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Show TKe Irish University Bill. Religious prejudices are stronger perhaps per-haps in Ireland than in any other part of the world. In the creed of the Protestants Prot-estants there is somethin.:? of the dour character that belongs to the Protest-1 autism of Scotland, to which land a considerable proportion of them can trace their origin. Rut. strange to say, I whilst hostility to the Catholic religion is giving way little by l:tl! amongst the Scots, it is as unyielding as ever amongst the northern Irish Protestants. Protest-ants. That the Presbyterians will reap many benefits from the ne v Belfast linlvoralt v no on trx-n Hpnv -vt lh.. general Presbyterian assembly has condemned con-demned the scheme by a vote of ,7JG to US. In a letter to the Freeman's Journal. Jour-nal. W. J.. Johnston, a "Presbyterian, and the son pt an elder, whilst deploring deplor-ing the attitude of the :i:-o;nbly. considers con-siders it improbable thu it will be en--dorsed by the Presbyterians of Ireland as a. whole. Thanks to ;t number of softening Influences thoy aw beginning to take a much moie tolerant and broad-minded view of Irish aifaiis than they f.nvo tone for a i-Mmer of a century. cen-tury. Tivv are not unmindful of the d-.bt of fiai'Mule thty owe thoir 'ath-l!c 'ath-l!c fellow-countrymf n It was largely hit: to :he efforts of th'2 Trish nationalist national-ist reprow.iatives in parliament that they were freed from tiu intolerable oppression of the pei.al law;, and ' a goodly number of them will accordingly refuse to approve of a resolution which was dictated solely by an ai'ti-Catholic animus. Mr. Birrell'i proposals are highly commendable it Jo- no u'Ji.?r reason rea-son than that they -vould. wher realized, real-ized, lulp to banish suih a narrow ana intolerant spirit. Catholic Tituts. |
