Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1860 — Irish Feelings for the Pope. [ARTICLE]

Irish Feelings for the Pope.

A decided, but scarcely unexpected manifestation in favor of supporting the Pope’s temporial authority, is in progress in Ireland, where the great majority of the people are Roman Catholics. Not only in Dublin, but in various other parts of Ireland, have public meetings been held to express the attachment of Ireland to the Head of its Church, and by sympathy with the Pope under his present and threatriing difficulties. Offers of actual physical aid are liberally made, and there would be no difficulty, it is said, in raising a new army of Irish volunteers, 60,000 in number, to augment the Papal army. The feeling against Napoleon, for his presumed coalition with the enemies'of Rome, is decidedly strong in Ireland.— Phila.delphia Pres*.