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TUESDAY MORNING,

IPRIL 27

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_..4,ed by several past ad-
..a country, has long been re-
a scandal to the age in which w.
Especially this has been the case in their dealings
with the clergy of our venerated establishment.
`lie college tutor, who has been
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trations in 0:

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Inoured with the

..mina the bons 0.
crs the man deeply
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peers, or cabinet min ;s+
learned in the in

Digan
!ned mathematician,
„ferment to the epis-
favours of men in office ;

omission from the Greek alphab
or the more abstrusely 1--
may reasonably hope for T
copal bench, or for of}'but the active ser—

lated to a

e to the

places and trusts of

over, either without a

e chi

thought, or one might more properly

say, with

studied and pall

It is gratifirink to find that there are other public
bodies connected with our Church, or rather with
the training of its pastors, who do not thus disre-
gard the claims of eminent members of that Church
—who do not thus, practically, make zeal, active

exertion, and success in the discharge of the minis-
terial office a ground of exclusion from those
honours to which these qualities ought to entitle a
man. A proof of this fact—one which will be
gratifying to our readers—is furnished in the fol-
lowing announcement, which we quote from the
Dublin Evening Mail, of Friday :

We have pleasure in communicating, as we are per-
suaded our readers will have in learning, that the Board
of our University have done honour to themselves in re-
solving to confer the honour.of D.D. on the Rev. Hugh
IVl`Neile, by an unanimous vote on Saturday last. This
broad mark of approval—the very highest in their power
to bestow—must be peculiarly gratifying to the feelings
of the reverend gentleman on whom it is conferred. The
tide of party might have advanced his worldly interests.
and the sunshine of courtly influence might have even
added dignity to emolum,-- -.nse of

such pure delig

t, without imparting a s
he honour he has now received, the
hanced by the high standing of the
from whom it has proceeded, and thd
(stances under which they have bean

value of wi

Si is eni

distinzuished bod

motives and circurr

led to confer it

ceaseless toil of a life devoted to

the service of GOD, and the furtherance of every good
work; the valuable contributions he has made from time
to time to the literature of his country and his church, in-
cluding his last masterly work—" The Church and the
Churches :" and more particularly his unremitting endea-

since the commencement of the famine aid pesti-
lence in our land—these, doubtless, formed the grounds
upon which the Board presented Mr. M'Neile with the
high and very unusual, though richly merited, mark of
their approbation.. His numerous friends in England will
be glad to find their own verdict upon Mr.
tersigned by the most influential public bod
dom. He won it well, and may he wear it long.

11`gei1e coun-
y in this king-

unusual tribute must be gratifying to the
tleman and to his numerous friends.

This
verend gen

__, moreover, as honourable to the University,
by whom it has been conferred, as it can be grati-

ng to M

M`Neile hi

WE have remarked, from time to time, upon the
very unfair position under which the rate-payers of
this parish are placed, as the result of the present
disastrous' state of things in the sister country.
We are placed in the high road between Ireland
and that El Dorado, which her impoverished pea-
santry have been taught to believe is to be found

icts of this country

manu

That peasant

ito our port, some

r - r
emigration to other lands, others to pursue the

same mendicancy which they find no longer profit-
able at home—for the poor cannot beg of the poor,
or the whining impostor hope to succeed in his
shameless trade where the parties whom he attempts

to victimize are on the verge of famine themselves.
'We have the latter class of the people of Ireland
to keep—to feed from our soup kitchens, or to
shelter in our hospitals. They are spreading, in
addition, contagion amongst our own population;
and, were even these sources of loss from their ir-
ruption amongst us removed, they are deteriorating

the condition of our own population, over-stocking
our labour market, and bringing clown wages to a

starvation point.
It is impossible that this state of things can be
much longer borne. Liverpool connot summit to

be made the victim for sins of omission or com-
mission, in enacting which she has had no part.
We are glad, therefore, to see that the rate-payers
are at length throwing off the lethargy, under the
influence of which they have so long succumbed to
what they considered the natural consequences c f
their position, and are about to appeal to G
went for aid to enable them to withstand the heavy

overn-

claims which are being
A memorial to the M

made upon them.
Ivor, we understand, is in
him to calla public

rourse of signature, pray-in

thorities to ti

subject,

so—of the difficti

we were fully aware—
ties placed in their way,

which had devolved upon the head-constable
from the irruption into the town of Irish pauperism,i
requiring to be watched by the officer of justice as
well as the administrator of public charity. We
are aware that Mr. Dowlimes labours, from this

ne most e

This, however, does not