The news from Ireland this week is not sensational, but
much of it is hopeful. The juries continue to give verdicts, and in Con- naught alone a hundred persons have been sentenced for intimi- dation and agrarian outrage, after fair trial and full defence. That is far more satisfactory than any number of arrests, how- ever well justified by the conduct of the arrested. A sentence rouses none of the sympathy evoked by an arrest. The Roman Catholic Bishops in America, too, who have South Germans to think of as well as Irishmen, and feel the opinion of the Spanish- American world, are warning their flocks that the Church can sanction neither revolution nor robbery. They utterly condemn the " .No-rent" agitation, and though they are without influence with the leaders, who despise Bishops as utterly as the Command- ments, their public declarations weigh with the decent Catholic workmen, who subscribe the funds. It is in America that the mischief must ultimately be attacked. Deprived of American subscriptions, the Irish movement would soon be reduced to its true proportions, those of a movement against the English form of land-tenure, which Parliament has already abolished.
