TABLET. A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
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F rom 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 Ju n e 4, i8pO.
V o l . 77. No. 2661. L ondon, M a y 9, 1891.
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C hronicle of th e Week :
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Imperial Parliament: Business of the House—Newfoundland Fisheries — Tuesday’s Sitting—Wednesday’s Sitting—The LabourDay Riots—In the Chamber—A Letter to Mr. Harrington—Mr. « Mahony. M .P., and the Clergy—
Prince Bismarck’s Election—The French Census—TheNew Orleans Lynching — North-West Suffolk Election — Death of the Archbishop of York—The Late Grand Duke Nicholas—The Fringe of Finance—Mr. W. H. Smith’sCandidature—Parnellite Delegates in Canada . . . . . . . . 721
L e a d e r s :
The First of May . . . . . . 725 When Greek Meets German . . 725 The Fairy-Tales of Finance . . 727
CONTENTS.
L ead ers (Continued):
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The Royal Academy . . .. 723 General Assembly of Frehch
Catholics . . . . . . . . 729 N otes . . . . . . . . . . 730 R ev iew s :
The Battle of Belief . . . . 732 j The Precious Blood at Bruges in
Flanders . . . . . . . . 733 Warwick the Kingmaker.. .. 733
L e t t e r s to th e E ditor :
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Prayers for the Queen . . . . 741 | The Character of Teachers . . 742 ' The Thurles Demonstration . . 742
The Bishop of Nottingham on Free
Education . . .. . . . . 743
Catholics Abroad . . . . . . 744
SU PPLEM ENT. D ecisio ns of R oman Congrega
Page t io n s . . . ...........................75 N ews from th e S chools :
The Bishop of Limerick on Free
Education.. . . . . .. 753 The Government Education Bill 754 Philosophy and the Training Colleges .......................................754 Catholics and the School Board
System . ; ...........................755 About E d u ca t io n ...........................755
Aspects of Anglicanism . . . . 734
C orrespondence :
Rome :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . . . 737 Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) .......................... . . 738 May-Day at Marseilles . . .. 740
The Abbé M argerin.......................... 745 Father Albany James Christie . . 746
F rom E veryw h ere . . . . . . 746
A ppeal to th e C h a r it a b l e . . 746
Social and P o l it ic a l . . . . 747
N ews from the D ioceses : Westminster.. •• 756
Birmingham..
Portsmouth ..
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St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 756 Glasgow The Canadian School Question . . 757 The Anti-Christian Crusade •• 757
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C H R O N IC L E O F T H E W E E K .
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
— BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.
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T the end of last week Mr.
W. H. Smith introduced a motion to the effect that whenever the Purchase of Land and
Congested Districts (Ireland) Bill should be appointed for Tuesday or Friday, the House should meet at three o’clock, and that the proceedings on that Bill should have precedence over all Orders of the Day and Notices of Motion ; and that this Bill should have precedence cn Wednesday if it be appointed for that day. The House had been sitting he urged for more than 80 days, and a period of the Session had been reached at which Ministers felt they were justified in an appeal to the House to aid them in the advance of public business. As soon as the Land Purchase Bill should be disposed of, it would be their duty to introduce a measure of “ assisted education ; ” after that there are Bills now before Committee which ought not to be delayed any further. Pie begged the Opposition to repress a dreadful tendency to repetition “ especially when the questions raised have been considered and practically decided by the House.” After Mr. Gladstone and others had opposed the measure, Sir Henry James proposed an Amendment giving precedence to the Irish Land Purchase Bill on Wednesdays, as well as on Tuesdays and Fridays, until the Bill had passed through Committee. Mr. Keay, who, as our readers do not fail to remember, has been chief offender in the matter of the Land Purchase Bill, rose amid cries of protest to make an odd speech. He said that any unnecessary length to which his speeches on the Land Purchase Bill had been prolonged had been entirely caused by the obstruction which he had met with from the Government benches. On every occasion when he had risen to speak to his Amendments he had been met with howls from those opposite, who were chiefly of the landlord persuasion. He thought it would be right to point to the character of his Amendments, but at this terrible moment the Speaker thoughtfully interfered and declared such a course to be utterly out of order ; after a little wriggling Mr. Keay for the time succumbed. On a division, Sir Henry James’ Amendment was accepted by a majority of 59. Then, on the putting of the main question, Mr. Keay said that he wished to speak of the treatment his Amendments on the Land Purchase Bill had received. Again he was called to order, declaring that he was going to speak “ in general terms.” Again he was suppressed, and Mr. Smith’s Resolution, as amended by Sir Henry James, was carried by the large majority of 186. The House then came to the consideration of the Irish Land Purchase Bill and advanced some slight way in the jungle of the Fourth Clause. Progress rvas reported at midnight, and the House adjourned ten minutes later.
In the House of Lords on Monday,
— New fo u n d l a n d the discussion turned upon the motion f i s h e r i e s . for the Newfoundland Fisheries Bill to be taken in Committee. The Earl of
Kimberley had an amendment that, in view of the undertaking of the Newfoundland delegates to enact legislation in the colony for the enforcement of treaty obligations and of the modus v iv etid i, the inexpediency of going on with the Bill until time had been given for the performance of the promise was become a matter of present certainty. Lord Knutsford opposed the amendment, and the Marquis of Salisbury also spoke to the Ministerial view of the matter. He contended that the Opposition delay only amounted to four days. The Government had, however, to give some consideration to the harmony and peace of the world. Since the decision of the Newfoundland Courts the hands of our naval officers in that part of the world were paralysed. They could not deal with any infraction of the treaties, and the time was rapidly approaching when the performance of that duty would become a matter of great moment. Each day lost was something added to our risk, for in the excited state of the colonists on one side, and the French on the other, collisions might take place any moment with the most deplorable results. The Government therefore came to Parliament to ask for powers to obviate the danger. They were met by a resistance which carefully said that it did not object to the principle of their proposal, but objected, of course, to the manner in which they wished to carry it out. But while they were talking about susceptibilities it ivould be fair not to impute to the colonists so grotesque a susceptibility as this, that they would be satisfied with the Bill if it were passed four days later, but dissatisfied with it otherwise. The colonists said nothing of the kind. It was their advocates in Parliament who said it, because they could not urge the plea that the colonists themselves put forward ; these wanted the Bill dropped altogether. As to our so dealing with the Newfoundlanders, we were using our rights in working within
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