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LORD SHREWSBURY AND DR.
The following correspondence has been pub-
lished :

" Alton Towers, Jan. 1, 1848.

" My Lord Archbishop,—llaving on the 19th ult.
sent the following letter to the Bishop of Elphin, one
of your Grace's suffragans, and not having yet re-
ceived any reply, it appears to me expedient to for-
ward it to his Metropolitan. I have accompanied it
by a letter to your Grace.
" In adopting the alternative of placing these
letters before your Grace through the public journals,
I have followed a precedent now in common use, and
have thereby anticipated by several days the pro.
mulgation of opinions which I deem it essential to
put forth in our vindication.
" Alton Towers, Dec. 9, 1847.
" My Lord Bishop,—lt is probable, through the
report of Lord Farnham's speech in the House of
Lords on Monday last, that your Lordship has heard,
for the first time, of the direct accusation brought
against a priest of your diocese, the Rev. Mr. M'Der-
mott, of having denounced Major Mahon from the
altar of his chapel in Strokestown, 48 hours before his
assassination. It is not, therefore, surprising that no
public notice has hitherto been taken by your Lord-
ship of that accusation. But, no doubt, the case will
now undergo the most searching investigation at your
hands, either that the public scandal may be removed
by the establishment of Father M`Dermott's inno-
cence, or that the outraged majesty of religion may
be vindicated by the most severe ecclesiastical cen-
sures upon the offender.
" There needs no apology, lam sure, for drawing
your Lordship's attention to the very great import-
ance of the question ; for there has seldom been an
event before the public which has created so lively
and so deep a sensation against the Irish clergy gene-
rally, however unjust that view undoubtedly is, and
however contrary to the impressions intended to be
conveyed even by those who have been loudest in
their accusations against individuals.
"‘ All, indeed, will be astonished if no investiga-
tion take place by his ecclesiastical superior, and that
immediately ; for all think, that for the honour of
the church such investigation should precede any
criminal prosecution on the part of Government, if
unfortunately there be evidence against FatherM`Der-
rnott sufficient to put him on his trial for the crime
imputed to him.
" Again your Lordship has facilities of inquiries
not possessed by the Government, and which for the
ends of justice and the credit of religion, ought, it is
asserted, to be used upon this occasion. The ecclesi-
astical censure—if censure he deserve—may reach
him through the civil law may not, and as the offence
is one which more particulary affects the integrity of
ecclesiastical discipline, beir.g committed, as it is
stated, w ithin the sanctuary itself, so does it seem
more peculiarly the province of his bishop to be the
first to undertake proceedings which are now indis-
pensably necessary either to wipe away the stain of
scandal, or to satisfy the craving of justice.
" This, my Lord, is also the more to be desired,
since it will afford a most fitting opportunity of de-
nouncing the awful crimes now of such frequent oc-
currence in some portions of your diocese, and which
have given such an unhappy notoriety to the county
of Roscommon. The Bishop of Limerick's denuncia-
tions against the crimes of the people within his dis-
trict have exercised the most salutary effect upon the
public mind, though they have come but with half
their weight by standing alone. We have long been
looking forward to a similar exercise of the eccle-
siastical authority in others ; and nothing, I am con-
vinced, would so much contribute to remove the sad
impression now so prevalent—that even the higher
clergy have proved, by their silence, the little con-
sideration in which they hold either the crimes of the
people or their own reputation as Christian ministers.
" Trusting your Lordship will pardon this intru-
sion, and attribute it solely to a sincere zeal for the
episcopacy, I remain, my Lord Bishop, with much
respect, your Lordship's most obedient servant,

" SHREWSBURY.'"
" Dec. 18.

