Mr. Glad.stone's Irish Church Suspensory Bill passed through Committee yesterday
week, received an additional clause giving notice that "every person who shall be appointed to any office in the College of Maynooth after the passing of this Act shall hold the said office subject to the pleasure of Parliament," and after its third reading, which should have taken place,—we do not yet know whether it did,—last night, will go, we suppose, for execu- tion to the Lords next week. Mr. Hardy has intimated what nobody could recently doubt, that the Government intend to oppose it in the Lords, and, of course, Government, even without the enthusiastic aid of the Bishops, can commit any folly it likes in the Lords. We suppose there will be a great display of oratory, and a Balaklava charge of Bishops, headed by the Rupert of Debate, on the impious Commons. Will there be a single Bishop on the right side ? Perhaps the venerable Bishop of St. David's, —we earnestly hope so,—will come out of the aproned ranks, and remind their Lordships that even a Church must "cease to do evil" before it can "learn to do well."
