A W eekly Newspaper an d R eview .

DUM VOBIS GRATÜLAMÜR, ANIMOS BTIAM ADDIMUS ÜT IN INCCEPTIS V2STRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT1S.

From the B r i e f o f H is H o lin ess P iu s IX . to T he T ablet, J u n e 4, 1870.

V ol.. 87. No. 2924.

L ondon, M a y 23, 1896.

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C hronicle of t h e W e e k :

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Imperial Parliament : The Land Rating Bill— Chimney-Sweepers and Pauper Aliens— Indian Cotton Duties— The Marriageof Divorced Persons—The Uganda Railway— X,and Rating Bill and Amendments— The First Clause — An Orleariist Manifesto—Rioting in Cornwall— The Archbishops r f Canada and the Manitoba Schools —Manchester and Trafifcrd Park— B y Balloon to the Pole— Death of the Heir-Presumptive of Austria — The Radicals and Home Rule — Greater G e rm a n y— British Affairs in South Africa — The Strike in the Building Trade . . 797 L e a d e r s :

The Education Question To-day 801 The Coronation of the Tsar and

Catholics in Russia . . .. 802 Royal Academy - . . . . . 803

CONTENTS.

The Eastern Churches in Union

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With the Holy See . . . . 804 The Outlook in Belgium . . .. 800 T h e C o n f e r e n c e of Catholic

Colleges .................................... 807 Ad S. Dunstanum . . . . . . 807 N o t e s .................................................... 808 R e v iew s :

A History of the Councils of the

Church . . . . .. # . 809 The Green Graves of Balgowrie 810 Regeneration .. . . 811 Successors to the Title .. . . 811 The Mystery of the Divine Con­

descension . . . . . . 811 C orrespondence :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent).. . .

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News from Ireland .. — - .8 14 News From France . . . . 816 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d itor :

Dean Fremantle and the Anglican

Church . .

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“ The Modern Goth ” . . . . 817

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

Page tinued) : An Anglican Difficulty . . . . 817 Catholic Education Leaflets .. 817 The Irish Members and the Educa­

tion Bill . . . . .. . . 818 The Catholic League and the

Education Bill .. . . . . 820 The Catholic Association _.. . . 820 “ The Death of Gladstonian Home

R u le ” ..^ v .. . . 821 The Catholic University of America 822 New Bishop o f Dunedin, New

Zealand _ . . ^ . . ^. . . . 822 Full Religious Liberty in South

America .. .. . . . . 823 The Westminster Cathedral .. 823 Acceptance of the Statue of Père

Marquette, S.J., By Congress . . 823 Music in Churches . . . . . . 824

Books of the W eek.. . . . . 824 F rom E v e r yw h e r e ........................... . 825 O b it u a r y . . ............................825 Soc’a l an d P o l it ic a l . . . . 826

SU PPLEM EN T . N ew s from ^he S chooi.s :

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Catholic Education Leaflets . . 829 The Second Reading . . . . 829 The New Evening School Code 829 The Speeches o f the Opposition 830 Canon Nunn and Rate-Aid . . 830 Religion and Dogma . . . . 831 Mr. Diggle’s Attitude . . . . 831 Parliamentary Intelligence . . 831 St. Francis Xavier’s College,

Bruges, Belgium . . . . 832 N ew s from t h e D io ceses :

Westminster . . . . . . 832 S o u th w a rk ....................................... 833 L i v e r p o o l ....................................... 833 Nottingham ....................................... 833 Salford ......................... Shrewsbury . . The Vicariate St. Andrews and Edinburgh Glasgow

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CHRONiCLB OF THE WEEK.

THE LAND RATING

BILL.

TH E Agricultural Land Rating

Bill is now in progress through Committee. T o the first Clause, which exempts, after the 31st o f March next, the occupier of land from half of the rates, no less than ninety-four amendments have been placed upon the papers. One postponing the time at which the operation of the Clause should come into operation to September 30, 1897, in order to afford time and opportunity for the new assessment o f the rural districts was rejected by 278 votes to 179. The next, which was designed to limit the relief given to land the assessment of which had fallen by one-fifth since 1876, started a discussion on the principle that relief should he distributed according to the distress existing in the various districts. This would have largely benefited such notoriously distressed districts as Norfolk and Essex. Mr. Chaplin, however, opposed the amendment, pointing out that the Bill was founded on the principle o f relieving an injustice which was general, and not confined to particular localities. An attempt was then made by Mr. Luttrell to make the owner liable for the whole o f the rates, and upon its defeat Mr. Channing proposed that the rates should be divided equally between the owner and the occupier. Mr. Chaplin’s chief objection to this was that it would override all existing contracts. Mr. Courtney spoke in favour of the amendment, and in order to get rid of Mr. Chaplin’s objection in regard to disturbing existing contracts, recommended that at the commencement of any new tenancy or agreement after the Act should have come into operation, the rates should be ■ divided between the occupier and the tenant, as was the practice in Scotland and parts of Ireland.

In the House o f Lords Lord Teyn-

c h im n e y -sweepers ^am move(j the Second Reading of a pauper aliens. Bill to prevent sweeps from proclaiming their callin' in the streets. His lord-

ship explained that by an A c t of 1894, sweeps had been prevented from soliciting employment by ringing a bell or using any noisy instrument, and that it was estimated that 75 per cent, of the chimney-sweepers die in the workhouse, a fact which the chimney-sweepers themselves attribute to the present custom of shouting in the streets. The connection between this shouting o f “ sweep, sweep,” and poverty is not very clear. On the recommendation of the Lord Chancellor the debate was adjourned. On the same evening in the House of Commons Mr. H. Vincent pointed out that the immigration o f pauper aliens into this country was increasing, 3,000 such unfortunates having arrived during the first four months of the present year in excess o f the number landing within a corresponding period in 1895. Mr. Ritchie, whilst unable to verify the figures from official returns, informed his questioner that he entertained no hope that a Bill dealing with the immigration o f pauper aliens would be introduced this session.

In the House o f Commons on Monday

— Indian Sir W. Wedderburn resorted to the motion cotton duties for adjournment in order to force before

Parliament a case which is somewhat out of date. He asked the Secretary of State for India if he would disallow the Cotton Duties A c t o f 1896 and the A c t to Amend the Indian Tariff Act 1894 on the ground that, by levying a duty on all imported fabrics above a certain degree of fineness, and by the excise duty o f 5 per cent, on coarse cloths produced in Bombay and other mills in India, they increased the burden o f taxation on the poorest class in India, while lightening the burden on those who were comparatively well-to-do. In reply Lord George Hamilton explained that the additional taxation upon a very small proportion o f the cotton cloth consumed in India represented an infinitesimally small increase of cost to the individual purchaser, while on the other hand, the duty on yarns had been abolished. Under all the circumstances he did not propose to advise the Government o f India to remit the duties recently imposed by the Legislature. Regarding this answer as unsatisfactory, Sir W . Wedderburn moved ( the adjournment of the House, in order to call attention to Jthe dissatisfaction given by Indian cotton duties as recently 1 re-arranged. The whole of the Opposition, with the excep­

tion of the Front Bench, rose to support the application. Leave having been giveD, Sir W. Wedderburn declared that a new and uncalled-for tax had been placed upon the necessaries o f the poorest classes o f Indian consumers, who were thus weighted with more than their fair share of taxation, in the interests not o f their own country, but o f the Lancashire manufacturers. Again Lord George Hamilton pointed out that the duty imposed on cloths of local manufacture was imposed on the yarn and not on the cloth, in consequence o f which it was demonstrably clear that all English goods which went to India under 20 “ counts,” paid

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