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. , Vou. VI. LECTURE ON EDUCATION,

BY Me. CEPHAS BARKER.

On Friday evening, the 20:h instant, Mr. Cephas Barker delivered his Lecture on Education, at the ‘Temperance Hall in this City. At7 o'clock, a crowd of persons, of both sexes, were at the door of the Hall waiting to be admitted, and when the door was opened a few minutes atter, the Hall was quiekly filed. The attendance was so numerous that many persons could not obtain seats ; and numbers, unable to gain admittance, were crowded on the ianding at the head of the staire. The audience was one of the most resvectable ever bronght together on any previoug occasion in the Hall. At helf-past seven, it was proposed by Mr. John Williams, that Silas Barnard, Esqr., take the Chair. Mr. Barker then opened the Meeting with prayer. After a few remarks from the Chairman, on the subject under consideration, the lecturer was introduced, and spoke in substance as follows :—

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Ladies and Gentleman—You wi! oblige me by refraining from any and every manifestation of approbation or disapproba- tion during the proceedings of this evening. I know that it ts usual, both at Liome and :n your Island, to pursue the opposite course; but | particularly wish you neither to laugh nor cry at any thing | may advance this evening. ‘The subject to which

J am to cal! vour attention ts one of great importance, and one |

at which, under the present ex: ited state of the public mind, it ia difficult to look with calmness. ft wil! be necessary—in fact, it 1 due to myself and you—thet | should stute ‘the cireum- stancea out of which this Meeting has grown. During the last month a Circular was circulated among the Protestant Mirffsters of this Island, inviting them to a Meeting to be held in

this City. | received a copy of that Circular several days after |

the time appointed for the said Meeting, at which tine f was in

the west part of your Island. A few weeks since, | returned jate ia the day from the other side of the ferry; and learning

that a Meetiwg was that evening to be held inthe Free Church, fattended. Weil, Sir, several persons called my name, (they }

fad no authority to do so, at least from me.) The Chairman |

took no netiee of their call, and t remar d silent. What followed? Why, Sir, my stlence was construc dintoan alliance with the Papacy, and | waa very soon classed with the order of Jesuits ; and these insinuations were indusirioustly circulated by certain Ciristian geatiemen of Uns City. Next in order

followed the Meeting held in this Roor on last Friday, to which Meeting | was invited; and also, as in the former former case, requested to bring 9a Inte ligent layman with me. | attended according to request. Al the preparatory Meeting hetd in the afternoow, it was my unhappiness to differ from many of the penile men then pres mt; and w hen I took the liberty of expres- sing my views, i) was distinctly laid down thit we were not there for discussion, but for determining on the reception of

certain resolutions to be laid before the ensuing Meeting, which |

resolutions were already prepared; but how, as a deliberative Meeting, we were to determine excem we simply ew

without discussion, | kaow not,

wrsed what some one of the Meetivg had

prepared. Such a course hardly compacted with my views as) eo Mnglishman. At the soni Meeting several strings of reso- | having to be away on duty until late in the afternoon, perhaps till the |

lutions were proposed, and received or rejected, without discus-

son. Among the rest, | ventured to propose a series of

resolutions, which | will presently read for your information.

Ait the close of the efternoon Meeting, | was asked to move a |

resolution. With some reluctance, | conseuted. The resolu- tion read a2 followes.-

Whereas the Elucation Act is about to expire this Session, and it |

is to be feared thet a system of Elueation may be adopt d injurious to the well-being of this econmunrity,—\t is resolved, that a petition, ex-

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pressive of the wishes of al! those whe d-sire the introduction of the |

Beriptures into the public schools, be prepared and laid before the Le gislature at its present Session.

