The New Zealand Tablet. Fiat Justitia. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1882. THE ARGUMENTS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume X, Issue 496, 13 October 1882, Page 15

The New Zealand Tablet. Fiat Justitia. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1882. THE ARGUMENTS.

» HE Daily Times is logical ; and here is a specimen. Bishop Moran, immediately after his return from Europe, spoke in strong terms of denunciation of the conduct of a few men calling themselves Catholics who patronised godless schools ; therefore, according to the Times, all Catholics as a body would send their children to these schools were it not for the tyranny exercised over them by their priests. This is beautiful, clever, and in accordance is it not with the logical axiom that it is lawful to argue from a general to a particular, but not vice versa ! As we are in the mood to illustrate our contemporary's original mode of argumentation, we shall cap his reasoning, from the Bishop's discourse with a species of argumentation similar to it and equally conclusive. The Bishop often denounces theft, therefore our contemporary would argue — that is, if he were consistent, all the members of the Bishop's church are thieves, and would commit theft only he coerces them not to do so under pains and penalties of all sorts ! Bravo Daily Times,

your conductors ought to publish a new Treatise on Dia. lectics ! Commenting on an article in the Daily Times, the Christian Record of last Friday says : " The advocates of the Catholic cause assert, that one-seventh of the population of this colony belongs to the Church of Rome, and they argue that one-seventh of the amount devoted by the State to education should be handed over to the Catholics as their fair share. This position the Daily Times controverts and essays to show that they have no right to special State support. In the conclusion arrived at by our contemporary we quite agree ; but his reasons are so bad that we shou'd suspect the article to have been written by a Jesuit were we J not fully assured of our contemporary's staunch Protestantism." This is hard on the Times. Why, we who do not at all pretend to be either the friend or admirer of our contem- j porary, could say nothing less . complimentary. Bnt the j Times can have its revenge if so disposed. 3 he argument ! of the Christian Record is as open to ridicule as is that of the Times itself. The editor of the Christian Record speaks of the unfairness, expensiveness, and tyranny of the I denominational system, and of the efficiency, fairness, I and necessity of the present system, as justifying the policy ! which rejects Catholic claims, and maintains godless schools, I and this he does in the teeth of notorious facts to the con- j trary, and of the reports of the School Inspectors showing | their inefficiency, even in reading, writing, and arithmetic. The Christian Record also indulges in the following highfalutin sentences : " The welding together of colonists, and ' not their formation into cliques and factions, is the policy ! that will make New Zealand prosperous. They are traitors j to the colony, and enemies to human progress, who strive to \ perpetuate religious and political hatreds in this new land." ' It is not easy to attach any definite meaning to these words, j But if they mean any thing in particular, it is that there should be either no religion or only one, and that Protestantism of some kind or other, in New Zealand ; and that ! Catholics are traitors, because they insist on rearing their children Catholics. We don't think the Daily Times is so great a bigot as to accept this as a valid reason why justice < should be denied to Catholics. Then, again, what is the meaning of saying that the present godless system of education should be maintained at all hazards for the purpose of making all children associate in public schools, since it is notorious Catholics will not send | their children to these schools, and equally notorious that large ! numbers belonging to other denominations refuse to allow their children to associate in schools with the children of the majority ? Is not the maintenance of high schools as calculated to keep children separate as the existence of private or denominational schools. The men, therefore, who maintain high schools, and i thus separate the children of rich people from those who are poorer, are just as much traitors to the colony, and enemies to human progress as those who insist on denominational schools. But we will go further and maintain that they are more so. This argument must be given up, and the Times, should it deem it worth its while to do so, will have no difficulty in retorting on the Christian Record, and giving it a Roland for its Oliver.

The Synod of the Diocese was opened at St. Joseph's Church, Duaedin, oa Wednesday at 7 a.m., by the celebration of Pontifical High Mass. The Bishop pontificated, with the Rev. Fathers O'Leary and McGrath as deacon and subdeacon respectively. The Key. Father Burke acted as master of ceremonies, and the Venerable Archdeacon Coleman as priest assistant. The cantors were, the Rev. Fathers Fitzgerald, McEnroe, S.J., O'Neill, Mackay, Purton, 0.5.8., Newport, and the Rev. Mr. Lynch. The Rev. Father Sheehan was ostiarius. The order of the sitting was as follows : — A private congregation at 11 a.m. ; at 2 p.m. a public congregation ; a private congregation at 5 p.m., and a public one, after the Rosary, at 7.30 p.m. The Synod terminated on Thursday with the celebration of Mass at 7 a.m. On Sunday next, duiing the 11 a.m. Mass at St. Joseph's Church, Dunedin, the Rev. P. Lynch will be ordained a priest. The meeting of ladies held at the Dominican Convent, Dunedin, in connection with the approaching bazaar in aid of the cathedral building fund pas3ed off most successfully, and resulted in the transaction of important business. The ladies have appointed to meet again, at the same time and place, on Tuesday. November 7th. We are requested on the part of the Dominican nuns to acknowledge the receipt of blocks and money in connection with their Oamaru art-union as follows : — Mrs. Dodge, 2 blocks; Mrs. Casey, 1 block.

