The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-02-21 00:00:00

Well,. what say the MacHahans ? The Freeman of
this morning, with reference to the paragraph we have
just quoted, thus triumphantly responds
" '1 he foregoing certainly looks exceedinly imposing ; but
the old adage which says • one story's good till another is told'
never was better exemplified than by the following pithy
epistle from the Right Rev, the Lord Bishop of Ardagh
" TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMAN.

"'Coffey's Hotel, February 16, 1840.
" Sta— I have just read, in an evening paper of yester-
day, an article on the subject of national education, in which
th 6 following paragraph occurs :—' The Catholio
met in this city. en...T.uesday_ly: and 'was 17,a[Cileneksn'iolnug

them.'
:" In order that no one may be misled by the above as-
sertion, I beg leave to make known, through the columns of
your paper, that no decision of the Pope relative to the sys-
tem of national education has been communicated to the
assembled prelates; and that, on the contrary, I have myself
this day received an official letter from Rome, stating that
the authorities were resolved not to enter on the consider-
ation of this important question until after the arrival of our
deputy, who, up to the date of the letter received this morn-
ing, had not reached Rome.
"' I have the hononr to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
"' W. HIGGINS. '"
Thus stands the quarrel—involving either party in he-
resy and schism, as the POPE may decide—at the present
juncture ; and a very pretty quarrel it is. But not for
this purpose do we advert to it. Our object in calling
attention to it is to impress upon the public mind the fact,
that a foreign authority assumes the right to interfere
with the domestic concerns of this country—that there
exists in Ireland a body, which, disunited in itself upon
principles of detail, is united in its acknowledgment of
the Papal authority to legislate for the national education
of her Britannic MAJESTY'S subjects ; and that whatever
way the question be decided, the decision stamps the
future education of Ireland to be, and to continue, Papis-
tical. For, if the POPE decide against the Board, it will
follow that the system advocated by Mac Hale (which is
exclusively and professedly Popish,) must be adopted in
the schools for the population ; whereas, on the other
hand, should his Holiness decide for the Board, his fiat
will be the acknowledgment, that the system of the Board,
is sufficient in all the essentials of a Papistical education.
We do not deny the right or the duty of the Rotnan
Catholic Prelates to seek by all means strictly national,
and independent of foreign influence, that such should be
the case. Nay, considering the polity of the Church of
Rome, it is natural her prelates should seek both at home
and abroad, by foreign as well as by national means—per
fas et nefas—the accomplishment of their peculiar views.
But we. do not see why—(nay, in these very circumstan-
ces we see the reason' why the.), should not)lLthis Pro-
testant state and its houses of legislature should surrender
the national education to the hands of a foreign► poWer,
and the officials which in this country acknowledge and
obey its sovereignty. If the POPE may legisiate for' the edu-
cation of the country, he may surely direct its religion.
If me perMit him the one power, how shall we restrain
him from the other ? And if in spirituals he gain the as-
cendant, it is little matter in what hands the temporal
power may appear to reside, for virtually it will rest in
his. The union of church and state will be that of the
British Monarchy with the Church of Rome.

Whether this conclusion be pushing the argument to an
extreme at which it is not likely to arrive, or whether it
be but the anticipation of what must happen if not timely
prevented, is what we shall not determine. This we know,
that in times when Popery was the sole dominant church,
ere the abuses of her power had rendered the Reforma-
tion inevitable, neither. Englishmen nor Irishmen would
have tolerated this foreign meddling with their domestic
concerns ; and a new statute of Prernunire would have
asserted their national independence, had the Papacy of the
day presumed to dictate to them in what manner their
children should be educated.

But, as we hive often said, there is nothing national
in the character of Irish Popery. There is plenty of an
anti-British spirit, which those who entertain it misrake
for independence and patriotism : but set Ireland adrift.:
to-morrow; -and the-next day we should find her sons
lashing her to some foreign craft Or other, and shouting
vivas for liberty in the wake of her new Papistical mistress.

