A great meeting was held in the Plunnix Park on
Sunday, to protest against the interference of the Church of Rome in Irish politics. The Lord Mayor of Dublin took the chair, and declared that the Irish people would as soon think of taking their politics from the palace by the Tiber, as their religion from the palace by the Thames ; but what he really meant to say was that they would as soon think of allowing ecclesias- tical authority to put any limits on the religious tools which he and his friends were determined to use in politics, as they would of allowing the political authorities at Westminster to put any limits on the political tools which he and his coreligionists were determined to use in propagating their faith. The Lord Mayor expressed un- limited confidence in Archbishop Walsh, and declared it to be their duty to make it plain to all men that they would never allow the intriguers at Rome to succeed. Mr. Dillon and Mr. O'Brien spoke in the same strain, the former with a good deal of fury, the latter with a good deal of reserve. And the meeting, which was about five thousand strong, passed the resolution submitted to it, declining to recognise any right in the Holy See to interfere in Irish politics. The Cork Examiner, a Nationalist journal, is evidently alarmed at this tendency to denounce the Papal Rescript, and warns its readers of the imprudence of such a course.
