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, testants or Presbyterians, and which are not Ire
quented by Catholic children. It is not in my apt lei e
)o interfere with schools, but I may say that, as 1 'IN .
estants are taxed for the support of the national : lye.
tem, it is fair that they should participate in any
benefits it confers in a way proportionate to the
number of their poor children. But there is atl lird
class of national schools under the conti eal of
proselytizing parsons, or agents of bigoted au en lies
of our faith, in which, though the masters are: P eo-
testant, and the teaching and spirit Protestao t, yet
Catholic children, by promises or threats, are is du ced
to attend. Such schools I consider most slang, es sus.
There is no protection in them for the faith ex f CE .
tholic children. The parents, indeed, may obj ,e et t 0
the teaching of Protestant doctrines, and make • s'hei r
representations to the board ; but this is in real ft y ne ,
protection, when the parents are dependent oe 1 the.
patrons or managers of the school. It woul d be
necessary to say a great deal about this branch o F the
national system. J shall for the present limit may -
self to observe that it is most unjust to tax a Catholic
population for the support of schools of this 'xind
that have been, or may be, made an engine for under-
mining their faith. It is to be regretted that; the
original rules of the National Board have been n codi-
fied in a manner to favour such schools that ma y be
made nurseries of proselytism.
"It will not be necessary for me to make many ob-
servations about the Model School, which has been
the principal occasion of the correspondence. The
cbject of such establishments appears to be the de-
velopment of mixed education. Protestant, Presby-
terian, and Catholic teachers are to be united in them,
and children of every denomination are invited to
attend them, and thus a mixture is compounded that
is anything rather than Catholic. Neither the
Catholic clergy nor any other Catholic body has any
control over the appointment or removal of master 5 or
mistresses, or over their teaching in the schools. The
whole system tends to inspire children with the absurd
idea that all religions are equally good, and is Thus
hostile to truth, which is one and exclusive in its
nature. The system also is directed to throw the
education of a Catholic population into the hands of
a Protestant Government, or at least of a Commission
appointed by the Protestant Ministers of the day.
Ought Catholics, or can they conscientiously take an
active part in establishing such schools ?
" But it will be said that we are living in times of
great liberality, and that no teacher would interfere
with the religious doctrines of his pupils. This
assertion is made every day, and is always on the lips ,
of those Catholics who send their children to anti .
Catholic or dangerous schools. But is it borne out b if
experience ? On the contrary, we have the clearest evi -
dente that men whoprofess themselves liberal are ofte, s-
limes most hostile to our religion, and make every exe irs
tion to injure it. Who ever enjoyed a higher charac .ter
for liberality than our Prime Minister? Yet in :his
Durham correspondence he treats our practices as tthe
mummeries of superstition, and proclaims that our
church confines the mind and enslaves the intere!et.
The dignitaries of the Established Church are, also
very liberal and enlightened men, but were they not
the 1 oudest in their demand for penal enactments
against Catholics ? I believe that even in this town
they got up a petition against us.
" Now, when we see that the most liberal of Prime
Ministers and the highest as well as the lowest digni-
taries of the church as by law established do not hesi-
tate to display great bigotry when we are concerned,
are we to be assured, or are we to believe, that Pro-
testant teachers are quite exempt from the spirit that
animates their superiors ? Are we over-prudent if we
do not wish to commit the instruction of Catholic
children to masters who, for any guarantee given to
us, may be, if not open and candid, occult and insidi-
ous enemies of our faith? But, even in the case that
the teachers in question are altogether free from
bigotry, as it sometimes happens, still may they
not produce a bad effect on Catholic faith with-
out knowing or intending it ? It is generally
stated that in Trinity College there is no inter-
ference with the religions principles of the Catholics
who frequent it. But the example of those in office,
the sneers of companions, the spirit of the place, the
atmosphere itself, produce their effect, and many
young men either become open apostates from the
faith of their fathers, or, at least, lose the spirit of
their religion, and abandon its practices and observ-
ances. The same effects will probably be produced
in due time in our model schools, when mixed educa-
tion will be fully developed in them.
" You are well aware, my dear Mr. Boylan, that
our faith is to be prized above every treasure this
world can afford. Our forefathers suffered the con-
fiscation of their property, and even laid down their
lives rather than renounce it. Shall we be so dege-
nerate as to expose this precious gift of Heaven, with-
out which it is impossible to please God, to imminent
danger for some paltry temporal consideration ?
