Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1883-10-13 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

PASTORAL FROM CARDINAL M'CABE. A pastoral of unusual length from Cardinal M'Cabe was read on Sunday in the Dublin chapels. It had reference chiefly to the subject of education and contamed the following: Till recently university education was denied to all who placed conscience before worldly interest; and middle-grade education, which had numerous endowed institutions for Proteetant youths, was denied to Catholics unlegs provided for 'mit of their poverty. The managers of our tational schools in ecclesiastical authority could not employ teachers trained in model schools, and hence their schools were only half efficient. Thanks to the justice and good sense of modern statesmanship, these educational grievances have been to a large extent redressed. But a good deal must yet be done if conscientious Catholics are to be placed on a perfect level with their Protestent countrymen, or with th• who can silence the voice of conscience by the zguments of expediency. Meanwhile, until that full measure of educational justice is dealt out to you, which, with God's blessing and our own exertiors, will be soon, we must make some few sacrifices to help eurselves. Through the fellowship of the Royal University of Ireland, University College, Stephen's Green, has received the professional aid of 'Trinity College, and the Queen's Colleges superabound in all the materials which can be required for the successful work. Catholics who cannot go to these favoured places may avail themselves of the partial services of six or seven professors—no doubt most tinguished, each man in his line, .but there they are left. The students of University College, can, it is true, compete for the prizes and exhibitions of the Royal University. So can students of Trinity Col .;e and the Queen's College, under certain conditions. Surely this is not justice. We accepted this arrangement, not as a settlement, but as a part payment of the education account. The system of intermediate education, which is a nearer approach to justice, has proved that our Catholic schu)le, though entilely unendowed, can compete and compete successfully with their Protestant rivals, even though these ri‘als an call to their aid, indirectly at least, the Royal schools, the diocesan schools, and others, all endue eti with public funds exceeding in the aggregate £28,000 a year. It is to be hoped that this partial and =just allocation of public money will be speedily tectified. We do not ask for the slightest privileges a, • rainst our Protestant fellow-countrymen—we merely eek for equality and justice.  Nlorice Pasha, who is now in England, is instructed by tlif- PeTptian Government to purchase two gunboats. for £14,000.  A matter of importance to political agents cropped up on Monday at the revision of the burgess roll at Accrirgtott. The Conservatives objected to a large number of Liberal objections on the ground that the Chribtian and surnames were mis-spelled and that the writing was not plainly decipherable. The court held the objection good, and struck out a considerable number.  A so-called American duel has just been concluded between two ladies at Grosswardein, in Hungary. A married actress, Madame Gethfalvi, Who has attempted suicide in that city, wrote a letter saying that she had entered into an American duel concerning her husband, with a lady in Vienna, and had drawn the fatal lot. Madame Gethfalvi, however, is still alive, though her condition is reported to be hopeless. - - •  -- Two Yorkshire excursionists and a Morecambe I(xlging-house keeper have been charged at Lancaster with illegally disposing of cheap return railway tickets, contrary to the by-laws of the lalLidland Railway. It wai stated that the traffic had been going on for a considerable time, and heavy fines were imposed. •  At the Richmond police-court, on Monday, William Harding and Elizabeth Stanton, membersof the Salvation Army, who have lyten living together at Kew as man and wife, were each sentenced to two months' hard labour for a violent assault on Alfred Stanton, the female prisoner's husbnitd, who had discovered their whereabouts, and sought an explanation. The Chairman remarked on the disgraceful conduct of the prisoners as members of a body professing morality and decency, and expressed the hope that they would be turned out of the Army. A coroner's jury at Sunderland has returned a verdict of death from an emliolism of the lungs in an inquest held upon the body of a widow named Mary Rainton. It appeared that she went to a neighbour's house, and said she had come there to die. She knelt down by the bedside and expired in a few moments. She had suffered from heart disease.