The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-27 00:00:00

GARBUTT NURSERY HANDICAP.

This is the main idea which wriggles through a column o.
verbosity, the smartest passages of which bear unmistak-
able evidence of Dr. Mac Hale's pen. The more significant
of those are subjoined :
" Of the undisguised hostility of Protestant Governments
to pure Catholic education, there is abundant evidence in
all the projects for educating the the youth of Ireland, even
in the least noxious, from the time of the foundation of the
Charter Schools to the present day. With those that have
passed away, leaving no trace of their existence save the
memory of their bigotry and of the fidelity of the people
whom they failed to seduce, we have now no concern. Our
business is with those that exist at the present moment,
some of which have been merely tolerated without any for-
mal approval, and watched with jealousy, and others so un-
disguised in their obvious tendency to evil that they have
been visited with the condemnation of the Church. Of the
former kind is the national system, a denomination of such
large and equivocal meaning, comprehending schools of such
various complexions, that one cannot know or define it, ex-
cept by that negative character of excluding all precise or
dogmatic religious instruction during ordinary school hours,
and then allowing all the varieties of doctrine that ever dis-
figured Christianity to nestle under its shade.
" It is no wonder if a system so flexible to such a latitude
of interpretation, and to such a practical difference in its
management, would have from its origin excited the alarm
of Catholics, especially considering the composition of the
board, with a preponderance of Protestant interests, and
with so disproportionate a share of Catholic influence, but
especially with the extraordinary powers over books and
teachers which, without any reference to the authority of
the local pastors, the commissioners had assumed. Accord-
ingly it met at an early period such opposition as any ex-
periments that may prove dangerous to the faith must ever
encounter in Ireland ; so that it was submitted to the
judgment of the Holy See. Its dangers in its original
state may be fully inferred from this fact, that after a pro-
tracted term for consideration the Holy See impressed on
the Catholic bishops the advantage of having the pro-
perty of the schools vested in themselves or in the parish
priests, and advised them to labour to obtain a better
state of things from the Government; and it further re-
commended to the bishops of Ireland to take this im-
portant subject into their consideration in their Provincial
Synods. But, far from obtaining any of the improvements
required by the Holy Father, in the security of the property
or mitigation of the other evils and dangers to which he
pointed, the system has become since so patently fraught
with danger, and its agents at the centre and throughout
the country seem so confident in the powers they derive
from the board as to set at nought the authority of the
Catholic bishops and clergy, which, at the earlier and more
precarious stage of its existence, they so assiduously courted
for its support. The incidents that illustrate this extraor-
dinary change, and warn against the growing evils of so
vague and ao unfixed a system, are too many to be here
enumerated. Suffice it to observe, that they have led to the I,
formidable dangers that have been already felt in the esta-
blishment of the Queen's Colleges and Model Schools—the
congenial offshoots of the same system of national education.
We may find, and it is true there are, some practical differ-
ences between the parent and the offspring, in the lesser
amount of danger to which children frequenting the ordi-
nary national schools are exposed. But that diminished
danger is owing entirely to the zeal of the clergy and the
piety of the parents of the children, for which we are not
beholden to the National Board, since the system when left
to its simple and unqualified agency naturally produces
such reprobated institutions as those of the Queen's Col-
leges and model schools, the latter of which have been
erected in Ireland, nay, are still attempted to be further
erected, in our own province, in direct opposition to the
bishops' authority. Had these model schools been founded
by any other agency different from the National Board,
then these evils should not be directly imputed to it, as an
aggravation of the religious difference of which the system
is productive. But when we find that the model schools
are as much the creatures of that body as the smallest rural
national school in the kingdom, nay still more, being
exclusively under their control and management, we
are at. a loss to conceive that any confidence can be
placed in a body which so avowedly and so wickedly
sets the authority of the Catholic clergy and their bishops
at defiance. We are still at a greater loss to know of
what avail are its Catholic members in checking the evils
of the system, when they are, it appears, either unwilling
or unable to resist such unhallowed encroachments on the
right of the episcopacy to guard the religion of the youth
intrusted to their care. Relying too much on the policy, if
not the good faith, of the board, we have been latterly for-
bearing, as long as there was hope that the literary progress
of our youth, which has been always the study o h
to forward and encourage, could be combined we ith the
safety of their religion. In our anxiety to satisfy the thirst
for knowledge, which, next to their devotion to the faith,
was ever the distinguishing characteristic of the Irish people,
we have been silent until those more recent attempts of the
Commissioners of Education, and the report of the Co
of Inquiry into the Queen's Colleges, leave no
longer room to doubt that there is, in influential quar-
ters, an earnest disposition to carry on, nay, to extend
further, a system of mixed education entirely divorced
from any precise ideas of the Christian religion, in
opposition to the Catholic authorities. This is not
a vague surmise. There is one position deserving your
attention and ours, which is, the recommendation to found
intermediate classical schools, similar in principle to the Na-
tional and Model Schools and the Queen's Colleges, placed as
those others, not only under similar but under Government
commissioners, in which all religious instruction of a peculiar
nature would be interdicted and proscribed, yet so richly en-
dowed and so alluring by their pecuniary premiums as to draw
our youth—even the youth destined for the priesthood, if per-
mitted—from our diocesan seminaries, and from the remnant
of classical schools, still sufficient to supply them, to mingle
at the earliest, the mast susceptible and perilous period
of their lives, svith young men of easy creeds and looser
morals, and to come out with their intellectual and moral
constitution so spoiled as to be totally unfitted to become
proper teachers of the divine purity of the Catlsolio faith,
or to practise its exalted morality. This is a state of things
so revolting to contemplate, that we hove no hesitation
in declaring that we shall never suffer out young candidates
for the priesthood ever to be infected by an education so
contaminating. And not only ass vegards our your g Levites
but the entire of our youth, we will resist, by all means in
our power, such a sweeping system of unhallowed instruc-
tion, and labour to save VAr flocks from its further noxious
influence.
" You will, we re sure, lend us every co-operation in
carrying out this, resolve, especially when you reflect that
we have dismissed this question of the national system and
its mischievous consequences in obedience to the Holy
See. We are alarmed at the evil fruits of its develop-
ment in the model schools and the Queen's Colleges,
and at, the probable worse fruits of its further develop-
ment in the contemplated intermediate classical schools.
But, above all, we recommend to your zeal and solici-
tude the passage of the report of the commissioners
of inquiry into the Queen's Colleges, which more than
insinuates that the bishops and his Holiness, in condemning
the colleges, were misled by their own fears, for which there
:s as not any solid foundation. Whether you are to believe
this insidious report that represents the colleges as harmless
and safe, or trust and obey your prelates, who watch as to
render an account of ycur souls,' `Judge ye.' If ycur

