land's proclamation relative to Catholic processions, and the statement of The Telegraph, that it will not diminish the loyalty of her Irish subjects.' What can hounds expect but the customary treatment of dogs, to be whipped into their kennel? I desire to be alone responsible for the contents of this letter, and believe me, dear Sir, to be A REBEL to the backbone, "Mr. Joseph O'Grady." "MICHAEL SEGRAVE. It appears from the following extract from THE NATION,' which "votes as Father Tom O'Shee bids it," that the priesthood of Ireland are equally opposed both to Whigs and Tories. JUNE 26, 1852. "Down with the Whigs! Down with the Tories! "A general election in Ireland has come to signify something essentially different from what the people understood by it half-a-dozen years ago. Formerly the constituencies of Ireland were marshalled for one English faction against another. The Whigs were the people's favourites; the Tories the people's enemies. The Whig banner had emblazoned on its folds the attractive legends Civil and Religious Liberty,' Reform,' and Justice to Ireland.' The Tories displayed the watch-words of Protestant Ascendancy,' 'Aristocratic Privilege,' and 'Coercion.' "Down with the Whigs! Down with the Tories! Priests and people, down with both! "Down with them in the name of the Union, the Famine, the Convict-Ship, and the Penal Code. "From the hut where the trembling tenant starves; from the poorhouse, where the broken industry of Ireland rots; from the altar, where your religion wears the slaves' dress; from the penal colony, where your exiled patriots suffer; from America, where your banished friends con spire-comes a mighty adjuration, calling on you to vote against England and for Ireland. "Down with the Whigs! Down with the Tories! Hurrah for Ireland!" FROM THE TABLET,' JULY 31, 1852. The following confession was published beneath Mr. Lucas's engraving of " the Holy Virgin and Child :”— "No doubt the power of the priesthood in Ireland-a power for which we heartily thank God-fills our enemies with rage, grief, and dismay. It is a power quite unknown to the British Constitution'-a power which British statesmen have not found a way to corrupt, or overmaster, or manage, or cajole-a power totally distinct from the sordid powers of purse and patronage, with which they are familiar a power exercised for country and conscience, and against low-minded and servile influences. Therefore they hate it, and thirst to have the power to destroy the possessors of it at one blow. "We admit, of course, the great political influence of the priesthood in Ireland. We would as soon deny the existence of the sun blazing at high noon. We admit it; and again we say, from our whole hearts, WE THANK GOD FOR IT." II. EVIDENCE COLLECTED BY MYSELF. A PARISH priest, named Mullen, lately addressed to the Irish people in the columns of The Freeman the following appeal:- "Is there to be no voice raised, no hope held out, that will keep the people at home, and thus save millions from spiritual destruction? I say millions! Here are my facts: "The present population of the United States is about 15,000,000, and of these the Catholic Church claims only 1,980,000. From the year 1825 to 1844, 1,250,000 left Ireland, 1,000,000 of whom came to America; the proportion of Catholics amongst them may be fairly estimated at 800,000. Since that period to the present the numbers who emigrated here from Ireland at the lowest calculation were 1,500,000; and, taking the Catholics as above, we will have in nine years 1,200,000. A large number (say half a million) came from Germany, some from Italy, France, Belgium, and other countries, during the last ten years, half of whom were Catholics, say 250,000. Twelve years ago America had a population (according to Dr. England, Bishop of Charleston) of 1,200,000. Calculating the increase of this number by births at the very small number of 500,000, and adding, for converts in the larger cities and towns, 20,000, we will have the following total: "Catholic emigrants from the year 1825 to 1844 800,000 Catholic emigrants from 1844 to 1852 1,200,000 Number who ought to be Catholics. 3,970,000 SAY, IN ROUND NUMBERS, TWO MILLIONS!" 1,980,000 1,990,000 In corroboration of the above statement, in the Annals of the Catholic Faith,' a Roman Catholic publication of great celebrity, it has been authentically stated that of the population of Ireland "MILLIONS HAVE LOST THEIR SOULS." After the last tour made by the Bishop (Protestant) of Tuam through the united dioceses of Tuam, Killala, and Achonry, in a printed report the following statement was officially announced: "The general total of the result of the whole tour, comprising all the three heads, is as follows: "In all, 1294 persons were confirmed, being 454 original Protestants, and 840 converts. "These converts, added to the numbers previously confirmed upon the two occasions within the last three years, make 2414 converts confirmed. "Three new churches have been consecrated, and one enlarged. Five new churches are in process of completion. The first stones were laid of three more, and two more were contracted for, making in all fourteen new churches, which will afford sittings for 5210 persons. "Six new licensed houses for Divine worship have been provided, accommodating 2300 worshippers, which, added to the former numbers, will afford accommodation for 7510 persons. "Besides this accommodation, afforded in twenty localities where none existed before, there are five other places, in West Galway, not included in the above tour, in which there is a schoolroom where Divine service is performed on the Lord's-day, and in which accommodation is provided for 1350 worshippers. This number, added to the 7510 already stated, makes a total of 8860 sittings now newly provided. 66 By order of the Bishop of Tuam, "B. J. CLARKE, Secretary and Deputy-Registrar. "Tuam, 29th Aug. 1852." The Roman Catholic priesthood, clearly seeing that the "Exodus" of their fee-paying flocks, whom they have invariably refused to accompany, was progressing; that every family settled across the wide blue waters of the Atlantic were beckoning to their compatriots to follow them; that "millions of Catholic souls had been lost" in America; that the contagion was spreading even to the metropolis of their own country; and, lastly, that as the result of these united movements, by cholera, famine, &c., the Protestant population had so alarmingly increased, that it not only already nearly equalled, but that it threatened very shortly to overbalance in number (as it has always greatly overbalanced in wealth and in land) the Roman Catholic population of Ireland, felt that, unless some bold and decisive movement was made by them to get into Parliament members favourable to their views, namely, 1st, "tenant-right," or a |