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The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, Dr.
MURRAY, has addressed a long letter to the Prows-.
tants of Great Britain, in refutation of the foul impu-
tations cast upon the Catholic religion and its
Hierarchy, by the Reverend Mountebanks M'GIIEE
and O'SULLIVAN—now on a mission of misrepresen-
tion and slander through England and Scotland. The
letter of the Most Rev. Prelltl2 proves to us that his
Lordship is more if,
duties', " 'tent on the discharge of his pasto-
raltitan on making himself acquainted with the
~4ate t public feeling in Great Britain. Did Dr.
MURRAY only know the disgust and indignation with
which all really respectable and influential men regard
the fanatical exhibitions of the calumniators whom he
denounces—were he made acquainted with the charac-
ter of the class of persons who throng Exeter Hall
when a new religious importation is placarded—could
he but gain the most partial insight into the motives of
the majority of persons who patronise such farcical
spectacles throughout England—we are very confident
that the letter before us never would have been written.
Dr. MURRAY has been misinformed by those who
represented to him, that the Protestants of Great
Britain can be influenced in their opinions of
Catholicism and Catholics, by the ravings of such
bigotted bedlamites as M'GHEE and O'SULLIVAN.
Of this we are so well convinced, that we regard the
re-publication of the whole of his letter as altogether
unnecessary. We shall, however, make a few extracts
from it—such as appear to us to convey to Protestants
the strongest assurances of the triffling differences which
exist between the contending Creeds, in all that is really
essential to the observance of true religion.
Dr. MURRAY makes some very forcible observa-
tions on the absurdity of the challenge which the
reverend traducers of Catholicism have dared to
address to the Catholic prelates of Ireland. " 'Were
I," says his Lordship, " or any number of Catholic
clergymen, to summon the Bishop of LONDON, or
any of his Right Reverend Brethren, to suspend his
pastoral duties, and come over to Dublin, or Cork, or
Galway, or at least to send some duly authorised person
to appear in his name, to answer before a public meet-
ing of Catholics some charge that would be there ex-
hibited against him, would you not stare at the match-
less effrontery which could have suggested such a pro-
posal ? 'Would you not rather believe that the man
who could venture to announce it must be labouring
under some strange mental aberration ? " Had Dr.
MURRAY, instead of the Catholic Bishops, supposed
the Irish challengers of the English Hierarchy to be a
renegade monk and a fanatical accomplice, the case
would be put, less charitably perhaps, but with more
strict regard to correct analogy. This part of the
question is, however, of no importance. The people
of England paid not the slightest attention to the
flinging down of polemical gauntlets in Exeter Hall.
It was looked upon as a necessary part of the per-
formance—and the character of the exhibitors consi-
dered—necessarily the safest part. Had the same
scene occurred at Astley's, the people of England
would have as much expected to see a Catholic Pre-
late come here to defend the infallibility of the Holy See
as they did at the conclusion of O'StmuvAN's
harangue on the abominations of Popery.
After all that has been written on the sub-
ject of DENS' Theology, it is quite unnecessary to
say more ti to that the Catholic Prelate of Dublin
ni.::;st solemnly avers that the book never was a stan-
dard of Catholic belief. His Lordship is unquestion-
ably a better authority on this subject than all the
ranting renegades of the United Kingdom. His long
residence in Spain, and the many years which he has
devoted to the study of Catholic theology, both as a
Professor and a Prelate, entitle him to rank among the
foremost evidences of a fact, of which it is morally im-
possible that he could be ignorant. Commenting upon
those passages in DENS' book which recommend the
suppression of heresies by means of the civil power, and
upon the conclusions which have been drawn from
them, to the prejudice of Catholics as fellow-subjects
and citizens, Dr. MURRAY observes :
Persecution is not a tenet of the Catholic Church. Nay
more ; if it were, the whole hierarchy of Ireland would
have long since renounced its title to the name of Catho-
lic. For, on the 25th of January, 1826, thirty Catholic
Bishops, including three coadjutors (that is, all the Catholic
Bishops of Ireland), published a declaration containing the
following words l--" The Catholics of Ireland not only do
not believe, but they declare upon oath that they detest, as
unchristian and impious, the belief that it is lawful to murder
or destroy any person or persons whatsoever for or under
pretence of their being heretics ; and also the principle that
no faith is to be kept with heretics." Yet those Bishops
were Catholic, eminently Catholic, and it was their glory
never to have swerved from " the faith once delivered to
the Saints," nor to have "greedily run after the error of
Balaam for rewaid." It is absurd, then, to talk of perse-
cution as a tenet of the Catholic Church.

Observe, now, I pray you, how the Catholic Clergy of
Ireland endeavour to impress upon their flocks the spirit of
those declarations. In the Catechism sanctioned by the
four Catholic Archbishops of Ireland, and which is in gene-
ral use through the country, the following questions and an-
swers are found :--

Q. To bow many commandments may the fien Com-
mandments of God be reduced ?

A. To these two principal commandments, which are the
two great precepts of charity, " Thou shalt love the Lord
thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul,
and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind, and thy
neighbour as thyself. This do, and thou shalt live."—
Luke, ch. x., v. 29.
R. And who is thy neighbour ?
A, Mankind of every description, and without any ex-
ception of persons, ow those who injure us, or differ from
us in religion.
Q. How am Ito love ray neighbour as myself ?
A. " As you would," says Christ, "that men should do
to you, do you also to them in like manner."....Luke,
ch. vi., V. 31.
Q. What particular duties Pe required of me by that
rule ?

;n word or deed, in
ell to him, and
as you are

A. Never to injure your neighbour
his person, property, or character ; to wish
to pray for him ; and always to assist him, Am fly
able, in his spiritual and corporal necessities.
Q. Am I also obliged to love my enemies ?
A. Most certainly. " Love your epernies,"says Christ, I