We have referred elsewhere to the extreme disinclina- tion of
the Irish Bishops to let the head of their Church see anything of Irish questions which ho does not see through
the eyes of the Irish Episcopacy. Last week the Irish Bishops are reported to have protested unanimously, and to have pro- tested unanimously even in a meeting attended by the Primate and the Archbishop of Dublin, as well as by the Archbishop of Cashel and most of the Irish Bishops, against the wish of the Pope to send a Nuncio to London. And yet it is pretty certain that such men as Archbishop McCabe might find their hands materially strengthened by the presence of such a Nuncio in London. The Pope, who has shown his full appreciation of Archbishop McCabe's recent pastoral, by republishing it in the semi-official journal the Aurora, has no adequate means at pre- sent of weighing such representations as Archbishop McCabe makes against those of men like the Archbishop of Cashel, and discovering which of the two are most in keeping with the true policy of the Church. Why moderate men, who know that they try to report truly to the Pope, should dread to lot the Pope have independent means of checking their statements, is not, at first, very apparent. We suppose what they dread really, is the reputation of not being thought Irish enough,—the reputation of not being jealous enough of England.
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