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, PUBLIC EXAMINATION--EDUCATION OF
T
WL. IX.
IRELAN D.
"The fo tlowing paragraph is a good comment upon ,tho
‘extraordinary charge made in this country by our religious |
Editors, upon the Roman Catholics fora disposition to con: | W:
tinue and to extend ignorance, and barbarize the poor :
HE POOR.
We beg leave to refer our readers to. resolutions
passed at an examination of the'boys of the Mill-
. -
' UNITED STATES CATHOLIC MISCELLANY.
guage—and it happened as lately as the “ glorious}:
revolution,” that there were instances in which ma-
ny of thein had no Protestant pastor to address them
even in English!
for their treaso e King, h
el in appointing Dutch parsons to the cure of Irish
ouls !
norant of the language of the ** natives’’—but they
are not one whit the Globe may be assured, more
vreet school, held on Wednesday last, a which
veral yespects table gentlemen of the parish in which
the school is situxted were present, some o of whom
acted as examiners on the occasion.
It was peculiarly gratifying to behold in that quar-
ter of our city where the children of the poor are
where they stand so much in need
eiving in that establishment an |
education suited t to their wants, and well calculated
to serve the interests of society. ‘I'his school is si-
tuated i in the poorest part of the Earl of Meath’
ents of many of the children |
nee comfortable and indepen:
ent, but from the doce ay of trade are now reduced
to distressed circumst:
Amidst this wreck of trade and its consequent
miseries, ,these poo derive no small consola-
tion from the reflection, that their offspring are not}*
permitted to grow-up in ignorance—-that they have
an asylunvin this establishinent where Titerary, mo-| oy
are i
gratuitous ¢ education of the poor.
of the gentlemen wha have had the best oppor
ties of appreciating the system of education pursued
in this school, a estimony to the efficien-
cy, zeal, and ability of the ney tondleata, “who
e members of a society called ‘* the Brothers of
the Christian Schools,”” whose object is the educa-
brief account of otis society |!
e uninte ur readers.
here
fficient
en, were erected. These
ired a favourable character for Secipline and
and particularly r the
whieh they effected in the morals of the pupils.-—
hes of the institution have since been estab-
ished in ts city, and in London, Cork, and Lim an
n the towns of Carrick on- Sar Dun-
Ennistym d also in
The members of this
society devote themselves for ‘tife to the gratuitous cause
education of the poor, under the sanction of a brief,
granted to them in the year 1820, by the
Pius the Seventh, by w hich they are erected into a
religious congregation y have at present -un-
der their tuition in the above places’ upwards of
rishes in this city, namely over-stre
the parish of St. Andrew ; Mill- street, in the parish |
of St. Nicholas j James’s-stree t, in the parish of
St. James, 1 Jervis- street, in the parish
Mary. In the ‘ast mentioned. parish, at Richmond-|
place. 8 building is now erecting by the aid of a pub- |
ie ription, which .will, we understand, afford
them facilities to extend more generally through the
country the blessings of a moral and useful educa-
tion.—Dublin Register.
CURIOUS. . | .
From the Dublin Morning Regist
here is an amusing observation in an n article pub-|*
lished by an “intelligent London Paper (the, Globe)
on the late meeting in Cork, at which Lord Mount-
eashel m made so distinguished a figure. It is as fol-
ws
TF the ecclesiastical revenues of Treland had not
misapplied, Jive earths of the inka -
y one -sixth-—wou a
The conversion neve
was an honest object o! af ambition + 3 and ‘indeed the 77
were forced into | the hands of the Ca tholies, as there
were no Prot t
were, we be le y a
teachers jn their own hangunge—at le east a ages
after the zeal of the Reformation had passed away.’
True e gh, the n dom, ‘fever,
h Irish than these Dutchmen wero
even with En nel isi—But let this pass
The observation which we regar ard-a amusin
that marked in italics. It modestly intimates that
Popery is.so very difficult to be kept on its legs, and
the '* reformed” creed (which is that, no doubt,
the writer,) so very alluring in what the persons in
the Mail call the “splendour of gospel brightness,"
that nothing could have chaine minds
one million ont rome six millions of ‘followers which
the Scarlet Lady can now rec n Ireland, but the
nisapplication of ecclesiastical vrevenies | it would
e vain to enter into-a doctrinal controversy with so
self-satisfied a believer as this, but w ou
e glad, if it were put upon him to explain, how it
happens, that Papists are so prodigiously ona
ntry, and that ** gospel bri
ho! ids ho more Prominent station amongst ia neigh
bours, the Fre
oe
°
as
there is no’ misapplication of ecellesiastical
e
tent stipend out.of the public exchequer the
pure- -faith entry a more fe liberal stipend, drawn from
ame tbe sai the former
ha ave any advant tage over or the latter, or ‘that “ go spel
brightness bas the least difficulty to encounter in
France. We see what the impediments of misap-
plied revenues have done in Ireland.—They have, ac-
cording to this authority, positively given us six imil-
lio do million. In France;
jons of Papists instea
a om afree coast; a clear
favour ; and we certainly would like
to be let into the secret of the stagnation of gospell-
ing affairs, in that country, under -such circum-
of
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rs
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Talking of the Mail, we are reminded of a
sage in its first article on the Cork meeting, which
article was, by the way, quite different in argument
d tone from the second, the Chureb not having had
time until the date of the second to giv: a-
gers their cue. It was consoled b many circum:
stances connected wilh the meeting, but chiefly be-
‘« Not a word has been breathed-—not an objec-
tion started, upon any -side, against the soundness
al discipline of our Church.
