THE TABLET. A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMDS 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 in s I X . to T h e T a b l e t J u n e 4, 18 70 .
Vol. 77. No. 2662. L ondon, M a y 16, 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 O f f i c e a s a N ew s p a p e r .
"Ch ro n ic l e o f t h e W e e k :
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Imperial Parliament : Irish Land B ill—Captain Verney and More Land Purchase—Sir William Har•court at Newton Abbot — The Paris Fund—Chili and the United •States—After the Battle of Pozo —Mr. F . W. Verney’s Retire ment — Mr. Goschen on Postal Reforms—Mr. Cunninghame Graham in France—A National In surance for Old Age—Strange Tale from Chattanoga — The Manipur Incident—The Remedy for Consumption—The Kaiser on Duelling—The Influenza Epidemic Lord Charles Beresford and a French Man-of-war . . . . 761 L e a d e r s :
England and Portugal in Africa 765 To Make a Prussian Holiday . . 765 London University and Catholics 767
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Let us See for Ourselves . . . . 768
N o t e s ...................................................... 769
R e v iew s :
A Posthumous Myth . . . . 770 The Story of Portugal . . . . 771 The Flotsam of History . . . . 772 The Relativity of Races . . . 772 “ The Dublin Review ” . . . . 772 Is One Religion as Good as
Another? . . . . . . . . 773 Aspects o f Anglicanism . . . . 774
C o rr e s po n d en c e :
Rome :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . . . 777 Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) ....................................... 778
E N T S .
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L e t t e r s to t h e E d ito r :
The Thurles Demonstration The Case of Violet Nevin
A View of Pope Leo X I I I . . .
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Blessed Thomas More and Heretics 781 The Priest in Politics . . 782 Tercentenary o f St. John of
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The Chelsea Biblical Museum • • 783 Catholics Abroad Brotherhoods and Anglicans . . 784 • • 785 Ob it u a r y . . 786 S o c ia l a n d P o l it ic a l . . 786 M a r r ia g e ............................ . . 787
SUPPLEMENT. N ew s from t h e S chools :
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London University Reconstitu
tion . . .. .......................... 793 St. Patrick’s Parish Schools,Edin
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Great Saffron Hill Schools, West
minster . . . . . . . . 794 The Government's Education B ill 794 About E d u c a t io n .......................... 795 N ew s from t h e D io c e s e s : Westminster.. . . . . . . 796
Clifton ...................................... 796 Portsmouth . . ...........................796 Salford . . . . . . . . 796 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 796 Glasgow . . . . . . . . 797 Galloway . . . . . . . . 797 Barnstaple School Board and Catho
lics ...................................................797 A Great E d u c a t o r .......................... 797
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
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TH E Irish Land Purchase B ill still drags its weary way of — ........ vain and unprofitable discussion through the Committee of
Balfour was then agreed to, and an amendment by Mr. Reid was rejected by a very large majority. Other amendments were rejected and progress was reported as u su a l ; the slowness o f the advance o f the B ill is getting to be phenomenal. Our space is not sufficient for even an outlined report o f further discussions on the matter ; but the House was still upon the sixth clause at midnight on Monday.
On Tuesday, in the Commons, Mr.
—1M ™ moue*NEY ^ Smith, " 'h o had that morning been the House o f Commons, chiefly thanks to Mr. Seymour K e ay ’s extraordinary series o f Amendments for which only one fate is customary. A t the end of last week, after the usual minor businesses of the Plouse, the Commons went into Committee, discussing Mr. Healy’s Amendment to omit Subsection i of Clause 6. Mr. Balfour in this regard la id upon the table the terms o f a new proposal to the effect that ( a ) The Lord Lieutenant should, within one year from the passing o f the Act, ascertain as nearly as might be, and declare as regards each county, the proportion between the number o f tenants o f holdings to which the A c t applies of a rateable value exceeding thirty pounds, and the total number o f tenants o f holdings to which the Act applies not exceeding a rateable value o f one hundred and fifty pounds, ( b ) The Land Commission in making advances under the Act are to have regard to such proportion, so that as far as practicable the total amount advanced under the Act to tenants o f holdings the annual value o f which exceeds 30 pounds in any county, as ■ compared to the total amount advanced under the Act in the county, may not exceed this proportion, except where, in the opinion o f the Land Commission, an advance to a tenant o f the first class is necessary for carrying into effect sales on the estate o f the same landlord. “ Provided that if and whenever the Land Commission have made advances in any county to tenants o f holdings the annual value of which exceeds 30 to the extent herein-before mentioned, the Lord-Lieutenant, on the recommendation o f the Land Commission, may, i f he thinks fit, by Order, authorise the Land Commission to disregard the said proportion either entirely or to the extent specified in such Order, but the Order shall not come into operation until it has lain before both Houses of Parliament for not less than 40 days, nor if either House passes a Resolution objecting to it, and shall not continue in force for more than two years.” Important enough to repeat, but unstimulating in language. Mr. Balfour, when Mr. Healy had accepted this change, permitted the sub-section to fal1. An amendment by Mr.
l a n d p u r c h a s e , re-elected for the Strand Division, after his acceptance of the Wardenship o f the
Cinque Ports, was introduced to the House, together with Mr. Logan, the new L iberal member for Harborough. The House was full in anticipation o f some proceedings in Captain Verney’s case. The First Lord o f the Treasury first suggested that the Judge’s letter to the Speaker should be read to the House, in which Mr. Ju stice Smith informed him that Captain Edmund Hope Verney, M .P ., had been convicted on his own confession o f a misdemeanour for which he had been sentenced to a year’s imprisonment. Mr. W. H . Smith accordingly moved, with very customary j expressions o f sorrow for the painful duty that had fallen to his hands, that the letter to the Speaker should be taken into consideration. Mr. Campbell Bannerman seconded the motion, and made a judicious speech, and it was agreed to silently. Mr. W. H . Smith then moved that Captain Verney be expelled from the House, Mr. Campbell Bannerman seconded, and again the motion was agreed to silently. Shortly afterwards the laggard Purchase B ill was resumed in Committee, and for the first time some reasonable progress was made. Amendments were tossed at the head o f the unfortunate sixth clause, and in the event were one and all rejected. The ^proceedings were enlivened by Colonel Saunderson, on Mr. Knox moving to provide that no advance exceeding the value of the interests o f the landlord in any holding should be made under the Land Purchase Acts for the purchase o f the holding. Colonel Saunderson, in opposing the amendment, explained to the House that Mr. Knox had shortly before made a speech condemning land purchase while he was engaged over selling his estate under the Ashbourne Act. Mr. Knox made distinctions : it was not that land purchase but this land purchase for which he cherished objections ; to which Colonel Saunderson answered that Mr. Knox stood the sole member o f Parliament who had sold his property to the tenants and then “ levanted to the other side o f the Channel.” The amendment was rejected. Finally, Clause 6,
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