The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-29

been seldom surpassed in rhetoric and force.
For further particulars of the Lords. we must
beg reference to the record of their retropres-
sions during forty years. What thew lately
did against disestablishment they did against
Catholic and Jewish emancipation, against the
abolition OF the corn laws, against reform and
against education. But the Lords have rem
dered at least one provision of Justice in the
late bill, by undoing their amendment that
the Bishops of the Irish Church should con-
tlnue to SIT among the Lords, and so have
spared Catholic country the shame and
wrong OF being represented by such men as
Archbishop Trench, while Cardinal Cullen
has SO much better right to aplace among the
peers.
The passage of the Church bill was in no
sense an act of grace on the part of the Lords.
but concession extorted out of their fears
They would have kept the Bishops in their
seats, and have absorbed the entire propertv
and purse of the establishment BY annuities
they asked for the Church an excess of
92, 100000, though literally endowed in this
way already; by parsOnages, Gl52, 600; by the
ulster globes and private endoWments, several
millions The English Premier reckoned the
otalproceedso of Church property at GIG, OOO,-
coo; the amount of compensation allowed by
the bill at IS, $50, ,O0O and the surplus at
t1,"5O,OOO. The Lords, by amendments in
favor OF extra compensation reduced the sur
plus to three millions. The seven hundred
thousand EpiscopaIians in Ireland would have
taken seven millions of the Church property,
while four millions and half of
Catholics and half a million Presbyterians
would have received together about mil
lion. Although we are not refreshed with
the full details of the bill as it passed in
its last amendment, we suspect that the ratio
OF distribution remains almost the same as
we have indicated. Though instead of the
great Ulster grant, sequeshated from the
Irish by King James, and the private endow-
ments dating back to 1860, the Church was
to receive a sum of $500, 900 cash, the discs
adjustment was still nightly endowed Mr.
Gladstone was willing to give it $4,000, ,OOO
1t was anxious to take, and probably would
get, S45,OOO,00O. What the four million and
half OF Catholics get out of this large sum
mainly appropriated to one-seventh of their
number, is not worth mentioning. There was
even a disposition in the hungry bench of
bishops to devour n surplus intended for ''the
advantage of the Irish people, and for the
relief of calamity and suffering"
The bill as passed has not yet come to hand
yet we are safe to say that it has no right
claim to be considered a just or generous, or
even an entirely eXpedient measure. 1t is a
great good thing that disestablshment is, in
any way, an accomplished fact but we do not
see that the peers of to-day were more liberal
than George III, who was willing to pay the
Catholic clergy, or than Pitt, who would have
established both Churches after fashion
and finally we have TO lament that seldom
have Lords temporal and spiritual carried on
a crusade in favor of the Church in a less
Christian spirit. The lion of the Church has
quilted the scene with anything but lamb-lille
satisfaction and compensation, and justice
has been done in a truly lion-like way The
establishment has fallen, but the house of the
endowment is still high structure.