THE SUSPENSORY BILL. JESTY'S MESSAGE.

Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 132, 17 July 1868, Page 2

THE SUSPENSORY BILL. JESTY'S MESSAGE.

The following extracts are from, the t Metbourne Argus* London correspondent : — The few days elapsingbetweenthetumultu.- ; ous passing of the second and third resolutions on Irish Church patronage and the reply of her Majesty to the address. pf,the Commons, was a period of deep anxiety. After the recriminatory scenes in the House on the Thursday no one knew whai to expect?. The Queen's reply would <lependupon the advice tendered by her jUinisters Jl ,- l and, judging by the past week, there seemed every^ probability that the Premier would continue to treat with defiance the Parliamentary may jority, and involve the Sovereign in hopeless 5 antagonism, with her peapla. ; Many thought' that Dizzy was desperate enough to resort to an immediate dissolution. -These apprehensions, happily, were not of loug duration, for on the following Tuesday, evening,. her : Majesty's reply was comniunicated to the House, giving the requisite sanction to the introduction of a hill founded on the Irish 1 Church resolutions. " Relying on , the ,wisdom of my Parliament," says the, Royal message, " I desire that nxy interest' in the temporalities of the United Church- of England and Ireland in Ireland niay not'starid in' the way of the consideration of my -Parliament of any measure relating thereto that may" be" introduced in the present session." The House experienced an unmistakeable relief at the conciliatory course adopted. The dread of an unseemly conflict passed away — % at least for the present. Mr. Gladstone ate once gave notice that he would ou the fol-" lowing day move for leave to bring in' a bill to prevent, for a limited time, new appointments \>y the Crown to 'benefices and dignities in the Church of Ireland, and to restrain in some respects, the powers ofr the Ecclesiastical commissioner. His objectrwas defeated on Wednesday, owing to the' "preoccupation of the allotted time Ijy pother topics ; but towards midnight on Thursday, in a crowded and turbulent House, the '.motion was made. Colonel Knox moved'' the adjournment of the debate for six months ; amendment after amendment ' was proposed by unscrupulous obstructives^ amidst a scene of tumult that defies description ; ' butr ultimately the bill was read a first tune without resorting to a division, and the second read* ing was fixed for to-night, when, according to Mr. Disraeli's emphatic deelaration, ! the measure will be opposed by all the force at the disposal of the Government, as being the first step towards the dis-establishmeut of; the church. Thus passed away for a season the ministerial crisfs, which for weeks had kept the country in a state of painful suspenee and uncertainty. An iinniediate dlssolutian will now in all probability be averted, and both Government and Opposition will unite in endeavours to wind up the necessary business of the session as expeditiously-as possible. ___^^^________