The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-13 00:00:00

MORNING SUN

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lies. 'flits wise and liberal plan was justified liyY
its results. The number of children attending
the schools was 1,570, and of these nearly tw°
thirds. 936, were children of Roman Catholic 6;
The late municipal elections, by the inPeiic
of the priesthood, gave the Tory party a in? art
rity in the Town Council, which immediately' se
about giving effect to the wishes of the priests.
One of its first acts, accordingly, Was to re
commend, through an Education Committee?
e
that " none but the authorised version we
Bible shall be used in schools, and that theme
shall be used without restriction and lirrilt.":ll-eP
terday week the Report of this Conimittee,Wo
taken into consideration by the Town-Counci,g
andafter two amendments had been rejectedjtsre‘
commendations were adopted by a very consider
able majority. Thus theTown-Council ofLiverpo°l;
under the influence of that revived and s7trefigt„f
ened priesteraft which is the delight of sang "e
our Contemporaries, who in their more vigtir°,t,i
days would have been ashamed of lending, the,
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selves to its machinations against the liberties
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of mankind, has virtually excluded all the R°litt
Catholic children of Liverpool from the Went
of the Corporation Schools. The immediate re;
sults of the decisiol we must tell in the words°
the Liverpool Times :
Of the hundrels of children who, for the lasti
years, have been receiving. a sound and useful education
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in the schools, a very large proportion (we believe Ito
_ban one-half) have already left them, or rather P!oi,
refused to enter them again. In the North Corporate
School there was an average attendance, during ,c 1
month of December, of 325 boys, and of 259 girls, P;.",
we are informed that tha attendance yesterday svss
boys, and only 90 girls, exhibiting a decline of 156 Wily
and 169 girls ! In. the South School we are likewise 111
",armed that the number of boys has decreased froul `0
to 115, being a decline of 97. We have no returnsvi
to the state of the North Girl's School, or the 111' 0
Schools, but we understand that the falling
is also very great, and they, and all the schools s°
cently full of life, happiness, and knowledge, nosy p.sd
sent little better than "a beggarly account of einfl
tenches." Of the teachers, two in the North School lo
three in the South, having refused to take any Par/a,
the attempt to force the consciences of the Roman re,
tholic children (supposing that any of them shout" -„,.;
main in the schools) have been dismissed. This, it-35-
be allowed, is tolerably well for a beginning.
Thus, to gratify our Matmnon-worshiPPi°/.
priesthood, 422 children are at once depriyed°o
the advantages of education, and probably :the
whole 936 will soon be obliged to lean
the schools. We regret to see the tuil`..e,
off in there,
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classes of Liverpool have inflicted this
vows injury on their poor Roman Cntno
neighbours, because out of deference to _the
priesthood. The decree proceeds from tit
:piddle classes, and affects only the lower,,
will exclude no gentleman's son or daughterftfe4o
the advantages of education. It will be regatur
as another class injury inflicted under the, to
duence of a priesthood which ought to pr°ll,l°lo
peace and good-will on earth ; and it will a.4,1'.
the many sources of alienation already existlil
betwixt the middle and lower classes, the bitter
ingredient of religious persecution.
ad,
It is very sad to see even this motnent'-it
triumph of bigotry, for we are persuaded thstodi
can be only mometary. It is, however, 01401
the painful results of the renewed activity of
priesthood- which now pervades the whole 1)°,c11
whether they profess HigliChurch or Low CIA; to
tenets, and which is now especially directed
obtain a complete control over the educating &o 4
mind of society.

