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hicked so severely, that two of his ribs were broken, and the
ear of another boy was nearly pulled off.” For this last offence
the Usher was reported to the Catechist by the Master.
New Ross Scuoot.— At New Ross the same severe : mode of
punishment is stated still to exist ; two boys have been punished
for complaining, one of them with peculiar crueity. The boys
appear to have been employed to carry dung in hand-barrows.
and to have been kept at work at unusual hours, and to have
been left without instruction,”
Strancrorp Scuoor.—* At Strangford the same severity
appears to have prevailed previous to the e appointment of the
present Master. His predecessor was dismissed i 1819, on the
groundiof incapacity, but he was afterwards appointed totheday
School at Newport, as before mentioned.”
xox Grove Scroot.— At Shannon Grove it is stated
* that the children are improperly fed, and the tubs used in the
bed-rooms at night were u: in the morning for wash-
yer rand also for fetching potatoes from the field. The same
disgusting practice prevailed at New Toss, and even in thet mo-
del school at Sani
The Commissioners appear only to have visited
*
{iwenty of these Schools, and the barbaritics practised
at eight of them were such as is described in the above
extracts. The hapless victims of those barbarities,
it would appear, have not been ‘silent and unresisting
sufferers. ‘They repeatedly forwarded representations
of their miseries to the Board in Dublin ; but it would
appear that, in almost every case, the only redress
they obtained, was new tortures for havi ing complain-
ed! Such was the feeling of the Stradbally. School,
not only the fruitlessness bit the perils of complaint,
that until the Commissioners assured the wretched
boys that they were come from the British Government
to enquire into their condition, and that they would
shield them from punishment, not a single one would
make known his sufferings. ‘They said they once
complained to the Catechist, (who must have been a
parson,) and they had been, as the poor creatures
phrased it, “ half killed” in consequence. -
What shocks humanity most in the contemplation
of the dreadful enormities which the Commissioners
have disclosed by their report, is the reflection, that
there is evidence of their having existed ever since it
was thought proper in Ireland to disseminate the
pure” and reformed” faith by Charter Schools—
Pp y
this is, for upwards of xineTY years! It appears, how-
ever, that there is something like the’ chance of a stop
cing now put to these atrocities, ; at which the human
heart shudders—and when that geod work is achiev-
ed, let another great deed of justice and humanity be
placed to the credit of the Irish Catholic Association,
out of whose labours the present Commission of In-
guiry unquestionably originated.
Spain.
We are happy to find that the King of Spain has
been foiled in his attempts to raise a new Joan. . Fer-
dinand, on regaining his absolute power, thought pro-
per to declare all the acts of his Government, although
sanctioned by himself, under the constitutional system,
nulland void. Among these acts he included the ob-
_ligations he owed to his foreign creditors on account
of the Joans raised under his authority, and partly for
the maintenance of his Court and family. ~ Notwith-
standing this scandalous fraud, for we can call it by
no other name, he sends Commissioners to London
in the hopes of being able to raise a fresh loan upon
his recently acquired absolute authority, The Spa-
nigh Commissioners it appears, however, have reck-
oned “ without their host.’ So sanguine were they
of success, that a courier was in readiness to start for
Madrid with the intelligence of the conclusion of the
contract of a Joan, when it was broken off by the re-
fusal of the merchants to give it their ratification. Ou
whom to fix the fault itis difficult to say, as usual in
such eases, each party: | ‘circulate their own opinicn of
the transaction: the friends of the Commissioners as-
serting that the contract was effected, and was a com.
plete one in all its perts, and that the merchants had
granted full powers of attonrey for carrying it into ex-
ecution at Madrid and the friends of the Merchants,
en their part, declaring that they have a full jastifica-
tion for refusing to fulfil their» -engagements, in the
‘length of time which has claysed, and the altered state
ef public epinion respecting Spariish credit which has
tuhen place ia Eegland, since ley entered inte io+
eis evnty Getter.
