6 MARCH 1869, page 6

England's Message To Ireland.

W E trust the country will not allow itself, in its admiration of Mr. Gladstone's speech on the Irish Church, to forget the moral grandeur of the occasion on which it was......

Mr. Bruce's First Bill.

M R. BRUCE'S Bill for the prevention of crime—for though. introduced in the Peers by Lord Kimberley, it is• Mr. Bruce's bill—is a very efficient and yet very moderate measure.......