disposal OF
the church property in Ireland, for more ana
better information was needed on the question
involving interests so extensive. Our duty
now was to accord justice TO Ireland. MI.
Gladstone then, abiding to the personal at
lacks which had been made upon MN, denied
in tine most explicit manner that he had any
| connection with or interest in, the policy or
| plans OF either the ritualists on the one hand,
or the Roman Catholics on the other. Dis
cusSing the arguments made against his prop
| ositions, he said two leading objections had
been made to his plan for the establishment
| of the Irish chuoch. One was that 1t lmper-
| lied the existence of the established church,
| and the other that the time was inopLortune.
Ten years ago, said Mr.. Gladstone the peo-
| pie of Great Britain were Indifferent aud the
Introduction of this great reform would have
been untimely, but now the people. were
aroused ana the opportunity presented itself
| for an early and sound settlement of the ques-
| ton. The strength Of the Church If England
| lay in her own merits and involuntary zeal.
| He expressed the belief that the church of
| England would lose none of her strength,
| even if parted from the State. She had more
| to fear from her partsans than from her foes,
and the reform OF the Irish established church
would strengthen the Church of England.
Mr.. Disrael then rose, amid exciting cheer
ing, to reply to Mr.. Gladstone and close the
| debate. He deplored the act of injustice con-
templated by these resolves. 1t was an act
which involved wide confscation of property
and menaced the rights of every corporation
| and every person in the United Kingdom 1t
inevitably must predispose the public mind
| for similar attack upon the Church of Eng
land, and it undoubtedly was intended to have
! such an influence, but in spite of the violence
| of the press and the pressure brought to bear
| by the advocates of the change, he believed
| the English people would never sanction the
| sacrifice of sacred things to party necessities,
| leading, as it sure to lead, to results only
to be described as revolutionary A-'af