CHAPTER V.
Mr.Daubeny's Great Move The whole Liberal party was taken very much by surprise at the course which the election ran.

Or perhaps it might be more proper to say that the parliamentary leaders of the party were surprised.

It had not been recognised by them as necessary that the great question of Church and State should be generally discussed on this occasion.

It was a matter of course that it should be discussed at some places, and by some men.

Eager Dissenters would, of course, take advantage of the opportunity to press their views, and no doubt the entire abolition of the Irish Church as a State establishment had taught Liberals to think and Conservatives to fear that the question would force itself forward at no very distant date.