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From the B r ie f of His Holiness Pius IX . to The Tablet June 4, iSjo.
V o l . 7 5 . No, 2 5 9 8 ,
L o n d o n , F e b r u a r y 2 2 , 1 8 9 0 .
P rice sd., by Post,
[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 .
C h r o n ic le o f t h e W e e k :
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Report of the Special Commission : General Charges— Specific Charges— The Body of the Report — Imperial Parliament : Debate on the Address—Conclusion of the Debate— Mr. Matthews and the Miners— Attitude of Lord R . Churchill and Mr. Gladstone— Australian F ederation — Boulangist Successes— The German Emperor and Social Laws — The Destruction of Toronto University — Obituary of the Week—The N ew Scottish Code . . - . 2 7 7 L e a d e r s :
The Country and the Commission 281 Convocation on Brotherhoods . . 282 The Anomalies of Royal Univer
sity Senate . . . . . . 283 Mr. Mundella’s Law . . . . 284 The Centenary of St. Gregory the
Great . . . . . . . . 284
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The Late Dr. Philip Hergenroether 285 A Right Rev. Minister of Agricul
ture . . . . . . . . . . 286 Church and State in Brazil.. . . 287 N o t e s ...............................................288 R e v ie w s :
Old Country Life . . . . . . 289 Good Things for Catholic Readers 290 The Rites of the Coptic Church 291 Jerusalem . . ^ . . . . 291 A Snow F l o w e r ......................... 291 The Biblical Illustrator . . . . 291 Miss Meredith . . . . . . 291 C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :
Rome :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . . . 293 Paris:—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . . . 294 Dublin:— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . 295
ENTS.
L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :
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Father Lescher and the “ Irish
Ecclesiastical R ecord” . . . . 296 The Priest in Politics . . . . 297 Papal Dominion in I ta ly . . . . 297 Stephen Langton and the B ib le . . 297 Water in Baptism . . . . . . 297 Use of the Organ during Lent . . 298 Union among Catholic Graduates 298 An Omission . . . . . . 298 The Cathedral of Seville.. . . 298 N ew s fro m t h e D io ceses :
Westminster . . . . . 298 Southwark . . ......................... 299 Middlesbrough . . . . . . 299 Nottingham . . . . . . 299 Salford . . . . . . . . 299 Argyll and the Isles . . . . 299 Glasgow . . . . . . . . 299 The New Bishop of Hexham and
Newcastle . . ......................... 299
Father Bernard Vaughan on the
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Late Father Perry, S .J ., F .R .S . 300 Important Letter on Temperance from Archbishop Croke . . . . 3 0 1 The Bishop of Salford on Sanitary
Q u e s t i o n s ....................................... 301 The Late Sir R . Kane . . . . 302 F rom E v e r y w h e r e ...............................302 S o c ia l a n d P o l i t i c a l . . . . 303 O b i t u a r y ........................................... 303
SU P P L EM E N T N ews from t h e S chools :
Wanted—A Conference of Catho
lic Managers ,• .. . . 309 Sir H , Roscoe on Technical
Education.. . . . . . . 309 About Education . . . , . . 309 Lenten Pastorals . . . . . . 310
Rejected MS. cannot be returned unless accompanied with address and postage.
CH R O N IC LE O F TH E W EEK.
REPORT OF TH E S P E C IA L COMMISSION — G EN E R A L CHARGES. T
H E Report of the Special Com
mission was issued at the end of last week, and consists of the decision of the Judges in brief upon each of the charges and allegations, together with a detailed examination of the evidence. Without repeating those charges, we may give here the unanimous judgment of the Commissioners upon them. Firstly, as to the general charges which included practically the whole Parnellite party. It is as follows : “ i. We find that the respondent members of Parliament collectively were not members of a conspiracy having for its object to establish the absolute independence of Ireland, but we find that some of them, together with Mr. Davitt, established and joined in the Land League organisation with the intention by its means to bring about the absolute independence of Ireland as a separate nation. The names of those respondents are set out at page 32 of this Report. [They are those of Mr. Davitt, Mr. M. Harris, Mr. Dillon, Mr. William O ’ Brien, Mr. W. Redmond, Mr. J. O ’Connor, Mr. Joseph Condon, and Mr. J. J. O ’Kelly.] 2. We find that the respondents did enter into a conspiracy by a system of coercion and intimidation to promote an agrarian agitation against the payment of agricultural rents, for the purpose of impoverishing and expelling from the country the Irish landlords who were styled the ‘ English Garrison.’ 3. We find that the charge that ‘ when on certain occasions they thought it politic to denounce, and did denounce, certain crimes in public, they afterwards led their supporters to believe such denunciation was not sincere,’ is not established. We entirely acquit Mr. Parnell and the other respondents of the charge of insincerity in their denunciation of the Phoenix Park murders, and find that the facsimile letter on which this charge was chiefly based as against Mr. Parnell is a forgery. 4. We find that the respondents did disseminate th t l r i s h World and othernewspaperstending to incite to sedition and the commission of other crime. 5. We find that the respondents did not directly incite persons to the commission of crime other than intimidation, but that they did incite to intimidation, and that the consequence of that incitement was that crime and outrage were committed by the persons incited. We find that it has not been proved that the respondents made payments for the purpose of inciting persons to commit crime. 6. We find as to the allegation that the respondents did nothing to prevent crime, and expressed no bona-fide disapproval, that some of the respondents, and in particular Mr. Davitt, did express bondfide disapproval of crime and outrage, but that the respondents did not denounce the system of intimidation which led to crime and outrage, but persisted in it with knowledge of its effect. 7. We find that the respondents did defend persons charged with agrarian crime, and supported their families, but that it has not been proved that they subscribed to testimonials for, or were intimately associated with, notorious criminals, or that they made payments to procure the escape of criminals from justice. 8. We find, as to the allegation that the respondents made payments to compensate persons who had been injured in the commission of crime, that they did make such payments. 9. As to the allegation that the respondents invited the assistance and co-operation of, and accepted subscriptions of money from, known advocates of crime and the use of dynamite, we find that the respondents did invite the assistance and co-operation of, and accepted subscriptions of money from, Patrick Ford, a known advocate of crime and the use of dynamite, but that it has not been proved that the respondents or any of them knew that the Clan-naGael controlled the League or was collecting money for the Parliamentary Fund. It has been proved that the respondents invited and obtained the assistance and co-operation of the physical force party in America, including the Clanna-Gael, and in order to obtain that assistance abstained from repudiating or condemning the action of that party.”
The decisions then deal with the special
— s p e c i f i c charges against Mr. Parnell and Mr. Davitt. c h a r g e s . The document continues : “ There remain three specific charges against Mr. Parnell, namely : (a.) ‘ That at the time of the Kilmainham negotiations Mr. Parnell knew that Sheridan and Boyton had been organising outrage, and therefore wished to use them to put down outrage.’ We find that this charge has not been proved. I (b.) ‘ That Mr. Parnell was intimate with the leading
Invincibles, that he probably learned from them what they were about when he was released on parole in April, 1882, and that he recognised the Phcenix Park murders as their handiwork.’ We find that there is no foundation for this charge. We have already stated that the Invincibles were | not a branch of the Land League. (c.) 1 That Mr. Parnell,
on January 23, 1883, by an opportune remittance, enabled 1 F. Byrne to escape from justice to France.’ We find that
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