The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-07-20

cedlng numbers of tho census may be use
full and interesting. The reduction of the
population shown in each for the ten years
ending in 1871 is as follows:
County Ard CITY Of Dublin. 1899
County and City Of Kilkenny 1875
osssyy q sf and County Of Of
coun. roG9 9 , asys
To us Irishmen thesezare painful facts.
The wasting away of our nations life is
more than we can look upon without feel
ings of sorrow and indignation arising in our
breasts. But quite otherwise do our Eng
lish rulers regard this decline of the
they wish for most earnestly, and labor for
with the greatest energy and ingenuity.
To improverish Ireland: financially is q
thing they like well but to rid it of its
people they like far better. It is we'll, in
their opinion, to have Ireland poor, but
the supreme good is to have Ireland weak;
very weak, SO weak that 1t can never oi1er
Icy, or cause any apprehension in the
minds of English statesmen. The rulers
of England have no objection to seeing the
Irish people enjoying certain degree of
material comfort, provided only they be tep
in number. If they could only turn the
whole country into a hinge grazing farm
they would not care to take the last penny
from the pockets and the shirts from off the
backs of the graziers and herdsmen. What
they are quite determined on is, that there
shall not be in Ireland a people at once nu-
merous and prosperous. Numbers and
wealth, they we'll know, are the chief ele-
ments of political power; numbers even
without wealth may constitute q great
force, physical and political; but where
there is q paucity of people there cannot be
national strength. Therefore it 10 that the
wasting away of the Irish people by the
drain Of emigration is 80 gratifying a spec-
tacle to the alien rulers of this country.
They look to that process as the sure
means of Kidding themselves of every trace
of the "Irish difficulty" "What matter to
us,n they cay, what the Irish people may
wish for or demand, what matter whether
they be we'll or ill-affected toward US,
whether they agitate or conspire, petition or
threaten, IL they be such a mere handful as
TO be poweriess 7 Let "a only cut down their
numbers, rout the great mass of them QUO of
their native land by an ingeniously devised
disregard the cries of the little remnant
for Home Rule, or free education, OF any
thing else" That is the idea upon which
the English Government are now acting in
their dealings with Ireland. They are re-
sisting the just claims of the people, refus-
ing all reform, keeping on the pressure of
the Coercion Acts, aud playing waiting
is bleeding to death.-Dublin Nation, June
2Sth.
ENGLAND.
Education in London-His Grace the
Archbishop presided, on the 25th' June at
the annual meeting of the Westminst er
Diocesan Education Society The atten-
dance was large, besides being eminently
influential, and the report, submitted by
Father Seddop, contained many gratifying
and encouraging features. The associa-
ton Is making steady progress. OF ,2l9
d ally attendance-a very large and Gre
ditable percentage. Reference was made
to the circumstance that l 300 Catholic
children have been educated as Protestants
in English workhouses-robbed of their
faith by the caucuses of butchers, bakers,
our boards Of guardians. The transfer of
these children to Catholic schools is being
epergetically demanded by the executive
of the Fand, and though many have been
handed over to the care of their rightful
spiritual guardians, the heads of Forest
gate, and of the new district schools at
Ashford, refuse to surrender their charge,
but promise that they shall have the bene-
fit of Catholic education in future. The
Archbishop, in the course of pithy and
eloquent address, dropped some remarks
which the London School Board, despite
its organising tendencies, might do worse
than again aud again study for it's special
enlightenment. 81 do not believe" said
his Grace, tthat the experiment of teacEing
Roman Catholic children by other than
Roman Catholic teachers will succeed"
Poor schools, he continued, are built on
too large and costly scale, for the true
system of honest education is to replace the
toorkhOuse by the home. ~ would go beg
ging again" he added, to obtain funds
to support the society, and may state"
that have already received cheque for
81 900 towards that end on the condition
that. others will contribute likewise ac-
cording to their means" The meeting was
brought to close after adopting variety
of resolutions, proposed and carried by the
Duke of Norfolk, the O'Conor Don, Lord
Howard of GlossOp the Earl of Denbigh,
Mr.. Monsell, and Mr.. Mccarthy Downing.
The association has undertaken work of
the greatest merit, and deserves the coun-
of every Irishman desirous of saw
ing Irish children in England from the
vnltures of the proselytsing societies,
and the rapid acquisitiveness of the Poor
Law Guardians.