. Ireland in London. s work is to be done,work which Englishmen cannot or will not dothere is to be found the Irishman. As regards religion, the Irish population ofLondon is overwhelmingly Catholic, and the enor-mous sacrifices they have made for their creedmight be dilated upon at great length if therewere any need. The indignities they have sufferedfor it, the churches they have built by their hard-won pence, and the many other good and piousworks they have perlormed for the religion theydeem their best guide and consolation in thisworld, would all furnish plenty of material forsuch a thorou
. Ireland in London. s work is to be done,work which Englishmen cannot or will not dothere is to be found the Irishman. As regards religion, the Irish population ofLondon is overwhelmingly Catholic, and the enor-mous sacrifices they have made for their creedmight be dilated upon at great length if therewere any need. The indignities they have sufferedfor it, the churches they have built by their hard-won pence, and the many other good and piousworks they have perlormed for the religion theydeem their best guide and consolation in thisworld, would all furnish plenty of material forsuch a thorough investigation. Suffice it to sayhere that, when the history of Catholicism in mo-dern England comes to be written, it will be foundthat, as in America, its strongest support andstoutest defender has been always the exiled CelticIrish lace. Concurrent with th;s wide extensionot Catholicity, chiefly, as has been said, aided byIrishmen, has occurred the great impetus givento the temperance movements by the countrymen. FATHKIt MATHEW. (After Haver js Pictur » of the greatest of modern crusaders against vic«—Father Mathew. A good deal of his great workin London had become practically undoae in theparticularly bitter fight of the Irish for a bateexistence—when national and religious prejudice* Ireland in London. 11 were stronger than they are now-lmt the forma-tion of the League of the Cross in 1873 by Cardi-nal Manning gave fresh opportunity to the Irishin London of renewing the famous discipline andconduct which they evinced so strongly in FatherMathews daf. The League, which numbers someSo 000 members, was formed out ot six personswho had taken (and kept) the pledge from thegreat Apostle of Temperance. It now has 40branches, 4fi large banners, 18 brass and 23 drumand file bands, and about 95 per cent of its mem-bers are Irish. So Irish is it, in tact, that its re-galia is the traditional green-and-gold shamrock-besprinkled silk, while its banners are genuinelyNational in
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