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DOM VOBIS GRATOLAMDR, ANIMOS RTIAM ADDIMOS OT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT1S,

F rom the B r i e f o f H is H o l in e s s P iu s I X . to T h e T a b l e t , J u n e 4, 1S70.

V o l . 88. No. 2932.

L ondon, J uly i 8, 1896.

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C hronicle of the Wefe !

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Imperial Parliament : The Land •Rating Bill— Marriage With a Deceased Wife’s Sister— The Education Estimates— Scotch Agricultural Rating Bill— An Incident in »the Lords— Amendments to the Irish Land Bill— The Irish la n d 'Bill : Motion for Adjournment— The London County Council and Its Palace—Cabinet Crisis in Italy — The French National Fete— The Wreck o f a Scotch Express— Decrease of Emigration-Improvement in Trade— A Fund for the Bretons of Moltine— The Democratic Candidate— The Candidate’s Antecedents—The Joan o f Arc 'Fétes at R h e i m s ......................... 81 Leaders :

“ The Guardian ” and Its Griev­

ances . . . . . . . . 85 The New Mysticism in France . . 85

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The Episcopal R in g . . . . . . 86 Notes .. .. ..................... £7 R e v i e w s :

The Thirty-Nine A rtic le s ..

A Lost Opportunity . . . . ço Ireland 1492-1868 . . . . ..91 Catholic Truth Society’s Publica­

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tions . . . . . . ..92 “ The Month ” . . . . ..92 The Newman Memorial . . " 9 3 The Lisbonian Society in Liverpool 95 Correspondence :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . M «.97 News from Ireland . . _ „ 98 Letters t o t h e Editor :

Mr. George Russell’s Attack on the Church.. . . . . ..98 Bishop Barlow and Anglican

Ordinations . . . . . . 99 , A Suggestion ......................... 99 '

Letters to the E ditor (Con­

Page tinued : Anglican “ Catholic ’’ Conundrum 99 The Stonyhurst Dinner . . . . 99 The Archbishop o f Canterbury on

Education and the Encyclican . . 99 Catholic Summer School in America 100 Association o f the Venerable Col­

lege of St. Thomas de Urbe . . 100 A Pious Picnic C ity . . . . . . 100 A Religious Census . . . . . iot A Presbyterian Munchausen . . xor Canon Farrar and Catholic P i l­

grims to Canterbury . . . . 102 FI yde Park Lectures . . . . . . 102 N ews from the Schools:

Training College o f the Sacred

Heart, Wandsworth . . .. 102 Cardinal Moran at St. Patrick’s

College, Wellington . . . . 102 Can Lancashire J u d g e .. 103 Halifax School Board . . . . 103 Reunion on the School Question 103

News from the Schools (Con­

tinued): The Convocation of Canterbury

Pa£e and Education . . . . . . 103 The Irish Education Bill . . . . 103 D eaf and Dumb Children in

Ireland . . . . . . . . 104 Nf.ws from the D ioceses : Westminster ............................104

S o u th w a r k ....................................... 104 Birmingham........................................ 104 Liverpool . . . . . . . . 1 0 4 Nottingham .. . . . . . 105 P l y m o u t h ....................................... 105 Salford ....................................... 105 Newoort . . . . . . . . 105 The Vicariate . . . . . . 106 Books of the Week . . . . . . 106 Obituary ................................ 106 Marriage . . . . . . . 108 Social and Political . . . . 108

SU P P L EM E N T . Latin Text of the Encyclical . . 114

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

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TH E second reading of the Agricultural Land Rating Bill,

proposed by Lord Harris, provoked a good debate in rhe

House of Lords. Lord Harris pointed out that the Bill came before them recommended by a large majority of the ocher House, by the Commission on Agriculture appointed by the late Government, and by Sir Henry Fowler’s Amendment, which seemed to contain an approval of the principle o f the measure. Lord Farrer moved the rejection of the Bill. Lord Salisbury explained that no remission of taxation could be made which would not be equally open to the •reproaches which had been cast against the measure before the House. Speaking as to the incidence of the Bill, he declared that, in the first instance, it would be a benefit to leaseholders; in the second place, it would be a benefit, according to the almost universal practice in England, to those who hold their land by annual tenure; and, in the third place, it would be a great benefit to small freeholders, a class who deserve every consideration. Lord Rosebery contended that the heaviest burden upon land was not the rates, but the rent, and that the Bill would confer little •benefit, if any at all, besides being vicious in its principle. The Government were spending money with both hands, with no care to the financial necessities that might arise from various quarters. In the House of Commons, on the ■ same evening, during the Committee stage of the Finance Bill, after some discussion on the clause relating to the Land Tax, the seven last clauses of the measure were agreed to withoat a division, and several new clauses were •considered and approved.

A distinguished assembly filled the

—marriage House of Lords on Friday evening last w \™fA ds^ terED when the T h ir d R e a d in g o f the B i l i for legalizing Marriage with a Deceased Wife’s

Sister was passed by a majoiity of 38. The galleries were filled with ladies, three members of the Royal Family were among the occupants of the cross benches on the floor of the House, whilst a force of twenty Bishops sat on the ecclesiastical benches to the right of the Woolsack. The Third Reading was formally moved by the Earl of D ud-

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raven. The Duke of Argyll, in a vigorous speech, moved the rejection of the Bill, and was supported by Lord Halifax, and the Bishops of Ely, Salisbury, and London. It was pointed out by the last-mentioned that the Bill as drawn protected those clergymen who conscientiously objected to such unions as the Bill proposed to allow, but that, by the acceptance of Lord Galway’s amendment, it was now a totally different measure, and disregarded their feelings. The clergy who were now officiating had the right to say that they had from the earliest times obeyed the law of the Church as recognized by the law of the land; and it was contrary to justice that they who were ordained under one rule should be called upon to submit to another. The Earl of Kimberley and Lord Herschell were the main speakers in favour of the measure. The announcement o f the figures after the division was hailed with cheers. Whether the Bill will succeed in running the gauntlet of the House of Commons still remains to be seen. The victory is regarded in some quarters as a Pyrrhic one, owing to the acceptance of Lord Galway’s amendment, striking out the Exemption Clause which protected clergymen who refused to marry persons under the new law.

After the protracted debates that took

— t h e e d u c a t i o n place on the abandoned Education Bill,

e s t i m a t e s . it was not unnatural that when the House of Commons went into Committee of

Supply on the Education Estimates, speakers should agree to be brief. On the vote of ^4,162,213, Sir John Gorst explained that whilst the expenditure for the past year had exceeded that o f the year before by ^275,000, the estimated increase for the comiDg year was no more than ^186,000. The extraordinary stimulus given by the Act of 1891 was exhaustmg itself, and the increase now was settling down to the normal increase due to the growth in the population and prosperity of the country. The VicePresident of the Council was able to point to the satisfactory progress made by the evening continuation schools. In 1893, when the Evening School Code was first introduced, there were 1,977 evening schools and 115,000 scholars. Now there were 5,421 evening schools and 270,000 scholars. In several vital points in our system Sir John Gorst was compelled to admit that serious defects existed, especially in the machinery for keeping up a competent supply of teachers. He wished he could see his way to an increase of expenditure in the training of teachers. There were at present 43 resident colleges attended by 385 men and 426 women. These colleges altogether represented 4,296 teachers in training, and they had only about 2,100 teachers a year