The Upper House of Convocation has, however, not limited itself
to expressing illiberal views on the Natal question. It has taken up the Irish Church, the Bishop of Lincoln having moved and carried an address to the Queen, "praying that Her Majesty would be pleased to take such measures as might be thought .advisable to prevent the disestablishment and disendowment of the Established Church in Ireland." The Bishop of Salisbury alone -appears to have expressed any doubt. He warmly vindicated the .character of Mr. Gladstone, spoke of his genius and purity of -conduct, and expressed his belief that Mr. Gladstone would be 4' faithful to the end to God's truth," and said that the course taken by Mr. Gladstone had raised in his mind grave doubts whether there were not sufficient reasons for the step he was -taking. There were times when the Legislature was "bound to take care to meet the feelings of the people,"-.--a wonderful and most liberal admission for a Bishop, explicable, perhaps, by the fact that his son is just going to contest a borough in the Liberal interest. The address,—which seems to us not only mischievous in aim, but dangerous in form, as being addressed not to either Ilouse of Parliament, but to the Queen herself,—was agreed to.
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