25 MARCH 1893, Page 3

It should be noted that the Catholic missionaries are now

in favour of direct British supremacy in Uganda. In the able plea for the Catholic view of recent transactions just pub- lished by the Catholic Union in a pamphlet, Bishop Hirth distinctly makes this request,—and Bishop Hirth is no Moderate. In the very same letter, he actually affirms that "the history of all the missions established during this cen- tury proves to me that in all heathen countries where Pro- testants were to be found in opposition to Catholics, the former have never triumphed except through violence." The italics are the Bishop's. The statement is absolutely un- founded as regards India, the greatest of mission-fields, where the only Christian converts made by violence were those made in Goa by fear of the Inquisition.