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LORDS, THE COMiiGNS, ANJJ iinji PEOPLE. The Conservative papei-3 recently called special atten- tion to the ll'l111ber of meetings agamst tlw Irish Church Bill. They published a list of some eighty meetings. There was Preston with (using the numbers as claimed; 1),000 present; Sheffield, 3,000 present; Leeds, 6,000 present Manchester, 250,000 present Crystal Palace, 20,000present Bradford, 0,000present; Liverpool, 30,000 present;, &c., &c. These meetings, it must 1 e observed, have been held since the Irish Church Bill 'no? been brought in. ,But tae Liberal papers, in reply, publish ahst of some sixty places which have protested against the Lords' amend- ments. These amendments have only been before the country for a comparatively ahcrt tim;. Nevertheless it is pointed out that there have been petitions, memorials, and protests sent to Mr.-Gladstone from the Presbyteries of the United Presbyterian Church a; Edinburgh, Glas- gow, and Berwick; from the General Assemblies of Ireland: the Presbyterian Synod of Londonderry; the Wesieysn Conferences in London, Plymouth, and Cork; the Protestant Nonconformists of London the Dissenters of three denominations in London and its environs; frnm the London Baptist Association, from the Baptist Union of the United Kingdom, the Scottish Re- formation Society, che Congregations of Coventry, the English Baptist Association of Carmarthen and _Giamor- j gan, the Associated Baptist Churches of Kent and Sussex, the Congregational Unions of Finsbury and of Surrey, the Noiu-uuf ormist ministers of Norwicn, Liverpool, Leigh- ton Buzzard and Walsall, and from the Weslcyan Metho- dist Society of St. Neots. Several "meetings took place on Monday. One at Bristol was addressed by Mr. Morlev, M.P., and Mr. Marling, M.P. Resolution were adopted expressing satisfaction with the determination of the Government to resi.:stthe amendments, and pledging tLe meeting w give Mr. Gladstone their support. A memorial to the Housa of Commons was adopted in accordance with these resolu- tions. At O.iford also a meeting of the citizens was l'eld ia the Town HaH, and there was a very large aoten. lance. The Rev. J. L. T. Rogers, late Professor of Political Economy at Oxford, in an able and energetic speech, in which he paid the highest possible compliments to Mr. Gladstone, proposed the following resolution, carried amidst the greatest euthasiasui :—"That this meeting views with satisfaction the resolute manner in which her Majesty's Government have met the amendments inserted into the Irish Church Bill by the House of Lords, and entertains a strong impre3sion that their lordships will recognise the strength with which tl.e nation has de- dared as-a,in3t any new endowment of churches i y public money." A meeting held at Lambeth, presided over by Mr. A. M'Arthnr, and addressed by the Lord Mayor and Mr. M'Arth ur (members for the borough), and by Mr. INew- marc iiait, passed a similar resolution, and the following on3 :—" That, in the event of prolonged resistance by the Lo." to the Irish Church Bin, the members for tho borough be requested to promote a measure that will cause an inquiry to be made as to the course pursued by the Upper House during the last fifty years on the vari- ous (pi! scions affecting the liberties and progress of the people." A meeting at Chelsea WAS audressed by the borough members, Sir. Charles Dilke and Sir Henry Hoare.— Sir Charles Diike, M.P., said he bad never been one of those who pretended that the bill was ail that could be ■wished. It ;1.ve far to.o much to tne Chr:rch, but 0: this he said nothing-, be.ause he had voted for the clauses in which the thing w-ag done. Against the "financial puzzle" chmse he had voted, and he had never given a vote with greater pleasure. In accordance wich that which he knew to be the feeling of representative Liberal electors of all classes in Chelsea he had also voted ".gainst the Government upon the question of the surplus. Mr. Bright said that the Government bid gave the surplus to the poor and tho afflicted. lie did not know whether the landlords were poor and afiiicted, because the Government proposal was to gi'.e the surplus to the landlords.—Sir H. Hoare, wki.e agreeing with this, thought the "bill ought to he got out of the way as soon as possible. A resolutiomn favour of getting the matter settled was passed. A meeting on the other side was held at Liverpool. Tho Standard says there were 15,000 present; but the Liver- pc; C'(;)Urie1., a Conservative paper, puts the number down as 8,GOO, and another computation is that ¡,t more than 10,000 were at any time at the meeting. It was held in front of St. George's Hall. It •was called to adopt a petition to the Kou^e of Lords, praying their lordships to stnnd lirm to their amendments as sent to theComrcona. with the exception of the concurrent endowment clause." The speaker denounced the Irish Church Bill, 1\ir. Giadst»xie. and the Government, and approved the Irish Establishment, the action of the House of Lords (with the exception of it.3 amendment of concurrent endowment) and the determination of th, Conservative party, as led by Mr. Disraeli ani Lord Cairns, :0 have nothing to dl) with levelling up. A Mr. Joseph Bali took the chair, and was supported by some clergymen and a \Ves!eyan minister. Very strong language was used by some of' the orators. The petition adopted was-to the effect that concurrent endowment was a great curse," inasmuch as histury and experience are alike t&achers that Popery has been acursoto every nation or country wherever it hns had full scope and been predominant; it raises the creature above the Creator, and gives a practical lie to the f'orious Gospel, which, declares there is only one me- iator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. "With regard to the remainder of the amendments pro- posed and carried by your lordships, we believe (the memorial went on to say) the country on the whole approve of them-,and that they, taken in connection with the bill, shew mature judgment founded OIl a desire to act honestly and becoming the character which your lordships' house has uIl every great occasion merited. We therefore pray your lordships ro stand firm to them." A special meeting of the Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh has been held, for the purpose of considering the Lords' amendments on the Irish Church Bill; 3VIr. William Balfour, Holyrood, moderator. Sir Henry • V. eli wood Moncreiff moved the following resolution :— "That this Presbytery, talcing into consideration the clause introduced into the Irish Church Bill by the House of Lords, la favour of concurrent endowment in Ireland, and the resistance by the House of Commons to this clause, and taking further into consideration the principle always held by this Cnurch, that :he endowment of a Church can be justified only as a testimony to religious truth, hereby resolve to petition both Houses of Parliament against the clause referred to." Mr. A. Mackenzie seconded the motion, which was, after some conversation, agreed to. It was resolved that a petition, signed by the moderator, in terms of the resolu- tion. be forwarded to Earl Granville for presentation in the House of Lords, and that another le sent to the Lord _¡ vocate for presentation in the Rouse oi Comm ns. A crowded meeting assembled on TI:e3chy at the Insti- tute, Plymouth, under the presidency of Mr. H. Brown, chairman of the Liberal Association, for the purpose of supporting Mr. Gladstone's Irish Church Bill, when three resolutions we*e carried unanimously. The first was pro- posed bv Mr. F. Hicks, and seconded by Mr. iiooker ;the second was proposed by Mr. • N. Bennett, seconded by Mr. F.W. Collier, and supported by Messrs. Baikwill, Freckle- ton, and Williamson and the third was proposed by Mr. Eldred Brown, seconded by Mr. R. Rundie, and supported by Mr. M'Carthv. One of the resolutions was as fol- lows :-H That this meeting affirms its entire approval of the action of her Majesty's Government with reference to the Irish Church Bill, and expresses its desire that the measure approved of by the-House of Commons, involving the immediate application of the surplus funds of that Church, may be adopted by Parliament in its -'ntegritj." Petitions to both Houses of Parliament will be forwarded.

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