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A W eek ly N ew spaper and R ev iew .
DUM VOBIS G R A TU LAM U R , ANIM OS E T I AM A DD IM U S U T IN INCCEPTIS V E STR IS CON STAN TER MANEATIS
Fro'n the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX . to The Tablet funt 4. 1S70.
Vol. 75. No, 2602. L ondon, March 22, 1890.
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(R e g is tered a t t h e G e n e r a l P o st O f f i c e a s a N ew spaper.
C hronicle of t h e W e e k :
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Imperial Parliament : The Government and the Volunteers— Tuesday’s Debate—The Bankruptcy Bill—Winter Parliaments — Prince Bismaick’s Resignation — Prince Bismarck’s Successor — Fall o f M. Tirard—The New •Cabinet— The Policy of the New Ministry— The Berlin Labour Conference—The Stoke Election — Lord Randolph ( hurchill and his Constituents—The Blackwall Tunnel Scheme—The Great Coal Strike— The End of the Strike— The Prince of Wales’s Visit
'to German}'— Conservative Conference at the Carlton ,. . . 437 L e a d e r s :
Prince Bismarck and the Emperor .. .. . . 441 The Floods in the Mississippi
Valley . . . . . . .. 442
CONTENTS.
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L eaders (continued) : I Requiescat Mahaffy .. . 443
Christopher Marlowe . . . . 444 The New Catholic University in
Switzerland .. . . •• 445
1 N o t e s ................................................... 445
R ev iew s :
Salvage from the Wreck . . . . 447 The Light of Reason . . . . 448 Twenty-six Ministries in Twenty
Years.. . .. .. . . 449 Religious Teaching in Board Schools 449 Discovery at Canterbury Cathedral 449 The Irish Temperance Movement.. 450 The Pope’s Poem . . .. . . 450 Catholicism in Sydney . •• 451 C orrespondence :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . .. . . t. 453
! C orrespondence (continued) :
Paris:—(From Our Own Corre
Page spondent) . . . . .. .. 455 Dublin:— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) ......................... 456 1 1 L e t t e r s to t h e E d itor :
Dublin Plasterers’ Society . . 457 “ Priests in Politics " .. . . 457 j Pilgrimage to Palestine . . . . 458 Canon MacColl and Cardinal
Newman . . . . . . .. 458 j Association of the Venerable
College of St. Thomas de Urbe 458 “ The Two Chiefs of Dunboy ”—
A Few More Froudifications .. 458 | I The Cardinal Archbishop and the
Gas Strike . . . . .. . . 460 1 I Mr. J. Morley on the “ Compact” 460
F rom E v er yw h er e ........................... 460 ■ Social a n d P o l it ic a l . . . . 460 ‘
SU PPLEM ENT. N ews from th e S chools :
Scotch Free Education and the
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Code . . . . .. . . 469 Prize Distribution at Cardiff . . 469 New Catholic Schools at Lilybank . . . . . . . . 470 In Defence of Pupil Teachers . . 470 About E d u c a t io n ...................... 470 N ew s from t h e D io ceses :
Westminster . . . . . 471 Southwark . . . . . . . . 4 7 1 Birmingham . . . . . . 472 Clifton . . . . . . . . 472 Hexham and Newcastle .. 472 Newport and Menevia . . . . 472 Nottingham . . . . . . 472 Plymouth .. . . . . . . 473Salford .. . . . . . . 473 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 473 Glasgow .......................................473 Dunkeld . . . . . . . 4.73 O b it u a r y ........................................... 473 A ppeal to th e C h a r it a b l e . . 474
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C H R O N I C L E O F T H E W E E K .
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT — THE GOVERNMENT AND THE VOLUNTEERS.
Government on a
HE only Parliamentary news
Tof interest coming from the closing sittings of last week is a little defeat of the somewhat minor issue. On the motion for going into Committee of Supply, Sir Edward Hamley moved : “ That it is expedient that, after a certain fixed date, all deficiencies of the equipments of volunteers which are necessary to efficiency, and all debts of corps properly incurred on account of the same, be made good from the public revenues.” He supported his motion I by urging that it is now admitted that the volunteers form i an indispensable element of the national defence. In May j last year a circular was issued from the War Office specifying certain articles of equipment which were necessary in order to enable volunteers to take the field, adding that on a date named later in the document possession of these articles ! was to be made a condition of efficiency. The men had thus been told that they would have to fulfil a new and totally different regulation before they would earn the capitation grant. There was no ground, no possible reason which could be urged in defence of calling on j volunteers to provide for their own equipment, and the I deprivation of a grant scrupulously proportioned to necessity \ meant only financial min. No obvious reason existed why j the equipment should be distinguished into two branches, ! when both branches were equally indispensable; and the 1 only inference was that a distinction had been made to enable the State to throw part of the equipment on the volunteers. He then went into some detail, asking if it was not even pathetic to think that volunteer officers were giving little concerts, and flit dramatic representations in order to obtain funds to equip their men for the public service. Mr. Chamberlain spoke in favour.of Sir G.Hamley’s amendment, \ urging that a portion of the circular should at least be withdrawn— that portion, namely, which involved the discontinuance ot the efficiency grant if the equipment was not provided. Mr. Brodrick spoke on behalf of the Government ar.d named the large sums which had been expended in the capitation grant in support of the wisdom which \ prompted the issue of the obnoxious circular. Several military members then chimed into a discussion, the continuance of '
New Series, Vol, XLIII., No. i . i i i which Mr. Stanhope deprecated, begging the House to go into committee of supply to hear exactly what the Government proposed to do in regard to the volunteers. The deprecation availed not, however, and Sir E. Hamley’s amendment becoming the substantive motion it was passed amid opposition cheers without a division.
On Tuesday the proceedings in the House
—Tuesday's of Commons were again raised a trifle above a debate. dead level of dulness by a little defeat of the
Government on Right of Way in Scotland. The approach to public business was delayed' for some time by a discussion of two Bills promoted by the London County Council. The first was objected to on the ground that under cover of improving a bridge over the Creek at Barking and of acquiring the Brockwell Park, a number of other provision were included, conferring exceptional powers on the County Council. Mr. Baumann moved the rejection of the Bill, but it was finally arranged, by the interposition of Mr. Ritchie, that it should be read a second time, and the Committee struck out certain clauses objected to. The second Bill, dealing with Strand improvements, and embodying what is known as the “ Betterment Clauses,” was read a second time and referred to a Hybrid Committee. Mr. Buchanan a little later moved a resolution declaring that expediency of protecting rights of way in Scotland, that such protection should be entrusted to the County Council, and that the law should be amended so as to secure a cheaper and more expeditious method of settling cases relating to rights of way than the procedure now in use provides. The Lord Advocate in reply, maintained that no primes fa cie case had been made out, and the House dividing, a majority of 13 against the ’ Government was, as we have seen, declared. At an early hour the House was counted out.
On Wednesday there was not a quorum b a n k r u p t c y , Plt:sent; at the usual time for the commence-
b i l l . ment of business, and the Speaker did not take the chair till five minutes past one. The House was occupied until close upon five o’clock with discussion of the Bankruptcy Bill, the second reading of which was moved by Sir Albert Rollit. In the course of his speech, Sir Albert explained that the object of the measure was to amend the Act of 1883 in the direction of making more stringent the clauses dealing with a bankrupt’s discharge. The Bill proposed to raise the minimum dividend on which discharge should be given to 10s. in the pound, and 7s. fid. in the case of compositions. The bankrupt was to be liable to conviction for misdemeanour