{ need not say that the short speech I made on that occasion differed widely from those which preced: te pour orf on the troubled waters. How far | succeeded in doing so, | leave others to devermine. From that time, | have been one of the most popalar men in your City, if being calam wiated and vilified by Christian gentlemen may be considered as popularity. I am charged with being ta league with the Go

vernment. Well, Sir, supposing that to be true, is it to be!

impured to me as a crime? Am I to be defamed because of that? Wou'd it be more reputable to be in league with the Opposition? tor | presume there is an Opposition. I[n league with the Government! Now the fact is, | know but two mem- bers of the Governmen’: the tloa. the ‘Treasurer, from whom J received great courtesy and kiadness during a protracted and

stormy voyase from Liverooo! to this Island; and the Hon. the |

Attorney General, with whom LT have become acquainted, as the result of certain business affiirs respecting which | ave emsulted him professionally, And, really, if these two Hon. yentiemen are a fair specimen of the Government, I do not think it quite so bad a thing, as some Christian gentlemen insinuate, to have their acquaintance. Asto the Leader of the Govern. ment, if | were to meet him inthe street I shou!d not know him. But | happen to know two of i's members, therefore | am in jeague with it! So much for logical inferences! But certain Christian gentlemen say that | am a Jesuit, and in league with the Papists. I leave it to the numerous congregation who, Sabbath afier Sibbath, honour me with their coiwwpany, in the room below, to answer those ventiemen on that point. Then, Sir, by others of those Curistian genilemen, [ am thet ‘big Eng- Jishman, who allowed one of the finest opportunities of defending ihe Bible to slip.” Really [I did not, neither can | now, see shat the Bible was endangered. I°!! yield tono man in my love for the Bible, and am ready for its defence when necessary ; but | ask which Bible isitthatisendangered? The authorised Eaglish version? the Douay Bible? or a Bible peculiar to Charlottetown? for 1 presume you have such a Bible. One of the speskers at the Free Church Meeting said he had been thinking of a beautiful oak, and in order to the oak being pre- pared to resist the storms from every quarter, it must have roots on all sides, or in every direction. ‘* Sir,” said he, “the Bible is that ork, and the Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Wesleyans, and other Protestant sections of the Church, are its roots.”’ [ said to parties who mere sitting near me—*“ Wo be tothe Bible if that is true! Why, Sir, the authorised English version has it thus—** | am the vine, ye are the branches.”’ In the Char- Jottetown version | suppose it reads— I am the vine, (oak) ye are the roots.” If so, | refuse to defend it. Again, [ am said to be far gone in Universalism. Let those who listen to me every Sabbath day reply to that insinuation. But, by way of reaching a climax, some of those very Christian gentlemen have charged me with being a Chartist! A fiiend, in very oeseee mood, put the question a day or two ago—Are you a “naa or nea - connected with the Chartists at Home?

respe . 1 answered,no. Nor was I ever con- nected with any poli:cal association whatever in the mother country. Perhaps some of those Christian gentlemen would

dit. Really. it was time |

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notice was placed in the hands of the minister ; but, for reasons best known to myself, it was not published, Yesterday, a, meeting in accordance with previous arrangement was held in, the Infant Schoo! Room, for the purpose of giving effect to the resolutions passed in this Room, a week ago, the said meeting being a Committee of Ministers and Laymen, including my name among the rest. It is necessary for me to say that, in the hurried arrangements made in that corner, as the people were withdrawing from the public meeting, more than one hour was named for the meeting of the said Committee, and | did not particularly observe the hour decided on. But in the afternoon ; of yesterday, | sent a note to Mr. Fitzgerald, asking him to be | kind enough to inform me at what hour the meeting would take place. When the messenger returned he said that an answer would be sent when Mr. Fitzgerald returned from the Infant | ‘School. It at once occurred to me that the meeting might be ‘then in session; and as a friend of mine (Mr. Williams) was in his sleigh he said that he would call and see if it were so. | He was told (I believe at the door) that the Committee was re- constructed, and would you believe it, that Mr. Barker’s | name was omitted, and hisown also. He was allowed to enter, ‘and was then told that Mr Barker was not a settled Minister,

land that he (Mr. B.) did not prefix the term Rev. ta his) name. Consequently, | am excommunicated from the order of | the Clergy in your City! Now, it must be known to cer-| tain gentlemen on that Committee, that | have formed a Church | where you are supposed to have the concentrated wisdom of | in this City, and thatI am likely to remain bere. ’Tis true, [| Great Britain, and where there are men of tried piety ; but)

purpose returning to England, in June next, for the purpose of

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CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, MONDAY, MARCI 2, 1857.

