The Archbishop of Armagh has made a great effort to
explain away his statement in the House of Lords that if the Protestants could not have places of worship they must emigrate, and if they emigrated, then Ireland, left to Catholic inhabitants, might have to be governed "by the gibbet and the sword." What the Arch- bishop says he did say was this :—after remarking that by the emigration of the Protestants the difficulty of governing Ireland would be "greatly increased," he went on, " It is very generally stated that if the Roman Catholics are not satisfied with this measure, then Ireland must be conquered over again. Can it be that there is no other mode of conquering Ireland but the gibbet and the sword? Would it not be better to leave the Bible still open, and the sword 'indrawn'?" As nobody, that we ever heard of, has proposed to close the Bible, we suppose this practically means, " Would it not be better to leave the Protestant garrison where it is and the sword undrawn ?" 1Ve fear the Archbishop has not mended his case. He did think, and does think, apparently, that there is no hope of keeping down the Roman Catholics except by an alliance with the Orangemen.
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