Lord Derby, with some forty-seven other Peers, have signed the
"protest" against the third reading of the Irish Church Bill. The eight reasons given for the protest were the old stock reasons. But two of the signataries, Lord Cairns and the Duke of Marl- borough, accept only seven out of the eight reasons, declining to accept the sixth, which is Mr. Disraeli's and the Bishop of Lich- field'sreasone--namely, that adiaestablished and disendowed Church can never be on a footing of equality. with one virtually established by its dependence on a Rinign passer-4W Holy See. Lord Cairns and the Duke of Marlborough cannot swallow the implied assertion that the Church of Rome has always been and still is "established" in Ireland. Certainly in the same sense you might say that the Roman sad the Greek and the Mormon Churches are all established in England,. because 811 of theinlean. on. foreign centres. The Bishop of Lichfield and the Bishop of Tuna. were the only ecclesiasticato sign the protest.
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