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DUM VOBIS G R A TU L AMUR, AN IM O S E T I AM ADD IM U S U T IN INCCEPTIS V E S TR IS CONSTAN TER MANEATIS

Fro~n the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX. to T h e T a b l e t Tune 4, i Sj o ,

V o l . 75. No, 2608, L ondon, M ay 3, 1890.

P r ice 5<L, b y P o st ,

[R e g is t e r ed a t t h e G en e r a l P o st O f f i c e a s a N ew spaper.

C hronicle o f t h e W e e k :

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Imperial Parliament : Morning Sitting— Evening Sitting — Irish Land Purchase— A Morning in the Commons— Evening Sitting— Deceased Wife’s Sister Bill — EngFsh Slave - Owners — Mr. Stanley’s Home-Coming — The Scramble for Africa— The Labour Agitation — A Year of County Council— Return of the Queen to Windsor— Mr. Leonard Courtney on Education— Succi’s Fast .. 677

L e a d e r s :

The Debate on the Bill . . . . 681 The Pope and the Italian P il­

grimage to the Vatican.. ^ . . 682 Catholic Restitution in Prussia . . 683 The Catholic Uniates in Russia in the 19th Century— II. . . 684 The Cardinal Archbishop’s Jubilee 685

CONTENTS .

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The Jerusalem Pilgrimage . . . . 685 N o t e s ....................................... . • 686 R ev iew s :

A Southern Planter . . . . 688 1 The One Mediator .. . . 689 j Our Lady’s Dowry.. .. . . 69c , Essays Towards a New Theology 690 : Annals of the Propagation of the

Faith .. ......................... 690 Scenes from the Life o f St. Bene­

dict ................................................690 Foreign Missions and Missioners .. 690 C orrespondence :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . . . . . 693 Paris :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . . . .. 695 Dublin:—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) ......................... 695

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Nuestra Señora Del Pilar . . . . 696

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

Cardinal Newman and Dr.

Dollinger......................... . . 697 The Work of Expiation . . . . 697 Local Branches of the Truth

S o c i e t y ....................... . . . 697 In Memory of Mgr. De Haerne.. 698 ! Only an “ R ” ............................698 The Teachers of the South . . 698 Catholic Uniates in Russia .. 698 ¡ A Distressing Case.. . . , , 698 Catholic Colonial Disabilities . . 699 Dr. Barnardo and the “ Habeas

Corpus” . . .. . . . . 70c Archbishop Walsh and the Railway

Strike.................................................. 700 . A Consecration among the Savages 701 '

Adoption of Children Bill . . . . 701 Mr. Mill and the Irish Land Bill . . 701 F rom E v er yw h er e . . . . . . 702 Social a n d P o l it ic a l .. . . 702

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

A Glasgow Catholic College . . 709 About E d u c a t io n ......................... 710 N ew s from t h e D io ceses :

Westminster . . . . . 711 Birmingham . . . . . . 7 1 2 Leeds , . . . . . 7 1 2 Liverpool .. ......................... 712 Newport and Menevia . . .. 713 Salford . . . . . . . . 713 Glasgow . . . . . . . . 7 1 3 O b it u a r y ........................................

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

AT the morning sitting o f the

House o f Commons at the end of last week, the Government had intended to give first place to the A llo tm ents B ill. Mr. John Morley, however, strongly supported by Sir W illiam Harcourt, protested against the B ill being taken without more notice, and the first Lord of the Treasury, though maintaining the equity o f his position, -conceded the contention. T h e second reading o f the E lectoral D isabilities B ill was accordingly moved, and Sir John Gorst explained that the object of the measure was to remove from soldiers and sailors the peculiar disabilities under which they laboured owing to the occasional obligation o f absence from home and the consequent loss o f -qualification to vote. Mr. Storey moved the rejection of the B ill on the ground that it did not include mercantile seamen, and Mr. Whitmore complained that the lines of the B ill were too narrow, and undertook to move in Committee a like extension to railway servants, clerks, and others. Sir John Gorst accordingly undertook on the part o f the Governm ent to support any instruction moved with the object o f extending the exemptions to the other classes included in Mr. Whitmore’s Bill o f last year. Mr. Bradlaugh accordingly announced that he would vote for the Bill, whereupon Mr. Cunninghame Graham declared that he had not “ the same infantile or elephantine faith in G overn ments possessed by the junior member for Northampton. H e (the speaker) was not engaged in swallowing his life ’s convictions and putting himself up to auction to both parties for place, or in grovelling before the House that had kicked him out.” It is not necessary to add that Mr. Graham’s elegant diction did not reach a period without several emphatic calls to order on the part o f the Speaker. A fter some further discussion the amendment was withdrawn and the Bill read a second time. After the House had got into Committee o f Supply, the discussion on the slave-trade was resumed, and Mr. Labouchere moved the reduction o f the vote by ¿£9,130, this being the amount o f the Zanzibar and Aden contract. This was negatived and the motion agreed to.

N ew S e m e s , V o l . XLIII., N o . r, 1 ry

N o sooner was the sitting resumed than an

— evening attem pt was made to count out the House,

sitting. but unsuccessfully. On the motion to go into the Committee o f Supply Mr. Picton informed the H ouse that the agitation against vaccination was so determ ined at Leicester that the School Board encountered great difficulty in procuring as pupil teachers young persons who had been vaccinated. T h e Education Department refused to sanction an engagement in the absence o f a certificate o f vaccination, and he hoped that the Government would treat Leicester leniently, as there was no town more free from small pox than Leicester. In answer to Mr. Waddy, Mr. Smith stated that when the B ill dealing with the arrangements for taking the census next year was introduced, it would be for the I io n se then to decide as to whether and in what manner a religious census should be taken. A fte r further discussion the closure was moved and accepted by a majority o f 30. In Committee o f Supply, Sir G. Campbell moved to reduce the vote by ¿£5,000, the cost of a New Guinea steamer, by way o f protest against giving the control o f New Guinea to Queensland. A division having been challenged, Dr. Tanner and Mr. Sheehy were named as tellers. Mr. Sheehy being in L im erick, Dr. Tanner sat alone in the House waiting for another teller and chaffed various members as they peered in from the lobby to see what was the matter. Mr. Waddy, among others, having been received thus jo cosely and having retired in precipitation, Sir Thomas Esmonde was brought out o f the “ N o ” lobby as teller. T h e amendment was negatived, the closure having been accepted. The House then adjourned.

Just before the debate was resumed on

— irish Monday, on the Irish Land Purchase, Mr. land purchase. Smith, in answer to a question from Mr.

John Morley, announced that the discussion would be resumed at the morning sitting o f Tuesday and the division taken on Thursday night. Mr. Chamberlain’s speech on Monday filled the House in every part, the only notable absentee being Mr. Parnell. That was a pity, as it was with Mr. Parnell’s plan that the speaker chiefly dealt. H e urged that if Mr. Parnell’s scheme were adopted, the two principal features o f the Government Bill were thereby approved— State aid for the adjustment o f the rent question, and the hypothecation o f local resources. H e affirmed that, in regard to Mr. G ladstone’s Land Purchase B ill of 1886, what he had then said was that he had no objection to the S:ate assuming credit for the payment of rent in Ireland, provided Ireland were not translated into the position o f a