number of children are sent to school in the streets ; and this is

true of a great number who bear the Christian name. Home is

not mode attractive, and the boys and girls naturally resort to

the streets. I need notsay what they there learn, Then there} is Religious Education! 1 hold that an Education in which the | tnoral and religious sentiments are not cultivated and developed, | is sadly defective, and, in my op'nion, ought not to be tolerated. | And | know not how such an Education can be secured apart | from the Bible. I now come to the question—Is it the duty of the State thus to Educate the children. The gentlemen who |

| spoke in this reomthis night week to a man, say yes. And | | here we join issue, for | say, “* No, sir, | contend that it 1s not jo y, » Sir, the duty of the State to teach Religion.’’ In all matters per- |

taining thereto, I say to the governing powers, “ Hands off.”

Now, sir, let us calmly look at this question. If it is the duty |

of the State to teach Religion to the youthful part of the popu- |

lation, the mature portion of which population hold all sirades | of religious opinions. She must first of all decide between | these parties, in fact she must set up a religious test—imust make her great image, and cause the people at the sound of the cor- | net, flute, sackbut, psaltery and all kinds of music, to fall down and worship, under certain pains and penalties ; or else she | must pay for the teaching of error as well as trath. But who | is to decide this point? Take the British House of Commons, |

| ‘there are also meu of proved wickedness, sceptics, anything-|

bringing to this Island the most valuable part of my property | acians and nothingarians, And this Is the Court to decide re

(my wife and children). However, here I am anchored, and it

know, you may heve to bury me here. This, 1 judge, is the chief part of my offending. Some remarks have been made, not of the most charitable kind, because [ failed to get Capt. Orlebar to preside on the occasion ; and the reason assigned far his refuse! has been very erroneously stated. I will let the Capt. speak for himself: — Cuanvotrerowy, P. E. Island, Feb. 16, 1857.

Dear Sin,--After some consideration, I feel obliged to decline the honor you have intended for me, of presiding at your lecture on Friday evening next. At the same time, you are right in supposing that my views of introduing the Bible into our mixed Common Schools, Central Academy and Normal School, would be like your own, anxiously guard- ing againet anything really offensive or prejudicial to the feelings of the Rowan Catholic portion of the community; and only claiming the in- troduction of the Bible, as a right for our own children, but not in any way forcing it upon others.

I remain, sir, yours faithfully,

| Mr. Barker, &c. Joun ORLEBAR.

| -(Sir, [to the Chairman] [ hope you wi!l not feel yourself slighted) But I afterwards applied to Mr. Duncan, of the Scotch Kirk, and he very kindly consented to preside. I sus. ‘pect, however, that he had the serew put on, for yesterday afternoon | received the following note :—

| Taunrspay, (19th February.) My Dear Sir,—I find it impossible to be in town to-morrow evening,

evening itself. Wishing you all success and strength, however, Believe me, yours sincerely,

Rev. Mr. Barker. T. Duncan.

| I'll not detain you longer on these matters. Educate! Educate! Edueate!—Sir, this is a kind of quack nostrum for fall the ills aefflcting care-worn, sin-stricken and debased ihumanity. to whatever form man’s moral depravity, mental vtmbecihity, or spiritual death developes itself, the only remedy is jcontaimed in one word, Rducate! And what do we mean by \ihis? Build schoolhouses, read the Bible, and pay school- masters? Sir, | presume this is all the majority mean when hey talk of Education. And certain etatist es are from time lo time produced to show that ignorance and crime go hand in hand. This is apart of the truth. But what say the news. papers and other public documents? Are there no criminals ‘among the ecueated portion of the community? Are all those _who figure in our police reports, who utter base coin, purloin their emvloyer’s goods, or who abscond after defrauding those who have trasted to their honesty fur thousands upoa thousands, uneducated? Are all those who profane the Sabbath, and ad- |vocate the opening of places of amusement on that day, un- | educated ? I trow not. Are all the adepts in crime from the /petiy theft to the plunging of the dagger into the side of the | victim, uneducated? Even the discoveries of Science itself, (hatled with so much delight by the Educationist, and even good jimen hail those discoveries,—such as the Locomotive, Steam Kngine, and the Electric Telegraph,—as so many auxiliaries | for the spread of truth and righteousness, forgetting that these