It is eloquently observed by some writer, that memory has
rich!gems of pleasure' that she can call up to gladden the
heart when time has furrowed the cheek, and sprinkled the
sorrows of age upon the honoured head.
Tux 'NAats, A.-NEW FRUIT.—The 'tiaras was grow-
ing on little knolls of sand ; the bushes were about four or
five feet high, without leaves, and with oppo ite thorns on
the light and dark green striped branches. The fruit has a
coreaceous rind, rough with prickles, is twice the size of an
orange, or fifteen or eighteen inches in circumference, and
inside it resembles a melon as to seed and to pulp. I seized
a half-ripe one, and sucked it eagerly forthe moisture it con-
tained ; and it burned my tongue and palate; exceedingly;
which does not happen when this most valuable fruit is 'ripe—
it has then a luscious subacid taste. Some plants of 'tiaras
are now growing in England (March, '1838), from seeds
which I brought home : they are a foot high, and beginning
to branch, having two thorns at each articulation, and a
stipule. scarcely to be called a leaf -between them, on the
axis of which is a bud, but no leaves.—Aleaander's Expedi.
lion of Discovery.
'• THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON AND SIR JAMES MACDON-
ELL.—A friend has related to us an anecdote illustrative not
Only of the high opinion entertained by his Grace of this dis-
tinguished ' general,- but of the delicate generosity-displayed
by Sir James to a non-conunissioned officer of his regiment.
Some three years ago, the Duke of Wellington was waited
upon at Apsiey House by two gentlemen, who announced to
him thateas executors of the will of a deceased friend of ec-
centric habits, who had left £5OO to the bravest man in the
British army, they called for the purpose of handing to his
Grace a check for that amount ; being fully satisfied, that in
so doing they should religiously fulfil the duty imposed on
them by the testator. The Duke thanked them for the com-
pliment they had paid him, but resolutely declined to receive
the money; alleging,,that the British army contained many
as brave men as himself. After several pressing remonstran-
ces, his Giace's visitors earnestly requested that he would
consent to becomearbriti'ator in the matter, and indicate the
individual on whom the bequest shohld he conferred.. To
this appeal he eceeded ; promising, in.,the course of two or
three days, to give the, matter his consideration, and report
-to them he !Ceti t. At the appointed time they again made
t tit appearance at Apshiy Hoese, . The Duke received them
with great courtesy ; but assured them, that he had found the
ask a great deal more difficult than he had anticipated. After
enum 'rating to them the various battles in which he had been
engaged, and some of the most striking feats of heroism he
hau witnessed, he suggested, that it; they bad no objectionshe
e ould make his selection from the battle of Waterloo, ; that
being the fast, the greatest, and most important, action of the
war. This• point being adjusted, his Grace proceeded to
state, that Huguemont having been the key to his entire po-
ition, and that post having been defended not only with the
most complete success, but with the most chivalrous brayery,
t. 7 Mejor General Sir James Macdonell, who commanded
could point out no one shfully entitled to the legacy
a.6,etrieulth_oe_fe,r. The executors repaired accordingly to Sir
Janus Meese:melt, cud having acquainted him with the de-
cision of the Duke of Nhyellington, tendered him the money.
Sir James expressed
altheugh he should nottpatrstaeecen,lti.p.laitighly flattered by so distin-
guished a mark of his t
n approval,
dispute observed,antittticzcther the that
himself with atYlee
pro-
priety of his decision, vet, as he knew a man who had con-
ducted
he must insist on sharing the
gallantry in the same bat-
tle,went on to say, that_ at ono . prize with him. fie then
period of the day the French
troops rushed upon Huguemont with such irresistible force,
that the gates of the farm were burst open, and, for a mo-
ment, the fate of the position appeared doubtful; when a
powerful sergeant major of the
tGesuk,athrdes.,rofemthye.
which they
did,nam eh
by
f dintF Fraser, eel-
f, assisted
sheer p
1, him
ysi
ei
an l
elbotrseinnggtthi,earauga
Shortly afterwards the French were drivednecpbiudatee'd. wslitrt
James
slaughter, and' the fate a Huguemont was
se he was
aanblehteoc,t3ileahikencgot,ocdnathpeosatarnwipicrhinweiapslea.
lidded, that the Duke of Wellington had evidently selected:'
SPIRIT.--- 1 11, !Tit; ; ',
He
out the enemy, his
him becau
him at so criti-
c2yharhteurnwolcadjrnmisfer.lon).uitnsiinttihuearcg;raclillai:t soldier who assisted
proper share of
Be would, therefore, accept the £5OO, and di-
vide it with Serjeaut Major' Fraser, to whom he accordingly
then, nyoctitli enaadn?
paid £250 of the money.-,--roin the United Service Gazette.
'Cure"hNimu,suliry;
THE BROKEN
Lord, not dead !
you shall cure him!' - " If his wife would do as she ought,
it might be possible—just possible, my lord, but she will not
part with him ; day and night does she sit beside him, listen-
to the ravings of his insanity—which are rendered a thousand
I titne more painful by the consciousness that at times returns
gloom. There
only with sufficient brightness to heighten the
site is, apparentl Heine. without sleep, or air, or exercise,
but the hope that litroeeora
or almost food ; existing, as if she were the soul, the active,
living, thinking soul, which has been banished from that poor
body, besto •
psnhpailcari:us
not keep the':
she took a thregienhethr her
pthem at first, so
all
leoupon
tgitta—mg ,ehrf.ge!rnee it—reset t nsdgaews fora hi,
re. r
Theyself nothing
would
gatnndthe blast,.
gdrecteanchnendhtehailitthgy,
d only sheltered by
whernvoice will soothe;
ts
her
she waits upon and
, :herb —a •
watchesmiserable
him ; in his strongest poplars,
so .seized this morning him he was
person whom I had fcrced uponl called—it was fearful ; the
her, out of regeid for
.her
y, could hardlykee hirn down • yet she took
,
her guitar—her poor eyes P
personal safet
upblinded with tears—her hand
more nerveless and unstrung tltiawnhtehnesrleakihstrument. Be
did not heed the chords, but
whose
sirig she
did, in that poor shattered cottage—she! e voice used to
. since, whe
fierce ra ln , •
be applauded to the echoes not long s' • •
his fingers ceased their n she sung—
h g pp I es, his eyes by degree
retured to their humidity, ela stillperfectly Sims
at last a moisture sprang to hisheated eye-ballse-site
wereS;
ing, my Lord, all the time—tears burst on cheeks that were
fever flushed—still, my Lord, that suffering woman sung_ -
at' last he turned his gaze on her. God ! how her hands '
trembled then ! In another moment he called her by her
name, ' Margaret.' She did not rush to him as a thought_
less woman would, but dropped the instrument, still singing
softly, then crept • towards him, crawled on the poor bed
whereon he lay,
and, the paroxysm over, the maniac sobbed
and cried upon that faithful bosom that loved him better a
thousand times than in the hours of his prosperity."—
Marian, by airs, Hall.