Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-25 00:00:00

INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS

The Industrial Schools Committee held 'an ordinary
meeting at the schools yesterday, Mr. Bairstow in the
chair. The other members present were —Messrs. Owen,
Smith, Syred, Turner, Satchel!, and W. Whitby. The
following returns, as to the state of the schools, were sub-
mitted : this week, boys, 445 ; girls, 402. Total 761.
Corresponding week last year 940, Of those at present
in the house there are 177 boys at work, variously employ-
ed ; girls 116. Eight girls and five boys have been placed
in service since last week. The Infirmary report showed
that there are 85 children suffering from various diseases in
that department of the schools.

THE CIIAPLAIN AND TRE SELECT VFSTRY.
The following report was read from the Chaplain's

journal.

I have to report that the children in the schoole contin

fer progress in the different branches of their education

having been publicly corroborated by the chairman of the cotrm

Select Vestry on the 3rd instant, will,l ventir

t) the char

he eowidered as a suffitient reply

-:t me with, I fear, so much ill-

will and cruelty; both as to mylabours here and as to ray char

Although som

"when th

Immittee kindly defended mc

a very injurious imniess:

ae, yet I find from day to day

iid of me by those who appeared to seek an oppor-
tunity to injure me. Being made still to feel deeply grieved as I
mast by such reflections, I crave the indulgence to be I

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a has been made on the Minds of many

by what

at facts do not support th • assertions mad(

ast me. If my chara,ter was not so dear to Inc

dire to intrc

this subject to the committee;

confidently look to them for their protection a

attacks made by members of the Select Ves

Mr. Holmes was then called in. in order that he might
give a more definite account as to whom the above applied.
He said that, the only explanation he could give was, that
several gentlemen had spoken to him with regard to the
manner in which his name had been mentioned by members
of the Select Vestry, reflectinp.: on his coming to the schools
and his conduct since, as being full of ill nature. Mr.
Cropper had said he had quarrelled with everybody
at the schools, and several other things, that
he believed were not true. He had felt that
too long to allow it to go further without notice. He
could not understand why he had been handled as he had .
been, and if inquiry should he made as to his quarrelling
propensities, he thought it would be shown how wrongly he
had been represented. He was willing to have a committee
or a poor-law inquiry to see if matters were as those gentle-
men had represented them to be. On the 29th March Mr.
Cropper had said things of him that was unworthy of any
one bearing the name of Cropper. He had been doing to
him what his family would not allow to be done to a dog.
He did not want to put the committee to any trouble, but
he had feelings, and he could not allow them to be outraged,
whatever the consennence might be

journal would have a bail effect at a future tinic

examined

on being-

Mr. Holmes said, he wished to mention that there were
others as well as Mr. Cropper who had stated thathe was
quarrelsome and insufficient, but, no matter, what he might
have said inside that room be never was quarrelsome outside,
and he defied them to prove him such. He then read a
report from the Courier, of the 29th March, a speech
made by Mr. Denton; at the select vestry, which contained
the-statements of which he complained. - He said that was
not the only paper he had seen it in, and they were all
much the same. He wished to say that Mr. Peck had
also stated that he was always getting the committee into
hot water, which he did net b 1; _lb_ _ONICI Inne • sum "Anti 11.

of have sail

such a thing in the

Mi. Holmes then retired ; and after considerable conver-
sation on the subject by the committee, Mr. Holmes was
again called, and asked if it would not be better to withdraw
the statement.

Mr. Owen was of opinion that now that it was before the
committee that• could not be done; and it was agreed that
Messrs. Cropper, Denton, and Peck be furnished with the
complaint of Mr. Holmes, with a request to reply or with-
draw the statements, otherwise they were to be considered
as untrue.

I do not suppose you will think

urge thence the children

hared from the schools

May, 1857, when he was in gaol the second time, and were agai

discharged on the 3rd October. The particulars of an invcttigatiet
by the governor of the schools will be found in Mr. Coates

journal, bearing date the 12th of June, 1837.
Why may not Margaret Connor and others have their wish as
well at Anne O'Neil ? She and the children nanted Grogan desire
to be, as they are in reality, Roman Ceholics, and to have the
benefit of that education, I think, while it is insinuated in public
that I have broken the resolution of the 20th May, 1856, that in the
case of Anne O'Neil there has been a flagrant violation of it. She
had been a "Catholic" at the Workhouse, a Protestant at the

ichootz. If this be not proselytism, I do not know what is the

The Clerk said, he had sent the Rev. Mr. Doyle the
resolution passed at the special meeting of the committee,
and that vvas the answer received.
The Chairman said he could not see what could be done
in the matter, as they could come to no resolution on the
subject. lie believed that Mr. Carr received his instructions
from the Poor-law board, and the committee had nothing to
do with those instructions.
The Clerk said, the law required that all orphans should
be registered Protestants, unless there were evidence to the

contrary.
This concluded the busines

THE SOUTH LANCASHIRE ELECTIONS

THE ROMAN CATHOLICS.

