CAUGHT IN THE ACT.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 22, 25 September 1885, Page 17

(The Nation, August 8.)

The nature of the Errington mission to Borne has at last been fully disclosed to the public gaze. The miserable creature who has given his name to that enterprise has, as it were, been caught in jlagrunte dflicto. The revelation discloses nothing, indeed, that had not been long suspected, and even proclaimed oftentimes in the Press and on the platform ; but it is something to have from the man's own hands a plain admission of his dirty and wicked intrigues. The final proof of his guilt is almost a startling confirmation of the charges brought against him, and, indeed, at first sight, would seem to be rather an invention than a reality. Diplomatists, it was generally thought, were on their guard against committing themselves in a fashion which has scarcely a parallel in the history of conspiracy for the childish frankness which it shows the slimy Errington to be capable of in underhand dealings with his confederates. But as murder will out, bo it seems as if the evil genius which appropriately presided over the whole Roman mission betrayed the villain of the drama into an act of self-exposure. At any rate, the exposure has taken place, and the shape which it has assumed is the following letter which has recently fallen by some means or another into the hands of the proprietors of United Ireland, and been published in that journal : —

" House of Commons, Friday, May 15.

" Dear Lord Granville, — The Dublin Archbishoprick {sic) being still undecided, I must continue to keep the Vatican in good humour about you, and keep up communication with them generally as much as possible. lam almost ashamed to trouble you again when jou are so busy, but perhaps on Monday you would allow me to show you the letter I propose to write. This premature report about Dr. Moran will cause increased pressure to be put on the Pope and create many fresh difficulties. The matter must therefore be most carefully watched, so that the strong pressure I can still command may be used at the right moment, and not too soon or unnecessarily too much pressure is quite as dangerous as too little). To effect tnis constant communication with Rome is necessary. — I am, dear Lord Granville, faithfully yours,

" Geobge Ebbington." It is not necessary nor even possible to translate this document into any plainer language. It tells as clearly as any words can that this self-appointed backstairs diplomatist, who professed to be such a a excellent Cawtholic, has been all along trying to humbug and cheat the Vatican — has been playing with the most sacred interests of religion as freely as he would with any secular interests — in the interest of the half- Protestant, half-infidel Government of England, and for his own private ends. "I must keep the Vatican in good humour about you "! As long as Errington lives, and for a long time after be is dead, those words will be remembered and quoted as the most fearful coudemnatiou that can be pronounced on the infamous gang of which be is a type and representative. They speak the doom of the West-Biitish Catholic faction in Ireland, and they assuredly put an end no less certainly to the dodgery by which England, and especially English Whig Governments, have hitherto sought to govern Ireland through Rome. Thus we have had auoiher illustration of the saying that out of evil comes good. When the Errington mission has resulted in the permanent ostracism from public life of personages of the class of the member for Longford, and in the opening of the eyes of the Roman authorities to the base designs of English Governments in all their projects, the Irish people at least may be well satisfied.

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