NEUTRALITY.
[To am EDITOR or MB ..liescr.o.^]
Si.—In your issue of April 3rd "An Inquirer" propounds three inquiries. The first is of the nature of an inquiry commonly made by a low kind of schoolboy of another which runs something like this: "Has your father yet broken his strange silence on the drinking propensities of your mother ?" Such a question can be answered in a variety of ways. His second question is easier. The reply is obviously that in a purely religious war of Catholics versus the rest the Pope, being a bad man, would abandon his " neutrality " and give the rest the nearest imitation of purgatory that he could lay his hands on by an unlimited sole of absolutions among the Catholics. So let "Inquirer" be careful not to be found among the rest. The reply to his third question is "Yes, certainly," there is nothing more objectionable than inoppor- tune infallibility, whether in a Pope or a mere inquirer. Finally, I should now like to put an inquiry to "Inquirer "- viz., what action would lie take were he Pope, and what results would he expect to follow from it P—I am, Sir, &c., A REPLIER.
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