Whatever will the Adveriiser do? Cardinal Cullen has been entertained
by the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland at a State dinner, dressed in red stockings and all the other paraphernalia of a Prince of the Church. The next thing will be to receive a Nuncio. Considering that the Cardinal is the Primate of the only Church the majority of Irishmen believe in, that his official rank raises him to the level of a great noble, that he has stood by Government heartily in the Fenian matter, and that an insulting social ex- clusion is the worst because the pettiest form of religious per- secution, the Marquis of Abercorn's act does not strike us as very monstrous. It is lucky for him, nevertheless, that he is not a member of the Lower House, and that Orangemen are just at present too full of hatred for Fenituas and Liberals to hate any-
body else. •
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