, 1869-04-02

No one outside Of Ireland can understand
the c1citemant which The proposed dis
establishment has produced among the men,
hcrs Of tho Episcopal Church md the per-
/ h''nal friends and relatives Of tho clcrry.
The Irish Church Establishment has been,
md is now, Ed asylum for: 1argc class Of
persons Of The upper claxsos Of society. The
! nobility and the landed gentry of England
! and IRELAND have four mems OF thspoeiuo
Of tho junior ncmbess Of their fami.
lies: First tho army; second, tho
naEJ; third, tho civil service; and.
fourth, tho Church. The latter is regarded
NJ the grand resort in casea whero there arc
fa1nilies of daughters, with or without for
tuncs- Tho husbands for these are pro-
vided for in the Church. Tho impecunious
soion OF poor hut noble family F:u enter
tho Church pro jorn'd, nnd marriage with
the daughter Of Bishop, or Of rich landed
proprietor, or oven of n titled family, secures
him comfortable "livin9 in parish well
endowed, yet having but few
p"riahioners acknowledging his spi1i-.
tual authority. The Established Church
in Ireland has becn ono vast anccurc in this
inspect; md tho Gladstone bill,' which
swecps millions Of revenue. now distributed
smong the Bishops and A7nhbiahopa. arch
sleaeons, doana, 1octun and cu1aies, from
theiz support for the future, produces, vory
naturally, tho utmost oonsternation among
thaine.lmbcnta' These Offices and Evincs aro
for life, and many Of the incumbenta Ira old
men with families, who cannot mako liv-
ing IN any other calling. and dwhog grieyo most
feclingy upon being dispossessed Of what
they hnye assumed To be permanently their
OWL. Tho disestabl1hment Of The Church
in Spain and Italy has bean stsandcd with
no such hArslshipa- Tho state has taken tho
property and divided it, and hns loft tho
Church hereafter to depend upon tho volun-
tnry support Of the people. In Ireland tho
Church, hAy1ng hnsvlly as many lay members
aa it haa Church ot11cers, cannot depend,
except in few localities, upon The people
for the support Of tho clergy. To most
: Of tho ino.lrnbcnk The discstablishmnut
means virtual diamissal and starvation.
cpy u tho Dublin Erprtas II Church
organ), of March 10Th, contains dozen or
more communications from dignitaries Of
tho Church, in which they discuss with
great unaui1nity of opinion tho expesliency
Of the Protestant Clergy aud gentry, IN case
the diseudowment bill passes, engaging in d
demand for the repeal Of The Act Of Union
between England and Ireland ! They
argus that the principal reason Why
TINT act was consented to by the
PSotoatants Of Ireland Was that it PROM
ised TO pe1petuato the Church Establishment
in ireland. It being now proposed by tho
British Ministry to "pesaaiously" rspeA
that part Of tho compact, thoss gentlemen
insist that the union itsalf be ahroeais>l,
and Ireland be restored to her Par3iaruan-
inry Independence. ''The Repeal Of the
Union WIS the grind object to which
O'Conneu ,devuted his Life, and it is TO-
u.a1kahlc fnct that, twenty years after his
sleath, tho hierarchy and laity Of the Estab-
lshed Church should take up the PROPOSE
ton which it WAS supposed pcrished with
him, and demand IN Irish Parliament TO
1egisiAte exclusively for Ireland.
But the mistake Of these provoked and
distressed chuEchmen is in supposing that
they represent al the Prstcstspts OF Ire
land; for they arc, IN tact, hut small pro
portion Of them Tbs presbyterians and
tho Acthodiaa and The QuAke,s have no
possible interest in pespetuating church
establishment ut their expense, and in whose
creed and worship they do not participate
The crJ Of "repeA" viii be addressed to
indifferent eazz, whan il is made by those
who persecutcd tho man who sought il in
the nane of religious Freedom, aud who
now demand il as a means Of sustaining the
Established Church, which has few oonsita-
eusa among The people, The cause Of tho
Repeal will gain but Little strength from
this movement