On the proposal to appropriate James's Ulster grants to the
Protestant garrison of Ireland to the disestablished Church, the Government mustered only 55 votes against 103. The Bishop of Derry begged for this special State grant to the Protestant garrison of Ireland, on the ground that it would be a "message of peace" to Ulster,—a very good ground for resisting the Bill altogether, but hardly for introducing the most indefensible anomalies into it to vitiate it. When the State gives up the policy of garrisoning a Catholic land with a Protestant army, it naturally resumes the funds appropriated to the support of that Protestant army. But Dr. Alexander's idea of a message of peace, is that the angelic host who sing it should be endowed with "glebes and curtilages " out of the national property of the pagan world which hears.
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