THE TABLET.

A JV?ekly N ew spaper a n d R ev iew .

DOM VOBIS GRATULAM OR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS DT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT.S.

From the Brie; o; His Holiness Pius IX . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1&70.

Vol. 93. No. 3073.

London, A p r i l i , 1899.

P r ic e sd ., by P o s t s i i d

[R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a l P ost O f f i c e a s a N ew s pa p e r .

'C hronicle of th e W e e k :

Imperial Parliament: The London Government Bill— Mr. Balfour’s Rejoinder— A. Scene in the Commons— Off for the Holidays— The County Council as Publican — Financial Outlook— A Victory for the Light Blues— Lead-Poisoning m the Potteries — In Praise of Literature — The War in the Jhilippines-An Antarctic Expedi•tion Assured — The Warwick ^states Company— Strikers and oor Relief— Mr. Balfour on the tsar s Peace Proposals .. .. 477 Leaper s :

resident Kruger and the UitTh®n<?ers • ............................... 43i Qe Soveieign and Political Par­

Ues .. # ^

o s °me Facts About Church Elec- 4 *

gons m England Before the ^^Jormation .. 4s3

CONTENTS.

L eaders (Continued) :

Pa^e

Professor Collins and Catholicism 484 Mgr. De Clerc . . . . - N otes ... R e v i e w s :

Sir Robert Peel . . .. Eleanor Leslie . . " Dr. Haberl’s Annual . . ’ Afterwards and Other Stories ’ Manolatry . . . . mi The Religious State . . The Puritans . . .. *’ The Devotion of the Three Hours

486 486 488 489 490 490 491 491 491

Agony on Good F r id ay .. .. The Leading Aisles . . ] C orrespondence :

491 491

Rome (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . ... _ _ News from Ireland _ Z News from France.........................

L e t t e r s to t h e E d it o r :

493 494 495

Cardinal Gotti ......................... 4g6 Selection o f Catholic Schools as

Polling Places . . . . 496

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Don Lorenzo Perosi's Masses . . 496 A W a rn in g ......................... . .4 9 6 The “ Clifton Tracts” . . . . 496 Is it Consistent ? . . . . .. 496 Anglican Teaching Unauthorita­

tive . . . . . . . . 497 The Position of Catholic Unionists 497

The Buddhists in Ceylon . . .. The Ritual Controversy .. . . The Irish University Question .. Ex-Convict “ Widdows ” . . .. Sunday Newspapers . . .. Catholic Ritual .. . . .. The Election of Guardians in the

Chorlton Union ......................... Maundy Thursday .. . . .. New Caledonia . . .. . . Books of the Week . . . . F rom E veryw h ere . . O b it u a r y . . . . . . Social a n d P o l it ic a l _

497 497 Sot 502 502 502 . 503 ■ 503 . 503 • 503 •503 504

506

S U P P L E M E N T . N ews from t h e Schools :

Page

Hammersmith Training College 509 Training Colleges Entrance E x ­

amination . . . . .. The Secondary Education Bill Ontario and Imperialism .. School Boards and Secondary

509 510 510

Education . . .. Religious Instruction . . Changes in the Code .. .. Religious Teaching in New Ro- '

510 5ir 5it chelle

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N ews from t h e D io ceses :

Westminster

511

Southwark . . , , „ . . 5 1 :

Salford Shrewsbury

. 512 513

Practical Instruction in Ireland .. 513 Catholic Organization in Italy . . 514 Prayer for the Dead . . . . .. 5x4 New' Zealand’s First Provincial

Synod .................................... 515

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

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" f "Y TH IL ST the House of Lords r, ThelonoonMENT: W wasaSainen^edina GOvernment bill. J T long discussion of quesgi0 , tions connected with the increasing ¿¡Sc ,°f ritualistic practices in the Church of England— a CotnSSl0n w^'c^ we rePort elsewhere— the House of L0 ,tnons was busy considering the second reading of the ttto Municipalities Bill, the rejection of which had been t h e ^ ^ r‘ Herbert Gladstone. Mr. Asquith supported Wjt, ai7endment on the ground that the Bill omitted to deal ^ ‘he City, thus leaving the unity of London incomplete.

« S * statesmanlike course, that should have been followed, the r ^aVS '3een t0 araa,£air-ate the City Corporation and Pro L°Uoty Council so far as the Corporation had functions,

P«ty, and prerogatives in which London might have a Set IJ?on interest. The effect of the Bill was to create a whi°h 6Wauthorities, indefinite both as to number and area, bor Were t0 ^ave the style and status of municipal Sq ?u§hs, a false name, because it proceeded upon a false c *°8Fi and suggested a false idea. There was only one des r?UQ'ty in the metropolis which answered to that othCripti°.n> and that was London as a whole. Amongst er objections to the measure he pointed out how the cliff .mun>cipalities would probably aggravate the already bv 0?°^ standards of rating and oppose Bills promoted

? he County Council with the approval of some of the Q0n,cipalities. The Solicitor-General, on the part of the beeVernment, repudiated the sinister motives which had the*1 alir*buted to them. Some people were now elevating eQQ u? 'ly of London into a sort of fetish. The very it j In,tF and difference between the parts of London made be j P°Ss'ble that the service of efficient local bodies could be /lsP?nsed with, and under those circumstances it would U)eQ.0o" sh to starve those local bodies for the aggrandizemajn. the central authority. Mr. Courtney followed, f0r fci?la*.DS lbat the Bill had been condemned not so much it. Lr3^11 ceally contained as for what had been read into poWe ad City last century been in possession of the - s n°w held by our large towns it would, in the natural c °u rse f bound . eveQts, have asked Parliament to increase its have asked Parliament aries>and in time the Corporation would have been ^ R'v She ran,

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the central authority, and the wards would have attended to their own special affairs. But would anybody contest that had that process been carried out the result would have been much better than it was now? Sir Edward Clarke declared that nobody could dissent from the propositions contained in the Report of the Commission of 1854 in favour of separate municipalities for London, and it had been a subject of agreement ever since that London was too vast for a single municipality. In 1884 the Corporation, in their Report, suggested that there were ten places capable of receiving incorporation, and the Report of the Commission in 1894 pointed out that there were 19 areas which were capable of being developed into independent centres of local government. They had for a period of over sixty years a continued judgment on both sides of politics in the direction of separate municipalities.

The principal interest of the debate on

— m r . b a l f o u r ’s the following day, when the discussion was r e j o i n d e r . resumed, was the brilliant speech of Mr.

Balfour in reply to the strictures which had been passed on the proposals and the alleged intentions of the Government. Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman bantered Mr. Courtney on his continual anxiety to find an impartial person, that was to say, someone who agreed with himself. He had proposed a round or a IoDg table conference for the settlement of London government, in which Sir Henry professed entire willingness to take his place. After a word for the City, aod another for the County Council, the Leader of the Opposition declared that it was owing to the Bill’s attack upon the position of the latter, that he supported Mr. H. Gladstone’s amendment. The triennial elections for the County Council were gradually evoking and attracting the public interest to the local affairs of London. The Bill carved London into sections, and was in that way a distinctly retrograde step. Mr. Balfour’s rising was the signal for loud cheers, which were repeated as he proceeded to show that during a debate which had lasted over three nights no sound reason for the rejection of the Bill had been brought forward. No Bill could cover the whole field of legislation, and whatever the present Bill’s omissions might be, it contained no provision which would prevent those omissions from being remedied in the future. There was no reason to vote against a measure because it did not make London an exception to all other towns in the country by combining its municipal government with its Poor Law administration. The Government had not touched the City, but they had done nothing to pre