14 NOVEMBER 1868, Page 2

Mr. Vernon Harcourt, in a speech delivered on Tuesday in

aid of the Liberal candidates for the City, quoted an opinion of Lord Palmerston on the Irish Church which is worth remembering. His Lordship, certainly no revolutionist, declared in 1834 that " in his distinct and and deliberate opinion it was the right of the State to deal with the trust of the property of the Church." "It was idle to argue from private property to Church property, for the circumstances under which each originated were totally dis- similar." That opinion will not affect opinion in towns, but it may be of great use in county elections, where the squires are fighting for the Irish Church, not because they care for it, but because they think it is a sort of landlord.