GINX’S BABY ONCE MORE.

Evening Star, Issue 2918, 26 June 1872, Page 2

GINX’S BABY ONCE MORE.

Were we to find fault with the grammatical construction of the Rev. W. Coleman’s letter published in our last night’s issue, we might be thought captious if not heretical. We shall not, therefore, pretend to fathom the various “thats” and "yets.” It may be that clergymen who take a great interest in the up-bringing of children get so engrossed in the future welfare of the babies professing their religion—or registered as professing it—that the usual rules of English composition are ignored. In reply to Mr Coleman’s letter, we eah only say that we are not conscious of having suppressed any fact whatever, concerning the child Holt.’ It doss not appear from the correspondence we quoted whether the elder Holt is or is not a Catholic, and as to the conversations with his Honor the Superintendent, these do not appear, except by reference in Mr Coleman’s letter. We have placed all the facts in the correspondence before the public, and we do not see that even Mr Coleman’s letter gives any additional facts, except two, viz, that Mr M'Morrau is a Presbyterian, and the elder Holt a Protestant. In no part of the correspondence, do these two statements app(*tr. As to the “justice ”of the case wp have no doubt that the public will, independent of Father Coleman’s letter or our remarks, form their opinions on the subject. They may also, by a careful perusal of the correspondence, get an additional synonym for the word “justice”—at all events, as used by some clergymen. We sincerely hope that young Holt will be spared to grow up a tine Catholic, and will yet thank his clergymen for their efforts to save him from the contagious influence of his Protestant brother.