The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-01-29 00:00:00

THE CHASE,

The Cheshire Hounds will meet to-morrow (Wednes-
day, the 30th instant) at Dunham Massey ; Thursday, at
Tabley Park ; Saturday, at Crewe Hall ; each day at half-
past ten o'clock, except Thursday, when they will meet at
eleven.

ARE ROMISH PRIESTS FAVOURABLE TO

EDUCATION ?

(From the Times.)

" But why not leave us to educate ?" say Dr. M'Hale
and his friends. For two reasons, each of which were
sufficient in itself—you cannot, and you will not. The
Romish priesthood cannot educate. They have, as a
body, neither the moral nor the physical means—the
minds, the learning, nor the money. These defects might
indeed be remedied in time. Something has been done
towards their better instruction in secular learning ;
something might be done by English wealth towards
bringing a better class into the priesthood, who would be
free from those crying faults of temperament and preju-
dice, which, at present, the priests only share with their
flocks. But, till this happy consummation comes, how
are things to go on? Are we to leave the giant evil un-
assailed, till, by a careful application of indirect means,
we are freed from every Irish priest of the species
M'Hale ? This is purely absurd, especially if we also
remember that the race does not wish to be improved.
They know that their power over their flocks depends
mainly on their resemblance to them and sympathy with
them. Will they consent to be altered, and so destroy
their influence ? This would be indeed sawing away the
bough they sit on.
Ireland must be educated ; this is the end. The new
colleges are means, very imperfect and inadequate, it may
be, but nevertheless real means, and as such are abused
by Dr. M'Hale.
We wish it could be said with truth that the work,
which is scarce begun in Ireland, was finished in England ;
but we can lay no such flattering unction to our souls.
The experience of every day would confute us. It is not
a search after intellectual monstrosities, a depraved appe-
tite for the exceptional, but the common course of every
day life, which brings before us, every now and then, such
significant cases as that of George Ruby. Our readers
will remember the simple passage of that poor boy's life
which brought him before the public. A policeman had
been desperately assaulted; the supposed assailants were
placed at the bar of the Mansion-house ; and George
Ruby's testimony was thought likely to cast some light
on the affray. He seemed about fourteen years of age.
From his answers to the questions of Alderman Hum-
phery, it appeared that he could not read, never said his
prayers, understood nothing of the nature of prayer,
knew nothing of God, and, as he expressed it, had heard
of the Devil, but did not know him. He sums up very
briefly bis small stock of information—" I knows how to
sweep the crossing ; that's all." He seemed to have
lived somewhere near Bishopsgate ; where the " crossing"
is on which all his intellect centres we know not. Any of
our readers may have given him a halfpenny, and not
observed that he was more dirty, more ragged, more
stamped with the marks of ignorance and degradation,
than half his young brethren of the broom.
We may hope that even the clergy whom Dr. M`Hale
counsels with so little moderation number none among
their flocks who are quite in this depth of ignorance.
Bat, should it be so, the diocese of Tuam may yet have
little room for glorifying. Many of its peasantry are
probably, in many respects, far behind George Ruby.
Some of them, who hear mass and can answer questions
about a God, have yet to learn, what George Ruby pos-
sibly knows,—that they have no right to assassinate a
man because he is more fortunate in his holding than
themselves, or to shoot at a landlord from behind a
hedge, because potatoes have failed and they are starving.
Ignorance has many forms, and calls for many remedies.
Simple brutality is not one of its mildest phases, and
simple intellectual culture does not always fail to cure.
There is room for the Queen's colleges and much beside
in Ireland. Meanwhile, shall nothing be done for
England ?

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he scarcely thought ~e would live to reach home." Her
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gave her t. :e famous Pills twice a day, which, to the
surprise ' all, saved the child's life and effected a perfect