Year: 1869

AONOONS y uu6 o.


The announced pre.determination of
the House of Lords TO reject the Irish
Church bill, causes intense Excitement,
and threatens to precipitate an exceed
inglv bitter conflict between the Lords
and Commons. 1t is rumored In some
quarters that the announcement Is
made to feel the public pulse and learn
how far the House of Lords dare go. It
is the general impression that the bill
ing.


The Standard (Tory,) admits the
peril of the proposed action as too OBJ
Yious to be ignored, even by the least
thoughtful or conscientious OF the
hereditary legislators, but says that
with urgent demands of hundreds OF
thousands In every part OF the country,
to risk all in a contest with the impe-
rious minister and an overbearing ma.
ioritV in the House of Commons. Shou Id
they be crushed in the struggle, not
only will the Church and the Consti-
tuition fall with them, but the liberties
of England will be sacrificed to the as
cendancy Of the Democratic principles
which are the most dangerous foe to per-
sonal and political freedom. It mat
ters not whether those who approved
regret the decision to give battle; there
is nothing for them to do but to take
their places in the ranks and fight for
all they hold dearest, in the full GER
tainty that all is at stake. Let the
whole protestant and conservative pow
ers of the realm be erected, and give the
lords such support of public opinion as
to restrain the struggle within the linn
self-willed and overbearing minister
always at heart the enemy of the
Lords, and likely to be exasperated
by his unexpected defeat, feel that there
are limits he dare not pass. Already
have his organs threatened that which,
If done, would call tor impeachment;
1t is necessary that he be made to feel
that he dare not execute the threat, and
that he must not only deal with the
Lords, but with the wealthy, resoluCe
and influential classes OF England and
Ireland, who are the actual majority of
the English nation.


The Morning Post shows that a rejec-
ton of the bill will not prevent its ulti-
mate passage, and dtscredits the idea
that the Lords will refuse a second
reading.


The Star in strong language says:
1.-THE Irish Church must not cumber
the ground after December, and
proclaimed on the house tops" The
House OF Lords ia not a more logical,
desirable or excusable institution than
the Irish Church, and in the fever
heat that will follow the rejection of the
bill heat will be generated such as
has not been seen since the people of
Birmingham threatened to march on
London In the name of reform and
cries will be heard calling for the down
fall of an obsolete chamber, a no
longer disguised anchrOism existing
by The decent Difference OF the popular
will. These misguided noblemen re-
quire further proofs to be convinced of
I no nP En
worth while to attempt demonstra-
tIon OF that opinion. When the issue
comes their Lordships will be wise in
their time.


The Ne,Os says the vote OF the Lords
will at the worst postpone for few
months only, the fate OF the Irish
Church. lis indirect effect will be
graver; it will raise the question of the
position the House OF Lords holds un-
der the Constitution. The relations of
the constituencies in the House of Com
mons, the Executive and the Crown
are self adjusting. If a hitch occurs the
machinery sets itself in order by its
own action. The House of Lords
stands outside this system; its good
sense fails only when brought in
harmony with the rest OF the
Constitution by the forcible OBJ
trusion upon it of ia number of mem-
bers sufficient to overbear the opinions
Va Gu6 UOuys II DldSeu
has to be packed. Whether a second
chamber doing its work upon these
conditions can be permanent part of
the Government, the Lords seem bent
upon forcing the public to notice their
resistance. The Peers threaten the res
vival of pretensions long abandoned,
namely, the old baronial attitude of the
medieval days when the Commons
were only allowed the right of humble
supplication and petition, and not re-
ally to govern the country


The Telegraph has timid article
which concludes as follows: 1.-THE
country has spoken unmistakablya and
accents will no longer be free from in
dignation or preserve the mood of mod
GRAFTON which it desires to maintain. -


The Times says: We are on the eve
of a crisis. Nothing since the throes
which proceeded the passage of the re-
form bill can be compared to the con-
sequence which will attend the threat
eped conduct of the Peers, and the re-
suit of the struggle is not at all doubt-
full. If the Lords succeed they would
be compelled to undergo second ten
der OF the measures already rejected.
The first results OF this will touch all
the interests and jeopardize not only
their privileges, but also the peace of
the great towns, and the maintenance of
law and order throughout the country.
Outside of the Commons and of the
public press, the people generally talk
in a revolutionary manner, and above
all they do their best to provoke an
outburst of violence in an unhappy
country, the vast majority of whose
Inhabitants the Lords proposed to out
rage by a contemptuous disregard of
their wishes as to the majority. The
opposition draw this conclusion, that
they are resolved to intrench them
selves in their own opinions, and rely
upon their fancled power in disdain OF
the consequence to themselves and the
nation. They will be rudelY awaken.
ed from their delusion. It cannot be
doubtful which will succeed in
the contest, themselves or the nation.
Tho only question is not whether the
power they think they possess is to be
proved non-existant, but whether the
power which they can exercise will not
out of existence. Outside of the papers
the people talk very Revolutionary. The
probability Is, the Lords will be alarm
ed into the passage of the bill, but the
mere fact of the announcement OF the
inclination and power to defeat 1t evt-
IDENTIFY excites discussion adverse to the
continuation of hereditary legislation.


LONDONDERRY, JuneS.


The steamer MoravIan, from Quebec,
n''0 " FRANCE.


PARIS, June 8.


M. Theirs, Jules and Garner Pare
have been declared elected by ballot.


There were tumultuous scenes at
Montoneara and arrests were made by
t. t. Fo q