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lished in the " Times " on December 27th, 1890. 

 The " Commissioner " deals with this matter in 

 paragraph No. 4 of his letter; and I observe, with 

 no little satisfaction, that he does not venture to 

 controvert any one of the statements of my wit- 

 nesses. He tacitly admits that the author of 

 " The New Papacy " was a person " greatly es- 

 teemed in Toronto," and that he held "a high 

 position in the army "; further, that the Canadian 

 " Commissioner " thought it worth while to pay 

 the printer's bill, in order that the copies already 

 printed off might be destroyed and the pamphlet 

 effectually suppressed. Thus the essential facts of 

 the case are admitted and established beyond ques- 

 tion. 



How does Mr. Booth-Clibborn try to explain 

 them away? 



" Mr. Sumner, who wrote the little book in a 

 hot fit, soon regretted it (as any man would do 

 whose conscience showed him in a calmer moment, 

 when his ' respectability ' returned with his repent- 

 ance, that he had grossly misrepresented), and just 

 before it appeared offered to order its suppression 

 if the army would pay the costs already incurred, 

 and which he was unable to bear." 



: ' The New Papacy " fills sixty closely printed 

 duodecimo pages. It is carefully written, and for 

 the most part in studiously moderate language; 

 moreover, it contains many precise details and fig- 