The plan of the Trinidad Immigration and-ASre
cultural Society for putting an end, to the°'-y
trade in the Brazils and Cuba, to which 101:01
luded On Tuesday, is as follows. It is asserted ff-e
such is the fertility of Trinidad that it can re
duce sugar at a cheaper rate than Cuba or lie
zil; that a cultivation of only one-seventh lied
of.the lands held by the Crown would. pr?:,- oi
more than sufficient for the consumptili4
Great Britain, and that nothing more is reqlloo
for the accomplishment of this object, by w
the differential duty on sugar would becoldf
dead letter, and the slave trade be extinguiS•
than the permission of the Government •iti Pary
cure labour wherever it can he most advoe
tageously obtained." These opinions were
nimously adopted at one of the 15/.15;
meetings ever held in the 'colony, and eXPI;7O,O
therefore, the general opinion of the plant,
well as the opinion of the Immigration
rnittee.
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After examining the several places wber'iieo
hour is redundant, and deciding that
European race will suit as labourers in the
a'
lorry—that the Asiatics would answer," theYei.lo
elude that the natives of Africa are to be Pit
ferred. The Committee, therefore, suggeSt.„ol
a sufficient number of suitable free labourers "",eOl
be engaged in Africa, and, should that suffi,,coloe'
number not be found willing to emigrate, 00).0
mittee proposes that " some of the unb3l:o.
persons held there in bondage should be P.OO
chased and manumitted, to be imported '
the colony as free labourers.
Though the Committee say that the 1-rev
manumitted for the purpose of being cony',,hieil
to our colonies, would only be removed by
own free will and consent, it is impossible t°,4.04
lieve that the generous planters of TrOthe
would purchase slaves and set them free en oe
chance of their immediately consenting- to leo,
Africa for the unknown land of the white tileit
to which they are probably aware that ti[
ePo er
brethren are dragged in chains. Should a e•
mission to import manumitted slaves be
the
ceded, it would not be possible to watchot
whole coast of Africa, or every slave depot, andar
possible for the Governuent which gave the
vrioe
mission to prevent a multitude of scenes of
Ald
lence and fraud by which the manumitted %11/do
be compelled or seduced on board the pla°! ji'
lOrt ship, never again to visit the land of their j,
Arrived in the colony, the victim of frail' to
violence would be perfectly helpless, subjecoll
a rigid contract law, which the Committee rd
for, and compelled to submit .to the salt:otc
yoke of our civilisation, which, means
whereas the free labourers of Trinidad e(n/rhor
-ceive for their- labour sixpence per hour, /her
shall only receive, as in Ireland and Tortola) the
pence per day. Very generous and kind are t'
Trinidad planters to the labourers alreadY
ing in the colony, and to the new race of 11l
[flitted slaves they are anxious to import
An objection already made to this new Path
a modified slave trade is that it would Ov, • but
muluS to the internal slave trade of Afri`'it'•-.-
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the Committee contend that their plan Will
t di
eep
nish, and ultimately annihilate, the 'pro.7tiog
which the slave trade depends. They saY
all
the production of more sugar in our colonio
keep down the price of sugar, and so dinlite
the profit of the cultivation of sugar by 51!".),e
They say also that if a hundred labourers.-
conveyed as freemen from Africa to Trial;
the same number will generally be found at. or
end of the year in health and strength; vrbil,e.;o(l
the same number imported into Brazils.H iof
Cuba more than one-half will be lost in tha,fi
~g/
year. AnAfrican landed at Trinidad wonld'eu
thatonly sixty dollars, while a slave costs at '.dot
350. The Committee conclude, theretbrePv.aV
the planters of Trinidad could not only 110'
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double the quantity of sugar with the same re'
ber of imported labourers, but at a greatly boa•
duced ce3t. They would furnish sugar iiof
dantly and cheaply, so as to lower the pr°6t
the slave owner, and diminish the stimulus t°
internal slave trade. dai
Visions of mountains of free labour sDT'
thereupon crowd into the minds of the apd
nidad planters. The planters of Cuba aye
Brazil will be, they say, unable to purll ail
slaves ; the emigration from Africa '4/10111
be to the free-labour colonies ; till, refit
the natural increase of population in Or nplY
Indian colonies will render a further stb,"ave
of people from Africa unnecessary, and tbe,slietle
trade and slavery will be for ever exting,uler
The system is to be attended with another
vantage; our cruising squadron might be
jtfricir
diately withdrawn from the coast Of
ritinle
where we have no right to exercise a °la 00
jurisdiction, and so the planters would be
e; at
at. lib,rty to de.4l with* the manumitted slave
their plea,ure. lore

Toour judgment, this is little or nothing jI