the midnight assassin and the messenger of mercy. What do [ deduce from this? Why, that Education, as commonly un- derstood, will not meet the case, What is Education properiv understood? | answer, a physical, intellectual and moral training. We are all accustomed to hear of a common Kdu- cation, such as may be obtained in our so-called National | Schools at home,—of a sound English Education, such as can be secured in our leading Academies and Seminaries—of a sound Classical Education, consisting of a very scanty knowledge of Latin and Greek, or, as in the majority of in- | Stances, having tne ability to read a sentence or two in those ‘languages, if even our hero should be incapable of conjugating the indicative mood of the verb “ to be,” in his own mother ‘tongue. Of course there are many exceptions to this, but | Speak of the majority. ‘hen we hear of a finished Education. |For which you must go to France, where young ladivs learn to dance ! Never mind if they are strangers to well nigh every domestic duly, and therefore ineapaciated for house-keeping, | 80 long as they can dance. And this is a finished Education! And, in accordance with certain remarks made in this room of ‘late, we may expect the Government will be called upon to vote money to teach the boys Mathematics, and the young ladies to dance. ’Tis true,as much was not said in detail, but a finished Education was called for. Sir, I ask what is really wanted in order to the permanent peace and prosperity of |the Colony? We want that our sons should be good citizens, sound scholare and pious men. We want that our daughters | should be good house-wives, and, in every respect, fit help- meets for intellectual and pious men. And how is this to be | secured ? By Education. Ist. A School Education where -Murray’s Grammar, Goldsmith’s Geography, the Rule of Three and such like things, shall be mastered; for, until recently, | comparatively speaking, children were not taught to think in our Academies, but simply to commit, certain things to memory. That day, however, if not past, is fast passing away, 2nd. Domestic Education, such as is to be secured ina well re- ,gulated family, such families, | admit, are too few and far | between. You know, sir, that in an old fashioned book we! | read that parents are io teach their children when they sit in|

are equally at the service of the swell-mobs. man and the peer, |

| specting religious truth! Surely this is an abomination in the |

must blow hard indeed if | drag my anchors. For aught I) land. But should a Government decide to pay all who will |

| have the meanness to receive it, you at once have a Government | }

(the patron of truth and error. And this is the fact with the |

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the Wesleyan Chapel (under my own signature), and which | too many pupils, in our Towns and Cities, at home, and if Lam the Book of Books ; 2nd, if they were all capable of doing se, ‘to judge from what [have already seen in your City, a large

you would require separate schools for nearly every denomina

tion on the Island ; or you would soon have more rancour than even now exists. Mr. Stow's system is, perhaps, the best extaut for a population where but one view of religious truth is held , but to a mixed population, such as your's, that system is not adapted, unless, indeed, you have separate apartments im your schoo!-houses for Bible exercises; and | ask this mtelligent audience if it be right to apply the revenue of the Colony to the teaching of religious creeds? We must have the Bible, and the Bible only, without note or comment. Now, Sir, after hearing the four resolutions to which you have just listened, | ask you if it be righteous on the part of those Christian gentle- men to charge me with being opposed to the Bible in our day schools, and to propagate, to my prejudice, that } had joined the Roman Catholics in opposition to the Bible. After this, will any one be silly enough to believe them? and it muet be remembered that the said resolutions were read twice during that afternoon meetmg. Sir, to exclude the Bible trom our schools per force of law would be a dire calamity ; but to force it upon all would be an act of injustice. 1 clam liberty for myself, and | accord liberty to others. | sometimes ask myself why is that man a Roman Catholic? and the answer is, he was cradled and brought up in the midst of Roman Catholic associ- ations and influences, and hence he is what he is per force of education. | ask again, why is such an one in communion with the Church of Englend ?) Why is such an one a Wesieyan Methodist? The answer is as before; and thes is true of the majority of relgionists. ‘Thousands are religious im their way, mechanically. What, then, is my duty towards those with whom I differ? The Roman Catholic thinks he ts right, and that I, as a Protestant, am wrong ; snd f believe thot lam right, and that the Roman Catholic 1s wrong ; and bere we join issue. Now, it will be my d ity to show him, by my actions,

