The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-26

of the House It is not difficult to imagine how
ne would have capped that famous speech and
proclaimed that the time had come for doing
justice to our Irish fellow subjects. That he
may have contemplated converting bis present
associates TO his views Is not Improbable; but
If so he discovered that on this point they
refused to be educated, and he had no choice but
to write that celebrated letter in which he told
the people of Great Britain and Ireland that they
owe all the civil and religious liberty they enjoy
to the Church establishment The notion was
peculiarly funny one as far as regards Ireland,
because q people may doubt whether they enjoy
much of either kind of liberty when the habeas
corpus act has been suspended for three years,
and when during three centuries State Church
has been supported for, the special behool OF a
very small minority of the nation. The position
in which things at present stand is this. Reform
has been disposed of substantially by the efforts
of the liberal party, and the Irish Church ques-
tion remains open, the conservatives being pre-
pared to strain every nerve TO prevent its settle
ment 1t is for the liberal electors to say under
these circumstances 10 whom they will give
| their support. Tie question can only admit OF
one reply"
schooI-Mastsrs' Salaries.
The Pail Mai Gazette quotes the following
from recent report on the Church schools in
Lancashire:-
THE incomes which are made in some of
these schools are very large. The average of
the salaries returned by the masters in one town
is over fl39 year. xclus1ve OF house, profits
of evening school, or other advantages; and in
one instance total income from ali sources is
made of f3OO. 1t is well that a profession
should have these prizes; and most certainly
trying work, but in the face of this it is impos-
sible, at least in this district, to agree
with the cry that salaries ,.L are dimln-
ished and teachers prospects bIighted under
upon point which should, If possible, be
! guarded against. return is asked for each
year OF the whole pecuniarv emolumeut OF
| teacher received out of the school income. Men
| rArpIV make themselves richer thew
| are, and from the opportunities which there are
of private Information it is certain that in mauy
| instances the return Is made too low, aud that
teachers consequently are often thought to be
| worse paid body OF men than they really are.
| As it Is, their own returns show them to be in
| the receipt of the following average payments:-
| M9sters, f9S As: mstresses (grls), f62 l3s.;
misresses (nfants), G58. And when to this is
added the many unacknowledged items which
exist, the whole amount will not appear so low,
even though among the high paid classes of the
manufacturing districts"
Military Precautions in Ireland.
The Fenian rising in March, 1867, appears to
have taught the British Government a valuable
lesson in military strategy. Taking hint from
| the plans of the insurgents the Government
decided on building large military barracks,
capable of containing ten thousand men, at the
| Limerick Junction, the great railroad junction
of South Ireland, where passengers change for
Cork, Dublin, Limerick, and Waterford direc-
tons. This place is within a few minutes ride
of the town OF Tipperary, within view of the
| GalteeS Hills, upon whose tops the remains IN
1867 took shelter from the intense cold. The
| selection of this place Is most judicious,
| trains can be had at all hours and troops des-
patched with the greatest rapidity to quell an
| outbreak.
The Nation and other Dublin journals assert
| that secret and deadly arrangements are on foot
| for ayenging upon Ireland the defeat of the
| Government in the naming Of the polling places
clauses in the Registration b'N. Lord Strath-
nairn. the COMMANDMENT. Chief of the Irish
army, has been invested with full power to dis
| tribute the army under his control through the
different counties in Ireland, and the preserva-
ton of the peace will be taken out of the hands
of the civil authorities at the elections for the
! time being; army officers are to be sworn in
Justices of the peacel" with power to disperse
any assemblage OF more than twenty persons,
! and maps of the highways and by-ways in the
| different counties are being made in order that
! the military may have full knowledge of the
roads TO be trayersed by voters.
The Notion warns the Government against
! the landlords to coerce voters to vote for their
| nominees. 1t says:-Let the results be what
! they may, this will be a deadly campaign for the
party who invoke such influences. If military
! violence be attempted, or undue military occu-
| patton or interference on pretence OF escort
| be carried out, and once again the truth be
made more clear that in Ireland the landowners
| claim TO own the body and soul, and conscience
| of their hapless tenants, and enforce that claim
through bloodshed, desolation and death,
assuredly this will be the last election in Ireland
| in which voters will be lett exposed to such
| deadly perils A cry will resound throughout
Great Britain that at least Tor Ireland the ballot
is a Lecessity.