" The day after the foregoing letter was written,
Father M'Dermott's letter arrived in the Irish papers.
Objectionable as that letter is, from its general tone
and particular expressions, yet it so firmly contradicted
the main point in question—the denunciation of Major
Mahon, that it seemed to remove much of the occa-
sion for an appeal to your Lordship ; and therefore I
abstained from sending mine. But as Lord Farnham
now appears to have positively substantiated the fact
of Major Mahon being in very angry and reproach-
ful terms held up to the people at the chapels served
by Father M'Dermott in August last—a fact
substantiated by his silence when accused of the
offence—the presumption is that the second accusa-
tion is also true—of Major Mahon being denounced
on the Monday previous to his assassination. So that
it becomes doubly necessary that the interference of
his ecclesiastical superior should satisfy the public
call for a reprimand on so flagrant and dangerous a
violation of charity and decorum ; and not only are
we now compelled to believe in the allegations against
Father M'Dermott, but by his denial of the 7th inst.
he adds the sin of tergiversation to his other delin-
quencies. Nor can any reasonable man be expected
to credit even the most solemn assertions of Father
M'Dermott as a Christian minister, after the truly
unchristian manner in which—and we have it in his
own hand—he behaved to the late Major Mahon.*
" ' To the Right Rev. Dr. Browne,
" Roman Catholic Bishop of Elphin, Sligo.' "
" My Lord Archbishop,—Taking advantage of
this circumstance, and following the example of my
very valued friend, Lord Arundel and Surrey, I
presume to address a few observations to your Grace,
suggested chiefly by your last published letter to
Lord John Russell, of the 17th instant, and your
reply to Lord Arundel and Surrey of the same date.
Against the letter to Lord John Russell I have the
same remonstrance to offer as against all its predeces-
sors—that it is unjustly accusatory of the Govern-
ment, and unhappily exculpatory of those who are
the enemies of all government ; imputing blame
where praise was due, and yet, stranger still, apologe-
tic for crime. My Lord, I know that you repudiate
the very idea, and I believe you ; but the public will
not, because the whole tenor of your strictures ne-
cessarily leads to the opposite conclusion in the minds
of those who judge you from a distance.
" My Lord, you say, Remove the provocation, and
crime will cease. This is your remedy. But sup-
pose the Minister had it not in his power to remove
all at once the exciting cause, and that the stimulat-
ing provocative will and must exist for a time at least ;
has religion no part to perform in the interval ? It
might seem impertinent in me to remind you, my
Lord, that man's life is but a warfare upon earth,
that as long as he lives temptation will never cease to
assail him, and so long will he have to battle with
the principalities and powers of darkness. But, this
admitted, is it not the duty of his guide in spirituals
rather to teach him to resist his passions, than
to tell him he is not surprised that he should be
overcome by their assaults ? If it boa the duty of
the Government—and no doubt it is—to exert
every means within their reach to mitigate or
remove the occasion of evil it is still more
imperative on the minister of religion, whilst he
preaches to their rulers, to preach also to the people
—to instruct, to admonish, to exhort—to announce
to them energetically and unceasingly that it is a
decree of Providence that no temptation shall come
upon there which they are unable to subdue ; that if
they are oppressed, the lot of their oppressors is still
worse than theirs, and that no provocation can justly
drive them to those acts of vengeance which it is now
too much the fashion to admit to be almost a neces-
sity. My Lord, none will assert more willingly than
yourself, that if they yield either to the allurements
of vice or to the impulse of passion, it is because
religion has no dominion over them ; either that its
precepts are not enforced, or, being enforced, are
neglected ; and that early education, and subsequent
religious training, are necessary to elevate a man from
that forlorn condition of our fallen nature, which
if left to himself, would make him a savage even in
the midst of civilization.

" My Lord, the public at large look to the prelates
of the disturbed districts to inform them whether, in
their dioceses, these duties have been punctually and
properly performed ; and Englishmen must be ex-
cused in doubting it amidst scenes which stand forth
so prominently to contradict it. My Lord, it is not
only incumbent on you to satisfy the inquiries of all
interested in the repression of crime, and the preserva-
tion of the social system against that destruction which
now threatens it within your own boundaries and
frcrn your own people, but also to answer the earnest
appeal of those who have a twofold reason to deplore
the evil—that it is a scandal to religion as well as
ruin to the state. To all, my Lord, especially does it
behove you to reply, when it is currently reported
and readily believed, that in what concerns religion
your Grace's diocese is in a state of peculiar destitu-
tion; that you have ever debarred your poor from

