The Times appears to have suddenly discovered that our state-
ment last week as to the false interpretation put on the recent appointments of the Government, as though they implied a breach with Catholic statesmen, was true, and rather unkindly turned round on Wednesday upon Mr. Ilorsman, and quizzed him for his readiness to believe so unlikely a theory. Mr. Horsman may well reply that if be believed it at all, it was on the authority of the Times, which somewhat ostentatiously called attention to the anti-Catholic significance of the recent appoint- ments. "It is curious," said the Times on Wednesday, "how even men somewhat experienced in affairs delight in finding some one complete theory to explain every occurrence. 13 it not far more probable that the necessity for the recent changes arose chiefly out of a series of misfortunes, and that the Government, think- ing bygones might be bygones, simply took the most capable and practicable men they could find r No doubt it is far more probable, since we know that so it was. But poor Mr. Jlorsman.
could hardly have expected that the Times would banter him for accepting the authority of a journal not only "somewhat," but so profoundly "experienced in affairs" as itself. If you have led a man into a ditch, it is ungenerous to laugh at him for gallantly following you.
