The report of a suggested compromise between the Irish National
Board of Education and Father O'Keeffe, to which we drew attention last week, not without implying our doubt as to its authenticity, turns out to have been of the nature of fiction. Mr. Bonverie on Tuesday postponed for three weeks his motion of cen- sure on the Education Board, alleging as his reason the intention of Father O'Keeffe's so-called party to make one more effort to persuade the National Beard of Education to reverse its policy ; but if he will allow -as to give him a word of counsel, he will again postpone it sine die. We have examined the precedents and the common-sense of the question with some care in another column, and shown that if either Archbishop Whately's authority and that of his chief Protestant coadjutors, or the uniform practice of the Board, or the Common-sense of the matter, is to be con- sulted, they all tell in one way, and that the way in which the majority of the Board have declared themselves. Mr. Bouverie has no popularity to spare just now at Kilmarnock, and must not make a needless parade of his troglodyte propensities. Be-
sides, he evidently needs political rest,—for which Kilmarnock seems likely to provide him the opportunity against his will, if he does not desist in time from the morbid excitements of political intrigue.
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