I shall be grateful and glad of your counsel in these most distressing circumstances." "What can any one do to help such a man ?" said my friend.

"The rebellious and unruly in the Church, be they priests or laymen, can only in the end damage themselves.

_Tu es Petrus_; and revolt, like schism, is a devil which only carries away those of whom it gets possession out of the Church and into the sea.

But a weak sentinel on the wall or at the gate who drops his musket to wipe his eyes, that is a thing for tears!" He asked me to come and see him if possible in his own county, and he has promised to send me letters to-day for priests who will he glad to tell me what they know only too well of the pressure put upon the better sort of the people by the organised idlers and mischief-makers in Clare and Kerry.
To-day at the City Club, I made the acquaintance of the Town-Clerk of Cork, Mr.Alexander M'Carthy, a staunch Nationalist and Home Ruler, who holds his office almost by a sort of hereditary tenure, having been appointed to it in 1859 in succession to his father.

He gave me many interesting particulars as to the municipal history and administration of Cork, and showed me some of the responses he is receiving to a kind of circular letter sent by the municipality to the town governments of England, touching the recent proceedings against the Mayor.