A W eek ly N ew spap er a n d R e v iew ,

D>UM VOBIS GRATOLAMURf ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMDS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS

F rom the B r i e f o j H i s H o lin ess P iu s I X . to T he T a b let , J u n e 4, 1 I7 0 .

V ol. 88. No. 2951. L o n d o n , N o v e m b e r 2 8 , 1 8 9 6 .

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C h ronicle o f t h e W e e k !

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The Manitoba School Question— The Reformatory System— Sugg e s t e d Improvements — T h e London County Council Scandal — D r . Temple on Church Reform — The Cab Strike— The Education Question on the Platform— A Call to the Anglican Episcopate c— French Foreign Po lic y— Provgress in Uganda — The Royal Buckhounds— The Improvement ■ ofTrade— The Expected Advance upon Khartoum— The Governmen t and Technical and Secondary ■ Education.................................... L e a d e r s :

The Demand for Educational

Equality ... . . •• •• 845 England on the N iger . . . . 845 The Christian Umpire .. . . 846 'T he Appeal on the Education

Question . . . . . . • • 843

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Catholics and Nonconformists . . 850 N o t e s .................................... . . 850 R e v ie w s :

Canon Law in England .. . . 852 What Was the Gunpowder P lot? 853 School and Home Life . . . 854 The Carissima . . . . . . 855 Thus Spoke Zarathustra . . . . 855 The Press on the Bishops’ A ppeal.. 855 C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . ... 857 News from Ireland ... «. « 858 News From France . . . . 859 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :

Mr. Puller on Attrition . . . . 860 Anglicanism and Masonry . . 862 Evolution and Dogma .. . . 862 Home for Ladies at Minster in

Thanet . . . . . . . . 862 “ Providential Proposal of Genoa” 862 Church or Chapel ? Dr. Creighton at Moscow 862 862

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

Page tinued : Diana V a u g h a n .........................863 Anglicanism .. . . . . . . 863 The Deficiency o f the Anglican

Ordinal . . . . . . . . 863 A Sad C a s e . . . . . . . . 863 On Behalf of the Maronites . . 863 Catholic Demonstration in Aberdeen 864 The Benevolent Society for the

Relief o f the Aged and Infirm P o o r ......................... Death o f the Bishop o f Ross A_Scottish Episcopalian Synod Bishop Hedlev’s Sermons . . Books of the Week O b i t u a r y ........................... M a r r ia g e S o c ia l a n d P o l it i c a l

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SUPPLEMENT. N ew s from t h e S c h o o l s :

Mr. Balfour and the Coming Bill 873 The Recent Important Utterances 873

N ew s from t h e S chools (Con­

Page tinued): The Manitoba School Settlement 873 Catholics and Scoool Board Pro­

secutions at Bolton .. . . 874 Canon Nunn and the Critics . . 874 Pate-Aid and a Church Pate . . 875 The Italian Wedding and Diplomas 875 Rural Board Schools .. . . 875 Cambridge University Intelligence 875 Boards and Agricultural Rates Act 875 A Dinner Strike . . . . . . 875 Catholics at Oxford . . . . 875 N ew s from t h e D io c e se s :

Westminster ............................876 Birmingham.. ............................876 Clifton .......................................876 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 876 Leeds . . 876 Northampton . . . . . . 877 Newport . . . . . . . . 877 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 877 Glasgow ......................... . . 878 The Ways of the Protestant Alliance 878

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

TH E proposed compromise in the matter of the Manitoba school question has been too hastily accepted in this vuLoxiuL. c o u n t r y as likelytobe a satisfactory settlement. I t has on the contrary given riseto feelings of bitter disappointment, and Archbishop Langevin has now publicly denounced it in the Cathedral at St. Boniface. It must be remembered that the question is complicated by considerations of nationality and language, as well as of religion. The Archbishop complains that the descendants of the old French colonists whose rights were guaranteed by the English Government are put on the same footing as emigrants from Iceland or Russia. “ Our poverty,” said his Grace, “ is not a reason for insulting our misery, for it will never force us to accept a shameful compromise. We wish, in the first place, the control of our schools ; secondly, Catholic school districts everywhere; thirdly, Catholic histories and reading-books; fourthly, Catholic inspectors ; fifthly, competent Catholic teachers instructed by us ; sixthly, our taxes and exemption from taxes for other schools. The remedial Bill gave us all that in principle. Opposition was made to it because it did not give enough. But what has been given in its place ? Not one of our sacred rights ; not a single one.” His Grace here alluded to the fact that fifty-one Catholic schools had been closed under the provincial law. He said that all would be open soon as parochial schools, and continued : “ Up to the present I have made no strenuous efforts because I have expected from time to time an equitable settlement of this matter. Now that it is over, I take control of the schools of our people.” The Archbishop has lost no time in making good his words. Already ten schools have been opened, the expense of which will be borne by the Catholic authorities.

The Departmental Committee on Reformathe tory an(j industrial schools appointed in *EFsvstem° RY May. l S 9S- by Mr- Ascluith>t0 Squire into the general state of those schools, and to make recommendations as to administrative changes and amendments has just issued its report. It gives a great deal of valuable information on the history, the present system of management, and the character of the training

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given in these institutions. When, however, the report comes to the duty of recommending changes, it assumes a somewhat colourless character. The improvements recommended are summarized under twenty heads, but the force of the recommendations is considerably lessened by the nine memoranda which have been appended to it by various members of the Committee, and which show that the Committee is hopelessly divided on the point at issue. The first of these memoranda is somewhat remarkable, as it bears the signature of the Chairman, along with three other members of the Committee. It points out that though in general agreement with the rest of the Committee as to many points of detail and the general lines on which improvements should be made, the Committee were divided by a broad difference of opinion as to the general estimate of the good effected by reformatory and industrial schools. The optimistic view of their colleagues that there is no objection in principle to such schools, which are doing good work in almost the best way possible, is not shared by the signatories o f this first memorandum. They declare that, as institutions for the reform and the prevention of juvenile criminality, schools of detention are based on a system containing grave defects. Association of one bad boy with many, the difficulty of the master’s exerting any sufficiently personal influence over each individual, the close analogy between reformatory and prison life, and the taint that follows the inmates into the world— all meet with condemnation. There is, therefore, no reason for helping the mistaken expansion of the industrial school system which has taken place in recent years. The number of children under detention in industrial and truant schools, which was 2,500 in 1866, became 13,400 in T876, and 20,000 in 1886, the number now being 24,600. The present number under detention in industrial schools alone is put at 19,000. Only “ chequered and imperfect ” results have been obtained, and so the Chairman and those who think with him give it as their opinion that “ what is to be desired is not expansion, but reduction ” of the system, whether by sending fewer children to the schools, or by boarding out those who are sent there.

Sweeping as this condemnation of the

— s u g g e s t e d system is, it can scarcely result in the i m p r o v e m e n t s , abolition of existing schools, whilst it is felt that many of the improvements sug­

gested under twenty heads in the report are not of a very practical nature. There is a praiseworthy attempt to obtain closer investigation into the boys who are sent to these