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Front the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX . to T h e T a b l e t [ant 4, i Sjo.

V o l . 75. No, 2609. L o n d o n , M a y i o , 1890.

P r ice 5<L, b y P ost,

[R e g is t e r ed 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 s pa p e r .

C hronicle of t h e W e e k :

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Imperial Parliament : The End of the Land Purchase Bill— Wednesday’s Sitting— The Government and the Publicans— Mr. Stanley a t the Albert Hall— The Opening of the Reichstag— The German Factory A ct-T he Demonstrations o f May D a y— The Municipal Elections in Paris— France and

.Egypt— Royal Academy Banquet —-The Panama Canal—A Ransom of ,¿10,000—A Hundred Lunatics Burnt .....................................' 7*7 L e a d e r s :

Stanley in England . . . . 721 Ritualism and Irish Protestants.. 72T Royal Academy . . . . . . 723 A New Interpretation of Dante.. 724

Rome and Diplomatic Relations . . 724

CONTENTS.

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Father Damien ......................... 725 N o t e s . . 7a8 R ev iew s :

Natural Religion . . . . . . 730 The Colonial Year Book for 1890 730 The Magazines . . .. . . 730 The History o f the Sufferings of

Eighteen Carthusians in England ..................................... ,731 Cassell’s History of England . . 731 St. Anselm’s Society . . . . 731 Our Lady’s Month.. . . . . 731

C orrespondence :

Rome (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . . . . . 733 Paris:—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) ....................................... 734 Dublin:— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . .. 735

L e t t e r s to t h e E d itor :

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Cardinal Newman and Dr.

D o llin ger......................... . . 737 The Cardinal Manning Silver

Jubilee Fund .. . . . . 737 In Praise of Mortification . . 737 Catholic Uniates in Russia . . 737 About a Book . . . . . . 737

The Pope to the Archbishop [of

Cologne ......................... . . 737 The Bombay Catholic Union . . 738 Archbishop Walsh on a Dublin

Board of Conciliation . . . . 740 Dr. Barnardo and the Children . . 740 Mr. De Lisle, M.P., and the Mines

(Eight Hours) B i ll.....................740

Marriage . .

. . . . 7 4 1

F rom E veryw h er e . .

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S o c ia l a n d P o l it i c a l . . •• 743

SU PPLEM ENT. N ews from th e S chools :

About Education . .

N ews from t h e D io ceses :

Westminster Southwark . . . . , . , , Hexham and Newcastle .. Leeds Middlesbrough Newport and Menevia Northampton .. Salford St. Andrews and Edinburgh Glasgow

The Bombay Catholic Union

A Benedictine on Bimetallism

75° 751 751 751 751 751 751 752 752 752

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

p u r c h a s e BILL. u

TH E adjourned debate on the

Land Purchase B ill was re

H Mr. Balfour, who began his notable speech by de­

claring the attack on the B ill as violent in form, but hesitating in matter. T h e most vigorous language had been used by men in whom it was too obvious that their opposition was chiefly based on the feeling that the Government could not possibly do right. M oreover, so far from the attacks being mutually self-supporting, they had been self-destructive. T o give one example, Sir W. Harcourt had asked why such a Bill was not to be extended to Scotland, and Mr. G ladstone had simultaneously emphatically declared that the case o f Ireland was on an entirely different basis from that of England or Scotland. Sir W. Harcourt had also declared it to be an absurdity to describe the tenants as owners, in any sense o f the word, under this B i l l ; but Mr. Parnell had distinctly described them as owners in the course o f that very debate. T h e y had also been told by one that the boon to the buyers was so great that the greatest discontent would result from so partial an apportionm ent; and Mr. Gladstone forthwith rose to tell the House that the B ill was so contrived that all its benefits would fall upon the heads o f the landlords. A fte r instancing further the disagreement and disorganisation of the Opposition he turned to Mr. D illo n ’s remarks on the congested districts. H e maintained that when Mr. D illo n ’s schemes at all differed from his own, they differed for the worse, and he proceeded to criticise those schemes at some detail. Members below the gangway, he said, had been rich in projects for dealing with the property o f landlords, but they had never discovered one plan for dealing with the vital and essential interests o f the congested districts. H ad any speech o f any Irish member, he asked, urged the inexpediency of rash and early marriages? T h e Opposition here laughed; they regarded that question as extremely com ic, said Mr. Balfour, but Mr. D illon had thrown the whole blame o f the large population c f the West Coast on the landlords. “ But I would suggest that ever in Ireland some responsibility for having children

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rests with the parents.” H ad Irish members ever produced any scheme in which they had encouraged subdivision ? H ad they ever urged upon the people emigration when they could not obtain a livin g at home ? H e then went on to consider the question o f local authority in the administration of the Bill, and said that Mr. Chamberlain’s remarks on the matter would have been apt enough were Ireland in a normal condition, and its abnormal condition and the risk o f entrusting the matter to County Councils were exemplified by the attitude o f Irish members to the Bill. One had amiably said that he hoped the Bill might be made the instrument o f destroying a detested Governm ent; then followed a smart little skirmish with Mr. T . P. O ’Connor, who obviously came off second best. Then, said Mr. Balfour, take a representative member like Mr. Knox, who was making every preparation for doing what “ I think his leader described as absconding with the plunder.” H ere Mr. K n o x made a personal explanation, the satisfactory nature o f which may be judged by the fact that it was received with Ministerial cheers. Mr. Balfour went on to consider what he considered the preposterous theory o f universal repudiation o f their debts on the part o f the tenants. Success o f Irish agitation, he said, depended on three conditions. In the first place, the landlord attacked must be financially w e a k ; in the second place, the repudiation must be backed up by a system o f general boycotting in the neighbourhood; and, in the third place, there must be adequate funds at the disposal o f the agitators to support the evicted tenants. None o f these conditions would be fulfilled i f any attempt were made at universal repudiation as suggested by Mr. Dillon. In the first place the landlord is not financially weak— being the British E x ch e q u e r ; and he dealt in an effective manner into which we have not space to enter here, with the impossibility o f the other two conditions. H e concluded by an earnest appeal to the members below the gangway “ and to the leader o f the new Radical party who declaims so e loquently on the platform about the woes o f Ireland, and who boasts that he will not spend sixpence out o f his pocket.” A s to the Opposition, “ they are bound by every public pledge to aid in the establishment o f a peasant proprietary in Ireland,” and to them he appealed with more confidence than to the hon. member for Northampton, or to his Irish allies, “ to aid in the great work which for no small or party purposes we have attempted resolutely to take in hand.” Mr. Sexton spoke immediately after Mr. Balfour, and after Lord Hartington had made a sound and solid speech Mr. Morley wound up for the Opposition. T h ?