The English Press,—even the most Liberal English press,—can never be
even commonly just to the Irish Ultramoutaues. Arch- bishop Leahy and Bishop Derry have sent what seems to us a most effective reply to Lord Mayo's statement that they had themselves broken off the negotiation for the Catholic University, —and show conclusively that if Lord Mayo had any right to assume this, they would have had, at an earlier stage of the negotiation, precisely the same right, grounded on the use of the same terms and on the interposition of the same delays, to suppose that Lord Mayo had broken it off on the part of the Government. But Ultramontane prelates, whatever the sense or cogency of what they say, get no mercy in England. Their compositions are only set down as "verbose," "tawdry," "vulgar," and they are merely told that nobody believes them. For our own parts, Ultra- montane prelates though they be, we think they have made out very clearly that Lord Mayo would not have assumed the negotia- tion to be broken off, had it not. been very convenient for the Government at that moment to do so.
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