The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-11 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Arago, which three days ago left Havre for
New York with a full complement of passengers and
goods, is one of the United States mail steamers,
and not belonging to the Transatlantic Company.
The Marchioness de Chasseloup-Laubat, wife of
the Minister of Marine, has been safely confined of
arson.

Count d'Aquila has addressed a letter to the
journals to contradict the assertion of his early
departure from Paris for Rome, given by the
Liberte.
A Stockholm letter in the Nouvelliste of Rouen
says :—" The administration of the omnibuses of
Gothenburg, after having provided each of its
vehicles with a vessel of fresh water and glasses for
the passengers to quench their thirst, has just ex-
tended its courtesy, and provides each traveller with
one of the journals which has appeared the same
day." _ _ _

The official returns from Nantes gives the follow-
ing figures for the 7th :-14 new cases of cholera,
and one death. In addition, three persons under
treatment at the hospital have succumbed. There
are at present only 18 cases.
The Phare de la Loire announces that the turners
in porcelain and pottery at Orleans have just struck,
and that all work in these trades is at a standstill.
It is rumoured that the Emperor has ccnferred
the title of Count on M. Mallet, Senator, Inspector
of Ponts-et-Chaussees, who represented the Suez
Canal Company in the regulation of the boundaries
between that corporation and the Government of
Egypt under the decision by arbitration pronounced
by his Majesty.
The Italian Minister of Marine, Gen. Anzioletti,
has joined the army as head of a division of cavalry.
In his absence the business of his department will
be conducted by a Director-General.
Letters from Rome state that the Pope has re-
solved to raise Mgr. Lucien Bonaparte, aged 38,
son of Prince de Canino, to the dignity of Cardinal.
Mgr. Dupanloup, Bishop of Orleans, is spoken of
for a similar promotion.
The Empress Charlotte of Mexico, daughter of
Leopold I. of Belgium, completed her 26th year
yesterday.
The bulletin of the Paris Observatory gives the
following as the atmospheric situation yesterday :
" The baromter is rising and the sky is generally,
fine over all Europe. The wind is moderate between
N. and E. everywhere, and fresh from the N.E. at
St. Petersburg. The mercury marks 770 m.m. at
Lyons and Paris, and 765 m.m. on the west coast
of Norway, England, and Spain ; also, in the Baltic
and on Finland. The sea round all the European
coasts is calm." At Paris yesterday th 6 weather
was magnificent, but very warm. At three in the
afternoon the thermometer marked 36.7 Centigrade
(80 Fahrenheit).
The body of a young woman, named Lhotellier, a
farm servant at Ploumagear (Cotes-du-Nord),
was found three days back in a ditch in the
neighbouring wood of Malaunay, and bearing
marks that her death had been caused by
strangulation. Her master, named Simon, on

being questioned, declared thatithe deceased had
hanged herself in a loft, and, in order that she
should not be deprived of Christian burial he had
cut her down and carried her into the wood, so as to
make. it be supposed that she had been murdered.
That explanation not being deemed satisfactory, the
man with his brother and father, who reside togther,
have been arrested. Simon is believed to be the
author of the crime, the object of which was to ob-
tain possession of a sum of money Lhotellier had

recently drawn from a savings bank. Another
account is that the master had been on terms of
intimacy with his servant and bad murdered her

to conceal the consequences of their relations.
A Naples letter says :—The brigands have been
very active of late. Cipriani's band carried away
to Montalto a rich proprietor of Terracina, Signor
Risoldi, with his son and servant. Signor Risoldi
and the servant were afterwards set at liberty, on
heavy ransom, and the son was detained as hostage
for its payment. The occurrence becoming known,
the gendarmes of Terracing, headed by the Briga-
dier Costanti, and reinforced by many volunteers,
started in pursuit of the brigands, who were over-
taken at Monte Carnano ; .and a sharp combat en-
sued. Young Risoldi contrived to escape during
the flight, and the brigands were defeated and
pursued some distance. The Osservatore Romano
affirms that since the edict of Pericoli, published in
December, 1860, the military commission at Frosi-
none has had before it 130 prosecutions for brigan-
dage, affecting 276 prisoners. Of these 162 have

stood their trial, and some have been condemned to
death. One has been already executed ; others
have been condemned to hard labour for life, and
others to the various penalties prescribed by the
edict."