Jl,w differently does Father Hughes, of Casticbar,
now stand before the public, clearing himscg from the
aspersions so groundlessly cast upon him, by the most
undeniable evidence, and in a mild, distinct, Christian-
like strain.;

the benefits of education under the national system,
without any efficient substitute of your own ;
that you have never admitted Father Mathew
within your limits ; and that, too, many of
your parishes are without a school, and some of
them without a chapel, though the repeal rent is re-
gularly levied and ungrudgingly paid. I am far
from asserting, my Lord, that in these matters
common rumour does not wrong you—l sincerely
hope it does—but I do suggest that the occasion offers
you an opportunity for redress ; nor should the
ignorant or malicious be allowed, uncontradicted, to
palm upon the world their solution of the difficulty,
and thus account through their own fancies for
crimes which spring up as the grass of the field
among a people hitherto proverbial for their religious
perceptions. Like Lord Arundel and Surrey, I feel
too keenly the reproaches cast upon the religion
which I profess in England, through the excesses of
some who profess Catholicity in Ireland, not to en-
deavour so show that such are neither the natural
nor usual results of the teaching of the ancient and
universal Church ; and which I fear your Grace's
answer to Lord Arundel and Surrey will by no
means establish, for want of sufficient explanation and
detail. It is for this reason, my Lord, that it would
appear as necessary to address you now as if that
letter had not been written.

"But my Lord, I must again refer to your letter to
Lord John Russell. In the_ very same journal in
which that letter made its appearance, complaining
that no seasonable aid had, been administered to
the starving people, nor yet any contemplated, we are
gratified by the still more fc..mal repetition of an an-
nouncement from that member of the Administration
to whose superintending care such office is more pe-
culiarly entrusted, that, independently of the poor-
rate levies made in virtue of an Act which occupied
so much of the time and attention of the Legislature
during the last session, the Government bad a large
fund in hand from which they were resolved to relieve
those districts incapable of providing for their own
amount of destitution. I refer your Grace to Sir G.
Grey's reply to the deputation from the Irish Repre-
sentatives. My Lord, do not your strictures on the
apathy and neglect of the Minister come with a very
unjust severity after an effort such as no nation has,
perhaps, ever yet made—and made at his urgent soli-
citation—to relieve the distresses of another ? If that
effort were not altogether successful, if it still fell
short of the necessities of the case, the defect at
least was not in the intention ; but may, with far
more justice and propriety, I venture to submit,
be imputed to the unerring though inscrutable
designs of God, who so blinded the under-
standing of our rulers that his visitation might
not be averted by any human ingenuity; and I would
even suggest it as a subject for reflection, whether
that visitation were not aggravated—whether it be
not very grievously aggravated at this particular mo-
ment—because, my Lord, every sufficient expression
of gratitude has been withheld, both from the Go-
vernment and the people of England, for the very
generous sacrifices which in their charity, as in their
duty, they were pleased to make last year in favour
of their suffering brethren in Ireland ; but which
this year have been arrested by the scantiness of her
thanks, the bitterness of her reproaches, the crimes
of too many of her people, the unrestrained violence
of some few of her pastors, the apathy of still fewer,
as we hope, of her prelates. When all were thus
scandalized and astounded, disgusted and dismayed,
can we wonder that the sources of charity were
dried up?
" And thus in sadness do I approach another and
still more afflicting portion of your Grace's letter.
Would there had been no crimes but those deeds of
retaliation' which you so deplore and execrate ! No
murder, no assassination, no robbery, no pillage, no
injustice, no cruelty, no foul atrocities to disgrace
the country,' but those stimulated by the cruel and
heart-rending evictions of the poor!' My Lord, if
we trusted only to your description for a faithful re-
cord of the crimes of the people, of all these we should
gather nothing hut the pleasing delusion that they
had no existence.

" But how is the fact ? Why, my Lord, in the
very same journal in which I find your Grace's letter,
no less than twelve foul, unnatural murders, or at-
tempts to murder, are narrated with all their hideous
details from the Irish papers, in the daily sanguinary
column devoted to the state' of your unhappy'eoun-
try, without one of them being able to claim the
extenuating excuse of being stimulated by the cruel
process of eviction. No ! they are all, one and all,
so many dramas in that demon tragedy now perform-
ing with such appalling atrocity in the disturbed dis-
tricts in Ireland, under the multifarious and mystic
characters of Molly Maguireism, Terryaltism, White-
feetism, Whiteboyism, Itibandism, and so forth, all
members of one great conspiracy against property—
that they who have no land shall have it, that they
who occupy the land of others shall henceforth hold it
for themselves alone.

