Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1868-08-28 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

PRINCIPAL—MR C. COOKE.  rrHE Premises are large, the Situation open and healthy, and the plipils are regukirly prepared for the Gad Service, University Middle C ass, and other examinati ns, in which many of the buys have taken high classes and prizes. Pariour boarders  not condescend to tell the ladies how this is to be accomplished. He thinks too many children are born' and would adopt means to prevent it. We recommend this puling politician to make himself more conversant with the Bible. He will find in it the Divine command to "increase and multiply." But Lord Amberley thinks differently. He would enact laws to prevent children being born. Are we to follow the command of God, or the dictates of this upstart politician I We are aware that the subject has often been on the tapis, both in ancient and modern times. Lord Amberley may remember, in his readings of Ovid and Tertullian and other classics, what the ancients thought about it. He may have read Malthus, and imbibed his crude and anti-social ideas upon population; but, to state openly in a public meeting, and before ladies, that sorne means should be devised to check the number of children is at once a monstrous and blasphemous assumption. This man is ambitious to become a legislator. He is here striking out a new path for himself. It is a subject no legislation has yet ventured on. But his lordship will be older and wiser before he will have an opportunity of trying his hand at lawmaking. Political manifestoes are "become as plentiful as blackberries." The chief burden of their song is the Irish Church. Our two candidates for Stockton have issued their addresses. Lord Ernest Vane Tempest has promised to support the Union and the Protestant Church; Mr Dodds has promised to support Mr Gladstone in his attack on the Church. Which candidate ought we to support, and elect to be our member I Is there not sound Protestant feeling enough in Stockton to ensure the election of his lordship I Church people ought all to vote for him. How can they consistently vote for Mr Dodds, who has pledged himself to go against the Church ? Wesleyans ought to vote for his lordship, who adocates religious liberty, and will support the old Protestant landmarks against the encroachments of the Papacy. But there are other religionists in Stockton who, we are sorry to know, are not true to their Protestant antecedents. They have joined the Liberation Society, and would destroy the Church, and thus "cut off their nose to spite their face." They care not for the advance of Popery if they can check Church prosperity. We do not include all Dissenters in this category. There are many among them in Stockton who would be sorry to do any harm to the Church, and we urge those not to act blindfolded in such an important matter. If, as Liberals, they vote for Mr Dodds, they will vote against Protestantism, as he pledged to do. Can they do so conscientiously I By so doing will they please God and satisfy their conscience I  On Wednesday the Brewster Sessions WB9 held for the county in the Town Hall, when fifty-seven applications were made for the renewal of licences, all of which were granted. Only two applications were made for new licences, but they were not granted.  13UICIDE.--Jetmes Henderson, a pauper in the Union Workhouse, committed suicide on Tuesday last. He was a stone-breaker before he went into the House, where he had been an inmate for some time. He destroyed himself in the tool house, and there is no doubt that distress of mind drove him to commit the act. He was seventy-three years of ago.