THE TABLET, A Weekly Newspaper an d Review .

DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUX, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT.S.

From. Ihe 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, *¿70.

Vol. 92. N o . 3038. L o n d o n , J u l y 30, 1898.

P r ic e s d ., b y P o s t 5*«¿<3.

[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 .

■ Ch ronicle of t h e W e e k

Imperial Parliam ent: A New Naval Programme—The Lords and Irish Local Government— In the Commons on Monday—Tuesday's Sitting— A Scheme to Help the N a vy—Lord Aberdeen’s Successor— The Failure of the Sugar Conference — The Doctors and Vaccination— The Anglican^ Primate on Religious Equality — •‘ ‘The Man who Bought a Colony” — The Reading Election— Shooting a County Court Judge— Peace -in Sight— Mr. Hooley's Revelations . . — •• •• •• *57 «Le a d e r s :

England and America at Quebec 161 Dualism in the Austrian Empire 161 The First L a y Lord Chancellor.. 162 A New Testament Scholarship . . 164 N o t e s ... 160

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R e v ie w s :

St. Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians i 63 British Columbia for Settlers . . 169 “ The Dublin Review " .. . . 169 Priests and the New Irish Councils 171 C orrespon d e n c e :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . — — 173 News from Ireland — — 175 “ News from F ra n c e ......................... 175

News from America . . . . 176 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :

Catholics and Nonconformists . . 177 Allocation of the Aid Grant by

Voluntary School Associations 178 Spain’s Treatment of Her Colonies 178 Catholics and Public Schools . . 178 “ Lourdes” . . . . . . . . 178 “ Staunch Protestants ” . . . . 178 St. Teilo’s Society : An Appeal.. 178 The Ritual Controversy . . . . 179 Catholics and the Publi c Schools . . 180

A Diamond Jubilee in the Antipodes 182 St. Winefride’s Well . . . . 182 Benedictine Work at Cambridge.. 182 The Late Bishop of Aberdeen . . 183 Books of the Week . . . . 184 O b it u a r y ........................................ 181 M a r r i a g e ........................................... 184 S o c ia l a n d P o l i t i c a l . . . . 1 8 4

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

School Prize Days :

Sr. Edmund’s College, Ware . . 189 St. Bede’s College . . . . 189 St. Mary’s College, Woolhamp-

ton . . . . . . . . iqo St. Ignatius’ School, Stamford

Hill . . . . . . . . 190 St. James’ School, Baylis House 190 Ursuline Convent, Upton . . 190 In Honour of the Bishop of New­

port.. . . . . . . . . 190

N ew s from t h e S chools (Con­

tinued): Teacners’ Superannuation Bill . . School Board Teachers and Poli­

tics The 17s. 6d. Limit in Evening

Schools Stonyburst’s V .C . . . Higher Education for Catholic

Teachers . . . . . . N ew s from t h e D io c e se s :

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19t 191 19t i 9r

Westminster Southwark . Liverpool Plymouth

192 193 193 •• 193

Portsmouth . . ......................... 193 Salford Menevia Newport 194 194 194 Captain Wilfrid Howell’s D a r in g . . 194 Religious Life at Oxford . . . . 1 9 5

Rejected M S . cannot be returned unless accompanied with address and postage.

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

A NEW NAVAL PROGRAMME. T

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

H ER E was little surprise and little else but approval for the supplemental naval programme which the Admiralty has found it necessary to ask the House of Commons to sanction. In placing the matter before the House, which had already begun to show the signs that mark the close of the session, Mr. Goschen had the satisfaction of being able to state that good progress was being made with shipbuilding; the total of the battleships building or provided for was forty-one, and the programme for the year contemplated three battleships, four cruisers, four armoured cruisers, and four sloops. The output of armour for vessels was now being so much increased that this country would be able to produce all that was required for the Navy. In regard to the re-constructing and re-arming of old ships he pointed out that there were several difficulties in the way of carrying out such a proposal, and especially the obvious interference it would offer to the construction o f new vessels, and the needless placing of good ships hors de ■ combat for a year. Mr. Goschen next described the four new armoured cruisers, at the same time pointing out the •motives which had led to so high a speed register being adopted for them. The programme for the year had been based on what he called the two-Power system which he described as necessitating that we should be superior in power and equal in numbers to the fleets of any two countries, and this principle, which had been approved by both parties, now demanded that our programme for the year should be supplemented by another. Russia was building six new war vessels, and we were bound to take parallel action. Two of these had been already taken into account; he had now therefore to ask the House to sanction the additional expenditure of about _^8,000,000 on four battleships, four cruisers, and twelve torpedo destroyers. The battleships would be designed with a view to passing easily through the Suez Canal. These eight millions added to the seven millions of the original programme made an expenditure for new ships of fifteen millions, which would be spread over not more than four years. The principal fault found by such critics as Lord Charles Beresford and

N ew S er ie s Y o l . LX., No. 2,347.

Sir Charles Dilke was that it was not greater. Sir William Harcourt ridiculed the Government for such an increase of the fleet upon a mere rumour about Russia, but Mr. Goschen interrupted him with the remark that he had acted upon knowledge. Sir William then denounced the financial arrangement as violating all the forms that attended the finances of this country.

The Lords, on Monday afternoon,

"A ™ n isH S went iDt0 Committee on the Irish Local l o c a l g o v e r n m e n t . Government Bill and did not end the sitting till nearly midnight, when the

Committee stage was completed. Several amendments were proposed. One moved by Lord Dunraven restricting the power of the County Council in protecting ancient monuments under the Acts of 1882 and 1892 was accepted by the Government, who undertook to bring in a clause of their own on the matter. Laughter saluted the defeat by which the Government’s opposition to Lord Morris’s motion for the inclusion of Galway amongst the towns which should be raised to the dignity of county boroughs was overcome. With a view to enable the country gentry and the Grand Jury element to be elected, Lord Clonbrock, on the twenty-third Clause, relating to the constitution of the District Councils, moved the principal Amendment on the paper, converting single member constituencies into doublemember constituencies in the case of District Councils and Boards of Guardians, and giving three members in certain cases where the Bill provided for two. Lord Spencer opposed on the ground that single member constituencies provided a better representation of the minority than the system of double-member constituencies, and with this view Lord Salisbury agreed, adding that the Conservative party had no reason to fear. After a long discussion the amendment was carried by 78 votes to 15. The next important amendment was proposed by Lord Dunraven, who moved the omission of the subsection declaring that persons in holy orders or regular ministers of any religious denomination should not be eligible as county or district councillors. His lordship urged that the imposition of disabilities on any class was undesirable and objectionable, and was downright unfair when, as in the present case, no cause had been shown. I f undue influence was feared, would it not be better that that influence should be exerted open'y ? Lord Russell of Killowen, who entertained high hopes of the benefits which the Bill would confer upon Ireland, made a powerful speech in support of Lord Dunraven’s proposal. Unless the disability contained in it were removed, the Bill would start