A Weekly Newspaper and Review'.
DUM VOBIS GHATULAM UR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
F rom the B r i e f o f H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T h e T a b l e t , fu n e 4, 1870.
Vol. 75. No. 2611. L ondon, May 24, 1890.
PiaCE 5d., bypost 5«d.
[R eg is t e r ed a t th e Gen e r a l P ost Offic e as a N ew spaper.
UjlIROMCLE OF THE WEEK
Imperial Parliament : Customs ancl Excise—The Time of Private Members—Mr. Stanley in the City—The Penny Postage Jubilee —The Metropolitan Postmen— The Cost of Ocean Penny Postage —The Egyptian Debt—Sir W. Harcourt in Bermondsey—Prince Bismarck on his Resignation— Mr. Parnell on the Irish Vote— International Miners’ Congress— The Panslavists and the Vatican— The Newfoundland Fisheries— The Balkan States —The Passion Play—The Siberian Atrocities— Foundering of an Emigrant Ship 801 'L eaders :
England and Germany in Africa.. 835 Bigotry and a Hospital .. . . 806 The Religious Care of Catholic
Emigrants . . . . . . . . 807
CONTENTS.
L eaders (Continued) :
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Royal Academy .. . . . . 808 The Catholic School Committee.. 808 In Memoriam .. . . . . . . 809 N otes . . . . . . . . . . 810 R eview s :
The Scottish Church . . . . 812 The Trials of a Country Parson .. 813 Two Books on the Holy Land . . 814 Studies on the Epistles . . .. 815
The Irish Ecclesiastical Record’’ 815 William George Ward and the
Oxford Movement . . . . 815 C orrespondence :
Rome :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . . . 817 P a r is :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) .. . . .. .. 8x9 Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . . . 820
The Story of the Pilgrimage :—
Page.
(From Our Own Correspondent) 821 L e t t e r s to th e E ditor :
How to Write Russian Words in
English Characters .. . . 824 The Pilgrimage to Palestine . . 824 An Echo From the Past . . .. 824 Dom Maurice Chauncey’s “ Car
thusians ” . . . . . . .. 824 London University.. . . . . 824 The Story of Conversions.. . . 824 Notes on Technical Instruction .. 825 Thi “ Freeman’s Journal” and the
“ Tablet ’ .. .. . . . . 825 The Bishop of Waterford and the
Christian Brothers : . . . . . 825 C r ic k e t . . .. . . . . . . 826 A ppeal to th e C h ar it a be . . 826 F rom E v e r yw h e r e . . . . .. 826 Social and Po l it ic a l . . . . 827
SUPPLEM ENT. Page
N ew s from th e Schools:
A Camberwell Bazaar in Aid of the Sqhools . . . . . 833' Irish Christian Brothers and the
Grant .......................................833 Glasgow School Board .. . . 833 About Education . . . . . . 834 N ews from th e D io c e s e s :
Hexham and Newcastle .. Liverpool Newport and Menevia Salford St. Andrews and Edinburgh Glasgow
. . 834
835 • ■ 835
. . 836 .. 835 . . 835
The Bombay Catholic Union . . 835 The League of the Cross . . 83 Short Notices . . .. 838
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
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AT the end of last week the
I )ebate on the second reading of the Local Taxation (Custom and Excise) Duties Bill was brought to a close. Before it began Mr. W. H. Smith said that the Government proposed that the House should adjourn on Friday, May 23, and reassemble on the following Thursday. Dr. Tanner accordingly expressed a hope that in the congested sta.te of public business the Government would not adjourn for Derby day. Mr. Summers, in connection with the bill passed last week relating to the Irish Church Fund, during an unexpected minority on the Ministerial side, asked if the Government intended to abandon the clauses of the Land Purchase Bill which proposed to apply the same fund in a different manner. Mr. W. H. Smith replied that as it was highly probable that the bill dealing with land in Ireland would survive the Labourers Bill, there would be no necessity for exercising the provisions referred to. When the Debate was resumed on the Local Taxation Duties Bill, Sir W. Lawson protested against it as being a Compensation Bill. Though professedly brought in in the interests of temperance, the great bulk of the temperance world condemned it. He asked what benefits the publicans had conferred on the public to entitle them to be bribed out of their business. He considered the truth to be that this was an attempt to levy blackmail on the people of the country in order to put money into the pockets of the political supporters of the Government. They might carry the bill, he wittily said, because the flowing bowl was with them, but the flowing tide was against them. Mr. Matthews spoke immediately after Sir W. Lawson, and was followed by Mr. Gladstone, who said that the speech of Sir W. Lawson contained a fervid appeal to the Home Secretary in the shape of a letter from a man who had lost an off-license and had asked compensation and had received none. He had asked the Home Secretary how he justified that action with the proposals contained in the bill, and he had entirely ignored that point. This bill was ostensibly against intemperance, but one thing was certain, that if it received the sanction of Parliament it would add largely to the value of public-houses. Mr. W. H. Smith answering for ¡h : Government denied statements which had been made tl a licenses had been refused by hundreds because they w'ere not required. Moreover, he found that when Mr. Chamberlain proposed to the House to enable town councils to acquire all the public-houses in their district on payment of fair compensation, among his supporters were Sir George Trevelyan and Sir W. Lawson. Here the former explained that the proposal was to buy up the whole trade. So, said Mr. Smith, they now knew' the difference ; the one side proposed to compensate the entire trade, while the Government did not propose to compensate anybody, but to enable houses in excess of the requirements of the population to be purchased. The House then divided on Mr. Caine’s amendment, giving an adverse majority of 73. The bill wras then read a second time.
Tuesday’s sitting began by the usual
~ P rivate1 ° F not*ces> and some questions on Councils m em b e r s . ° f Conciliation, International Telegraphy,
Silver Plate, School Board Electoral Divi
sions, and other matters of local interest. Mr. W. H. Smith then moved without comment: “ That the proceedings on the Customs and Inland Revenue Bill have precedence of the other Orders of the Day and the Notices of Motion this evening and at every sitting for which it may he appointed.” Mr. J . Rowlands proceeded to complain of the determination of the Government to take all the time of the House before Whitsuntide. Having with much difficulty obtained the first place that evening for a resolution he did not intend to give it up without a division. Mr. Dillon declared that there had been absolutely no obstruction, and that the Government had made this demand without any attempt at justification. He appealed to the Government to state next week’s course of business in order that members from Ireland might not be compelled to return on Thursday. A quarrel followed between Mr. Dillon and Mr. Smith, who finally refused to give any programme of business until after the Bill was passed. Sir William Harcourt then rose and had not proceeded far before he was called to order for referring in detail to Committee events, the Speaker being then in the chair. A little later Mr. Smith moved the closure, but the Speaker noted that there was no disposition on the part of the House to delay a decision on the amendment to Mr. Smith’s motion ; for this Mr. Healy gave public thanks to the Speaker in a somew'hat unnecessary manner, and shortly after the amendment w’as withdrawn and Mr. Smith’s original motion passed by a majority of 169. The House then went into Committee on the Customs and Inland Revenue Bill, and several futile amendments wrere brought forward and promptly
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