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DUM VOBIS GRATÜLAMUR, ANIMOS RTIAM ADDIMDS ÜT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

F rom th e B r i e f o f H is H o l in e s s P i u s I X . to The Tablet, J u n e 4 , 18 70 . ]

Vol. 88. No. 2935. L ondon, A ugust 8, 1896.

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Imperial Parliament : London University Commission Bill— The Select Committee on South Africa — The Irish Land Bill in the ’Lords— Prison Treatment of the Raiders — Bank Holiday ^Sitting — Government Defeat in th e Lords — Li Hung Chang in the Commons—Crete and the Powers —Arrival of Li Hung Chang— — Reception of the Viceroy in London— Servia and Macedonia —Close of the Naval Manoeuvres — Rising of the Druses— Silver and Gold in America—Destruct iv e Hurricane in Austria-Hungary—The Rising in Rhodesia —Trial of Major Lothaire— The Coming Eclipse—The Population .of France — Taxation Riots in Spain .. . . . • • • •• 197 SLkadkrs :

L i Hung Chang in England . . 201

CONTENTS,

L eaders [Continued) : _ Page

The Abbé Portal on Individual

Conversions . . . . . . 202 The Religious Condition of the

People in England N o t e s . . R eview s :

201 206

The Mass in the E a i ly Middle

Ages A Virtuoso in Words Anti-Semitism . . The Tale of Balen . . . . . . 211 Eighty Years A g o ......................... Month of May at Many’s Altar .. The True Church of the Bible .. The Fool and His Heart . . C orrespondence :

209 209 210

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre spondent) . . . . ... — News from Ireland . . -, L e t t e r s to t h e E d it or :

The Ceremonial of Bishops Baptism in the Anglican Church 216 A Reformer’s Idea of Holy Order 217 The Saints Under the Old Law . . 217

216

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

Page tinued : “ Salve Mater Salvatoris ” . . 217 The Modern Goth . . . . . . 2 1 7 Barlow’s Consecration . . . .2 18 A New Sphere for Father Ignatius 218 School Treats . . .. .. 218 Cardinal Vaughan in Nottingham 219 Attack on the Church .. . . 220 Last Hours of Simon Lord Lovat .. 221 Catholic Young Men’s Societies .. 222 Voluntary Schools in Lancashire and London Books of the Week .. A p pe a l to t h e C h a r it a b l e O b it u a r y ........................... M arriages S o c ia l a n d P o l it ic a l

SU PPLEM EN T . N ew s from th e S chools:

223 224 225 225 225 226

Stonyhurst College.. . . . . 229 Beaumont College . . .. . . 230 St. Ignatius’ School, Stamford

H i l l ................................................231

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tinued): St. Francis Xavier’s College,

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Bruges . . . . . . .. 231 Ipswich Convent . . . . . . 231 Park Place Schools, Clifton . . 231 Upright Writing at St. Wilfrid’s

College . . . . . . .. 231 Newcastle and the School Board

Rate . . . . . . . . 231 C a t h o l i c Collegiate Institute,

Xaverian Brothers, Manchester 232 London Ampleforth Dinner . . 232 Halifax School Board . . . . 233 The London School Board and Its

Work . . . . . . . . 234 N ew s from t h e D io ceses : Westminster . . . . . . 234

S o u th w a rk ................................ 234 Birmingham.. ............................234 Clifton . . . . . . . . 224 Middlesbrough . . . . . . 224 Portsm outh................................224 Newport .......................................224

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N the motion for the Third

Reading of the Metropolitan Railway Bill in the House of Lords, the Earl of Denbigh moved the insertion of a clause providing that arbitrators should be appointed to consider and determine the best means of ventilating the underground railway between King’s Cross and Praed-street. The Earl of Dudley pointed out that this amendment was scarcely calculated to carry out an object which all bad in view— the better ventilation of the railway in question— and after other noble lords had spoken, Lord Denbigh withdrew his proposal and the Bill was read a third time. A discussion on the Third Reading of the London University Commission Bill followed. The Bishop of London made a strenuous effort on behalf of King’s College. He sought to obtain the insertion of a proviso •which would prevent the infliction, by any statute or regulation, of any disability on any college or institution on account of its religious character. This, of course, was to ensure, as far as possible, fair treatment for King’s College, which is a Church of England College, under the proposed scheme for re-constituting the London University. The Duke of Devonshire was unable to accept the amendment, and hoped, in view of its contentious character and the •controversy which it would almost certainly excite in the Lower House, that it would not be pressed. He, however, professed his willingness to propose a clause which would •secure the same object with less opposition. Lord Herschell spoke strongly against the Bishop of London’s recommendation, which was nothing more nor less than the proposal o f a test of the most rigid and undesirable character, prejudicial to education, and a practical compulsion on the University to endow an institution which they believed to be a bad one. The amendment was finally negatived without a division, and the debate was adjourned to give time to the Duke of Devonshire to place on the notice paper the terms of an alternative amendment.

The debate in the House of Commons

— t i i e o n M r> Chamberlain’s motion for a Select Committee to inquire into South African affairs was short, and marked by an New Series, Vol. LVI., No. 2,244.

unusual harmony of opinion. Mr. Chamberlain was clear and conciliatory, and frankly accepted in advance an amendment put upon the paper by Sir William Harcourt, who apologized for having been unable to give notice. By the resolution as it now stands the Select Committee is to “ inquire into the administration of the British South Africa Company and into the origin and circumstances of the incursion into the South African Republic by an armed force and to report thereon ; and further to report what alterations are desirable in the government of the territories under the control of this Company. That the Committee have leave to hear counsel to such extent as they shall see fit, and have power to send for persons, papers, and records.” Though personally in favour of a commission of judges Mr. Chamberlain explained that the alternative of a Parliamentary Committee had been determined upon for several reasons. Precedents, and especially the precedent of the inquiry into the affairs of the old East India Company, were all in favour of a Parliamentary Commission; the reference to be submitted, which included a demand for opinions and for advice on matters of policy in South Africa, was too wide to he made to any body in the nature of a Judicial Commission. Mr. Healy said that the whole subject of the inquiry was of tremendous interest to Irishmen, inasmuch as, with the exception of Mr. Chamberlain, her Majesty’s ministers had condemned in advance, by their action eight years ago on the occasion of charges and allegations made against certain Irish members, the course they were now proposing to pursue. The House afterwards proceeded to the consideration of the Uganda Railway Bill, which, after some discussion, was reported without amendment.

The result of the debate on the Second

— t h e i r i s h l a n d R e a c ] i n g 0f the l rish Land Bill in the

B ILL IN TH E LORDS.

House of Lords on Friday last was a foregone conclusion after Lord London­

derry’s announcement that grave as were the objections felt to certain portions of the Bill by the Irish landlords, there was neither desire nor intention on their part to oppose the measure at that stage. Lord Lansdowne moved the Second Reading, and pointed out that there was no intention of substituting for the present intricate and most complicated Land Law of Ireland a thoroughly scientific system, but merely an endeavour to clear up the law when that could he done, to deal with some hard cases which recent experience had brought to light, and also to remove some of the obstacles which had hitherto impeded the progress of their existing land purchase legislation, to