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reading Mr. Whiteside’s lectures in a pamphlet form this week, I find them different from what the journals reported them; and, as the Times of the 20th or 22nd declared it gave the lectures verbatim, I am to presume that, on reflection, Mr. Whiteside corrected some errors. Too many still remain, especially in connection with the celibacy and working of the Catholic Church in Ireland. Being urged by some friends, I. throw off the following pages, in the hope of dispelling some particles in the atmosphere of error in which our Protestant fellow-countrymen live, and to give more correct views to some Catholics, who are as eminent in the social scale as ignorant on the celibacy of the ancient Church. Owing to the name he enjoys, too much importance, I was afraid, would attach to the remarks of Mr. Whiteside—far too much, because his lectures