THE ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN AND THE IRISH CHURCH. 6 DR TRENCH has revived the question of the Irish Church. The Irish Catholics wish a denominational system of education. They expect that, if the revenue of the Protestant Church were secularized, it would be applied to the instruction of the people. The mixed system of education which now prevails in Ireland is the object of their detestation, even more than the Established Church. They have demanded a Catholic university; and they have formally, and not without the sanction of the Pope, proclaimed their preference of the denominational system of education. It is understood that, unless British Protestants raise a voice of indignant remonstrance, Government is determined to concede to the Irish Catholics the first of these demands; and the Archbishop of Dublin now recommends that the odious system of mixed education should be taken out of the way. His design appears to be, to purchase the forbearance of the Irish Catholics toward the Church of Ireland by the annual gift of a large sum to support a system of denominational education. He says in effect, Concede to the Roman Catholics of Ireland that system of denominational education for which they have clamoured for more than a generation; give them as much of the public money as will enable them to teach gratuitously to all their children Popery, pure and simple, as it exists in the catechism of Pius and in the decrees of the Council of Trent; add to the Maynooth grant the small sum of a quarter of a million sterling from year to year,-and then the Irish Church question will be at rest for ever.' It is a most objectionable scheme. 1. It is a proposal to save one establishment by erecting another,-to save the Protestant establishment by erecting a Popish one,-compelling, of course, Protestant Dissenters to support both. 2. It assumes that a quarter of a million a year will be accepted by the Irish Catholics in full of all demands. It is not in their nature to be satisfied as long as there is any more to be got for asking. It is beyond belief that premiers and archbishops should expect to stop the craving of Catholics for public money by yielding to it. They are sturdy beggars, who will never work as long as they can frighten others, so as to extort from them the means of living. 3. It ignores all classes of our countrymen except Irish Churchmen and Irish Catholics. We beg to say that Scotch Presbyterians have a right to be heard on the question; and we hope that, when the Catholic university and the Catholic schools are brought under the consideration of the House of Commons, Mr Dunlop, Mr M'Laren, and a few others, will speak out. ITALY AND ROME. THE liberal party has triumphed in the Italian elections. The ministry will thus be enabled to prosecute the measures which are essential to the peace and prosperity of the kingdom of Italy. Things have not been moving quietly in the court of Rome. The Pope has been constrained to dismiss one of his chief advisers, and to raise the famous Cardinal Antonelli to the chief place in his administration. What shall be the tenor of his policy, and what shall be its consequences to the Papacy and to Europe, is unknown, and indeed is not much speculated on; for, by common consent, all that affects the temporal power of the Pope is postponed to 1866, during which the fate of the Man of Sin is expected to be the question of questions. We have not forgotten the series of strange changes by which we were startled at the beginning of 1848,—changes, however, which were followed by a speedy reaction. On various grounds, many are expecting that 1866 will witness changes, especially with regard to Popery, that shall be more sweeping and more lasting. It is not for you to know the times and the seasons, which the Father has put in His own power.' CALLS MODERATED.-J. Allison, 91; D. Beatt, 91; Candlish on the Fatherhood of God, 481 Creed Reform, CRITICAL NOTICES:- 566 97 204 A Defence of Infant Baptism, 556; Airay on Bacon's Paradoxes (Grosart), 256; Beauty and Calderwood on Sabbath Trains, 503; Campbell Douglas's Sketches of General History, 553; Eadie's Bible Cyclopedia, 318. Fettes' Lectures, 555; Frank Fielding, 126. CRITICAL NOTICES:- PAGE Gall's Instant Salvation, 130; Genesis and Geo- Hamilton's Poems, 469; Hanna on the Earlier Ingham on Baptism, 179; Irish Regium Donum, Jacobus on John, 80. Keil on the Pentateuch (Clark), 502. Lechler and Gerok on the Acts, 33; Lost Friends M'Nab's Fear of the Lord the Beginning of Patterson on the Redeemer, 419; Paton's Review Saphir on Conversion, 470; Short Tales to Ex- The Children of the Great King, 180; The Vaughan on Christian Living, 419; Vinet's Wallace's Pastoral Recollections, 122; Wallace Death Scene and its Lessons, A, Duncan, Case of the Rev. R. D., 524 110 44 219 550 209 383 91, 139 Eden, on the River and Garden of, Exodus xxxiv. 6, 7, Remarks on,. Faith and Good Works, 567 115 391 480 289 307, 354, 401 Fig Tree putting forth its Leaves, The, INDUCTIONS.-Rev. R. Campbell, 329; Rev. W. 37, 86, 134, 229, 326, 375, 420, PRESBYTERIAL NOTICES:- Glasgow, 191 Hamilton, 379 Ireland, Kelso, Kilmarnock, Kinross, Kirkcaldy, 471, 506, 558 37, 87, 182, 231, 558 38, 87, 182, 326, 507 38, 135, 231, 326, 375, 508 39, 136, 231, 376, 509 40, 87, 137, 183, 232, 278, 327, 376, 420, 472, 509 Lancashire, 40, 88, 183, 232, 278, 376, 420, 472, 510, London, Melrose, Newcastle, Infanticide, Prevalence of, 432 Inspiration, Natural Philosophy Class, The, OBITUARY.-Rev. Dr Archer, 44; Rev. Z. Baillie, 95 568 499 42, 88, 233, 327, 511 425 145 93 527 528 71 257, 287, 319 191 Theological Hall, Opening of the, 424; Modera- 528 160 1 Sleep of the Dead, The, Small Livings in the Scottish Church, Social Science Congress, Stowell, Death of Canon, Synod's General Fund, Synod, Proceedings of, 131 Testimonials, The Age of, 34, 132, 180, 225, 324, 419, 503 Printed by MURRAY and GIBB, North-East Thistle Street Lane, and Published by |