The Cologne Gazette of the 6th says :—" During
the last few days several waggons of the Rhenish
Railway have arrived here, loaded with silver ingots,
which have been deposited in the Royal Bank of
this city. To-day an express train arrived also,
carrying a quantity of silver in bars, declared, like
the rest, to be specie. These consignments have
always been accompanied by English agents."
BOURSE, June 9.—Two o'Clock.—The market is
dull, but the principal speculative securities, not-
withstanding, obtain higher quotations. Threes,
for the Account, are at 63f. 5c., an advance of 15c.
Italian Fives show a similar improvement, at 36f.
The advance on Credit Mobilier Shares is 3f. 75c.,
and on Credit Foncier 2f. 50c.—to 1,092 f. 50c.
There is no noticeable feature in the Railway De-
partment. Discounts to-day are somewhat less ex-
tensive ; the list comprises 391,500 f. French Threes,
87,510 Italian Fives, 1,650 Credit Mobilier Shares,
375 Credit Foncier, 600 Comptoir d'Escompte,
1,000 Saragossa, &c. English Consols are tele-
graphed with an advance of
Three o'clock.—The market has closed as fol-
lows :

4i per Cents —
Do. end month —
3 per Cents —
Do. end month 63 10
Credit Mobilior
Do. end month
Credit Foncier —
Do. end month 1097 50
RAIL'

Bank Shares
Loan 36
Do. end month
Mexican Loan
Do. Bonds
Spanish Throes
Home Debt
Deferred

For Account
Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean 755
Southern 513 75
Western 515
Eastern 487 50
Sardinian • 60
Austrian 285
Ilk Lombard 275
North of Spain
Saragossa 130
Ditto to Barcelona —
EoMan

The Education of the Poor Roman Catholic
Children of London.

PASTORAL FROM THE REV. DR. MANNING.

Yesterday an elaborate Pastoral from the most Rev. Dr.
Manning, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster,
was read in all the churches and chapels within the arch-
diocess, in which, after an eloquent explanation of the fes-
tival of the "Sacred Heart of Jesus," which is celebrated
at this period of the year in the Catholic Church, the
learned dignitary referred to the collection that was to bo
made that day in aid of the Poor School Committee,
which laboured "
_to train up children in the purity and
sanctity of the Holy Catholic faith, and to protect them
against the seduction and robbery by which they may be
stripped of their inheritance." "The Poor School Com-
mittee," adds the Pastoral, " was founded in 1847 as an or-
gan of communication in behalf of the Catholic bishops with
her Majesty's Government. It conducted its correspon-
dence with great prudence and success, and the agree-
ments made by it at that day continuo as the basis of our
relations with the Privy Council until now. The consti-
tution of the Poor School Committee is that of a Council
composed of 45 members, one• third ecclesiastical and two-
thirds lay persons, nominated by each of the Catholic
bishops of England, and by two vicars apostolic of Scot-
land. It represents, therefore, tho whole of the Church
of Great Britain. Every year, at the same time with the
annual assembling of the bishops in London, it holds its
general meeting. Priests and laymen from all parts of
England have then an opportunity of conferring on the
state of Catholic education. If it had no other office
than this—namely, to form a centre in which the 13
diocesses meet—a great value would attach to it. As
the subject of education becomes more and more appre-
ciated in its bearings upon the social and spiritual
welfare of the people, such a body will become of still
greater usefulness. The Pastoral then goes on to say that

the Poor School Committee exercised valuable influence
in connexion with Reformatory schools, and as no diocese
could alone support the institutions for training masters
and mistresses for the education of the Catholic poor, that
committee assumed the maintenance of them. " The
burden of their maintenance was, therefore, as widely dis-
tributed as their benefit—that is, over the whole Church

in-England and Scotland." The Poor School Committee
also assisted the local poor schools in each mission and in
each diocess. " The diocesses of Liverpool, Salford, and
Birmingham," continues the pastoral, " have in activity
a wide-spread and vigorous system of education, the
cost of which is borne by themselves. The schools of

