A W e ek ly N ew sp a p er a n d R e v iew .

DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS ÜT IN INCCEPTIS VKSTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

From the B r ie f oj H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.

V o l . 88. No. 2950. L o n d o n , N o v e m b e r 21, 1896. P r ic e sd . b y P o s t sJ£d

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.Mr. Balfour on Domestic Politics —On Foreign Affairs— The London County Council Scandal — 'W h y W e r e th e A c c o u n t s

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‘ ‘ Cooked ? ” — P e a c e Between I t a l y and Abyssinia — British Trade and Foreign Competition — The Motocar Birthday — The Disclosures and the Reichstag— 'The Scarcity in India — The Spanish Loan for the Cuban War— Gold in Newfoundland— Niagara *in Harness— Duelling in Germany The Warin Cuba—The Cab Strike — The Manitoba Schools Settlement ................................................801 L e a d e r s :

Anglicans on Anglican Orders . . 805 Commerce and Empire . . . . 806 One o f the Pope’s Critics . . 807 The “ Athanasian ” Creed . . 809 The Late Mgr. Charles Gillow . . 811

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Confession and Absolution . . 813 The Separated Churches .. . . 814 Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers 815 A Daughter of the Fen . . . . 815 The Children’s Study : Irelan d .. 815 C orrespondence :

Rome :— (From Our Own Correspondent) . .

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News from Ireland ... — - 8ig L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :

Evolution and Dogma

Diana Vaughan

The Priesthood in the Church of

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England . . . . . . .. 821 Evolution of the Human Body .. 821 Attendance of Registrar at Mar­

riages . . . . . . . . 821 Prayers for the Friendless Dead 821 Church or Chapel ? .. . . . . 821 Wanted: A Translation . . . . 821 Mr. Puller on Attrition . . . . 821

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

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Kurdistan.. . . . . . . 822 The Breviary and the Ordo . . 822 A Remarkable Nonconformist

Lecture . . . . . . . . 822 The Papal Bull .. . . . . 822 “ Bishop Creighton and th e

Nuncio" . . .. . . . . 822 The Providential Proposal . . 822 Documents Published in Rome by

Mr. Lacey, and Reply by Dom Gasquet, O.S.B., and Canon Moyes . . . . . . . . 823 The Maltese Marriage Question . . 827 Books of the Week . . . . . . 828 So c ia l a n d P o l it ic a l . . . . 830

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

The Policy o f the Convocation

Conference . . . . . . 833 Churchmen and Rate-Aid . . 833 H e y w o o d .................................... 833

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Page tinued): A Lost Opportunity . . . . 833 A School Pate War . . . . 834 North and South . . . . . . 834 The Way to Get a School-Board 834 Sir John Gorst on Education . . 834 St. Edmund’s College . . . . 835 W e s l e y a n s and St. Joseph’s

College, Colombo . . . . 835 Catholics at Oxford . . . . 835 N ew s from t h e D io ceses : Westminster . . . . 835

S o u th w a r k ............... ... 835 Birmingham.. ............................ 835 Clifton ....................................... 836 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 836 Northampton . . . . . . 836 Nottingham . . . . . . 836 Portsm outh.......................................836 Newport _ . . ^ ............................ 837 First Principles in the Education

Question ....................................... 837 The Late Abbot of Oliveto.. . . 838

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SPEAKING at Rochdale, Mr. Balfour took occasion to defend the Government against the charge of having made extravagant promises in the Queen’s

Speech, promises which were not and could not have been fulfilled. He admitted that the Ministers had been too hopeful, but Ministers always were, and the present Government had been far more successful in making performance square with promise than the Radical Government had been. In the course of twenty-two months the late Government promised twenty-five separate Bills, and of these only four finally became law. The present Government passed five of the measures promised in the Queen’s Speech within six months. Then turning to the question of education, Mr. Balfour said that the lesson of last session should not be wasted. They would not again try to deal with the whole question in one comprehensive measure, but divide their general proposals into several Bills. It was disappointing to hear Mr. Balfour say that the Bill affording relief must be cut down until it displeased no section of the party. That, at least, seems to be the meaning of the following passage : “ Even in considering the extent of aid to Voluntary schools, it would be madness in the present condition of public opinion to alienate any large body of those who are favourable to Elementary schools by bringing forward any proposals in which they would find it impossible to agree. I am not going to discuss the education question, but I want to remind those in this room who are, as I am, deeply concerned with the difficulty in which Voluntary schools find themselves, I want them to remember that at the present time they have no friends worth counting on the other side of the House. It is true that the Irish members are pledged to support denominational education. They are pledged to support it, but they are naturally reluctant and untrustworthy Parliamentary allies ; and Voluntary schools must depend, and must depend wholly, on the support they get from the Unionist members and from the Unionist side of the House. That being so, I cannot conceive a worse service, a greater disservice, which we could do to Voluntary schools than to force into opposition any section, any important or large section, of that body which is now only most anxious to give those

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Voluntary schools a loyal and hearty support.” There is not much to choose between foes who oppose and friends who will not befriend. We believe that Mr. Balfour does the Irish members an injustice when he speaks of them as half-hearted in the cause of denominational education. But why this sudden timidity and complaint that he cannot be sure of Irish support on the part of a leader backed by a majority of 150 votes. The Unionist party was returned to do justice to the Denominational schools, and, if there are individuals who now object to that policy, let us know who they are. Mr. Balfour’s plan seems to commit the whole party to a great betrayal for the miserable object of pacifying a handful of malcontents. * We shall hope, however, that his words were intended to refer not to the adequacy of the relief to be given, but rather to particular methods of raising the necessary money.

Leaving domestic affairs, Mr. Balfour

—on foreign spoke well and wisely on the subject of

1affairs. the duties and responsibilities of Great

Britain in the presence of her scattered

Colonial Empire. Those responsibilities, he said, ought to make statesmen very careful how they risked war for the sake of a people whom we had not means of effectively assisting, and who certainly had not the first claim upon our care. In his opinion the one great obstacle to a European concert for the settlement of the Eastern question was the general European distrust of this country. He asked whether people abroad had not some excuse for their suspicions when they read the speeches of the Radical leaders. The men who approve the sentiments of the lady who would shatter the Empire for the sake of the Armenians, have nothing but scorn for the policy which, in the case of Dongola, has so successfully rescued a whole province from oppression ; and yet in Dongola misgovernment was not a hateful episode, but a perpetual policy. The wondering foreigner would learn that in Dongola the habitual methods by which the dominant caste inflicted their will upon the subject populations were murder, outrage, torture, maiming, slavery, the whole black catalogue of possible atrocities, and he would find that the whole province had been devastated for years and rendered sterile. That province which was called the garden, the granary, of Egypt was devastated and made sterile by the most barbarous tyranny that the world has ever seen, and he would ask whether we are to believe in the sincerity of those who tell us that everything must be sacrificed for the Armenians, when they, at the same time, tell us that