| ome Government at the present time, They are paying for | that my creed is superior to lis. If | can secure his atleniion, }the teaching of Episcopalianisin, Presbyteranism, Roman Ca- | to use moral suasion, to induce him to abandon what I beheve

| am in favour of Maynooth, and that [ would not vote for the repeal of that Grant. ” Sir, thatis only part of the truth. What { said was this. that I wonld not vote for the repeal of the Maynooth Grant, unless | saw that the repeal of the Regiwm Donum, and a complete alteration in the ecclesiastical alfurs of Ireland would follow ; if such a prospect were before me, I would vote for the repeal of the Maynooth Grant to morrow, — not else ; aud I believe that the bulk of the Catholic population of freland, would concur in such a movement. Thus, sir, Lam opposed to all State aid for religious teaching. Leave truth uoshackled, and | have no fear as to the resuits. ‘Truth courts the light, and a fair field. But really, sir, truth is so disguised | by her friends that there is great danger of mistaking her for error itself; and if you wish to speak the trath on any given subject, you taust do it afier a preseribed form, or your utter- ‘ances will be perverted. You canst be very purticular in pro- iouncing the stibboleth of party, or excommunication awarts -you. Strip truth of all the trappings and finery with which the _schoolimnen have endeavoured to embellish her, and let her go | forth in her own simplicity and beauty, and even her enemies will admire atid love her. | would that we could tear off the false dress by which her beauty is concealed. Uowever, | | must be careful what | say abont the truth, as a Caristian | gentleman of your Coy has been pleased to say that he would / not call me a fier, vut that [told a ‘* Sig he’ | was, up to /the tinie of my leaving England, officially connected with an | edueational establishment inthe Iste of Wight, in which [ was ‘honovred with the support of the late aud present Karl of Yarborough. Conversing with the noble Earl on one eceasion, (when. in fact, we were in great difficulties (financially), his Lordship said—* Well, Mr. B- —-, why don’t you accent of Go- veroment aid. Your monster is upto the mark, and [an sure that the school is not to be surpassed in the Island.’ Vis really a pity that you should be in financial difficulties. [| willuse my influence with the Council in your behall.”” I stated my ob jectious honestly, Englishman-like, respectfuily declining his Lordship’s offer. Did he excommunicate me for the honest ex pression of opinion, as certain Christian gentlemen did yester- day? No, sir; but £10 sterling per year for the last 7 years | have been received froin his Lordship in behalf of the said school, | Bat as | understand it, there is something peculiar in your affairs. Well, Til take it asf find it. You have a School Act which will shortly expire, but of that | aim not now to speak Last Tuesday evening [ attended a lecture in this Hall. The worthy lecturer told us that he had paid considerable atten- tion to the said Act, and the only amendment be suggested was that the masters, at least some of them, should be competent to teach mathematics, and be paid accordingly. Now, Sir, if, after the trial this said Act has had. the only amendment required | is as just stated, I do think that the parties who originated it / have no neéed to be ashamed of their child. ‘The present agita-. thon is the natural result of the system itself; and the question now to be settled is not unattended with difficulty. And yet the question is a very narrow one. Assuming it to be a settled point that the Bible is to be used in the mixed schools, under what regulations is it to be used? ‘This ts the only question to decide ; but this question, simple in itself, has actually drified into a religious war, and we have come to contend as to the right or wrong of Roman Catholicism and Prot-s'anism. Now, | will venture to suggest that the Board of Education should require the master to attain a certain standard in secular knowledge, and give him a certificate, and pay him accordingly ; also, let the said | Board determine what books shal! be used in the schools, and their Inspector see that none others are used. ‘That every company of Trustees be for their own district a Theological Board, and decide for themselves as to the religious part of the Education their children shail receive. ‘This is, in effect, the practice now pursued ; and it will be found, upon inquiry, that there are schools in this [sland in which the number of Roman Catholic children ranges from three up to above twenty, where the authorised version of Holy Scripture is regularly read ; while there are schools in whieh the children are all Protestan's and the Scriptures are not read at all, And if the trustees do thus actually d cide this question, even though it may be by sufferance, letthem be empowered by Statute to do so in future ; or eise let some such plan as the one [ submitted to the meeting last Friday afternoon be adopted. I will now read you the resolutions | proposed at that meeting, and with which the Chairman expressed his hearty concurrence, saying they would | do exceedingly wel! for tha hall of legislation, and that he, should be pleased to have them before him when the subject was | under discussion. But they were of too practical a character for

