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DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR^ ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
Fro77i th e B r i e f o f H i s H o lin e s s P iu s I X . to T h e T a b l e t J u n e 4, 1870.
V ol. 77. No. 2658. L ondon, A pril 18, 1891.
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[R eg iste r ed a t t h e Gen e r a l P o st O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper.
C hronicle of t h e W e e k :
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Imperial Parliament: Land Purchase—The Opium Traffic— Lord Granville and Miscellaneous— Six Elections— Sir Henry James at the Liberal Union Club — The Disaster in Manipur— Mr. Raikes Climbs Down—The Insurance of Seamen’s Lives—Opening of the Austrian Reichsrath— A Financial Nemesis— The Jews in Russia— Lord Randolph Churchill on Public Affairs — Prince Bismarck’s Candidature—Women as County Councillors . . ... .. • • 601 L e a d e r s :
The Soldier Monks of the Sahara 605 The Guelph Fund _.. . . . . 606 Italy and Mr. Blaine . . . . 607 Dean Church on the Oxford
Movement.. .........................607
CONTENTS
L eaders (Continued) :
Let Us See for Ourselves..
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N o t e s . . . . ............................ 611 “ A Young Mugwump " . . . . 612 R eview s :
John Wesley . . . . . . 613 The Apostle of the Sacred Heart 614 A Newman Miscellany . . _614 Hazlitt’s Studies in Jocular Lite
rature . . . . . . . . 614 Sul Proemio di Diodoro Siculo . . 614 Irish Episcopalians and Denomina
tional Education . .. _.. 615 The Late Lady Constance Belling
ham . . .. . . . . . . 615 C orrespondence :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . ... . . 617 Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) ......................... . . 618
L e t t e r s t o t h e E d itor :
Process of the Cause of the Beati
Page fication o f the Venerable J. B. M. Vianney, Curé d’Ars . . 620 English Priests Abroad . . . . 620 Marriages of Nonconformists’ Bill 621 Catholics and the School Board.. 621 The Act of Union and Home
Rule .. . . . . .. 621 The Foundation of the Civil Prin
cipality . . . . . . . . 621 Christian Art in London . . . . 622 Cardinal Moran and the Carmelites 622 Aspects o f Anglicanism . . . . 623 The Society of St. Vincent de Paul 624 Catholics Abroad . . . . . . 625 In the Name o f Catholic H istory.. 626 The Prime Minister of Quebec on the Empire .. .. . . . . 626 Old English Books of Devotion . . 627
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F rom E v e r yw h e r e ........................... 628 Social an d P o l it ic a l . . . . 628 O b it u a r y ........................................ 629
SU PPLEM EN T . N ew s from th e S chools :
The National Union of Teachers at Cardiff .. . . . . . . 633 The Education Department . . 633 St. Mary’s Schools, Heaton Norris 634 Catholic School Committee .. 634 Memorial to the Late Mgr. Wil
liams . . . . . . . . 634 N ews from th e D io ceses :
Westminster.. . . . . . . 635 Southwark . . . . . . 635 Salford . . . . . . . . 635 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 636 Annual Meeting o f the Catholic
Truth Society . . . . . . 636 A ppeals to th e C h a r it a b l e . . 638
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
o f it knew about Ireland. T o back up such a universal conspiracy would require, let him know it, millions o f money, and, as that could not by any possibility be forthcom ing, the people would go back to their holdings. H e finished by repeating that whether the B i ll was good or bad, whether or not it was— as they hoped— a great step towards the solution o f one o f the greatest difficulties ever encountered by those responsible for Irish administration, there could be little doubt that the B ill did in fact provide a perfectly sound security. A fte r some further debate the closure was moved and carried, and the amendment was moved and lost. On the motion to go into Committee o f Supply, Sir J. Pease rose to call attention to the Indian opium traffic, and to move, that the House was o f opinion that the system by which the Indian opium revenue is raised was morally indefensible, and urged upon the Indian Government that they should cease to grant licences for the cultivation o f the poppy and sale o f opium in British India, except to supply the legitim ate demand for medical purposes, and they should at the same tim e take measures to arrest the transit o f M alwa opium through British territory. Mr. W . H . Smith opposed the resolution, which was nevertheless carried by a majority ofi^o. T h e H ouse adjourned at one o ’clock, before, however, some additional words which Sir R . Fow le r moved as an addendum to the resolution could be discussed.
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AT the end o f last week, in the
H ouse o f Commons, after — question-time, Mr. W . H . Smith rose to announce the names o f the Royal Commission on Labour. T h e ch ie f o f these are Lord Hartington, Lord Derby, Sir M ichael H icks-Beach, Sir John Gorst, Mr. Mundella, Sir F . Pollock, Mr. T om Mann, and others. Then a strange occurrence happened. Mr. Justin M cC arth y arose to beg leave to move the adjournm ent o f the House on a matter o f urgent public importance— namely, to inquire into the reasons why Mr. D avitt’s name did not appear in the list o f the Commissioners. T h e Speaker then inquired i f Mr. M cC arth y was supported by 40 members, and it was found that only 28 would stand to him : a strange reversion to the leader o f an Irish party. T h e H ouse having gone into Committee on the Irish Land Purchase B ill, and a little amendment o f Mr. Conybeare’s having been snuffed out, Mr. Labouchere moved an amendment to provide that advances under the L and Purchase A c ts should not be made by the issue o f guaranteed land stock. H e objected to such an issue because he did not think that the guaranteed liability o f th e taxpayer was a nominal one, but that it was a real liability. T h e speech in which he upheld his views was not very convincing or very logical, and Mr. Balfour rightly described it as a second reading speech. Mr. Labouchere b a d stated that no financier o f reputation in the C ity would lend money on the security on which it was by the Land Purchase B ill to be lent. Put it upon a reasonable basis, an d not on a puerile generality. I f the members o f a C ity house were to be told that they should have an absolute control over that part o f the Im perial funds which went to supportlrish local taxation— a matter equivalentto a guarantee fund— in the event o f a deficiency in the land returns, could it be supposed that there would be any possibility o f a refusal? N o ; and for the easy reason that the security was ample. D id Mr. Labouchere, asked the C h ie f Secretary, think that it was a very easy matter to get up a universal conspiracy against the payment o f the annuities ? “ Y e s ,” cries Mr. Labouchere, falling into the trap. T h e ready affirmative proved, said Mr. Balfour, how little the speaker
On M onday night Mr. Matthews, replying
— t h e o p iu m to Mr. Mundella, inform ed him that the traffic. Government do not intend to proceed with the Inflamm able L iqu id s B ill during the pre
sent session— and the whole subject was to be referred to a Select Committee, whose report would precede legislation. Mr. Goschen announced, in answer to Sir W . Harcourt, that the Budget would be introduced on Thursday week. A fte r further conversations Mr. M . Cameron asked Mr. W . H . Smith whether, in view o f the vote at the end o f last week on the opium traffic, the Government were prepared to give effect to his proposal for the appointment o f a Royal Com mission to inquire into the whole subject, and thereby furnish the House with such authentic data as to the extent o f the traffic as would guide its legislative action. Mr. W . H . Smith expressed his sense o f perplexity over the confused state into which the whole question had fallen, and the Speaker intimated that the sole chance o f the question being recurred to in debate would be that the Government should make it one o f the Orders o f the Day. On the general merits o f the question Mr. Smith announced that the Government would make haste to com e to a decision on
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