Report of the annual examinations of Mr Williams' Secular School : held at Edinburgh on the 29th and 30th July, and the 1st August 1851.
- Williams Secular School
- Date:
- 1851
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Credit: Report of the annual examinations of Mr Williams' Secular School : held at Edinburgh on the 29th and 30th July, and the 1st August 1851. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![/having' affixed tu it, in prominent array, the signu- I turns of “ Paul Cullen, Archbishop, &c., Primato of all Ireland ; of tlu> three ot her Homan Catholic archbishops, with the titles of the respective sees of Dublin, Cashel, and Timm ; and of I )is Cant- well, Hally, ami Forun, with the ecclesiastical titles of Meath, Kildare, and Waterford, severally attached to their names. The document is an “ Address of the Archbishops, Bishops, Clergy, and others, composing the committee appointed hv tin- Synod of 'Flumes for founding a Catholic Cnivoi-sity in Ireland to the Catholic clergy and laity of England.” [The document was issued, or at least dated, before the passing of the Act.] The opening of the Midland Great Wi (Uailway to Galway took place on Friday, ay attempt, at ostentations display or fesl In the last Dublin Gazelle is inserted ■rtain bequests which have been left three of the Irish Roman Catholic Hisho] lilies of whose sees are identical with tl [Protestant Church ; nmong them 'alien, U.C. Archbishop of Armagh, bites have signed the official document official Gazette of the Government wit' bidden titles. T1IE NEWSPAPER STAMP Q.UE TI1E PRESS ON THE COMM1’ REPORT. (From the GlusgoV) Citizen.) I Those patriots must be woefully in i rievanee who persist in denouncing tin paper stamp as a tax on knowledge. yi probably have something to say next Terence to the preposterous reconunendutii the recent Parliamentary committee ui object. In the meantime we are glud to o that the Scotsman and other leading joi come promptly forward in defence of t lent penny stump, whereby newspapers a 'milted, and again and again rotninsm' the Post-office, in the cheapest and best , and,indeed, at an annual i establishment of not less than •unnot for a moment lielicve that I clique who have been clamouring for tl of tic stamp have any real cha Nevertheless we hold* it to be journalists in all parts of the 1 1.1 ut alert, and to protuat, ju tl 'a y can command, against the jw aimed at the general newspi {From the Aberdeen Jit raid.) As we participate fully in the “ •more properly, reasonable“ii on attributed to Englishim iv ■ no objection to find om exempt list, we ought, pcrha[ a report just issued by a committee ' Commons, recommending the ■ew'.paper stamp. We must ‘mi. we never could look on ipost, in any way that has yel i a boon either to oursol Here is certainly nothing in tin s to lead us to alter our viewi •vidently very one-sided, and lev deserve the nutne. In' broad question is mix< •tf. details; and slight nnoi ill ito been put right withoi r ought forward as I . i .go, which may injure iv but cannot, by any possil ;ain I benefit to the publii V'. • have always inairitainei to do so still, that* by pi n emotion of newspapers thr ivinltli and length of the king! damp aids materially in bi rejudiees, and building up •cling. If every little Inirgh raw it hief supply of mental eii-. source within itself, it i i1 in confined notions and no ihe enlargement of thought 1 an intimate acquaintance '' and s iving in other parts of would he suddenly checked. •laying a postage, all this, of >o done to some purpose, but not so nrescnt; for not only would there icmptation to be content with the l hut the number of exchanges of ■apers between friends at a distance reatly reduced. To what an extent thi • ied on at present, may he gathered fr hat, in our own ease—and the Scotsman slut he same of himself and other coutempurai ii 't is difficult to procure a copy of the Herald Aberdeen after it is eight days old, notwithsL. ng the number issued. Tdircc-fourths at li d our circulation, uftor passing through sc muds, is despatched by the original gubuorib ust reader, either to a distant j)art of the countr »r to a friend abroad. It is no uncommon thi indeed, for a paper to he well thumbed I i f half-a-dozen of rendere in the town, . despatched to the country, uud finally new Mmie town in the south or place abroad.’ . But is not the penny stump an oppressive t We answer, No. It. is neither excessive amount, nor unjust in operation. It is onl' very moderate equivalent for work done, and anything like partiality in its exaction is so trilling and counterbalanced by so much good that it ought not, for a moment, to he thought of. A Harmless Toy.—The Duke of Bordeaux has received from Paris the present of a magni- ficent crimson velvet throne, sumptuously cmhroi- ll acred m gold and surmounted by the Crown of ■ France. Monument to Wohdsworth.—Shortly after the death of Wordsworth,a committee was formed among his friends and more immediate admirers tor the purpose of setting up a tublot to his memory in Grassmerc Church, where the poet lies buried. The work, the execution of which was intrusted to Mr Thomas Woolner, has now been completed. Surmounted by a hand of laureL leaves is the inscription, written by Profess(■ Koine ; under which the poet's head is sculpture in relief. The likeness to the man lias receive decisive praise from persons whoso verdict is final tlie intellectual likeness to the poet will ho moil F widely appreciated, mid recognised with nscordii uii admiration. The meditative lines of tho fncJ the thoughtful forehead and eye, the compressed sensitive mouth, are rendered with refined intelll gence. In two narrow spaces at each side of tld head, are introduced tho crocus and celaudim and the snowdrop and violet, treated with a rail union of natural beauty and sculpturesque methoj nnd subordination.—Spectator. Shauuiness in a Siikhii p.—Tho assizes at. Now] castle were opened last week by Mr Baron Plat! On this occasion, instead of the very hanclsoniJ equipage with which former High Sherifls of tliil county have usually escorted the Judges, a vei l plain if not shabby Clarence carriage, without uni ornament whatever, and having a nimble beliiniM m which were two footmen in plain liveries, was the only parade, if it can ho so culled, which wa] aaorded to the judges. Mr Baron Platt seems t] have felt this ils an indignity, for his Lordship, id Ins address to tho grand jury for tho county remarked, “ I ennnot leave you without expressind my great regret that in this great country, and id tins great county of Northumberland, the gentl'd ate so reduced as not to show the ordinary respect! anil loyalty to tho Crown. It is not merely as judges that wo come here. We are minister/] under the royal commission. 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