THE TABLET. A Weekly Newspaper and Review.

DUM VOBIS GRATULAM UR , ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER M ANEATIS.

From the B r i e f o f H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T h e T a b l e t June 4, 1870.

V o l . 77. No. 2655. L o n d o n , M a r c h 28, 1891.

P r ic e sd ., b y P o st sJ^d.

[R eg is tered a t t h e G en e r a l P ost O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper.

CONTENTS

C hronicle of t h e W e e k :

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Imperial Parliament : Miscellaneous Business— Monday Night— Speeches at Railway Stations— Mr. Parnell's Challenge — The Campaign in Ireland — Serious Assault on Mr. Healy — The iQueen's Visit to the Continent— Servia’s Royal Family — The Lynching at New Orleans — Wreck of the “ Utopia ” — The Italians in Africa — The Aston Election— The Boat Race—The Parcel Post— The Mystery of a Balloon—Canada and the United States—Death of the Premier of Saxony . . . . .. .. 481 L e a d e r s :

The Raikes Progress . . . . 485 Italy and the Massacre of New

Orleans .. . . . . . • 486

L eaders (Continued):

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Bye-Exhibitions .. . . . . 487 ; St. Michael . . .. . . . . 487 I The Pop e and Windthorst . . 488 : Custody of Children Act . . . . 488 |

Marriages of Nonconformists . . 491 R ev iew s :

Anglo-Roman Papers .. . . 492 Pericles and the Golden Age of

Athens .................................... 492 A Poet of Catacombs .. .. 493 The Stuart Dynasty . . .. 494 I Aspects of Anglicanism . . . . 494

C orrespondence :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . . . . . 497 Dublin :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . . . •- 498

L e t t e r s to t h e E d itor :

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Marriages of Nonconformists’ Bill 501 Concerning Church Music: With an Example .. .. . . . . 501 I St. Joseph’s Foreign Missionary

Society . . . . . . . . 502 The Christian Brothers and Free

Education . . .. . . . . 503 Catholics Abroad . . .. .. 504 Irish Teachers and their Grievances 505 Bigotry at Basingstoke . . . . 506 Religious Instruction in Elementary I Schools . . . . . . . . 506 I Greek Catholics and Latin Priests . . 507

F rom E v e r yw h e r e . . . . . . 507 Social an d P o l it ic a l . . . . 508 A ppeals to t h e C h a r it a b l e . . 508

SU PPLEM EN T . D ecisions of R oman C ongrega

TIONS . . . ......................... 513 N ew s from th e Schools :

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A t Downside .. .. . . 513, Educational Statistics for South­

wark Diocese .. . . . . 514 Stonyhurst College Academy . . 515 About Education . . . . . . 5x5 N ews from t h e D io c e s e s :

S o u th w a rk ................................. - .5 16 Birmingham.. .. . . . . 516 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 516 Leeds . . . . . . . . 516 Newport and Menevia . . . . 516 Irish Bishops and the Irish Crisis .. 510 The Pope and the Archbishop of

Dublin . . .. . . .. 5x7 The Proselytising Case at Holbeach 517 O b it u a r y . . . . . . . . 518

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

Mr. M. Stewart, and Mr. de Lisle— who spoke in favour of the motion, which he declared to be consonant with the ancient Canon Law of Christendom— the House divided, when the motion was negatived by 166 votes against 39. The House adjourned at five minutes past one o’clock.

IM PERIAL PARLIAM ENT

— M ISCELLANEOUS

BUSINESS.

N the House o f Lords at the end o f last week some conversation took place in which their lordships emphasised their sense o f the impropriety o f the Royal Academy in appointing the end of Holy week among the sending in days for pictures. A t the morning sitting of the Commons, on the motion o f Mr. Ritchie, the Committee on the London Water Commission Bill received powers to inquire into all matters connected with the water supply o f London and the suburbs, and to insert in the Bill such provisions as to their judgment seemed useful. Mr. Lawson brought up a pyramid of petitions praying for the opening o f Museums and Art Galleries on Sundays in London. The House resumed consideration o f the Lords’ amendments to the Tithes Bill, taking up the clause which provides that when rent is not sufficient for the reservation o f a tithe, the tithe may be recovered from the occupier. Sir William Harcourt, and a large number o f the Opposition members, denounced the clause with some eagerness, but on a division it was agreed to by a majority of 60 votes or thereabouts. The remaining amendments were agreed to, and the sitting was suspended at about seven. In the evening Mr. Munro Ferguson raised the Scottish Crofter question, and moved that the Crofter Act of 1886 be amended, so as to confer upon the Commission powers to regulate the conditions and management of Crofters’ common grazings. The motion was agreed to unopposed. Mr. Lawson then moved a resolution advocating the opening on Sundays “ during certain hours ” and under “ special regulations ”— by “ certain hours ” he explained himself to mean Sunday afternoons, and by “ special regulations ” that no men employed should be allowed to work more than six days a week— of national museums and galleries in London, and supported his proposal in a clever speech. Sir Robert Fowler opposed it, as did Mr. Norris. Sir John Lubbock, as one of the trustees o f the British Museum, stated that the majority of his colleagues were in favour of Sunday opening. The debate was continued by Admiral Mayne, Mr. Jesse Codings, and Others, niter wfejch Mr. W. H. Smith then spoke in opposition to the motion, and after some remarks by Mr. Cremer,

N e w S e r if .'-, Y o l . XLY., No 1 ,1 (4 .

The Marquis o f Salisbury, replying on Mon-

— m o n d a y day night to Lord Kimberley, denied that n i g h t . there had been any intention of hastening the

Newfoundland Bill through, for the Easter

Recess would furnish amply sufficient time for any representations on the part o f the Newfoundland Legislature — which, he naturally went on to say, the Government would not omit to consider. The clause providing for the recovery of costs, which, as above recorded, Sir M. Hicks-Beach permitted to be struck from the Tithes Bill, their lordships persisted in maintaining. In the House o f Commons Mr. Raikes suffered the martyrdom which his peculiar merits have deserved, over a merciless cross-examination on the subject o f boy-messengers. The indefatigable Mr. Cobb asked whether the Boy Messengers’ Company could be allowed to reap the benefit o f the system which their enterprise had inaugurated, and if he would therefore grant them licenses to work the electric call system on payment o f a Royality to the Post Office. Mr. Raikes replied that the system o f the Company had been pursued despite continuous warnings o f its illegality. His first duty was, therefore, he remarked with large pomp, to vindicate the rights of the State. After that he would be open to suggestions. A certain amount o f pertinent talk ensued, but it would be little to the purpose to set it down here. The upshot was that the case o f the illegality o f the Company’s methods was shortly to be brought before the Courts, and after that he would be in a position “ to consider any proposals to meet the public convenience ”— with which declaration Mr. Cobb declared himself satisfied. Mr. Gladstone received a reply from Mr. W . H. Smith to the effect that the Secretary of State for the Colonies telegraphed on Saturday to the Governor of Newfoundland, requesting him to give the official information that the modus v iv endi would not be proceeded with in the House of Lords before April 16, thus allowing the time for Newfoundland’s communications to which Lord Salisbury had also directed attention, but, he said, if the Colony failed to make legislative provision for the observance o f existent treaties it would be necssary for the Government to proceed with the Bill. Other business o f a more or less uninteresting kind was done. Mr. Raikes endured further persecution for reluctant reform’s sake, and