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VOL. IX. U
were uttered, the following will serve as. sam-
“ The established. church, it is true, may be cast
’ down from that station of pre-eminence to which she
has been raised by the wisdom and
cestors, but her clergy will tiever consent, by an ac-
quiescence, to become the instruments of her degra
dation.’
Complaints in this tone and i in these words were
: ‘produce aby the attempt of the commissioners to ob-
_ tain countenance for the ‘christian lessons” pre-
d themselves, and for which they foundit a
work of no difficulty whatever to procure the appro-10
- bation of.the catholic prelates. Yet it is audacioug-
ly asserted that the catholic prelates wanted a mono-
poly education, and that they are chargeable of
“se Witero™ ‘that attended the labours of the Royal
commissioners
. sto the conduct of the catholic prelates i in re-
ference to the commissioners, and this entire ques-
tion -of education, we are willing that it should be
judged of in an
the las'
ry ;—~it is t the. board
very needless difficulty, by requi
n ity, ‘any spiritual compilation to be used i
urpose of general instruction.
disagreement would be removed, and the rest of the
plan suggested by the commissioners might, without
any difficulty, be carried into immediate cand exten-
sive operation
There is an effort i in the speech to cloak and un-
derrate the existing distress, und- we ot gather
from the observati tion’ ns oh Ministers that ‘hey aoe
ing an adequate vamedy for the * difficulties” “Cas
they call them) which they acknowledge. Details
_ are gone into (some of them curious enough) to
show that the country | is sa. less sinking one tha an is
imagined all that is said o
“head is that those w who ¢ owe e the 800 millions of pub.
lic debt,& the many hundreds of additional millions of,
now to make the dividends of the}.
3 er cent. If there is not universal,
‘there must ‘inevitably be-very general, suffering. The
‘public an nouitant does not suffer, fo
"by athird,
ries of life, than he did ten years ago.
an addition made to his comforts that must not have
withdrawn a contain. porto food and raiment
her. Admitting that exports are flourish-
” _ dng,’and that ar an active commerce still exists in Eng-
“Iand, things ein a wholesome or proper
state while one man has had his income practically
Increased by 30 or 40 per cents taken fro n
' come of another, without fault on the one s part, ©
a merit on the o} wilt he debt—-if all debis—must
~ > there certainly wants some a
_justment to Siac their pressure.
"Phe debates which:we lay before our’ Feaders have |®
e. novelty and interest of a first speech trom Mr.”
O°Con nell.. The reporters have sketched him but
theagerly, but in their imperfect outline there is a-
bundant evidence of parliamentary efficiency on the
: ‘part af the ypeaker of the first order. All the letters
eak in terms of the highest admiration both of the
on the whole, this first ‘effort of hig was in every pos
sible way not mere successful but triumphant: -
PRO Tes AN COLO’ Lonies THE SCHEME
SED BY ORANGEMEN. 4
fhe provincial Journals infor o. that the depu-
the n Dublin; have
nthe Londonderry Journa
tliat Orangemen ip the North have-been the chief
opposers of the extension of the plans of the Socie-
Ve understand that no meeting for an eusiiary
Protestant colonization Society, tock place at
townlimavady, on Saturday last, ‘as had been a
ce Tt seems that there. the popular disinclination|
piety of our an-}t
0 |knowledge that their communicants were so few
the
| [churen quailed in the performance ofthe
NITED STATES CATHOLIC MISCELLANY.
-|lin felt that the announced: meoting | would have had
no chance of success. ange. a appear,
’ successful in the south and west of Ireland.
ere is an enigma in this of which we are desirous
to have some explanations.
. THIRD REFORMATION.
The fo
office of the Secretary of State
It
tg, founded upon a et and add ress to bis
majesty from the s; I have to
reque est that you will “forthwith “inake a return to
22.
5
te ‘OF the number of places of worship (not of the
church of England) in your | parish, distinguishing, as as
far'as possible, of what persuasion, and ¢
nemaber of persons of each
m, Sir, youre sbedient servant,
“A— » Clerk of the Peace.”
The paper from which the preceding extract is
taken, (ihe IM forning Journal) is exceedingly angry
at-this interference with our venerable establishment.
i
e pa ish, instead of the church ware
We do not think so. It
would be placing the "rectors and vicars in an un-
pleasant position by compelling them officially to.ac-
compared with others.
sides their competence to duties of detail,. have no
such qualms, and, after all, » have no immediate in-
terest Fa falsifying the retu
After: giving a forcible statement of the dangers
of the church, thus saith the editor of that Journal,
no later than nesda’ :
‘Thus is the form idable force against us. Bu
what defensive or jesisting. power Cai
The bench of bisho be friars in’ orders grey ?
