The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-12 00:00:00

BILL.

This bill was read a second time.
REFORMATORY SCHOOLS (SCOTLAND) BILL.
On the motion for the second reading of this bill,
Mr. MAGUIRE, on the part of the Irish Roman
Catholics in Scotland, numbering about 250,000, who,
be said, were not represented in th►►t house by Scotch
or English members, objected to this bill on the ground
that no provision was made in it for providing
religious instruction for Roman Catholic children
by the priests of that Church. The hon. gentleman
complained of the manner in which vagrant Roman
Catholic children were treated in houses of refuge in
Scotland, with a view to compel them to adopt the
Presbyterian religion, and which he said would be
carried out to a much larger extent in reformatory
schools if established in that country. He condemned
the abominable proselytising system carried on there,
and which was a curse to any land. The Government
gave free tolerance to idolatry and paganism in India,
and why should not the same freedom of religion be
practised .in reformatory schools? He wanted
the Government to alopt the principle, that
in all the reformatory schools throughout the king-
dom certain hours should he set apart for the religious
instruction of Roman Catholic children by their own
priests. Roman Catholics had a right to the same pri-
vileges that were granted to the more favoured denomi-
nations of the kingdom. The priests of that church
were as anxious for the maintenance of goof order and
peace in the country as the ministers of any religious
persuasion, and in order to inculcate those principles on
the children belonging to that church it was necessary
they should have free access to them. In committee he
should be prepared with an amendment to carry out his
views.

Mr. BOWYER concurred in the reasonable demands
of the hon. member for Dungarvon, and expressel him-
self opposed to a mixed system of education. Religious
instruction could only be effectually carried out by the
children of different religious persuasions being in-
structed in separate classes, and that applied especially
to Roman Catholics.

Mr. DRUMMOND regretted the speech of the hon.
member for Dungarvon had not been delivered in the
Papal States, Prussia, or France, rather than in that
house. It was all very well for the hon. gentleman to
condemn proselytism, but he (Mr. Drummond) believed
there wa-., not a place in which a Roman Catholic priest
could poke his nose that he did not do so for the love
of making mischief. He did not consider there was so
much harm in Roman Catholic children being taught
by Presbyterian roiniAtirs to hate the religion of their
fathers as the hon. member appeared to think. It was
a notorious fact that the members of the Roman Ca-
tholic Church were the most ignorant of any, and he con-
de►n►:ed the mode of teaching adopted by them as objec-
tionable. He bad no faith in reformatory schools.
Sir G. GREY, after alluding to the powers of the
Lill, said there was a provision in the bill to remove a
c: ild confined in an institution to another where be
might receive religious instruction according to the de-
nomination to which he belonged, and which he thought
answered the purpose the hon. member had in view, and
he hoped therefore he would not move the amendments
referred to by him in committee.

(LEFT SITTING.)

APPOINTMENTS TO ROYAL ARTILLEhY
AND ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY.

The following are the eucar•stut candidates (1) for ap-
pointments to provisional commissions in the Royal
Artillery, and (2) for admission to the Practical Cate of
the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, at the exarni-
rati,)n held at Burlington House en 21st January and
following days :

1. PROVI3IONAL C0317.115510N3.
1. Robert E. Kane, Trinity College, Dublin.
2. Arch. St. Bell, Christ's College, Calibridge.
3. Francis S. Stoney, Trinity College, Dubin.
4. John W. Brassington, Civil Eogiaeer.
5. George S. F. Budd, Caine College, Cambridge.
6. John Haughton, Trinity College, Dublin.
7. Henry R. leverg, Magdalene College, Cambridge.
8. Robert Lloyd, Trinity College, Dublin.
9. James Colquhnun, Edinburgh University.
10. Thomas Clarke, Trinity Colle,e, Dublin.
11. William Branclier, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
12. Donald R. Cameron, University College, London.
13. William 11. Noble, Trinity College, Dublin.
14. George O'Connor, Trinity College, Dublin.
15. Richard N, Young, University College, Oxford.
16. Francis H. Dodson, Christ Church, Oxford.
17. Joseph 11. Edgar, Wadhain College, Oxford.
2. PRACTICAL CLASS.
1. Henry D. Crozier, Trinity College, Dublin.
2. George L. Engstrom, privately.
3. Michael Sexton, Queen's College, Cork.
4. Alan May, Bristol Grammar School.
5. Conway R. Reeves, Trinity College, Dublin.
6. George R. Home, privately.
7. Henry S. Palmer, privately.
8. William Scott, College St. Barbe, Paris.
9. Robert Barton, Trinity College, Dublin.
10. John M. Mantvell, Trinity College, Dublin,
11. Hugh Ellaby, King Edward's School, Bath.
12. Valentine G. Clayton, Marlborough College.
13. Henry C. S,ddon, Tunbridge School,
14. Robert 0. Jones, Cowbriclge Grammar.