The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-07-30
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| The Nuns are rapidly getting charge Of
| the hospitals In the Union Warehouses
| thus causing great saving Of rates and i'm
provements Ia the health and the moral
condition Of the afflicted.
Alderman Tarpey has been elected Lord
Mayor of Dublin for 1877. He ie staunch
fifteen years.
NATIONAL EDUCATION.
The schools in operation-that is, sepa-
rate departments, as boys, girls, and in
fants' schoois-eRounted at the close OF
1875 to 1857, being an increase of only ten
within the year, against 81 in the previous
year. and lilo in 1873. Of these schools only
2, los are vested-that is, their erection was
aided by the State-while s, I62 schools are
non-vested, the fabrics being parochial or
private property, and their connection with
the Board dependent on the pleasure of the
local parties, who can eever that connection
at @ moments notice. These 2, los vested
there are about three schools, or depart
ments, to every two houses. The number
of pupils on the roll within the year was
1,011 ,799, or nearly one fifth of the whole
population, which is absurd and incredible
If intended to mean that number of distinct
individual children, while the average num-
Der in daily attendance was only $50 ,96l, OF
80 per cent of the number on the roll !;
while the number on the rolls that gave any
attendance during the last fourteen days Of
the month preceding the Inspectors visit
was 577, SAL. The number ON the rolls for
the last quarter of the year was III, 544 /;
the number qualified for presentation for
examination, as having made 80 days. at.
tendance during the year, was 4S6 1863; and
the number of these who were present aud
were examined by the Inspectors 3o4, 655.
These few facts sufficiently indicate the
illusory character of the inflated and un-
real statement that upwards of million of
children are going to the National Schools.
At an average there are l4I pupils on the
roll of every school, while the daily aver
age number present is only 81 children.
There are about rs per cent. of the school
going children in National and Is per cent.
in all other schools, very large proportion
of these being those 1nder the Religious
Communities Of men and women.
There is scarcely an Irish question upon
which the British mind is SO mislsd as that
of the alleged success of the mixed or se-~
cular system, which, it is supposed, is pre- :.
ferred to UNCONVENTIONAL or religious edu-
cation. Tomorrow, were debate to arise
in the House of Commons on the question,
leading statesmen would assert the fact as
if its falsity had not been thousand times
exposed. They would say, here are 1885,
024 Catholics, or more than 70 per cent,
Ill ,132 Presbyterians, or IL per cent, 3d.
s07 EpiscopaliaDs, or per cent, and 5000
other non Catholics. or less than ! per
in the greatest har nony, in defiance of the
of mixed education by the
Catholic hierarchy and clergy. One glance,
however, at the tabular returns will refute
the sophism. No less than 2621 schools
taught exclusively by Catholic tearchers,
and attended by 40l, 1919 Catholic pupils,
have not even one non Catholic child under
their roof. And so of 400 schools under
Protestant teachers with 1862 pupils, all
exclusively Protestant. And if we turn to
the 60 called Mixed Schools we find scarce
ly pretence for the appellation. Thus
there are 2755 schools under exclusively
Catholic teachers, with 36l ,724 Catholic pu-
pills and % .662 Professionals, or more than
l3l Catholic children in each school, with
less than 10 Proreetants; yet such waits
and strays-about three Protestants pre-
sent daily in each of these 2755 Catholic
schools-cons;itnte their sole claim to be
regarded as "nnixed" schools. Examined
by every test and in every detail, the Irish
system, after 45 years. operation, is one of
the most UNCONVENTIONAL schemes of pri-
mary instruction on earth. Denominational
in the composition of the commission that
administers it, denominational in the staff
of inspectors and professors, denomination
al in the management of the several schools,
denominationai in the teachers, denomiua-
IiOual al pupilSf 6uu NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
the religious instruction permitted to be
given in the vast majority of the schools.
Tue report reveals the astounding fact that,
after forty five years operation of the sys-
tenn, amongst 1867 National Schools only
1O3 are taught by Catholic and PROTESTANT
teachers conformity, including all the
Boards own Model Schools, 156 Union
workhouse, and several Jail schools. The
Catholic and the Protestant Commissioners
are habitually at strife; Catholic and Pro-
testant will not unite in founding or man
sging school; few patrons will appoint
teacher of different creed from their
own; while few parents will send their
children to schools with which they have
no religious sympathy.
| ORANGE CELEBRATION.
The great Orange anniversary was cele,
brsted yesterday in the usual manner. IL
Derry the bells were rung and Orange flags
displayed on the Walker Monument, and in
Belfast, Hillsborough, and other placea the
Orangemen INDUCED in PROFESSIONS, drum
miDgs, and unlimited oratory. At DUNCAN.
non, while the Orange procession was par
aiding the Catholic quarter in defiant array
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