the diocess of Westminster are 148 in number, the
maintenance of which must cost from £15,000 to
£20,000 a year. The grants to this diocess. from the Poor
School Committee, though very liberal in proportion to its
means, amount yearly to about £3OO or £4OO for the build-
ing and support of schools—that is, for the last year, about
a two-hundredth part of what is actually spent in and by
the diocess for its mission schools. It is manifest, there-

fore, that every diocess at this moment has to depend upon
itself for the multiplication and maintenance of its schools.
It is, therefore, to create a central diocesan fund, from
which the missions may be assisted, that you are invited to
attend a public meeting, to be held on Thursday next, the
14th instant, at St. James's-hall. "It is not necessary
at this time to enter into the details of this subject.
It will be enough to say that a trust will be created for
the receiving, holding, and transmitting of funds, and
a council to advise us in the application of the same.
How urgent is the necessity for some such fund to supply to
the diocess that which is beyond the strength both of the
Poor School Committee and of the clergy of the missions
is too obvious and too well known to need many words.

We will, therefore, briefly state only the three chic;

reasons for its present formation. First, it may be affirmed
that thousands of Catholic children in are without
education. Two very careful and guarded calculations have
been lately made of the number who may be said practically

to be without education. One of these estimates them at
12,000, and the other at 7,000. We refrain from giving our
own conjectures, wishing to avoid all semblance of ex-
aggeration, and earnestly hoping that we may be mistaken ;
but if there be 12,000, or even 7,000, or so much as 1,000
Catholic children growing up without Christian and
Catholic education, we ought to do penance unless we
make an effort to save them.

"That there are not 1,000 only, but 7,000 at least, may,

we believe, with perfect certainty be affirmed; and if so, it
is a fact sufficiently terrible to tinge all needless self-indul-
gence with bitterness, and to break our indolent peace day
and night. The ruin and the depravity, or the perversion
and apostacy, of one baptized child is a sorrow which breaks
the heart of a father or a mother. The loss of one soul, and
that one of God's little ones, only the other day innocent
and in union with God, marks a wound in the sacred heart
of Jesus. How-is it that we can eat and drink, lie down,
and rise up in unconsciousness and insensibility at the
spiritual death of thousands before our eyes ?
" If in any one place 1,000 children without education
were seen together, we should be horrified ; but, though
scattered, they exist, and they arc destitute as if they were
all congregated in one of our maze of courts. Being dis-
persed, they are hidden by fives and tens hero and there in
our thronging population, and, therefore, escape our eyes ;
and because they are not seen some doubt their existence.
Let us, therefore, lay well to heart that we see but little of
that which, by its very nature, lies withdrawn from the
eyes of Catholics— namely, the Catholics who, neglecting
their own souls, neglect also the souls of their children.
Such Catholics keep out of our sight.
" There is also a second class of our children for whom
we must provide—namely, those who fall under the opera-

tion of the law for offences, or are committed as friendless
and abandoned. The late Acts for Reformatory and In-
dustrial Schools enable us to provide for them with greater
facility; the cost of their maintenance being drawn from

the Consolidated Fund, the cost of management is compa-
ratively easy to bear. But so many are our poor children of
this class, and so great is our poverty, that we are not able
to keep pace with the need, and many of them have been
sent to, and aro at this time detained in, Protestant institu-
tions.

