perty of any man ;-but, firmly adhering to your Holy Religion, with the finger of scorn silently point at your degraded and self-interested priesthood, and in one moment Ireland-great, glorious, and free-will be emancipated from a thraldom which, though it has not withered her verdant surface, has for ages degraded her improvident poor,-which within the last three years has more than decimated their numbers,—and which at this moment is scattering, in rags and tatters, hundreds of thousands of them over the whole surface of the globe!

In the late electioneering contests your priests have overreached themselves. They have unmasked their long artfully-concealed objects,-they have destroyed their own power,-they have extinguished their own influence, and, in the broad daylight,-in the middle of the nineteenth century,-they die, in the judgment of every enlightened citizen of the globe..." FELO

DE SE."

IRISHMEN! Will you remain, as a nation, degraded as you have been, and as you are; or will you by one manly effort rise-per saltum-to the high level of your destiny? Your redemption in this world can only be effected by yourselves.

"HEREDITARY BONDSMEN! KNOW YE NOT,

WHO WOULD be free, theMSELVES MUST STRIKE
THE BLOW?"

It would be alike vain and vainglorious to suppose that the brief and feeble appeal of an individual, of

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whose life only one fortnight has been spent in Ireland, could possibly produce on a whole nation the smallest sudden effect. On the other hand, however, such is the magic influence and power of Truth over the human mind, that there can exist no doubt that the facts and evidence I have adduced are seed which no earthly authority can forbid to vegetate. The priesthood of Ireland may rail at them, and, while they writhe, may endeavour to give to the distortions of pain the appearance of a bitter sneer. They may deem it prudent, in silence, to treat my evidence with feigned contempt, but in all countries and in all directions will it arise in judgment against them. Many a pretty Irishwoman, when they ask for her confession, will silently shake her slight forefinger in their face. Many a devout Catholic, without upbraiding them, will when he meets them in the street give them what is commonly called "a cold shoulder." The title of "yere Rivirince "-like short petticoats-will gradually go out of fashion, and their malign influence will slowly but continuously wither and decay, until, by the blessing of God, the whole family of Ireland, Catholics and Protestants, will live together as they ought in brotherly love, the prosperous, enlightened, and happy members of one of the finest nations of the globe.

But whether this prophecy be fulfilled or not, the incontrovertible evidence adduced against the Irish priesthood, in their own speeches, writings, and imprecations, will at all events, wherever the English language is read, dispel a mystery which like a mist has hitherto hung over the character of England. The latent cause

of the degraded state of Ireland will henceforward rest on the real culprits that have created it, and, by the just verdict of the civilized world, the British Sovereign, the Imperial Parliament, and the English People will, I feel confident, as I have already said, be unanimously declared "NOT GUILTY."

"WHAT IS TO BE DONE

ABOUT Ireland?" will no doubt be the engrossing problem of the approaching session of Parliament.

Hitherto the House of Commons has been divided into parties, the well-known names of which it is quite unnecessary to detail. Into the present new assembly there will, however, in a phalanx, march an entirely new element in the legislation of our country, namely, fiftyone members, representing Maryologically the interests and objects of the Irish priesthood, which interests and which objects have been openly avowed-in the manifesto of the priesthood (page 279), and in the speech (pages 315-318) of Mr. Lucas, M.P., Editor of The Tablet, "in the front of which he places the Virgin and Child"-as follows:

1st. To advocate a measure embodying all the principles of Mr. Sharman Crawford's Tenant Right Bill. 2nd. To advocate a repeal of the Ecclesiastical Titles Act of last Session.

3rd. To support a measure for appropriating the revenues of the Established Church in Ireland (saving existing rights) to national purposes.

4th. To give a strenuous bonâ fide opposition to every Ministry that will not actively favour the passing of the above three vital measures.

"In my opinion," says Mr. Lucas, the tried and trusted

advocate of every principle dear to the hearts of the entire prelacy and priesthood of the land, "there is no good to be done except by the most decided, unrelenting, persevering, troublesome opposition to every Government, until they do justice [i. e. grant the above three measures] to Ireland." -p. 317.

As a British House of Commons will, I feel confident, summarily deal with physical-force projects of this nature as they deserve, I will only observe, as a statistical fact, that the argument for appropriating to Catholics the revenues of the Established Protestant Church of Ireland, simply because the population of the former creed exceeds that of the latter, rests on a foundation that will very shortly be reversed, inasmuch as within a couple of years there can exist no doubt whatever that the Protestant population of Ireland will form the majority;" in which case, if the present argument be worth anything, they, the Protestants, might, according to "the law of the strongest," seize upon whatever property of the Roman Catholics they might be inclined to covet.

Leaving, however, this question to be decided by its proper tribunal, I will proceed to one on which I feel not only justified, but that it is my duty respectfully to submit my opinion: for as the facts and evidence I have adduced will inevitably tend to increase throughout England, Scotland, and the Protestant population of Ireland, the never-ceasing cry of "No POPERY;" and as this increased feeling will naturally excite a call upon Parliament to discontinue to the priesthood of Ireland the national grant for the maintenance of the College of Maynooth, I deem it right to say that in