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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, ib fo .

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London, June 18, 1898.

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C hronicle o f t h e W e e k

Imperial Parliament:The Government’s Foreign Policy— Monday in the Lords—Tea and Tobacco — The London University Com[ mission Bill— Nonconformists and

Page the Registrar— The Behring Sea Award— Mr. Hooley and the Press — The State and the Stage— The N iger Negotiations—The German Elections — The Position o f the Social Democrats—Lord Salisbury on British Trade with China—The French Chamber — The War — Outrage at the German Embassy 953 L eaders :

Probable Solution of the Austrian

Crisis . . ......................... 957 The School Committee . . . . 958 Fra Girolamo Savonarola.. . . 958

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Memoir of Anne J. Clough .. 964 Dante’s Ten Heavens . . . . 964 An Angel of P ity .. . . . . 965 The Obligation of Hearing Mass on Sundays and Holidays . . 965 Up for the Green . . . . . . 966 Ecclesiastical Education in America 966 “ Typical Priests ” ............................967 C orrespondence :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre-

spondent) . . — — — 969 News from Ireland — — 971 News from F rance........................... 972 News from America . . . . 972 L e t t e r s to t h e E d it or :

The Late Cardinal Manning and the Papacy ........................... 973

L e t t e r s t o t h e E d itor (Con- Page tinued : “ The Motherhood o f G od ” . . 973 Savonarola . . . . . . . . 973 Conference o f Catholic Guardians 973 Conference of Catholic Colleges 973 The Test o f Catholicism . . . 973 Catholic Truth Society^ . . . . 974 The Church in Australia . . . . 975 Catholic Evidence Lectures . . 976 Newman House . . . . . . 976 The “ Press ” Bazaar . . . . 977 The Ritual Controversy . . . . 977 O b it u a r y ...................................... . 979 M a r r ia g e ........................................ 979 So c ia l a n d P o l it ic a l ... . . 979

SU PPLEM ENT. N ew s from t h e S chools :

The Catholic School Committee 983 The Secondary Education Bill . . 987

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Page tinued): First Communion Day at Hodder 988 Xaverian Brothers’ School, Mayfield, Sussex ........................... 988 Auditing of School Accounts . . 988 N ew s from t h e D io ceses :

Westminster . . . . «.988 Southwark . . . . . . M 989 Birmingham.......................................989 Northampton ........................ 990 Nottingham ......................... „ 990 Portsmouth . . . . . . . . 990 Menevia .......................................990 Newport ....................................... 990 Glasgow . . . . . . 990 The Converts’ Aid Society . . . . 991 The Holy Winding Sheet . . . . 991

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

Warington Smith’s book on Siam on the agreement made by the Government in regard to that country. The change in American opinion was largely due to Lord Salisbury’s careful handling of outstanding disputes. Mr. Labouchere had his word, which amounted to the declaration that he could tolerate and even agree with Lord Salisbury, but that he could not tolerate the colleague in the Colonial Office with whom the Premier was cursed. Sir William Harcourt’s speech was little more than a repetition of former addresses on the same subject, though he, too, seemed anxious to come to close quarters with the Colonial Secretary. Nor did Mr. Chamberlain disappoint any of his critics. He denounced the attempts that had been made to make out that the Cabinet was divided. The difference between the Prime Minister and a member of the Cabinet was that in case of a difference of opinion upon an important point, the Minister resigned and the Premier remained. For himself he had neither lesigned nor been asked to do so, because no difference of opinion had arisen to necessitate such a course. The object of his Birmingham speech was not to lay down a policy but to state facts, and to explain the problems with which this country would have to deal in the near future. To hold doggedly to every point would be a policy of universal war, and there should be no bluffing when those responsible were not prepared to back it to the end. We had not touted for alliances, and at any rate every reader of the Blue Book must see that it was useless to approach Count Mouravieff in order to bring about a better understanding with Russia. Referring in conclusion to the alliance with America, Mr. Chamberlain told Mr. Asquith that he was much mistaken if he imagined that the Irish vote would stand for a moment in the way of the sympathies which bind together the Anglo-Saxon race. Mr. Dillon’s few words of protest were listened to with undisguised impatience, and when the House divided Sir Charles Dilke’s motion was rejected by a majority of 126.

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ANOTHER of those aimless debates on the ForeignPoliey foreign policy. , the Government has taken place, and a night of the precious time of Parliament has been wasted to no purpose. Sir Charles Dilke, when the House went into Committee of Supply on the expenses of the Foreign Office, moved a reduction of the vote in order to call attention to the failure of the Department in its conduct of foreign affairs owing to its being engaged in an increasing degree on matters outside its proper sphere. There had been failure everywhere abroad, and an irritating policy of concealment at home. Instead of making concessions here and concessions there we should have stood firm, and we should then have gained our point. A Government that did not want war would not go to war with us, whilst any Power that was anxious to fight us would soon find a pretext. Lord Salisbury’s acts in regard to Tunis and elsewhere contrasted with his declared policy of free markets. Mr. Asquith made a speech which, though short, was received with a good deal of satisfaction by those on the benches behind him. It was mainly devoted to a consideration of Mr. Chamberlain’s address to his constituents at Birmingham, and he wanted a plain answer from the Government whether that speech was an exposition of the Government policy. Why should England go touting for allies in the highways and byeways of Europe. He agreed with the Colonial Secretary’s desire for a closer union between Great Britain and the United States, but he deprecated any costly partnership with a European State. Mi. Curzon, in spite of the weakness of his recent illness, made a powerful speech full of vivacity and telling point. He laid bare the vague discursiveness in the criticism launched from the opposite benches, which he attributed to the fact that the opponents of the Government could agree on no common ground of attack. No Government could be uniformly victorious over the whole field of policy. Descending to particulars he defended the various acts of the Government, and was able to make an effective quotation from Mr.

N ew S eries, V o l . I.IX ., No. 2.341.

Parliamentary interest on Monday shifted to

— monday in the House of Lords where two important the lords, statements were made. In answer to the Earl of Carrington, who asked whether the Government were prepared to restore the commissions of the officers who had been deprived owing to the part they had taken in the Jameson Raid, Lord Lansdowne stated that of the thirteen officers implicated eight had already been discharged. Theremainingfive, who were prominently concerned with the organization of the expedition, had been allowed to