A SINN FEIN BISHOP.
[To THE EDITOR or THE ‘. Seecrrron.") Si's—With regard to the false and seditious words of the Bishop of Endo° quoted by you last week, a reference to the Life of the distinguished Roman Catholic historian Lingard, by Haile and Bonney, p. 338, will show that this Irish Bishop only keeps up the practices and methods of his predecessors. Liugard, writing in 1848, said: " If they [i.e., the Dish Bishops] write, it is not to write common-sense, but to display their talents for declamation. In fact, to me it is plain that they entertain a routed antipathy to everything English." later on he said •• They are rebels at heart. . . . How long is this ill blood to be kept up Through seven generations ? No: Through seventy times seven." These are the words of a sober Roman Catholic historian, who cannot be accused of " Orange " prejudice. Lingo'd hail a lifelong experience in investigating the cause of national disputes, and would not have written against his co-religionists without very
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