"In confirmation of this statement I beg to refer
your Grace to the following extract from the Dublin
Evening Past of the 23d instant :—' We have re-
peatedly stated it as our opinion that the parties en-
gaged in the perpetration of the frightful outrages
that disgrace the country are, in almost all cases,
idle vagabonds, altogether regardless of the sufferings
of the poor, but who take advantage of the prevailing
destitution to organize secret confederacies. Up to
this time we have not heard of a :single case where
persons really distressed have been concerned in this
system of atrocious crime. Some of the best land-
'lords of the country have become obnoxious to those
miscreants, and threatening notices have ;been served
upon them.'
"But our calendar of crime is not yet complete.
To all these crying sins are there no abettors before
the fact ? no accessories after it ? Is not every indi-
vidual offence multiplied ten hundred fold by the
sympathies of whole masses of the people ? But
against all these it is almost in vain that we look for
denunciations from the high places of that Church to
which the nation has been given in charge, and of
which your Grace is so distinguished a member 1 Of
all these, my Lord, you are as silent as the grave, in
which it would be well indeed if, once and for ever,
we could bury all remembrance of them.
o I am well aware, my Lord, that to those who
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refer to the solemn address of the assembled bishops
in the month of November. But if that address has
failed of its effect when delivered in the collected
name of all, why has it not been tried in another form
—from every individual prelate speaking in the midst
of his own people ?
~ What part in crime, either violent and exciting
speeches from the clergy, or denunciations from the
altar,
may have borne, yet remains to be proved. But
you are told, my Lord, that men were denounced from
the sanctuary in the morning, and as a consequence
murdered in the evening—men, too, who were not of
their flock, and over whose delinquencies they had no
jurisdiction; and, my Lord, your answer is, ' St. Gre-
gory recommends the treatment, and the ancient fa-
thers denounced the persecutors of the early Christians.'
But unless you can show that the men denounced by
the early fathers were thereupon shot like the beasts of
the forest, you are arguing wide of the point; for
that is the accusation brought against certain clergy
in Ireland, and to which it would be worse than fu-
tile to reply by sheltering the accused under an ir-
relevant appeal to the great St. Gregory and the an-
cient fathers. My Lord, we pray for some better
answer than this; or do we not risk your passing
before the world as a mystifier and a sophist ? If
the denunciations be all a fiction, deny them by some
less equivocal phrase than that they are not ' the
practice ;'
if ever they be made, whether followed by
the fatal results attributable to them or not, from this
moment forbidithem for the future, ;if it were only to
acquit
a dignitary of the Church of the imputation
before the public, which with one voice calls for
their suppression, and, which will accept neither apo-
logy nor
explanation for their continuance. Claimy
not ' the right of denouncing aggressions against jus-
tice and humanity from any
quarter'—it is invest
ing the priest with a judicial power which he is
unfitted to exercise with
impartiality—it is a right
too easy to abuse, too dangerous to enforce.
4i My Lord, the illustration is at hand. Father
M'Dermott charged Major Mahon with acts of in-
justice and cruelty to his People ; the Major rebutted
the accusation, and solicited Father :M‘Dermott to
meet him
and receive the explanation. Father
M'Dermott rejected the proposition with scorn, for
he had already condemned him on his own ex parte
evidence, and upon that alone had carried the sen-
tence of denunciation into effect against him. My
Lord, this took place during the latter days of August
and early in September last.
" My Lord, you neither excuse nor vindicate, but
deplore' the intemperate language of which we
complain ; and you ' suppose' that the usual evange-
lical process of admonition has been used to prevent
a repetiCon of the offence; but, my Lord, the evange-
lical discipline required that for public sins there
should be a public penance. A scandal committed
before the world is not to be effaced by private ex-
hortation ; nor yet, my Lord, as you allege, are the
many good deeds, even of a long life, always capable
of atoning for one great offence against society with-
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out some special reparation as security for the future.
" But even now it would seem necessary once more
to
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