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t and gracious promise

:---" See

ye first the - ..Jd and his righteousness,
and all these things shall be added unto you ; for

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your Heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need

of these things before ye ask Him." If, therefore,
we refer to the highest authority on this important
subject, we can have no doubt as to the nature of
the instruction which should form the national
concern, notwithstanding the eagerness with which
many have advocated secular education ; and it is

only through our disr

ird of the teaching whi

we profess to hol

n the highest reverence, that so

many imsmaes nave peen committeu. it we turn
to the practice which prevailed in England some
years since, we shall find that the Church pro-
vided for all the educational wants of the popula-
tion ; but her duties were neglected in a time of
apathy and practical irreligion. Dissent grew up
to widen the breach under pretence of supplying
the defect, and Whig legislation, by countenancing
the latter, helped to perpetuate the evil. By the
law which prevailed in the much-maligned times
of Tory government, no marriages were legal but
those solemnised by the Church, and then the
parents were enjoined to bring their future offspring
to be baptised ; at the baptism the parents were
enjoined to have their children instructed in the
Church Catechism, which forms a manual of the
Christian faith easy to be learned, and intelligible
to the humblest intellect ; and it was one of the

duties of the clergy to see that the Catechism was
taught to every child as an indispensable prelimi-
nary to its being brought to the Bishop for confir-
mation. If we dared hope to realise the earnest
expectation of many, that all may yet be brought
into one fold, having one Shepherd, one Faith, one
Baptism, the duty of instruction, as far as the
nation is concerned, would be fully provided for,
and all further advancement might be safely left
to individual munificence, which has already
studded the country with seminaries of learning,
from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge to
the humble parochial school.' Unfortunately,' how
ever, there is no immediate prospect of such a
onsunimatien. Dissent has split the rehiriQui

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

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CAPTURE OF BOMARSUND,

ADMIRALTY, SATURDAY, AUG. 19.—A telegraphic
despatch has been received at the Admiralty this day,
from the Flag-Lieutenant of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles
Napier, announcing that the forts of Bomarsund surren-
dered to the allied forces at 12 30, p.m., on the 16th inFlt_

Upwards of 2,000 prisoners laid down their arms, and
were immediately embarked. The loss on either side was

inconsiderable.
The Times correspondent, writing from Be

day, says :—" On Saturday the Basilisk and the Reim
Hortense arrived at Danzig from Aland. On the 16tI
the fortress of Bomarsund was taken. 2000 Russian,
The allies lost 120 killed am

were made prisoners

wounded. The two forts before taken had been blown up.
The main fortress had been much injured. On the 17th
Austria and Prussia submitted to the Rund the Russian
answer to the Austrian summons, as well as the corres-

pondence with the 'Western Powers, containing the

[tutees of peace required by the latter

By telegraphic advices from Varna, of the 9th, we learn
that the light division had received orders to hold itself
in readiness to march on the 12th. It was supposed that

n attack on the Russians, by land and sea, would be

made on the 15th

Puus, SuNDAT.--From Madrid we learn that a royal
decree has established a civic decoration in honour of those
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brave men who reconquered the liberty of the country
during the days, of. July, it issaid that the Patriarch of.
the Indies, as well as Sister Patrocinio and her confessor,
lam received orders to leave Madrid. The Three per