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as a forgery. His allusion to the " Celt " called forth 

 condemnatory remarks in the " Irish American '' 

 paper, which ended in a letter addressed by Sir 

 Henry Bulwer to Richard Bell, Esq., then President 

 of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, which was pub- 

 lished in the " Albion " of May 3d, 185 1, disclaim- 

 ing that his remarks justified the assumption that he 

 intended any disrespect to the descendants of the 

 Celt. 



The elevation at this time of the Rev. Jonathan 

 M. Wainright, then, and for some years previously, 

 Chaplain of the Society, to the Episcopacy as Pro- 

 visional Bishop of the Diocese of New York, caused 

 the appointment of a committee to wait upon him 

 for the purpose of offering their congratulations, 

 and this action elicited a letter from him, which we 

 venture to reproduce here : 



LETTER. 



" At the personal interview with which you 

 favored me I had the honor and the pleasure of ex- 

 pressing, in a few words, my thanks for the kind 

 notice taken of me by the St. George's Society. I 

 now learn that a quarterly meeting is soon to be 

 held, and I therefore avail myself of the earliest 

 opportunity afforded to request of you to do me the 

 favor of expressing to the Society upon that occa- 

 sion my gratitude for the many distinctions they 



