The question of Ireland came up in the House of
Lords on Tuesday, when the Archbishop of Canterbury protested against the prevalence of irregular reprisals. " You cannot cast out devils by calling in other devils," he said. Lord Denbigh urged the withdrawal of the auxiliaries from Ireland. The Lord Chancellor seemed to force his indignation a little beyond the point of sincerity when he charged the Archbishop with timorous criticism and Lord Denbigh with repeating " anonymous tittle. tattle." We may mention here a letter which Lord Denbigh wrote to the Times of Friday, February 18th. It was such a letter as we should have expected from one of the best types of English Roman Catholic. Lord Denbigh backed up the recent appeal of Cardinal Bourne, and, while both acknowledging his belief that undisciplined reprisals had been committed in Ireland and refusing to credit all the stories of such reprisals which are poured forth by Sinn Fein, he deplored the fact that the Irish Hierarchy had not denounced murder by means of any " united declaration."
