A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS ÜT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the B r i e f o j H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, iSyo.
V ol. 9 1 . No. 3 0 1 5 .
L o n d o n , F e b r u a r y 1 9 , 1898.
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[R eg is tered a t t h e G en e r a l P ost O f f ic e a s a N ew s pa p e r .
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C hronicle of t h e W e e k !
Imperial Parliament: Where Does Home Rule Stand Now?—The Indian Frontier War— Sir Henry Fowler’s Reply— Majority for the Government — Catholic University for Ireland—The Zola Trial —An Ingenious Theory—Death of Count Kalnoky—The End of the Nevill Case—The United States and Spain — The _Tsar at the British Embassy in St. Petersburg — An American C r u i s e r Blown Up . . .. .. . . 273 Lea d e r s :
English Unionists and Catholic
Ireland . . . . .. .. 277 Federalism in Austiia-Huneary . . 278 The First Four Days of Lent . . 279 N o t e s . . 281 R e v iew s :
The Two Duchesses _ . . . . 283 M y Life in Two Hemispheres . . 284 Stories of the Saints . . . . 285
CONTENTS.
Reviews (Continued) :
Timotheus, Briefe an einen jun
Page gen T h e o lo g e n .........................285 Pretty Miebai . . . . . . 285 Le Livre de l ’Apòtre . . . . 235 Historiographia Ecclesiastica . . 286 Manuale Precum in usum Theologarum . . ......................... 286 Kurzes Biblisches Handbuch . . 236 Protestant Faith . . . . . . 286 A Short Life o f Thomas Davis . . 286 “ To be Had in Remembrance ” . . 286 St. Winefride’s Well .. .. . . 286 Catholic Industrial School Children 287 C orrespondence :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre*
spondent) . . . . — — 289 News from Ireland _ « .291 News from France . . . . . . 292 L e t t e r s to t h e E d it or :
Priests as County Councillors in
Ireland . . .. . . . . 293 The Blessing o f St. Blaise . . 293 The Dreyfus Case . . . . . . 294
L e t t e r s to th e E d it o r (Con
Page tinued : Vespers at the Oratory . . _ 294 Mr. Wilfrid Ward’s “ Cardinal
Wiseman" . . . . . . 294 Prayers for England . . . . . . 294 The Early History of the Uganda
Troubles . . . . .. . . 295 The Distress in the West of Ireland 297 Another Scene at St. Ethelbutga's 297 Why Irish Catholics Should Have a
U D iv e r s i t y .................................... 297 O b it l a r y ......................... ... 298 M arr ia g e .................................... 298 S o c ia l a n d P o l it i c a l . . . . 299
SU PPLEM EN T . N ews from t h e S chools:
Religious Instruction of Catholic
Deaf Children .. .. .. 305 Education by Syndicate at East
bourne . . . . .. . . 305 Aid for Denominational Schools 305 A Check to School Grabbing .. 306 The Department of Science and Art 306
N ews from t h e S chools (Con
tinued): International Congress on Com
Pr.ge mercial Education . . . . 306 Catholics at the Universities .. 306 Funeral at Oscott College, Bir
mingham . . . . . . .. 306 Stone-throwing by School Chil
dren ......................... . . 307 N ews from t h e D io ceses :
Westminster ............................307 Southw a rk ......................... . . 308 N orthampton ............................308 Nottingham.. . . . . . 308 Plymouth . . 308 Salford ......................... . . 30^ St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 30; Intolerance at the Cumberland In
firmary _ . . . . . . . . 309 Earl Fitz william and Catholic Eman
cipation ......................... * .3 1 ° Lepers in Japan .. . . . . 310 Lord Russell and South Hackney 31 c
* * Rejected MS. cannot be returned unless accompanied with address and postage.
