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tents or Presbyterians, and which are not fee.
aed by Catholic children. It is not in my sphere
eerfere with schools, but I may say that, as Pro-
are taxed for the support of the national sys-
\ fair that they should participate in any
it confers in a way proportionate to the
number of their poor children. But there is a third
class of nations' schools under the control of
proselytizing parsons, or agents of bigoted enemies
of our faith, iu whicb,though the masters are Pro-
testant, and the teaching. and spirit Protestant, yet
Catholic children, by promises or threats, are induced
to attend. Such schools I consider most dangerous.
There is no protection in them for the faith of Ca-
tholic children. The parents, indeed, may object to
the teaching of Protestant doctrines, and make their
representations to the board; but this is in reality no
protection, when the parents are dependent on the
patrons or managers of the school. It would be
necessary to say a great deal about this branch of the
national system. shall for the present limit my-
self to observe that it is most unjust to tax
,a Catholic
population for the support of schools of this kind
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 modi-
fied in a manner to favour such schools that may 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
object 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 masters 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 by
experience ? On the contrary, we have the clearest evi-
dence that men who profess themselves liberal are often-
times most hostile to our religion, and make every exer-
tion to injure it. 'Who ever enjoyed a higher character
for liberality than our Prime Minister ? Yet in his
Durham correspondence he treats our practices as the
mummeries of superstition, and proclaims that our
church confines the mind and enslaves the intellect.
The dignitaries of the Established Church are also
very liberal and enlightened men, but were tney not
the I 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 co:npanions, 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
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
care of all the faithful in this diocese, like the Apostle
I must say to all lam a debtor. Believe me to be,
with sincerest esteem and best wishes, your devoted
servant, 'r PAUL COLLEN, Archbishop,
" Primate of all Ireland.
" Mr. Patrick Boylan, Ald., &C."
DEATH OF THE EARL OF DONOLIGHMORE.

[PRICE SD,

A hastily-written report of the death of this noble-
man, which appeared in the Leinster Express of this
morning, turns out, on inquiry, to be well founded.
His Lordship expired yesterday at three o'clock r.nt.
at Palmerstown• house, the deceased peer's residence,
in the county of Dublin, after suffering from an attack
of paralysis with which he had been smitten nearly
two years since. The late Earl was born in the
year 1787, and was consequently in the G4th year of
his age. He was Lord-Lieutenant of the county cf
Tipperary, and had a seat in the House of Lords as a
British peer with the title of Viscount Hutchinson, of
Knocklofty, but will be better remembered in history
as the gallant Colonel Hutchinson, who was one of
the parties implicated in the celebrated escape of La-
valette, in the year 1815, shortly after the restoration
of the Bourbons. lie is succeeded in his extensive
estates in the south of Ireland by Viscount Suirdale,
his Lordship's son by his first wife, the daughter of
the Lord Mountjoy, who lost his life in the Royal
service during the Irish rebellion of 1798. The pre-
sent Earl, who was born in the year 1823, served for
a short time in China as a subaltern in her Majesty's
98th Regiment.