A W eek ly N ew sp a p er a n d R e v iew .

DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX. to T h e T a b l e t , fune 4, i S j o .

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C hronicle of th e W e e k :

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Imperial Parliament— Lord Rosebery and the Co-operatives— The Miners’ Congress—Accident to the German Emperor—The Newfoundland Disputes— The Demonstration at Tipperary— Demonstration at Cashel— Talleyrand’s Memoirs —Gold Mining in Wales—The Copper Ring Case—The Bombardment of Dover— The Polytechnic 'for Paddington— Prince Bismarck 3.nd Journalism— Arrest of Nihi­

lists in Paris— A Meissonier Sold 841 L e a d e r s :

The Laicisation of the French

Hospitals . . .. •• •• 845 The German Catholic Congress . . 846 .Freemasonry and Political Corrup­

tion in Italy .. .. •• 847 Canada and Religious Education 848

[R eg iste r ed a t t h e G en er a l P ost O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper.

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L eaders (Continued) : The Special Mission to the Vatican 849 N otes . . . . . . . • • • 851 R eview s :

Monasticon Beige _.. .. .. 853 The “ Dublin Review ” .. .. 853 The Month of Mary . . . . 854 Monserrat . . . . .. •• 855

The Catholic Association .. .. 855

C orrespondence :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) .. .. •• •• 857 P a r is :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . •• •• 859 Dublin :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) .. . . . . •• 860

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C orrespondence (Continued) :

The Story of the Pilgrimage :—

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(From Our Own Correspondent) 861 L e t t e r s to th e E d itor :

The Jerusalem Pilgrimage . . 864 St. Anselm’s Society . . . . 804 Priests and the “ Celebret" . . 864 How to Write Russian Words in

English Characters . . .. 804 St. George and the East . . . . 864 The Successors of Father Damien.. 865 Lord Lovat . . .. . . .. 865 Mr. Wilfrid Ward in the e<Nine­

teenth Century ” . . . . .. 805 F rom E v e r yw h e r e . . . . . . 866 O b itu ar y . . . . . . . . 866 Social a n d P o l it ic a l . . . . 866 A ppeal to th e C h a r it a b l e . . 866

SU PPLEM ENT. D ecisions of R oman C ongrega­

t io n s ........................................ 873 ! N ew s from th e S chools :

St. Mary’s College, Hammersmith 873 j About Education . . . . . . 873 i N ews from th e D io ceses :

... Westminster . . . . . . . . 874 Southwark .. . . . . . 874 Newport and Menevia . . . . 875 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 875 The Archbishop of Dublin at Athy 875 j “ There is no Colour Line ” . . 876 j Return of the Bishop of Nottingham 877

Catholic Truth Society . . . . 877

RejectedMS. cannot be returned unless accompanied with address andpostage.

CHRONICLE OF TH E WEEK.

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AT the end o f last week, after one or two minor questions had been put .. and answered, Sir J. Fergusson, replying to a question b y Mr. Summers, said it was

Relieved that marriages between Protestants and Catholics had been celebrated by the English chaplains in Malta, but .that the same marriages had also been celebrated by Catholic chaplains. Care would however be taken that the .project o f law to be introduced in the Council o f Malta should not have the effect o f illegalising any past marriage. •A little later Mr. W . H . Smith moved : “ T h a t after Whitsuntide, unless the H ouse otherwise order, the House do m eet on Tuesday and Friday at three o f the clock, and that Government business have priority on T u e s d a y ; that Standing Order n be suspended, and the provisions o f S tanding Order 56 be extended to the other days o f the week.” T h is motion he explained would virtually give the Government the whole tim e o f the H ouse for the rest o f the session, except Wednesdays. Mr. Campbell Bannerman contended that the motion was altogether unprecedented at that period o f the session. H e b lam ed the Ministers, not for having introduced the motion, but for having so ordered the business o f the House that such a motion should be found to be necessary. Mr. Sexton proposed to insert the words “ and that Supply be taken at least one day in every week,” but Mr. Smith refused to accept the amendment, since in arranging for the business o f the House it was needful that the Government should have a free hand. V o t in g having been taken on Mr. Sexton’s amendment, it was lost by a majority o f 64. Mr. M acLaren submitted an amendment to provide that Tuesday, June 3, should be exempted from the motion in order to give precedence to the motion for the extension o f Parliam entary franchise to women, but, after a speech in which Mr. Lahouchere “ proposed to indulge in the luxury o f voting for the Governm ent,” this was lost. On the report o f Supply, Mr. Sexton rose to demand from the C h ie f Secretary an explicit declaration o f the Governm ent’s intention in regard to the public meeting to be held on the Sunday at “ New T ipperary.” Mr. Balfour expressed ignorance o f the preparations which had been made for the meeting, and Mr. Sexton informed him that he was him self aware o f five special trains. Mr. Balfour accordingly declared that he should endeavour to save people from going to a meeting which could not be perm itted by the authorities. A fte r some wild words had passed across the table o f the House, Mr. Smith appealed to hon. members to allow report o f Supply to be taken, and he would then move the adjournment o f the House over the holidays. Mr. Sexton asked i f the closure would be applied to the motion for adjournment, and Mr. Smith naturally answered that i f the House w ished to sit on Monday, he had no objection. A t a short evening sitting the Chancellor o f the Exchequer moved that at its rising the House adjourn till June 2, and this was agreed to. Shortly after the House was counted out at half-past io .

T h e Annual Congress o f Delegates from

L° Ra “ RY the Co-operative Societies was this year co-operatives, unusually well attended, took place at

Glasgow, and was addressed by Lord Rose­

bery. T h e inaugural speech o f Lord Rosebery, though ushered in by some very modest observations, is likely to be o f permanent service to the societies he was addressing, i f only by making the indifferent public practically aware o f the enormous developm ent o f the co-operative movement. T h e societies represented at G lasgow number a million members ; they have a loan capital o f ten million sterling, and a share capital o f three and a half millions ; their investments amount to ¿£5,313,300 ; during the last 20 years their sales have amounted to the enormous amount o f ¿£471,200,000, and their profits to ,£39,770,000, But the prosperity o f the past is only an earnest o f the vaster success which may be looked for in the future. Thus the sales for 1888 amounted to two and a quarter more millions than in the preceding year. Where is such advancement to end ? Here, in Lord Rosebery’s dramatic words, is an army half as great again as the great army which Napoleon led to Russia, and to perish there. T h e accumulated capital o f these industrial societies is as great as the National D ebt o f England at the time o f the accession o f Queen Anne. Their income is as great as the income o f England during the reign o f William III. A fte r thus marshalling in imposing array the material resources o f these industrial societies, Lord Rosebery found it an easy task to tell o f the moral qualities they develop and the moral advantages they give to the State. Though a R adical in many o f his ways o f thought, Lord Rosebery still prizes the principle o f individualism in labour as oppposed to State control. H e values co-operative societies, not merely because they foster temperance and thrift, but also because they school men in independence.

N ew Series, V ol. X L I I I ., No. 1,121.