The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-06-14
MhsCzLLANK0Us FOREIGN NEWS,
ITO May 23.I
EDUCATION I'm ENeLANp.

| EDUCATION In ENGLAND. sfF-
The School Board system will have to
: its results. Canon Toole tested those re.
suits up to the present time on Manday
) last, IN very telling speech delivered al
the Manchester School Board. He showed
from official returns that the School Boards.
in spite of their unlimited funds and the
power of the law and the police to back
them, have hitherto obtained from their
scholars q smaller average attendance, O
smaller number present at examination,
a smaller success in passing examination,
ana smaller grants in consequence of those
eAaminations than the Anglican, Dissent.
ing, and Catholic schools. 1t appears that
the Church of England has Ash ,6O6 chill
dren In its schools the Non conformists,
AS, 426 in theirs; the Catholics, I25, 697,
and the Board. schools, Ill 1856 and We
average attendance is larger in the Cath
otic than in any of the other schools and
further, that in regard to the results of the
examination the highest percentage Of
passes in the different standards has been
made by the Catholic schools. This speaks
| very highly for the zeal of the clergy in
working up the average attendance, and
Tor the efficiency of our teachers. There
can be no doubt but that our training.
schools, especially the one for girls, are
doing their work well. Still we have no
reason to boast; for We find that the re-
1
| alton place the Catholic schools below both
Church and British schools; the British
schools making l2s. Sd. per head. the
Church schools 12s. 2sd., the Catholic lis.
llfd., and the Board schools only 81, I'D.
1t has been found in several large towns
thas the Board schools are thoroughly un.
popular The influence Of the clergy will
always be more popular than that Of Board
officers, though the funds at the disposal
OF the former may be very inferior to those
of the latter.
THE DEFEAT OF THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT. |
The Government of the Due de Broalie
has fallen, through temporary coalition
OF the Extreme Right (Royalists) and the |
bonarpartists with the Left Republicans |
!; IL , is hard to see what advantage the Right
ID likely to derive from it's vote, and still |
harder to believe that anything at all
lasting can emerge from the present crisis.
The members of the Right seem to have
been actuated by three fears; frst. that
tne passing Of the Constitutional Laws
the MSa5a Put an end to their
and they are said to have received instruc.
tlons from the Comte de Chambord To
offer every possible opposition to their
coming on for discussion secondly, that
me passing as OF the Electoral Law, together
able the Government to threaten them with
a dissolution If their opposition to the
other Laws became too troublesome !. and
thirdly, that the Due d'Aumale would be
m mace resident of the Grand Conseil, and
tnus step professionally into Marshal Mac
Mahons p:acein case of a vacancy. 40 "a
TO prepare the way for an Orleanist Monar-
chy. 1t 10 probable that the last of these {
su spicions was altogether gronndless. as
there 10 no reason for benbting the loyalty :
nnu sersignsiorwardness of the Comte de =
earis' who has more than once given as-
'urances that he would not lend himself to :
any maDouvre of this kind. But what. t
aver their real motives and the yalue of c
,hose motives may have been, the Right II
3n no secret OF what they were going to !,
ieciared before the Committee of Thirtv
mat ne lnslsted on the electoral law being Q
discussed before the municipal law-thoug6 Z
ae acknowledged the urgency of the latter !!
several IS !ai members of the Right waited on q
lim with pressing request that, If he p
n q to persist in claiming priority for
he electoral law, he would not make IL
uestion of want of confidence. AT least s.
orty, they said, of the extreme Right were v
ssoived at all hazards to vote for taking Il
o9rse, being to stave off the electoral law Il
u ieast tiii the autumn-but they did not tt
rant to turn ont the Government. and b
hey lmplored M. de Broglie not to make Q,
Cabinet question. The Duke. how. Il
ooa perhaps calculated that, as the Right 81
ands of the Left, they would probable d
I've, way if he stood firm. There was not b,
lach OF @ debate, but after two ineffsotnai o,
ttempts at division by sitting and rising. q,
ne ballot showed a majority against Gov b,
cnment of sixty -four-3s1 voting against o1
recedence being given to the electorsi IN
w, and 3l7 for it. y,
>. THE SPANISH MINISTRY. W
" seems to be generally taken for grant. In
that all the members Of the new Span th
a ministry are converts to the Alfoneist th
stora ton, and that the only Question is pr
DIV and when the public evolution ia tn MI
performed. They have put forth nro. tn
amation in which they declare their mn. an
|, attachment to the principles pu
n IRE oy the Revolution of 1868 but as I'M
ose principles are nowhere very clearly Ro
'nned' It Is conceivable that it NAV he br.
una as possible to- harmonic them with
Q reign of King Alfonso as with the tho
ign of King Amadeo. Az to the when. wi
Is obvious that, as the choice of a Regent val
'uid start fresh difficulty, it miobt he De
nyenient to wait till November next year sur
zen the Prince of the Asturias viii attain in