THE TABLET

A Weekly Newspaper and Review.

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

From the Brief o f His Holiness Pius IX . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.

V ol. 76. No. 2633. London, October 25, 1890. P r ic e sd ., b y P ost s % d .

[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 ic e a s a N ew spaper.

C hronicle of t h e W e e k :

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The Eccles Election— Mr. Balfour at Newcastle : The First Speech — The Second Speech — Lord Granville and Mr. Morley—The . Midlothian Campaign — Prince Krapotkin on Siberia— The Shipping Federation t Mixed Marriages in Hungary—The Armada Memorial—Etaath o f Sir Richard Burton—National Leprosy Fund — The United Kingdom Alliance The Hebdomadal Council o f Oxford University— The Plumstead Tragedy .................................... 641 L e a d e r s :

The Passwords of Masonry . . 645

CONTE N'T S.

L eaders (Continued) :

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Henry V I II . in his State Papers 646 The New Departure at Louvain.. 646 Rome in Manchester . . _ . . 647 Mr. R. H. Hutton on Cardinal ,

N ew m a n ......................... . . 648 N o tes . . 649 R ev iew s :

Early Christian Symbolism . . 652 The Church : or, What do Angli­

cans Mean by “ the Church ? ” 652 Star-Land . . . . . . . . 653 The Saint o f Paray.........................654 Aspects o f Anglicanism . . . . 654 Catholic Bazaar at Manchester . . 655

C orrespondence :

Rome (From Our Own Corre­

spondent)............................... 657 Dublin (From Our Own Corre­

Page spondent) .. .... . . . . 658 Catholic Congress at Sarragossa . . 659 L e t t e r s to t h e E d itor :

The Memorial to Cardinal New­

man.. .. .........................660 The Monograph o f Cardinal New­

man ....................... . . . . 660 German Catholics and the Catho­

lic Union . . . . . . 1. 661 “ Roman Schismatics ” . . . . 661 A Symposium on American Schools 661 The Secular Clergy New Common

Fund ...................................... 661 N ew s from t h e S chools :

About E d u c a t io n ....................662

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A t the New Camb idge Church . . 664 The Civil Independence o f the Pope 666 F rom E v e r yw h e r e ........................... 667 Social an d P o l it ic a l . . . . 667

# SU PPLEM ENT. Encyclical of Pope Leo X I I I . 673 D ecision s of R oman C ongrega­

t i o n s ........................... . . . •... 677 N ew s from t h e D io ceses :

Westminster...................................... 677 S o u th w a rk ...................................... 677 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 677 Nottingham...................................... 677 Salford .......................................677 Glasgow . . 677

A Rejected M S , cannot be retu rned unless accompanied w ith address and postage.

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

. sj.li, THE . ECCLES ELECTION. T

H E result o f the polling in the Eccles

Division o f Lancashire to elect a representative in the place o f the late Mr. A . J. F. Egerton (Conservative),

was made known at Eccles a little before one o’clock on Thursday morning as fo llow s: Mr. H. J. Roby (Gladstonian), 4,901; the Hon. A . F. Egerton (Conservative), 4,696; majority for the Gladstonian, 205. The total number o f votes on the register on which this election was fought was 11,721 against 9,781 in 1886, when 8,261 electors went to the poll. On Wednesday 9,597 electors voted; the Conservative vote, compared to 1886, being increased by 419, and the Gladstonian vote by 916. In addition to the register being larger by some 2,000 than it was in 1886, the personnel o f the electorate had almost entirely changed. Mr. Henry John Roby, the new member, is a native o f Tamworth, where his father was a solicitor, and where he was born in 1830. In 1849 he went up to St. John’s College, Cambridge, and was elected scholar and exhibitioner o f the College, graduating B .A . in 1853, as senior classic; he was elected the following year to a fellowship at St. John’s, and subsequently was appointed tutor and classical lecturer.. H e remained at Cambridge until 1861, filling the offices o f secretary to the Committee o f the Cambridge Local University Examination and o f one o f the examiners o f the law tripos, the classical tripos, and moral science tripos. Upon leaving Cambridge he became an under-master at Dulwich College, and while there he published his Elementary Latin Grammar. From 1864 to 1868 he was Secretary to the Schools Inquiry Commission, and in 1869 Secretary to the Endowed Schools Gommission, and subsequently Commissioner. During this period, he was for two years Professor of Jurisprudence at University College, London, where he lectured on Roman Law. In 1874 Mr. Roby, who in 1861 had married Miss Ermen, daughter o f Mr. Peter Ermen, removed to Manchester as a partner in the firm of. Ermen and Engels, which in the course o f a few months was changed to. Ermen and Roby. He now enters parliament for the first time, and he will be the 103rd new member who will have taken his seat

Nrw SeT.ies, Veil.. XLIV., No. 1,142.

since the General Election o f 1886. présent occasion is the gain o f a seat party.

His return on the to the Gladstonian

A t the end o f last week m r . b a l f o u r a t ¿ e[iverecj at Newcastle two

Ne w c a s t l e __t h e ------------ — ------------- ~ ~ speeches on

Mr. Balfour f i r s t s p e e c h . Ireland, and on Mr. Morley’s view o f the

Chief Secretary, the Tipperary riots, and other matters o f like interest. They were speeches which were very notable for their forcé, their language, and their admirable clearness. Mr. Balfour is nearly the only living orator who can produce literary speeches. And his matter too was convincing enough. In his first and less important speech he dismissed contemptuously, perhaps too contemptuously, and with the only show o f unreason that he displayed throughout, Mr. Morley’s criticism o f his own absence from the seat o f Irish Government. It was not exactly sufficient to s a y : “ The particular locality in the United Kingdom or out o f the United Kingdom from which I choose to date my letters is the affair o f no man but myself, and to no man will I answer for it.” Not that there are not ample justifications of his absence: but in fact a Chief Secretary for Ireland does bear some responsibility to the public for his movements. Then taking up the thread o f his main subject he discussed the always widening differences: between parties o f the present day, as compared to parties o f political generations in the past. This to emphasise the increasing difficulty o f legislation by arrangement between two parties so divided as Parnellites and Unionists. With that he set himself to a description— an impressionary description— o f the Parnellite Party. H e described it as representing about three-fourths o f the Irish people, but a great deal less than three-fourths o f Irish wealth, Irish education, or Irish enterprise. By its modes o f election, under one head supreme, you get a machine which, from a mere Parliamentary fighting point o f view, it were impossible to surpass. “ You do not get men who in questions intimately connected with Party politics have an opinion worthy consideration for one moment.” What is the result ? Do they advance the welfare o f Ireland by the individual forces o f personal thought ? Have they a view or an opinion which any responsible Minister would hold worth entertaining ?— Thus Mr. Balfour. Consider, for answer to the question, a recent measure not connected with politics in Ireland, but with arterial drainage. The efforts o f the Irish Party defeated that measure. Take again the question o f light railways. The House o f Commons were forced, at the end o f a long and laborious session, to sit up long after sunrise, in order

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