"Be so good as to communicate my sentiments on
this subject to the other Catholic gentlemen who
consulted me. Assure them that I feel it my duty to

cent. The consolidated stock of the company
amounted on the 3tst of July to 7,709,0301., of which
275,330/. is guaranteed 4- per cent. per annum in
perpetuity. The return of rolling stock shows that
there are 120 passenger engines, 34 goods engines,
and four Royal and saloon carriages, 136 first-class
and composite, 125 second-class, and 101 third-class
carriages, 48 luggage vans, 66 horse-boxes, 73 car-
riage truck•, 1 Post-office carriage, 485 goods wag-
gons, 58 cattle waggons, 891 timber, coke, coal, stone,
and ballast waggons, and 12 break vans. The reve-
nue account shows that 334,024/. had been received,
of which 235,077/. was on the main line, 14,700/. on
the Reading and Reigate, 64,253/. on the North
Kent, and 24,332/. on the Greenwich branch ; and
165,879/. expended, including 14,7011. rates, taxes,
and tolls, and 12,278/. Government duty, leaving a
balance of 178,144/. To this sum is added 2,965/.
from the last account, and 3,2551. dividends and in-
terest on investment in the company's stock, making
the disposable balance 184,365/., from which is de-
ducted 43,3021. for rents of leased lines, 37,2691. in-
terest on debenture debt, 5,688/. on guaranteed stock,
and 1,000/. reserve for bad debts, leaving 97,1051, for
dividend on the ordinary stock.

SOUTH WALSS.—The line between Gloucester and
Chepstow and Chepstow and Swansea is now com-
pleted. The Government inspector is about to go over
it, and the public opening is fixed for the 19th inst.

----- -; —.7 '' • , 4.4.4 Mb Lau la uaa ~..A4 114, 16.", ~ ...WI
IRELAND. education of a Catholic population into the hands of
PRIMATE CULLEN ON NATIONAL EDUCATION. a Protestant Government, or at least of a Commission
appointed by the Protestant Ministers of the day.
-D UnLIN, SATURDAY.—Owing to the gentle pressure
of public opinion the following important letter from Ought Catholics, or can they conscientiously take an
Archbishop Cullen has been dragged from the privacy active part in establishing such schools ?
to which it was sought to be consigned by some, at " But it will be said that we are living in times of
least, of those for whose guidance and instruction it great liberality, and that no teacher would interfere
was written. This decisive manifesto against the with the religious doctrines of his pupils. This
system of national education was, it seems; read assertion is made every day, and is always on the lips ,
nearly three weeks ago at a meeting of the immacu- of those Catholics who send their children to anti .
late corporation of Drogheda, and was, for some reason Catholic or dangerous schools. But is it borne out b ff.
or other, duly shelved in the archieves of that body, experience ? On the contrary, we have the clearest evi -
where it might have remained till doomsday had not
the dente that men who profess themselves liberal are otter s-
letter of Bishop Blake, setting forth that prelate's
times most hostile to our religion, and make every ex( irs
diametrically opposite views upon the same question,
n
lion to injure it. Who ever enjoyed a higher chaise seerrendered the publication of this archiepiscopal coun-
fo liberality than our Prime Minister. Yet in :his
terblast a matter of political necessity. A movement,
it appeard, has been made in Drogheda for the purpose mummeries
Drurham correspondence he treats our practices as tthe
of getting the inhabitants to petition the Commis- church confines
o finef superstition,
sth and proclaims that our
e mind and enslaves the inters( mt.
sinners of National Education to establish one of their
The dignitaries of the Established Church are, also
model schools there. The matter was brought before very y liberal and enlightened men, but were they not
the corporation, where it was argued that Dr. Cullen the 1 oudest in their demand for penal enactments
was favourable to the mixed system, inasmuch as he against Catholics ? I believe that even in this town
had patronized the national schools in his district. they
got up a petition against us.
