The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-23 00:00:00

THE PATRIOTIC FUND.

The result of inquiries, instituted in consequence
of Archbishop Cullen's bold asseverations relative to
the distribution of the Patriotic Fund, may be sum-
marised u follows. We state first Dr. Cullen's maser-
tions, and then what appear to us to be the
real facto :

Pinkly, "Tat catholic clergymen of Dublin applied to the
nmegore of the fond in favour of the widows and orphan. of
indium killed in the Crisps& ; yet, DO far so I could learn,
not ass shilling wee then obtained by each application."
Individual application@ on behalf of widows bare been, it
is true, made by Rosen catholic clergymen,tend have in-
variably received the mine attention so thaw made by other
person. The.. applications an filed in the oaks, and if any
proof were wanting of the impartiality of the distribution, it
would be Nod in the fact that it is entirely out of the power
of the necutive oomniittea to distinguish protatranta trots
Roman catholic., sutler the !religion be supposed from the
puffin of the gentleman attesting:the widow's applicatke •
but no neon of such distinction in religion :or matey I.
kept in the aline.

is la the doubt award by Dr. Coll., that Emma
..Maly widows sad (animas bad sot readvad that snow-
saws, in am W sowesel Qat ha all Woad thaw bar ast
Nan a sass et ha widow at a (Mom Wake who Ms bon
ealweed ratan say grad ; sad we are lakewsed that the
maw awal rebd sow disbursed In Dublin Is aserly
• ; the idecriptica tram whkhjplare was only 11,00 W.
ar MOW

2adly. That " where relief wee granted in Dublin, a
person' was employed' to :ekerafater
de parses ar pietseteat drpmoa was employed by the
Parted. Pea to &bone nodes. Payments by stedolleen
d parka= (who are tames In the army) hare been
I, lode amide mptedly, sal to Inked encloavely, from the
early pert of 11166, whoa diagrams* by spats of the
Pidearde read oommwesed in tin otaatry.
hdly. That "the Shim ellderoy of Bt. Owe sad odor
rosemanitise offered their sink* to the meangwe of the
Pa da* Peal, kr dre akesike, et a vary *Wag szpose,
sf the Am& sneer in the catholic soldiers; =ewers wow
slat in their pewees*, but I bilis* then wee as* sea Ingle
orphan comeritted to their care In Dahlia."

-Tha menthe 00entuTtteeareed---17pay these has ke
educating ass► abildrea above seven years:of age (the trail
limitation) r the mothers should commit to their ore ;
that their SISCiitS km sot been taken &draws* of ►y the
mothers hr sot tootml with the executive committee. Only
two or three realm err, and though they obtained sanc-
tion to pier* their children in St. Clare or Harold's Cross
Roman Catholic Schools, they suberaestly intimated •
dowse at min&

Deft es shear that ao such &Ideation es Is alleged has
hem mew* ft misses time no eldid of a Daman catholic
soldier ever the ass at as Ms boa nerd sdiniaaion to a
Roma Nebo& seised, and only two 'wader, whilst many
plots children hare bees refired on the same ground ;
end there are now child's fa Roman c►tholic schools et
Norwood, North Hyde; Keemingloa, end Mount St. Bar-
maid. It must still be bone Is Wad, as bas been previously
stated, that until applicatioas (which request s Particular
religious teaching) are made for the admission of cluldren to
schools the committee hare no means of knowing the religion
of any of the recipients.

Fuitharmont, large Lumbers of mothers in England, Ire-
lsnd, and Scotland, prefer rstainiag their children at home,
winding them by day only to scheols of their own wilection,
which tight they hare stacked unquestioned by the con-
mitten, who have pad the fees on receiviog eirdflostes
of attandiutoe, many of which ea sated on the bee at thaw
to hi trots National schessiseahre and adieressee la Inked.
It le quite ties that the Royal Conthelesimers, asseiviag
that there eight to be a mistumat of the pealed= displayed
by the BMWs sod her oolonks, did, dew paned* libleally
In the plethey elelassie, peat 180,0001. ix the impose of
'apply* a peat west—that of (vending an methilathant
thealwasim et daighters of sadism, seessea, eel
theriam which, If sot directly proadedfor is, ma the object
went atilt contemplated by, the Royal Cocandeace.
Had thin hem three owner Waltham% me for sorb men-
try, the Edam of Mamas, whether pretheleat or Romeo
embolic, coeld at have tom aueladwi hem thresh England
mod Soothe% se the may sad navy are ispertal este-
htlehmenta ; ashlar maid prat math is Wake be
eseladed from that is Wand, since their co-rail-
resists in that and ether countries were the largeet
astribeetthe to the had; esesessestly only one, that should be
open ea all dathaelmthas, wan determined on by a corn-
Mlles specially appiehd a sassider the question, who re-
puted he ths Rigel Ceeembleasse la the &Atoning terms :
Year semnatise mho het math* that If the ma-
hatmas spa the valence of thilesse leeching which have
ben metal la 7 nil $ Vicente, esp. 101, Cc district union
Amin en nimbi an. pessien Y Weenie tor the schools
sew eseinspieled by the loyal Conenniner, in real din-
wally as mein 0r... dillwesen of selinees bald, which the
senninionwe eG4 se thsebt, ail weld ea nary mean to
be sirayelerly I,setiml."

