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

COLONIAL

TEA.—The market is quiet. A small quantity sold at public sale
realised about previous quotations. Common Congou is quoted 9/d.
to 10d. fully.
SUGAR.—There has been rather more activity displayed, and the
trade have bought rather freely of the better qualities at an
advance of 6d. per cwt. In the Refined Market a good business
has been done at fully previous prices.
Comm.—The demand for the better qualities of Plantation
Ceylon is active, and an Improvement of fully Is. per cwt. has taken
place ; other descriptions are at steady rates.
RICE.—The market has been rxther active, and good qualities
have been in fair request, at a slight improvement.
Ruu.—There is a steady inquiry for the better qualities of
Jamaica, but other descriptions show little activity ; prices remain
unaltered.

SALTPETRE.—The market is quiet, but for arrivals sales to some
extent have been effected, at about former quotations.
TALLOW.—A steady business has been done, and prices are firm.
P.Y.0., on the spot, is quoted 495.; and for last three months,
tbs. 9d. ; and for the spring dei'very, 495. to 495. 3d. per cwt.
GREEN FRUlT.—Lemons have advanced ss. to 10s. ier package.
A parcel of Lisbon, per steamer, sold by Keeling and hunt, at
public sale, went freely at the stove advance. Not any inquiry
for nuts ; stock of Barcelona short.

AQUATICS.

THE TOWER REGATTA.

The fortieth regatta at the Tow er, managed as usual by
Robert Eallem, came off yesterday, and every heat was well
contested. All went off well, and the attendance was very
great. The following is an account of the heats :,•

FIRST HEAT.

D. Wallnieer
G. 3lurgitroyd
E. Gregson

(White) 1
(Yellow) 0
_ (Green) 0

Distance-from London-bridge to St. Katherine's Dock
buoy and back twice, finishing at Tower-stairs. The win-
ner got ahead at the first round.

SECOND HEAT.

Joseph Goddard (Blue) 1
B. White, inn. (lien) 0
John James (Pink) 0
Blue got ahead shortly after starting, and won Easily.

IRELANI).

PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
DUBLIN, THURSDAY MORNING.

MANI} ESTO OF ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS.

Under the regime rt. Dr. Cullen a new and dangerous
class of opponents of the system of national educatren in
Ireland has sprung Into existence. This party, which consists
of a large proportion of the Roman Catholic bishops of Ire-
land, declares its intention to be content with nothing less
than a separate educational grant, and however unpleasant
it may be to record the fact, it is yet true that the adherents
of this school are increasing in number. Every one
acquainted with the history of the national education
question in Ireland is aware that Dr. BlacHale and
the clergy of his archdiocese never gave the system their
willing adhesion; but during the life of the late Dr. Murray
their extreme'views were overborne at the Court of Rome by
the more liberal representations of that prelate. It is suffi-
ciently well known that with the advent of Dr. Cullen
ultramontane principles came into the ascendant, and the
sentiments of Dr. Mac Hale on education consequently re-
ceived a stamp and authority which they had never previ-
ously enjoyed. It is now positive that the Sacred College in-
clines to the claim for an exclusive grant,and it is conjectured
that the visit of Dr.Wiseman to Ireland may be in some man-
ner connected with the formal agitation on this point which
the document about to be quoted seems to be meant to in-
augurate. The western bishops have met under the chair-
manship of Dr. Mac Hale, and agreed upon a manifesto which
again repudiates the Queen's Colleges, and uses the strongest
language regarding the present system of national instruc-
tion. Already have the efforts of those dignitaries done
tnuch to render the Galway Queen's College a failure, and it
is somewhat characteristic of the policy of the Roman
Catholic ultra clerical party to find them thus re-
tarding the national progress of this town, and the
west generally, at a time when the tide of fortune
seems to have turned in favour of that part of Ire-
land. In the document referred to they go further than
usual, in their censures of the Queen's Colleges, for they de-
nounce such Roman Catholics as have thought it consistent
with their faith to patronise those institutions. Imprimis,
the spirit of their manifesto may be judged by the following
sentence :

