The agitation against Mr. Gladstone's Irish Church measure has not
been very prosperous this last week. The Bishop of Carlisle (Dr. I'Valdegrave) addressed a meeting ten days ago, in which he authenticated Mr. Disraeli's dark and mysterious hints of a con- federation between Rome and the Ritualists for the purpose of -overturning the Church. But Dr. Waldegrave's authority was his weak point. He relied chiefly on a work of Cardinal Panzani's, composed in Charles L's time and recently published, showing the activity of the Jesuits under the second English 'Stuart. And from that Dr. Waldegrave inferred,—like a Bishop and a goose,—that Jesuit intrigues of a like kind are fearfully -menacing in modern England. Archdeacon Denison has also held _a meeting, in which, if correctly reported, he seems to have spoken with more warmth than intelligence. "Mr. Gladstone was working more mischief," he said," than had ever before been wrought -in this country" (venerable Archdeacons should not draw the long bow so very nearly double as that) ; "there were such things as bloodless revolutions as well as bloody revolutions, and he did not know which was the worst of the two. No men ever saw such a sevolution without coming to blows, and they must come to blows." Really the venerable Archdeacon should try and be more -articulate, even on Church questions.
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