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From the B r ie f o f H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.
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Ci'tRO'TiCLE or Turc W«sk ! Page
Imperial Parliament: N a v y Estimates—Workmen’s Dwellings — Marriage With a Deceased Wife’s Sister— Agricultural Land Rating Bill— Another A ll Night Sitting— The Three Black Crows Again — Conciliation in_ Trade Disputes— Autocars on Highways — The Land Rating Bill Passed— The Financial Activity o f the Month— The Prince in the Principality— Mr. Gladstone and_ Universities— The Cobden Jubilee — Lord Playfair on Free Trade— Consecration of the Bishop of Port Louis— A Hampstead Centenary— The Foreign Policy of I t a l y ................................................ 1 T h e New E n c y c l ic a l......................... 5 £..•BADERS:
The Meaning of the Encyclical 14 The Canadian Elections . . . . 15
CONTENTS.
Correspondence :
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Rome :— (From Our Own Correspondent) . .
News from Ireland _ _ — 18 Letters to the E ditor :
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“ Animals on Trial ”
The Popes and British Officers.. 19 The Projected Eucharistic Congress at Lugo
“ Salve Pater Salvatoris ”
A n A p p e a l f o r a H i s t o r i c
Monastery
Works on Freemasonry
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Notes . . . . —
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The Irish Bishops and the Irish
Education Eill . . . . ..23 Leo X I I I . and the Reunion of
Christendom.. . . . . ..24 Mr. Gladstone and Anglican Orders 25 Catholic Needlework Guild . . 23 Lord Halifax’s Letter . ..25 The Press Upon the Encyclical . . 25 News from the Dioceses :
Westminster ............................. 27 S o u t h w a r k ....................... . . . 28 Portsm outh ................................. 28 Obituary ..................................28 Social and Political .. .. 30
Reviews :
Eastern Liturgies Leaders of Thought in the 21
English Church
Alethea
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SUPPLEMENT. News from •the Schools:
St. Mary’s Training College . . 33j The Buckfast School Question . . 35
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News from the Schools (Con
tinued): The Future of Education . . 3^ State and Rate-Aid . . . . 36 Dates o f Pupil Teachers’ Engage
ments and Examinations . . 36 The Canadian Elections and
Education . . . . . . 36 School Boards and Attendance,
Committees . . .. • • 37 The Gain to Voluntary Schools 37 Irish Teachers for England . . 37 ” . “ The Church T im e s” and the
Bill . . ......................... 37 The Coadjutor Bishop of South
wark at the Xaverian Brothers', Mayfield, Sussex . . . . 37 The Burial of the Education Bill 38 St. George’s College, Weybridge 3S
Hyde Park Lectures.. . . ..38
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CHRONICLE OF THE V/EEK.
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FR ID A Y ’S attendance in the
House of Commons was as c . . ........... usual very small,being chiefly composed of experts in naval matters.
to build their dwellings by the help of money advanced under certain restrictions by the local authorities. Lord Monkswell entertained grave doubts as to the policy of local authorities taking up the work hitherto done by the Building Societies. He feared the Bill would not benefit those who most needed help— the working classes in the great towns. Lord Rosebery also pointed out the danger of loss that would threaten the authorities from the mutations in the trade of their localities. Objections were not pressed, however, and the Bill was read a second time.
After a few questions had been put, the House went into Committee of Supply on the Navy Estimates. On the Shipbuilding Vote of over five millons, Mr. W. Allan attacked the Admiralty for adopting Belleville water-tube boilers without sufficient trial, and against the recommendations of a Committee. Mr. Goschtn explained that the introduction of the boilers in question was merely an •experiment. Admiralty subventions to merchant steamers for the transport of troops formed the next subject for complaint. Sir J. Colomb declared that the system had proved a complete failure, whilst Mr. S. Smith pointed out that out of twenty mercantile marine vessels in the world that could steam twenty knots an hour, only six belonged to this country. He therefore urged that greater subsidies should be offered to induce the shipping companies to build faster ships in order that in the event of war this country might have as great a preponderance of fast merchant cruisers over those of foreign Powers as she had of warships. Mr. Goschen agreed as to the unsatisfactory nature of the existing arrangement, but explained that the Government were bound by contracts extending over a number of years. Notice had, however, been given that these would only be renewed under certain conditions. Many difficulties stood in the way of Mr. Smith’s suggestion. Subsidies on a large scale to the mercantile marine were a question not for the Admiralty but for the Government at large; and such subsidies would entail so much money that the outlay would be better spent in the building o f fast cruisers belonging entirely to the State. Some discussion was also raised on the vote for educational services in reference to the proposed changes in the training of naval cadets, hut this vote, as well as the preceding ones, was also agreed to, and thus the Navy Estimates for the year were completed.
The House of Lords was busy on Mon-
— workmen’s day. The Marquis of Londonderry dwellings. moved the Second Reading of the Bill for assisting the working classes to acquire and N ew S er ie s , V ol. L V I . , No. 2,239.
—MARRIAGE WITH
A DECEASED wife’s sister.
Their lordships next went into Committee on the Bill legalizing marriage with a deceased wife’s sister. After Clause 1, which effects this, had been agreed to, Lord Halifax moved an amendment to Clause 2, which protects clergymen from any pains and penalties for withholding the privileges of Church membership from persons living together in marriage made valid by the Act, and that nothing in the Act shall relieve any such clergyman from any ecclesiastical pains and penalties to which he would otherwise be liable if the Act had not been passed, by reason of his contracting or living in marriage with his own deceased wife’s sister. The amendment extends this reservation by adding that no clergyman shall be relieved from any of the ecclesiastical penalties to which he would have been subject before the passing of the Act, for solemnizing a marriage between a man and his sister-in-law. In this way the clergyman of the Establishment will be able, on the one hand, to rely on the law of his Church, and, on the other, will have to apprehend the weight of that Church’s censure. The proposal and discussion of the amendment was soon over, as the Earl of Dunraven, who was in charge of the Bill, had already accepted it. An attempt was made to provide that clergymen should be forced to solemnize such marriages, but Lord Salisbury pointed out the difficulties that would arise from the number of clergymen who would object. The Clause was, therefore, agreed to, along with Lord Halifax’s extension, and the Bill passed through Committee. The Second Reading of the Diseases of Animals Bill was next moved by Lord Cross, and after some discussion was passed by 83 votes to 34.
—AGRICULTURAL
LAND RATING
BILL.
In the House of Commons, after the twelve o’clock rule had been suspended, the consideration of the Agricultural Land Rating Bill, as amended, was resumed by the discussion of Mr. Robson’s amendment to the fourth
