New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-01-24

age and the country demand, SO as 70 SUBSTITUTE
for il the catechism and the clergyman neither
will the Blere promise Of school ana university
course. snch as the Church shall prescribe and
control-And that is all that cen yet be gwen
withdraw the Roman Catholic youth from the
National Schools and Queens colleges, where
alone they can receive the training ana lhsIsuo-
ton that enable them 10 compete ior tue prizes
which improved society holds out or 70 raise
II themselves 20 that wealth and distinction winch
the Professions. Commerce, Trade and Manuiac'
tures offer % ali qualified 10 labor % attain them
form this hope from what is stated regarding
The GsIrav College IL has had 70 encounter Dr.
NacHales bitterest oppOsition-ls IN the teslDu
Of prominent poverty-where there are ie"esl
PREPARATORY schools to bresk up the W az ahe
ataste-snd where there are scarcely anyol sue en-
lowed schools that are ssitwere, the eeders OF uh
versites The population of eliast IS 64OOO' theI
of Cork log 600 while Galway is only 52OJO ana
while the population of Beltast IS thus double ana
that Of Cork treble that Of Galway the proportioA
of those who can afford their sons a university
education is still greater. The proportion oil those
who can read and write to the whole population
in these provinces of Ulster, Munster and Con
nAugbt is three 20 one against Galway; and the
proportion of children attending schools, TWO 70
one. In Ulster there are fourteen Royal DO
cesan or Endowed Schools; and IN Munster SIX
teen in all OF which classics are taught Inc Der
fast Academical Institution prepared the way LOT
the College there: in Cork there was Medlcai
School. and in the Schools in that city 2VO boys
learn classics In ConnRught there are but SIX OF
these Endowed Schools. And yet already one
hundred students have matriculatedi ana TINS
wear twenty five new ones have entered-ehu
there is vet the January Supplementary examlna-
tion-and this, though the College has been anatne
rnatized and parents threatened with the penal
ties of the Church if they allow their sons to at
tend il.
Whatdifncultes new Institutions have to strug
gle within competition with old Universities ana
under the ban of the Church-is illustrated IN the
case of the London University, which obtained
only SO pupils when il opened and during the
first twelve wears did not average 40 year. Ihas
a College in Galway-a poor provincial town-m
an impovershed prOvince-wlth lew SCHOOLS 20
supply it-with a tempest OF maledlction assam
ing it and all belonging to it-galned twice as
many students in its first year as a University Ia
the largest and wealthiest metropolis In the world
after twelve years trial, is fact that bids the
lovers Of Irelsnds growth in Intellectual social
and moral prosperity thank God and take
courage" ,,,,,-,n.r
The "No Popery" agitation RACES In England
with undated fury. The Press succeeds the
Platform-the war of pens to the war OF tongues
On the one hand, the Minister is implored, as he
values religion, the peace and freedom OF the
Empire, or the honor and independence of the ma
ton. to revive the penal laws if they are sufficient
or TO bring in & new declaratory act if they are
not. against the Popes authority in Britain On
the other hand, as he did not, as he might have
done. prevent all this, by declaring his determine
ton TO enforce the law, if it should be attempted
in England and by enforcing 1t when 1t was at
tempted in Ireland, not a few OF his own col
leagues, and the great body Of those who support
him on the ground OF his advocating civil and re-
lgious freedom, with the whole body OF Dissent.
ers and Roman Catholics, denounce the thought OF
penal enactments.
In Reimbursement the Churchmen-there has
not been, and is not likely to be, any demonstra-
ton by platform or pamphlet. The people seem
anxious TO struggle unitcdly for something better
than statutes affecting the religious obseryances
of any class of subjects. The Tablet indeed, i'm
plores Lord John to "persecute," nothing is
wanting to the perfect triumph of Catholicism,
that is gaining upon the people OF England with
such unexampled rapidty, bat the revival OF
persecution" And il seems signhcant-as show
ing the readiness of our European allies, TO return
the compliment of cheering portion OF the
subjects, in opposition to the manifested wishes OF
the Government-that every Roman Catholic
Sovereign in Europe has addressed aletter OF con-
graduation TO Cardinal Wiseman.
1t would be deplorRbe for Ireland, and hardly
less so for England were the people srepresenta
tives to occupy their time-not with the rights oil
the people in the land, the promotion OF manutac
lures, the amendment Of the poor laws, the carry
ing out of railways, the revival OF commerce by
Western packet station-but by the discussion OF
the technicalities of prerogatve and theology
And am inclined To think that tue nation voice
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