TABL A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
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From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX. to The Tablet, June 4, iS~o.
V ol. 87. No. 2923.
London, May i 6, 1896.
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♦ Chronicle of the Week ?
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Imperial Parliament :The Education Debate — Affairs in _South Africa—The Marriage of Divorced Persons—Sir Edward Clarke and the Education Bill—Professor Jebb and Rate-Aid — The Parnellite Party—The Debate and the Division—Spain and the United States —Three Americans Sentenced to •beShot—South Africa—The Manchester Corporation and Trafford Park—Mr. Bayard Among the Savages—The Order of Business in the Commons .. .. .. 757 •Leaders :
The Second Reading of the Bill . 761 England and Italy in Africa .. 762 The New Gallery .. _ .. 763 The Eastern Churches in Union
With the Hply See .. .. 764 Adiutrici Christianorum .. .. 764 Notes ....................................765
CONTENTS.
Reviews :
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The Life of Sir John Franklin .. 767 “ The English Historical Review” 768 Dr. Gould on St. Mark .. .. 769 Dr. Witt’s Plain Chant Accompani
ment .. .. .. .. 770 The Comedy of English Protes
tantism ......................... .. 770 “ The Month ” .........................770 Books of the Week.. .. .. 771 Newman and Manning .. .. 771 Correspondence :
Rome :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) ......................... —773 News from Ireland .. _ —775 Letters to the Editor :
AnglicanOrdinations Under Queen
Mary ......................... w 777 The Diagnosis of Anglican Orders:
Cui Bono ? .. .. .. 77S Bishop Barlowe .. .. .. 778
Letters to the Editor (Con
tinued) : A Broken Tombstone ‘ ‘ Almanac de Gotha ” The Second Reading of the Educa^
tion Bill The Manchester School Board and
Rate-Aid Newman House Social and Political
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778 77 9
782 783 785
SUPPLEMENT. News from the Schools:
The Irish Education Bill .. 789 Mr. McNamara’s Recommenda
tions .. .._ .. .. 789 Parliamentary Intelligence .. 789 Canon Nunn’s Condemnation of the Bill .. .. .. .. 790 Nonconformists and Clause 27 .. 790 Mr._Chamberlain’s Defence of the
Bill .. .. ..
.. 790
The Bill and Voluntary Schools 790
News from the Schools (Con
tinued): Scarborough School Board and the Education Bill Irish Opinion and the Irish Educa
tion B i l l ......................... Dr. Guinness Rogers’s Difficulty St. Cuthbert’s Grammar School
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790 7QZ 791
Newcastle-on-Tyne .. .. 791 St. Augustine's College Sports .. 791
News from the Dioceses : Westminster .........................
Southwark.................................... Clifton .................................... Hexham and Newcastle .. L iverpool.................................... Nottingham.................................... Portsmouth.................................... Salford .. .. .. .. The Catholics and the Education
B i l l ............................................... Cardinal Vaughan and the East
London Hospital.........................
792 792 793 793 793 793 793 793 794 794
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
¡IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT
THE EDUCATION
DEBATE.
THE continuation of the debate on the Education Bill in the House of Commons last week added little or nothing of value to the discussions that had preceded. Sir Charles Dilke agreed to the desirability of decentralization, but considered that the additional powers should be given to the School Boards rather than to Committees of the County Council. He thought that the stereotyping of the rate must be as disastrous in its effects on education as the stereotyping of education itself; and he complained that whilst the Bill gave money to rich schools, a clumsy and erroneous description of country Voluntary schools, it did not give enough to poor schools. Sir W. Hart Dyke supported the establishment of the Educational Committee of •County Councils as the essence of the whole scheme. He then proceeded to point out whence came the denunciations of the Bill. The opposition to these educational proposals •was, he declared, a very ancient one, and it still existed. It was the opposition between Church and Dissent, and he said advisedly that the chief opposition to the Bill proceeded ■ from the political Dissenters, who had a kind of extraordinary dread that the measure in some way sought to assist the Church Establishment. Secondly, there was an opposition to the Bill which was purely and simply a School Board opposition ; while, thirdly, the opposition offered by honourable gentlemen opposite, as a political party, was that of those who believed that the work of education could only be carried out by the School Boards. Sir George Trevelyan tried to make out a case for the efficiency and thriftiness of the rural School Boards, and concluded by declaring that he was justified in his opposition to the Bill by what it did, by what it undid, and by what it failed to do.
A crowded House assembled on Friday
— affairs t0 hear j^r. Chamberlain’s expected state
IN SOUTH AFRICA.
ment on South African affairs. When Committee of Supply on the Colonial Depart
ment had been reached, Sir William Harcourt rose and made a long speech, which, as Mr. Chamberlain afterwards pointed out, was an able speech for the prosecution not only of the Chartered Company, but of the men under sentence at Pretoria and the men still upon their trial in this country. Sir William contended that the cipher telegrams proved that the Jameson raid had been conducted by persons who were the principal and responsible directors of the Company; that Dr. Jameson was but a subordinate agent in the matter; and that it was consequently with the directors of the Company that they would have to deal. Those telegrams were couched in the lingo of the Stock Exchange, and the whole spirit of their revelations and of the postponement of the acceptance of Mr. Rhodes’s resignation was the spirit of mammon. British honour had been sullied by the actions of Mr. Rhodes and his associates, and he called for the fullest investigation and enlightenment. In reply Mr. Chamberlain pointed out that, whereas Sir William Harcourt had only devoted himself to one phase of the great question at issue in South Africa, the whole question had really been opened by recent events ; and he therefore recalled the attention of the House to the principles involved and the policy of the present and of past Governments in South Africa. The first object was that the authority and influence of this country should be predominant in South Africa, and the second was to bring about a better state of feeling and union and concord between the two great races that inhabit the country. Jameson’s raid had jeopardized the one and delayed the realization of the other. We had failed to establish concord in the Transvaal such as existed in Canada. There were faults on both sides. No one could deny the magnanimity of the retrocession of the Transvaal in 1881, yet since that time there had undoubtedly been breaches of the Convention on the part of the Boers. Moreover, the admitted grievances of the Outlanders are largely due to successive laws passed since that Convention. To remove the soreness was the ambition of Mr. Rhodes, but he had not been able to carry out his designs. Mr. Chamberlain then explained the circumstances under which the invitation to President Kruger had been withdrawn. And whilst denying that he hadusedany threatening language,hedeclared that he was bound to make friendly representations and give friendly advice to the President of the Republic. Sir Hercules Robinson was not to be recalled. Coming to the cipher telegrams, he said they indicated three things. First, that Mr. Rhodes and one of the Directors of the Chartered Company knew and approved of the proceedings of the Reform Committee; secondly, that they knew and approved of the preparations for the entry into the Transvaal under certain eventualities; and, thirdly, they seemed to show that Mr. Rhodes disapproved and tried to stop the invasion at the moment at which it actually took place, both by
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