tholicism and Wesleyan Methodism, It has been circulated that | to be wrong, and to embrace the truth as | hold 1; butam I

likely to win him from what I believe to be his errors, by using hard speeches and cvercive measures? He who makes the attempt, knows not what spirit he is of. 1 have just one word to say to the advocates of truth, the defenders of the Bible. Put forth your efforts in the spirit of the Bible. Do not give way to a boisterons advocacy of its claims, or you tar the cause you wish to serve. Avoid a vain boast of your great courage, for it sometimes happens that courage js most retiring wheu most needed. ‘T'ruth—in its defence be calm, dignified, Christ- lke. These are the tunes in which wuth and error contend for the mastery, and truth is mighty to prevail. J trust | have succeed d in clearing up all doubts certain gentlemen may have in regard to ny opinion on this subject, and if so, | am satisfied. In conclusion, | would exhort you all, whether Ro- nan Catholics or Protestants, to live in peace, good will, and brotherly love, and may your children grow up in the fear of the Lord.

Notwithstanding the request of the lecturer, it was diffien't to repress the laughter and plaudits frequently indulged m by the audience. ‘The doxology was sung—a collection taken, and the meeting separted at en early hour, with many ex- pressions of gratification, and, no doubt, a still higher esteem for Mr. Barker as a lecturer and & man,

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Literature.

(From Blackwood’s Magazine for December, 1856.) OUR INDIAN EMPIRE.

( Continued.)

Among those bill tribes of Orissa, we came in contact also with the practice of Female Infanticide,—another vicious peculiarity of Indian society which the British Government hag succeeded in suppressing. Female Infan- ticide is a practice not confined to India; it prevails to a very considerable extent amongst the dense population of China ; and in every country the geveral crime of infanti- cide exists as an occasional consequence of illicit love. But in China it is acknowledged to be a crime, and in other countries is punished as such ; whereas in India it is regard- ed as an allowable and even commendatile practice. Here again we find a striking anomaly in Hindoo character. The parental instinct is as strong iu the people of India as in any people in the world; and even where no parental tie exists, the tenderness with which strong bearded men devote themselves to the care of young children is as touching as it is remarkable. A childless woman, too, is a miserable woman, —a hissing and a reproach ; and she can only account for so great an affliction by fancying it sent upon her for some grievous sin committed in a pre-existent state. Nevertheless, in some parts of India female infanticide has fur generations been a custom! The fact is the more remarkable, inasmuch as the Hindoo character represents the emotional rather than the calculating utilitarian side of humanity; and yet, as by a fatality, we find both the emotional and the rationalistic principles producing in this ease a similar result. For, in truth, female infanticide 18 practised by two very different classes, and from two dissimilar sets of motives, in India. In China, in Kurope, and in certain parts of India, it is among the lowest classes that infanticide prevails, as a relief from future btrdeus lor which they deem themselves unequal. In Hindostan Proper, on the contrary, the practice is peculiar to the higher orders, and especially the Rajpoois. Among these, the circle within which marriages must be contracted is narrowed by the exclusiveness of caste, aud marriage itself is an expensive thing from the costly usages with which it is attended. Yet in India celibacy is disgraceful—an unmarried daughter is a reproach alike to her parents and to herself. Moreover, the Rajpoot assumes that unchastity is the necessary con- dition of unmarried life; and to preserve the purity of bis daughters and the honour of his houee, he “ cleared away”

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that meeting. They were as follows :—-

I. A sound, moral and religious Education of the young, being essential , to the future peace and presperity of the Colony; in the opinion of this Meeting, such an Education cannot be secured without the Bible.

