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AN IRISH ANGEL.

At Dr. Cullen’s late Dublin meeting in aid of despotism in Central Italy, Mr. Alderman Reynolds, who had been hissed and hooted for uttering some expressions of loyalty to the Queen, said, in deprecation of the traitorous ire which he had provoked,-

“They were all determined to go as far as they legitimately could to sustain the authority of the Pope, and they would not allow a feather of his wing to be touched.”

What sort of bird is the Pope?- was the question that arose on the perusal of the foregoing declaration. It remained unsolved until the appearance of the Holy Father’s allocution to General Goyon, wherein his Holiness winds up a benediction by the undignified vituperation of a pamphlet. As soon as that came out everybody saw that the Pope is a goose.

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