The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-27 00:00:00

DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY.—Dr. M‘Hale, it would ap-
p e ar, is determin&d to carry matters with a high hand,
and is resolved, ?6 far as lies in his power, that the de-
crees of the fathers of Thurles shall not prove a nullity
or become a dead letter on the ecclesiastical statute-book.
In the course of last week it transpired, through more
than one communication, that in a certain national,
school in the diocese of Team, which was attended up to
a very recent period by 90 poor Roman Catholic chil-
dren, the number of pupils had on Sunday week sud-
denly dwindled down to just one-third. inquiries, to
account for so remarkable a defalcation, were instantly
set on foot, and it was ascertained from some of the pa-
rents that orders from head-quarters had been promul-
gated from the chapels on the Sunday previous,
threatening all sorts of pains and penalties on the
bodies and souls of such fathers and mo-
thers as would not withdraw their offspring
from all schools in connexion with the National
Board, those institutions, as well as the Government
Colleges, having been solemnly declared to be " dan-
gerous to the faith and morals" of the rising generation
of Romanists. Meanwhile, the children thus shut out
from the benefits of instruction are wandering about the
hedges and roadsides, an occupation they are at full
liberty to follow until, perhaps, the erection, endowment,
and chartering of Primate Cullen's new " Catholic Uni-
versity" shall open the prospect of a system of education
based on the enlightened principles enunciated by the
d& cress of the Synod of Thurles. A later communica-
tion from the west announces that the ranks of the
pupilshare been since diminished by additional deser-
tions to the amount of 28, and, as no school at which
the number of scholars is less than 30 is entitled to
the Government grant for the payment ef the
teuchor, Dr. M‘liale will probably soon have
the satisfaction of 13ealiLg the doors of one of
the obnoxious schools. We have been informed, and it
is but right to mention the circumstance, that the
great primary objection of " his Grace" to the national
system, is directed in an especial manner to all schools
of which the patrons happen to bo members of the Pro-
testant Church. Wherever Roman Catholics happen to
occupy this position, the case is in a degree differenty,
Although far from getting any encouragement, they
are pot as yetNnsitivaly denounced as moral pestilares.
'SAIN642E 111NCIHSIBERED ESTATES. ;•lk
The Meath estaret eff --Maa Charles Henry Smith,
owner, and petitioner in the case;sproducing a profit rentalof about 4001. paj annum, were set up forlale yesterday,
in three lots, before two of the Commissioners, and
realized in the aggregate a sum of 5,4001., being some•
thing like 12,1 years' purchase. An extensive property
in the county of Tipperary, the estate of Mr. Hems-
worth, the rental of which was estimated at a little over
1,0001. a year, was offered in nine lots, the whole of
which, after considerable delays, owing to the leek of
competition and various other causes, was disposed of for
the sum of 10,1501. Lord Cremorne, the petitioner in
the matter, was a purchaser to the extent of half the
amount produced by the sales.
THE FUNDS.—Three per Cent. Consols, 964 96;
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Stock (shut), 97i 4:
ditto for Account, 971 National Bank Shares,
221. 10s. psid, 184; City of Dublin Steam Company,
501. paid, 25; Consumers' Gas, 51. paid, 6-.1. Dublin and
Belfast Junction Railway, 451. paid, 261; Dublin and
Drogheda, 75/. paid, 40; Dundalk and Enniskillen, 301.
paid, 9; Great Southern and Western, 501. paid, 434.