Fortunately, the Roman Catholics are not all, or chiefly, of
Cardinal Mannin,g's mind. At an Irish meeting, held in the Albion Hall, London Wall, under the auspices of the Home- rulers, at which Mr. F. H. O'Donnell took the chair, those pre- sent indignantly denied that the Roman Catholics of the East favoured the Turkish rule, in spite of what the Pope has said on the subject; and resolutions severely condemning the inaction of the Government, and claiming home-rule for the Christian pro- vinces of Turkey, were unanimously carried. Of course frequent and bitter reference was made to former English "atrocities" in Ireland, which perhaps we deserve. Nevertheless, as there is no one living now who shared either the political or the military responsibility for those atrocities, or anything likelhem, the refer- since cannot conduce to a better understanding between England and Ireland.
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