Such is the explanation given for the merchant’s de-
clining off. It appears the conduct of. the Spanish
Commissioner at the interview, with the supposed con-
tractors, on finding that his object was defeated, was
very violent. He declared that their conduct was in-
sulting to his Governnment, and disgraceful to the
character of English merchants, and even threatened
that the account should be published in the Madrid
Papers, with a copy of the powers they had executed
for the fulfilment of the contract, and the names of
the parties at fall length, ° He went'so far'as to state,
that his master had money enough to carry’ on affairs
at home, though not to pay his foreign debts.’ Nay,
he is said to have uttered some vague threats of pro-
curing the interference of Russia on behalf of Spain,
should England dare to seize any. of the Spanish pos-
sessions or property as a set-off against the claims of
British subjects. That the English merchants have
been politic in refusing to bring forward a, contract
which contained no acknowledgement of the previous
loan contracted during the constitutional system, and
sanctioned by the King, there can ‘be little doubt;
whether they have preserved perfect good faith’ in
their engagements with the Spanish Government is a
question which can only be solved by the publication
of the documents connected with the transaction, and
which we have no doubt they. will do shortly.
© : : :
Batest from Zurope. ;
Our latest dates, by the recent arrivals from Liver-
pool, are London and Irish files to the 4th,and Liver-
pool ones to the 7th July, inclusive. . An Aggregate | °
Meeting of the Catholics of England had been held
in London, which was numerously and respectably at-
tended. Sir Francis Burdett was present and spoke
on the occasion, Several spirited resolutions were
moved and carried, A full report of this meeting will
appear in next week's paper. :
A Committee of twenty-one gentlemen, amongst
which are the leading Catholics of Ireland, had been
chosen on the 14th of June, in Dublin, by ballot. This]
Committee are to meet and report in what shape the
Catholics of Ireland can establish a new" Association
without infringing on the late statute. °°
. The British Parliament, it was expected, would
close. its sessions on or about the 8th of July, but no
dissolution was expected to follow. Such a measure
would more than probably break the present Cabinet,
and no doubt would be a violation of that neutrality
upon the grand question of Catholic emancipation, in
which the Ministry was formed. An appeal to Eng-
land, in the present state of popular feeling, on the
Catholic question, would give a preponderance to the
supporters of that great question, and would shake the
Eldon party, and the bigotted part of the English Ca-
binet, on their seats. The hostility to Catholic relief
has considerably abated, and is not near so violent as
in 1812; although in some parts of England it is very
strong, The present session of Parliament has been
in many respects very important. It has been marked
by the recognition of the American Republics, and
the rejection of the Claims of the Catholics of Ire-
land, Large pensions have been voted to two Mem-
bers of the Royal Family. The shackles on British
Commerce have been removed ; but those on con-
science, to the disgrace of England, remain. The
Court of Chancery has been’ assailed, but the wily
Chancellor defies all conversion. Great-Britain has
progressed in improvement and wealth} but, alas!
unhappy Ireland is steeped in discontent and pover-
ty. Western Europe stil] Hes in bondage; tyranny
and foreign mercenaries bold every fortress on the
soil of Spain, and keeps enthralled despairing mil-
fons. In Eastern Europe -the glorious struggle
against the ruthless ‘Qitoman. still continues, ‘The
Cross yet towers tclumpbant i in battle: and the fol-
lowers of the Crescent wander in bloody ‘disarray
over those fields consecrated by so many imperishable
’“ There, where the morning gilds the palmy shore,
The soil that arts and infant letters bore, .
His drooping tribes the savage Moslem draws, vs
And saving ignorance inthrones by laws.”
The sceptre of tyranny still presses with iron hand
over Central Europe. : In the New World what a“
shore, is triumphant, The last blow to despotism has
been given in Peru; and many, throughout these im-
mense regions, is FREE, from the Falls of Niagara to «
the River ofthe Amazons. The next session of Parlia-
ment, we hope, will assemble under very different
circumstances. The state of Ireland must strike every. _
unprejudiced misid with dismay. Peace on the Con-"
tinent of Europe continues, not from inclination, but,”
England, could six ‘ millions of brave people be longer.
outraged with safety, or dare England i in that case for
a single hour withhold concession’ to a suffering peo-,
ple, to whom she now refuses it with disdain? oO €/
i The Telescope.
“ Error, soon conceiv
Thou never come unto a me vith" Shater tpeare.
