Yes, making every allowance for your natural predilection for dog-fighting, and your present enamoured state of mind, your apathy at the commencement of such a movement is to me unaccountable." "You would not have cause to complain of my indifference," said Frank, "provided I thought my country would be benefited by this movement; but I happen to know the origin of it.

The priests are the originators, 'and what country was ever benefited by a movement which owed its origin to them ?' so says Voltaire, a page of whom I occasionally read.

By the present move they hope to increase their influence, and to further certain designs which they entertain both with regard to this country and Ireland.

I do not speak rashly or unadvisedly.

A strange fellow--a half Italian, half English priest,--who was recommended to me by my guardians, partly as a spiritual--partly as a temporal guide, has let me into a secret or two; he is fond of a glass of gin and water--and over a glass of gin and water cold, with a lump of sugar in it, he has been more communicative, perhaps, than was altogether prudent.