ROMAN CATHOLICS AND THE EASTERN QUESTION.
(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.']
Sin,—It seems to me that my co-religionists are pursuing a most suicidal course by tying up their cause with the effete Ottoman Power. Surely the supposed long-sightedness of Rome is failing, if she does not perceive that she shuts the door against any future influence in the East by openly supporting the cause of tyranny, The Turkish population is steadily declining, the Christian is equally increasing. Rome lost the best half of Europe through not seeing how matters were going ; she is now apparently in an equally suicidal manner banding over the Easterns to their own devices, for the sake of the small amount of liberty accorded to her by the Turks, a liberty which, as a matter of fact, she deserves to be deprived of, if the Greek Christians come to the front, for will it not with great justice be said that an alliance between Rome and the Turk is proof positive that there can be no union between the would-be oppressors and the ex-oppressed 2-1 am, Sir, &c.,
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