Threat to the Public-School System
The danger that our public-school system may be overthrown by the Roman Catholic priesthood is greater than most of our readers are probably aware of. The majority of the New-York State Senate in Albany has been prevailed upon to consider favorably a bill which will provide for the support, by the State, of any school in which no less than two hundred children are educated gratuitously. This is, of course, paramount to a division of the school fund among sectarian schools, and will tear up by the roots our excellent common-school system, which has not only worked so well in our own country, but which, through the efforts of the European Liberals, is gradually finding its way into the legislation of most European States.—Methodist.