ROME, ENGLAND AND IRELAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 19, 31 August 1883, Page 25

ROME, ENGLAND AND IRELAND.

(The Pilot, July 14.) Thk intertiew of our Boman correspondent with the correspondent of the London Times, which we publish to-day, has this value, that it presents a clean picture of the secret English influence that hai been for years past at work in Borne against Irish national agitation. The London Times correspondent is treated in Borne as ft person of considerable importance, and, our correspondent informs us, is even furnished with documents and information from the Propaganda. The animus which actuates the average Englishman in regard to Irish nationalism was expressed in ita most reckless form by the English priest referred to in the interview, and is the substance of what the vast majority of Englishmen, even ecclesiastics, feel on the question. Decency and respect for ecclesiastical dignity were thrown to the winds when an Irish Archbishop, who lovejl his country, wag under consideration. Sir George Bowyer predicting the throwing back of the interest of Catholicity in England by fifty yean if the Pope would not condemn Irish legal agitation, and Mr. Errington making special jonrneys to Borne to enlighten the Vatican on the matter, furnish striking examples of the animosity which Englishmen, Catholics though they be, bear to Ireland. Other information received from Borne, and in which we hare every confidence, makes known to us that, no matter what the London Tablet or other English organs nay say, Mr. Errington did take the credit to himself of having caused the publication of the Propaganda Circular, of May 11 ; that, as we have already published, he was the means of making it public in the London Times— tax act which has given great offence to the Vatican — that he was not granted an audience by the Pope previous to his departure, and that he, by insinuations and the assistance of Mr. Maeiere Brady, has aimed at confounding the Irish National League with Fenianism, in order to twist the sense of the Propaganda Circular into a condemnation of national feeling as expressed in the new League. Irishmen, both in Ireland and America, have, to a large extent, themselves to thank for the mischief done to them by the English party in Borne. While all the world regards the Papacy as a great moral force, and while England, through such men as Sir George Bowyer, Mr. Errington, and Judge Lawson, have been acting on that conviction, there was no prominent Irishman in the confidence of the Irish Parliamentary party, and acquainted with the state of feeling in America, to lay Ireland's case geutly and prudently before the Cardinals and the Pope, when asked, and by publications in Italian, making known to Borne how destructive the English rule in Irelandt has been. That there is another side to the shield is a fact tha should be made known generally, and in no place would a clear knowledge of both sides be more welcome and be of more avail than in Borne.