We confess that this threatened production of documents does not
move us much. Irishmen when they quarrel always wave papers which they threaten to publish if the other side does not take care, but somehow or other these terrible papers never see the light, and are, we suspect, as often as not, nothing but "property letters." At the same time, the dates are very much against Archbishop Croke's contention., The divorce case ended on November 17th; the Leinster meeting in Mr. Parnell's favour, attended by priests and in no way discouraged by the Bishops, was on November 20th ; Mr. Gladstone's letter appeared on Novena- ber 26th; Mr. Parnell's manifesto on November 28th. It was not till December 3rd, when it was clear that the Liberal party was solid with Mr. Gladstone's line, that the Bishops' manifesto appeared.
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