The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-04-30 00:00:00

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e prayer,

eased to res-

ct their conscientious scruples, and their legal privileges
ministers of the reformed church established in these

•e;-.7' us, and either procure an enactment to modify the
rational system of education in such a way as to admit
;heir concurrence; or, if that should unhappily be found
mpossible, to give them separate pecunia, y aid. And we
uvite all our brethren in this country to such a co-opera-
;ion in this expression of sympathy, as will practically
nanifest what very largely exists—a real christian bro-
mem hers of the united Church of England

therhood in th
and Ireland.
Jon. Brooks, Archdeacon and Rector of Liverpool
Augustus Campbell, Rector of Liverpool.
Hugh M`Neile, D.D., Incumbent of St. Paul's Prince's
Park.
James Hassall, M.A., Incumbent of St. John Baptist's,
Toxteth-park.
Thos. Gardner, M.A., Incumbent of St. Anne's Stanley.
Henry Hampton, Incumbent of St. James', Tox-

teth-park.
John Gibson, A.M., Incumbent of Garston, near Liver-
pool.
J. Jones, M.A., Minister of St. Andrew's, Liverpool.
W. Carpenter, D.D., Minister of St. Jude's, Liverpool.
D. D. Stewart, M.A., Incumbent of St. Bride's, Liver-

pool.
William Rawson, A.M., Incumbent of Seaforth, near
Liverpool.
Robt. Davies, M.A., Minister of St. Paul's, Liverpool.
Thos. Nolan, A.M., Incumbent of St. Barnabas', Liver.

pool.
T. G. Leigh, Rector of Walton-on-the-Hill.
J. C. Prince, M.A., Chaplain of St. Thomas', Liverpool.
Wm. Hesketh, Incumbent of St. Michael's, Toxteth.
Jonathan Jackson, Incumbent of Trinity Church, South-

port.
R. Walker, Incumbent of Great Crosby.
Wm. Pollock, M.A., Incumbent of St. Mark's. Liverpool.
Cyrus Morrall, M.A., Incumbent of St. Michael's.
Frederick Parry, 8.D., Incumbent of St. Clement's.
Thomas Cowan, A. 8., Incumbent of St. Thomas', Tox-

teth.
James North, M.A., Incumbent of St. Catherine's.
Henry Carpenter, A. 8., Minister of St. Michael's, Liver-
pool.
C. W. Underwood, M.A., Collegiate Schools, Liverpool.
Vincent W. Ryan, M.A., Vice-Principal, Collegiate
Schools, Liverpool.
Robert Greer, 8.A., Curate of St. Mark's, Liverpool.
Robert Leicester, M.A., Incumbent of Woolton.
J. Jones, M.A., Incumbent of Halewood.
John S. Bushby, Curate of St. Peter's, Wootton.
Frederic Barker, M.A., Incumbent of St. Mary's, Edge-
hill."

We trust the English clergy generally will follow
the example of their rev. brethren in Liverpool,
and thus make the Government feel that Irish
Churchmen are not to be sacrificed.
The present position of the Education question
in the United Kingdom is most anomalous. It is
thus stated in a pamphlet, which has just reached
us, written by the Rev. Henry Robinson, curate of
Thomastown, in the Diocese of Ossory

"In England, all classes, both churchmen and dis
scoters, receive public aid—the National Society, the
British and Foreign School Society, and the Roman
Catholic Poor School Committee.

" On dissenters no conditions are imposed, but that the
use of the entire bible, in the authorised version, shall be
used in schools aided by public grants; and that a
report, in order to secure religious instruction, shall be
made concerning the religious state of each school, unless
the managers object on religious grounds to make such
report; arid by the minute of council of December 18,
1847, aid is granted to Roman Catholic schools, without
requiring any report, except regarding secular instruction—
i.e., toleration to the conscientious opinions of all is the
characteristic of the English system.
"The Catholic Poor School Committee state, in their
first annual report, that they have presented each school
with a beautiful image of the Madonna. This image has
been universally admired, and will, it is hoped, increase
the devotional element in the schools which have applied
for it. At a time when our schools are newly admitted
to privileges, shared alike by professors of various reli-
gions, it is right openly to avow that Catholics, whilst
they cherish love towards all men, yet can never, in the
education of their children, abandon or conceal the dis-
tinctive truths of the faith.' In England, the picture of
the Virgin—the distinctive truth' of the Romish faith—
does not disqualify a school from receiving aid ; but in
Ireland the presence of the word of God—the distinctive
truth of the Protestant faith—is a sufficient disquali-
fication.

" The Roman Catholics in England objected, in 1847,
to the system of education there in operation, and tolera-
tion was extended to them. The clergy and laity of the
Established Church in Ireland have objected. for the last
nineteen years, to the national system established in that
country; but no toleration is extended to them. The
system before 1831 was removed, because the Romanists
averred that its operations operated as a hindrance to
their availing themselves of the education provided by
the state. The system was changed—the schools were
thrown open to Roman Catholics, but closed against the
children of the church. The Protestants feel that there
are objections to the present system ; and now they seek,
not that the old system should be restored, but as the
objections of the Romanists to the previous system, so
their objections to the present system should be regarded.
It is unnecessary to prove any further, that the objection
is a reasonable one, for the reasonableness or unreason-
bleness of those conscientious objections forms no por-
tion of the argument ; for no Pretestant could admit that
the objections of Roman Catholics to the use of the Holy
Scriptures are reasonable; and yet these objections were
yielded to in Ireland in 1831, and in England in 1847.
" If the Government expect that the opposition will
cease, that their policy will be successful, they have fallen