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education Of young priests for the diocese
OF Beverley, made a remark on the regime
of force which had succeeded to that
pastoral authority Of the Pope in Europe
which was, ut one time, sufficient to
pacify and govern it. 1t was hardly a
happy remark, d propos of a time when
the Pope is openly giving out that he pre-
fers the savagery and lust of Turkish bar.
barism to the bigotry of the rude Chris,
tian Slavs, only because the former inter
pose fewer obstacles to the free celebra-
ton of Roman Catholic worship than the
latter. "The age Of iron," as his Eminence
termed this epoch of mighty standing ar.
mics and ri1ed cannon, undoubtedly has
its miSeries and its sins but the " pasto-
raj care'' which would protect plundering
Pashas and bloody Bashi- Bazouks, rather
than endanger the perfect freedom of a
few Roman Catholic Churches, will hard.
ly shame the " age Of iron" into piety and
peace. The Cardinal accounts for the
extreme passiveness Of the Catholic COM
munity in relation to the horrible iniqui-
ties and c~ruelties Of the Turkish policy,
by pleading that they fear the periIs to
Europe of bringing on q general war. II
the Slavs had been Catholics, or the Turks
less contemptuously complacent towards
Catholics, we should have heard o very
different tale.
Fortunately, the Roman Catholics are
not oil, or chiefly, Of Cardinal Manning's
mind. At an Irish meeting, held in the
Albion Hall, London Wall, under the
auspices OF the Home-rulers, at which Mr..
+. II. O'Donnell took the chair, those pre-
sent Indignantly denied that the Roman
Catholics of the East favoured the Turk
ish rule, in spite OF what the Pope has
said on the subject; and resolutions severe
ly c%ondemning the %inaction of the Govern
ment, and claiming home-rule for the
Christian provinces of Turkey, were unani-
mously carried. Of course frequent and
bitter reference was made to former Eng
lish " atrocities in Ireland, which per-
haps we deserve. Nevertheless, as there
is no one living now who shared either the
political or the military responsibility for
those atrocities, or anything like them, the
reference cannot conduce to a better under
standing between England and Ireland.
The United States Government is to be
congratulated on its success in inducing
several of the Indian tribes that wander
over the region lying on the head.waters
of the Missouri to consent to their removal
to the Indian territory. 1t was the at
tempt to do this which caused the Sioux
war, and now, we learn, some of the
Sioux have accepted the terms of the Gov
eminent. There can be little doubt that
the removal will ultimately be beneficial
to the Indians themselves. The Black
Hills and neighbourhood cannot be per-
petually closed against the Whites. And
moreover, the system of rations and agen-
cies, with all its corruption and demorali-
s%ation, has utterly failed. In the Indian
Territory, on the contrary, the experiment
made has been fairly successful. The In
dams there settled have made considerable
progress in civilization. They have estab-
lished schools and churches, inhabit good
houses, and have learnt husbapdry; while
the Government has been able to guard
their reserves. In that Territory, there
fore,' there is o chance for the tribes, and
by their removal fertile regions will be
thrown open to colonization.
The American Presidential campaign is