Bit standard. With St. Gregory he says, that the "modes
and topics of address suited to one may not be applicable to another," but admit of a "judicious and seasonable variety " ; and, denying that " denunciations fig name are the practice in Ireland," he likens more general denunciations against "the violators of Justice and humanity" to "the practice of the ancient Fathers, who de- nounced the cruelties and persecutions of the Pagatukantl heretics against their flocks." To demand rent, then, is Pdgan persecu- tion; to forgive arrears and aid the defaulters in emigrating to comfort and happiness in the Colonies' is heretical tyranny! Dr. M'Hale points out no way in which "the scandal" deplored by Lord Arundel and Surrey can be removed. This week, too, the same fertile author publishes another letter of that onesided correspondence which he keeps up. with the Premier, also intended to extenuate the altar denunciations. He eomplains that the rule of English government in Ireland "for seven centuries" has been "first coercion and then measures of amelioration." The shedding of human blood, he admits, shall ever " cry to Heaven for vengeance "; " and probably the reason why the Catholic clergy are arraigned, is not because they have omitted the inculcation of the fifth commandment, but because they have explained, with rather too -much of theological accu- raoy, the variety of trays in which persons may be guilty of its infraction." On this sentence any murderer of them all might found a casuistical defence.
