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Imperial Parliament : General Business—Tuesday’s Sitting—Mr. Parnell at Inchicore—“ The N a tional Press ” and its Accusations —The Baccarat Case—After the Scandal—Sir John Macdonald— Mr. Calderon’s Outrage—President Carnot and Mgr. Rotelli— Illiterate Voterr—Greater London —The Omnibus Strike—The Brigands and ther Ransom — The Free Education Bill—A Russian Conspiracy .. . . . . . . 921 L e a d e r s :

T h e ’Busless City .. . . . . 925 The Free Education Bill . . . . 926 Sir John Macdonald . . . . 927

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L e a d e r s (Continued)

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The Sisters of the African Mission 928 The New Education Bill . . . . 929

N o t e s ......................................... . . 930

R e v iew s :

The Literature of the Second Cen­

tury . . .. . . . . 932 Forty Days in the Holy Land . . 933 The Adventures of Count George

Albert of Erbach.. . . . . 933 Local Dissent .......................... 933 Fiction and Controversy . . . . 934 In Days of Old .._ . . . . 934 The Catholic Magazines . . . . 934 The Press and the Encyclical . . 935

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C o rr e s po n d en c e :

Rome (From Our Own Corre­

Page spondent) . . . . . . . . 937 Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . . . . . 938 L e t t e r s to t h e E d ito r :

The Reconstitution of London

University . . . . . . 941 Lynch Law in America . . . . 941 Strikes . . . . . . . . 941 The New Bill on Free Education . . 941 The Padroado in India . . . . 944 Catholics Abroad . . . . . . 945 Social and Political . . . . 945 Obituary . . . . . . . . 946

S U P P L EM E N T . N ew s from t h e S c h o o l s :

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The Free Education Question . . 953 Chadwick Memorial and Ashbur­

ton House Industrial Schools.. 953 About Education . . . . . . 954 N ew s from t h e D io c e s e s :

Westminster.. . . . . . . 935 Southwark . . . . . . 955 Birmingham . . . . . . . . 955 Middlesbrough . . . . . . 955 Newport and Menevia . . . . 955 Salford . . . . . . . . 955 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 956 Glasgow . . . . . . . . 956 Galloway . . . . . . . . 956 Meeting of St. Anselm’s Society . . 956 The Parnellite Mission to Canada.. 957

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criminal, to deprive tenants of a favourite excitement.” The clause was read a second time by a large majority, and the House adjourned a little after midnight.

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

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WE print in other columns the very important debate on the Education Resolution held in the Commons on Mon­

day night. Here it will suffice to record that at the end of last week very little of interest was doing in the House. Mr. Labouchere asked the Under Secretary for India if there was an Indian Order which could be conferred on ladies for distinguished service in India, and if so whether it was intended to confer it on Mrs. Grimwood. He received an answer more or less unsatisfactory, but since that time the announcement has been made that the Queen has decided to confer on her the Order of the Red Cross. This, as a somewhat inferior Order, does not seem to have been received with general approbation, and it has been felt that although the Victoria Cross has never before been conferred upon a woman for distinguished service, this at any rate was an opportunity for creating such a precedent which was o f itself sufficiently noble. On the report stage o f the Irish Land Purchase Bill, Mr. T . W. Russell moved a new clause to enable the Commissioners to advance money to evicted tenants to purchase their former holdings, where such holdings should be in the hands of the landlords or caretakers, or were derelict. Sir William Harcourt hinted his support under verbiage of dissatisfaction, which elicited a very severe reply from Mr. Balfour, who complained that S ir William was ever unable to introduce any speech in Parliament without the rancours o f party bitternesses. Sir William, it may be hoped— since he made no reply— accepted the rebuke in humility. After a great deal of futile discussion, and several amendments proposed and rejected, the clause was finally added to the Bill. Mr. Balfour signalised the later debate with one smart remark, for which more recent Irish debates have afforded him very slender opportunities. Mr. T . W. Russell moved a new clause to give power to the Land Commission to determine disputes as to boundaries, turbary, &c., when the tenants had agreed to purchase their holdings. Mr. Balfour advised his hon. friend to withdraw the clause, and not to run counter to the general feeling that it would be cruel, “ i f not

The Lord Advocate and Mr. Balfour made

—Tuesday’s statements at question time on the allocations s it t in g . o f the Scottish and Irish portions o f the grant from the Exchequer. Mr. Balfour then announced that the intention of the Government was to devote the Irish share to freeing the elementary education o f the country on the same general principle as in England. H e estimated the minimum grant to Ireland at ^ 18 0 ,0 0 0 . Some questions were put on the subject o f the omnibus strike, but nothing of the least censequeuce was extracted from Mr. Balfour. The natural sequence of events after the resolution the night before on Free Education brought the introduction of the necessary Bill by Sir W. Hart-Dyke, the details of which we print in another column. Mr. Herbert Knatchbull-Hugessen arose in a reproachful state of mind, rebuking the Government for what he considered as an advance towards Socialism, using the not unstriking phrase in the course of his remarks, “ under the auspices o f some 1 eminent Radical sitting on the Tory Benches.” The second I reading of the B ill was fixed for Monday, Ju n e 22. On the ! report stage o f the Irish Land Purchase Bill, Mr. Lea’s further clause, which had been accepted by Government, was made by Sir William Harcourt the pretext o f an attack on the Ministry, whom he charged with desires to favour the landlords at the expense o f the British Treasury. Mr. W. H . Smith resented the charge, perhaps (considering the quarter whence it came) a little needlessly. H e declared that it amounted to an accusation that the Government desired, through the Chief Secretary, to pass a measure for a fraudulent purpose— in which accusation Sir William had so far forgotten himself as to violate the ordinary usages o f Parliamentary warfare. The contest began to develop Plomerically. Mr. Gladstone rushed to the rescue of his lieutenant, declaring that the force o f the charge was not dependent on the strong language in which it was conveyed, but upon the gravity of the facts which it presented. Mr. Goschen arose in splendour and a little pompously, but none the less truely, emphasised the bitternesses which Sir William Harcourt had lent to the debate. Mr. Balfour’s ! answer was, however, most to the point. H e complained not, he said, o f a gross unfairness which one naturally expected. H e did complain o f the intolerable tediousness. H e was prepared to be misrepresented night after night and 1 to labour under the imputation o f the basest motives ; but ’ he sighed for novelty. When he first heard Sir William’s

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