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VOL..1X.
tions in religion by other means than “the interfer-
of either clergy or laity in controversy. as idle
UNITED STATES CATHOLIC MISCELLANY.
directions to observe, that regimental schools were
established upon military principles ; that i si the
as it is unfairly conducted. ltis in the House
God, u undays and Holidays, at the tribunal of
confession, a from the books of religious instruc-
tion put into their hands, that the people of Ireland
are made acquainted with ‘the. real principles of the
faith, and fort ified pgainst
varying doc! loctrines. vain,
ould-be reformers to atte 7 vapid |5
declamation und shallow sophistry, to connteract the
incessant, and laborious, though silent and unosten-
strange and eve
<.
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5
“s
service to Gud, they are only affording matter of
merriment t to men.
: perhaps attend the committee or thé
ould yield me great plea-
sure to think you ould do. neitier, Ifyou u do, how-
ever, I would esteem it a kindness that you should
Hed this letter hefore the conductors of the proceed-|
ings. It contains, I am convinced, not onty the sen-
timents al one. obscure individual but, [ will say
(witho to my sell f})
those of every rational Catboli ic in this neighbour
eland. C Gordon, las r, fe-
ticitated dimself upon his numerous auditory ‘of Ca-
holies. . I am certain (and I again disclaim. any va-
nity in so saying) that if I, insignificant as Tam,
not been there, it would have been easy for him to
untthem. Tam sure it will beso now—and if he
z
ever visit Maryborough | again, I think. he will be for-
tuna mber
te he-e
3d|he
that they are conducted upon those principles ‘and
that the interference of: others, in the
discipline, of them is in no case permitted to be « ex-
ercise
s Soldiers are not, as Mr. Corrin appears to con-
are naturally bewil-
n ppouinbered
They a
from ‘the cloisters ofa college,
dered when they beco: nome of a
@ | with the care ote so y churches.
and the awkward position of men who, having never
served an apprenticeship to the practical parts of
nselves
not appreciate the silent
ond comparatively unlearned labours of the hum
sider, obli ged to send their childr
school, but itis open to them, if they think. proper,
to give their children the advantage of the education
which the existence of such an establishment places
within their reach
“ The General’ " Commanding i in Chief knows not
by what authority Mr. Corrin has’ assumed a right
to interfere in this question, and he desires that you
will tell him that you cannot allow of his interference
in the eee degree.”
ilitary Secretary has,. it appeal
parish priest, and hence -it happens that the s
ons they make for the exercise of their
D/ not often the happiest that could be
Doctors too have sons-in-law, and other * fortunate
creatures who tracé them in their "in for all of
whom they feel as vehement a siorge, [we have no
time to look for our Greek types] as ifthe best wood
of R unnymede ‘flowed through their veins.’
r. those College Bistlops have a good d
cal of 1 up.
I work to do which has been done already for
ili
it courteous and becoming to direct hi “pistle to
Ir, Corrin, Wexford.” As goo a older, |
and as high a funct ctionary, as ever he was, ae
glesey, would have given the Very Rev. Gontleanan
the title which the usages of society, and the law
of the land, recognize. in the eye of the law, ** Mr”
Corrin is.a Cathulic Pastor ;*and, if he be, he is on-|
v legally designated when he is called * the Rev.”
“the Very Rev. John Corrin.’’—Lord Anglese
would inform the Military Secretary of this fact, and
would further acquaint him, that it is quite as pro-
per to direct to Mr. ‘John Byng, Commander-in-
Chief of Dublin, us to’ send his letter to Wexford
with the superscription which he thought proper to
adopt on this occasion
e do
Assuring you of th he high respect I bear you for not understan d what is meant by “ ant
the worth t know you to possess, g 8 stablished on Military principles
to excuse me for the freedom I pare taken. when a reference is made to literary and rehgious
I have the honour to be. &c. instruction Perha aps it is the slang of the camp,
* Sees M ACGR ADY.
BRITISH SOI SOLDIERY.
‘omo of dur religious Editors at this side of the Atlantic
have complained of the cruelly of dismissing a British mili-
tary officer, for having disobeyed an order of his superior to
a school, in which the Catholic Catechism wus taught
by a Catholic master, to Protestant children y.end tl 1.
though no order was issued to compel the Protestant soldler
to send his cnildren to this school, y et he was obliged to con-
tribute to it support and mariced +f his chtld was not sent!
e Du
eS
blin Register, Oct.3, 1229.
Prom the
Ir. fis ‘the
im
the irish Commander-in- Chief, that the children of
Catholic soldiers belonging to the 11th foot, station-
éd in that town, were compelled to attend . rote tes-
tant school attached to the regiment.
nothing unusual or inconsistent ae eral ay
this. Sic inilar represent ften
ma nade to military comma nders. an
they should be made, whenever the facts warrant,to
prevent heart-burnings of a most pernicious tender:
oy amenge st the parties aggrieved.
to have been deemed proper by the authori
ties here, and at the Horse Guards, to take a differ-
ent view of his conduct, and to express this in terms
of marked incivilitys The following is the commu-
nication he received in answer to his memorial :—
‘oyal Hospital, Dublin, August 21st, 1829.
his memorial.
a oF
ad Whi is "iene “that da:
tinctly announced t oO
his child to a regim: menta ] sehool,
could be required by the Ver v. Mr. C
the parties at whose desire, no doubt, he forwarded
The General Commanding-in-Chief ,knows not
by what authority | Mr- Corrin has assumed a rig
to interfere in this questio His Lordship may
vel assured that whatever may be the authority, the
ery Rev. Gentleman did not obey its dictates with-
cu reluctance. This reluctance had its source in
h which the C:
incumbent on the mitred
S-)** bul
For having been r cently elevated to an
| unaccustomed ‘rank, it is incu
build such a fortune ‘as may e
(a! ner they are gone) to retain "their new station in.
society.”