"But, lastly, there is a class of our poor children of
which we hardly know how to speak. It is believed that
more than 1,000 of our Catholic children are detained in the
workhouses and workhouse schools of London. They are
draughted for health and for convenience of management
from the workhouse in London to the workhouse schools in
the country. Within the walls of those schools, the edu-
cation is exclusively Protestagt books, catechisms,
prayers, teachers, worship. And yet every Catholic child
has a right bestowed oa him by God Himself to Catholic
education. In baptism‘they acquired a personal right to be
trained in the whole and perfect faith of Jesus Christ, and
under the pastors of His Church. To deprive them of it is
a fraud against God. To educate them as Protestants is to
deprive them of it. And they are being educated as Pro-
testants as absolutely and as exclusively as children of the
Protestant poor. It is no answer to say they would not
bo there if their parents did not consent. Their parents
do not consent. Every Catholic father and mother, unless
they be sordid, and sell their souls, object with all their
heart and strength to the perversion of their child. Hun-
ger and thirst and nakedness drive them to the work-
house, and their helplessness may give way under the
temptations of meat and drink and warmth, for which their
children cry around them. They hope to koep their chil-
dren from starvation, in the trust that God will
keep them from perversion. There is no consent in
this, nor in the apathy of a man who is faint with
hunger in the midst of hungry children. To take ad-
vantage of such a man is cruelty ; to tempt him to wrong
his own children is indignity added to cruelty. It is to use
him as the instrument to rob his own children of the right
which God has given- them as their own. Neither father
nor mother has authority to do this. They have no power
to disinherit the children of God—yet year by year this
cruel and sinful robbery of our poor little ones is per-
petrated. Plead for it who may, and argue for it what wo
may, the fact stands before God without a shade to soften
its enormity. A thousand Catholic children, detained by
hunger and practical mal-administration of the law, are
defrauded of their education in the faith, and are educated
in doctrines contrary to their faith.
" Time compels us to pass over other topics. The agony
and bitterness of Catholic fathers and mothers, who had
rather see their children in a parish coffin than in a Poor
Law school; the anguish of father and mother in the hour of
death, when the light of faith is keenest and the love of
their offspring is most vivid, as their eyes are closing upon
all save the terrific vision of their sons and their daughters,
robbed of the grace which at that hour is their only strength
in the last agony—all this, and much beside, we must pass
over now. We shall ask you hereafter to help us by your
prayers to open the doors of these houses of bondage, and by
your alms to enable us to receive these poor children into
schools of our own. But this must be for the future."

The Pastoral concludes with a stirring appeal on behalf of
the Poor School Corhmittee, whose present useful labours
would, it was urged, be made more useful by the success of
the proposed diocesan fund.

GEORGE GUELPH AND HANNAH LIGIITFOOT. —The
proceedings in the " Princess Olive" case, upon
which we may hereafter comment, have incidentally dis-
posed of a story our grandmothers conliztl!y bolieved—the
marriage of George 111. to the Quaker Hannah Lightfoot.
The certificates of that marriage were produced, and were
promptly pronounced by tho Probate Court to be forgeries,
the clergyman spelling "duly" with an e (duely) and the
Prince of Wales signing himself " George Guelph." The
Lord Chief Justice, in describing these documents, said
that if correct the marriage of George 111. to Queen CAro-
Ike was invalid and all his successors ineligible to the
throne ; but is that precisely so ? Would not the recogni-
tion of that marriage as legal in repeated acts of Parlia-
ment legalise it under any circumstances whatever ?
Spectator. _ _ _

OLD INHABITANTS.—Of the 5,081 patients in luna-
tic asylums in Scotland at the beginning of the present
year, 292 had been there for more than 20 years, 63 for
more than 30 years, and 12 for more than 40 years. One
will next year complete half a century in a madhouse.
WHo's YOUR Pocion ?—MOIIMITB PILLS.

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Saturday.
The Queen, accompanied by her Royal High-
ness Princess Helena, drove in the grounds yester-
day afternoon.
Her Royal Highness Princess Louise also took a

drive.
Her Majesty, with Princess Helena, Princess
Louise, and Princess Beatrice drove in the Howe
Park this morning.
The Earl and Countess of Derby and the Hon.
Frederick and Lady Constance Stanley arrived at
the Castle yesterday, and had the honour of dining
with the Queen and the royal family.

Sunday.

The Queen, accompanied by their Royal
nesses Princess Helena and Princess Beatrice, drove
out yesterday afternoon.
Princess Louise also went out driving.
The Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor
performed the service this morning before her
Majesty and their Royal Highnesses Princess
Helena, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and
Princess Beatrice.
The Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting were aloo
in attendance.
Earl Cowley arrived at the Castle yesterday, and
had the honour of dining with the Queen and the
royal family.
The Dean of Windsor and the Hon. Mrs. Wel-
lesley had also the honour of being invited.
The Earl of Clarendon had an audience of the
Queen this afternoon.