»voh! If we trust 1. ‘he the battle is lost before | ™
i ‘has commenced. ‘We speak’ not disrespectfully,
{out we solemnly believe.: that there are not ten bish-|§
one who would subseriba a thousand pounds each. to
eserve the eternal rt There is
dinion in the « camp, “arid where this prevails defeat}?
ig certain. Some are indolent, some are concilia-
some are lethirgic, some are evangelical, and
disposed to march over to the opposite side. ad|™
with ‘one thousandth part of the
f religion, w
mble Roman catholic priest in Irel
have been ina’ ‘very different stugtion
ley would, in this case, have successfully resisted
the ageressor.. They’ would have maintained that
supremacy which their fathers. obtained in. many a
sanguinary struggle. “They would have kept the}
enetny from their gate ; an ile ne improved
the discipline of | thair or
would - have defeated ‘he arguments and the sie
ofthe foe. without, But the ve lost the
round, and they ‘have the peculiar mifrtine Ofte.
sisting unequal numbers when all their old fences,
are broken down, and their ditches filled. up.
“¢ But. what are they.to do? That is for them to
consider. We’ resisttd innovation on constitutional|
grounds, and we have no personal reasons for aiding
them farther. ey deserted those who contended | ¢
assista
rinciples, bat about “témporalities, pluralities, and
lari decline having any thing to do with
the financial’ economy of the question. .That con-
cerns them e cannot serve God and Mam-
mon. 'The day: ‘was lost when di ignitaries of the
one.”
erformed ours—not too wisely, pe; shape. but PA well,
ne Othello ays—and therefore they cannot reasona-
bly Pci ius . They wha ave : powerful enemy to
contend a} t they now meet that
enemy under fearful aandvantages™
In ‘consequence ‘of the measures taken.
the catholic Armenian were
who
Pandurma and Male, ‘have returned ‘o Con
| tantinople,—~London pap
soft, n t light, nor Fr intent upon vain t ings; ja sober, chaste, |
“|tholic schools and-other friends of these
following circular has been issued: from theli
rs~Pursuant to a letter from the Secretary of| ti
-The church-wardens, be-| V2
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n we present?—
it| ministers and the Eng
by ‘t
Porte in ‘favour ‘of the Armenian eathotic feral, f
xiled to an
he to ove of God is -eireunspeet, humble, upright, not to
NS.
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1 BOR.
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MANCHESTER, [Enc.]‘ FEBRUARY €s
CatTnoLic Scrtoous.—On Sunday évening last,
a meeting of the teachers and scholars of the C
establish-
{ments in Manchester and Salford, was held in Lloyd
"I street, forthe purpose of agreeing on -some token
of respect, to be presented to Mr.’ P. J. Murphy,
the master ot that establishment, as a testimonial
of thei , for the
they had ernined “rom at gen
superintendence of that aslo.
) has been the principal master of this
school from its. establishment { in 1825, up to this
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§
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school, and the advancement of the scholars’ have
g pupils, have considerably
and he is, on that account
opheed reluctantly to relngish his arduous duties,
urn to
re
lished in Treland,
The object
stitution is, to educate eyouth.
Their first establish-
in Dublin an
e Rev. H.G Gillo om of St. Mary s Chepel,
Mulberry street, w n the chair. The meeting
was" suecessiy vey | addressed tye Mr. Waters, Mr.
Mr. Magee, Mr. Fox, Mr.
the highest terms. of pan
of religion end morality. It was eventually agreed
to Present Mr. Murphy y witha h: mndsome silver box,
also that his portrait should ibe taken, by some
eminent artist, t. be hung up in the
ial of his wo! orth, and of the benefits which
they had derived from his exertions. We have rea-
nto knov wt that Mr. Mu urphy strenuously opposed
any: thing of the kind being d nthe ground of
expence, in the present depressed state of the town;
and it was not until urge the most earnest man-
ner, by many that he would yield to the
‘wishes of | his “young and numerous flock. The
ing wi merously and respectably ‘attended,
Several ot “the & atholic clergy of the town were
present, and m the more jespectable portion
of the Ca tholie ‘povulation, The portrait will be
painted by Mr. Hazlet, andis in a forward state,
Betract of a tetter from London, dated 10th Feb, :-—~
* On looking over the Parliamentary speeches, ¥
perceive that Mr. O'Connell is reportéd as having
said that the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin Doctor
Murrays subscribed t6 a Methodist chapel. ‘What he
id was, th
8 v. gentleman had sub-
=
seribed. to a P.
*| O*Connell r
thodist places of worship.
the house until half-past twelve this morning,
was one of the four who formed the minority on lo:
Blanford’s amendment on the motion in the commit-
tee of supply. . We hope here scon to that a
crowd of petitions shall have arrived from Ireland
lish ‘people, how grossly they
have been misrepresented. #— Dublin Register.
ed to the Archbishop of Babylon,and who has jost returned
from 6 he speaks the ‘oriental languages with fe-
ing with advan-
usts - may d upon os
Marsoillec in 1820. with Bishop Coupperie; and, before a:
riving athis destination, croseed surcessively Egypt,
tine, the deserts of Arabia. and an
to the scheme is such, that the deputation from Dub-|
stable, quict, and keeps-e guard over all tho sen:
o! and ther
researches made amidst these ruins will offer to the ~world
rious discoveries. a missionary is about
0 to Paris, and from thence. he will: rejoin the Biehop,
who has only this single Latin Prigst to aid him in his pa in-
bful duty. —Literary Gaszetle
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on the distresed state of the people, in order to shew
There is now at Lille young. Fronch missionary attach. ~
me; and during that period, the reputation of the -
ment is at Waterford, and principal:establishments .
zeal, ability and industry, in promoting the cause .
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