TABLET. A . IV ?ekly N ew spaper a n d R e v iew .
DOM VO B IS G R A T O L A M D R , AN IM O S K T IAM ADD IM Ü S O T IN INCCEPTIS V B S T R IS C ON S TAN TER M ANRATIS.
From the B r i e f oj H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T h e T able t , June 4, /Syo.
V ol. 88. No. 2939.
L ondon, S eptember 5, 1896.
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[R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a l P o s t O f f i c e a s a N ew s p a p e r
-Ch ro n ic le o f t h e W e e k ! Page]
The Boarding-Out o f Pauper > 'Children— Mr. Balfour on Poor
Law Education— Barrack Schools ? and Boarding Out— The Tsar in
"Vienna — Zanzibar and Its Pretender — Fishermen’s Fight at i Scarborough — German Coloniza
tion in South America— Death o f P r i n c e Lobanof — F r i g h t f u 1 f Slaughter in Constantinople —
Ita ly and Brazil— The French in ) Madagascar— The Cretan Reforms
— Germany and the Ottoman Empire— The Convention of the Irish Race—The Opening Sitting— Presidential Campaign in the United States— Rhodesia Still Unsettled — Mr. Dillon and the Irish Leaders b i p ................................................ 357 •Le a d e r s :
T h e Latest Substitute f o r a
Creed . . . . . . . 361 Clerical Congress at Rheims . . 362
CONTENTS.
The Pope and the Pamphleteer . . 363 Laws and L a w l e s s ........................... 364 N o t e s . . . . — . . . . 365 R ev ie w s :
Lacordaire . . . . . . . . 3^8 Milner’s End of Controversy . . 369 Porphyry to Marcella . . . . 370 The London Burial Grounds . . 370 Sketches and Stories . . . . 371 Books of the W e e k . . . . . . 371 Discovery o f an Old Priory Well . . 371 C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . ... — 373 News from Ireland . . .. - 374 Eucharistic Congress at Lugo,
Spain .......................................376 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :
Barlow's Consecration . . . . 377 The “ Divine Praises ’ . . . . 377 Conformity in 1559.. . . . . 378 The Modern Goth . . . . . . 378 What Happened at Lambeth ? . . 379 \ Catholic Truth Cartridges . . 379
L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r (Con
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tinued : Corporate Reunion Under Mary 379 Martyrs’ Memorial Window in St.
Mary Overies . . . . . . 379 Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury 380 Recollections of Cardinal Newman 381 Elementary Schools and a County * Rate . . ......................... . . 382 Cardinal Vaughan at St. Asaph :
Catholics and Protestants . . 383 Lectures on the Beach at Hastings 384 The Ceylon Colleges . . . . . . 384 A p p e a l t o t h e C h a r i t a b l e . . 384 O b it u a r y .................................... 386 S o c ia l a n d P o l i t i c a l . . . . 386
SU P P L EM E N T . N ew s from t h e S c h o o l s :
Religious Instruction . . . . 389 School Board ism a t York . . . 389 An Important Announcement . . 389 Mr. Stead and Education . . 389 The Manitoba Schools Question 389 After-School Education in France 390
N ew s from t h e Schools (Con
Page tinued): The Oxford Local Examinations 390 Individual Vocabularies . . . . 390 School Income and Expenditure 390 English as She is Wrote . . . . 391 Work Out of School Done by
School Children . . . . . . 391 Short Courses o f Instiuction for
Belgian Teachers . . . . 391 Larkhill Convent, Preston . . 391 Irish Intermediate Results . . 391 N ew s from t h e D io c e se s : Westminster . . . . —391
S o u th w a r k ....................................... 391 Birmingham.. ............................392 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 392 L i v e r p o o l ....................................... 392 Nottingham .. . . .. . . 393 Plymouth . . . . . . . . 394 Salford . . . . . . . . 394 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 394 The Spread of Catholicism in Wales 394 The Kafirs and the Missionary . . 395
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
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administration of the Poor
MA N Y difficulties encircle the tauter ch ild r en . , L a w t0 th e best advantage of those most immediately concerned and o f the community at large. It has long been recognized that the children who, through no fault of their o w d , are chargeable for their maintenance and up bringing, go forth upon the race for existence severely handicapped by the weight of the “ workhouse taint.” One method devised to rid them of this stigma is the system of boarding-out, amongst the advocates of which the Chorlton Board of Guardians have long occupied a foremost place. They have lately decided to commit themselves to what cannot fail to be a costly but at the same time a most interesting experiment. They have decided to build at Styal, near Wilmslow, Cheshire, a model village for the children of their union, some 300 in all. It is to include twelve cottage homes accommodating twenty children each, and four homes of ten beds each, together with such public appurtenances as a bakery and a swimmingbath, besides workshops for teaching carpentry, boot-making and plumbing. The whole scheme is to cost about ^50,000, a large sum at first sight, but one which the Chorlton Guardians consider they will be more than justified in spending .by the results which they anticipate.
The experiment is certainly a notable
— mr. balfou r on 0DC) an(j received a fitting recognition in
LAW education. Mr- Balfour’s laying of the foundation stone of the buildings. He left Hawarden
•Castle on Monday morning, where he had been paying a visit to Mr. Gladstone, in the seclusion of his library and garden away from the storms of politics, and proceeded to Styal, where, amid a heavy downpour of rain, he declared the stone well and truly laid. In spite of the rain a large crowd had assembled to witness the ceremony, and were rewarded by a short address from Mr. Balfour, who at the •outset remarked that even if the elements had been kindlier, it was scarcely a fitting opportunity for discussing the difficult and controverted questions connected with the adminis
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tration of the Poor Law. A t the same time the duties of Poor Law administration were, of all the duties connected with local government, perhaps those which had the most lasting effect on the general welfare and character of the community. The model village they were about to build on that site was intended for the training of those who, through no fault of their own, had been thrown upon the charge of the community. For them the public had a great and weighty responsibility, and it was a primary duty to bring them up, so far as possible, under conditions that should make their future lives happy and useful, and with draw them from the surroundings in which their first years had been spent. Heavy charges had been called for from the ratepayers, but he felt sure that the forethought in planning the future village justified all the cost, and he shared to the full the hopes o f the Guardians in looking forward with confidence to the education of the children who would be inmates of the buildings being carried out under circumstances which would deprive the Poor Law education of all, or almost all, the evils with which it had been associated.
A public luncheon was subsequently
— barrack^schools ¡n the p ublic Hall, Wilmslow, at boarding out. which Mr. Balfour was the principal guest. In replying to the toast of his health proposed by Dr. Rhodes, the chairman o f the Chorlton Board of Guardians, Mr. Balfour paid a high tribute to the Board for their energy and enlightened enterprise as pioneers in various reforms and new departures in Poor Law administration. They had been the first to adopt the “ boardiDg-out system,” and they had led the way in this country in the proper method of dealing with the sick who fell within the operation of the Poor Law. He bewailed the unfortunate necessity that compelled him to proceed from congratulations upon an example of public spirit to touch upon a question round which controversy was rife. However, all were agreed as to what ends the machinery about which they differed should work. “ A ll are agreed,” said Mr. Balfour amid the cheers of the guests, “ that in dealing with pauper children the great thing to be aimed at is that they should go into life not feeling that they carry round their necks a millstone of tradition, that they are not, as it were, marked out from the rest of the community as being inferior, that they have about them no taint of pauperism, that they are in a position to meet on equal terms the world and to carry out to the best of their abilities the duties which Providence has laid upon them.” He was aware o f the strong criticism that had been levelled
