THE TABLET. A Weekly Nezvspaper and Review.
DUM 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 T h e T a b l e t Ju ne p, 1870.
V ol. 78. No. 2670. L ondon, J u l y 11, 1891.
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C hronicle of th e Week :
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Imperial Parliament : Miscellaneous—The Education Bill—Sir
John Fowler on Railway Bridges — Mr. Goschen Reviews the Situation—The Irish Parties and the Evicted Tenants—Explosion on Board the “ Cordelia” — Electrocuion—A Vessel Sunk— Policy of the Farmers’ Alliance— The Royal Wedding^ — The Kaiser’s Visit—The Trial of the Pyx—The Thunderstorm of Wednesday — Mr. Chamberlain on Flowers—Post Office Disappearances—King Humbert’s Visit at Naples — Annual Homoeopathic Congres—The Asylumn and the Sisters of Mercy .......................... 45 'L ead ers :
The “ Apology of Aristides ” . . 49 Italian Schools and their Teachers 50
CONTENTS.
L ead ers (Continued) :
The History of Montmartre Basi
Page lica . . . . . . . . •. 50 Reconstitution of London Uni
versity . . . . . . . . 51 Parliament and Images . . . . 52 N otes . . . . .............................53 R ev iew s :
The Streets of London . . . . 56 A Contemporary Poet . . . . 57 Two Short Stories .. . . ..58 The Cardinal’s Collected Letters 58 Père Félix . . . . . . .. 59 The Pope and Mr. Henry George.. 59 C orrespondence :
Rome :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) .. .. . .
Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) ........................... ..62
61
L e t t e r s to th e E d itor :
The Catholic School Committee 65 Commemoration of St. Benedict 65 A Day Off in Drury-lane . . . . 65 Mass at Cromer . . . . ..65 The Canterbury Pilgrimage . . 65 The Irish Bishops and the Irish
Crisis . . . . .. . . . . 67 Catholics Abroad . . . . . . 68 The Archbishop of Melbourne’s
Jubilee . . . . . . ..68 Centenary of the Penal Abolition.. 69 Anglicans and the Education Bill . . 70 Tercentenary of St. Aloysius in
America . . . . . . . . 70 Obitu a r y . . . . . . -.71 C r ic k e t . . . . . . . . 72 Social and Po l it ic a l . . . . 72 F rom E v e r yw h e r e . . . . . . 72
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SU PPLEM ENT. D ecisio ns of R oman Congrega
t io n s . . ., . . . . •• 77
N ews from th e S chools :
The Government and Voluntary
Schools . . . . . .
Lord Harrington on Technical
Education.. . . . . . . 78 The Birds of Fort Augustus .. 79 Distribution of Prizes at St.
77
Joseph’s, Dumfries . . . . 79 About Education...........................80 N ews from th e D io c e s e s : Westminster.......................................81
Birmingham.. . . ..
Liverpool . . . . . . . . 82 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 66 Argyll and the Isles . . . . 66 Aberdeen .. . . . . . . 66
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
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AT the end of last week a funny little scene was enacted in
Parliament. The whole legislative body of the people was represented by the Speaker and Mr. Maclure, at the hour when Black Rod appeared to summon the “ Honourable House ” to hear Royal Assent accorded by Commission to a number of Bills. Attended by the Sergeant-at-Arms, Mr. Maclure and the Speaker solemnly proceeded to the House of Lords, and on the return the Speaker announced to Mr. Maclure that Royal Assent had been given to the Customs and Inland Revenue Acts and other Acts. At three o’clock the sitting was resumed, and after the Home Secretary had disposed of the case of Alice Millard, the 12 o’clock rule was suspended for the discussion of Free Education. Sir R. Temple then moved the omission of a sub-section providing that if 12 months after the commencement of the Act there were an insufficient number of free school places in any district, the Education Department should have power to cause the deficiency to be made up in the manner provided by the Act of 1870. Whatever the real value of the sub-section—and Sir R. Temple certainly advocated its withdrawal on grounds of defence for the Voluntary schools—he supported his amendment with a very extraordinary array of metaphor. He described the sub-section as a shaft sticking in the wounded side of the Voluntary schools ; the Voluntary system would no longer be able to keep a head above water ; it must strike flag to School Board pirates ; the School Board was an omnivorous ogre; it was a cannibal, and the Voluntary system an African missioner ; the sub-section was a snare set in the sight of the Vice-President; it was (briefly) the thin edge of the wedge. Here the flight of fancy stopped ; and Sir W. Hart-Dyke, in answer, compared the predictions of 1870 against the predictions of 1891, on the probable evanishment of Voluntary schools, and describing both as equally worthless, he refused, for the sake of such predictions, to withdraw the sub-section. Mr. de Lisle also addressed himself to answer what he naturally described as the “ somewhat rambling arguments ” of Sir R. Temple. After a brief
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reference to free education in the Middle Ages he declared himself with the Government in the retention of the sub-section. On a division there was a Ministerial majority of 231 votes. Mr. Talbot moved an amendment which seemed reasonable enough, but which Sir W. Hart-Dyke refused to accept. It was-that at the end of the year of grace given by the Bill for the provision of free accommodation the Education Department should publish a notice as to the amount of such accommodation required, and a second year should elapse before the deficiency was made up by the operation of the Act of 1870. This, he declared, would give an opportunity to the supporters of Voluntary schools to do what was necessary. One reads, not without regret, that Sir W. Hart-Dyke’s refusal to accept the amendment was received with Opposition cheers. Clause 4 was, a little later, struck out; and Clauses 5 and 6 were agreed to. On Clause 7 (dealing with the meaning of Fee and School-year) Sir W. Hart-Dyke moved an amendment providing that the phrase “ average attendance ” should, for fee-grant purposes, mean such an attendance calculated in accordance with the Minutes of the Education Department. After one of Mr. Mundella’s “ solemn protests ” the amendment was agreed to, and the clauses were merrily run through to the end of Clause 10, when the Committee proceeded to a consideration of the new clauses; these were, with the exception of some clauses, postponed to the report stage, when the Bill passed, amid cheers, through Committee and was reported to the House. The business has been effected with commendable celerity and the House adjourned not later than one.
On Monday night scarcely anything of
— t h e ed u c a t io n interest passed in the House. Tuesday b i l l .
had been fixed for the Report stage. During question time Mr. Labouchere questioned the Secretary for War respecting statements attributed to Lord Randolph Churchill, to the effect that obsolete guns, discarded by the navy, had been mounted for the defence of Table Bay and Simon’s Bay, and that although the garrison of Cape Town was only 1,300 men, a staff equal to the requirements of 20,000 was maintained; to this Mr. Stanhope made the brief reply— “ Neither of these statements is correct.” On the report stage of the Elementary Education Bill, Sir W. Hart-Dyke moved a new clause to provide that where the average rate charged up to January 1, 1891, was not in excess of 10 shillings, no charge should be made to the parent; after short conversation it was agreed to. Mr. E. Robertson moved a new clause giving all certificated teachers in schools receiving