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ZETLAND BIENNIAL STAKES.

Archduchess

LONDON GAZETTE.-(THIS EVENING.)

FOREIGN-OFFICE, AVG. 25.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. James B.
Hayna as Consul at Turk's Island for the United Statts of
America.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. J. M.
Vanderspar to be Consul at Point de Galle for his Majesty
the King of the Belgians.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, AUG. i 7.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Benjamin
Isaac as Consul in London for the Repub:ic of New Gra-
nada.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. George
William Jones as Vice-Consul at Newport (Monmouth-
shire), for his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Mecklen-
burgh Schwerin.

WHITEHALL, AUG. 27.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Sidney
Henry Widdrington, M.A., to the vicarage of Saint Michael,
in the city of Coventry, and diocese of Worcester, void by
the resignation of the Rev. John Brownrigge Collissen.
The Queen has also been pleased to present the Rev. John
Alexander Macßae to the church and parish of North Uist,
in the presbytery of North Uist, void by the death of the
Rev. Finlay Macßae.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, AUG. 26.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Majesty's Consul at Kertch,
reporting that all foreign vessels entering that port
will be subjected to a quarantine of six days, un-
less provided with a clean bill of health by the Russian
Consular Officer at the port of departure, as well as 3
similar bill from the Russian Consular Officer at each port
at which vessels may have touched during their voyage.
AUGUST 27.
The concluding paragraph of the notice which appeared
in the Gazette of the 17th instant, respecting the altera-
tion of duties on the importation of sugar into the States of
the German Customs Union, should read "3 dollars (9.f.)
per centner," instead of "3 dollars (95.) per centum."

COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.
Dumfries, Roxburgh, and Selkirk Regiment of Militia—.
Michael Moriarty, Gent., to be Quartermaster.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
Cambridgeshire Militia—Joshua Brenton, Gent., to be
Ensign, vice Edward Muriel Martin, promoted.
Warwickshire Militia-2d Regiment—Ensign George
Goodwin Norris to be Lieutenant, vice Craze, resigned.
Royal North Lincoln Militia—Ensign Robert Waller to
be Lieutenant, vice James Ward, promoted.
Royal Pembrokeshire Artillery Regiment of Militia—
Henry Lyons Walcott, Gent., to be First Lieutenant, vice
John Brogdon Labarte, resigned.

