A . W eekly Newspaper an d R ev iew,

DOM VOBIS GRATÜLAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS ÜT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT1S.

F rom th e B r ie r o j H i s H o l in e s s P i u s I X . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, iS?

V o l . 87. No. 2919.

L ondon, A pril 18, 1896.

P r ic e sd . b y P o s t

(R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a l P o st O f f i c e a s a N ew s pa p e r

•Ch ronicle o f t h e W e e k ! Page

Imperial Parliament: The Post Office Vote— Lascar Labour— The Irish Land Bill— The Provisions o f the Bill— Railways and Irish Members—The Votes of Directors — Boards of Guardians in Ireland — The National Drink Bill— Leo X I I I . Upon Arbitration—Who is to Pay the Piper ?—The Convocation of York — Missionaries in Turkey—A Fortune Made Out of Air— Unoccupied Land in Essex — The Matabele Rising—Duelling in Germany— Mr. Nacnamaraand •the Teachers’ Conference— The Budget ..................................... 597 L e a d e r s :

T h e Manitoba S c h o o ls B i l l

Abandoned . . . . •• 601 About the Bill ......................... 602 j The Monastic L i f e .........................602

CONTENTS.

The Perils o f Local Control

Education . . N o t e s ........................................ The Catholic Truth Society R e v iew s :

Page

. 604 . 605 . 606

Popular County Histories Anna Kingsford “ The Month ” Monte Carlo Stories A Darn on a Blue Stocking Books of the Week.. The Late Archbishop Kenrick Father Maximilian von Klinkow ström, S.J. . . ~ C orrespondence :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

. 608 . 609 . 6 ic . 6 u . 611 . 611

611 . . 611

spondent) . . . . ». M 613 News from Ireland . . _ — 614 News From France . . . . 616 L e t t e r s to t h e E d it or :

The Hymn “ Christo Crucifixo"

and Father Southwell . . . . 617 Anglican Orders . . . . . . 617

L e t t e r s to t h e E d it o r (Con­

Page tinued) : Immuring of Nuns § . . . . 617 Barlow’s “ Burial o f the Mas.s” 617 The Rev. Geoige Angus, Lord

Halifax, and Mr. A. Birrell . . 617 For the Armenian Catholics . . 618 A Warning . . . . . . .. 618 F. G. Widdows, Ex-Monk . . 618 “ The Dublin Review ” . . . . 618 The British Empire and the Catholic

Church . . . . . . . . 6j 8 Catholic Guardians’ Association . . 619 Easter in Rome . . . . . .6 2 1 The Maltese Marriage Question . . 622 Society of St. Vincent de Paul . . 623 The Late Canon Walshaw . . . 624 The Pope’s Letter to “ The Daily

Chronicle ” on Arbitration .. 624 A p pe a l s to t h e C h a r it a b l e . . 626 O b it u a r y ........................................ 626 S octal a n d P o l it i c a l . . . . 626

SU PPLEM ENT. Page N ew s from t h e S chools:

First Thoughts and Second on the Bill .._ . . _ . . . . 629 A Strong Opinion Against the Bill 629 The Bill and the Boards . . . . 629 Canon Nunn’s Opinion . . . . 630 “ An Honest Attempt ” .. .. 630 The Bill and the Riligious Difficulty 630 The Proposed Local Authority in

Education . . . . . . . . 630 Buckfast Abbey School and the

Education Bill . . . . . . 631 St. Edmund's College . . . . 631 The Teachers at Brighton . . 632 St. Joseph’s College, Darjeeling 632 N ew s from t h e D io c e s e s : Westminster

Southwark . . . . . . Clifton Leeds ......................... Salford Shrewsbury ..

632 633633 633 634 . . 634

Glasgow .................................... 634

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

»IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

THE POST OFFICE VOTE.

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EVERAL interesting points came up for discussion during the debate in Committee of Supply on the vote of money for the Post Office in the Civil Service Estimates. After complaints had been expressed at the inconvenience .arising from the fact that the Postmaster-General was not a member o f the House of Commons, Mr. Henniker Heaton objected to Sir Albert Rollit’s amendment to the vote, and proceeded to advocate the introduction of an Imperial penny postage, of an agricultural parcels post, of a cheaper postage with France, and of a parcels post with the United States. He reminded the House that its assent had already been given to the principle of an Imperial penny postage system on condition that the finances of the country would admit of the expenditure, and that the Colonies agreed to the scheme. Nothing, however, had been done to sound •Colonial opinion on the question, whilst the contention of cost could scarcely be seriously regarded, seeing that the additional outlay would not exceed ¿ 2 0 ,0 0 0 a year. He denounced the agreement entered into with the railway companies by which they were to receive 55 per cent, of the receipts from parcels, as an insane signing away of public money. He was supported in his advocacy of the penny postage by Mr. Barnes. Mr. Hanbury, in reply, pointed out that it would be scarcely fair to force such a measure down the throats of the Colonies, which had stipulated in 1891 that no revision of rates should be attempted till the next Postal Congress in 1897. Besides a penny postage could not stop at Imperial, but would have to be extended till it became universal. The establishment ot an agricultural parcels post at reduced rates would introduce an invidious system of distinctions which after all would be very difficult to make.

On the vote for the Post Office Packet

— l a s c a r Service, Mr. John Burns denounced the sweatl a b o u r . ing of foreign labour by the employment of so many Lascar and Coolie seamen on board the packets that carried the mails, and urged, without advocating the total exclusion of Lascars, that more Englishmen should be employed. To this a fair answer was given by

Sir Thomas Sutherland, who, as Chairman of the P. and O. Company, spoke with something of the authority of an expert on the question. He pointed out that the employment of mixed crews was by no means an economy, but was rendered necessary by the strain on Europeans from the climate on the Indian and Chinese seas. Mr. Hanbury reminded the House that Lascars were subjects of the Crown and, therefore, entitled to a share in the labour of the Empire. In the six hours through which the House of Commons sat in Committee of Supply on Friday night no fewer than 15 votes in the Civil Service Estimates were passed.

— t h e IRISH LAND

BILL.

Balfour on

The promised Bill dealing with the complicated questioner rather aggregate of questions, in connection with Irish land, was introduced into the House of Commons by Mr. Gerald Monday evening in a speech which, whilst undeniably long, was singularly lucid, careful, and comprehensive. The Bill is not big in the same sense that the Education Bill is a big measure ; it is an attempt to settle the difficulties that affect the occupation and ownership of land in Ireland, and this it proposes to effect by amendment of the numerous laws that have been passed during recent years. It not only covers the ground occupied by Mr. Morley’s Bill of last year, but provides for the amendment of procedure and for the facilitation of the working of the Purchase Acts. The Chief Secretary explained that the final goal at which in the opinion of the Government land reform in Ireland should aim, was the substitution of single ownership for dual ownership, the establishment of a peasant or a cultivating proprietary, which since 1881 had been the chief point in the Unionist policy in regard to land. Mr. G. Balfour gave utterance to a piece of most just self-criticism when he described the measure he was proposing as “ more like a collection of small Bills than a comprehensive measure framed to carry out a single welldefined principle.” It was, therefore, apart from the intricacy of the subject, no easy matter for the Opposition to give a deceded opinion on the moment in answer to the proposals put forward by the Government. This was abundantly evident in the remarks made by Mr. Morley and Mr. Dillon, whilst the general impression seemed to be that the Bill will suffer more in passing through Committee than in the debate on the second reading.

— THE PROVISIONS OF

THE BILL.

An outline of the scheme introduced by the Chief Secretary is all that can at present be attempted, seeing that the text of the Bill has not yet been placed in the hands of the

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