Year: 1869

MISUNDERSTANDING BCIWCen
The House of Lords and House of Commons
Public Feeling ON the RumOred Rejection of
the Bill.


By Atlantic Cable.


LONDON, June T. 1S69.-The announced pre-
determination of the majority of the House of
Lords to reject the Irish Church bill has caused
intense excitement and threatens to precipitate
an eventually inevitable conflict between the
Lords and the Commons. 1t is rumored in some
quarters that the announcement was only made
to feel the public pulse and to ascertain how far
the House of Lords dare go. 1t is the general
impression that the bill will be thrown out on
the second reading.


The Standard CTory) admits that the peril OF the
proposed action is too obvious to be ignored even by
the least thoughtful or conscientious OF the heredi-
tary legislators but thai the Lords have resolved,
in compliance with the urgent demands from tens and
hundreds OF thousands in every part of the country,
to risk all in contest with the imperiOus Minister
and an overoearing majority in the Commons.
Should they be crushed III the struggle, not only
will the Church and the Constitution fall with them,
but the liberties OF England will be sacrificed to the
ascendancy OF that democratic principle which is
the most dangerous foe to personal political freedom
1t matters not whether those who approved regret
the decision to give battle There is nothing left for
them TO do but take their places in the ranks and
fight for all they hold dearest with the full certainty
that everythnk is at stake Let the whole Protestant
conservative power OF the realm be eXerted to give
public opinion to restrain the struggle within
the limits OF the Constitution, and make the
sef-willed Overbearng Minister, who at heart has
always been enemy OF the Lords, and likely is
asperated at his unexpected defeat feel that there
are limits which he dare not transgress. Already
his organs have threatened that what has transpred
deserves impeachment, and it is necessary that he
be made to feel that he dare not execute a threat
which would not only he dealt at the Lords, but at
the wealthy and resolute influential classes OF Eng
land and Ireland, which form an actual majority in
the English nation.


The Morning Post shows that the rejection of the
bill will not prevent its ultimate passage, and dis
credits the idea that the Lords will refuse second
reading.


The STAR in threatening language, says that the
irish Church must not cumOer the ground after
December and that the least said that subject will
be proclaimed from the house tops. The House OF
Lords is not more logical, desirable, eXcusable
institution than the Irish Church. and in the fever
heat that will follow the rejection OF the bill heat
will be generated such has not been since the
people OF Birmingham threatened to march London
in the name of REFORM and cries will be heard calling
for the downfall of obsolete Chamber that
longer DISCUSSES its anachronism OF existence by
hereditary descent. The Difference to popular WILL
which the late Duke Of Wellington once said ought
never again to be withheld with pure blindness
buzZards the misguided noblemen, who require to
be further convinced OF the opinion OF the country at
large. 1t is not worth while to attempt demon
stration of that opinion. When the issue comes,
their ordshps Will probably wish they had been wise
in time.


The Eeaps states that the vote of the House Of
Lords can at the worst postpone for only few
months the fate of the Irish Church. and the indirect
effect will render it graver to raise the question
The position that the House OF Lords holds in the
constitution and It's relations with the constituencies
OF the House OF Commons and the executive powers
OF the Crown are sef-adjusting, and If hitch



its own action. The House OF Lords stands outside
of the system, guided by good sense, and fails only
TO be brought into harmony with the rest OF the
stitution when the forcibe obtrusion put upon it
by number of its members, is sufficient to overbear
the opinion of the original body. A bassed jury has
to be packed to Judge whether the second Chamber
in doing its work on these conditions can be perma-
nent on the part OF the government The Lords
seem bent upon forcing public notice on the position
Of the Peers and threaten revival OF the preten-
sons, long since abandoned by it, OF the old baronal
attitude of its natural days when the Commons were
only allowed the humble supplicatons Of petitions
aud did not in reality goven the country.


The Telegraph in a moderate, timld article con-
cludes that the voice OF the country has spoken
mstakably and finally, and if forced TO speak again
its accents would be q resolve no longer to utter a
free Indignation or TO preserve moderation a mood
which to the last it would earnestly maintain


The Times says that on the eve OF the coming
crisis nothing since the throes which preceded the
passage of the Reform bill can be compared to the
consequences which will attend the threatened
not at all doubtful II the Lords succeeded at first
they would be compelled to undergo a second ten
der of the measure already rejected. The first re-
suits Of this action will touch all interests and
jeopardize not only themselves and their privileges,
but alse the peace OF the gIeat towns and the main
tenance OF law and order throughout the country.
Above ALL they will do their best to provoke an out
burst OF passionate violence IN an unhappy country,
the vast majority OF whose Inhabitants they propose
to outrage by contemptuous disregard of their
wishes. AS TO the majority OF the opposition
the Times draws the conclusion that the MEM
bers have resolved to intrench themselves in
their own opinions and rely their fancied power
in dsdain OF the consequences to themselves The
nation would be rudely awakened from the deusiOn,
and II cannot be doubtful which party will succeed
in the contest, the Peers themselves or the nation
The only question will not be whether the power
which the Lords think they possess shall not be
proved to be non-eXistent, but whether the power
they can exercise will not he irreparably broken
as 10 vanish out OF existence


outside OF the comments OF the public press the
people generally talk in very revolutionary strain
The probability Is that the Lords will be alarmed
INTO the passage OF the bill but the mere fact of the
announcement Of their inclination to use their
power TO defeat II evidently eXcites general discus
SION adverse to the continuation OF hereditary legs
lation.


n. A., This Mornings Quotations.


By Atlantic Gable


LONDON, June S-A M.-Consols for money 925S;
ana Tor account, 92A. United States Fiye-twentes
oOA' Railways steady. Erie 1S4 Illinois Central
941e Atlantic and Great Western, 24%.


LIVERPOOL, June S--A. M.-CottOn hrmer; up
lands llAd. mlddling Orleans, l2d. The sales To-
day VIII reach 10000 bales Wheat, 9s Cd for can
lorna White, and S. 3d. for red Western. PeaS,
36s. Cd.


LONDON, June S-A M.-Tallow, 33s Cd


This Afternoons Quotations. ,


LONDON, June S-P. M.-ConsOs for money sA;
for account, 922S u. S. FYe-twenties sO2S Amerl-
can stocks firm.


LIVERPOOL. June s-P. M.-Yarns and fabrics al
Manchester are hrmer at better prices. Breadsluns
dull.


HAvRE, June s.-Cotton unchanged.


stock Quotations by TeleEraphEI P.,n (. mHI mHau


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