Closely connected with the campaign against Ritualism is the question of a State-endowed Roman Catholic University ireland. Mr. Arthur Balfour has been visiting his constituents in Manchester this week ant with his characteristic courage and frankness has taken the opportunity of restating his own views and policy. These run decidedly counter to the prevalent feeling both in Lane: and the North of Ireland. Mr. Balfour, m stoutly maintaining the ground he took up more thin ten years ayo, in the days of his Irish Secretaryship, seems to have felt, so acutely the divergence between himself and the main body of his supporters that he intimated plainly his readiness to withdraw from the front ranks of public life rather than remain silent at the cost of his personal convictions. Happily there is not much fear that either his consti-tents or his party generally will sa-orifice a leader of Mr. Balfour's grit and popularity on the altar of bigotry. While he carefully abstains from pledging the Unionist party to the policy which he has indicated as desirable and which has drawn down upon him Colonel Saunderson's denunciation as a piece of fatuous insanity," his proposals for the concurrent of Roman Cxtholic and Pres-ye been tabled by both arties as requiring due consideration. The Government will probably leave the subject alone for the present and will be wise to do so.
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