THE TABLET. A W e e k ly N e w s p a p e r and Review.
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
F rom the B r i e f o f H is Holiness P in s IX . to T he Tablet, Ju n e 4, 1870 .
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C hronicle of the W e ek : Page L eaders (Continued) :
CONTENTS.
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Correspondence (Continued) : Page
Imperial Parliament : The Tithes Bill—The Tipperary Meeting— Miscellaneous Business — Saturday’s Demonstration—The Reichstag—The Stanley Fund — Mr. Stanley and Lord Salisbury—E x press Postage — Postal Jubilee Envelope — Count Kalnoky on Foreign Affairs—The Army Summer Manœuvres—London County Council — The Newfoundland Fisheries — Above the Senior Wrangler . . . . . . . . 921 L eaders :
The Bogey Bill . . . . . . 925
Mr. Balfour’s Promises . . . . 926 Mixed Marriages in Germany . . 927
Jubilee of the Cardinal Archbishop 928
R eview s :
The Novel of a Nationalist . . 934 The Reign of Law .. . . . . 935
Correspondence :
Rome :—(From Our Own Correspondent) . . . . .. .. 937 P a r is :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . .. .. . . 939 Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) .. . . . . . . 939
Hypnotism in Paris Hospitals . . 941
L e t t er s to th e E ditor :
Truthfulness and Ritualism .. 942 St. Dominic’s Picture . . . . 942 Confraternity of Mount Carmel .. 942
The Cardinal and the Press.. . . 943
Ma r r i a g e s ..................................... 944
A ppeal to the Charitable .. 944
Social and Political . . .. 944
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N ews from the Schools:
The Educntion Vote . . . . 953 Manual Instruction in Schools . . 953 Corpus Christi at Fort Augustus 954 Industrial School at Aberdeen . . 954 About Education .. N ews from th e D ioceses : Westminster
Clifton Newport and Menevia Nottingham.. Plymouth Portsmouth Shrewsbury St. Andrews and Edinburgh Glasgow Galloway “ The First Citizen of London” . . 957 Obituary . . . . .. . . ge7
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT— THE TITHES RILL.
M PORTANT business has been doing in Parliament, chiefly in matters of order relating to Instructions to Committee. At the end of last week Mr. F.
Stevenson moved that it be an Instruction to the Committee that they have power to provide for an equitable revision o f tithes in accordance with the altered conditions of agriculture. Sir M. Hicks Beach, in opposing it, said that the motion was wide and formidable, and that he was curious to know by what process this Instruction was to be carried out. All proposals for amending the system of fixing corn averages would operate to the disadvantage of the titheowner, who might with justice claim that if the question was to be re-opened, the point should be considered whether cereals, rather than meat, hay, or wool, formed a fair test of value. It' was competent for the Committee to make changes in the Bill, if it should think fit, for dealing with the rateable value, so that so far as this was concerned, the Instruction was absolutely unnecessary. After other speeches had been made the closure was put and carried, and Mr. Stevenson’s Instruction was put and lost. Immediately after the division on the Instruction Mr. T . P. O’Connor rose to ask if he were in order in asking whether it v7as necessary to go on to the next Order, as the time for \ opposed business was past. The Speaker replied that he would take the opportunity of stating to the House an entirely new point of order. The position was this, j Several Instructions were down on the paper. I f there were j no other Instructions on the paper he would have left the chair without question put, as the completion of the proceedings before twelve o’clock. None of the Instructions was, however, in order, and some were beyond the scope of the Bill. Under those circumstances technically he should j leave the chair, but he did not wish to do so without the full concurrence of the House. Asked whether the objection o f one member would be sufficient to restrain his exit, the Speaker replied that he had every technical right to leave the chair, and would regulate results by circumstances. ' Some disposition to object having been evinced, he did not | leave the chair and some other business was run through \ before the adjournment of the House at 12.30.
Before the inauguration of a somewhat t i p p e r Er uproarious debate on Monday on the recent m e e t in g , meetings at Tipperary and Cashel, Mr. John
Morley asked the Speaker if he thought fit to state to the House his view on the Instruction which he (Mr. Morley) had put upon the paper and which had been ruled out of order. The Speaker replied that his difficulty had been as to the vagueness of the Instruction, as affording no definite guidance to the Committee for the purpose of carrying out its clauses. In brief, any Instruction which traverses the principle of any Bill which has been read a second time, he adjudged to be a re-opening of the debate on the second reading, and therefore out of order. After some desultory conversation between the Speaker and Mr. Gladstone, in which the latter made somewhat unreasonable demands on the Speaker’s time, Mr. Dillon rose to move the adjournment of the House in order to call attention to “ the immediate and daily increasing danger to the public peace resulting from the violent and unconstitutional action of the police and magistrates of Cashel and Tipperary.” Mr. Dillon gave a minute description, from his point of view, of the affairs which we chronicled a week ago on the matter of the Tipperary meeting. He summed up his indictment in three questions— first, was it legal to attack a peaceable meeting, though it had been proclaimed, without warning sufficient to allow the people to disperse ? Second, when no attempt had been made to hold a meeting, was it legal to charge and baton small groups of people who are spending their innocent moments “ in shaking hands with members of Parliament ? ” Third, when a crowd of people is charged by the police, when no resistance is offered, is it lawful to pursue the flying people, to knock them down and baton them ? Mr. Balfour rose immediately after Mr. Dillon’s speech, and chiefly traversed that gentleman’s statements of facts. It would be apparent, said the Chief Secretary, that from Mr. Dillon’s accounts the police entertained themselves during the day in pursuing flying men, women, and children into their shops and houses, that baton charges were resorted to without provocation, and that no attempts were made by the people to injure the police. According to this picture, the whole transaction consisted of Mr. Dillon on one side attempting to preserve order, and the police on the other attempting to disturb it. All of which, he went on to say, he did not think to have even the elements of plausibility about it. Mr. Dillon hereupon rose and declared that Mr. Balfour had deliberately given him the lie across the floor of the House. “ I gather from your not rising, sir,” said Mr. Balfour, addressing the Speaker, “ that
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