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"That it leads,".answered she, "to a deSiilfory ana IF/
habit of leading; by removing. the difficultieS in the tfill
knowledge; which, in my time, it was the most importan4
of education to teach a young man to overcome by his oy
ertions. Algebia, I have heard, supplies a short and casi,
lof doing sums and calculationS, which, by the excelle,vo,
inOde, re air ed a young limn to work hard and lbng• ste
ceurse, iitle young men will prefer the easier and snorter 00
which requires less pains anti labour. It is for this reasqe,o
I iegaid the introduction of algebra into our Universiti,;oo,
One of the twist awful signs of these corrupt times ; and
of the many fatal innovations which such men as Cobb°.
Lord Brougham have to answer for."
"Dear me !" said I, " Aunt Sally, I did not know that
beta had introduced algebra into the Universities."
" There are many things, my dear boy," responded ,111,1"
valuable aunt, " which you do not know. And you ouged
reckon it a peculiar privilege, that you have been educat 101'
a hothe where you are under the management of those 0,10
give you correct and accurate notions of every thing ; 3° 0,
at a public school, or in the world, where you would onlY,
had your mind prejudiced, and filled with superficial know' e 1
But, as I was saying, what have this algebra and the otherog
schemes of education done for us? Do our Universities
forth now such men as they did under the old system?. a
the present generation produce such men as Burke, arl4o'
con, and Pitt, and Johnson, and Newton? No ! all is 11° 1901
perficial and on the surface. We have no thinkers now aA,
children must be taught all the sciences by a game of c.",,0
and our young men, instead of plunging deep into foliofi,
qhartos, for learning, as they didin pastgenerations, must lag
theircabinet libraries, forsooth, and their cabinet cyclolVl
—and instead of arithmetic, they must have algebra- to
wonder, I would ask, that so much of empty dogmatist thf
conceited ignorance should exist ?—and that in such tiaeNro
abomi,liable- study. of ornithology should have taken sucy
hold of the public mind?"
;
." What study, Aunt Sally ?" my sisters And I exclailo
" Ornithology, my dears. It is a method invented bYa`ove(
evil minded person or other, by which they pretend to di
peoples' characters by feeling their heads." 18°6 " 0 my. goodness !" we all exclaimed, excepting raY
who was fast asleep. TM
thing must not
xth wonder at your astonishment, my dears' _tba
- oP

mus, Wry every rational person, carry' abAirdity.'cli,
o
very face of it. There are other, and more serious obJe
to it, on which I will not enter at present. But you mustlj
me your promise, Joe, that, without my express permissi° 1;001,
wilt never open a book on the subject, and that if there 60,
be lectures on it in Dublin, you will keep far away from 01

CUI BONO ?
A Letter to the Rt. Flonble. E. G. STANLEY.

By 11°1

COTTON, L. L. D. Millekin, Dublin.
On this Work any comments of ours Would be sapsTP
we, therefore, let it speak for itself : f
" Though My own ideas, upon this subject,- may be °-:si-1
account, yet, (to say nothing of Sir William Petty,
oder
Dobbs, and other early writers, together with a host of 1') de*
Ones) the:opinions of such men as Mr. Sadler, Mr. Leyte
and Mr. Wyse, will be worth attending to. They have ,q;
dpenly and. often, both to the House of Commons and led?
public, and will not be suspected either of a want of 101044
or a desire of rais-repreSentation. Mr. Sadler, in the hl3 dr/
tion of his very able work on Ireland, draws a powerful
picture of that chief cause of suffering, " which every 1,17.15`,;1
apy note, or patriot of any principle or feeling, wm° coPil
given attention to Irish affairs, has designated the Fri° ter
o.f the country; compared with which every other momentallo
of declamation has sunk into insignfficance : one, indeed/ ~
the modern schoo lof political theorists stoutly denies as %-at If/
and consequently labours to prevent the application of t
tt
inedy, without which Ireland will always be pushed to the 0:1
i
verge of destitution, and consequently of endurance. -
need hardly explain that I mean ABSENT.gEISM.
101,4
The work of agitation, in its. resent wide extent, 16 „es
long continuance ; yet already do the priests feel most Clk,r,
c.
that their power is wholly dependant on their complete "'
rence with the mob. Their experienced leaders see th's.
fectly. Dr. Doyle himself would own it. And on eVcis
which brings an apparent accession of strength to the is
gents, the priests are made to hear, and that not alwa.ll,o
most courteous language, the hourly diminishing t'''
upon their labours.

Vain, therefore, and absurd would be the idea, *lib er,./
possibly, many of them may hate commenced their cach'/ID
cheering on the sons oliniSchief to their work ; but whl'.l"
can only dwell on the heads of some few of the vounge,,s4)4
violent, and least clear-sighted, amongst- the body ,
of building up for themselves, a' ehtirch. establislz'nient on
of the Protestant."