The angry feeling caused by the ill-behaviour of the Roman-
Catholic mob of Montreal in relation to the Guibord ease appears to have broken out last Sunday in Protestant violence of a similar, or worse than similar kind,—for one can, perhaps, better excuse an ignorant mob's violence at what it regards as a desecration of its own consecrated places, than an equally ignorant mob's violence at that which, at worst, it can only look
upon as a mischievous ostentation of superstition. The Roman Catholics of Montreal organised last Sunday a "public procession," marching from church to church, in honour of the Roman-Catholic Provincial Council. Perhaps it was looked upon by the Protestants as a sort of challenge, after the successful Roman- Catholic resistance to the burial of Guibord. At any rate, they attacked the procession, and ultimately broke it up. "Firearms," says the telegram, "were freely used, and volleys of stones were thrown. One man was killed and about fifty were severely wounded." This is a very serious kind of riot. Have the authori- ties of Montreal no fire-engines with which they could disperse mobs, even when soldiers are not at hand? They would be quite as effectual as rifles, and would leave no rankling sorrows and resentments to survive the dispersion of the rioters.
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