If the question can be satisfactorily settled, why let it be so, and let us conciliate the people of Ireland by wise and honorable means.

The subject of the Irish Church must also be considered.

I hold in my hand an extract from the report of the commissioner of the Dublin _Freeman's Journal_, who is now examining the question.

It stated what will be to you almost incredible--namely, that the population of the united dioceses of Cashel, Emly, Waterford, and Lismore is 370,978, and that of those only 13,000 are members of the Established Church, while 340,000 are Roman Catholics.

If you had read of this state of things existing in any other country, you would call out loudly against it.