THE TABLET.

A Weekly Newspaper and Review.

UUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS KTIAM ADDIMUS O f IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT.S.

From, the Brie/ 0} H is Holiness P ius IX . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, ii/0 .

VOL. 93. No. 3072.

L ondon, March 25, 1899.

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Chronicle of t h e W e e k :

Imperial Parliament: The MoneyLending Bill--The Duke of Devonshire and Mr. Weale’s Dismissal —Uganda and the Transvaal — ‘The London ^Government Bill— Old Age Pensions— India Attacks the Sugar^ Bounties- The White‘hall of Inigo Jones—The French Navy — Secondary Education— Mr. Dillon and Count Moore’s Election—A Jules Verne of the Navy—The Anglo-French Agreement—The Flight of the Taxameter — The Senate and the Dreyfus Case ......................... 437 L e a d e r s :

The Position of Catholic Unionists 441 Russia and Finland . . . . 442 Some Facts About Church Elec­

tions Before the Roformation . . 443 «.Dr. Horton’s Successor . . ... 446 N°TES .. 41

CONTENTS.

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Catholicism, Roman and Anglican 450 The Old Dominion.. . . . . 451 Discipline and Law . . . . 451 No. 5, John-street 44. . . . . 457 A Cotswold Village . . . . 458 Veneration of the Blessed Virgin 458 Mariae Corolla . . . . . . 459 Life of Dom Bosco, Founder of the Salesian Society . . .. 45g Roman Legends about the Apostles 459 Correspondence :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . _ «. _ 453 News from Ireland _ _ 454 News from France........................ 455 L e t t e r s to t h e E d itor :

Two Doctrines in one Pulpit . . 456 The Church at Chipping Campden 456 The Declaration of the E. C. U. 4^6 The Catholic School Committee . . 459 Catholic and Protestant Countries.. 460

The English Church Union.. . . 460 The Scots College, Rome . . .. 461 English History in the Vatican

Library ....................................... 461 A Plea for Rate-Aid . . . . . . 462 Catholic Prisoners’ Aid Society .. 462 A Missionary Slain in Oubanghi .. 462 St. Francis of Assisi . . . . . . 463 The Pope and the Peace Conference 463 The Lord Chief Justice and the

Peace Crusade . . . . 464 Books of the W e e k ............................466 F rom E veryw h ere . . ... 466 O b it u a r y . . . . « - .4 6 6 Social a n d P o l it i c a l .................. 466

SUPPLEMENT. N ews from t h e S chools :

University Intelligence

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Beaumont College .. . . . . 469 The New Bill and the School

Boards . . . . .. . . 469

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Employment of Children on Leav­

ing School.................................... 469 The Government and the Irish

University Question . . . . 470 The Committee of Council . . 471 Football .................................... ....

N ew s from t h e D io ceses : Westminster . . . . . . 472

Southwark . .

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Birmingham.......................................474 Clifton ....................................... 474 Northampton ........................... 474 Nottingham ................................... 474 Portsm outh.......................................474 Salford ........................ 475 Shrewsbury 475 G lasgow . . ... . . . . 475

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C H R O N I C L E O F T H E W E E K .

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■W1 H EN Lord James of Hereford formally moved the second reading o f the Money-lending Bill in the House of

Lords he had the gratification of finding that there was no direct opposition to the measure. Lord Kimberley pointed out that, of course, the most important clause was that ■ which enabled the Court to reopen a case of money-lending, and if the interest exceeded ten per cent, to make an equitable order for payment. That was a strong measure, but so great were the evils of the system that he thought Parliament was justified tn making an attempt to mitigate them. The worst of it was that the evil could not be utterly destroyed, for money-lenders traded not only on the needs of borrowers, but also upon their dread of going intoCourt and making a statement of their case. Lord James of Hereford then made a long speech in which he explained that the second clause, objected to by the Duke of Argyll, by which the Court would be enabled to revise a hard and unconscionable bargain made by the money-lender, contained the whole P'th of the Bill, and was that by which indeed the Bill must stand or fall. The Duke objected on the score of the sanctity of contract, as he had objected to the Irish Land Bill of 1881. Lord James concluded by again pointing out the evils of the present money-lending system, and by announcing that two matters should be reserved for the consideration of the Committee to which the Bill is to be referred— the application of the measure to contracts already in force and the ten per cent, limit. The Bill was read a second time without resort to a division.

The next item of business was the

- i h s d u k e o f vigorous complaint made by the Duke weale^ dismlssai^' ° f Devonshire against the Committee of the House of Commons on Museums of the Science and Art Department, which in its Report had asserted that the dismissal of Mr. Weale from the post o f Keeper of the Art Library was connected with the evidence he gave before the Committee. His Grace complained that this charge had been made without giving him an opportunity of stating the facts connected with the dismissal for which he had himself given the order. Mr. Weale’s time '

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for retirement arrived in March, 1897, and when the case came before his Grace, Mr. Weale’s retention was “ not recommended by his departmental superiors.” Knowing the friction that had arisen the Duke asked if Mr. Weale had not better be retained till after the Committee of the House o f Commons had made its inquiries. His retention was sanctioned by the Treasury, and after the Committee had taken its evidence Mr. Weale’s superiors again showed no desire to retain his services. In conclusion his Grace made the following emphatic repudiation of the charge against the South Kensington officials, which is a sufficient illustration of the tone and temper o f his speech : “ I quite admit that it was within the competence of the Committee to differ from the officials of the Department and myself as to the question whether the extension of Mr. Weale’s services was in the public interest or not, but I do deny that it was within the competence of the Committee either to suggest that something in the nature of a grave scandal had taken place, or that anything like a breach of privileges of the House o f Commons had been committed through what they choose to term the dismissal of Mr. Weale. I cannot but think that the making of such charges without giving the person chiefly implicated in them an opportunity o f defending himself manifests a degree of reckless prejudice which I find it extremely difficult to understand.”

Replying in the House of Lords on Mon­

— Ug a n d a a n d ¿¡a y afternoon to the Earl of Camperdown, T r a n s v a a l , Lord Salisbury stated that the main object of the Macdonald expedition from Uganda was to ascertain more exactly the direction of the head waters of the river Juba, which had been taken as the frontier between the English and Abyssinian spheres o f influence. Another object, that of establishing military posts on the Upper Nile, had been defeated by the insurrection of the Soudanese troops and Major Macdonald had turned to the exploration of Lake Rudolph. Major Martyr’s expedition against the Dervishes at Bour on the right bank of the Nile, finding the place deserted had pushed on as far as Bedden, where the Sud commences. Owing, however, to the difficulty of communication it was not yet known whether Major Martyr had succeeded in making any further progress down the river. In the House of Commons in Committee of Supply, Sir E. Ashmead-Bartlett brought forward the crying grievances of the non-Boer portion of the population o f the Transvaal, who in spite of fair promises were still deprived of all political and nearly all civil rights, besides paying in taxes nearly four times the amount paid by the Boers. He, therefore, appealed