LANCASHIRE RELIEF FUND.
To tb» Editor of tha Daily Southmut Ciou. S»,— Your correspondent "Justice" excited our surprise by stating that the portion of this fund allotted to the Eoman Catholic body had been misappropriated. "A Catholic" this morn ing confirms the statement ; but neither party tells us to what purposes the money was devoted, and by whom. Might we beg a little light from you upon what these writers so myste riously hint at P The Eoman Catholic poor are, , I believe, peculiarly in need, and, if the money Jiai not found its way to that object, the sub scribers to that fund, as well as the committee, cannot but feel that * wrong has been done.
"A Catholio" says, " When publio money is dirided, I think no favouritism or partiality should be shown to one religious denomination or the schools in connection therewith." Cer tainly. And I have always felt that the exempt ing the schools of one body from inspection, while all others were subject to it, was an act of gross partiality, and an act of injustice to otnerbodies. For that reaßon, I— though approv ing otherwise of the "Aid"— cannot but feel pleased that the whole thing has now collapsed. You, I dare say, sir, have heard the whispers that have been circulated in consequence of this unjust truckling on the part of our legislators, lhose excepted schools were said to be the worst' Conducted of all— that their returns were not correct— that the money they received was appropriated, not to the schools, but to Other objects. In the present case, the committee cannot evade the responsibility of inquiring into the expenditure of the money allotted to the Eoman Oatholio body.— Yours, <feo,, Justice No. 2.
