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Grey River Argus, Issue 73, 30 June 1866, Page 3

A Roman Catholic Prelate on Fenianism.—Yesterday (Sunday) week the Rev Dr Brown, Roman Catholic Bishop of Shrewsbury, preached in St. Werburgh's Church, Birkenhead. After an eloquont appeal to the Catholics of the town to have done with their besetting vice of drunkenness, and after urging upon parents the vast importance ofpaying more attention to tho welfare of their children, he referred to the question of Feniaaism, andinthe courseof hisremarks, said that whilst he would admit — as every right-minded man must adnuV-that Ireland had great grievances, that she had suffered great grievances in the treatment she had received from England, and that those grievances should be redressed, that redress must be sought for by the legitimate means., wliich the corsiitution had placed in the hands of Irishmen ; — not by conspiracy — not by unlawful means. And God speed those who sought redress -by lawful means. Where those means were used, success was becoming every day more manifest. He condemned the so-called Fenianism, which was in reality checking the progress and destroying the sympathy felt in this country on the part of Ireland. Those who were propagating it were propagating that which was most injurions to their own beloved country. The church of God was not opposed to their asking for what was due to Ireland, but she was opposed to the unlawful means -now employed, and to theschemes of designing men who sought to delude her children.