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Ala ell::,noe LtAIIV and Bishop DER ev, the
two prc:ates appointed on behalf of the Roman
Catholic hierarehy of Ireland to conduct the nego-
tiations with the Government relative to tle!
ehartcrieg and endowment of a Roman Catholic
University, have published a supplement to the
eorresp, .net tee lately laid 1 alore Parliament. Tie 7
have te'dressed a letter to Lord MAYO, in which
They protest against his assumption that they
have abruptly closed the negotiations into
which they have been invited by the Government
to enter. If this has been done at all, it has
been done by the Government themselves. The
history of the transaction which pro'•ably is fresh
in the minds of some of our readers may be
briefly recalled. It had its origin in Mr.
DISRAELI'S necessities and tactics as an Oppo-
sition 1. ader. With that keen eye which
be has also shown for political stratagem,
he long since detected the growing uneasi-
nees of the relations which have for generations
existed l etween the Liberals in England and the
Roman eatholics of Ireland. The foreign policy
pursued by Lord PALMERSTON and Lord RUSSELL,
the coentenance given by those statesmen to the
schemes of CAYOUR and the enterprises of Gmu-
mutt, she sympathy fuel hope with which they
looked forward to the liberation and unity of Italy,
and, by conßequni/CP, the abolition of the
temporal power, v. ere 'n the highest de-
gree distaateful to :he dominant twit in
the Ptamin Catholic CE:rth. The tins tries of
Govern..., tit and of :sou:, ty formulated in the
Encycli(:il and the Syllabus, were the contra-
diction of every principle of Liberal polity. Mr.

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InsEAEt.t taw the with• g • I'l-41.3-
tion. Ile 11.1'111111M A, if faist:h!.., to d 1..11 th
in il, Retenti Co'bob,: cont;:igcn'. airea.ly wave--
ing in its fidelity, from foe tiri:n body of the
Liberal !tarty. lie becane. th.• mtrennous fel-
vornte of the temporal ise.ver of the
Pore. In that vein of mingled pompous-
ness and servility, which Mr. BRIOHT has so hap-
pily characteriscsi, Le eulogised the stately fabric,
the historic grandeur, and the august ceremonial
of the Roman Catholic Church. Metaphorically
speaking, he kissed the htuid, not to say the toe,
of the HOLY FATHER. The unity of European
civilisation, he intimated, was maintained by
the sovereignty of the SUPREME PONTIFF' and the
links by which it binds together the Catholic
populations of the Continent. Here Mr. DISRAELI
found that consecration of the principle of autho-
rity by the principle of religion, of which he has
lately talked so much. The doctrine is Papal in
its character and origin, though Mr. DISRAELI has
found convenience in giving it a so-call.sl
Protestant application in Ireland. Lord
DERRY followed implicitly the monitions of
Lis political director. He peeved contempt.
on the unity of Italy. lie ridiculed the
pretensions of her people to be considered one race
and nation. Ile, too, vindicated the temporal
sovereignty of the Poem, and followed up these in-
direct advaitees by the announcement. that it was
strange that the Roman Catholics did nut perceive
that they were the natural ullics of the Conserva-
tive party. Mr. DISIUELI coquetted with Roman
Catholic members, and though the majority of
them retained their political value, he succeeded in
seducing Mr. Porn HENNESSY and Sir J. N.
IeI'KENNA. In office, Mr. DISRAELI has played
the same game. A scheme for chartering a Roman
Catholic University, and for endowing nut only it
but certain associated colleges, was announced by
the Irish Minister as the beginning of a SClll'lllO for
'nuking till churches equal, by the elevation
of the low, not by the depression of the
exalted. Tho status of the unendowed
clergy was to be improved. When Mr. GLAD-
rroNE met these plans for aggrantlising the priest-
hood of Rome in Ireland by a policy of justice to
the Roman Catholic population of the country, not
because they were Roman Catholics, but because
they were the great majority of the Irish people,
Mr. DlsrAr.ht felt that a spell more powerful than
his own had been uttered. He could not tight the
Irish people with only the priests for his allies.
He, therefore, apparently resolved to disembarrass
himself of these compromising coadjutors and
to get rid of the proposals for the foundation and
endowment of Roman Catholic seminaries, and a
Roman Catholic University in Ireland. We will
not say that Lord MALuEsnuftv and Lord
MAyo, who represented the Government
in its transactions with the Irish Bishops,
entered into the negotiations with the
intention of miscarrying them. But they
certainly were very precipitate in declaring
them to bebroken off by the representative prelates,
and announcing that they had no intention of
re-opening them. Without going into details, we
may briefly state that after some formal and pro-
tracted preliminaries, Lord Mayo laid before Arch-
bishop LEAHY and Bishop DERRY the view of the
Government as to the constitution and manage-
ment of the Roman Catholic University which
they proposed to found and endow. The two
prelates took exception to some parts of the
Government plan, and proposed counter-
arrangements of their own. Lord MAYO, in re-
turn, expressed his sense of the inadmissibility
of these suggestions ; and Ministers in both
Houses of Parliament took the earliest opportunity
they could get of declaring that the negotiations
were broken off, and had loon broken off by the
Roman Catholic Bishops. To this statement,
in a letter which has just been pub-
lished, Dr. LEAHY and Dr. Danav give a
formal denial. The Government scheme was
not proposed as an ultimatum to be accepted as a
whole or rejected as a whole: for the Bishops
Were invited to put their views in writing for
the consideration of the Cabinet. On the other
hand the Roman Catholic Bishops did not propose
their plan as an ultimatum. As they truly say,
" Not a word of ours, spoken or written, indi-
" cute(' that we had taken ground from which
" nothing could induct: us to recede." They sera
willing, they say, to listen to reason, to make con-
cessions as well as demands, to give as well as to
take. It was the Government which made the
statement final which was not intended to be final.
They now ask whether her MAJEsrv's Ministers
consider the negotiations closed, in order that the
answer may leave the real responsibility for their
abortive termination resting upon the right
shoulders.

For our own parts, we rejoice that the
scheme has fallen through; but we cannot
deny that the Roman Catholic bishops have
been shabbily treated. Mr. DISRAELI pro-
bably thinks that Mr. MUMMY will serve
his purpose better at the general election
than Cardinal Crur,Es could do. lie has, there-
fore, scuttled his ship which was freighted with
his Irish schemes. lie has renounced his ultra-
montane policy, and raised the cry of "No
Popery." The laid device will serve him, we
believe, no Letter than the first.