They, therefore, like obedient sons of the Church, re- " Now, when we see that the most liberal of Prime
solved to take counsel of the Primate, and, accord- Ministers and the highest as well as the lowest digni-
ingly, Mr. Alderman Boylan was instructed to act as taries of the church as by law established do not heal-
mediator, and to that functionary was the reply ad- tate to display great bigotry when
dressed. The precious document appears for the first we are concerned,
are we to be assured, or are we to believe, that Pro-
time in the Tablet of this day : testant teachers are quite exempt from the spirit that
" Fair-street, Drogheda, Aug. 17. animates their superiors ? Are we over-prudent if -we
"My dear Mr. Boylan,—l feel great pleasure in do not wish to commit the instruction of Catholic
answering the questions concerning education, on children to masters who, for any guarantee given to
which you and some other respected Catholic mem- us, may be, if not open and candid, occult and insidi-
bers of the corporation of this town have consulted ous enemies of our faith? But, even in the case that
me. Education is the great question of the present the teachers in question are altogether free from
day, and the religion of the rising generation in Ire- bigotry, as it sometimes happens, still may they
land, and every other country, must depend, in a great not produce a bad effect on Catholic faith with-
degree, on the character that will be impressed upon out knowing or intending it ? It is generally
it. It may be made the source of great good or of stated that in Trinity College there is no inter-
, great evil. It was, therefore, most consoling to me to ference with the religions principles of the Catholics
' observe that you and your worthy colleagues were de- who frequent it. But the example of those in office,
termined to proceed with caution and deliberation, the sneers of companions, the spirit of the place, the
and a due respect to the rights and interests of religion atmosphere itself, produce their effect, and many
in discussing the important matter that had come be- young men either become open apostates from the
fore you. Too much vigilance cannot be employed faith of their fathers, or, at least, lose the spirit of
in such an affair, for under a bad system of education their religion, and abandon its practices and observ-
the souls of those little ones that have been redeemed ances. The same effects will probably be produced
by the precious blood of Jesus Christ may be exposed in due time in our model schools, when mixed educe-
to danger, and impressions made on them that can tion will be fully developed in them.
scarcely ever afterwards be effaced. " You are well aware, my dear Mr. Boylan, that
" Before I enter into the subject of your commu- our faith is to be prized above every treasure this
nication allow me to assure you that Ido not yield to world can afford. Our forefathers suffered the con-
any one in a sincere desire to see our people well in- fiscation of their property, and even laid down their
structed. You and every Catholic feel as I do, and lives rather than renounce it. Shall we be so dege-
our feelings are quite in accordance with the spirit of nerate as to expose this precious gift of Heaven, with-
the Catholic Church. She has been the instructress out which it is impossible to please God, to imminent
and civilises of all the nations of the earth; every noble danger for some paltry temporal consideration ?
and useful institution that we possess has originated 4, Be so good as to communicate my sentiments on
with her ; and to her are due the preservation of the this subject to the other Catholic gentlemen who
arts and sciences in ages of darkness, and their revival consulted me. Assure them that I feel it my duty to
and diffusion at a later period. The man who accuses aid them by my counsel on every question connected
the Catholic Church of promoting or patronising igno- with their eternal salvation and the preservation of
ranee, or of being hostile to the improvement of the the faith of our Catholic children. Having been
mind, either does not know her history or wilfully charged by God, through the Apostolic See, with the
'misrepresents it. - , . wire 44*--.11 4.1a4 Lhatbial-.445-thistAliocese, like the Apostles...,
147 e a
"There is, indeed, a sort of know not en- I must say to all I amear.clebtor. Believe me to be, 4i;-
couraged by our Church, a knowledge without reli- with sincerest esteem and best wishes, your-devote if
gion, which, as the Apostle St.. Paul says, puffeth up, servant, "f PAUL CULLEN, Archbishop,
and is described by St. James as earthly, sensual, " Primate of all Ireland.
devilish. The effects of knowledge of this kind can e Mr. Patrick Boylan, Ald., &c."
be easily traced in the history of Europe during the
DEATH OF THE EARL OF DONOUGHMORE.
last eighty years. Its fruits have been sedition, re-
A hastily-written report of the death of this noble-
hellion, immorality, impiety, or, at least, an indiffe. man, which appeared in the Leinster Express of this
rence to every sort of religion. W ithin the last morning, turns out, on inquiry, to be well founded.
twenty years the occupier of the throne in France
His Lordship expired yesterday at three o'clock P.M.
and his Ministers became its patronizers in their
at Palmerstown• house, the deceased peer's residence,
university system, and, though that system was alto-
in the county of Dublin, after suffering from an attack
gether under their control, yet they fell victims
of paralysis with which he bad been smitten nearly
to the wicked spirit which their favoured Godless
p, two years since. The late Earl was born in the
education called into existence and nurtured.
