THE TABLE
A W e e k ly N ew sp a p e r a n d R e v iew .
d u m VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the B r i e f o f H is Holiness P in s IX . to T h e T a b l e t Ju n e 4, 1870.
V ol. 78. No. 2671. L ondon, J uly 18, 1891.
P r ic e s d . , b y P o st 5% d .
[ R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a l P o st O f f i c e a s a N ew s p a p e r .
»Ch ro n ic l e o f t h e W e e k :
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Imperial Parliament : Supply and Land Purchase — Tuesday’s Sitting—The Kaiser’s Visit—Lord Salisbury Speaks — New South Wales Parliament — Lord Randolph Churchill’s Voyage—The French Fetes—TheDanton Monument—Collision with a Club Train —A Speech from Mr. Chaplin— Collapse on the Manchester Ship Canal—Women’s Suffrage — The Return of the Guards—The Census for England and Wales—Discovery of a Mammoth Cave—The Royal Review at Aldershot — England and Portugal in East A fr ic a .................................................. 85 .{Le a d e r s :
Labour and Capital . .
England and the Triple Alliance 90 TheCharges on Teachers’ Salaries 91
89
CONTENTS.
L e a d e r s (Continued) :
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St. Patrick’s Church in Rome v 92 Reconstitution o f London Uni
versity . . . . . . . . 93
The Prayer for the Queen and the
Anglo-Roman Missal
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N o t e s . .
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R e v iew s :
The Angelical
The Sacred Science
Selby Abbey
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Selections from the Works of
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98
Charles Reade . . . • • 99 The Prophecies of Jeremiah . . 99 An Old Priory ...........................99 C o rrespo n d en c e :
Rome :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . • . . . 101
C o rrespo n d en c e (Continued):
Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre
Pago spondent) .......................... . . 102 L e t t e r s to t h e E d ito r :
The Education Bill . . . . 104 Literature to Catholic Seamen . . 104 Boulogne Pilgrimage . . . . 104 An Appeal to Oscotians . . . . 104 Catholics at Colney Hatch . . 104 “ Burned A l iv e ” . . . . . . 104 A Pastoral’s Centenary . . . . 106 Catholics Abroad . . . . . . 107 The Cardinal Archbishop at Home 108 St. Francis of Assisi . . . . . . 109 Consecration of Stourbridge Church 109 M a r r ia g e ......................................... m F rom E v e r y w h e r e . . . . . . h i O b it u a r y . . . . . . . . 1 12 S o c ia l a n d P o l it ic a l . . . . 1 12
SU P P L EM E N T . D ec is io n s o f R oman C o n grega
Page t i o n s . . . .............................1 1 7 N ew s from t h e S chools :
A Grotto of Lourdes at Hodder 117Distribution of Prizes at Douai 1 1 7 St. Francis Xavier’s, Liverpool 1 1 7 Irish Australians and Catholic
Schools . . . . . . . . 1 1 7 Ed mundian Association . . . . 1 18 Cramming in Indian Schools . . 105 St. Bede’s on the Rhine—Success of an English Boy . . . . 105 Meeting of the Lisbonian Society 105 A Catholic Chairman of Burnt-
wood School Board . . . . 105 About Education . . . . . . 105 N ew s from t h e D io c e s e s :
Southwark . . . . . . 105 Birmingham . . . . . . . . 106 Liverpool . . . . . . . . 106
* f Rejected M S . cannot be retu rned unless accompanied w ith address and postage.
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
IM PERIAL PARLIAMENT — SUPPLY AND LAND
PURCHASE.
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A Tth A e the end of last week, after some not very long discussion, the Irish Land Purchase Bill reached its report stage in the Blouse of Lords and stood ordered for its third reading. In the Commons, nothing more interesting was going than Supply. Mr. Summers moved a reduction in the Foreign Secretary’s salary of ^ 2 0 0 , with the object of calling attention to the misgovernment prevailing in the Asiatic dominions of the Sultan of Turkey. Sir J . Fergusson said it was admitted that the condition of Kurdistan Was deplorable, and that there was want of administration in the Turkish provinces of Asia Minor. That want of administration had been the subject of innumerable representations, and measures had resulted therefrom, although they had not been anything like what her Majesty’s Government would wish to see. It was asked that the Sultan of Turkey might be approached, with a view to bring about a better state of things ; but was such a course conceivable when speeches could be selected, made in the British Parliament, by gentlemen who said they wished to see the Turks driven out of Europe and their provinces detached from the Empire? He concluded with the observation that the British Ambassador had been instructed not to lose any opprtunity of counseling the Sultan to bring about more efficient reforms in j Armenia. Such a thing as calling together a conference of the principal Powers of Europe to concert measures for th e ' better government of Asia Minor was out of the question. ; Sir W. Harcourt said there was a connection between this •question and the Anglo-Turkish or Cyprus Convention, of which they on that side of the House had always dis- I approved. The conditions upon which that Convention was obtained had not been fulfilled, and he was glad to see J that it was regarded as a Convention in abeyance. This [ was the view taken by the Government of Mr. Gladstone, who, he had reason to know, still held strongly to that opinion. The motion for reduction was withdrawn.
On the order for the third reading of the
— T u e s d a y ’ s Land Purchase Bill in the Lords, Lord Denman s i t t i n g . moved as an amendment that the Bill be read a third time that day ten months. Lord I New S eries, Vol. X LV I ., No. 1,180.
Spencer, finding himself among the prophets, opposed the amendment, and declared that as one who had always been in favour of land purchase on a large scale in Ireland, he was glad that the Government had succeeded in passing what he might describe as a large and comprehensive measure for the purpose. He objected very strongly to some of the details of the Bill, chiefly to using for the purposes of the Bill the probate and other duties, which were given in aid of local rates, without the Irish ratepayers being consulted. He was also opposed to the mode in which the State would be brought into contact with the occupiers, and he thought that a Bill of the kind ought to have been accompanied by a large scheme of local government in Ireland. This, he made bold to predict, would probably be the last great measure of land purchase in Ireland passed by a British Parliament. It was the extreme measure that could be carried through, and he sincerely trusted that it would work well, and that one of its effects would be to put an end to the deadlock in the Encumbered Estates Court. No one wished more than he to see the Bill work well, because he knew full well that the land question in Ireland had been one of the serious difficulties connected with the government of the country. I f they could get rid of the Irish land difficulty they would have made great progress in cutting away the incentives to disturbance, and opening the roads for those reforms in the Government of the country which in his opinion were so essential, and without which he did not believe there would be a complete and satisfactory solution of the Irish question. Earl Fortescue made a very brief but not inapposite criticism of the situation by giving his opinion that the country owed particular gratitude for a Bill which would have been excessivelyobjectionable if it had not been made necessary by previous unwise legislation. After a little further discussion, the amendment was negatived without a division, for the somewhat grotesque reason that Lord Denman was unable to get a peer to tell with him. The Bill was accordingly read a third time and passed. The discussions in the Commons, confined chiefly to Supply, over which several amendments tvere lost, were perfectly uninteresting and the House adjourned at midnight or thereabouts.
The visit of the German Emperor has t h e k a i s e r ’ s been conducted throughout with complete v i s i t . success. Its chief point of brilliance cul
minated on Friday last when he passed through the City in procession to the Guildhall to lunch with the Lord Mayor. From the early morning the sightseers flocked along the route, and though the Strand and the neighbouring parts v’ere not so crowded as usual on a
