THE LORD MAYOR OF CORK.
[To THI EDITOR OF TM " SercrATort.']
Sm,—Most of us, I am sure, agree with your correspondent "English and Catholic" that the suicide of the late Lord Mayor of Cork was not a base or cowardly suicide. Is it not, however, rather revolting to see his case compared with that of a Christian executed for refusing to sacrifice to a statute of a Roman Emperor? The former killed himself; the latter would be killed by the executioners. The former was by his own admission a party to a conspiracy to slaughter fellow- men wholesale for political objects; the latter only asked to be Slowed to worship in his own way. The former lived under What is probably the most tolerant and democratic Govern- ment that has ever existed; the latter was at the mercy of bloodthirsty and degraded tyrants. Would not "English and Catholic" with better taste have left the word " Christian " out of this diseusaion and have sought an analogy elsewhere?—
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