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DUM VOBIS G R A T U L A M U R , A N IM O S E T IA M A D D IM U 3 U T IN IN C C E P T IS V E S T R I S C O N S T A N T E R M A N E A T I S
Fron the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX . to The Tablet Tune 4, iSrjo.
V o l . 75. No, 2ÓOO,
L ondon, M arch 8, 1890.
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‘C hronicle c p t h e W e e k :
Pag
.Imperial Parliament : Mr. Labouchere Suspended— Debate on the Commission— First D ay— Mr. W. H . Smith’s Speech— Mr. Gladstone’s Speech— End of the First D a y ’s Debate— Second Day's D e bate— Third D a y ’s Debate— The ’N ew Tithe Bill— North St. Paneras Election— The German E lections— Retirement of M. Constans — The New Minister— The Forth Bridge— Accident to a Scots E x p ress-S ir M. Mackenzie and the Emperor Frederick— Death of Sir fames Ingham— The Public L ibraries Act .. 157 ■ Leaders :
The Balance of Power in the
New Reichstag . . .. .. 361 Mr. Lyulph Stanley on Free
Schools .. . . .. . . 362 Mr. Mahafiyon the War-Path .. 362
CONTENTS .
L eaders (continued):
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A Word for Western Australia .. 364 Dr. Did linger and the Vatican
Archives .. . . . . . . 365
Page
1 The “ Initial Meridian ” in France 376
Eudore Pirmez . . . . . . 370
L e t t e r s to t h e E d itor :
Father Lescher, O .P ., and the
The Hind and the Panther.. . . 366 !
N o t e s . . ........................................366 j R ev iew s :
Life of Don Bosco, Founder of the Salesian Society .. .. 369 Illustrated Lives of the Saints . . 370 The Magazines .. .. . . 37° Their Happ’est Christmas . . 371
C orrespondence :
“ Irish Ecclesiastical R ecord” 377 “ Priests in Politics ” . . .. 377 The Hungarian Confession of
Faith— A Forgery .. .. 378 Royal University and the Jesuits 378 The Temporal Inheritance of the
Roman Church . . . . . . 378 Christian Re-Union .. .. 379 Benedictines at Douai .. . . 379 Forty Miles from Rail .. . . 379 Ireland’s Invitation .. .. 379 The Daughters o f Blessed Co-
lumba in Perugia .. . . 379
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) .................................... 373 Paris:— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) .. . . . .
Dublin:— (From Our Own Corre
spondent)
.. . .
. . 374
. . 375
The Franciscans in England .. 379 Bishop Bonnei’s Homilies . . .. 380 The Archbishop of Dublin and the
Building Trades . . «• .. 381 F rom E v er yw h e r e .........................3S2
SUPPLEMENT. N ews from t h e S chools :
Wandsworth About Education ..
Pace
3^9 3?9
N ews from t h e D io ceses :
Westminster
. . . . . 390
Southwark . . .. . . . . 390 Birmingham . . . . .. 390 Leeds .. .. . . . . 391 Liverpool .. . . . . .. 391 Newport and Menevia Nottingham Salford St. Andrews and Edinburgh Glasgow
391 391 39t 392 392
Catholic Union of Great Britain .. 392 Chelsea Catholic Registration So
ciety ............................................... 393 Archdeacon De ison on the “ Down
Grade ” .. .. .. .. 393 St. Vincent de Paul’s Society in
England .. .. . . . . 393
Rejected MS. cannot be returned unless accompanied with address and postage.
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
IM PERIAL PARLIAMENT
— MR. LAROUCHERE
SUSPENDED.
E XCITING scenes have been doing in Parliament. When the House went into Committee on the Vote of Account,
it was known that Mr. Labouchere cherished the intention of proposing a reduction in certain Government salaries by reason, as he alleged, of a criminal •conspiracy in which Lord Salisbury and others had been engaged to defeat the ends of justice in connection with the events too widely known as the Cleveland-street scandals. Mr. Labouchere charged Lord Salisbury with consciously conveying to the prime offender, through Sir Dighton Probyn, the information of the issue of a warrant of arrest— information which gave the accused lime to fly the country. The Attorney-General, who answered Mr. Labouchere, took up each of his points, rebutting each in turn by a flat contradiction. In regard to Sir D. Probyn’s communication with Lord Salisbury, Sir R. Webster admitted the interview, the persons taking part in it and the culprit’s sequent flight, but on the Premier’s direct authority he denied that any information had been given on the subject of the warrant, which was in fact . not issued till November 7. To which Mr. Labouchere summarily replied by declaring frankly— “ I do not believe Lord Salisbury.” The Chairman called on the member for Northampton to withdraw the offensive remark, but the member for Northampton remaining obdurate, the Chairmatn “ named Mr. Henry Labouchere.” Mr. Labouchere was accordingly promptly suspended for a week. The Debate was continued till midnight, when, the Closure being moved, Mr. Labouchere’s amendment was negatived.
DEBATE ON TH E COMMISSION— FIRST DAY— MR. W. II. s m i t h ’s s p e e c h .
Before the debate on the Report of the Parnell Commission opened on Monday in the House of Commons, references were made to Mr. Labouchere’s suspension, and after a discussion as to whether Lord George Hamilton, in a speech on the subject, had infringed the privileges of the House — a discussion from the decision of which the First Lord of the Treasury shrank— Mr. Gladstone gave notice of a resolution on the subject in the following terms: “ That this House deems it necessary to declare that when a member of this House prefers a charge against a Minister
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of the Crown, which charge is denied on behalf of the Minister, that such member ought not to be restrained ftom refusing to accept such denial and persisting in his charge by reason that the Minister is a member of the House of Lords.” This episode over, Mr. W. H. Smith moved his resolution, that “ Parliament having constituted a Special Commission to inquire into the charges and allegations made against certain Members of Parliament and other persons, and the Report of the Commissioners having been presented to Parliament, this House adopts the Report, and thanks the Commissioners for their just and impartial conduct in the matters referred to them ; and orders that the said Report be entered on the journals of this House.” He spoke to a crowded House, members overflowing from the seats to the floor, and the Strangers’ Galleries being taken by storm. He assured the House that the Government considered the course taken one which would do absolute justice to all parties concerned—• to the members whose conduct had been impugned, to others included in the allegations, and to the newspaper which had brought forward the charges. After an emphatic condemnation of the publication of the forged letters, he detailed the circumstances under which the Commission had been formed, and declared that absolutely no other course had been open to the Government. He then went on to the findings of the Commissioners, taking their most important decisions one by one, and concluding that a most judicial impartiality had throughout been exercised. He deplored that Mr. Gladstone’s Amendment contained not one word of thanks to the Judges “ for the work which they had done, for the patience with which they had investigated the questions put before them, with absolute impartiality in the discharge of their duty.” He concluded with an appeal to the House to consider the grave interests at stake, and vindicate its reputation for concern in peace and prospetity and good order in all parts of the kingdom.
— MR. GLADSTONE’S
SPEECH.
Mr. Gladstone, in reply, congratulated the First Lord of the Treasury on his temperate speech, and though it presented matter and opportunity for poli
tical controversy, he would resist the temptation, on an occasion too serious for mere “ polemical disquisition.” In some sense, he continued, the Judges were on their trial; in some sense the Irish members ; but mainly the Commons were on their trial. He was ready to acknowledge the zeal of the Commissioners in the discharge of their difficult duties ; he would go further and say— -amid Ministerialist cheers— that every line in the report was penned in absolute honour and good faith. But the demand that the House