| A considerable degree of consternation has been caused among residents in the higher parts of Dunedin by the announcement that the water is to be shut off from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. daily. It is justly felt that this will entail much inconvenience and even suffering upon a large class of people. It will interfere seriously with a number of small proprietors who can ill afford to find their houses left empty of tenants or to lower their rents— and still worse, many poor women in the neighbourhoods affected, who support their families by washing, will find their labour heavily increased even if they be fortunate enough to succeed in making arrangements by which they can store the supply of water necessary for them. People reasonably complain that, while their water-rates still continue, they are informed that they had better be at the expense of providing themselves with tanks and be at the trouble of filling them, or look out for the rain as if there had never been any water laid on, or they were not obliged to pay for it. : We have received from Mr. Macedo Princes street south, j Duaedin, a copy of John Mitchell's " History of Ireland," from the siege of Limerick, up to the year 1851. Thiajhistory is very exact and contains the fullest details concerning all the events of | interest that took place during the period in question— a period of j intense interest to every student of history, and more particularly to [ every Irishman of intelligence. The style in which it is written too is full of spirit, and characteristic of the patriot who was the author of the book. The volume in question is nicely issued and the price ; placed upon it is moderate in the extreme. I Five hundred and sixty pounds have been subscribed at Welling. I ton in aid of the Russian Jews. The concert given at South Dunedin on Thursday, sth inst. in aid of the St. Patrick's Church organ fund came off very credit- ; ably. The musicians gained the warm applause of the audience i which was full. All those who were engaged in the undertaking are to be congratulated on the successful result of their exertions. We have received from Mr. Hannah a very neat map of the i North East Valley, Dunedin, containing all the various townships in 1 their most minute particulars. The map is very convenient, and furnishes information that is frequently required. I The " Victorian Press Manual " gives information as to all the j newspapers published in the colonies, and contains a map showing I the position of the various places at which they are issued. Newspaper men and advertisers will find it of use to them. Mr. John Dillon has renounced his intention of resigning his I seat in Parliament, and means to persevere to the utmost in the , service of his country. Was it also charac' eristic of the relation to Israel of the AngloI Saxons that the British troops ia Egypt were turned out to salute the I Holy Carpet on its way to Mecca,— or, otherwise, to take part in a | Mahommedan ceremony ? It was certainly not characteristic of a relationship of Anglo-Saxons to Christianity to find them doing so. But conquering Rome also of old adopted the gods of the countries subdued by her, and the conduct of England is therefore not wholly without a great precedent. England, moreover, boasts that she is now j the greatest Mohammedan power in the world, and it is but consistent that she should do obeisance to the Prophet. Mr. E. T. Connolly, the member for Picton, has been appointed Minister of Justice. There has been a row in another Government school — namely, the main public school at Timaru ; and in consequence the head master, head mistress, and two pupil teachers have received notice to | quit. Since the scholastic career has now been proved beyond doubt to develope a warlike disposition, would it not be as well for the committees to provide their teachers with gloves, as the regular thing , and that they might take it out of one another in a legitimate sort of a way at the first spur of pugnacity. It would not have half so bad an effect upon the children ps the system of desultory skirmishing that at present seems to prevail. At Auckland, meantime, delicacy of constitution appears to be more in vogue among the teachers than irascibility. — It will be interesting to see whether the sickly teachers will turn out better scholars than the peppery ones — but the trial ia apparently between them. Railway extension, according to the Wanganni Herald, bids fair to go ahead, in the Noith Island especially, Mr. Browne, C.E., of Wellington, our contemporary says, is on the point of starting to prosecute the survey of the Thames Valley line, in connection with a syndicate formed at Home, and owning a capital of £5,000,000. The question of the erection of a fever hospital in Dunedin has been a good deal under discussion for the last week or two, and it is announced that the City Council recommend the building in question to be placed upon the grounds of the present hospital. This is a decision, however, which it is to be hoped may be reconsidered, for that the step recommended by it would be a most unwise one there can hardly be any room to doubt. The site of tbe present hospital, in shoit, is one of the most entirely objectionable places in or around the whole ciiy where such an institution could be established — a flat, damp, low situation, defective in drainage, and surrounded by