Flltdlll. saw; els; were granted hr taw purpose of pur-
rs/sky nenredies en ferny ioss, setsbelehed by Loom,
fer the brat af Whim al officers of the army and nary ;
then, am drat, are peetembat in their Wanking, but that.
ere se Ohm kr this wpm were the religious teething is
Min* and It was net reorient do the commissioners to
essiew, even Ferny, Lantridens that were not sporty in-
breed for the bruit of these darer,

Only 29 antennae for owe' cluldren, of whom there
are 227, ken been purchased. There ere 123 Meows'
widows, only one of who,, is a Roman catholic, and her
childres ere proton:sat ; hat there is a proicatant widow
whose children we Roman catholic, and she has received ma
extra allowance to enable her to obtain • enfacialit educates
be the only one which is of a Wei& tee to be eel to
KIIOOI.

N.B. The Mem Ines whims et awe specify the re-
Neon of tlis appleask wilish Is eel the Nee ha the fume
room the yam 1 anweemmilowl 'Melee sad priestee.
- - .

The moll son el %MIK his bon poldl to osa si-hos iloy
ashoolo it Peollosoodt ma Ilposodi, elms bombs& of
as children are sdocorol, NA Soo en almost the only
moo stodtiost lon posistsd Ike tar chains ethst important
ohm of pills servants. These schools so Mat on kw pea
Yolosio, hot k may neeccably be doabeed obese the
lam minim be the navy amount to more then 1 or 2 per
ant

in.inuetion that the money thm applied was that
el limenesthol ics, cannot beallowed toper without reanuking
that shout 60,0001. woe the whole Num eutocribed by Inland.
the pester portion of which, it cannot be doubted, was sub-
suited by protestant., who for the met part constitute the
rich of that country, and notwithstanding that only the ram
was eubscribed by Ireland, allowances are now being paid in
that country to the amount of 10,0001. per annum, besides
school fees. Th. enrage value of the lives of them widow.
We. shout 18 years when the allowances were Bret panted
therefor., the cepttslisisd vane or their allowances amounts
to the large sum of 180,0001. Scotland, on the other hand,
subscribed shout 148,0001., sad the sum disbursed in that
esustry is short of 5,0001. per• mama.
Dr. Cullen (tether states that the army is constituted mo-
hair of Ranee catholic., but them is groat reason to doubt
the etemelness of dna view—cne-third is much seem the
mark; bet Dr. Cuba hes quite overlooked the fat that
then le suck a service am the navy, with 70,000 men, who,
with very kw exceptions, or, proteetmte, whom widows ere
iodated to pertipativ in the benefit. of the Patriotic Fund;
sad, to addition to the regular army, them are widows if
the Lend Trend/tort Corps, the Ordeaace civil servants,
Casniimelet nod Hospital departments., who, with seemly
ea eieeplits, are Etna ind English ; so that the proportion
lAA whims is stes-elsth of the whole, and not oes-half,
se assertil. She widows k Inland ere ender one-fifth of
the Anis psalms an the beaks of the Patriotic Fund.

CROSBY HALL EVENING CLAS3Y...—LIAt STSII-
- • lecture was delivered by the Rev. C. Mackenzie, A.M.,
at this Mentalism, the edam* helm "A First Viet to X.
ablator." Tim Michaelmee tuna Me now sonuessesd, and
amminee end are admitted his to the Wine,
white me &Wowed every Thantley eventag.
'Kw,' Lr ILAZY Isrnwriox.—The winter NIS-
Is in the goes ineinellea was imaneenied yesterday ma-
in with estiegnibed messes, usterithstemfing the earner.
Wm y feasersray ef the weatiew. The entertidamenta
WOO bur* sad mg. The deem was crowded, sad
sporilis wait a Wei Ilmoperasii *lat.