The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-10 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, THURSDAY MORNING.
DR. CULLEN'S LATEST.
Dr. Cullen has just issued a long and dreary let-
ier—not a pastoral—addressed to the Catholics of
the diocese of Dublin with a view of directing their
attention to the necessity of protecting the orphans
of Wman Catholic soldiers from the risk of being
tampered with by those under whose care the pre-
sent system places them. The Royal Hibernian
School in the Park has been selected as the battle
ground for the fresh archiepiscopal charge. Here
is his sketch of that admirable institution :
" The Board of Government, the Commandant, the
Major—in fine, all the officers, about 20 in number, are
Protestant, with the single exception of one sergeant.
The professors or masters and the Chelsea monitors, 14
in number, are all Protestant. Toe books, too, used in
-the school have been compiled in great part by a Pro-
testant parson. Thus, Catholics are excluded from the
slightest interference in the management of the institu-
tion ; and the only privilege that is conferred on them
in regard to it is the honour of contributing their
portion of 8,0001. per annum, paid to the school out of
the public taxes of the country. Catholics pay their share
of the' annual grant ; Catholics send their sons and
brothers and relatives to fight for their Queen and coun-
try ; Catholic blood was shed in torrents at Alma and
Delhi ; Catholic soldiers were among the first and the
bravest in every battle where the English flag was un-
furled but they seem to be considered unfit to take any
part in the direction of an institution supported by them-
selves and the public for the education of their children."
As a consequence of the religious element con-
-versions to the Protestant faith had become some-
what numerous--in. four years they had run up to
17. Dr. Cullen insists that there must be a change
in the system, or there can be no safety for the
lambs of his flock, and for these reasons :
As all the officers and superiors and masters are
Protestant and men of rank and station, the poor Catho•
lie boys, who know no one outside the boundaries of
their school, are led to think that the profession of Pro-
testantism is necessary in order to acquire respectability,
And that Catholicity is something to be condemned and
despised, just as if there were not great Catholic officers
and generAll and Kings and Queens, and Catholic Em-
perors in the s7orld. But such things of course are not
to be told to the poor boys of the Hibernian school,
whose associations lead them to think that Catholicity,
which contains in itself every-thing that is great and no-
ble and sublime, is something low 'Lad degrading when
compared with Protestantism.
"2. As all the masters are Protestant and oftentimes
not only ignorant of the doctrines of Catholicity, but
hostile to them, they can scarcely fail, whether designedly
or not, to give a sectarian tinge to their lessons and to
impress false principles on the minds of their pupils.
"3. The continual use of books, such as those em-
ployed in the Hibernian school containing anti-Catholic
doctrines, cannot fail to produce a bad effect on the minds
of children not sufficiently instructed to understand the
snares that are laid for them, or to unravel the sophistry
with which their faith is assailed, just as breathing con-
tagious air necessarily, though insensibly, brings on dis-
ease and death. The books referred to not only produce
evil by the direct inculcation of error, but also by the
suppression of truth. A Catholic boy, after going
through the Rev. Mr. Gleig's course of history used in
the school, would scarcely know that there was such an
institution in the world as the holy Catholic Church, or
the Roman Pontificate, or that those who profess the
holy Catholic faith amount to 200,000,000, and consti-
tute the population of some of the most civilised and
powerful kingdoms and empires on the earth ; and,
while acquainted with all the claims of Protestantism
to be considered the source of all modern enlightenment
and progress, he would remain in profound ignorance
of the inestimable services that have been rendered by
the Catholic Church and its pontiffs to the arts and
sciences, to literature, and to everything that raises and
ennobles the human mind.
"4. The Catholic boys must be exposed to the
greatest dangers from their continual association with
Protestant companions, especially as these last are more
numerous and more favoured with the smiles of their
superiors and the distinctions of office, and thus placed
in a position to look down with pity or contempt on
their comrades differing from them in religion. Nothing,
too, more natural for boys than to talk about the religi-
ons instructions given to them by their chaplain. I fear
that catholic boys cannot be much improved by learning
the lessons of 'piety delivered in the Protestant churches
of this country. Every week for the last five years I
have seen the themes of the sermons to be preached in
several churches placarded on the walls of the city, or
printed in the columns of Saunders's newspaper."

SHIPWRECK IN CORK HARBOUR.

The Cork Examiner of yesterday says :

" The barque General Sale, Captain Potter, from
Sutherland to New York, 20 days out, put into Queens-
town yesterday evening in a leaky condition. At 4
o'clock yesterday evening she fell in with the brig For-
tuna, Captain Wilton, bound from Liverpool for Monte
Video, with a general cargo, in a sinking state, off
Roberts's Head, within four or five miles of the Cork
Lighthouse, the captain and crew, consisting of
eight in all, having just left her in the long boat.
They were taken on board the General Sale, and the
pilot of the latter having stated that he would get the
Fortuna into Queenstown in three-quarters of an hour
if she could be kept afloat so long, four men volunteered
to go on board her from the General Sale ; but when the
boat reached the place where it was supposed she was,
not a sign of her could be seen, so that it was supposed
that she must either have gone down or ashore, in either
ice becoming a total wreck."

DUBLIN, FRIDAY EVENING.

Col. Browne, the Commissioner of Police, under-
went a long ex4mioation to-day, as a witness for
the police, before the magistrates of College-street
office, when the following incident occurred.
During the progress of the cross-examination of
Col. Browne by Mr. M'Donough, reference had
been made to the " engagement" within the Col-
lege, and the Colonel said it had been lost and won
at the time the Rev. Mr. Stubbs asked him to
withdraw the police.

"Mr. M'Donough said, lost and won ! won by
you, you mean ?
" Colonel Browne—No, lost by me.
" Mr. M'Donough—Lost by you ?
" Colonel Browne—Yes, lost by me. No one
has lost so much by it as I have done. I have lost
peace of mind, and have suffered a great deal of
anxiety. I have likewise felt deep regret ; there-
fore I say I lost the engagement.
" Mr. M'Donough—l am happy to hear that
word ' regret.'
" Colonel Browne—l shall regret it as long as I
live. lam very sorry that Mr. M‘Donongh, cir-
cumstanced as he is here, cannot now bear me give
expression to my feelings.
" Mr. M'Donough—l assure you, Col. Browne,
I never discharged a m' :re painful duty in my life.
" Colonel Browne—And yet I am sore, Mr.
M'Donougli will not be displeased with me if I say
that I have regretted this occurrence. I thought of
my men, whom I had considered to have been for
an hour or two subjected to ill-treatment by the
Young gentlemen, and I was more annoyed to see
them so treated than had there been 50 dozen of
stones showered on myself. They, on their part,
were irritated at stones being thrown at me. I take
the responsibility of all that occurred on myself. I
gave the order and am accountable for everything
that happened. It is not became two or three of
the men may have acted, and, no do*bt, did act,
intemperately, that the general police should be
punished. The whole concern ought to be thrown
upon me, and I hope the collegians will cast it on
me and forgive me. I thought that good feeling
existed between my men and them, and still think
that there did. I feel regret for what has been
done—regret which will go along with Lie to my-
grave, and I now say that not the police or any in-
dividual of the force, but myself alone, ought to
bear the consequences of what has occurred.

" Mr. .M‘Donouah—After that expression of re-
gret, Col. Browne, I, as a gentleman, shall not ask
you another question. (Sensation, and expressions
of approbation from the collegians in court.)
it colonel Browne, who seemed completely over-
come by his emotions, quitted the court, and the
proceedings for the day terminated.

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