"We tell Prince Metternich plainly that the Conservatives of Great
Britain and Ireland look to hint, and to him more especially, for a very different line of Papal policy from that which has lately been pursued. The peace of Ireland and the security of the British empire are, as this able and illustrious statesman well knows, as important to his master's interests as the peace and security of Bohemia and Hungary. Two hundred thousand Austrians, sunder arms, could not do as much to arrest the march of Democracy, and defeat the schemes of Russia, as a simple command to the Pope to enjoin publicly, and unequivocally, the Christian duty of loyalty to their Sovereign upon the Roman Catholics of Ireland, enforcing the injunction by the impartial punishment of such Bishops as should dare to disobey it. Austria has in her baud, at this moment, the means of peace and security to the British empire. Will she employ those means ?" —Standard.
Prince METTERNICH would be puzzled how to advise the Pope in this matter; for it so happens that the Catholic Bishops are already on very good terms with their King—Lord MULGRAVE. Would Prince AIETTERNICH recommend the Pope to encourage disobedience to the powers that be? Would he patronize rebellion and Toryism in Ireland—for as long as the Liberals are uppermost, and Lord MULORAYE is his Majesty's Vicegerent, Liberalism is loyalty, and Toryism disaffection, on the other side of the Channel.
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