HE TAB A Weekly Newspaper and Review.

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

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From the B r ie f o f H is Holiness P ius IX . to The Tablet June 4., 1870.

V ol. 77. No. 2654. L ondon, March 2r, 1891.

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C hronicle of the Week :

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Imperial Parliament : Miscellaneous Business — Manchester and •Gambling — Wednesday’s Sitting —Mr. Parnell inGalway and Cork —The Irish Fisheries—Mr. Gladstone at Hastings—Lynch-Lawin New Orleans—American Opinion —Funeral of Dr. Windthorst— Death of Prince Napoleon—The Behring Sea Question—The New­

foundland Fisheries— Floods in Hungary—Post Office Messengers —The Indian Staff Corps—Wreck of the “ Utopia” .. .. .. 441 Traders :

Can we Accept Them ? .. .. 445 Windthorst .. .. .. .. 446 The Massacres of Massowah .. 447 A Swiss Central University .. 448 Let Us See for Ourselves.. .. 449

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No t e s ....................................................... 45° R eviews :

The Scottish Church .. .. 452 The Book of Proverbs .. ^ .. 452 The Life of Our Lord : Passion-

tide .. .. .. .. .. 454 The Lincoln Judgment .. .. 454 Marriage of Nonconformists’ Bill .. 455 Correspondence :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) .. .. .. .. 457 Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) .. .. .. .. 458 Columbus and the Order of St.

Francis .. .. .. .. 460 The Cardinal Archbishop and Irish

Nationalists.. .. .. .. 460

ENTS

Letters to the E ditor :

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Marriages of Nonconformists Bill 461 Catholic Higher Education .. 461 Catholic Statistics .. .. .. 461 Mgr. Wilpert’s Recent Discovery 462 The Hampson Suit.. .. .. 462 English Devotion to St. Helen .. 462 Jubilee of St. Joseph’s Foreign Mis­

sionary Society at Mill Hill .. 463 Aspects of Anglicanism .. .. 463 The Irish National Church in Rome 465 Catholics Abroad .. .. .. 465 1 Obituary ..................................... 467

Social and Political .. .. 467

SUPPLEMENT. News from the Schools :

Educational Statistics for Clifton

Diocese .. .. .. .. 473

News from the Schools (Con­

tinued) : St. Joseph’s Industrial School,

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Tranent .. .. .. .. 4^3 St. John’s Deaf and Dumb Insti­

tute .. • ..........................473 Bishop Spalding on Modern

Education .. .. .. .. 474 New School at Loanhead.. .. 474 Home for Working Boys, Edin­

burgh .._ ..........................474 About Education .. .. --475 News from the Dioceses :

Westminster.. .. .. .. 476 Southwark .. .. .. .. 476 Clifton .. .. .. .. 476 Newport and Menevia .. .. 477 Portsmouth .. .. .. .. 477 Salford .. .. .. .. 477 St. Andrews and Edinburgh .. 477 Glasgow .. .. . ^ . 477 The Bishop of Meath and the Irish

Crisis .. .. .. .. .. 477 Biblical Discoveries .. .. .. 478

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

— MISCELLANEOUS

BUSINESS.

N the House of Commons on

Monday night the South Kensington and Paddington Subway Bill was withdrawn, a proceeding for which it was a pity there was ever an occasion. In reply to Mr. Bryce, Mr. W. H. Smith said that the Government had come to the determination that it was not desirable to appoint women on the Labour Commission. Questions were put also from Mr. Bryce and Mr. Labouchere on the •seizure of the ship Countess o f Carnarvon by the Portuguese, but Sir James Fergusson delayed answer inasmuch as the full details were not yet to hand Mr. W. H. Smith moved that the House meet at two o’clock on Tuesdays and Fridays, a proposal which, he remarked, was for the convenience of the House and the furtherance of business. Mr. Labouchere, of course, opposed the motion on the grounds that Mr. Smith had “ muddled ” the business of the House. His curious form of argument seemed to be this : since you have muddled our business, we shall not help you out of i t ; which is much the same thing as declining to help a man out of a river because he had no business to get into it. A certain amount of dry conversation followed. Mr. Smith in his general reply answered complaints about the counts out which have been falling on Fridays with satisfactory reasons and one smart retort. In regard to the one speech, he said, which Dr. Clark had been prevented from delivering, if that member would only communicate with him, he would give facilities for its utterance on the understanding that it would purchase Dr. Clark’s silence for the rest of the session. The House then went into Committee of Supply taking up the vote for the Royal Irish Constabulary, which was agreed to after a very brief—an unprecedently brief—discussion. A long debate followed on the vote on Account, the Armenian outrages forming one of the chief topics of conversation. The House adjourned at half-past one.

— MANCHESTER

AND GAMBLING.

In the House of Lords on Tuesday the Tithe Bill was read a second time after Lord Brabourne had entered a protest. The Commons occupied itself first with a morning sitting, when a long discussion was accorded to the

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Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Bill. Mr. James put in an amendment to the motion to the effect that, in consideration of the great importance of open spaces in crowded cities, the House was unprepared to entertain a measure involving interference with a large area of open space in London—the area in this case being Lord’s Cricket Ground. Sir Henry James, however, as a member of the Cricket Club Committee, said that the promoters of the Bill had convinced that Committee that the character of the ground should not be interfered with. On a division the second reading was carried by a majority of 109. In answer to Mr. Channing, Mr. Ritchie announced that a Bill had been prepared postponing the County Council elections to January 15 of next year, a scheme which it was expected would meet the difficulties in the way of revision of the electoral list. Report of Supply was then brought in, the Savings Bank Bill was read a second time and a number of other measures were advanced a stage when the sitting was suspended at seven o’clock. At the evening sitting Mr. Pickersgill moved a resolution asking that a Select Committee be appointed to inquire into the increasing prevalence of betting and gambling, amotion seconded by Mr. Morton, and receiving (of course) the support of Mr. S. Smith. Mr. Matthews declared his sympathies to lie in favour of Mr. Pickersgill’s anxieties, but refused to see that any practical good could come out of the granting of a Select Committee. Therefore, on behalf of the Government, he did not accept the motion, and, on a division, it was rejected by 70 votes against 47. Mr. Howard Vincent had just begun to speak to a motion calling attention to the Treaty of Commerce with Belgium, when a count out was effected, at twenty minutes past 11.

In the House of Commons on Wednes-

—Wednesday’s day, Mr. Ritchie nominated the Select s it t in g . Committee on the London Water Com­

mission Bill. The Committee of Selection will add four others. Mr. B. Rowlands moved the second reading of the Welsh Local Option Bill, the discussion of which occupied the House throughout the sitting. He recommended the Bill to the attention of the House, since it would enable owners and occupiers in the Principality to have entire control over the liquor traffic in their localities. Lord Carmarthen moved the rejection of the Bill, deciding to believe that it was intended to serve a party purpose. Mr. James Maclean seconded the amendment. The Home Secretary, speaking on behalf of the Government, said he did not believe that the Bill offered such successful means as would justify Ministers in voting for it. Mr. John Morley