IRELAND.
Dr. Cullen's annual Christmas pastoral—twenty-eight pages of close print—was read last Sunday in all the Romanist chapels of Dublin. It treats almost entirely of the education question as affecting the Irish Catholics. As might be supposed, Dr. Cullen condemns the Queen's Colleges, and repeats the fact that they have been declared by the Pope " dangeraucto faith and morals" ; a declaration solemnly published by the Synod of Thurles. Next he speaks of the National system in terms of qualified approval, because in practice the schools are unmixed to a very great extent ; but he objects to the books compiled by the Society. At the close, he puts forward the claims of his party- " From mixed education we can expect nothing but evil : we should not acquiesce in it or encourage it. It is highly dangerous to give over the in- struction of Catholic children to a Protestant Government ; we are bound to oppose encroachments on this head. While giving a thorough Catholic education to Catholic children, we have a right to insist on participating in every public grant, without consenting to any clog on the freedom of edu- cation. The influence of the great Catholic population of Ireland should be exercised in asserting their rights ; and even our electors should use their votes to return men to Parliament determined and able to support unmixed education for Catholic children, and freedom of education from State control for all. Our Catholic brethren in England have obtained a separate grant for their schools •from the public funds, under Catholic management. They have Catholic inspectors, Catholic books, and Catholic training-schools. We rejoice in their success ; but ought we, whose numbers and influence are so much greater, be satisfied with anything lees than the measure of justice they have obtained ? "
In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Wednesday, a compromise was effected in the case of the Newcastle Commercial Bank versus the Tipperary Bank : the claim was 51,0001., for bills discounted ; it was agreed that a -verdict for 25,0001., with 6d. costs, should be taken.
7iir. Keys, a traveller for a London house, has lost a box containing watches valued at 2000/. on the Coleraine and perry Railway. As he was getting into a carriage at Coleraine, the guard said his luggage must go in the van; Mr. Keys gave it up ; the box was missing when he arrived at Derry. The guard was arrested; he said a porter took the luggage to the
van, and he himself never had the box : lie has been liberated on bail.Wilat has becirme of the box is a mystery.
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