. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. the galleries. said that in opening this great contention he was but perform-ing a solemn duty. The laws which had just been read were a proper basisfor all he had to say. The great question with which they were now face toface was whether or not the Irish Church Establishment should cease toexist. This questio
. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. the galleries. said that in opening this great contention he was but perform-ing a solemn duty. The laws which had just been read were a proper basisfor all he had to say. The great question with which they were now face toface was whether or not the Irish Church Establishment should cease toexist. This question the House should decide, and decide at the present DISESTABLISHMEXT nF THE IRISH CHURCH. 421 crisis. If the decision should be affirmative, then the Irish Establishmentought to cease in a manner worthy of its character and of the British proprietary and invested right in that event ought to be adequatelyrecognized and equitably met. As to the remainder of values after the factof disestablishment the same he thought should become an Irish fund, andshould be used for the exclusive benefit of the people of Ireland. Mr. Gladstone then went on to reply to the complaint of Mr. Disraeli—seemingly well founded—that the question which had now come upon the. MR. GL.^DSTONE ADDRESSING THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. House had been previously avoided. The prime minister had charged thatthe Liberal party lately in power had avoided the issue, but as soon as theConservative party had come in then the Liberals, as it were in the firstday of the Conservative rdginie, had brought confusion to the ministry byurging this time-worn and difficult question on the attention of Gladstone said that these charges were unjust. True it was thatthe two great parties had hitherto avoided the question which had nowcome up for solution ; but they had been justified in doing so—this for thereason that public opinion had never hitherto approved of the agitation ofthe question. Public o
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