TABLET A W eekly Newspaper an d R eview .

DOM VOBIS GRATOLAMOR, ANIMOS KTIAM ADDIMOS OT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT1S.

Brom the Brief <f His Holiness Pius IX. to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.

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Imperial Parliament : The Italian Green Book—The Light Railways B i ll—The Debate on the Derby Day Adjournment—The Importation of Live Stock— Spain Entrenched in Cuba—An Island of Flowers — Criminal Statistics — The Coming Elections in Canada — The Disaster at Moscow— President Kruger and his Prisoners —English Goods in Germany— Farewell Speech by Lord Dufferin—The Prince’s Derby— The Frome and Wick Burghs Elections .. 877 HEADERSI

Now or Never

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The Pope and the Italian Prisoners 882 Mr. Gladstone on Anglican Orders 883 The Education Bill as Affecting

Secondary Education . . . . 884

CONTENTS.

L eaders (Continued):

The Eastern Churches in Union

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With the Holy See .. .. 886 The Greek Melchite Patriarch and Leo X I I I . . . . . . . 838 N o t e s .................................................... 889 R eview s :

The Traditional Text o f the

G o s p e l s ......................... . . 890 Letters of St. Alphonsus Maria

De Liguori C orrespondence :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . ... — News from Ireland _ _ News From South Africa L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :

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893 894

The Anglican Church and Its

Orders ......................... _ . . 896 Dean Fremantle and the Anglican

C h u r c h .....................................897 M i. Gladstone’s Letter .. .. 898 A Crucifix for Sale . . .. 898

The Irish Bishops and the Irish

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Education Bill . . . . . . 901 Books of the Week . . . . . . 902 M a r r ia g e . . . . . . . 902 So c ia l a n d P o l it i c a l . . . . 904

SU PPLEM EN T . N ews from th e S chooi.s :

Catholic Education Leaflets Closure by Compartments Rate-Aid Mr. Dixon’s Amendment on the

Special Grant School Boards in 1896 Land Rating Bill and Rural

School Boards ^ The Education Question in British

Honduras The New Education Authority Parliamentary Intelligence The Bishop of Chester and Rate

Aid .. ......................... Girls’ Industrial School, Dalbeth,

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N ew s from t h e S chools (Con­

Page tinued): Catholics and Nonconformists . . 911 The Secondary Education Clauses 912 Elected to Promote Education

Only . . . . . . . . 912 Caligraphy and Marks . . ^ . 912 Successors of St. Francis Xavier’s

Students in the Liverpool Science Scholarships . . . . 912 N ew s from t h e D io ceses : Westminster 912

Southwark . . . . . . . . 9 1 3 Birmingham.......................................914 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 914 L i v e r p o o l ....................................... 914 *KT- - . g I +

Northampton Salford ......................... Plymouth.................. . Newport The Vicariate St. Andrews and Edinburgh

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT :

THE ITALIAN GREEN

BOOK.

IT was only a thin muster of members that came together on Monday for the re-assembly of Parliament. During question time the number of members present was well under the hundred, though there were about two hundred within the precincts of the House. Before the Order on the Light Railways Bill as amended in Committee came up for consideration, Mr. Morley provoked a long discussion as to whether the Foreign Office were prepared to lay on the table any correspondence with the Governments of Germany and Italy relating to affairs in the Soudan. He also asked whether the Government were aware of certain important communications contained in the Green Book recently laid before the Italian Parliament. Mr. Curzon said that the correspondence with Italy was of a purely military character, and that there had been no such correspondence with Germany; and upon being pressed further, declared that he did not see how any of the con tents of the Italian Green Book were connected with the employment of Indian troops at Suakim, which was to be the object of the debate in the House on the following Thursday.

— t h e -LIGHT RAILWAYS

BILL.

Doubtless this Bill raises several questions which invite scrutiny, but it can scarcely be questioned that it has already been amply discussed. ■ It was fully debated at the first reading, it was the subject of a protracted controversy on the second, and it was again discussed on the motion that it should be referred to the Standing Committee on Trade, and, finally, it wras minutely overhauled in Committee. Mr. Lowther hoped that public bodies would not be enabled to speculate with the money of the ratepayers, and that the ordinary safeguards with regard to the compulsory acquirement of land would be maintained. Sir Henry Fowler escaped from the dull common-place level of the debate when he moved an amendment that a member of the Railway and CaDal Commission should be substituted for the paid Light Railway Commissioner proposed by the Bill. During the last seven years the Railway Commissioners, drawing a salary of

,£3,000 a year a-piece, had sat only 169 days. He thought that if his amendment were carried out it would do something to mitigate the scandal of so much salary for so little work. Mr. Ritchie was, however, unable to accept the amendment, and explained that Railway Commissioners had many other duties besides the sittings alluded to by Sir H. Fowler, and their work it was understood would increase considerably in the near future. Sir Albert Rollit supported Sir Henry Fowler’s contention, but after some discussion the amendment was negatived without a division, w-hilst the various other amendments, which it would be tedious and profitless to describe in detail, were defeated by substantial majorities.

The answers to the questions put to t h e d e b a t e the Government on the subject of the a d j o u r n m e n t . cost t“ e Indian troops despatched to

Suakim, on Monday and on Tuesday,

were supplemented by an announcement made by Mr. Balfour on Tuesday evening, which postponed the debate on the question which had been fixed for Thursday. A telegraphic message had been received from the Indian Government earnestly pressing that no decision should be come to by her Majesty’s Government until the Cabinet had been placed in possession of the views of the Indian Executive. Mr. Morley agreed that, under the circumstances, postponement was the only proper course. Sir W. Harcourt, who pressed for an opportunity for discussing the despatch of Indian troops to Suakim apart from the subsidiary question as to who was to pay for them, was reminded by Mr. Balfour that, under his own Government, in 1885, such troops were actually engaged before the resolution was brought forward at all. The annual debate on the motion for adjournment over the Derby Day was shorn of its usual entertaining character. Mr. Maclure had given notice of his intention to propose such a motion, but, most probably in the interests of the Ecclesiastical Benefices Bill, which was put down for consideration on that day, did not appear to speak for the proposal that stood in his name. The matter was, therefore, brought forward in a brief speech by Mr. Muntz, and as briefly seconded by Major Rasch. Mr. Bartley, who led the opposition to the motion, said that if the House wanted to adjourn for the Derby day, they should do the thing properly, and go down to Epsom with Speaker and mace, and take up a position on the Grand Stand; whilst Sir W. Lawson, discussing the question as to whether it was rational or seemly for a great national assembly to adjourn for a horse-race, thought that if an adjournment was to be

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