The Orange. Tories have got into a sad scrape about
Archbishop WHATELEY and their neophyte, NOLAN. It was positively asserted, that NOLAN was the Archbishop of ARMAGH'S curate, and that he was " inhibited " from preaching in Dublin without previous notice, and becauselhe was a " reformed " Catholic. In order to get a few days, currency for this lie, only part of the correspondence relative to the subject was pCdished. The Dublin correspondent of the Times has furnished the remainder ; whence it appears, that the Archbishop of ARMAGH did not license NOLAN; that Dr. WHATELEY refused to license him, because, on examination be was found to be "miserably ignorant of the Scriptures ; " that NOLAN knew this perfectly well for he called on Dr. WHATELEY'S chaplain to protest against the refusal of the licence ; and finally, that Archdeacon MAGEE, in whose church NOLAN was to have preached, is perfectly satisfied with Dr. WitaTELev's conduct throughout. It would seem that this Not.asi hag never been licensed at all, though be pretended to be the Archbishop of ARMAGH'S curate to Archdeacon MAGEE.
Finding themselves baffled in their attack on Dr. WHATELEY, the Times and Standard try to create a diversion in their favour ; and making use of the assertion of Dr. WHATELEY, that NOLAN Was" mi. serably ignorant of the Scriptures," throw up eyes and hands in holy horror at the shocking state of Maynooth, where NOLAN was edit-. cated,—intimating that all the students of Maynooth are as ignorant as NOLAN. But here again it happens, unfortunately, that NOLAN was refused holy orders by the President of Maynooth College, as he has since been refused a licence by Dr. WHATELEY. In short, nobody owns the "miserably ignorant" apostate missionary, save the zealous and pious Orangemen.
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