TABLET A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
DDM VOBIS' GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM APDIMUS OT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT.S.
From the B r ie f o j H is Holiness P iu s JX. to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, ib jo .
V ° l . 93. No. 3078.
L o n d o n , M ay 6, 1899.
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C hronicle or th e w , r . . Page
In>P<mal p , . i : HE Week : ‘ o È d uM t^ , ai ? ent : Obstacle! with t S L 0 r i f rosJres,- Mond:iy Second Reading"? f on™™s— 'Bill—ISaar p ln§ ° f the Finance -P ro h ibW o ? ?' d?.n s Tribulation nation and R a . l Çaaada—Convotered Cnm. ate‘Atd—T h e Char^ailw av un?^ The Rhodesian R o ta l v 7 ^ e" is a Traveller ^ t r e l e i ' r e le r?~ The U t i l i ty ° f Lus C a® TelegraPhy - T h e DreyAgteemen. TAn A ng lo -R u s s ian Seven n ” , Tord Rosebery and 'the I tat: ay^TJ ournalism —Fall of lta l>an M inistry . . . . l SAMtRS:
677
The S 1 l nd ‘.he Schools . . The Ro, ^'Russian Agreement..
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An rvL1-5^1s Disclaimer .. .. ^S o c ia l* tyorifsSOn, Ç * th o ]k
681 682 683 684 685
C O N T E N T S .
N otes
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686
Reviews :
A Victim of Junius -- ..0 88 Lives and Times of the Early
VaLis Q u e e n s .........................686 A Jesuit Eclipse-Expedition and its Work . •• •• •• 690 The Catalogue of Syon L ib ra iy .. 691 Infatuation ......................... •• 691 L ’Homme-Dieu . . . . •• 691 De Justitia et Jure . . . .6 9 1 Mediæval Music . . . . •• 691 Ecce Homo . . «. •• .• 691 C orrespondence :
Rome (From Our Owa Corre
spondent) . . . . — — 693 News from Ireland — — 694 News from France.. . . . . 695 L e t t e r s to t h e E d it o r :
Leakage Through the Poor Law 696 The Interpretation of Documents 696
L e t t e r s to t h e E d it or (Con
tinued) : The “ Good Shepherd" Infant
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School . . .... •• 696 An Educational Wotk in Japan.. 696 Catholic Unionists and the Irish
University Question
Proposed Memorial Brass to
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Father Bone, I.C . .. -- 697 The Seal of the Confessional . . 697 The Ritual Controversy . . -- 697 “ What Would Cromwell D o ?" . . 7°° The Care of Our Boys . . . . 700 The Army Chaplain Bishops . . 701 The New Vicar-Apostolic of Gib
raltar ................................................702 American Bench and Bar . . . . 7 0 ;
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Books o f the W e e k ............................704 F rom E veryw h ere . . ... 704 Social a n d Po l it ic a l . . M 704
SUPPLEMENT. N ews from t h e S chools :
Religious Instruction in Liverpool 709 The New Code and Pupil Teachers 710 Intermediate Schools in France.. 710 Rate-Aid for D e n om in a t io n a l
S c h o o l s .......................................711 Scholar Slaves ............................711 N ew s from t h e D io ceses :
Westminster 712 S o u th w a r k .......................................712
Hexham and Newcastle . Leeds ....................... Northampton . . . P l y m o u t h ....................... Salford . . . . . N e w p o r t .......................
