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from annoying him, were proud of him, and by a self-denying ordinance passed numbers of prizes to him which no doubt he deserved but which they need not have given. Again Lord O'Hagan's political friends, as we all know, were the Liberals, among whom the most ardent and determined were the Protestant Dissenters. Surely it ought to speak for them with every unprejudiced Catholic that they saw Lord O'Hagan's merits and so generously rewarded them; and it should be borne in mind that these

very Protestant Dissenters are the successors of the Puritans, of whom Cromwell was notoriously one. In another three or four years we shall be coming to the centenary of Lord O'Hagan's birth, and we have no doubt it will be seen that Protestant Belfast is as willing to do honor to a Catholic son who has done her credit as the boys of the Belfast school were to do honor to a Catholic fellow-student whose'abilitiesjthey recognized. DUBLIN, IRELAND, August, 1908.