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of God, cobsccrated by authority, and invested with power in thi.H nation to declare the whole counsel of God, for the instruction of all ranks and offici.-£ uf men >withiatlit3i realm ; and being now called, in the providence of God, to make known unto this people the ills of Ireland* 1 do certainly declare, that the greatest, sorest, and most hopeless of her evils, is the remedy which by all means tbcy arc endeavouring to force upon her in everyway; namely, the lu&king no difference tietween the sen- sual idolatry of the Papacy and the spiritual worship of the living and true God : for not only was this the spirit of the debates which were hotden there- upon, and the issue of the measure wh-ch was then contemplated, but it is the spirit of all who take to themselveH the name of liberal, and has be«n embodied with f^reat dexterity in a scheme of parochial education, which, being drawn up by a royal commission, now Iie« before Uie members of our Parliament, and through them has come ioto general circulation; whereof the motto is this : IloUl the scalt-s evL-u bctwi<«ii the Catholic and the Protestant. Be at pains that the Ca- tholic child imbibes not Protestant opinions, and that tbc Protestant child imbibes not Catholic opinions ; it is not fair that advantage should be 1232 ]Ri:LA!tfD*l XVIL CONDJTIOK, [DU- given to either p^y ; that j^, the que&tioD H made one oT party, not of principle, as if thcie were no principle involved in the matter, and all our fathers founded, the 5tatc aud church, were woni*ODt parclinieut. Indiffereace it is, ibequli tes^enee of just and impnrtial ittdifTcrcnce to all that is at iesue bi^tweeo the Protectant and Ibe Catholic. The plan i.^ in every punsh to set ap a school, and hare alt the children taitghi letters and learning together in one place; and for that purpose to have twu teachers upon an equal loot- ing in those parishes where Protestant and Catbo- lies are about equal; aiMl where the disparity ir great, to have a Cathohc or Protestant teacher; with an usher of the other denominatioit, accord- ing to the prepondemnce of uither party. That there should be a book of extracts from the Scrip- tures read in the school, consisting of such parts as Cslholic and Protestant could agree upon; but no comment or enforcement of the teacher or usher p(.'rmitled thereon, at whoac hand no in- slructiou in nrligicn is to btr permitted at all, but the use of the school is to be ]efi to the Catholic priest to teach the Catholic doctrinee to the children two afternoons in the week, and th