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DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
F ro m the B r i e f o f H is H o lin e ss P iu s I X . to T h e T a b l e t J u n e 4, 18 70 .
V ol. 77. No. 2651. L ondon, February 28, 1891.
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[ R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a l P o st Of f i c e a s a N ew s p a p e r .
C h ro n ic le o f t h e W e e k :
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Imperial Parliament : Miscellaneous—Tuesday Night — Wednesday’s Sitting — Mr. Parnell at Roscommon—The National League—The Dublin Curates—The Capture of Tokar—The Canadian Elections—The Policy of Ita ly— The French Budget—Lord Randolph Churchill at Paddington— Death o f the Earl of Albemarle— Mr. Tree on the Drama—Sir C. Dilke on National Defence—The Fire at AnitchkofF Palace—The Queen at Portsmouth . . . . 3 2 1
H e a d e r s :
The Canadian Elections . . . . 325 Education and Prussian Protes
tants . . . . . . . . 326 Russian Prisons .. . . . . 327 The Daughters of Wisdom . . 327
C O N T E N T S .
L e a d e r s (Continued) :
A Christian Apologia from Tübin
Page gen . . . . . . . . . . 328
N o t e s .......................................................329 R e v iew s :
Principles of Religious Life _ . . 332 Father Knabenbauer on Daniel . . 332 Cardinal Gibbons : A Chapter of
Contemporary History . . . . 333 Aspects of Anglicanism . . . . 334 C o rr e s po n d en c e :
Rome :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) .......................................337 Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . .- 338 A Spanish Pastoral . . . . . . 340 Notes from Florence.. . . . . 340
L e t t e r s to t h e E d ito r :
A Leakage Needed o f Mission
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Debts . . . . . . . . 341 Gentleman Emigrants in New
Zealand—Two Letters . . . . 341 L ay Help.—A New Brotherhood 342 Philosophy v. Higher Education 342 Educational Progress . . . . 343 Catholics and Marriage Registra
tion ..................................................... 343 Mass at Hythe . . . . . . 343 A Blackheath Confraternity . . 343 The Passion P lay and the Rev.
A . M ....................................................343 Oxford Lives of the Saints . . 343 From New Zealand to the Holy
See . . . . ...........................343 The Catholic Union . . . . . . 344 Missionaries in the Indian War . . 345 Catholics Abroad . . . . . . 346 Ob it u a r y . . . . . . . . 348 F rom E v e r y w h e r e . . . . . . 348 S o c ia l a n d P o l it ic a l . . . . 348
S U P P L EM E N T . D ec is io n s of R oman Co n g r eg a
Page t io n s ...................................................... 353 N ew s from t h e S chools :
St. Andrew’s School, Cambridge 353 About E d u c a t io n .......................... 353 N ew s from t h e D io c e s e s :
Westminster.. . . . . . . 354 Southwark . . . . . . . 355 Birmingham . . . . . . ..' 355 Nottingham .. . . . . . . 355 Salford . . . . . . . . 355 Shrewsbury . . . . . . . . 355 The Archbishop o f Dublin and
“ The Freeman’s Journal ” . . 356 Catholic Negroes in America . . 357 A Serious Proselytising Case . . 357 Catholic Rescue Work in the Eastend . . . . .............................3 57 The Cup of Communion . . . . 358
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CHRONICLE OF I HE WEEK.
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K N Monday, in the House o f i m p e r i a l p a r l i a m e n t I I Lords, Lord Herscbell moved
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^ the second reading o f a B ill dealing with Betting by “ Infants,” and introduced a second dealing with the issue o f money-lending circulars. In the Commons, Mr. W. H . Smith, in answer to Mr. Cobb, stated that no representation had reached the Lord Chancellor, suggesting a change in the constitution of the Queen’s Bench Division. H e would ask whether the Lord Chancellor was aware of dissatisfaction existing among members o f the Bar over the manner in which business was conducted in that division, and Mr. Cobb put down a further question on the subject. Sir Jam es Fergusson, j questioned by Mr. John Morley, stated that Tokar and Handoub had been occupied because the neighbourhood of j Suakim was constantly harassed by dervish bands, and ! the steps taken in no way indicated a departure from the policy hitherto pursued in Egypt by the Government. The House then went into Committee o f Supply, taking up the discussion on the Army Vote. Lord Hartington inquired into the steps, i f any, that were being instituted towards a compliance with the suggestions o f the Royal Commission ] with regard to the reorganisation o f the naval and military j departments. Mr. Stanhope detailed :n reply some lesser improvements sequent upon the Royal Commission’s Report, adding that essential alterations depended upon the maintenance of the office of the Commander-in-Chief ; until that office was vacated the War Office could do nothing. Mr. Labouchere moved to reduce the vote by 3 ,320 men, with the object o f calling attention to the Tokar incident. S ir Jam es Fergusson more or less recapitulated his reply to Mr. John Morley, upon which that gentleman, with a j •certain patronising diction, declared that he was being con- ! firmed in the impression-—as though that mattered— that the Government were once more venturing into bad old ways o f advance into the Soudan. The Committee shortly after that remark divided, and Mr. Labottchere’s amendment was lost by a majority of 72. Little more was done that night, the Committee adjourning the discussion o f the sum ; for army pay.
In the Commons, on Tuesday night,
— T u e s d a y n i g h t . Mr. Balfour confirmed the report, in answer to a question, that Mr. Dillon and
Mr. O ’Brien were in the prison infirmary, but he believed that their health was satisfactory ; also he presumed that the ordinary course would be pursued in estreating the recognizances of the two members. Mr. Beckett learned from Mr. W. H . Smith that the Government had resolved to recommend the appointment o f a Royal Commission to inquire into the relations between capital and labour. Mr. Bartley moved a resolution calling for the appointment o f a Committee to investigate in regard to the income tax the method of its collection, the system of appeal, the payment o f poundage for collection, and to make a general report on the present working and incidence o f the present tax, and on the wider question whether some juster system could be devised by suggested differentiations. H is main ground for exception to the system now existent was that the chief officers responsible for the collection o f the tax were paid by poundage, whence it arose that their personal interests were involved in as high an assessment as was possible. H e suggested that industrial incomes o f less than ^ 5 0 0 a year should be no longer subject to the tax— a proposal which would benefit 386,000 working families, and would involve no greater cost than a million a year. Mr. Smith, answering in the absence of Mr. Goschen, said that an important Committee had been appointed in 18 6 1 to consider a suggested change in the method o f collecting the income tax, and they had decided not to introduce a change. A s he “ failed to see ” any new reason which was not patent 30 years ago for the change— as though the economic conditions of the country, the relations o f industry, and the population had not changed since then— he could not accept the motion. B y way o f finally destroying the reputation o f Parliament as a home of eloquence, Mr. Atkinson moved the limitation of speeches to a quarter of an hour in the case o f private members, and half an hour in the case o f Privy Councillors— a horrible suggestion which met its deserved fate. The second reading o f a B ill dispensing the attendance o f Registrars at Nonconformist Marriages was taken without a division, and the House adjourned at midnight.
Wednesday’s sitting o f the House of
— We d n e s d a y ’s Commons was almost exclusively devoted s i t t i n g . to the discussion o f the Parochial Boards
(Scotland) Bill, the second reading o f which was moved by Dr. Cameron. The object o f the measure was to place Boards entrusted with the administrative and
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