IRELAND AND THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. [To THE EDITOR OF
THE " SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—I think Mr. Ernest S. Brown is wrong in concluding that the Roman Catholics in England are in sympathy with the Sinn Feiners and Irregulars in Ireland. In making this assertion I do not, of course, speak for the Irish Catholics in this country, although I have no doubt that many among them are loyal to Great Britain too. But among and above all Englishmen the King has no more loyal subjects than the English Roman Catholics. I always understood that the Fathers of the Brompton Oratory, to whom Mr. Brown alludes, were not only devout Catholic priests, but without exception English gentle- men also. It is difficult without further proof to believe that their Superior would do anything to support disloyalty or law- lessness. With much of Mr. Brown's letter wo cannot help, however, being in agreement. Corruptio optima pessinia.— I am, Sir, Ise., Earn V. WOODS. Cavendish Club, 119 Piccadilly, W.
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