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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2685, 25 September 1871, Page 2

Princess Theatre. The Colored Opera Troupe, rc-organised, will give an entertainment this evening at the Princess Theatre. In addition to the usual bill of fare, we are promised the opera of “ Norma,” travestie. The success hitherto attending the performances will no doubt be continued on this occasion. Accident at Port Chalmers. —A stevedore, named George Cribb, whilst attending the hatch of the ship Shun Lee, unfortunately fell down the hold this forenoon, cutting his face severely. He was attended by'Dr Urquhart, who dressed his wounds, and he was conveyed by steamer to Dunedin, to be placed in the Hospital, at noon to-day. The Tichborne Case.— The Greymouth Evening Star of the 7th instant says that they have heard it stated that the evidence of Mr Charles Broad, at present Warden at Charleston, is likely to be taken and to be of material bcnetit to the great Tichborne case of which so much has been heard during the past month, it will bo remembered that the claimant in the case gave testimony that he had been tossed about in an open boa t for four days and was then rescued by a ship going to.Melbourne. r lhe claimant could not remember the name of the ship or the Captain which rescued him, and his oiv n statement remains neither confirmed nor denied. Mr Broad, who was Emigration Officer at Melbourne at the time spoken of, is said to have some remembrance I of such a circumstance, and at present search is being made in the Custom-house and Emigration Office at Melbourne, with the view of tracing an entry of the occurrence which is believed to have been made at the time, some twenty years back. Bishop Moran on Politics and Education, —Bishop Moran, who returned from Wellington by the Claud Hamilton yesterdaymorning, lectured or preached to a numerous congregation last evening. The salient features of his discourse may be divided into two parts —his justification of his action in the Caversham election, and the result of his journey to Wellington in opposition to the establishment of secular education. Having demonstrated his right to freedom of action and opinion in all matters concerning politics —which, as they impinge on all matters of morality and religion, cannet be divorced therefrom—he narrated the course he had taken in supporting Mr M'Glashau. M hile in Wellington, the addresses from the several candidates were scut to him. Without knowing one candidate from another, bo considered the member returned the most suitable to represent the interests of truth, and consequently telegraphed such that was his opinion. Making enquiries from the leaders of political opinion in Wellington, he heard from most sources that his opinion was correct, ami wired that the candidate he had first recommended should be supported strongly. And though he had been maligned for such a course of action, he had yet to learn that any other course he could have adopted would have been consonant with his duties and the trust reposed in him. He claimed, dispite calumny, misrepresentation, and abuse, his right to exercise his duties as a citizen, wherever lie might be located. Heferring to the matter of education, he informed his hearers that he considered justice would be done to the Catholic inhabitants of the Colony, ■ Secular education he found would be only advocated by partisans of limited intelligence, or those who from the prejudices resulting from their proclivities were incapable of giving an unbiassed opinion. With the exception of some small Swiss Cantons, two German principalities. Massachusetts, and Connecticut, the world and high civilisation had pronounced in favor of denominational education. Even Turkey in Europe—a Mahometan community—had endorsed this fact. It had been stated that the Catholics in Auckland had fallen out with their priesthood qu this question, hut from enquiries he had found such a statement to be utterly devoid of truth. In conclusion, he stated that a corapul. sory clause enforcing attendance at schools where secular education was taught was one of the vilest tyrannies ever perpetrated on earth. Noticing the consecration of the altar on Sunday week, the hearers dispersed, having listened to a discourse on politics and religion combined, with much interest and attention. His Lordship was particularly severe ou the

result of education in the United States. Nothing but the constant stream of immigration induced its prosperity and its character as an asylum for the destitute. Were this tide of living power to cease pouring its wealth into the States, decadence would be the inevitable result, and fifty years would probably witness the collapse of this vast republic, larger than any in ancient or modern times. Some of the American women had declared tiicir unwillingness to be the mothers of the future generation, and scrupled not to assert that they knew a thing or two of which Mother Eve never dreamed. He would have to lecture again and again on education to cause his people to fully understand the question in all its details. The fourth competition for the No. 1 Company’s Challenge Belt, will take place at the Anderson’s Bay Range on Saturday, Sept. 30, at 5.30 a.m. and 3 p.m. A tea meeting in connection with the introduction of the Rev. Mr Roseby to the Congregational Church, Moray I’lace, will be held to-morrow evening at half-past six o’clock. A meeting of the Golf Club will take place at Wain’s Hotel on Wednesday evening next at 8 o’clock, for the purpose of electing members, &c.