■LTo tlic Editor of the StAU.-I Sis,— IJotliyoaaitdyiiurreadersniiiyllliihk. boar with mo lor a little it I say something, in reply to Mr l'iout's letter headed "Sophis try." It flatly contradicts my assertion tha't'Ttoninn Catholics consider it their duty to read the Bible ; ami he imparts to inuua improper motive in having lhade Ihe asser tion, namely at) intention to deceive the unwary. Bo ill informod, and unmannerly an 9O.ppono.ut ha.rdiy merits any notice: or, reply from me. Yet out of regard for others I will answer him. I can hardly hope to satisfy or convince him of, hi", mistake, by anything I 'could-say.' The English version of the Do.uay Bible in my possession, and which I am iii the habit ot rending contains prefixed to it a printed missive, or better ■uuder the hand of Popo Pius VI iv which His Holiness exhorts all Catholics to to read the Biblo because he says men draw from it-; (unity of' decline and mornlgj and it furnishes an antidote to the many' bad books so ■ widely circulated, iv the world. Thisi''version of the Bible may be purchased in.'most if .not, a}! booksellers}' shop's;-I'Prtittestuht ;or • Catholic, in this' colony and other, party of .tho British Empire, and I believe in America also. If the Catholic laity, therefore, do not road the ißMoldn'd profit by'it they ihavc no one to blame but themselves. Mqre over, every Catholic' bbldib'r )in the British army is furnished with a Catholic Bible, under sanction of tlio Catholic ecolesiasticaf authorities, and by permission of Her Majesty, if they wish to have one. For tile obvious purpose of setting tho mind of. tho Protestant public bitterly against Roman Catholics, Mr Kont crimes us back to the burnings iii Mury Tti'dor's day. But tliess burnings , had no. more legitimate connection "with the Eoman Catholic religion Hian tho racks) jibbets, and ..em broiling knives of Elizabeth had to do with the Protestant roligion, not to speak of thoso cruel penal laws under some of which the Catholic subjects of the liritish Grown have only very lately ceased to suffer. In ilecd they a till suiter under some of them a(; thiH hour'or under the spirit which de clared ihcni at all events. Witness onr Education Act in this colony. 