If this do not set Alma Mater in aflame why “car-
horse is come again !”
efore * THe Cura indulged in this tirade.
against a most Reveued ‘Deaton who had done
merit a better fate,
men (he excepted, we take it for granted, Percy
Jocelyn) ought to be. promoted to Episcopal and
other high offices ** before all others.” Perha
1s right.
been bold enough to speculate u upon the contingen-_
cies ‘arin from the clevation ofa
family to an ‘* unaccystomed rank.”
father ro
this revolutionary Curate hint at the necessity of in-
troducing celibacy into the e Ifhe
{does we eave
2, are
bound | in candour to do, thatif great crile a arise from
tithe desire which certain ‘heads of families” at pre--
sent feel to “ build ne!
medy is to be found in ‘celibacy, There can be no
we that when there are ‘no children to be pro-
vide
i pursue to station
wit
organ of remonstrance to the superi
It could not have proceeded from any apprehension
the Very Rev. Gentleman liad of moving the mind|¢
of the functionary, at either side of the water, to ir-
ascibility or dignified amazement; for assuredly
he must have. believed phat the system which pro-
ects the ceremony o
disses an officer for
ti
us
Trish Priest at least the right of being heard with pa-
ence and forbearance, while mildly and respectfully R,
addressing himself’ ‘o the ‘authorities on such an
casion as the pre:
ARC BISHOP MAGEE.
The following oxtract from tho Dublin Registor appears
caused by th
vate against tho igted Protestant Arebbishop of Dublin,
3.
he Juggernaut i in Inala. and df
Without it being tr oubled with contrivances to enable
j bis descents to ‘* retain their new station in
at least, was obviously the strong and
of Bacon, when he laid it down that
ater the ground where it must first
' LIBE
ae Brunswickers.—A see or two back, the.
v. Mr. Galway went to the church er-
divine service ; on his arrival he found te could
search was making er the keys, which were
it upon the Dean, to whom
het related what had oeeure we Dean, in order
Sin—I am directed by Licut t 1 SirJohn
Byng, to acknowledge de receipt otyoun memorial
ofthe 4th inst. relative to the children of the Ro-
man Catholic soldiers of the depot of the {uh regt.
ed at Wexford, being educated at t
school, and to observe that-he had, in thet
doubt in his own mind that your
interference in an arrangement established upon mi
litary principles was unauthorised ; but having, at
the same time, felt it his duty to subit the case’ to
vigher | ae tk he now dire eto transmit to
you f the opinion of tlie General Command.
ing in ‘Chiet on the subject.
have the honour to be,
Your most obedient Humble servant,
Jona oweLL. Military Sec’y.
Mr. John Corrin, Roman Catholic Pastor, Wexford,
Extract ofa relter from Major: -General Lord Fitz-
roy Somerset, orse Guards, 11th
August, 1829, addressed to ‘the Right Honourable
Lieutenant General Sir John Byng, K.
‘ Having duly laid that individual’s representati-|
on ‘pefore Lord Hill, E have received his Lordship’s
ader of that party
Irish Catholics at grave yards. ,
¢ A writer in the Mail has taken the: nom de guerre
of « A Curate” in order to be able to propound
opinions which, if they were distinctly avowed by that
journal, would, without any direct benefit, expose it}8
tothe odium and perils of heterodoxy. e confess
we have been astonished to find that even a profess-
ed correspondent would be pe
columns of that paper, to aim so deadly a blow ata
certain Most Rev. Doctor as this: writer is chargea-}”
e-withal! We imagined that the Doctor would at|§
ait events have bi remain ‘ intact? |
amid the wreek of matter ‘and crush of the world.
But Duis a aliter visum,and we blush to copy the fol-
towing
se He eas of houses have been made into bishops
oretiy sumer ously both in this country and in Eng-
Jand—I
that we here had the best of the bargain.
gentlemen, full of learning to be sure, but ¢
tively ignorant of the ways of the world, and b gin,
|all their notions of ecclesiastical form and discipline 3
om tase
para-
evi 0
ermitted, through the
dly
chieve, however, it is generally admitte: ed
7g
ately circumstances of
‘such neglecé, went immediately to ithe village, where |
to hit that
the
he met Capt. Hart who. plain owe
the door would still be kept closed against
Mr. and would not be open un
apt. Hart said that he (the Dean) might
end Mr. Galway down to Muffin future, if he chos
and he might preach, but it would be to the walls of
the churech-—for not a a Protestant in the parish would
go to he Galway’s only crime is, that
he isa liberal and ir lightened Minister of the Gos-.
pel.-~Lo: ondonderry paper.
a
=
n enti ation of
make e religious ‘man. ethat
gi seeks: here. any other thing than purely God and the
salvation of his soul, will find nothing but trouble and
OrroWs
sel
r patronage are -
made. ‘These’
‘he used considerable :
le~
for, the aspirant from the * cloisters of a col~-
and authority, ©
The habit and the tonsure contribute Tite but.
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