25 DECEMBER 1869, Page 3

The priest Father Ryan, who talked so brutally on the

Tip- perary hustings of discontented farmers going out with pistols and " tumbling their landlords," has been suspended for his con- duct, and, as we remarked at the time, he has been,—we believe more than once,--suspended before for similar bursts of political brutality. Can no severer penalty than suspension be inflicted ? A priest who gives a sort of sanction to assassination should be finally prohibited from exercising his priestly office for the rest of his life, and put under the severest penalties of the Church as well. Surely the " note of infamy," which was threatened against Pere Hyacinthe, and very possibly affixed, would not be too severe a penalty for one who in effect encourages and extenuates assasi- nation ?