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A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
DUM VOBIS GR. TULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the B r ie f o f H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T he T ablet, Ju n e 4, 1870.
V o l . 76. No. 2640.
L ondon, D ecem ber 13» 1890.
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OlRONICLE OF THEWEEK :
Page rrr$p$rial Parliament: Mis:ellaneous •Business—Before the Adjournment—Mr. Parnell and his * Followers—The Letters of the Leaders—Mr. GladstoneLs Final Letter—The Last Debate--The Secession—After the Recession— "Mr. Parnell Goes to Dublin — Seizure of “ United Ireland Mr. rParnell’s Speech—Death of Mr. fiaron Huddleston—Death of the Dean of St. Pav1 s—Nihilists in Russia—Dr. Koch’s Remedy— Mr. ' Stanley on Exploration Infliiances^-Openlng of the Italian Parliament . . . . .. . . 921 Leaders : ; c.'.
Mr- Parnell and the 45 .. . . 925 A ^Catholic Parliament .. . . 926 Baptismsdn-Hungary • • • . . 927 Hokusai in Bond-street '. . .*. 927 > T ie ' Pope and; the French Re
public . . .. .. . . 928
L ead e r s (Continued) :
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A Catholic Anti-Socialist League 929 A Louvaip Oriental Institute > . . 929 Freedom of Voters at Elections in Italy . . . . . . . . 929 N otes . . ..........................................930 R eview s ' .
A Life of St. Willibald . . . . 932 History of Phoenicia . . .. 932 The Catholic Magazines . . .. 933 A Chapter o f Adventures.. . . 933 Hal Hungerford . . .. . . 933 Hussein the Hostage . . . . 933 Maori and Settler .. . . .. 933 ■ Nuthrown Roger and I . . . . 934 Aspects of Anglicanism. . . . . 934 The Cardinal and the Jew s . . .. 935 Correspondence :
Rome :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . ...........................937
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Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) ....... . . 938 L e t t e r s to th e E ditor :
A Strange Accusation . . .. 94a Lord Salisbury and Ireland .. 940 But wnat of the O’Briens and
Healys? . . . . . . . . 946 Distress in Ireland .. .. . . 940 Constructive or Conservative? . . 941 Concerning Ceylon.. . . . 941 Sir George Stokes on Immortality 942 Temperance^Arguments . . . . 942 Home for Sick Children . . .. 942 An Exhibition of Church “ Furni-
ju r e ” .. V . •• 943 Literature for Troop-Ships .. 943 Cham,bers’s Encyclopaedia . . 943 Christmas Appeal, 1890 .. . . 943 The Benedictines and the New
Decrees . . . . . . .. 943 The I rish Bishops and Mr. Parnell 944
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Opening of a School Library . . 945 The Bishop of Nottingham on
Drunkenness . . . . - • 945
Social and P o l it ic a l . .
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SU PPLEM ENT. D ecisio ns of R oman Congrega
t io n s . . . . . . . . . . 953 N ews from th e S chools : .
S t/ Mary’s ‘ 'Ttfuhing^
Hammersmith . . .. . . . ... 953 Technical Education . . -.. 955 Festivities at RatclifFe College .. 956 Status of Pupil Teachers ..- . . 956 About Rducation^ . . N ew s from th e D io c e s e s :
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Nottingham.. . .
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Glasgow ......................... -.957 Dunkeld .. .. . . . . 957
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
\ T the end of last week, in the
- v t m m . tarliamf.nt ZA “ Coihmons, some interesting b u s in e s s .
information was given to the House in reference to the table which has recently been placed in the tea-room—not a very Imperial affair. It happens to be the identical, piece of furniture that belonged to the Commons from 1706 to the fire of 1834, and appears a “ memorial for ever ” in the picture of Pitt addressing the Lower House presented to the Commons by the Emperor of Austria. After some desultory conversation on Education—reported in another column—Mr. James Lowther gave notice of his intention to call attention to “ the grave miscarriage pi justice ” which had taken place in the ease of Walter Margin, the man who shot two roughs dead, on the supposition (as it is said) that they were about to attack him.; On the House going into Committee of Sqpply, Mr. Balfour moved a vote of ¿'5,900 for the ■ expenses connected with the relief of distress in Ireland. T h e 'sum would only meet the preliminary expenses, but, as yet, he stated,that the distress consequent upon the failure of the potato ;crop had not gone beyond the power of the Poor Law authorities. In the course of a careful and statesmanlike speech he developed the scheme that he had in view for relief of distress. His chief hope of course lay in the new railways of which some 289 miles have already been authorised ; in some cases the work is forward, in all it is ' progressing. He had, moreover, made provision for the extension of the area of work, by arranging for the supply of'lodging and food for men who came from any distance. Supplementary to the railway was a plan of relief works, the making of roads and the making of main drains. It is interesting to recall that some 40 years ago another great Conservative Statesman was planning, under precisely similar circumstances, for a mode of famine relief in the construction of drainage and light railways. That scheme was frustrated, but the foresight of Disraeli is justified in the present plans of Arthur Balfour. To avert the possibility of -jobbery, on a ; large scale, such as had been perpetrated in-1879, *880, and i <886 the whole direction of the undertaking was :to be placed in the hands of two Engineer officers who had been for some time making ' enquiries in Ireland preliminary to the opening of the works.
These were to be directly responsible to the Chief Secretary ■—an arrangement which met with the cordial agreement of Mr. John Morley. The vote was agreed to without a division. On the motion to go into Committee on the Tithes Bill, Mr. F. Stevenson moved an Instruction to the Committee empowering them “ to provide for an equitable revision of tithes -in accordance with ib'e altered .fnlwBiiml»'' ’ of agriculture.” This was seconded by Sir, J . Sssirtpáfflpiü" ^ Sir Michael Hicks-Beach interposed to describe the Instruction as a deliberate attempt to kill the Bill, which amounted almost to an abuse of the forms of the House. The House divided, the Instruction being rejected by 203 votes against 68. The Deputy-Speaker then left the Chair, and the House went into Committee, progress being immediately reported. The Transfer of Railways (Ireland) Bill passed through Committee, and was read a third time, and-the Private Bill (Scotland) Procedure Bill was postponed till after Christmas. On the following day Mr. W. H. Smith made some appropriate reference to the death of Mrs. Peel, wife of the Speaker, and during his words members stood uncovered. On the motion to go into Committee on the Land Purchase Bill, an instruction was moved giving the Committee power to divide the measure into two, the first dealing with the congested districts alone. It was, of course, negatived. Some warm conversation ensued on the motion for adjournment, but it was presently silenced, and the House adjourned at an early hour.
On Tuesday the Commons rose for the
—before the Christmas holidays, and well content the adjournment. Government should be that opportunities for rapid work have been given them. Royal assent was on that day given to the Transfer of Railways (Ireland) Act and the Seed Potatoes (Ireland) Act. On the Deputy-Speaker’s taking the chair, a question arose on the Electric Light at the Natural History Museum, when Mr. Jackson stated that the experiment of electric lighting at the British Museum had not been altogether satisfactory. Mr. Chaplin also stated that application had been made to Professor Koch by the Board of Agriculture for a small quantity of his fluid, for the purpose of experimenting upon animals, but i t , had not been received. On the House going into Committee on the Irish Land Bill, progress was at once reported. On the motion of Mr. W. H. Smith that the House should adjourn till January 22, Mr. Marjovibanks complained that the first business after the session should be the Scotch Private Bills Procedure Bill. Mr. \V. H. ; Smith was, however, inexorable. He replied that private members had it in their power to retain their own rights by
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