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DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMOS OT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
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Imperial|Parliament: Home from ( 'the Holidays— In Honour o f Lord
Randolph Churchill — The Vaccination Bill — Universal Board •Schools— The Corn Sales Bill— Australian Premiers in Conference—The Chartered^ Company’s Report — Anglicans in the Law Courts— A Chinese Coal Field for a. British Syndicate— Colliery Fire in Leicestershire — A u s t r a l i a n Federation — The United States and Spain — The Houses Confer — An Ultimatum Sent to Spain— T h e Surplus of a Million and a H a l f ................................................ 633 L e a d e r s :
The Archbishop of Canterbury and Church Endowments . . 637
CONTENTS.
L e a d e r s (Continued) :
The New Peril to Denominational
Schools . . ......................... 638 Florence and the Discovery of the
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New World . . . . . . 639 The Catholic Church in Wales . . 640 N o t e s . . ... — — . . 642 R ev ie w s :
Cambridge Described and Illus
trated . . . . . . . . 644 A Noble Revenge . . _ . . . . 645 The Anglican Reformation . . 645 “ The Dublin Review ” . . . . 645 A Dictionary of the French and
English Languages . . . . 647 Books of the Week . . . . 647 The Historical Research Society . . 647 C o r r e s p o n d en c e :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . « — _ 649
C orrespondence (Continued): Page
News from Ireland ... 651 News from F ra n c e .........................652 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r ;
The Anglican Position . . . . 653 Catholics and the Cuban C risis.. 654 The Annual Conference of the
Heads of Catholic Colleges . . 654 Mission for English Sailors in
Genoa ., . . . . . . 655 The “ Soul” of the Church . . 655 Ritualism and Continuity . . 655 “ The Catholic Directory ” . . 655 The Catholic Success at Oxford.. 655 Dominican C h a n g e s .........................655 A Priest of Sixty Years . . . . 656 Rome and Canterbury . . . . 658 American Notes .........................658 The Anti-Ritual Crusade . . . . 659 M a r r ia g e ........................... . . 661
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S o c ia l a n d P o l i t i c a l . . 662
s u p p l e m e n t . N ews from t h e S c h o o l s :
A Church Teacher’s Revolt . . 665 Easter Week at St. Joseph’s Col
lege, Dumfries . . . . . . 668 The New Chapel at St. Bede’s . . 658 Nonconformists and Village Schools 668 Cricket .......................................669 N ew s from t h e D io ceses : Westminster ........................... 669
S o u th w a r k ......................... . . 670 Birmingham Salford . . . . Shrewsbury The Growth of Ritualism .. The “ Pure Reformed Church of
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England ” and St. Edmund’s House .................................. .
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
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TH ER E was only a thin attendance of members on Monday when the House
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business after the Easter recess, and several of the Ministers who were present during question time left as soon as the House went into Committee of Supply. Mr. Curzon was absent through illness. In reply to Mr. Henniker Heaton, Mr. Hanbury gave a satisfactory explanation of the inequalities which exist in the scale of commissions for postal orders, many of which were due to the fact that postal orders were issued for fixed sums. The Government did not see their way to the issue of a graduated series of orders rising by sixpence, whilst the three months’ limit for the cashing of postal orders had been fixed by Parliament with the object of preventing them from becoming paper currency. Mr. Balfour, replying to Sir William Harcourt, expressed regret that owing to the delay caused by the necessity of referring certain papers to foreign Governments, it had been impossible to get the papers relating to China published during the holidays. They would, however, he hoped, be in the hands of members by Thursday or Friday. That would render it difficult for a Foreign Office debate to take place on Friday evening ; besides Mr. Curzon would scarcely be then well enough to bear the fatigue and strain of a heavy Parliamentary night, and he thought it better that the Foreign Office vote should be taken on Friday in next week. The House afterwards went into Committee of Supply on the Civil Service estimates. Mr. Caldwell objected to the maintenance of the London parks being an imperial expense. As Londoners had the benefit of them, the least they could do was to keep them up out of their own pockets. Mr. Wallace made an amusing speech in favour of the vote. London was a great joy and privilege to England in various relations, not only political and social, but artistic and traditional. A journey to London, even from north of the Tweed, was regarded still as more or less a romantic and attractive undertaking. It was perfectly proper, therefore,
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that the people of the provinces should give some contribution to the delights to which many of them looked forward with life-long expectation, and remembered with life-long retrospect. Sir Henry Fowler also spoke in favour of the vote, and strongly urged the installation of the electric light in Hyde Park as a great convenience, and as a measure of police for the prevention of scenes which ought to be put down.
— IN HONOUR OF LORD RANDOLPH
CHURCHILL.
There was a pleasant little ceremony in the corridor of the members’ staircase leading from the lobby when Sir Michael Hicks Beach unveiled a white marble bust of the late Lord Randolph Churchill, which has been placed almost opposite that of Mr. W. H. Smith. Lady Randolph Churchill, Sir William Harcourt, Mr. Arthur O ’Connor, were amongst those present, the attendance including representatives of all shades of political belief. The Chancellor of the Exchequer’s speech was marked by a warmth of deep feeling such as he seldom reveals. Lord Randolph, he declared, was one of the very few men whom we have known in our time who have possessed real political genius. By a combination of rare courage, tenacity, aDd resolution, he had raised himself from the position of an almost unknown member to that of Leader of the House of Commons during little more than the life of one Parliament, and he had fulfilled the duties of this high office, at a time of great difficulty, with remarkable dignity and ability. He was a brilliant orator, a statesman, and a loveable friend, who had done much to stimulate, vivify and popularize the Conservative party at a most eventful period of its history. This is a lofty estimate which many, remembering Lord Randolph Churchill’s political suicide, will scarcely be able to approve, but it was spoken with affecting sincerity by one who was in an exceptional position for estimating the real character of his “ brilliant colleague and dear friend.”
At [the morning sitting of the House on v a c c i n a t i o n Tuesdaythecase for and against vaccination b i l l . ' was argued with a good deal of statistical elaboration on Mr. Chaplin’s moving the second reading of his Vaccination Bill. The lion’s share of the talking fell on the front Opposition Bench to Sir Walter Foster and on the Ministerial side of the House to Sir W. Priestley. Both speakers gave a general approval of the Bill, but had many suggestions to make as to the points in which it was open to improvement. A good deal of interesting information came out during the discussion. It had been ascertained that by mixing the lymph taken from