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
ti ltPERlAL PARLIAMENT I SDU°5 rACLES TO
NATIONALPROGRESS. T
H E Education Departm ent have had this year to ask the H ouse for a sum of
^8,768,983 for elementary educa
OQ. This means an increase of ^ 18 6 ,2 4 0 over the esti-
te of last year, and it is an increase which is due to purely Oiaatic causes. Average attendance in the schools has J en to a higher figure than in ar>y year since the settle^ ° f 1870, and Sir John Gorst had the gratification of ;jatlDg to the H ouse that public opinion in matter o f educa-
a was making favourable progress. One symptom o f this *s the fact that a B ill for raising the age at which children uC allowed to leave school had passed its second ea<Jn aiiuweu IU 1COVC ...................- f --- — dlQg m the House o f Commons by a majority o f more a ,an five to one. Irregular attendance was, of course, more tha°ral than an imPerial q uestioD> and he was glad t0 see till im p e l 10.1 v_e)1.i J O ov tu at last seemed to have been taken up in serious earnest Pai i local authorities o f many districts. It was still, however, M evident that many o f the children, who should be {Q lrne scholars, were sent to school in a state quite unfit ue d° any good. T h e claims o f labour and the desire or P o l i t y for the children to earn a pittance seemed to have ILpP^te precedence over the claims o f education. Sir John U0.Q gave a long series of figures from a return which has j reached the public showing that no less than Sdo'°00 bill bm e scholars, o f whom 34,000 were girls, were \y°aged in regular work for wages out o f school hours. J P H n t this portion of the speech in another column. T h e
Portion o f the speech dealt with the deficiency in the PruK7 of teachers, which was one o f the most serious in the elementary education o f the country. What b e done to encourage the increase o f the supply was attp ®bfione by the Department, but it was plain that if the « taG ance should suddenly leap up, or the school age T V d be raised, the difficulty would be vastly aggravated. UuL debate that followed this speech ranged over a vast in .?bet of subjects, in which the inevitable 8,000 parishes ltOuK, Couutry where Nonconformists have not taken the atte ° 'e to erect a school, to save their children from t V , dlQg the Church school, were brought up by Sir Henry er- Mr. T . P. O ’Connor expressed his disappointment New
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that there had been no full or fair admission o f the claims o f Catholic schools, which had suffered at the hands o f both the great parties in the House. Sir John Lubbock thought it unfair for subscribers to Voluntary schools to be called upon to pay the school rate. Mr. S. Smith explained that the reason why Protestants were opposed to Church schools was because o f their semi-Romish practices, such as the introduction o f Mass and images o f the Virgin Mary, Challenged on this point to specify an instance he failed to produce one, admitting, amidst a good deal o f laughter, that he had heard o f something that came very near to it.
Explanations which were made in both
— Monday with Houses as to the Anglo-Russian agree-
.m r n M m m ment went little further than the statem ent AND COMMONS. ^ ^ ^ at ^ A cadem y banquet. T h e Lords afterwards went into Com mittee on the Money-lending Bill, when Lord James announced the amendments that he proposed to make in the measure. In order not to interfere with the legitim ate lending and borrowing o f money, he proposed to exempt by name from the B ill all loan societies, building societies, and societies which lend money to their own members. H e had also endeavoured to alter the definition o f moneylender. A l l bankers, insurance societies, and solicitors who did not make the lending o f money their primary object were exempt from the operation o f the B ill. T h e y were narrowing its application to those persons who notoriously carried on their business under conditions injurious to borrowers. When they came to Clause 2 he had extended the lim itation as to the amount o f interest charged, which should give jurisdiction to the Courts. T h e money-lender would be entitled to receive in respect o f a loan not exceeding forty shilling, 25 per cent, per annum ; for a loan exceeding forty shillings, but not exceeding ten pounds, 20 per cent, per annum ; and, for a loan exceeding ten pounds, 15 p ercen t , per annum. It had been provided in the B ill that the contract of the money-lender, if he did not register as a money-lender, should be voided. A s this would hamper transactions as to mortgages, & c ., he had now made non-registration by the money-lender the subject o f a penalty upon the man who ought to have registered. In the H ouse o f Commons there was the usual crop o f questions. Mr. W . Redmond wanted to know whether the House would be allowed an opportunity o f expressing an opinion on the giving of a site for the Cromwell statue. H e seemed quite mollified on learning that the site was in the sunk garden on the west o f Westminster Hal), “ down
