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. THE REPRESENTATION OF MELLTIIYK…

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THE REPRESENTATION OF MELLTIIYK TYDFIL. Mr H. A. Erne, one of the three Liberal candidatct for Merthyr Tydfii, seems likely to experience the dis- advantage of not being thorough.' The right honourahl. gentleman is one of those offkial Liberals who, withiv the last eight months, have become penetrated with tin conviction that the abolition of the Irish Establishment is the proper ar.d natural remedy for Irish discon ent. He never saw it before, hut he set's it now, anil distinctly. Nevertheless, he has not yet been educated up to the point of accepting the corollary of his new bolief. He cannot allow that, if the Irish Church is to he disestab- lished because it is the Church of a minority the same law mny be applied to the Church in England to-morrow, and ought to be applied to the Church in Wales this very day. He approves of the degradation of Protestantism, and the confiscation of endowments for religious pur- poses in one particular ease, but he declines to carry it any farther. He draws the line at the Irish Church, and holds, with IV!r Gladstone, that the En:ti-h Church is safe because it is throned in the hearts of millions.' In fact, he prefers to deal with the disestablishment principle on the rule of one at a time. The sacrifice of fhe Irish Establishment will answer the needs of the Liberal party for the moment, and he has no intention of compromising himself for the future. It may be necessiry to pull down the English Church some day, but for the present he prefers »o Keen silent upon that point. Unhappily for Mr Bruce and his chance.* :,t Merthyr Tydfil, there is a Mr Richard, a Welsh rli-senting minister, who holds 31 r Bruce's Lith and a iittie more. He fully approves of the disestablishment and di-endowrnent of the Irish Church, but Laving no motive for being reticent and diplomatic he na-erts that the case of the Church in j Wales is identical with that of the Church in Ireland, and that it must be submitted to a similar judgment. It is upon the strength ot the logical completeness of his programme that Mr Richard has come forward to contest .Merthyr Tydfil, and, as in such a Radical borough, the man who is most thorough has the best chance, we are Dot purprised to hear that, while Mr Richard's return is considered absolutely certain, the ex-Vice President of toe Council stands ft change of coming in a bad third for the second scat with Air Fothergill. Mr Bruce, hitherto undisturbed in his seat, has taught the anti-Church party in Wales the excellency of disestablishment and disen- dowment in the case of Ireland, and they have bettered his instruction by exhibiting the case of the Welsh Church as a subject for similar treatment. Unless he can malle up his mind to swallow the entire dose Mr Bruce may expect to lose his seat. The worst of it is that the bitter draught is, in the main, his own brewing.

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