THE TABLET.

A W eekly N ew sp aper a n d R e v ie w.

DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

From the B r ie f oj H is Holiness Pius IX . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, iSyo.

V o l . 89. No. 2973.

L ondon, M a y i , 1897.

P r iCe 3d „ b y p o s t 5k

[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 .

C h r o n ic le o f t h e W e e k ! Pugc

Imperial Parliament : Catholic Schools in Scotland— More Money for School Boards — Sir John Gorst on the Defensive — The Importation o f Foreign Manufactures— The Progress of the War— The Occupation o f Larissa by the Turks— The Speaking of Irish— Marriage as it is Understood in the Church of England — The Revolution in the Canadian Tariff — Can Germany Object ? — The Cape Assembly — The Jubilee Budget Le a d e r s : 677

The Fleet in Delagoa Bay . . 681 The Years of P e t e r . . . . . . 682 Catholic Archbishops of Canter­

bury from Norman Times . . 683 N o t e s . . . . — — -• 687

CONTENTS.

R e v ie w s :

The Russia” Church The Water-Finder .. God, Man, and the D ev i l .. The Archpriest Controversy Some Books of Devotion . . Explanation of the Salve Regina C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :

Page . 69o . 691 . 691 . 701 • 7»701

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . ...

«. 693

News from Ireland _ _ 695 News from France . . . . 696 The Mission o f Maria Ratschitz,

Natal . . . . . . . . . . 697 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :

The Origin of Man.. . . . . 697 The Church of England an d the

Eucharist .. . . . . . . 699 For Conscience’ Sake . . . . 699

Controversial Methods

700

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

tinued : The “ Filioque” Clause in the

Creed

Page

700

An Appeal from Provost Croskell 700 Germans and the Queen’s Jubilee 700 The Street C ry o f “ Hot Cross

Buns ”

The Bishops’ Low Week Meeting . . 701 The Progress o f the Catholic Truth

700

Society^ ....................................... 702 The Anglican Archbishops’ R e p ly . . 703 Statutory Equality ! !! . . ' . . 704 M a r r ia g e . . . . . . . . 704 S o c ia l a n d P o l i t i c a l . . . . 7 0 5

S U P P L EM E N T . N ew s from t h e S c h o o l s :

The Annual Grants . . . . 709 To Keep Teachers Together . . 709 A New Nonconformist Policy

Suggested

The New Association . . . . 7 1 0

709

N ew s from t h e S chools (Con­

tinued): The Grants to Necessitous Board

Page

Schools . .

. . . . 710

Spanish Universities . . .. 710 Education for Backward Prisoners 710 A Catholic Candidate . . . . 710 The Cost of Elementary Educa­

tion in 1896 ......................... 710 N ew s from t h e D io ceses : Westminster . . . . _

Southwark Leeds L i v e r p o o l - .................................... Northampton Plymouth f ..................................... Portsmouth . . ......................... Salford .................................... St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . Glasgow ......................... The Bumbles o f Camberwell Missionary Work in the South Sea

Islands

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and postage.

C H R O N I C L E O F T H E W E E K .

before the House. This may be taken as a ground for hope that something will be done. T h e case is clear enough, but it is not equally clear that the Government are ready to legislate upon it immediately.

i m p e r i a l p a r l i a m e n t :

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS

IN SCOTLAND.

'H E R E was only a small

Tnumber o f members to meet the Speaker at the opening sitting on Monday after

the Easter recess, and even that number, small as it was, dwindled gradually away as the evening wore on till a count-out showed that there was not the necessary quorum o f forty present. Mr. Knox put a very pertinent question to Mr. Balfour in regard to the claims o f Scottish Catholics for consideration in the matter o f their Voluntary schools. T h e education returns show that during the past year nearly 50,000 children were in the year 1896 in average attendance at Catholic day schools in Scotland, as against 510,000 in the Public schools ; and that nearly 10,000 scholars were in average attendance at Catholic evening continuation schools, as against less than 40,000 in the Public schools. T h e amount o f money received by these schools from voluntary subscriptions was no less than .£ 21,543, which was more than double the total amount o f all other sections o f the people of Scotland to educational purposes. In addition to this, the parents o f these Catholic children had to contribute as ratepayers to the support o f the public schools in which Presbyterian catechetical teaching was given, without receiving any aid from the rates for their own Catholic schools. This testimony o f the Scottish educational returns quoted by Mr. Knox is only one more witness in favour o f the Catholic claim for justice which has been already so freely admitted by Mr. John Morley and Lord Herschell. In view of the facts he had put forward Mr. Knox thought that the Catholics of Scotland were entitled to some assistance from the Government, and he therefore asked i f Ministers would, under the circumstances, give the Scotch Voluntary schools an equivalent measure of redress to that which had been already given to England by the Voluntary Schools A c t. Mr. Balfour’s reply was not very definite, but he, at any rate, admitted that the condition o f Voluntary schools in Scotland was under the consideration of the Government, and that the facts brought to light by the Report would not be lost sight of in the framing of any proposals that might be brought

N e w S e m e s . V o l , L V I I . , N o . 2 ,282.

The generally quiet character o f the

_MORfor° NEY sitti“ S m£*y be further gathered from the s c h o o l b o a r d s . f a c t tIlat Mr. Curzon’s persistent ques­

tioners on Crete were scarcely in evidence.

Sir William Harcourt asked for a statement from the Government on the matter o f the war between Turkey and Greece and their policy in its regard. Mr. Balfour’s answer was short and to the point. T h e Government, in common with the rest o f the Powers, had agreed to an attitude o f neutrality as between ‘ the combatants, but were desirous, as soon as the opportunity presented itself, to offer themselves as mediators. It is evident that these two statements are to be taken together, and that the mediation suggested will only be entered upon in company with the rest o f the Powers in the European Concert. After question time, Sir William Harcourt and most of the occupants o f the front Opposition bench left the House, whilst Sir John Gorst and the Solicitor-General were left alone to lead the Ministerial side. Sir John formally moved the Second Reading of the Elementary Education A c t (1870) Amendment Bill, which gives power to increase the grant to necessitous Board schools by an alteration o f Section 97 o f hat A c t. T h e dullness of the sitting was relieved hy no novelty in the arguments produced by the Opposition, who were apparently agreed on two points— that the Government were guilty o f unequal treatment as between Voluntary and Board schools, and that the sliding scale proposed hy the Bill before the House would give rise to glaring inequalities in different School Board districts. Mr. Lough kept to the general question, and ignoring the fact that a threepenny rate produced more in some districts than others, tried to show that the Bill was unfair by producing a number of contrasts in the way it would operate to give small relief to heavily rated districts and large sums to lightly rated areas. Mr. Channing meted out chastening words to the Government, and moved an amendment declaring that no measure could be satisfactory which did not provide a sum amounting in the aggregate to five shillings a scholar in attendance at Board schools in England and Wales. A l l he wanted to do, he said, was to affirm the necessity o f an “ equalization o f the educational burden throughout the country,” which could not be done by such a pettifogging B ill as that before the House. T h e