11 SEPTEMBER 1886, Page 2

The "No Popery" days are indeed over. Not only has

a Roman Catholic been twice elected for a great Birmingham constituency, but Lord Randolph Churchill, when remonstrated with by the Directors of the Scottish Protestant Alliance on the appointment of a Roman Catholic to be Home Secretary, replies curtly and contemptuously that he observes with astonishment and regret that, in this age of enlightenment and toleration, persons professing to be educated and intelligent can arrive at conclusions so senseless and irrational as those set forth in the letter from the Scottish Protestant Alliance. That marks the extinction, we hope, of the "No Popery" bigotry.