THE TABLET

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F rom th e B r i e f o f H i s H o lin e s s P i u s I X . to T h e T a b l e t J u n e 4, 1870.

V o l . 77. No. 2650. L o n d o n , F e b r u a r y 21, 1891.

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C hronicle of the Week :

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Imperial Parliament : The Vote of Censure— Mr. Balfour’s Speech— Tuesday Night — Wednesday’s "Sitting— Mr. M’Kinleyon Protection— The German Emperor and Prince Bismarck — The Belgian Bishops and Universal Suffrage— The Bishops and the Austrian Elections — Death of General Sherman— M. Berneau alias Macé — The Irish Parties — Theft of

;£i i ,ooo— T he Whitechapel Murder-The BlackwallTunnel Scheme — Sir Charles Dilke on European Peace— Libel Action by Mr. T. Harrington, M.P. . . .. . . 281 L eaders:

The Future o f Siberia . . . . 285 Two Designers .. ^ 286 Mr. Leslie Stephen on Scepticism 286 Irreligious Teachers’ Association 288

CONTENTS.

Leaders (Continued) :

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Let Us See for Ourselves.. . . 289 The Royal Supremacy . . . . 289 Notes .. .. .. •• •• 289 Reviews :

Santa Sophia . . . . . . 292 Has It a Future? .. .. . . 293 “ The English Historical Review” 293 Aspects o f Anglicanism . . . .2 9 4 The Catholic Missioners o f Uganda 295 Correspondence :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . .. .. 297 Dublin :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . . . .- 298 The Monastery of Santa Maria la

Rábida . . . . .. •• 300

Letters to the Editor :

Catholic Disabilities and Catholic

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Inaction . . . . . . . . 301 The Irish Crisis . . . . . . 301 The Bidding of the Beads ” .. 302 Pope Gregory and the “ Univer­

sal Bishop ” . . . . . . 302 Relics o f Judas Iscariot . . . . 302 The Guild of Ransom . . . . 302 The Philosophical Rabies .. 302 “ The Manchester Guardian ” and the Bishop o f Nottingham . . 303 The Education Code of 1891 . . 303 Mr. Parnell and the Bishop of

Galway . . . . . . . . 304 Catholics Abroad . . . . .. 305 Provost Heinrich .. . . . . 306 The Archbishop of Tuam’s Lenten

Pastoral . . . . . . . . 306 Oriental Theosophy . . . . . . 307 The Late Mr. Robert Crozier . . 307 1 Obituary ..............................307

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From Everywhere.................... 307 Social and Political .. .. 307

SU PPLEM EN T . Decisions of Roman Congrega­

tions ....................................... 313 News from the Schools :

Hammersmith Training College 313 Salford Schools . . .. . . 313 A t St. Augustine’s, Ramsgate . . 314 The Training of Pupil Teachers.. 314 Liverpool Training College . . 315 About Education . . . . . . 315 News from the Dioceses:

Southwark .. . . . . ... 316 Clifton .. . . . . . . 316 Liverpool . . . . . . . . 317 Middlesbrough . . . . . . 317 Portsmouth . . . . . . . . 317 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 317

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strain, and to him Mr. W. H. Smith made answer. It was at a quarter to eleven that Mr. Balfour rose to make his reply to the motion and the speches on it.

Mr. Balfour spoke, if not in his best

— mr. balfour’s literary form, in his very best fighting form.

speech. O f literature he had no particular need,

since there was no particular difficulty of

AT the end of last week little was doing of much imporcensure tance, and we pass at once to the proceedings of Monday when

Mr. John Morley produced his vote of censure on the Government in connection with the proceedings at Tipperary. At half-past four— Mr. W. H. Smith having previously moved the suspension of the twelve o’clock rule on the understanding that the debate would terminate with one sitting— Mr. Morley rose to his motion that the action of the Irish Executive over the recent prosecutions at Tipperary was calculated to bring the administration of the law into contempt. Mr. Morley spent a great part of his eloquence in the narration of his personal experiences when he visited Tipperary ; he assured the House that he had not been ten minutes in Tipperary before he discovered testimony of the brutality of the police, which was the direct outcome of the system of the Chief Secretary. Mr. Morley made a very vehement appeal to Mr. Balfour either to disprove his statements or publicly to acknowledge their truth ; but the Chief Secretary only smiled. He made a particular point of the selection of Mr. Shannon to sit in judgment upon Messrs. Dillon and O’Brien, with whom he had had frequent personal contact and who had asked the House of Commons to pass upon him a vote of censure. Mr. Morley concluded his speech by a series of sinister references to the next election as to some ghastly judgment day. The amendment to Mr. Morley’s motion was prepared by Mr. T. W. Russell, and declared that the action of the Irish Executive had been rendered imperative by the activity of an illegal conspiracy directed against the civil rights of a large section o f Irish subjects, “ and this House rejoices in the successful vindication of the law at Tipperary and elsewhere, which has gone far to restore freedom to the individual in every part of Ireland.” Mr. Russell, speaking very ably for something longer than an hour, showed that Mr. Morley’s resolution was not an indictment of the Executive, but an indictment of Parliament— the Executive were bound to administer a law as they found it. Mr. Gladstone also spoke in Mr. Morley’s case to overmaster. So far as he could discover, the motion was simply one arising from Mr. Morley’s anxiety to protract a personal controversy which had been in activity some months ago. The matter had become indecorous by reason of its very triviality. The House was asked to go through all the elaborate forms of a vote of censure, and men had been whipped from the limits of the earth to decide whether the Government should be allowed to remain in office, because three or four gentlemen in Tipperary had had their heads broken in the presence of a Privy Councillor. Moreover, it was indecorous because it was concerned with a matter the trial of which had been begun and was not concluded, “ and when it comes before a judge and a jury in March next, it will be found that the statements of two of the witnesses have been given in this House.” Mr. Balfour proceeded with his unmerciful whittling down of the charges brought against the Government, showing their inconclusiveness, their weakness, their wildness, and their irresponsibility. Mr. Morley had severely criticised the Government in their appointing Mr. Shannon magistrate in judgment over members who had attacked him in the House of Commons. But, asked Mr. Balfour very pertinently, where was one to draw the line ? He had had the records of U n ite d I r e la n d for the last eight years under examination, and he found that they attacked everybody. Of the magistrates declared by the Viceroy to be competent for dealing with cases in Ireland, only three out of the whole number had “ escaped the animadversiqn of that intelligent journal.” The conclusion becomes obvious : men only had to abuse enough and they became untriable. Continuing, the Chief Secretary pointed out that a precise repetition of the events of Tipperary had taken place during Mr. Morley’s term of office, but on a far sublimer scale, so that, said he, “ I trust 1that whatever he says of me in the future, he will say this— I that bad as I am, he was in his day and in his degree ten j thousand times worse.” Mr. Balfour concluded his speech with a confident anticipation that, however the merry prognostications of the Opposition might be justified in the next election, immorality should not triumph for ever, and fixed principle and right would be the ultimate securities of success. The speech was received with loud and deserved

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