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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 29, 16 November 1883, Page 19

Cardinal Manning has been kind enough to say that he would be willine to grant the Irish nation as much self-guvernment as is possessed" by an English city 1 His Eminence is certainly to be thanked. Let up, however, inform him that the Irish nation and an English city do not stand on precisely the same level as regards their claims to self-government, and that the Iruh people are well aware of the fact, if he be ignorant of it, and are, accordingly, determined to seek, until they get it, for much more than the degiee of Home Rule with which the inhabitants of an English city would be content, or to which they would be entitled. We observe that his Eminence has, in this connection, been repeating what, with all respect for the exalted office he holds, we must call the stale rubbish that the dissolution of the hated Union would mean ruin not only for England but also for Ireland. How any intelligent perßon can honestly hold this opinion in face of the prosperity of Ireland during the eighteen years of its legislative independence and of the ruin wrought here during the last eighty years of absorption with England, entirely passes our comprehension. We must confess we expected better from Cardinal Manning. — Nation