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DÜM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

From the Brief of His Holiness Pins IX. to T h e T a b l e t , fune 4, 1870.

76. No. 2639. L o n d o n , D e c e m b e r 6, 1890.

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C hronicle of the W eek : Page

Imperial Parliament : Land Purchase and Government Time— Tithes Bill— Tuesday Night--End of the Land Purchase Bill—Mr. Parnell and his Party—Mr. Parnell’s Manifesto— Mr. Gladstone’s Reply—Mr. Morley’s Reply—The Irish Parliamentary Party—President Harrison’s Message—Cardinal Lavigerie and the Republic —A Speech from the Kaiser—Dr. Koch’s Discovery — The Greek Patriarchate — Death of Lord Cottesloe— Forty Vessels Lost— The American Indian Rising .. i L e a d e r s :

Ireland and Mr. Parnell Signor Crispi’s Victory A Transformed State .. 885 .. 886 .. 887 The Irish Bishops and Mr. Parnell 888

CONTENTS.

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Literary Drama ............................ 888 N o t e s ...................................... . . . 889 Banished from S o n g ........................... 890 R eviews :

Edward VI. and the Book of

Common Prayer............................ 891 Concerning B razil............................892 The “ Dublin Review ” .. .. 893

Aspects of Anglicanism C orrespondence :

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Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) .. .. .. .. 897 Dublin (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) ......................... .. 898 Letters to the E ditor :

Interesting to Buddhists .. .. 901 The Pole’s Brief to the English

Benedictines .. .. .. 901

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L etters to th e E ditor (Con­

tinued): “ Darkest England and the Way

.O u t” . . ,.

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Sir George Stokes on Immortality 902 Propaganda.................................... 903 Pastor Chiniquy .. .. ,. 903 “ Books to Spare ” . . . . . . 903 Literature for Troop-Ships .. 903 A Disclaimer . . .. .. Q03 A Boys’ Club .. .. .. 903 Cardinal Newman Memorial .. 904 Tenant Proprietors in Ireland .. 904 “ All but Pleasing ” . . .. 904 Von Moltke in Old Age . . . . . 904 The Newman Memorial .. .. 905 F rom E veryw h ere........................... 905 Social and Political . . . .9 0 6 A ppeal to th e C haritable . . 906

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SUPPLEMENT. Decisions of Roman Congrega

913

N ews from th e S chools :

At Ushaw College .. . . .. 913 Prize Day at the Liverpool Train­

ing College .........................913Ì Industrial School at Cardiff .. 914 About Education

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N ews from th e D ioceses :

Birmingham.......................................gig Clifton .......................................9x3 Hexham and Newcastle .. ..9 16 Middlesbrough ‘ .. .. .. 9I6 Newport and Menevia .. . .9 16 Northampton ............................g I7 P l ym o u th .......................................gI7 St. Andrews and Edinburgh .. 918

Rejected MS. ca?itiot be returned unless accompanied with address and postage.

C H R O N I C L E O F T H E W E E K .

GOVERNMENT TIME. A':

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT — LAND PURCHASE AND

T the end of last week, as we chronicled at the time in Postscript, in spite of Mr. Labouchere’s amendment, the First

Reading of the Irish Land Purchase Bill— introduced by Mr. Balfour in a very technical speech— was passed by a very large majority. On the following day Mr. Smith had a motion to appropriate to the Government the whole of the public time up till Christmas, a proceeding which drew from The Daily News a curious comment under the title of “ The Extinction of the Private Member.” Mr. Labouchere was one of the chief opponents of Mr. Smith’s motion. He predicted opposition without end to the Tithes Bill from the Welsh side; and went off branchingly into a denunciation o f the Tithes Bill, which he stigmatised as “ one of the ■ greatest frauds perpetrated upon the country.” He declared bis readiness to endure any inconvenience, if only he might succeed in embarrassing Ministers. And here he fell into an extraordinary confusion of speech. He prayed that the Opposition should ot be treated as so many schoolboys, inquiring sarcastical ■ how it came about that Ministers could bring themsel ,_s to consider them at all. “ How is it,” he began to ask, “ that the Government pearls are so lavishly thrown before ”— when “ a great shout of laughter, from all the vanguard rose,” and he was warned, before he had had time to complete the word that should symbolise his party. As work from this time began to push forward somewhat more vigorously, the Opposition began to take credit for their kind behaviour in allowing it to be furthered. Mr. Gladstone even went so far in this respect as to allude to the First Lord of the Treasury as truculent. A little later Sir John Swinbourne made effort to discredit the Chief Secretary’s recent Irish visit by alluding to a Minister “ who arrived in a place after dark and left before midnight.” In the division on Mr. Smith’s motion as amended by Mr. Labouchere, the Government of course gained the victory. A little later Dr. Clarke undertook a somewhat curious argument on the questionable value of a system of perpetual pensions, maintaining that such allowances might descend upon persons equally discredited with a certain “ great political leader.” A curious method truly of getting up to date.

New Series, Yo i . XLIY., No. 1, 148.

On Monday much of the interest in the

— t it h e s b il l . Commons drew away from the debates to one of the Committee rooms where the dis­

cussion of the Irish leadership was going forward. The attendance in the House, therefore, even on a question so important as the Second Reading of the Tithes Bill, was somewhat scanty. Sir M. Hicks-Beach, in moving the second reading, declined to argue the question raised by Mr. Stuart Rendel’s amendment as to the national ownership of tithes. The Bill, according to his view, dealt not with the appropriation of tithes, but was intended to secure a surer payment of tithes, in so far as its main object was to give tithe-owners a direct legal remedy against landowners m the place of tenants. The debate that followed was a dull one, and it is not necessary here to give more than the mere heads of it. Mr. Rendel moved that no measure dealing with tithe rent-charge would be satisfactory to the people of Wales unless the fact was recognised .that tithes are national property. Mr. Osborne Morgan seconded this amendment, and, in a maiden speech which reaped much applause from the Welsh members, Mr. Abel Thomas supported that view. Mr. Raikes, who replied on the part of the Government, justly observed upon the extreme inadequacy of the amendment to deal with the problems presented by the case. There was nothing in it, he remarked, which in any way traversed the objects of the Bill, and, on the other hand, there was nothing in the Bill which touched the amendment. After some remarks on the part of Sir George I revelyan, the House divided, and the amendment was negatived by 224 votes to 130. The Bill was then read a second time amid Ministerial cheers, and, the remaining orders having been disposed of, the House adjourned.

Once more the divisions of the Irish

— TUESDAY n ig h t , party made Government work a simpler matter when on Tuesday the motion for the second reading of the Irish Land Purchase Bill came before the House. Indeed, the absence of that party was so conspicuous that an appeal to the Irish representatives on the part of Mr. Heldane was met by a satiric inquiry from Mr. Labouchere as to where those gentlemen were. On the motion for the second reading, Mr. Ellis moved an amendment suggesting the undesirability of pledging the country to the system of Land Purchase, thus traversing the whole principle of the Bill. Mr. Gladstone continued the debate. The most important changes in the Bill upon which he commented were the removal of 20 years’ limit as the basis of valuation, and the partial control of Irish constituencies over part of the security. This discontented