The address of the Irish Bishops was preseuted to the
Queen at Windsor on Thursday, by the two Archbishops and nine of their suffragans, aided by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Bishop of London, and one or two more of the English prelates. It is a terribly wordy affair, and sets forth first that " it is now pro- posed for ever to alienate property which, from time immemorial, has been dedicated to religious uses." Secondly, that the Royal Supremacy, that safeguard of the Reform3d faith, must shortly disappear. Thirdly, that disestablishment will not win back Irish loyalty. Fourthly, that poor Protestants have a vested right in the services of the Church ; and, fifthly, that they will be absorbed in the Church of Rome. It is sufficient to reply to the first argument, that no such proposition has yet been made, it is a mere invention of the Bishops ; to the second, that the disestablished Church can keep the Royal Supre- macy if it likes, and would be wise to do so ; to the third, that England can do justice without a tribe ; to the fourth, that the Protestants mentioned have no such vested right as the Bishops. allege ; and to the fifth, that the most scattered and oppressed of all communities in the world, the Jewish, is the one which has given the fewest converts to Rome.