' --'
nuns rages intelligite,erudimini qui judicatis terram.' year 1787, and was consequently in the 64th year of
his age. He was Lord-Lieutenant of the county of
(B. 2.) "
To make these observations more intelligible, I Tipperary, and had a seat in the House of Lords as a
British peer with the title of Viscount Hutchinson, of
need scarcely add, that we, as Catholics, cannot sane-
Knocklofty, but will be better remembered in history
tion or recommend any system of education that is
as the gallant Colonel Hutchinson, who was one of
opposed to our faith or dangerous to it. We believe
the parties implicated in the celebrated escape of La-
that there is but one true faith, without which it is
valette, in the year 1815, shortly after the restoration
impossible to please God ; one true Church, out of
of the Bourbons. He is succeeded in his extensive
which there is no salvation. Any teaching that is
estates in the south of Ireland by Viscount Suirdale,
hostile to these doctrines, or tends to weaken them in
his Lordship's son by his first wife, the daughter of
the minds of youth, we must consider as unsuited for
the Lord Mountjoy, who lost his life in the Royal
Catholics, and worthy of our reprobation.
service during the Irish rebellion of 1798. The pre-
"'Without making any further general remarks, I
sent Earl, who was born in the year 1823, served for
shall now state that it is my conviction that mixed
a short time in China as a subaltern in her Majesty's
education in its general tendency is dangerous to Ca- 98th Regiment.
tholic faith, and well calculated to sow the seeds of
indifferentism in the tender mind, and that its effects, SEABORNE MAILS.
where it has been tried, have been found pernicious.
Such effects may not be immediate—they may not be
[N 'signifies that the mails are sent from the General Post-otDO4
verified in every individual case—but still, if the by the night—and Mby the morning—dispatch.)
system work slowly, like some poisons, it produces
When made up is From what' its fruits surely and effectually. PLACES. General Post-office port die- when
" The Protestants of this country seem to admit London, patched. due.
and to act on those principles. The education they
give to their children is purely Protestant ; their uni- Am
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versity and their colleges are altogether under Pro-
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testant control. They never send a child to any Africa (West coast).. Nll4th of the month Plymouth Oct. 2
Catholic college. Would to God that Catholics were
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•• Sept. IS
as cautious as their Protestant countrymen. The eßriazigir •.: •.: :: ?..r.
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week or every month ; they may believe a little more Ciiiattiriinel Isles ..
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M 17th of the month Southampt. Oct, 5
or a little less, still remaining good Protestants. The France .. ••
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greatest dignitaries in their church hold contradictory Greece* e- ':. .. N Tuesday & Friday London .. Tees. Sot.
opinions upon the leading truths of Christianity, even Holland .. .. .. ri 11,i7rteic,Inocis.th& Satur. Londont .t.. titt..;ticr
' upon the divinity of Jesus Christ ; and it has been Hondurasiea 7. 7. M 8; N,'Twice eatteeta..°"ll.. t)olybeadP-• TwioodallF
lately decided by their highest authority in spiritual India(via Southamp.) M 20th of the month,Southarapt. Sept. 21:
' matters—the Privy Council—that a man may hold Inedgt(evirrtiarseill(es) 2,7(7th& 24th of month Dover •• Sept-
' or deny regeneration in baptism without ceasing meoutnampton) .. sa 20th of the month Southampt. Sept. 23
via
to be an orthodox member of their communion. Mediterranean (via i
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0 Mexico Marseilles)
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au unsettled, and
they are tossed about by every wind
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/ &nth of month
' be so anxious to impress certain notions on Naples*
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' the minds of their children, and to make education Papal States* .. ..
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anti-Catholic? Now, what is the doctrine of Peru..
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Catholics ? We believe that if any one wilfully de- Tuscany* .. .. .. Nike iSteSsthorane'Dover .. Sept. 21
.
