Year: 1868

using this argument-they will turn round and say
MOI Turning round In the language OF the
lawyers they win say. .srhe Irish Church Is not Q
special facts connected with ireland, and you have
ireland it win be so IA England. naugntsr and ID
cheersl And with regard to another point In Ire
land-tne question Of the Irish land-that Is matter
oI great diculty, and which, no doubt before long
the people OF the two kingdoms will be asked care
fully to consider II the land OF Scotland were In
al s s1s IN
sense foreigners, they gave to none OF your ten
ants leases II they never expended money In any
ask you what would be the kind OF content which
would prevail among the agricultural population OF


scontsnt nghe1 Dr an ana chse nd rSsad CA
you would have q state OF things In Scotland W hoh
would prove an ncessant agitation until the imperial
grievances complained Of


Ny Lord Provost, you have mentioned question


the o % s ana


referred to that tho other day IN speaking to my
constituents at Birmingham, and said that I
In the last few years with regard to the laws affecting
the press was o change so valuable, and productive
had beeh done In lou our time that had S exceeded % It,
There can be doubt that through the whole OF the
United Kingdom, by the abolition Of all the taxes on
everywhere process Of education which, believe,
s more important than almost all other processes OF
machinery for education throughout the Kingdom
(cheers)-and believe free press Is just as neces
sary for political liberty free is for natural


The question Of education to which you have re-
ferred Is one which l suppose all men n0w-and
hope oil wOmen--are turning their attention.
(Cheers) That " question which is rendered diff
cult because won't take IL up OF ITSELF We have
got some OF u.s. have not, but have found very
great number Of people who have-a very stupid idea
that It would be wrong 70 teach and give child
call it--machinery OF knowledge unless you can at
the same time give him che religious opinions which
we ourselves hold, and not only the religious optn-
Ons for there Ia not 80 much difference In religious
opinions. but very often all tho essential details
which churches all the world have built up into
their different systems (Cheers) Now 1t Will soon
be put to the people OF the United Kingdom whether


this question can be solved by US Is 1t has been solved
elsewhere.


and without exaggeratiOn one may say that II IL
which the prophet described, with garments rolled
In blood" but there ia confused noise throughout
the country, from John UGr0at's to Land's-end. All
Great Britain and over Ireland men discus
sing great neutrality-suspicious. which are to affect
the unity OF the empire, our own condition, the con-
dition OF the pOsterty that to follow and to
Affect all the narratives Of the future historians OF
this kingdom. Well say, then let US in this battle
and in these discussions bear our part let us avoid
heat of passion much as we can; let strip from
all these questions that which does not belong to
kernel OF them, and let US honestly endeavor to find
true solution for whatever difficulties beset the ma
tion. (Appause.) Now said this century Is CEN
tury Of changes, and depend upon It, changes that
have been made since we were children will be held
as q lasting memorial OF the age In which we live.