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A W eekly New spaper a n d Review .
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS ÜT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the B r ie f o j H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.
Vol. 91. No. 3016. L o n d o n , F ebruary 26, 1898.
P r ic e sd ., b y P o st s K d .
[R eg is tered a t t h e G e n e r a l P o st O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper.
C h ronicle of t h e W e e k f
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Imperial Parliament: Voting of the Address — Local Government for Ireland : The New Bill — Constitution and Powers o f the N ew Bodies — Its Reception by -the House— French and English in West Africa— The Finances of India — Congested Districts in Ireland — Egypt’s Big Dam— ■ Chinese Concessions Through England to the World—The Manitoba Schools—The Dismissal of Ch ie f Justice Kotze—The Zola Trial—The Verdict and Sentence — The Future Administration of Rhodesia — The L a t e s t from "Uganda . . . . •• •• 3*3
L e a d e r s :
Mr. Dillon’s Success . . . . 317 Mr. Kruger Re-elected . . . . 318 Morals and Manners in the
Italian Universities . . . 319
CONTENTS.
The Sacrament-Chapels in the
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Catacomb of St. Callistus . . 320 N o tes .. . - . . 321 Ottawa Catholic University . . 324 R eview s :
France . . . . . . .. 324 Demon Possession and Allied
Themes . . .. .. . . 326 The Holy Gospel According to St.
Luke .................................... 326 Meditations on the Sacred Pas
sion of Our Lord . . . . 327 Books of Reference . . . . 327 C o r r e s p o n d e n c e ;
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . — — 329 News from Ireland — — 331 News from France . . . . . . 332 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :
Old Prayers for the Conversion of England . . . . . . 333 Mr. J. P. Hayden and the Bishop of Meath . . .. . . . . 333 The Anglican Position I . . . . 333
L e t t e r s to t h e E d it or (Con
tinued : Priests as County Councillors in
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Ireland . . . . . . . . 334 How Elections are Made in Spain 334 The Blessing of St. Blaise . . 334 English Unionists and Catholic
Ireland . . . . . . . . 334 Notice Boards . . . . . . 334 Attendance of Registrars at Catho
lic Marriages :
Statement of the Catholic Case 335 Letter from Cardinal Vaughan 335 Letter from the Archbishop and
Bishops of England . The Shanghai Mission American Notes Catholicism in Wales The Church in Rhodesia Ritual at St. Ethelburga’s . . The Loreto Nuns in Australia The Antagonists of an Irish Catholic
University . . .. . . . . 339
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Bungling Bumbles at Lewisham . . 330 Books of the Week . . . . . . 340 So c ia l an d Po l it i c a l . . . . 341
SU PPLEM ENT. Lenten In du lt.................................... N ews ritoM t h e S c h o o l s :
The Irish University Question :
In the House In Ireland Abandonment of Nine-hundred and Seventy two Church Schools to Board Schools St. Mary’s College, Oscott St. Edmund’s College N ew s from t h e D io ceses :
Westminster Southwark Birmingham Clifton Leeds Nottingham Portsmonth Shrewsbury
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Rejected MS. cannot be returned unless accompanied with address and postage.
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
VOTING OF THE ADDRESS. T
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT :
HE resumed debate on Mr.
Dillon’s Amendment on the Irish University Question, though valuable as having called forth a number of important statements in favour of the matter, some of which we give in another column, ended in the rejection of the amendment. Those who objected to the proposal from Mr. Perks, whom Mr. Knox described as a sort of Nonconformist Pope, to Mr. Johnston, of Ballykilbeg, betrayed a haunting fear of the Catholic Church which was as ridiculous as their determination to govern Ireland according to English ideas of what is best for the country. Against the declarations of such people the manly words of Mr. Carson, the member for Dublin University, are particularly valuable. He had no fear of a Catholic University, which was a necessity, seeing that all the attempts made by Trinity had not succeeded in bringing University training within the range of the great masses of the people. Feeling that many might be deterred from voting for the amendment on account of the implication of a censure of the Government, and that so a division would not truly represent the feeliDg of the House, Mr. Dillon asked for leave to withdraw his amendment. This was refused, and the House negatived the motion without a division. The Address was finally agreed to on Friday night after amendments in connection with the recent press prosecutions in India, the prohibition against post office employes taking part in political agitations, the deportation of paupers and the adulteration of food products. Before the voting of the Address, however, Mr. Chamberlain, replying to a question interposed with the leave of the House by Sir Charles Dilke, announced that he had received telegrams from the Governors of Lagos and the Gold Coast stating that a French force had ordered the hauling down of the British flag at Borea, and that another had attempted to pass a British post at Wae. This serious news was received by the House in silence, broken only by a disgraceful shout from Dr. Tanner of “ Vive la France ! ”
N e w S e r i e s V o l . LIX., N o . 2 , ? ^ .
A full House greeted Mr. Gerald
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THE NEW BILL. cLtGrDOOD tO <isk for lGclVG tO briog id a Bill for fulfilling the pledge made by the Government of extending a system of local government to Ireland. His speech, which was on all sides declared to be a lucid exposition of a difficult and complicated subject, was listened to with sympathetic attention, and was frequently punctuated with cheers from the serried ranks of the Irish Nationalists. At the outset he struck a note which gained unqualified approval. The reform of Irish Local Government was not only inevitable but desirable and that reform was to be brought about by a constructive process after the abolition of the Grand Jury system, which, however well it might have worked in the past, had no principle of growth within it. Such a transfer of power might be regarded with apprehension owing to the absence of a middle-class in Ireland, and the marked division of interest and sympathy as between the landlord and tenant classes, but he thought that the success of his proposals would be the beginning of a brighter day for the country. In place of this obsolete and barren system a symmetrical series of local bodies, on the English model but with a difference, is to be established. It is proposed that local administration in Ireland should be distributed between County Councils, Urban District Councils, Rural District Councils, and Boards of Guardians. The franchise for the election of these bodies will be in every case the Parliamentary franchise, with the addition of Peers and women. Parish Councils are not to be erected, as the parish has never, in Ireland, been an area of local administration. The qualifications and disqualifications are practically to be the same as in England. One disability, however, is created, and that is that ministers of religion are not to be qualified to serve as Councillors. Mr. Balfour explained the reason of this as follows : “ There is no Irish precedent for an elected administrative body on which ministers of religion are allowed to sit. The point has been very carefully considered by the Government, and the conclusion we have arrived at is that it would be unwise to depart from the principle acquiesced in and accepted, so far as I am aware, in Ireland by clergy and laity alike. There is, I admit, something to be said on both sides of the question; but, on the whole, we are of opinion that the admission of ministers of religion to County Councils will not tend to economical administration or to the smooth working of the new institutions.” The four-fold division for the purposes of local administration will be really reduced to a three-fold