ane ; ani
the removal of a few ew excrescenc
What aw onder that the * tym meeting’? did n
| breathe g word, start an o ation, against the
sods and puny of the doctrinal part of their
own Happy Church, indeed! that was
not ‘orn to “vieces in its vital parts, ‘as wellas attack-
ed for its ** excrescences’’ by its own children ! But
then no assault was made upon * any side,””—either
within or abroad. ‘The soundness and purity of the},
doctrinal part have, it seems, homage paid to them
it, even out of the pale of Popery, Methodists, Cal-
inists, Quakers, Shakers, Seekers, Sliders, Swad:
ler ers, Tu vablers, Ranters, “Hutehineonians, Hunting-
donians, Mugglet onians, Anthonians, Cameranians,
and other ‘ vnians,” to the amount, nat least, of five
hundre
" piesrcemererremremecean
He that t his been taught by the gift of grace, and
instructed by the scourge of the withdrawing of it,
will not dare to attribute any thing of good to him-
self; but wil rather confess himself to be poor and
naked .
‘We ought to make our resolution from festival to]
stival;, ‘as if’ we were ‘then to depart out of this
English parsons are, to this day, pretty ig- P
..The Established clergy have a compe. abou
and purity of the doctsinal parte nor to the devotion- Britt
d and closed by ac
206s
Ly TERATURE AND. ARTS.
Mique lon; from which it appears that, in 1783, Mi-
quelon formed a distinct island. since that® period, .
however,'the sand which. divided them. ha disap-
eared, and at the north there is an ‘extensive b
at the end of which isa port. M. Brue mentions
rock under the water; near the isle of St Pierre
€
a
the western extremity
is also made of the rocks of Cape Razi
found to be situated nearly one ‘de, 108 more to the
of east than they are marked in the ‘chart of 1784. At
the same sitting a favourable account was given t
was stated that they are ahout to translate the Geo
eke of Malte-Brun into the Tur anguage. en!
ne of them is alsn to engrave soveral Tiheaaets.
hearts from the atlas of Malte-Brun and that of M.-
"Greatest elevation of the dippenines.—Neatly in
centre of the continuous chain tie extends from
the Col di Tenda to the Cape dell’? Armi, ulterior
alabria is crested by the noble. summit of Mount
Corno, iwhich common mon v bears. the opposite cogno-
t
s of calcareous substane ce, stratified
with beds of pyramidal quartz, jorm t compone t.
ter of this mountain, as well as mpeers,
the Velino, Sibylla, and Majella. The Towest strata
of carbonated chalk have a horizontal inclination of
t five-and-furty degrees ; these are succeeded’
by strasa “fanning! parallel with the horiz zon § sand
above the latter are vertical lovers, ‘whic ke &
gently horizontal direction when théy ap proach their
greatest elevation, and thus form a moderately i in-.
clined plane at the summit. From this point, on @
fine clear day, the spectator gnjoys & a magnificent
view of the Mediterranean on and, and of
e Adriatic on the other, as far as “he last tipple
which curls along the shore of Dalmatia. Reuss
vd this summit an elevation of 8.791 English feet
above the level of the sea; Professor Schouw, 0
. r
sive observations, and g o this “ great
Italy” an elevation of 10,11 119 feet.—Literary Gaz.
ANT! IQUITIE. TES,
ttany, a tumulus, eighteen feet inher ent, andt three. ,
hundred feet i in circumference at re-
ntly been opened. A vault formed osm stones, :
ver, was found in the centre.
taining the rotten remains of a large box, in the
inidst of which were ashes and charcoal. In the
je of the mount \ was a Celtic axe, a“ biset r stone,
fis tt broken esting es nti-
t quities ofthe department ot Mor Bihan, Wy MI. ‘Mahe.
a canon of the cathedral of Vannes, was published
last year.—Among a number of curious details, is a |
notice -of the i i
Before the revolution, was —
o be seen the pulpit, loaded with Gothic eee
from which he delivered d his lectures. Tt appears.
di
even by the whole race of man.—Strange that this} (hot the republican soldiers, “being in want of veo
should be, and that the happy Church shoul at the to warm themselves, did not hesitate to commit to .
samme time have ‘+ eneinies,” and have arrayed against |the flames this valuable remembrance of the lover 0
Heloisa.—Ihid.
The s statue , of Pompey, at the foot ofw hich Cwsar
fell. and which’ has for many years stood in the Spa.
da Palace,.a e, was, some time ago, repor'!
to have been purchased by. the Marquis 0 of Hertford
when he was last in Italy. It is a pity that it should:
be removed from the “ ‘Eternal City,’ where it can ;
alone be fairly appreciated This ¢ elebrated statue’
was found in the Strada de Le near the Can-
celleria, during the reign of Sulla IE; and as the
ad lay under one house, and the rest of the body
under another, the two proprietors were on the point
of dividing the statue, when ope interposed
nat iv. were
addressed. by Protestant teachers in the Irish lan:
fe
world, and to come {o the everlasting festival
he
and rescued it from this misfortune,
Plomeur, in the department of Morbihan, in ¢