BANKRUPTS.
Edward Morgan, stationer, Cheapside, to surrender Sept.
15, at twelve, and Oct. 11, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy.
Charles Powell and Edward Cooke, mining share dealer;,
Hercules-chambers, Old Broad-street, City, Sept. 8 and
Oct. 12, at half-past two, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Samuel Utting Culley, wine merchant, Coleman-street,
City, Sept. 9 and Oct. 8, at half-past twelve, at the Court
of Bankrnptcy.
John Stones and Geo. Stones, lion manufacturers, Smeth.
wick, Staffordsbire, Sept. 10 and Oct. 1, at half-past eleven,
at the Birmingham District Court.
Robert Gray, glass merchant, Nottingham, Sept. 9 and
28, at half-past ten, at the Sbireball, Nottingham.
William Francis Fitzgerald Powell Bryant, ironfaundcr
and agricultural implement maker, Bridgend, Glainoruau-
shire, Sept.lo and Oct. 7, at eleven, at the Bristol District
Court.
John Jones, draper, King's-road, Chelsea, Sept. 9, at one,
and Oct. 15, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Richard Wells Saunders, saddler, Thame, Oxford, Sept.
3, at one, and Oct. 8, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Thomas Nicholson, coal merchant, Lydney, Gloucester-
shire, Sept. 7 and Oct. 7, at eleven, at the Bristol District
Court.
George Moreton, boot and shoe dealer, Liverpool, Sept.
7 and Oct. 4, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.
Henry Wilson, merchant, Liverpool, Sept. 13 and Oct. 1,
at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.
William Shaw, ironmonger, Liverpool, Sept. 10 at one,
and Oct. 1 at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court.
John Watson Hedley, plumber, Durham, Sept. 8, at
twelve, and Oct. 13, at one, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne
District Court.

SCOTCH BANKRITPTS.
John Sewers, agent, Stirling.
Robert Miller, carter, Glasgow.
William Kennedy, farmer in Kilhenzie Mains, Ayrshire.
Donald Robertson, grocer, Perth.
John Poison, sometime farmer at Moy, deceased.
Thelion and Co., merchants, Leith.
Henry Meldrum, manufacturer, Durfermline.
William Thompson, clock and watchmaker, Dalkeith.
John Campbell, flesher, Auchterarder.
John Walker, commission merchant, Glasgow.

BANK 01, ENGLAND.
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. st, Re
the week ending on Wednesday, tke 25th day of August, 1858.
TWIN DEPAATMENT.

Notes Issued: ........... R 31,426,195 Government Debt 211,015,100
Other Securities
Gold Coin and Bullion 16,951,196
Silver Bullion -

£31,426,195

531,416,114

BANKING D
Proprietors' Capital £14,553,000
Rest
Public Deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Savings Banks,
Commissioners of
National Debt, and
Dividend Accounts) 5,452,791
Other Deposits 13,550,348
Seven Day and, other
Bills

IIt•PARrstENT. .
Government Secu-
rities (including
Dead Weight An-
Inuity) 3;10,884,44
Other Securities 15,004,471
Notes 11,063,54
1 Gold and Silver Coin 703,311

£37,715,567

137,715, 67
M. MAESITALL, Chief Cashier.
1858.

Dated the 26th day of August,

PRICE OP SUGAR.

The Average Price of Brown orliuscovado Sugar, computed frmh
Returns made in the week ending the 24th day of August, HU
exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon, ou the
importations thereof into Great Britain :

From the British possessions in America 288. std. per cwt.
Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius 365. a.d.
Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies —s• —d•
A,vr nice of the two foregoing 305.0dd.

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THIS DAY'S SHIPPING.

• •
Luxury, Aug. 27.—Wind this day at noon, N.; strong
breeze and cloudy.
PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 26.—Wind
Reform, from Quebec. Sailed—ll.M.S. Terrible, for the
westward.
PLYMOUTH, Aug. 26.—W ind N.W.—Arrived—Harriet,
for Sunderland for Alicante.
BRISTOL; Aug. W.—Wind N.W—Arrived—Velure, from
Callao.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, Faday Morning.

Wind N.W., fresh.
Arrived—Lillies, from Callao ; Berlin, Savannah ; Isa-
bella, St. John's, New Brunswick ; White Cloud, Trieste;
Black Cat, Huelva; Warner, Archangel.
Mary Jane, from Glasgow, at ►his port, with pig iron,
was towed in by a steam tug, leaking badly, baying been on
shore outside.
Off—Cintra, screw steamer.

(BY SUBMARINE AN BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)..
GRAVESEND, MOrltiflC.
Wind N.N.W.; tide, last ,hour's ebb; weather fine aid
fresh.
Arrived—Bernadine, frcm Riga; Giacomo, Ismail ;
tor, Stettin.
Sailed—Pollux, steamer, for Hamburg ; Vega, steamer,
Oporto.

DEAL, Friday Morning.
Wind N.W. moderate; weather flue.
passed—john Burrows, from Odessa, for London ; Old
England, St. John's, Guernsey; Eclipse, Malta; Jacirobs,
Havre; William Wynn, Honduras; Buchanan, for the uspe
of Good Hope—all from London.
Sailed—Aß the homeward hound, fur the River.

RECORDERSHIP OF WOODSTOCK.—The corporation
of Woodstock have elected Mr. Francis Kyffin Len thall, of
the Oxford circuit, to the office of recorder of the 'uorongh,
vacant by the death of Mr. Walesby. The ancient privilege
of nominating their own recorder (sut4?ct to thp apprwval
of the Crewn) continues, notwithstanding the municipal
Corporation Act, Woodstock not being includgri iu aay of
its schedules.