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Fro7ii the Brief of His Holiness Pins IX. to The Tablet, fune 4, 1870.
V o l . 76. No. 2624. London, A ugust 23, 1890.
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C hronicle of th e W e e k :
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Imperial Parliament : Indian Finance— An All-Night Sitting-End of the Session — The German Emperor in Russia—The Austrian Emperor’s Birthday — Vienna Musical Festival— Anniversary of the Dock Strike-A Proposed New Labour Departure— The Reported Scheme—End of the South Wales .■ Strike— M. Carnot at La Rochelle— The Behring’s Sea Dispute— End of the Naval Manoeuwres-The South American Repub-
lies— Murder of Three Friars— A Rival to Captain Webb— The Archbishop of Halifax and Prince George--Violent Cyclones—Return o f the I n f l u e n z a ........................ 281
CONTENTS
L eaders :
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Cardinal Newman . . . . . . 285 Protestant Testimony to Catholic
Missions . . . . .. . . 286 Catalonia in Trouble .. . . 287 Eucharistic Congress at Antwerp . . 288 Death of the Bishop of Strasburg . . 288 Aspects o f Anglicanism . . . 290 The Passion Play at Ober-Ammergau 291 Leo X I I I . and M. Allard . . . . 292 Cardinal Newman . . . . . . 292 R ev iew s :
Carmel in America.. . . . . 292
R eview s (Continued) :
The Surnames and Place-Names
Page of the Isle o f Man . . . . 294 Christianity and Art . . .. 294 L e t t e r s to t h e E d itor :
Volunteers for Sunday Schools . . 295 “ Immortal Words ” . . . . 295 C orrespondence :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . . . 297 Dublin :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . . . 298 The Funeral o f Cardinal Newman.. 300 The Late Cardinal Newman . . 305
SU PPLEM EN T . D ecision s of R oman C ongrega
t i o n s .................................................... 313 N ews from th e S chools : ‘
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Catholic Indian Schools . . . '. 313 About Education . . . . . . . 314 N ew s from th e D ioceses :
Westminster.. .. ]. Southwark . . . . . . Hexham and Newcastle .. Portsmouth .. .. .. St. Andrews and Edinburgh Glasgow .. .. ..
315 3 i 5 3153*5 3*5 316
The Cardinal Archbishop’s Prece
dence .. ..
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Memorial to the Late Prince Imperial 316 The League of the Cross. . . . . 316
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
TARLIAMENT— INDIAN FINANCE. A '
T the end o f the week, in the
Lords, some brief discussion took place on a National Gallery for British Art— a discus
sion which, however, led to nothing definite. In the Commons, after a debate o f some length, the motion that the Lower House “ do agree ” with the amendment o f the Peers in fovour of compensation to “ persons injuriously affected by the removal o f the gates,” was agreed to by substantial majorities of a very thin House. After other matters had come under review— after Sir George Campbell had propounded some o f his ingenious conundrums, and Mr. Labouchere had made a personal objection to the provision o f robes for foreign princes in their accession to the Garter, the House resolved itself into Committee on the East Indian revenue accounts. Sir J. Gorst rose with the amiable desire not “ to waste the precious time o f the House,” for he had— Mr. Rudgard Kipling will be glad to think— “ nothing but a dull and prosaic tale o f prosperity to unfold.” His formal resolution to the Committee had only to do with the account o f the year 1889. They began in March, 1888, with a deficency o f Rx. 698,000, and they closed with a surplus of Rx. 37,000. Since then prosperity had been continuous, and the surplus which he had that night to declare was no less than Rx. 2,677.000. Great as this surplus was, it by no means represented the real improvement o f the revenue. Last March, the Government o f India, beginning to see that the surplus was growing up like a snowball, began to take active steps to diminish i t ; and he then explained what those steps were. The causes o f the improvement, though detailed with a certain excusable pomposity by Sir J. Gorst, were of the nature of commonplace ; ■ they were due partly to increased revenue, partly to increased economy, and insignificantly to the rise in the exchange which began at the end o f the financial year. Mr. Bradlaugh, with the responsibility of one who had been to see India, and having seen it for a few weeks may be con
fessed to know all about it, rose to say that he thought it disgraceful that the Indian Budget was being brought on so late in the session, and moved a Resolution in grammar somewhat personal: “ That the late date o f presentation of
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the accounts and papers relating to the revenue o f India renders it impossible to satisfactorily examine and discuss the Indian financial statement.” He had many matters to blame, chiefly the classical knowledge o f Sir J. Gorst and the private correspondence of the Viceroy. Sir J. Gorst, whatever responsibility he might claim for his knowledge of classics, not caring in the least about the Viceroy’s private correspondence, rose to explain that with this he had nothing to do. A little later the Chairman declared that there was no precedent in favour o f Mr. Bradlaugh’s course, but that there were only the precedents o f negation against it. Upon which the submissive Bradlaugh instantly withdrew his motion. Some further speeches were made and the Resolution was put and agreed to after a division had been challenged but not insisted upon.
When the House had given its formal
— a n a l l -n i g h t approval of the Indian Budget, there was s i t t i n g . a gay disposition on the part o f members to congratulate themselves on the thought o f speedy sleep, it being then two o’clock. That, however, was reckoning without the Irish Light Railways Bill. This, as is known, provides for the commencement o f certain railway works in the districts o f Galway and Mayo, where the w-inter gives anxieties for coming famine. Mr. Healy and Mr. Labouchere, however, having persuaded themselves that the measure would extract ^30,000 from the pockets o f the people said to be starving (why this should be, none, can tell), determined to oppose as best they could, and, further, that the landlords would come off happily without call to pay, Mr. Balfour, supported by other crumpled Cabinet Ministers, justly and firmly refused to kill the Bill by amendments, or to accept the responsibility o f the distress, for which alone the Bill had been framed, in the event o f its withdrawal. Mr. Labouchere, however, though entreated by Mr. Sexton, who has o f late really intervened to some purpose, remained by his guns, and was defeated in his motion, and motion after motion was also defeated. A t half-past four, Mr. Conybeare moved to report progress, and the Chairman, refusing to allow a division, directed the “ Ayes ” to stand up in their places. While sixteen brave ones thus stood up, they bore very unwillingly the chaff which the other side o f the House levelled at them. Then the game continued, till Mr. Healy, implored by Mr. Sexton, promised to oppose the Bill no further. The remaining clauses were put and agreed to, and the Bill triumphantly passed through Committee unamended. Colonel Nolan moved thè third reading, but the umvearied Dr. Tanner challenged a division, and was ignominiously
