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DUM VOBIS G R A TU LAM U R , AN IM O S ET IAM A DD IM U S U T IN IN CCEPTIS V E S TR IS CON S TAN TER M ANEATIS
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX . to T h e T a b l e t June 4, 1SJ0.
Vol. 75. No, 2603, L o n d o n , M a r c h 29, 1890.
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C hronicle of the Week :
Page
Imperial Parliament: Irish Affairs .and the Commission— Irish Land Purchase Bill— Mr. Mundellaand the Act o f 1870— Prince Bisjnarck and the Emperor — Dr. Windthorst on Socialism— France and Newfoundland •— Madame Tschebrikova— Election News — Mr. Gladstone and the Irish •Question— Oxford v. Cambridge — The Llanerch Disaster— The 'Queen’s J o u r n e y ......................... 477
Leaders:
The Truth about the Austrian
Bishops . . .. .. . .4 8 1 The Apotheosis of Assassination 482 A Word for our Workhouse Poor 483 The New Irish Movement against
Drunkenness . . . . . . 484 ¿Prince-Bishop Kopp on the Duties o f the Clergy in Social Questions 484
CONTENTS ,
Pope and Kaiser Monsignor de Haerne
N o t e s .....................
Page .. 485 .. 485 . . 486
Reviews : What are the Catholic Claims? .. 48B
The Poems of William L e i g h t o n 489 The State . . . . . . . . 489 Fra Angelico and other Short
Poems . . . . .• •• 489 The Seven Dolours . . . . 489 The Kingdom of God . . . . 489 Manual of the Third Order of St.
Norbert . . . . . . - .4 8 9 Annals of the Propagation of the
Faith .. .. . . •• 493 Flowers from the Catholic Kinder
garten . . . . . . . . 49° The Great Temperance Movement in Ireland . . . . .. •• 49c
Correspondence:
Rome :—(From Our Own Corre
Page spondent) . . . . . . 493 Paris:—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . . . 494 Dublin:— (From Our Own Corre
spondent)
. . . . . . 495
L etters to the Editor :
Canon MacColl and Cardinal
Newman . . . . . . .. 497 Pilgrimage to Jerusalem and
Biblical Museum . . . . 497 The Late Mr. J. R. Herbert,
R .A . . . . . . . . . 498 Don Bosco’s System of Training 498 Cardinal Newman and Dr.
Doliinger . . . . . . .. 498 The Bishop of Liverpool on the
Strikes . . . . . . . . 498 Funeral of the Late J. R. Herbert,
R .A . . . . . . . . . . . 499
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Appeals to the Charitable «, 499 From E verywhere.. .. .. 499 Social and Political .. .. 500 Obituary .................................. 500
SU PPLEM ENT. N ews from the Schools :
Catholic Educational Statistics . . 509 Religion in Board Schools . . 510 St. Abysms’ Schools, Milton-
street, Glasgow .. . . . . 510 Catholic Schools in Scotland . . 510 About E d u c a t io n ............................510 News from the D ioceses :
Westminster Southwark . . Birmingham Clifton ......................... Leeds Hexham and Newcastle .. Glasgow .. . . . . Dunkeld Galloway
511 5«
5« 511 512 512
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT — IRISH AFFAIRS AND
THE COMMISSION.
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T the end of last week in the House of Commons only two short debates of the slightest interest took place,
one in Committee on the Chief Secretary for Ireland’s salary, the other on Mr. Labouchere’s hardy annual — reforms in the House of Lords. Of the latter it is not necessary to say more than that the motion was lost by a majority of 139; the former was chiefly a matter of questioning and answers between the Irish members and Mr. Balfour, a passage at arms between the Chief Secretary and Sir W. Harcourt, and a final agreement to the vote. Meanwhile, in the House of Lords the Marquis o f Salisbury moved that the Report of the Special Commission “ having been presented to Parliament, this House adopts the Report, and thanks the Commissioners for their just and impartial conduct in the matter referred to them, and orders that the Report be entered upon the Journals of the House.” After a warm tribute of praise to the Commissioners he went on to praise the Report, particularly for its “ judicial and literary merits.” He then went on to say that there was much that was absolutely new in the Report — and if not absolutely new to some who had special means of information new to the great majority of men. But there was one thing absolutely new to himself, in connection with Mr. W. O’Brien’s evidence and Lord Spencer, upon which the latter had had no opportunity hitherto of commenting. He, when examined before the Special Commission, was asked whether, in view of the notorious political arrangements of the day, he still entertained the opinion of the noble Earl which he had expressed with so much freedom both in letterpress and pictorial illustration during the Viceroyalty of the noble Earl. Mr. O’Brien replied that he did not; but he was pressed very much as to why he had changed his mind, and what justification he could give of the atrocious insinuations and atrocious accusations he had levelled against the noble Earl. His answer was that he had shifted the blame from Earl Spencer to his subordinates— “ and I think that Earl Spencer has found that we were right as to his subordinates.” 1 his Lord Salisbury denounced with some vehemence, applauded by Lord Spencer. He then went on to discuss at some detail certain
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of the findings of the Report, concluding with an earnest appeal that its lessons should be learnt and practised. Lord Herschell replied to Lord Salisbury’s speech, and the debate became very general, carried on by Earl Spencer the Earl of Selborne, Lord Derby, the Earl of Kimberley, and others. The motion was agreed to at a late hour of the night, those who called “ not content ” not, however, challenging a division.
— IRISH LAND
PURCHASE
BILL.
On Monday night Mr. Balfour introduced in a speech of extraordinary length and very varied detail a Bill “ to provide further facilities for the purchase of land in Ireland, for the improvement of the condition of the poorer and more congested districts, and for the constitution of a Land Department.” He began by a plunge into the very centre of the question. He would not, he said, keep the House in arguing the point as to the desirability of increasing the number of occupying owners in Ireland— for on that question every party in the House and the public generally had long made up their minds. After a few further preliminary remarks in demonstration of this fact he came at once to the Bill. He declared that here was a land system to be dealt with the most complicated in the world. Coming then to the last portion of the Bill first, he described the body by whom it would be administered. There are now, he said, five bodies in Ireland concerned with the valuation of land, the sale of land, and the lending of money on land. It is now proposed to amalgamate these five bodies into one, called the Land Department. And now to the body and substance of the Act itself. The first question is— should the Land Bill be compulsory? The Government thought not, and for many reasons, the chief of which is that you cannot make the Bill compulsory without making it applicable to all Ireland. The second question— ought any risk to be thrown on the British taxpayer ? Again, no. The third question— is British credit to be used in carrying out the project ? The Government answers yes, and the speaker would explain later how this is easily harmonised with the second condition. For the present he observed that unless this were done there would be no possible means of providing an absolute security. Further, congested districts are to be dealt with, though differently from the rest of Ireland. Listly, as a question— in the advances to the tenants for the purchase of their holdings are the plans of 1870, 1880, and 1883, to be approved, namely, the advance to the tenant of only a fixed portion of the price of his holding? To this he answered a negative— this plan
