The Ecclesiastical 'Titles Bill remains a dead letter., The Roman
Catholic . prelates assume and are called -by theill pro- hibited titles, yet no steps are taken to enforce the law. -On this side of the Irish Channel,no one appears to take the least concern in the matter ; on the.other _side, the more violent of the priest- -hood taunt Lord Sohn Missal...with the utmost latitude' of invec- tive. Even in their ranks, however, there are signs, of disunion. The attendance . of Roman Catholics on the Godless Colleges doei not appear to have abated ; the Roman -Catholic journals complain of the extent of proselytism from their Church ; and the Defence Committee has been assailed in no measured terms by priestly op .• seats. ut of better augury for Ireland is the movement that has :taken place in Galway for the establishing of ocean steam-commu- nication with America. Failing in obtaining the assistance of Go- vernment, or the cooperation of English capitalists or shipowners, the Irish, undeterred by the failure of the first negotiation with
New York, have persevered, and succeeded in prevailing upolt an American company to make the experiment( of directreanmitnant- tion by steam between that city and the West coast if 'avian&
The experiment has a national) intenest Hit sunseei, the Ow- lish capitalists will curt* not albimr ene of tee bestrewn of moan steam traffic—part of it within their own waters—to be monopo- lized by Americans. They will try the still shorter passage from Galway to Halifax, and by this means bring the important manu- facturing district around Belfast into the direct line of communica- tion between America and Europe. The projected railways in the British North American Provinces appear to be making way ; and at the head of the new Canadian Ministry is Mr. Hineks, who per- haps better than any of his fellow colonists appreciates their un- pertanee, and possesses the financial talent requisite to• promote them. Railways throughout British North America, combined with the shortest and most expeditious line of ocean transit, will not only open up the interior of those provinces, but make them the highway of the commerce with Iowa andWisconsin, and other States that may arise in the North-west
