None are permit ted to speak to him, to serve him, to buy from him, to sell to him, or fulfil. towards, him any of the amenities of "neighbour hood, or of relationship. AU this haa been carried into the sphere of political differences by the Land League, who in this havo taken but a leaf from the priest's book. Apt scholars of the priest hood they have proved themselves. The practical lessons, they have learned in the ostracism enjoined as the punishment of of "exercising the religious liberty that is the birthright of every -British subject, has been easy of adaptation for the punishment of such of their countrymen as have sought to exercise their civil liberty. For aught thafc we know, this idea .of applying tho curse of bell, book, and candle, to those who would not follow j the iSeaguo, may have its origin in the » •suggestion of the priesthood, than whom. noi» knott- better how terrible a weapon , it'^is,'-'. -tt *iH;*S-'fabt : 'that not., a. few of j

I the dignitaries, , as, well as. of the ordinary j clergy of the Church of Rome, haye aided arid abetted the Land League, h«ve been' present at and addressed its meetings,*' and are therefore so far** responsible for the and outragea that |have resulted from these meetings, and the advice given to them both by politician and ecclesiastic. Belonging, to > such ad vice, has been the exhortation to treat all who would not obey the. .instructions of the League, all who choose to think and act for themselves in the matter. ;of taking farms or paying rents, jußt as the priest hood have been in the habit of treating all who have chosen to think and act for themselves in the more important sphere of religion, and in doing so have dared to differ from tlio priesthood. In. the parti cularly lawless condition of a great por tion of Ireland, tho hand of the Roman Catholic priest is visible. It has always been so in all the disturbances that have ever and anon brought distress upon Ire land. 