crowded streets and buildings. The true question iB whether it is not time to think of removing the general hospital to some other and more wholesome locality, rather than whether it is advisable to place beside it a building for the patients suffering from a highly infections disease — and which disease in such a position no precautions taken could prevent from spreading more or less in the neighbourhood. Land, indeed, need be dear in the suburbs of Dunedin, and the inhabitants of the town niggardly beyond imagination, if some position for the building in question may not be obtained where the patients will have all the advantages that the fresh air of the hills can give, be out of the reach of the effluvia of the low grounds, and in their convalescent stage have the benefit of a cheerful and wholesome ground for exercise. If, moreover, it were only that visitors to the hospital, and some there undoubtedly must be, may not be turned out directly into the aowded streets, but have time to get wholly rid of the infecting atq^sphere in which they have been before they come into close contact with the passers-by, it will be right to find some isolated place outside the town for this hospital. It is to be hoped then, that it is not yet too late to have the matter decided otherwise, and that no selfish influences of wealthy men, or any other improper influences, or unwise considerations, will prevent the right steps from being taken — the interests of the population generally considered — full provision made for the sick, and the hospital built anywhere rather than in the heart of the city. A most pitiful accident occurred on the tram way, in King street Dunedin, last Sunday, by which a little boy of seven named Alder, grove Feathers lost his life. The little fellow left home, it appears, to go to the North Dunedin church, and in attempting to leave the car while it was in motion, fell under the wheels and bad his head almost completely cut off. The coroner's jury returned a verdict of ' accidental death," with the recommendation that when there was more than one car to the tram — as was the case on the occasion alluded to— a conductor should be placed in charge of each. There can be no doubt in the world now but that the AngloSaxons are really and truly the lost ten tribes. " iEgles," in the Australasian gives scripture for it— chapter and verse. "It is singular," says he, " that on the Sunday after the receipt of the news of the destruction of Arabi's army the following occurred in the ordinary Church of England service for the day :—: — ' Thou hast subdued Egypt, and destroyed it ; Thou hast scattered their enemies abroad with Thy mighty arm.' — Psalm lxxxix., v. 11." Here it is as clear as daylight — and what is more, we find in it a proof positive that the Church of England is the one legitimate Church of Anglo-Israel.— All the dissenters who recognise Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob for their fathers had better at once quit their tabernacles and bethels and come within the aisles thus evidently approved of Heaven. Bishop Nevill, by the way, may find this discovery made by " .Egles " of use in bringing about the reunion of the churches he so much yearns after, and over which himself and "'Bishop" Reinkens, par nobile fratrum, seem to have had such a sympathetic palaver together. He will find it of quite as much use in moving the Methodists as his appeal to the example of the Donatists.— But if the Wesleyans at any time follow the example of the Donatists it will hardly be to the Church of England they will return, and we really tar Dr. Nevill will hardly prove a second St. Augustine, even perhaps within the Anglican limits.—Nevertheless, if ever there was a chance of gaining back the dissenters to Anglicanism, it is to be found now while a plain declaration of Scripture as we see has been supernaturally made in that Chuich as to the identification of the nation among whom it is established with the lost ten tribes. Why, it is as certain as ever it can be that there is no stronger proof on earth than this that the Church in question possesses the true Apostolic succession and all the marks of the Catholic Church. The dissenter who cannot this see must be blind indeed. Let Dr. Nevill strike while the iron is hot. He may rejoice the Apostolic heart of Reinkens yet and revel with him in re-union. A Telegram stating that the Irish World has announced the disruption of the Irish National Land League has placed our contemporary the Otago Daily Times very appropriately in a fool's paradise, and afforded him an opportunity to fa,vour his readers with a little twaddle concerning the mental pabulum he took in while his baby lips were engaged upon their necessary bottle. Our conternporarvgipwever, rejo'ces somewhat prematurely for, as in the case of the LaX, ; Land League, a notice of whose dissolution will be found in another place, the Association in question is only broken up that another, and probably a more powerful, organisation may be formed. Nor has the step been taken in consequence of differences among the members of the League, for such differences have by no means occurred. Our contemporary again returns to that proverbial philosophy of his, which he discusses on every possible occasion, respecting the necessity that Irishmen feel for a continual grievance, and the effect it produces. But we already know that whatever is in the blood must have an outward manifestation, and we see a striking example of this in the columns of our contemporary himself —the egregious folly that is in the blood of the editor is incessantly breaking out there.