It nies, or even calls into doubt, one single article of our West,est tlnnadtres
e.. lil 7th of the month SouthaSouthampt.Sept. 20
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e faith, he ceases to be a member of the true Church, and w
Havanna & (Nasxsept
Nassau) 31 2d of the month .. Southaispt. Sept. 20
must be regarded as out of the way of salvation. * The mails those
ewes.
countries thus marked (*) are conveyed, by
• With St. Paul, we say, that 4if an angel from Heaven Frcenktchjoascitt,—ltails to and from California, ria the United
d preach to you a gospel besides that which we have are now despatched and due by every American packet. Stott*
ktpreached to you, let him be anathema:—(Galations,
15 i., 8). Yet, it is a melancholy fact that many Ca-
THE FRENCH CAVALRY HORSES.—The French
?" tholics send their children to schools where our reli- Minister of
ma Warehscolime ewtaisme
president,ag o appointed
t a commission, of
'r, gion is impugned, and which present many awful wuhei l' M
sctions relative to the treatment ofocarvealrrt upon various
instances of apostacy. When Catholicf. children are cl__iny,.
The commission has just sent in ita yre orses in the
,),Y admitted to such schools it is the fashion to call them ar
the questions discussed was as to the effect of port. One of
`), mixed schools, and to speak of the advantages of salt adminis-
tered with the food. The commission, after lon and careful
to mixed education. The truth is, that there is no experiments, reports that salt has no beneficialgeffect what-
es mixture of Catholicity in them. It may happen that
te_voenr,of udtcgoensttione oitthiesrdhacnad, causes no injury. On the ques-
t° a Catholic youth will passed unscathed through such i
their food much'
meurieed
.that horses in full exercise di-
gestst, an ordeal, but even then the parent who thrusts '
idle. As regards the mortalllatPyldiflY than when they remain
x- child into the furnace of danger must incur an awful that within the last few yearis it° has
horses, it is found
be responsibility in the sight of God. owing to more ludicious treatment. as considerably decr
" It appears that in the discussion on education,. to
TRADE OF CUMBERLAN W ' h resent
rat id which you have kindly called my attention, it has D.-- e have in t e
week had an opportunity of visitng the rinsipal towns in
s- been argued that I must be favourable to mixed tale western parts of the county At WorPkington there. 7
ks education because I approve of the national schools in three or four very fine ships on the stocks, one of t a 111
Lb this diocese.• , d
„ Csicotta, t a
Intended for the trade between L °- a- tt
Liver tons bar au
largest ever built ' '
n- "The explanation of this apparent contradiction is in Cumberland; she is
• 1,000
,!stands A 1.
adeasy. In common with the other bishops of
quite
new measurement ; and being built
under
d Vi'hitehaven there
15 years, at Lloyd's. At )Sias port an .• g princ' all
113 3r
t ; Ireland, I abstain from either approving or condemn.- is some business
he'doing in shipbuilding,
t arralwestern ports ;
ing the national schools in general. Some of these out of the admirable -work turned °91,%.; dull. The coal
it- schools work practically well, and while visiting this \ but in all other respects business IS
keepers everywhere
and the shop
on diocese, I was happy to find the children who frequent I trade is unremunerative, at a standstill.—Carlisle
h ; them well instructed in their religion. But these complain that they are literally
p t •
yABD.—The number
.nd are not mixed schools ; the managers, the teachers a riot.
v. wrest Does.
igs the children are, I may say, all Catholics--the .1 •• ' VISITORS TON, OoL . t
naval depOt in the week
'sited this reel
pintcumber 307 were French
:be of the schools is Catholic. There are two ' of foreigners who v,_. 783, of that
the small conti-
such schools endin August 13, w•e.
The others were from.
lad in this town. A. great deal might be said about the and 116 Pruss
gitins. of British subjects on August 8
The number
9th, 2 473 - on the
sly system on which such schools d t 1 States. 1,316; on the • •
are con ucled; but I neli e dockyardvr as
lath, 2,090; and
it.; do not intend, nor is it necessary,the11th, 1,574; on the
to touch on that visiting
81
on the
a total of 12,249 in the six day%
it. ; matter now. There areother 100( ,"L; 2 115, making •
national schools, in on the 13t t ' f 2172 daily, including foreiguri.
Per which the managers, ila t as avior ° '
s 46 era, and children, are rro' 'or

aid them by my counsel on every question Connected
with their eternal salvation and the preservation of
the faith of our Catholic children. Having been
charged by God, through the Apostolic See, with the
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like the An- tle

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