Not to be too long, we merely refer the reader to Alderman Dillon's speech, in which he shows that the Protestant Church Establishment has been for centuries and is at present the unhappy source of all the evils of Ireland. With him we join in a fervent wish that a political institution, the creature and the slave of the state, an institution so useless and so mischievous, may soon reach the end of its career. Its present position may be understood from the following statistics given by Mr. Dillon, and which are founded on the authority of the last census:—
"The present Protestant population of the diocese of Kilfenora—251, men, women, and children—is less than that of the Jews in the city of Dublin, and could be removed in a few omnibuses; that of Kilmacduagh, consisting of 434 persons, would not fill one room in the Catholic Parochial Schools at Ennistymon, in that diocese; the smallest rural Catholic Chapel in the diocese of Emly would be thinly filled with the 1,414 professing Anglicans in that diocese; the new Catholic Church in Ballinasloe would be comparatively empty with a congregation composed of the 2,521 Protestant inhabitants of the diocese of Clonfert; whilst, through the Cathedral of Waterford, three times more Catholics pass on Sunday, during the hours of Divine worship, than the 2,943 Protestants in the whole of that diocese. In fact, the single parish of St. Peter's, in the City of Dublin, contains, according to the Census of 1861, more Catholics than there are Protestants in the five dioceses just named, together with those in the six other dioceses of Achonry, Cashel, Killaloe, Ross, Lismore, and Tuam; the Protestant population of these eleven dioceses, amounting to 38,962 persons, and that of the one Catholic parish, to upwards of 40,000 souls. There are as many Catholics in the City of Limerick as there are Protestants in the whole five counties of Connaught; there are more Catholics, by 23,000, within the municipal bounds of the city of Dublin than there are Anglicans in the twelve counties of Leinster; there are many thousands more Catholics in every county in Ulster, save the small county Fermanagh, than there are Protestants in the whole province of Munster; and, finally, the Anglican population of the kingdom exceeds that of the Catholics of the single county of Cork by only about 70,000 souls. In no province, no county, no borough in Ireland, can the Anglican population show a majority".
We conclude by recommending the Orphanage of St. Brigid to the charity, not only of Dublin, but of all Ireland. It is a national institution. In a few years it has rendered great services to the country at large and to religion by saving so large a number of children from error and perversion; it is conducted on principles of the strictest economy, so necessary in the depressed state to which our population is reduced; and it is especially recommended by the way it brings up the poor orphans, assimilating them to our healthy and vigorous country people, and inspiring them with the same love for God and fatherland which distinguishes the peasants of Ireland. St. Brigid, the Mary of Ireland, will not fail to protect all who assist her orphans.
THE MSS. REMAINS OF PROFESSOR O'CURRY IN THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY.
NO. III.
The Rule of St. Carthach, ob. 636.—Part II.
OF THE CONDUCT OF A MONK.
67. If you be a monk under government,
Cast all evil from your hands;
Abide in the rights of the Church
Without laxity, without fault,
68. Without quarrel, without negligence,
Without dislike to any one,
Without theft, without falsehood, without excess,
Without seeking a better place,
69. Without railing, without insubordination,
Without seeking for great renown,
Without murmur, without reproach to any one,
Without envy, without pride,