Meantime, it is hardly opportune to talk of societies in Ireland displaying their grievances "by deeds of murder and violence," when we have just received intelligence that bands of manufacturing hands in England have been found prepared f jr an onslaught with explosive bombs, and the enormities of trades-unionism are thus vividly called to mind. — Whenever there has been a grievance among the English masses, it has been still more horribly manifested than any oue of the many heavy ones that have been so long the order of the day in Ireland. We are not done with the comet yet, it seems, and another pundit now, we learn, has received in his nightcap, owing to his contemplation of it, whatever may be the equivalent of a bee in the bonnet. The Rev. Dr. Roseby, however, to whom we refer, has been mixing up the dog-star in his contemplation, and it need not surprise us if the influence of the luminary in question has produced its timehonoured results. But from whatever starting point in the heavens, or beyond them, this comet has come within our gaze, the anti- Popish inspirations that have sprung from it into the brains of our wiseacres are truly marvellous. — Why, by the way, have they left ont Galileo this time when so fine an opportunity presented itself to them of picturing him as he appeared, deprived by the Inquisition of his sight, yet scaring through his telescope and reading among the stars whole chapters of evangelical theology 1 L- 1 us beg of them, or some one of them — as well Dr. Roseby as another, — not to let the comet leave our skies without favouring us with a word or two on this subject ; — we feel in a manner somewhat bare without its mention, if not as theogh deprived of our natural food. Meantime, why the learned doctor should rush from the skies into the company of the Italian brigands would be wholly mysterious to us were it not that we see him come fresh from the contemplation of the dog-star — for as to that Lord-knows-what, the comet, we desire to be charitable in our thoughts towards it : and it has need of our charity if we are to judge of its rature by the effect it seems to have helped to produce among our learned men. But here is the lesson the Rev Dr. Roseby has picked up between the comet and the dog-star, as reported by our contemporary the Dunedin Evening Star — " Religious fanaticism has always made much of the principle of terror. But this shuddering dread of God, as if he were man's foe instead of man's father, had in it no truly religious element at all. They would find it nowhere stronger than in the mind of the Italian brigand, who wears a picture of the Virgin on his naked brea?t, and yet was ready, without a moment's hesitation, to take the life of any unsubmissive wayfarer who fell into his handt." See, now, what a man the doctor is— embracing all things in the sweep of his understanding, and acquainted no less familiarly with the breast of the Italian brigand than with the comet's tail ; though perhaps not quite so familiarly as with the influences of Sirius. But does the doctor allude to any particular brigand of bis acquaintance, or to brigands in general, and how does he know that brigands in general wear a picture of the Virgin on their naked breasts ? We fancy brigands in general think little more highly of the Blessed Virgin than does the Rev. Dr Roseby himself, — and that is to accuse them of a good deal. Italian brigands deny the Biessed Virgin, and outrage every tradition connected with her. Does not Dr. Roseby do something very much of the same kind? But will Dr. Roseby — who had all wit and wisdom at his fingers ends, before ever the comet combined with the dog star appeared to affect the contents of his night-cap, — explain to us how it happens that confidence ia God s»ems in some instances to rival the " shuddering dread " of Him, and which he illustrates by the sketch of some Italian brigand of his acquaintance. There for example was Guiteau the other day who went to the scaffold singing a hymn, and all through his imprisonment behaved most piously — and yet was as hardened a murderer to the very end as ever died without a sign of repentance. — There was Baptist minister Kalloch also who stepped out of his pulpit to shoot the San Francisco editor who had attacked his father, and several of her godly men there have been of late, by whose deeds Dr. Roseby may illustrate for us what it is that the Evangelical confidence in God is capable of accompanying. — But the influence of the dog-star is in the ascendant with the Rev. Doctor, or he would never rush from the skies among the Italian brigands to point out the supposed consistency of the Catholic religion with crime, while among the very ministers and pietists of his own sects the most striking, certain, and undeniable, instances of Evangelicalism combined with murder, are flaring before all our eyes. Among the accidents of the week have been the following :— A lad named Lawrence Williamson, injured by catching hold of a saw at Messrs. Guthrie and Larnach's wood factory, Dunedin ; a man named Robert Adcock at Dunedin, whose leg was broken by his gettiag in the way of a cart while he was unloading meat for Mr. A. Dornwell ; a man named F. W. Botting killed by a fall of earth at Livingstone ; a fireman named Rose hurt, at Christchurcb, by a fall from a ladder of a fire-engine with which he was practising ; a little boy named Rudder drowned in creek ; a little girl named Cicely Mullins drowned in a well at Addington ; a boy of 5, named Bowie, who died at Invercargill Hospital in consequence of frightful injuries received on the railway at Gore. The upshot, so far, of the great conquest in Egypt is that England is sounding the Powers as to what they will allow her to make of the famous victory, and her, sometime, creature the Bultan has given her three clear months to withdraw her troops. We conclude bis Majesty hopes he will find some one to help him at the end of that period, if his order in not complied with. Matters, however, do not as yet look quite as settled as, in our extreme jubilation, we bid at first imagined.