The debate in the Lords on the Irish Church was
resumed yesterday week by Lord Carnarvora in the most remarkable speech of the whole three nights, but as we have noticed it carefully, as well as the various speeches of the most reverend and right reverend prelates, among our topics of the week, we must pass on to other speakers. Lord Dufferin's speech, though it kept comparatively close to one point, was a noble one, and remarkable for this,—that he said what some one of the Bishops ought to have said, that he alone, as a Protestant Churchman, put the question in a religious point of view, and urged upon the House of Lords to consider what the great Apostle of the Gentiles would have done, had he found his connection with any government "rendering him an object of suspicion, not to say of aversion, towards those whom he was commissioned to evangelize," as the Establishment makes the Protestant faith an object of aversion to the Catholics. We owe Lord Dufferiu a debt of thanks for ven- turing to fill the place abdicated by the Bench of Bishops. Unquestionably St. Paul would have said, "Establishment recom- mendeth us not to God ; for neither if we are established are we the better, nor if we are not established are we the worse. Wherefore, if establishment rnaketh my brother to offend, I will have no establishment while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend."
