The Times and Standard have been making much of the
letter from Lord Stanley to lir. Hodgson of Liverpool, (which we noticed some time ago,) on the subject of introducing the Irish system of education into the Corporation Schools. Lord Stanley maintains that the sys- tem is applicable only to Ireland, and strongly objects to "mutilating the Word of God" in England. But the Morning Chronicle has very seasonably produced a quotation from a speech delivered by Lord Stanley in 1832, in defence of his Irish Education Bill, as proof that Lord Stanley has held at least two opinions on this subject. Replying to Captain Gordon and Mr. Andrew Johnston, who had been holding forth in their usual canting strain, he said- " Now, he would ask those who made it a matter of complaint that the Scriptures were not insisted on as a school •book to be read by all, whether they would themselves allow Me whole Scriptures to be put into the hands (!l' their own children, to be read without the super intendence of religious instructors?"
Yet, because the Liverpool Town- Council, rather than drive the poor Catholic children from their schools, order extracts from the Bible instead of the Bible itself to be read there, Lord Stanley helps to swell the cry of the political hypocrites against the " mutilation of the Word of God." This is as dishonest and as impudent as his imputation to Lord John Russell of having taken up his opinions on the Church question to secure Mr. O'Connell's support to the Melbourne Minis- triy, though he knew all the while that Lord John bad advocated these opinions against Mr. Stanley himself, when they both sat in the Grey Cabinet and O'Connell was in opposition.
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