HE TABL i A Weekly Newspaper and Review.

DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS V ESTRIS CONSTANTER MAN'EATIS.

From the B r ie f o f H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T he T a b let , fu n e 4, 1870 .

Vol. 75. No. 2613.

London, J une 7, 1890.

P r ic e 5^., by P ost s% d.

[R eg iste r ed a t th e G en e r a l P ost Office as a N ew spaper.

C hronicle of th e Week :

Imperial Parliament : Concerning Heligoland—The Education Estimates— The Derby Day — The Public and the Park—The Panitza Trial—England and the Transvaal—The Struggle in Uganda— The Austrian Currency—Dinner .to Mr. Stanley—Lord Salisbury and Mr. O’Brien—Mr. Gladstone on Education — The Licensing Proposals—The Bombardment of Dover — Release of the Due -d'Orleans—Trial of the Marquis de Mores—The Channel Tunnel.. 8S1 L e a d e r s :

The Cardinal’s Jubilee .. . . 885 The Council of Carthage.. . . 885 The Grosvenor Gallery . . . . 886

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The Story of the Pilgrimage :—

(By Our Special Correspondent) 887

L e t t e r s to th e E ditor :

N otes . . .......................................... 890

The Life of St. Alonso Rodriguez 891 The Magazines .. . . . . 892 A Yorkshire Association . . . . 894

Bishop Brondel in Rome . . Union is Strength Cyprus and the Cyprus Society . The Cardinal’s Jubilee A Catholic Senator.. SS. Mary and Michael’s School*

Commercial-road East . . Hospital Sunday St. Dominic’s Picture Mass at Staines

Catholicism in Manchester ..

894

Correspondence :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . .. . . . . 897 Paris: — (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . .. . . 899 Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . .. .. .. 900

The Glensharrold Evictions The Lepers in Hawaii Compensation for Licenses .. Death of Mgr. Canon Kershaw C r ic k e t ........................... M a r r i a g e s ............................

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F rom E v e r yw h e r e . . . . . . 905 A ppeals to th e C h a r it a b l e . . 905 S ocial and Po l it ic a l . . . . 906

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

The Bradford Petition . . . . 9 13 Catholic Reformatory, West thorn,

Glasgow.. .. . . . . 914 About Education . . . . .. 914 N ews from th e D io ceses :

Westminster.. . . . . . . 914 Southwark . . . . . . . 915 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 915 Leeds .. .. . . . . 916 Liverpool . . . . . . . . 916 Newport and Menevia . . . . 916 Salford . . . . . . .. 918 Glasgow . . . . . . .. 918

Rejected M S . cannot be returned unless accompa?iied w ith address and postage.

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENTCONCERNING HELIGOLAND. T

'H E House of Commons reassembled after the Whitsun recess on Monday, the first attendance being very small, but increasing to a maximum of 177 members. The Chancellor of the Exche­

quer led the House in the absence of Mr. Smith, and Mr. John Morley stood deputy for Mr. Gladstone. In reply to many questions on the matter of Newfoundland, Sir James Fergusson promised that papers should be immediately forthcoming. He disclaimed knowledge of the rumoured landing of French troops on the Newfoundland coast, and he expreessed confidence in the representatives of England and France as willing and able to maintain a conciliatory attitude. In Committee of Supply there was some lively discussion on Heligoland, Sir G. Campbell moving the reduction of the Vote by the Governor’s salary. Mr. Labouchere urged that the possession of the Island was altogether useless, and maintained (as though it were so much cattle) that it would be a “ graceful thing ” to hand the island, inhabitants and all, over to Germany. On a division this remarkable amendment was negatived by 150 votes to 27. In a very thin House discussions were then continued on affairs in Sierra Leone and other matters, several divisions being taken. On the Colonial Vote Mr. Goschen promised to secure facilities for further discussion on the Report stage. Mr. Baumann at half-past 1 1 moved the reporting of progress on the ground that more time was needed to discuss the question of Swaziland, Bechuanaland, and South Africa. Mr. Bryce objected to the passing of the Vote that night, and Mr. A. O’Connor continued the conversation till 12, when progress was reported, and the House adjourned.

—THE EDUCATION ESTIMATES.

It may perhaps be considered a tribute to the highly technical character of Sir W. Hart Dyke’s speech, introducing the Education Estimates, that an attempt was made to count out the House when he sat down. However the educational policy of the Government had been thoroughly discussed beforehand, and, on the whole, thoroughly approved. The Minister began his speech by dealing with that fundamental part of the Code, the pupil-teacher system. Many have thought that the pupil-teacher system ought to be abolished. The Government preferred to strengthen it

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and to improve it. Then came details of the formidable number of examinations and tests of efficiency which the New Code imposes upon those who aspire to be the teachers of the future. At the same time it was carefully explained that all these changes, which have already been exhaustively considered in these columns, are prospective, and so cannot give the least shadow of excuse for a grievance to any existing teacher or pupil-teacher. The objects of the changes are to secure greater efficiency and to weed out those who have no aptitude for the profession by, as the Minister euphemistically phrases it, allowing them to seek some other calling for which they are more fitted. Sir Hart Dyke went on to contend that in doing away with the existing percentage grant, the old merit grant, and the old fixed grant, and substituting a new fixed grant of 12s. 6d. or 14s., he was following along the lines recommended by the Royal Commission. In future the grant will be paid only to an efficient school; but it is hoped that under this new grant, and under the new method of assessing it, every school in England and Wales will be enabled to come up, at all events, to the maximum of the 17s. 6d. limit. It had been said that the new grant was nothing but a merit grant in a new form. This was a mistake, as the new grant will be worked by the Department as a fixed grant essentially. Another and important point upon which they had accepted the advice of the Royal Commission was in their treatment of the smaller schools in country districts. Henceforth all schools situated in a school district of which the population is below 500 will be entitled to an extra grant of per annum. This represents a considerable sum, as the official estimate gives the number of such schools as 4,500. Sir Hart Dyke closed his speech with an intricate financial statement as to the expenditure of the Department, which had the result of sobering a thin House into a state of even unaccustomed dulness. After speeches from Mr. Buxton and Sir R. Temple came some very temperate criticisms from Mr. Mundella. His chief regret was that the policy of the New Code would tend to help the small schools, many of which it would be far better to leave to perish. A great many of these struggling schools would have to be wiped off the list for the annual grant unless they improved. He thought agriculture ought to be taught more than it is at present, and deplored the way in which the Voluntary schools, owing to their inability or unwillingness to combine, neglected the teaching of cookery. At the present time out of a total of 2,000,000 girls, only some 60,000 are taught how to cook, and of these 60,000 the Board schools can claim 47,000. He would have been