NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Worm) that we could omit Ireland from our survey of passing affairs ! It is a subject that presents every element of disgust— triteness, revolting crime, misery, and perversity. This week, three Irish Bishop have been writing—the reader knows what that means. The Bishop of Ardagh entertains the Repeal Association with a set vituperative attack on Lord Clarendon, as an arbitrary, uncandid, and " injurious " Viceroy. The Bishop of Derry, like a cricket-player, challenges " all England"—to a scolding-match. John Archbishop of Tuam has broken his discreet silence, but in a loquacity almost as discreet: instead of answering Lord Shrewsbnr., 'ys nothing in an immense mass of virulent verbiage caiieu upon to repudiate or prohibit the priestly in- centives to murder, he makes no response, but pours forth a torrent of abuse.
In the midst of his farrago, the mitred incendiary does not for- get to beg. Hepi-stores "N. group of nearly twenty persons whose misery.anigM.401-010.rul of an Alien calumniator," "tll crying out to him for food fOrtliaa one day's sustenance,
shrieking With aeny that they were now thrown on the world- to starve." " Pie that efferefh sacrifice out of the goods of the poor," says the Archbishop, "is as one that sacrificeth the son in presence of his father." So says the man whom we noticed last week sending 201. to the Repeal fund. But that does not exhibit all the perversity of the man : Dr. M'Hale is a defaulter in the payment of the poor-rate in his district. Although life itself may depend on the amount collected for the sustenance of the poor, Dr. M'Hale has never contributed to the rate !
Of all the insane refusals to enforce the law in Ireland, this re- sistance to the Poor-law seems to us the most wicked. Dr. M'Hale is not singular. In some districts the law is reported to be "inoperative." Passive submission to famine is the deliberate choice, unless England choose to step in once more. She may if she likes. The Irish repudiate everything English except alms.
