The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-14 00:00:00

TIIE EDUCATION BILL.

A pastoral from the Right Rev. Dr. Goss, Roman
Catholic Bishop of Liverpool; was read in the Roman
Catholic churches under his jurisdiction en Sunday, in
which, referring to the new Education Act, he says :
"The withdrawal of the children in the large
towns from the streets and the gutter cannot fail
to be for their interests, while the cleanliness, order,
punctuality, and discipline enforced in the school must
greatly improve them; but we are not sanguine that vine
will be diminished or sobriety increased. A knowledge
of reading, writing, and arithmetic may smarten a lad for
business, and make a girl more companionable at home,
but it will not do much towards bettering their morals or
saving them from the degradation of vice. However,
the bill has become law, and will as time advances be
made more and more stringent, is accordance with those
liberal notions that, ignoring family ties and parental
rights, make a man the slave of the • State,
and, by centralising government, deprive Eng-
lishmen of those traditional privileges which
have made them a nation of freemen. Despotism
does not cease to be despotism because it is exercised by a
Liberal 'Government. should not be so, but history
teaches us that it is so. This bill places the Catholics of
England in a position of peculiar hardship, and involves
us in difficulties of which our fellow-citizens have little or
no share. Wherever Catholics have no schools at all, or
the accommodation provided is inadequate to their wants,
then the bill provides for the constitution of school
boards, which shall be empowered to levy rates,
and to enforce the attendance of children be-
tween the ages of five and thirteen years, uo
matter to what religious denomination they may.
belong. Although it is provided that no religious cate-
chism or religious formulary which is distinctive of any
particular denomination shall be taught in the school,
yet the Protestant version of the Sacred Scriptures
may be read and commented upon by the teacher,
be he Jew or Gentile, believer or unbeliever ; and
an adroit teacher will know how to make
his words reach the ears of Catholic children,
even though they are not forced to form part of
his class. Everyone who recognises in the Bible the
inspired one of God must regret the degradation and pro-
fanation to which it will be exposed by being used as a
class book. In the hands of thoughtless children it cannot
escape the common fate that awaits all used-up school
books. Mahommedans reverently put aside every scrap
of paper bearing the name of God ; but Parliamentary
Christians are willing to expose it to the sorriest end, pro-
vided they can force it on an unwilling people."

BANKRUPTS.
In London.

Bingley, Peregrine Taylor, Charing-cross Hotel, Strand,
Oct. 29, at 11.
Brady, George, Roden Lodge, Barking, Essex, solicitor,
Sept. 26, at 11k.
Cheyne, John, late of Watergate-street, Chester, wine
merchant, Sept. 29, at 111.
Donald, William, Poultry, City, restaurant keeper, Sept.
29, at 12.
Guild, William, and Chapman, Edward, Finsbury-circus,
City, merchants, Sept. 26, at 12.

PASSENGER SHIPS.—In the new Act on Passenger
Ships, permission is given to the Secretary of State to
direct that naval and military stores may be carried in
passenger ships for the public service.

WORKMEN'S INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, AGRI-
CULTURAL HALL, ISLINGTON.—The number of visitors,
exclusive of season ticket holders exhibitors, and others,
on the 13th instant, was 4,011.

The Charing Cross Theatre will shortly re-open
under the management of Mr. Charles H. Ross, and
among the novelties to be produced is what he calls " A
Realism," in three acts, by the author of " Clam ;" and
"A Mock Tragedy," with fantastic dresses and live
scenery, of which the action takes place 'in Carthage, a
thousand years ago, and partly in King William-street,
Charing Cross, the day after to-morrow.
BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR THE METROPOLIS.-
We understand that a requisition is in course of signature
inviting Mr. Charles Reed, M.P. for Hackney, to offer
himself as a candidate for the chairmanship of the Board
for the Metropolitan District, to be elected in November
next.

The cattle plague has made its appearance at
Soeterwoude, a village in the neighbourhood of Leyden,
the centre of the Dutch cattle district. The Government
ha sat once imposed restrictions on the importation of
cattle from Germany, and all the beasts destined for
England are oarefully inspected before being shipped.

THE PRINCE IMPERIAL AT HASTINGS.—A pr
vate letter from a Scotch lady at Hastings says : —"ln
harmony with the fallen fortunes of the poor little
Prince, there has been almost an uninterrupted
series of storms ever since his arrival here, so
that I suppose he has been confined much
within doors. On Thursday morning, however, the
sun broke forth, and I set out to walk to-
wards the market. A crowd around the door of the
Marine Hotel reminded me of the foreign inmate, and I
mingled with the mob just long enough to gain the ear of
a solitary policeman who was vainly dndeavouring to
keep clear the egress from the house, I asked him why
he did not disperse these idle unfeeling gazers. He said
he had no power to do so. I darted into the bank close
by, hoping to see Mr. --, and to plead for the inter-
ference of his brother the Mayor. But Mr. was in
Scotland, and, full of virtuous indignation, I returned
home. In the afternoon another gleam of fine weather
once more allowed pedestrians to go out. Though
intently occupied in reading a newspaper, a dark shadow
made me look up, again to behold a stream of persons,
consisting of rabble, children, ladies with parasols, and
some men, the last from time to time making bows. We
observed the small boy, accompanied by two gentlemen,
and observed him take off his hat almost down to the
ground. I only identified the laddy's ' back, and it is
not an erect one. He stoops, most likely, from delicacy
of health.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC AND THE WAR.—Last
evening a meeting of "gentlemen and working men
friendly to the cause of liberty and peace," was held at
the Arundel Hall, Arundel-street, Strand, for
the purpose, as the circular convening it
stated, of congratulating the French people
on the establishment of their Republic, and
of requesting the English Government to use its
friendly influence to put a stop to hostilities. The
meeting was but sparsely attended. The chair was taken
by Mr. R. M. Latham, of the Labour Representation
League, whose name was to the circular. The first
resolution was moved by Mr. G. Howell. It con-
gratulated the French people on the establishment
of a Republic, and called on the English Govern-
ment officially to recognise it. Mr. George Potter, in
seconding it, claimed for the people the right to deter-
mine their own form of government. He avowed himself
a Republican, and said when the time came for the estab-
lishment of a republic here it would be established. Mr.
Lynn pointed out that as yet there was not a Republic,
but only a Provisional Government in France. The reso-
lution was carried. The next resolution, which was
moved by Mr. Applegarth, calling on the English
Government to exert itself to stay hostilities, and depre-
cating the dismemberment of France, was provocative of
much discussion. Dr. Congreve asked if it meant peace
or war, and declared that only war would bring " the
drunken German statesmen " to reason. Most of
the speakers, including Mr. Baxter Langley,
however, strongly deprecated war ; and eventually
a division took place on an amendment
by Mr. Galbraith, that under no circumstances
would the meeting sanction armed interference ; and the
amendment was lost and the original resolution carried by
42 to 35. Towards the close of the meeting the discussion
degenerated into personal squabbling, but a resolution in
favour of international arbitration to prevent war was
carried, and a committee was appointed to get up a public
demonstration.

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