II. In a mixed population, not only Roman Catholic and Protestant, but of all shades of religious opinion, the whole. however, (except the Roman Catholic) agreeing in this, viz; that the Bible is the only rule of |

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his female children a few hours after their birth, When a mnessenger from their zenana announced to him the birth of a daughter, the Rajpoot chief would coolly roll up betweeu his fingers a tiny opium ball, to be conveyed to the mother, who thereupon rubbed on her nipple the sleepy poison. and the babe drank in death with its mother’s milk. Ina coun ry

find it difficult to make a similar declaration. ‘There are several | their houses, and when they walk by the way, and when they ee people have used in refer- | lie down and rise up. And, rely be ibe it. the Almighty God eat Gass seeeniana ea to notice. I can but conclude | does not relieve parents of their responsibilities, simply because lettetedte od ealdianine eo a few lessons from the Char- | they send their children to school. In the Wesleyan Normal moran at ro : a eel sae of which I listened to in School, Westminster, young ladies are truined for school- spoken, say they, in deft . ied naan But f ought to have! mistresses. They (the young ladies) have to receive and give ontaedlill he mS rar er a 's and liberties! Such | lessons in every branch of household work, making bread, wash- ecclesiastical bondave ek oT be a people who glory in ing, cutting and fitting ; in faci, it is an admirable institution, to help them to pr eee - . oe tee want, | ain ready conducted on Mr. Stowe’s system, and [ should not have a word of these Qsizotic def a u ead . : erty for all, Some | to say against it, but for the fact that, thonsands of pounds gotten, if, indeed ih enders of the Bible appear to have for- have been paid them from the public Exchequer, not only for “ Be awit to hesnuel ae te i, that the Bible directs— their Normal Institutions, but also for their Common Schools, a —— uttereth all bie ai yates ta rvats my” fiat) in differest parts of the Nation. And still they open their till afteewards.’® mind at once,—a wise min keepeth it in| hands for all they can get, knowing, at the same time, that the

(tiges of the country are paid to a great extent by the hardy

Weill, sir, having been thus gross! lamni ise i |

° cca y calumniated and mis- sons of toil, The training received »y the fire-side has more to

te those Christian gentiemen, | thought it due to do with forming the Ginsenedt than ma is taughi at school, at

a ps Gast attempt to put myself right with the public,|Ieast under ordinary circumstances. ‘Then there is Street resolved upon this meeting, a nvtice of which | sent to' Education! The sireet ie a large school, attended, alas! by

; d ge Ide : ‘ L a ae ag scohec ied cometingmnatan meanness where polygamy 1s common and concubinage not dishonour-

IIL. We suggest the following plan:— ‘able, and where an uncounccied man is rarely to be found, a 1. Let the Bible reading, without note or comment, occupy the last widel y-diffused system of female infanticide would be an

half bour of the school exercises Pa enone : 2 .$ A . che | 2 ‘In all cases where the majority are Protestants, let the authorised impossibility. But te) the localities aud amongst the tribes version be read; and the Catholic children retire without prejudice, if | to which the practice was confined, the sacrifice of life was | they wish to do so, | terrible, and whole vil ages might be seen without a female

. Where the majorit Catholics, let thei ion be read; . oe “acti st di in the Protestant p ringed if per wiih aT nina child! To uproot this cruel pen — ane. eart Gitouls | 4, Where the numbers are nearly equal, let both versions be read, task ever undertaken by our Indian Government. The evil

the one in the morning, the other in the afternoon, ' existed alike in Central and Western India, among the high

| IV. Should the Roman Catholics refuse their children the privilege of ig F , | sending their own yersion of Holy Seripture, this Meeting cannot con- | caste Rajpoots, and amoug the savage Mairs and Khouds ‘sent that a similar restristion shall be imposed upon the Protestant | and Boads; and the undemoustrative nature of the crime,

| portion of ie population; furthermore, we do aviasoly o—— Pe we) as well as the inviolable privacy which sereens female lite in ! i ‘ epr . . . earthly consideration shall induce us to submit to any attemp prive | India, present 1 obstacles all but insuperable to its sappres-

us of our rights and privileges as subjects of the British Crowa. _ / ; | You see that { would have the Bible read without note or S!0%+ Moreover, as the practice was most prevalent in uative ‘comment, just bécause—Ist, | don’t believe that many of the | States, not subject to our rule, the greater part of the phi-

‘masters are able to explain or elucidate the sublime Wuths of lanthropic work of suppression had tu be acevrsplinhed by the

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