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
WHERE DOES HOME RULE STAND NOW ? T
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT :
H E debate on an amendment to the Address, proposed by Mr. John Redmond, was signalized b y four speeches o f quite unusual interest. Mr. R edm ond’s object in proposing that the question o f an independent Parliam ent for Ireland should be placed in the forefront o f all questions o f domestic policy seems to have been to obtaiD some precise information as to the present position o f the L ib eral party in regard to H om e Rule. T h e question seemed as i f it would remain in abeyance until it again becam e so grave an inconvenience that English parties could no longer ignore it. T h e Irish demand lay not so much in the admitted grievances due to English misrule as in the deeper and radical differences o f race, history and aspiration. A compromise o f their full and just demand had been accepted by Irish Nationalists only to find that this country rejected the opportunity offered. I t was time, therefore, that a claim for their full measure o f national [rights should be pressed forward. T h e extension o f mere local government would not satisfy the greater dem and— it would only intensify it. T h e alliance between the Nationalists and the Liberals had been entered into on the distinct ‘ understanding that Home R u le should hold the field. Nothing had come o f it, aDd in fact Ireland had been sacrificed to maintain this useless alliance. S ii W illiam Harcourt had not an easy task to perform in the attempt to answer this pertinent appeal. H e lik ened Mr. Redm ond to Athanasius contra mundum. H e agreed that a L ocal Government B ill could not be regarded as a substitute for H om e Rule, but the priority o f the latter question, he rem inded him, depended on a majority. T h e demand for independence was impossible— the British Parliam ent must, under all circum stances, preserve its supremacy. In this Sir W illiam was backed up b y Mr. John D illo n , who was unwilling to do away with the whole basis o f the H om e R u le movement in England. It was foolish and fatuous pressing for priority for a question from a gentlem an who was in a minority o f 140. T h e Nationalists could in flu ence something like th irly elections in England,
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and no one would receive their support who did not adhere to Mr. G ladstone’s position on H om e Rule. Mr. Balfour expressed his unwillingness to intervene in a domestic discussion, but raised great laughter by pointing out the discrepancy between the speeches that had been given and the votes that were going to be given. Mr. Redm ond and Mr. D illon , who disagreed, were going into the same lobby, whilst Sir William Harcourt and Mr. Dillon, who agreed, were going into different lobbies. H e then explained that the Government B i ll was not brought forward as a com promise, or a sop. Its object was to extend to Ireland the same local liberties that had been granted to England and Scotland. When Nationalists boasted o f controlling e ighty elections in Ireland and thirty in the United K in gdom it was useless to talk o f beiDg a dewa-trodden minority. Threats did not seem a likely way to conciliate or coerce English opinion. When a division was taken the am endment was lost by a majority o f 168.
T h e Indian frontier question must be
—the Indian growing stale, for the attendance of memfrontier war. bers in the house on Monday was b y no means proportionate to the im portance that the debate assumed. Mr. Lawson Walton moved an amendment to the address which may be regaided as a vote o f censure on the Government. H e asked the H ouse to express its disapproval o f the reversal o f the policy o f the late administration in the fortification and maintenance o f the road between Peshawur and Chitral, and he begged that our future policy towards the frontier tribes m ight be one o f conciliation and o f respect for their independence. A fte r sketching the history o f the whole question, he p ro tested that Lord George Hamilton’s arguments for the new departure made by the Government had already been refuted fifteen years ago, in regard to Candahar, b y the Duke o f Devonshire. H e gave the names o f the military authorities upon whose advice Sir H enry Fowler had determ ined to adhere to Lord Lawrence’s policy o f maintaining the freedom o f the tribes as the natural guardiaos o f the frontier. T h e se he pitted against the authorities quoted by the present Government. T h e only argument for the change that had been made vras a change in the personnel o f the Cabinet— other men other measures. There was no need to fear encroachments on the part o f Russia, and a policy o f provocation which k indled the fires o f patriotism fanned b y fanaticism, could only end in disastrous and widespread outbreaks. Such a policy weakened the defences o f India, and so the war now being waged ought never to have been entered upon, for it established no right,
