The British Critic, the organ of the most wealthy and
respectable section of the Church of England Clergy, has given the Irish clerical agitators and their patrons an unkind cut. After ridiculing the false and impudent assertion of O'Sullivan at Exeter Hall, that "lie stood there by the universal call of the Protestants England," the reviewer goes on to say— But let us look to the proceedings. The Record newspaper informs us that "Mr. M‘Ghee," the Reverend Mr. M‘Ghee, "stepped forward, and was re- ceived with three rounds of applause." He said, " My Lord, ladies, and gen- tlemen! " We are almost tempted to ask, whether we are reading of a Protes- tant clergyman or of a strolling player on his benefit night. Oh, these things are not wanted in England, and will not tend to "pacify" Ireland. They provoke retaliation. Sooner or later Popish meetings at the Rotunda in Dublin will be the result of these exhibitions at Exeter Hall; and, what is worse, we shall become almost afraid to remonstrate against the exacerbating virulence of the Romish priests, because we shall be met in reply with a tu quoque. The futility, too—the ply is transparent—of submitting the decision of a theolo- gical case almost to "a jury of matrons," to the arbitrement of some 1500 or 2000 sinart bonnets at Exeter Hall.
Indeed it was too absurd, the folly of the dupes being only equalled by the knavery of those who prompted "the strolling players."
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