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DOM VOBIS GRATULAMÜR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMOS ÜT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANE AT. S.

Front the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, ihfo.

V ol. 94. No. 3092.

L o n d o n , A u g u s t 12, 1899. P r ic e 5(1., bY P o s t s 5£d.

[R e g i s t e r e d a t th e G e n e r a l P o s t O f f i c e as a N ewspaper.

C h ron ic le ok t h e W e e k : _

Page imperial Parliament : Harrying to the Close— The Irish University Question— A Bank Holiday Sitting— The Cost o f the Indian Famine— Increase o f Population — The Indian Currency—The Use o f Churches in India— A Plain Word on the Crisis in the Transvaal— The Prorogation— Will the Tsar Resign ?— Boer Attempts to Manufacture a Case against the British Government— A Modification of the Indian Frontier Policy — The Dreyfus Trial — French Fishing in English Waters . . 237 L e a d e r s :

The Anglican Archbishops’ Deci­

sion . . . . . . . . . . 241 The Republican Party and the

Church in Italy . . . . . . 242 “ Wandering Voices ” . . . . 243 The New Belgian Ministry . . 243

CONTENTS.

L eaders (Continued) :

An Exhibition of Apostates N otes — — — — English as She is Wrote . . . . 247 R eviews :

Page . . 244 - 245

Life and^ Letters o f Sir Joseph

Prestwick . . . . 248 Carmel in England . . . . 248 Bottled H o l i d a y s ......................... 249 A Gallican Bishop . . . . 249 The Ministry of Deaconesses . . 250 Spiritual Exercises for a Ten

Days'^ Retreat . . . . . . 250 The Burning of the “ C la rence” . . 251 Correspondence :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . - , _ 253 News from Ireland _ _ 253 L etters to th e E ditor :

The Judgment o f the Anglican

Archbishops ......................... 254

L e t t e r s t o t h e E ditor (Con­

Page tinued) : Catholic Work in Borneo.. . . 254 Franciscan Tertiaries and West­

minster Cathedral . . . . 254 The Catholic Truth Conference.. 255 A Chance for the Charitable . . 255 Father Rousselet’s Heroism 255 Great Catholic Gathering in Liver­

pool _ ...................................................255 The Ritual Controversy . . . . 260 Gallant Conduct o f a Naval Officer 262 A CathoKc Camp ........................... 263 The Pilgrimage of Penance at *

Furnes ....................................... 263 The Position of “ Father Ignatius ” 264 Books of the Week . . ... 264 F rom E v e r yw h e r e . . . . 2 6 4 O b i t u a r y . . «. . . . . 265

So c ia l a n d P o l it i c a l . .

Page «. 265

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

Aid Grants to Associated Schools The Irish University Question The Catholic School Committee and the Education Department St. Joseph’s College, Denmark Hill Girls' Catholic H i g h School,

B o u r n em o u th ......................... Wimbledon College . . . . Secondary E d u c a t i o n in th e

North .................................... Cricket ....................................

269 271 272 27.I 273 27£ 273 273

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

Westminster

. . ... 274

Northampton ........................... 274 Glasgow ....................................... 274 The Holy See and the Peace Con­

ference ....................................... 274

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK,

»IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HURRYING TO THE

CLOSE.

I T is surprizing how the near prospect of release from attendance at Westminster facilitates business progress in Par­

liament. The Second Reading of the Telephones Bill, a measure of somewhat doubtful benefit, was allowed by the Lords after a short speech of explanation of its objects from the Duke of Norfolk, and a glorification of the National Company from Lord Harris, one of the Directors. Yet even he seemed to have some doubt whether the step taken by the Government was altogether wise, though, of course, he gave the policy, which deals so favourably with the Company, his best wishes for its success. In moving the Second Reading of the Military Works Bill, Lord Lansdowne pointed cut the advantage in such cases of proceeding by loan rather than by the ordinary estimates, inasmuch as contracts could thus bo made beforehand. In this way the steady and methodical carrying out of the programme, without any apprehension of a failure of supplies, was ensured. The Lord Chancellor afterwards moved an address to the Queen similar to that brought in the House of Commons for the appointment of an additional judge, owing to the amount of judicial business in arrears. During the course of questions in the House of Commons there was a short but amusing conversation on the Cromwell statue. The opposing shades of opinion were represented on the one side by "Mr. Johnston, of Ballykillbeg, who spoke of the “ idiotic opposition to honouring the memory of a great man." On the other side, Mr. James Lowther, amid loud laughter, asked Mr. Akers-Douglas if the site in Marylebone-road, near Baker-street, where there was a chamber specially reserved for malefactors, was not more suitable than that chosen for the statue within the grounds of Westminster Palace. Mr. Healy was also curious to know whether the “ generous donor ” of the statue withheld his name because he was ashamed of the transaction ? In reply to Mr. Whitmore, Mr. Long made a statement on the muzzling order. In 1896, the year the Government began operations against rabies, 438 cases were confirmed; in 1897, 151 cases; in 1898, 17 cases; and during the present year, so far as it has gone, only one case has been confirmed. With regard to the revocation of the muzzling

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orders, arrangements had been made for obtaining the same security against the introduction of the disease from Ireland as existed in the case of foreign countries, and so soon as these arrangements were in effective operation the Government hoped to be in a position to withdraw the orders from the Midland and West Riding areas, to be followed at no distant date by the revocation of those in force in Lancashire and the metropolitan area, if no further cases occurred. The House afterwards got into Committee of Supply. On the National Gallery Vote Lord E. Fitzmaurice expressed the hope that the National Portrait Gallery would receive more generous treatment from the Treasury. He also called attention to the recent decision by the Treasury by which money was refused for the purchase of portraits of her Majesty the Queen, Charles I., and Henrietta Maria, on the plea that they were not persons of sufficient importance to find a place in the National Portrait Gallery. Sir Michael Hicks Beach explained that the portraits in question had been over-valued:

When the votes for the Queen’s Colleges

" u n i v e r s i t y c a m e on Dillon seized the opportunity to q u e s t i o n . a f?a ' n bring forward the great question of a

University for Catholics in Ireland which is being so deplorably shelved by the Government, for party considerations of the most mistaken kind. The hope of an equitable settlement was distinctly further off than in 1892, when the Unionists by various subterranean channels had given the Irish members to understand that if returned to power they would deal with the question. The Irish members had, therefore, a right to some information as to the intentions of the Government. They had also good cause for complaint that, having complied with a request for aid to maintain religious teaching in the schools of Great Britain, they had received no reciprocal support on the same question when transferred to Irish soil. It was hard to see how men who did not scruple to aid colleges for Mohammedans and the college at Khartoum, from which Christianity was to be excluded, could persist in refusing to place IrishCatholics on a level of equality with other portions of the United Kingdom. This brought the inevitable Mr. Perks to the fore with an attempt at an explanation of the mysterious workings of the Nonconformist conscience. His feebleness was reinforced by Mr. Carvell Williams; but as our readers will be able to see, from the report of the discussion which we print elsewhere, the weight of argument was all on the side of Mr. Dillon, Mr. T. P. O ’Connor and Mr. Healy, whose lively speech was much appreciated. After the vote