" We further solemnly declare that no system short of an
unqualified separate education for our flocks shall ever
satisfy us; and in order to succeed in obtaining it without
delay, we request again of our people to use all constitu-

tional means In pressing their rightful claims, in every form
of petition and remonstrance, on the Government and
Legislature."
This is the main idea which wriggles through a column of
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 schoo's of such
various complexions, that one cannot know or define it, ex-
cept by that negative cbaracter 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 wander 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 hocks 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 labsur to obtain a better
state of things from the Government; and it further re-
commended to the bishops of Ireland to take this hel-
-1 pm taut 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 so unfixed a system, are too many to be here
enumerated. Suffice it to observe, that they have led to the
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 nrdi-
, rilry a' sc!lm I, are cap s. d. 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 cur own province, in direct opposition to the
bishops' authority. Had these 'mad schools been founded
by any other agency eFfferent 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 schcol 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
inttusted 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 cf the Church
to forward and encourage, could be combined with 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 ilia Com-
missioners of Inquiry into the Queen's Colleges, leave no
longer room to doubt that there is, iu influential quar-
tets, 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 hut under Government
commissioners, in which all religious instruction of a peculiar
nature would be interdicted and proscribed, yet so richly ea-
their pecuniary premiums as to draw
dowed and so alluring by
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 most susceptible and perilous period
of their lives, with young men of easy creeds and looser
morals, and to come out with their intellectual and moral
constitution so spoiled as to he totally unfitted to become
proper teachers of tie divine purity of the Catholic faith)
or to practise its exalted morality. This is a state of things
so revolting to contemplate, that we have no hesitation
in declaring that we shall never suffer our young candidates
for the priesthood ever to be infected by an education so
contaminating. And not only as regards our yours; 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 our flocks from ite further noxious
influence.

" You will, we are sure, lend us every co-operation in
carrying out this resolve, especially when you reflect that
we have discussed 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=
went 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 commissioner.
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
was 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 your souls,' Judge ye.' If your

fathers evinced such heroic fortitude, with the sword im-
peodirg over them, what are we not to hope from you in far
more favourable circumstances, strong in the conviction of
the victories already wrra over intolerance by a peaceful use
cf those legilmate and constitutional weapons which even
the laws cf your country put into your hands? If you
wield those weapons as !become good Christians, good
citizens, and faittifid suhjecis, with firmness, wisdom, and
moderation, you must obtain not only the justice of not
being fotced from your dwellings for not sacrificing the faith
of your children, but you will even share in the public funds
that rye granted for education, to which you are entitled
by your numbers, by your contributions in taxes to the
Exchequer, 'and by your fidelity in co-operating in every
way to the defence of the State and the sustainment of all
its burdens. We now further solemnly declare that no
system short of an unqualified separate education for our
flocks shall ever satisfy us; and in order to succeed in
obtaining it without delay, we request again of our beloved
p.lople to use all constitutional means in pressing their
rightful claims, in every fum of petition and remonstrance,
on the Government and Legislature; nor shall we be want-
ing iu lending every aid in our pmer to them and their
clergy in the furtherance of this complete liberty of educa-
tion, so essential to the full discharge of our episcopal
duties, and to the complete freedom of the Catholic Church.
" t,-JOHN, Archbishop of Tuam.
" t GEORGE J. P. bROwNE, Bi=hop of Elphin.
" t THOMAS FEENY, Bishop of Killala.
" t JOHN DERRY, Bishop of Clonfert.
" t PATRICK DURCAN, Bishop of Achcnry.
" t PATRICK FALLON, Bishop of Kilmacduagh.
" t JOHN MACEVILLY, Bishop of Galway.
" t LAUREN CE GILLOOLY, Coadjutor Bishop of
Elphin.
" TEO V Ao MACHALE, D.D., Secretary."
THE ITALIAN ARTISTES IN DUBLIN.
The fol'"oaing Paragraph appears in a Dublin morning
paper :—An artiste values nothing so highly as due ap-
preciation of his poaers, and can offer no tribute of grati-
tude more natural or graceful than some eff)rt of his art.
The Italians are deeply sensible of the reception accorded to
them here. Accustomed to the frigidity of an English
public, which is not so demonstrative as ours, they are en-
chanted to find here au enthusiasm and a crdiality which
recall to their minds the plaudits ol their own fervent country-
men. They have accordingly arranged among themselves to
express their gratitude in the only common language they
possess, and will naturally embody their feelings in song. All
are to contribute to this labour of love. Signor Giuglini,
who studied composition as an art before he discovered that
he had a voice, has suggested the idea, and has written very
popular and graceful music, while Signor Aldighieri has
found leisure, amid rehearsals and operas, to compose very
appropriate poetry. The entire will be arranged for orches-
tra and chorus, assisted by a military band, and the whole
company will join in the performance. A trio will give
scope for Giugliui's beautiful tenor, and a solo, of course,
for La Piccolomini. An extra night of opera is, however,
necessary, for otherwise the work, though short, could not
be prepared in time. To this, however, the public will not
object, as the richest programme yet put forth has been
prepared for Saturday night. At the close of the perform-
ance this Farewell' will be sung. Both audience and ar-
tistes will join in the kindly feeling it is meant to express."