New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-07-25
NOTES FROM LONDON.


THE QUESTION OF DIsEsrABLIsHMENTO OF THE CHURCH
oFKNGIAND-MR. DIsRAEII DETERMINED To HAVE
POLITICAL CRIsIs-sPEECHEs OF AMERICANS AT
THE Golden CLUB DINNER.
IFROM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TElBUNE'I
LONDON. Julyl4-Mr Dsraeli favored Us last night
with one more proof of his adrOitness as Parla-
mentary leader For some reason not yet explained,
he thinks it desirable there should be political
crisis and a crisis be has accordingly produced with
suddenneSs that is effective and startling. Thunder
out of a clear sky is nothing to it, Rising to make
statement the business for the rest fthe
session. he contrived before he sat down to intimate
10 the country that one of its most cherished
institutions is in danger and that he, Mr.. Dsrael
had made up his mind to defend it. He had previ-
ously made up his mind that Mr.. Gladstone should
attack it. And the institution in peril Is nothing
less than the Church.
This is what has come of Mr.. Gladstones reappear-
ance in the House last week and OF his famous
henceforth famous SIX Resolutions When the
Public Worship Regulation bill was brought in, it
was perfectly understood to be a bin to put down
Ritualism. When il was announced that Mr. Glad
stone would oppose it, his opposition was assumed to
be the effect of his High Church notions, and he
was expected to come forward as the champion OF
the extreme High Church or Ritualistlc, or II you
please, Papistcal party When he pronounced for
what SIT Imam ltdTCOuTl
Conformity it was 10 leave the door open to the
practitioners of genuAexions and to the wearers
Of curious vestments. His speech did not answer
expectation IN all particulars, but it las been left
for Mr. Disraeli to discover its fatal purpOrt. The
Prime Minister now tells us that he has gwen Mt
GladstOnes Resolutions the most GUS attention,
with the light of the Interpretation candidly and
oven profusely" afforded by their author, and be
can only arrive at conclusion. namely, that they
point to the abolition of that religious settlement
which has prevailed this country for more than
two centuries, and on which, thinks Mr. Disraeh,
depends much of its civil liberty. In a word, Mr.
Gladstone is meditating the abolition Of the State
Church and Mr.. Disraeli flies to its rescue.
IT, the face of this new danger, all considerations
Of convenience are to be forgotten all other business
must give way. the session must, II necessary, be
prolonged Mr.. Gladstone is person OF the highest
authority in the realm He has recently been Prime
Minister, and Mr. Disraeh has a right TO suppose,
and is happy TO believe that he is still candidate
for that Office When such person proposes Resolu-
tons of such commanding interest and fraught with
such peril Mr.. Disraeh thinks they should be dis
cussed. They must not stand over indefinitely.
Hence the debate on the second reading
Of the Public Worship BIZ must be
finished on Wednesday, at no matter
how late an hour OF with what sacrifices by honor
able members in respect of dinner. Then on Friday
Mr. Gladstone may move his Resolutions, and the
crisis shall have solution of some kind. Should
they be passed they would in Mr. Dsraelis opinion,
give new form and color to English politics; bat
they shall be met. he assures us, by his uncompro
missing opposition They are about as likely to pass
as Mr. Disrael is to do thing on any posi-
BE occasion like any other human being. III is not
certain that Mr.. Gladstone desires they should be
even debated for if there be breach between him
4 IL aolY lyalx hf
widened by such a debate. Whatever he may
have thought when he cOncOcted his Resolutions he
now knows that they are wholly unacceptable to
large body of his supporters. The NOncOntormists
do not like them They want the bill passed, be-
cause II is a bill against that section of the State
Church which they most dislike, and because II is
sure to embitter the feud between High Church
and Low Church. The moderates, of course, Do
NOT ike them. hardly know wh9 does ike them.
Sir William HarcOurt, with that keen sense of what
is unpopular that with him amounts almost TO an
instinct threw over hls chief as his state
ment was made. All which Dir. Dsraeli knows, yet
he has managed to put the Lberals-at least for the
momentum the attitude Of supporting Mr.. Glad
stone or at least Of being responsible for hun IL Is
as Leader of the Opposition that he treats the
aDthor Of the Resolutions and 10 him as such that
he issues his defiance. His alarm would not even be
plans;lle upless he could affect 10 believe not
merely that Mr. Gladstone is attackngthe Church
bat that his party support him in attacking IT,
It's. however so certain that the Liberals Will
not-yet-follow Mr. Gladstone on this question,
that Nj Disraes present move looks like demsn-
stration against Mr.. Gladstone personally. Not
much can be gained by making the Tory newspa-
pers ry TO persuade the country for few DAYS that
the Liberals gong in for disestablshment of the
Church of England The Liberals will take eX-
tremely good Friday 10 say they are not.
Mr. Gladstone will also, of course, say he II not.
But between him and his old followers il will be
POSSIBLE to make some mischief aud if the disinte-
grafton Of the Opposition be carried little further
than il has yet gone. if the Liberals be little
discIedited before the country, il that terror Of
change which is the life of the Tory party be
alittle more widely spread. Mr.. Dlsraeh viii think
bis efforts have not been wasted.
You can perhaps with difficulty realize the FIJI ex
tent Of the interest felt ecclesiastical question
in England. This Public Worship bin Is the only
measure Of the session which has really roased any
passion-anong Englisbmen at least was struck
by one evidence of il as compared with Home Rule
the one really imperial topic that has been dis
'ussed this year. During the week IN winch Home
Rule debated dine out night after night
without once hearing IT mentioned after the LADIES
lad gone up stairs. Last week, if you sat through
dinner at which any political person was present
you perfectly certain 10 hear the Public Wor-
ship bill discussed INFINITELY, and generally with