(Eyom the " Tablet.")

The election for South Lancashire has already become
famous as a striking illustration of this fact, and the sensa-
tion which it has produced sufficiently testifies to the
importance of the result. It is not for us, who since our
first advent to jorunalism have perseveringly laboured, in
season and out of season, to combat the prevailing notion
that the honour and interests of the Catholic body required
them to identify their cause with that 9f the "Great
Liberal Party"--it is not for us to express surprise that
that old delusion has at last lost its way. The only wonder
is, that it should have endured so long. But there is no
political phenomenon of late years which more deserves
the attention of party leaders, or which more redounds
to the credit of our fellow-Catholics, than the manner
in which, and the grounds on which, the Catholics of
England have helped the Derby Ministry during the
late election. It is not pretended by any one that any
corrupt influence, any personal or private ends, have in-
duced this change. The reasons for it have been openly
and repeatedly stated long before the opportunity arose for
carrying them•out. That our identification with the Whigs
procured for us the active hostility of the Tories, and
afforded a perpetual encouragement to the cry of No
Popery, we have repeatedly pointed out That it enabled
the Whig leaders to refuse every demand upon them by us,

VIl /Ale 1/IGti .411114 incy repaiu our services abundantly by
sheltering us from hostile attacks, has been insisted on in
these columns over and over again. It has been always clear
that so long as our identification with the Whigs enabled
the Tories to' enlist the Protestant bigotry of the country on
their side by attacking us and then denouncing the Whigs as
our accomplices, we should be exposed to perpetual dangers.
Why, the Whigs were actually enabled to excuse themselves
to us for insulting and oppressing us by the allegation that
unless we let them kick us now and then, and slap us on
the face, not hard enough to hurt us, they would be over-
borne by the odium which attached to them as our allies
and champions. If any maxim of political wisdom is clear
and obvious it is that a section of the community, exposed
to perpetual danger from the bigotry and fanaticism of the

Protestant majority, should not add to existing motives of
hostility founded upon our religion new motives of hostility
founded on our politics. If any one were asked what would
be the safest position for Catholics in these countries when
the strife of political parties was the chief rule of men's acts
to one another, he would surely answer that our best chance
of safety lay in giving each party something to hope from
our friendship, and something to fear from our resentment.
Those who contend that the Catholic body in the British
Empire is not strong enough to stand aloof from both
parties and to act as an independent whole, cannot fairly
refuse to admit that our weakness should make us wish
to have friends in both camps, so that Whig-Catholics
should protect us from the hostility of Whig-Protestants,
while Tory-Catholics protected us from the hostility of
Tory-Protestants. If neither the Whigs nor the Tories
could do us wrong or deny us right without driving from
their ranks a body of Catholic supporters to strenthen the
forces of their enemies, they would not only have no
inducement to attack us, but their own interests would teach
them to take into account at every turn what effect their
measures would produce upon their Catholic allies. This
has always been as clear and certain as it is at present,
yet it has not prevented the Catholic body from being,
for a long course of years, a mere appendage to the
Whig party, for whom we toiled ingloriously, receiving
as our wages a petty share of official plunder, contemptuously
distributed among a few leaders who were content to barter
the rights and interests of their co-religionists for their own
peculiar and personal advantage. Even we, who have
always contended against the folly and inexpediency of put-
ting all our eggs into one basket, and committing all our
fortunes to the one Whig boat, have never urged any
Catholic to become a Tory, or to join any party for the
mere sake of gaining an advantage, or avoiding a danger
by the adoption of a particular political creed. We could not
advise that any Catholic should adopt the political creed of
either the Whig or Tory party in this country, because
there are fundamental principles which every Catholic
should hold, "and which, either in theory or in
practice, are denied by both the Whigs and Tories.
We claim for Catholics that they, and they alone,
can be truly Conservative or Liberal in the only good
sense of which either term is susceptible. The difference is,
that the Conservatives aim at being right, and fail, because
their Protestantism is an insufficient foundation ; while the
Whigs and Liberals aim at being wrong, and perfectly
succeed, because their political creed is in harmony with
their religious heresy. But, as a matter of fact, the recent
change in Catholic politics in this country is to be accounted
for on other grounds than those to which we have adverted.
The majority of the Catholics of England and the minority
of the Catholics of Ireland have supported the ministry of
Lord Derby in its recent appeal to the country on grounds
less abstract and more disinterested. Three causes have prin-
cipally weighed with them, all of which are well discussed by
Mr. Maguire in his speech to his constituents at Dungarvan.
Tho promise of a measure for the protection of the Irish
tenant in the enjoyment of the fruits of his own industry,
has been one great motive which, of course, has weighed
more in Ireland than in England. The reasonable assurance
that the religious rights of Catholics in workhouses or in
prisons should receive the serious and bona fide consideration
of the government, with a view to the redress of admitted
grievances, has exercised a powerful influence in both
countries ; while the knowledge of the detestable designs of
the Whigs and Liberals against the Holy See, and the
belief that these designs would find no support or encourage-
ment from a Conservative government, have influenced all
Catholics over the whole world. This is contemptible in
the eyes of all Whigs and Liberals. What are the
protection of the Irish tenant, the rights of the
Catholic poor, the sovereignty of the successor of
,nt to gaol for a J St. Peter,