Just a we were about to perform our promise to our readers, with ree
spect to this little 8-by-10 billet of culumny, the number of it for this day,
in anticipation, was put into our hands, It contains an article, under tho
ead “ Truthteller,” which has induced us for the present to forego our
determination. We are not accustomed to professional bitterness ;—relig/-
us bitterness, profligacy, ond prejudice, are very common. We had no
idea of the straits to which meanuess and pitiable cuuning will lead some
of the Vampyres who crawl occasionally into public view. We had ng
idea that any man of any denomination could be #0 wicked as toapprove of;
or, so stupid as to bclieve the truth of the articles to which we originally
adverted3 but we find that the sapient Editor of the billet now before us—
in the exquisiteness of his wisdom, and the profoundness of his gravity— .)
without the slightest hesitation, or apparent fear of cuntradiction—de- *
claves, (as he says) “from the best evidence, that abctter epltome or picture
of the Popish Faith could not well be drown; whether made by the Catho-
Ties at the Council of Trent, or drawn by some one to expose their absuré
nd dangerous doctrines.”—Is it truly possible that ok an infatuated
being docs really. exist? - It will scarcely be Why
before this we eudured the creature witha single grain of rence jowe
would have instructed him into our tencts, and through hin instructed his
readers ;—we would have yielded him the hand of Catholic charity an?
benevolence ; aud, however deeply the clouds of prejudice might pervary
and enshroud him, we would have held up to hin with effect perhups, the un-
erring mirror of Christian truth—But the victim of prejudice is invariably
the ministering apostle of illiberulity—a creature whom virtue cannot pro*
Pitiute, nor devotion restrain; whose contact is infecting, whose embrace
is corruption: who stalks iuto existence through tho avenues of soci-
‘ety with the front ofan archangel and the heart of a corrupting demon, ant
poisons the balmy pools of religious consolation,
But we have one word, now, for the very little Tdleseope, and its truly
exquisite Lditor.. Let him fiz on any one of the 35 calumniating articles,
affirming it to be correct, and according to the doctrines of the Roman Cath
olio Church, and we pledge ourselves to answer it, and thut too satisfacte-
rily, pot ouly to the wishes of any creature hired to come tous for the pur-
pose, but to the complete satisfaction of the enlightened readers of the
TELE: SCOPE.
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Rata,—-Owing to what is usually called a “ bite™in the
third column of page 164 of this day’s paper, the following.
words at the bottom of the last colamo have been obliterated—
founded as any claim hiwself can urge.
—_
Francis Meighan has been appointed € Coltector for the
TROTHTELER ‘for the City of New-York,
Hereign Summary,
The steam-boat Druid, arrived at Buenos-Ayres on the J8th
of June, in 72 days f from England via Cape de Verds. She is
intended to run in the riy
e Georgetown Metropolit in, of Monday, says, the very i
teresting gereinony of taking the "veil was witnessed at the
tation in that town. The subje: ject who bid adieu to all the sub-
stantial leases of life for the cvoss and the cloister, was the
amiable and interesting daughter of Capt. Jones, of the
A strawberry, ofthe. roscberry species, was Jately plucked i ip
the gardens of R. HI. Thompson, Esq, of Kirby Hall, near Bo-
roughbridge, whieh weighed one ounce three Vdeams and a hall.
The Government of France has a force in Spain of 22,000
men. It is to be withdrawn in April next, and another force
Teft there of 10,000 men, Ferdiaand rime wants to retai?
his number of tro} gs. FS
Henry Savary, and other convicts, are ordered to be conves-
ed forthwith from Bristol, on beard th . Mulks, preparatory t
au early transportation to New So! ath Me
The Duchess of Grammonte ao ie ‘hs just undergone
n operation by Doctor Torlenze for the catara
taken of, the Duchess immediately recognised all those presen
at the operation, particularly the Duke, ‘her son. She has
with no disaster, and is ee pletely restored to her or sight The
Marchioness de Boufl ers has. undergone oper ration
ey ee now ivi living, vat Little Bedwin, in this county, a woman
named Fiizabeth Sopp, who, on the 2d of this month, attainee
her hundredth year! For the last sixty years she has been uv)
he parish books; and it is computed that the money she has tt
ceed, with Ms interest 3 and compound interest, amounts,
more than .. She has been able to read the Church
within the Jast year, and her memory is not in the Jeast bu
~
recolleetions— .
paired. Her preséut allowance from the parish is Ls. pre
oe . ete ue
different view prescnts itself. Liberty, from shore to’ »
ehaustion. If hostility bursts again round the shores’ .