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C h ro n ic le of t h e W e e k :
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Imperial Parliament: Irish Land Purchase — The Budget — Tuesd ay ’s Sitting : Licenses — The Manipur Expedition—The Story .of the Massacres—Death of Von Moltke—Von Moltke’s Funeral —Mr. Parnell at Clonmel—The Demonstration at Thurles—The W ar in Chili—Expulsion o f Russian Jew s—The Guelph Fund Free Education and the Country —The Canadian Parliament . . 1
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The Freeing of the Schools . . 685 The Explosion at Rome . . . . 686 The New Gallery . . . . . . 687 Let us See for Ourselves . . v 688 Elementary Education : A Muni
cipal Charge . . . . . . 688
CONTENTS.
N o t e s ....................................................... 689 R e v iew s :
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L e t t e r s to t h e E d it o r (Con
tinued) : Lord Salisbury and the Primrose
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Mary in the Epistles . . . . 692 The Interior of Jesus and Mary 692 A Great Man of his Time . . 693 Mexico . . . . . . . . 694 Aspects o f Anglicanism . . . . 694 C o rrespo n d en c e :
Rome :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . . . 697 Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . . . 698 The Recent Centenary of St. Gre
gory . . . . . . . . . . 700 L e t t e r s to t h e E d ito r :
The Collapse of the Plan . . _ . . 700 “ The Pilgrimage o f St. Silvia to the Holy Places” .......................... 700
L e a g u e .......................................700 Prayers for the Queen . . . . 7ox The Catholic Conference . . . . 701 The Prayer “ Deus, qui Salutis ” 701 Missionaries among the Esquimaux 701 Salford Protection and Rescue
Society The Nevin Case Catholics Abroad Religious Persecution Catholics and the
Town Council
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The Feast of Passover
Music . .
F rom E v e r yw h e r e .. S o c ia l a n d P o l it ic a l Ob it u a r y
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SU P P L EM E N T . D e c is io n s o f R oman C o n grega
Page t i o n s . . . ............................ 7 13 N ew s from t h e S chools :
The Government’s Free Educa
tion Scheme . . . . . . 713 Mr. Chamberlain on Free Educa
tion...............................................714 Country Pupil Teachers . . . . 714 Birkdale Farm Schools . . . . 715 Canning Town Schools . . . . 715 At Ampleforth . . . . . . 715 Catholics and Portobello School
Board . . . . . . . . 716 The New Code and the Exemp
tion Question . . . . . . 716 About E d u c a t io n ...................... 716 N ew s from t h e D io c e s e s :
Birm ingham.. ............................. 717 Clifton . . . . . . . . 717 Liverpool . . . . . . . . . 717 Nottingham .................................. 717 Portsmouth . . 717 Salford . . . . . . . . 717
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WE printed last week the important portions of Mr. Goschen’s financial state
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favou r ; there is therefore no necessity to recur to the subject here. On the following evening, after question time, the House resumed consideration in Committee o f the Irish Land Purchase Bill, and, coming to Clause 2, Mr. Keay moved its omission, which was rejected by a large majority. The clause was passed. On Clause 3, providing the establishment of a Guarantee Fund, Mr. Sexton objected to its division into cash and contingent portions as unreal. In the case o f default he urged that it should first be compensated out of the Consolidated Fund, and at the end of the year, when the actual loss was ascertained, it should be met out of the probate duty grant for next year. With reference to the order o f allocation, he would propose that the vote for national education should precede that for Industrial schools, as in case there had to be a stoppage of operations it would be easier for the National schools to close than for a school in which children were detained in the interests of social order and for the repression of crime. Mr. Balfour, in reply, stated that the contingent guarantee was regarded as a matter o f book-keeping and would not, in fact, delay the appropriation of sums for 24 hours. He briefly treated the further portion of Mr. Sexton’s scheme. The amendment was withdrawn, and Mr. K eay substituted another to omit the cash portion from the clause. This was, as it deserved to be, beaten by a considerable majority. Then came Mr. Labouchere with a further amendment to omit the contingent portion of the guarantee ; this, too, was rejected, together with a further amendment by Mr. Keay, and the sitting was suspended. On resuming, Mr. A. Sutherland brought forward a resolution to the effect that immediate legislation on the subject of deer forests in Scotland was needed. After a debate o f some length, the resolution was rejected by a majority of 47. The House adjourned after midnight.
In the House of Lords on Monday night,
__t h e b u d g e t , the Newfoundland Fisheries B ill was read a second time. In the Commons, Sir
William Harcourt entered upon a very vehement attack on Mr. Goschen’s financial statement. H e accused Mr. Goschen o f abandoning the old methods o f finance and of introducing what practically amounted to three Budgets. H e described the method as post-obit finance. Under the new head o f local subsidies, Mr. Goschen had given over four millions in aid of local rates, which an excellent authority declared would all go into the pockets o f the landlord. I f he had held to that money, he might have removed a penny from the income tax and reduced still further the tea and house duty. After a certain flourish o f rhetoric on the subject of fat and lean years, Sir William Harcourt came to the question o f the disposal o f the surplus. On this subject he declared that, from whatever source the surplus was derived, he rejoiced that it was to be bestowed on free education. H e concluded by identifying his own views with those o f Mr. Goschen in 1879, from one of whose speeches he read his own peroration. The Chancellor o f the Exchequer congratulated him on the eloquence o f the peroration, and answered pretty straightly by a flat contradiction o f Sir William Harcourt’s facts and figures. The debate was continued by numerous members, some praising, some deploring, some bickering. The upshot o f all was that at midnight the Budget resolutions were agreed t o ; the remaining orders were finished, and the House presently adjourned.
, On Tuesday, after question time, the con~ setting* S ^deration o f Clause 3 was resumed in Com-
l i c e n s e s . mittee on the Irish Land Purchase Bill, on which we have spoken above. The Attorney-
General for Ireland proposed an amendment to provide that the residue o f the cash portion o f the Guarantee Fund should be applied towards the .cost of providing labourers’ cottages in counties, under the Labourers’ Acts (subject to terms and regulations approved by the Lord-Lieutenant), to an amount not exceeding ^ 4 0 ,0 0 0 in any one year. On this Mr. Mahony moved an amendment, in which he received support from Mr. Parnell, to extend the proposed benefits to urban as well as rural cottages. Mr. Parnell stated that the state of the homes o f Irish artisans in towns was such as to warrant an extension o f the principle of the Clause to these cases, and he thought that effect might be given to it at a comparatively small cost. Mr. Balfour, in answer, replied that he was reluctantly compelled to oppose the amendment, as he did not feel justified in the introduction o f so extensive and so novel a principle into a Land ; Purchase B ill. On a division, Mr. Mahony’s amendment • was negatived by 261 votes against 78. The Attorney
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