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

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

Vol. 77. No. 2664. London, May 30, 1891.

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■ Chronicle of the Week :

Page

Imperial Parliament : General Business—Mr. Parnell and the Archbishop of Dublin—The Archbishop of Cashel and Earl Spencer —Manipur—The War in Chili— How the “ Encalada” was Sunk— ‘The Newfoundland Bill—In the Legislature—A Fatal Fire—The Composition of Melinite—Fighting in South Africa—Russia and the Jews — Omnibus Strike in Paris—Death of Sir RobertFowler —The International Bicycle Race — The Land Purchase Bill—A New Combustible .. .. .. 841 The New Encyclical .. .. 845

CONTENTS.

Belgian and German Socialism .. 851 TheHead of Blessed Thomas More 852 The Relics of St. Thomas of Can­

terbury .. .. .. .. 852

No t e s .....................................................853

Correspondence :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) .. .. .. .. 857 Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) .. .. .. .. 858

Letters to the Editor :

London University Reconstitu­

tion .. .. .. . •• 860

Letters to the Editor (Con­

Page tinued) : “ The Interior of Jesus and Mary ” 861 The Government and the Schools 86x A New Catholic Union .. .. 861 St. Patrick in Wales in 432 .. 862 Pilgrimage of Youth to Rome .. 862 The Whitsuntide Processions .. 862 Aspects of Anglicanism .. .. 863 The Bishops of Ireland and Mr.

Parnell .. .. .. .. 865 An Australian Golden Jubilee .. 865 Catholics Abroad .. .. .. 866 The Archbishop of Cologne and

Funeral Flowers .. .. . 867 Protestant Meetings and the Guild of Ransom .. .. .. .. 867 Bishop Moorhouse and Religious

Education .. .. .. 868

SUPPLEMENT. Decisions of Roman Congrega­

tions .. .

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873

News from the Schools :

Anglicans and Free Education .. 873 Report of Silvertown Schools .. 873 The Talbot Schools, Preston .. 874 About Education........................... 874 N ews from the D ioceses:

Westminster.. .. .. .. 875 Southwark .. .. 875 Clifton .. .. .. .. 875 Leeds .. .. .. .. 876 Newport and Menevia .. .. 876 Salford .. .. .. .. 876 St. Andrews and Edinburgh .. 876

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

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AT the end of last week scarcely anything of interest was doing in Parliament save the finish of the Land Bill in Committee. On

Monday Sir William Harcourt gave notice that he would move for papers on the subject of Manipur, and would take the opportunity of calling attention to the disaster in its general aspects. In answer to Mr. Causton, Mr. Goschen said that invitations had been issued to a certain number of artists to submit designs for the new coinage; he also made the interesting announcement that the double florin was about to be withdrawn, a declaration which met with considerable applause. Mr. Goschen informed Mr. Lowther that the vote on account would cover a period of two months, thus bringing the session down to July’s third week. The House then went into Committee of Supply and the vote on account— four millions— was moved by Mr. Goschen without comment. Mr. Labouchere at once moved to report progress, on the supposed ground that the House had not sufficient information before it as to the intentions of the Government in regard to public business. Mr. Goschen, in answer to several speeches from the Opposition, declared that the action of the Government had everywhere been walled round by precedent, and it was upon the shoulders of the Opposition that blame for the backward state of Supply rested. Sir William Harcourt gave his emphatic opinion that Government had no right to ask for any vote on account unless they were in a position to state the exact routine of their business arrangements, and announced his hope that their experience of last November session would put an end to schemes for any more winter sessions. Mr. Goschen, in reply, justly pointed to the Tithes Bill and Land Purchase Bill as fully justificatory of that early meeting of the House, and pointed out with considerable effect that if Sir AVilliam Harcourt and other members really disliked winter sessions their best way out of it would be to avoid the undue prolonging of discussions. The motion to report progress was, on a division, of course negatived by a large majority. Then was the flood-time of useless amendments. Two were moved by

Mr. Labouchere for reduction in the vote, and one by Dr. Tanner— all being defeated in rapid succession. Others followed, and were defeated in a thinning house, the concluding conversation ranging on the coasts of Cypress. At midnight the vote on account .was agreed to, and the House adjourned ten minutes later.

MR. l’ARNELL AND THE ARCHBISHOP

OF DUBLIN.

Mr. Parnell, in the course of his numerous speeches, has touched upon most topics, and at length has made an attack upon the Archbishop of Dublin. Mr.

Parnell began by recalling how for 17 days after the verdict in the Divorce Court the Bishops were silent. He pointed out that in the interval the famous meeting in the Leinster Hall had been held at which nearly all the members of the Parliamentary party who are opposing him now protested their faithfulness to him, and how five great county conventions, numerously attended by priests, had been held in support of his leadership. Then on November 24, one day before Mr. Gladstone’s letter, according to Mr. Parnell, the Archbishop of Dublin wrote to a friend in which he said, “ All that has been done up to the present day by the Irish members is excellent.” These words are given in the report of The Freeman's Journal as though they were a quotation from the le tte r otherwise it does not appear quite clear from Mr. Parnell’s words whether he professed to give the Archbishop’s words or merely the sense of them. The argument he based upon them, however, was clear enough. “ If it was excellent for the Irish members from the moral and political point of view to support my leadership before Mr. Gladstone’s letter was printed, why is it criminal for my supporters throughout the country to support my leadership to-night? ” A letter from the Archbishop of Dublin appeared in The Times of Monday. His Grace declines to enter into a controversy upon “ any side issue.” He suggests that Mr. Parnell, pressed by the eloquent and forcible speeches of the Archbishop of Cashel, is merely seeking to create a diversion and distract public attention. “ A wrangle with another Archbishop would serve his purpose admirably.” The Archbishop, therefore, makes no reply to Mr. Parnell’s charges. “ Until the main battle is over, he may regard himself as in the enjoyment of the fullest liberty to say or write anything he may care to say or to write against me or about me individually. . . . He can do so in the most absolute security that nothing he may either say or write about me will draw from me one word of protest, of contradiction, of correction, or of exDlanation.” And so the matter rists.

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