Note D.

Instances of the submission of the Irish clergy to the Pope abound. We need only refer to a case of late occurrence,—the condemnation of the New Colleges page 40 by the present Pope, through the influence of Dr. M'Hale, Archbishop of Tuam, and the general belief in Ireland that, owing to that censure, the Colleges would be rendered almost inoperative, as the priests would unanimously condemn them.