that for their' sake Catholics should
support a Minister who makes no bargain with them
for their votes ; who offers them no treasury-lordships, no
attorney-generalships, no lunacy, customs, or excise-com-
missionerships • who has not even an inland governorship
for them ? This is, indeed, as the honed Whig of Liver-
pool exclaims, in a generous burst of indignation—this is,
indeed, to sell one's birthright for a mess of pottage. The
salvation of the souls of the poor ! the safety of the Holy
Father ! ! are these motives that should influence men in
the nineteenth century ? Sir James Graham expresses his
surprise, and dilates upon it more in sorrow than in anger.
And the Whigs of Carlisle testify their scorn in peals of
inextinguishable laughter.

A biography of Mr. Charles Kean is announced for pub-
lication by Messrs. Saunders. Otley and Co.

AN ODD COLLECTION.—" AmongAmon& the articles forgotten
in Belgian railway carriages during
,the.. month of April,"
says the Emancipation of Brussels, " we notice a wig, a
potlid, a small straw matress, a portrait on canvas, a cork-
screw, a pipe tube, and a bag full of snipes. This last
must certainly be at present in a condition to require im-
mediate delivery."

A POVERTY4TRICKEN DUCHESS.—It would appear that,
while staying at Caserta, the only residence yet afforded to
the newly-married heir to the throne of Naples and his
Bavarian bride, the young Duchess of Calabria, being on
the balcony, was espied by one of the privileged lazzaroni
that claim access everywhere, and the whining mendicant
was so importunate that the fair stranger, unused to such
scenes, took a ring from her finger and flung it down to him.
The act was quickly seen by others, and a regular scramble
ensued ; the sentinel flung down his gun and got possession
of the booty, which it was agreed on should be ransomed by
a distribution of its value, some forty ducats, among the
ragamuffins. The young Duke remonstrated with his wife
on this act of extravagance,. her reply became that " he well
knew that she had not a farthing to bestow in alms." Why
not ask for money ? " In that case," said she, "there
woalaceuld
b be two beggars instead of one— the beggar of the
palcony, and the other down there,"—Court Journal.

ROYAL A NIPHITHEATEE Great Charlotte-st.—
Proprietor Mr. W. R. CorsL•AND.
THE FINAL PERFORMANCES OF
•
Alit. AND MRS. BARNEY WILLIAAIS,
The original Impersonators of the "'knit Bov" and "YANKEE
GIRL," whose appearance at the Theatre Royal has been so success-
ful and attractive, will take place at this Theatre, where they are
engaged for TEN NIGHTS ONLY, previous to their depar-
ture from England.
THIS EVENING, (WEDNESDAY), the 26TE INSTANT,
THE FAIRY CIRCLE.

,Mr. Barney Williams.
Mrs. Barney Williams.
YANKEE COURTSHIP.
Our Jemima, Mrs. B. Williams, in which she will sing the song of
"Ipdependence Day." and dance the " Arkansas Traveller."
THE IRISH TUTOR.
Terry O'Rourke

Con O'Carolan
Moleahee ....

And A FARCE

On Thursday,—lßELAND AS IT WAS. Ragged Pat, Mr.
Barney Williams ; Judy O'Trot, Mrs. Barney Williams. AN
HOUR IN SEVILLE, Miss Constantia Flitterly, Sir Whiffleton
Whiffles,- Susan noggins, Signora La Scala, Count de Chanfroid,
and Manoletta, by Mrs. Barney Williams. THE IRISH TIGER.
Paddy Ryan, Mr. Barney Williams. And a FARCE.
On Friday,—For the Benefit of Mrs. Barney Williams,—
SHANDY MAGUIRE. Shandy Maguire, Mr. B. Williams.