and School Establishment. 247 



Lord Sunderlin is a warm advocate for the 

 education of the subordinate classes : he has 

 built a neat school for the use of his tenantry, 

 which we found very well conducted. Over 

 the door is this inscription " Opened Decem- 

 ber, 1 807, for the cheap and easy instruction of 

 children of all religious denominations." One 

 hundred boys and eighty girls arc the present 

 complement under tuition. 



The Lancastrian plan was attempted, and 

 failed. The order and method introduced 

 among the children alarmed the parents : they 

 thought it partook of military discipline, and 

 was a scheme to entice or entrap them into the 

 army : they objected also to their children 

 being made monitors, erroneously conceiving 

 that their own time and learning were sacri- 

 ficed to the teaching of others. Preposterous 

 as such notions may appear to the casual and 

 better informed observer, the feelings of the 

 parties should first be entertained before a fair 

 judgment can be formed of their objection : 

 this would only lead to a review of the calami- 

 ties of the past, and be unavailing : let us hope 

 a happier period may soon arrive, when the 

 present sorrows and resentments shall be 

 forgotten. Catholic parents ought to have 

 every assurance that no interference will be 



