The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-11-26
,M1scE11ANEous FOREIGN NEWS.
ENGLAND.

l0g0 at the London school Bo0rQ FURNISH
valuable illustration of the nature Of the
sal education hos assumed thee form OF Q
virtual admission that no education at all
is better than education in UNCONVENTIONAL
schools. The two points left to the discre-
ton Of the local authorities have just come
on for settlement at the London Board.
of compilation shall be used to force
parents to send their children to school.
The other, whether, when they cannot pay
the fees, the fees shall be paid for them to
the denominational school which their con-
science leads them to select. Now on both
these points the secularists-uhderw which
term We include for convenience sake the
Observation-Disclosures and the secularists
proper-have always taken a decided line.
They have, as general rule, been strongly
in favor of compulsory education, and
equally opposed TO the payment of fees to
UNCONVENTIONAL schools. But they see
pretty clearly that they cannot carry both
their points. An effort indeed was made
to get the question of fees to denomina-
tional schools settled first, SO that, when
that was finally settled in the negative,
they might safely vote for .compulsion
without any danger of children being
helped or forced into UNCONVENTIONAL
and the bye-law introducing compulsion
was passed first upon which it appeared
that il would be impossible to enforce the
compulsory use of Board-schools, and that,
as Mr.. Gladstone said in his speech ON
Saturday, public opinion would never sup
port them in putting parent in prison for
not sending his child to school the prin-
ciples of which he disapproved. There
upon they Immediately change front. We
will not. they say, compel anybody to edu-
cate his child, as we will never consent to
help him into a denominational school. If
he will not use our schools, and if we can
not-as appears to be the case-compel
school at all. What, asked ProfessDr Hulk
ley, would be the result of paying these
fees His answer to his own question is
remarkable one. 1t consists in an attempt
to state the Cultivate aims of Roman Ca
tholics," whose "energy and consistency"
ne admired. "The Roman Catholics of
England" he said, "would never be salts
fed till they had complete possession over
the whole mind of every child who may
come within their power. The exercise of
such II power was destructive of all the
highest characteristics of the nature of
man." 1t is, he distinctly tells us, on these
grounds that he protested against the
Board Substituting any one of these schools.
The danger of Catholic teaching is the
only one on which he dwells. In other
words, the object of the whole campaign
is to prevent Catholic children being edn-
Gated in Catholic schools, for there is no
question ofany but Catholic children being
sent there. The admission fits in very
well, with that of the speaker whom we
quoted last week, and who confessed that
he had relied on the Education Act to give
to Catholic children broad religious
teaching, which would raise them to a
higher level in belief than that to which
their parents had attained. In each case
the end in view is, to put down Catholic
ta0Chinp tho only Oiffarapca /, hat r a
one speaker would replace it by kind of
broad and vague religiosity, tile other by
no religion TT all. The bearing of Profess
son Huxley's remarks on Irish Education is
SO important that we must reserve it for
more detailed comment.
The Catholic member of the Plymouth
School Board has succeeded in doing good
service to his religionists in that town,
for we learn that the Board after vigor-
GUS debate, adopted the bye-law resolving
to pay fees for children of INDECENT parents
to UNCONVENTIONAL schools. The motion
was carried by one vote. The majority
consisted of the Churchmen, Wesleyans,
and Roman Catholics of the Board the
minority of the independents, Baptists,
and working men.-Iablet.
Alter lapse OF two years the proceed
ings of the academia of the Catholic Re-
ligion" have been resumed under the
guidance of the Archbishop of Westminster,
"Ho icdu pUpCi VIC VI lue re-
sumed meetings. His Grace ranged over
many of the subjects which are at present
attracting the attention of the world, and
especially referred to the International and
to Freemasonry. as being anti Christian.
Neither did he omit to administer a sharp
rebuke to those so-called philosophers"
Darwin and Huxley, and their brutalizing
monkey theories. The meetings of the
academia will, we believe, be more public
in future than heretofore, which is well,
for the papers have sometimes not been
published till the interest in the topic dealt
with had to a great extent passed away.
The archbishop announced that all mem
bers of any of the Catholic Young Mems
Societies are welcome to be present at the
meetings at York Place.
FRANCE.
France is still, like the English fleet in
the Baltic during the war with Russia. in
Statu quo. NJ. Theirs holds the reins of
power and trots from Versailles to Paris,
from Paris to Versailles. The Bonapareists
are said to be carrying on intrigues for the
restoration of the empire with persistent
activity. The financial agent of this con-
-spiracy, in favor of a man who ostensibly
arrived in ENGLAND without fipopcns 20