A W e ek ly N ew sp a p e r a n d R e v iew .
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS U T j iN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the B r ie f o f H is Holiness Pius IX . to T h e T a b l e t June 4, 1870.
V ol. 78. No. 2669. L ondon, July 4, 1891.
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[R eg is tered a t t h e G en e r a l P ost O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper.
•C hronicle of t h e W e e k :
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^Imperial Parliament : Elementary Education—Tuesday’s Sitling— Mr. Parnell’s Marriage— Interview with Mr. Parnell— The Triple Alliance — The Italian Chamber—The Kaiser’s London Visit— The Letters of Great Men —Builders and London School Board — “ Israel in E g y p t” at Sydenham— Roman Antiquities at Cornhill— The \Vestminster Monuments— The University Match— The Use o f Alcohol and Tobacco — Emigration to Brazil— Persecu
tion of the Jews—The Chili Prisoners— The Formation of a Sea — Free Education and its Grants — Important Army Changes . . i -Leaders :
The Education Bill and the Com
mons . . .. . . •• 5
CONTENTS.
L eaders (Continued) :
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Russian Intolerance . . .. 6 Religious Orders in I ta ly .. . . 7 Reconstitution of London Uni
versity . . .. .. . . 8 The Pilgrimage from Ushaw to
Rome . . . . . . . • 9 N o t e s .................................................... 10 New Church in Cardiff . . .. 12 R eview s :
The Philosophy o f Nature .. 13 A Founder of Friars . . .. 14 Biblical Commentary on the Pro
phecies of Isaiah.. . . . . 14
Archbishop Corrigan and the Ency
clical . . . . . . . . 15 C orrespondence :
Rome :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . .
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C orrespondence (Continued):
Dublin :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . ..18 L e t t e r s to th e E d itor :
The Reconstitution of London
University.. . . .. . . 20 The Catholic School Committee 20 St. Aloysius’ Grandfather . . 20 “ St. Nicholas’s Clerks ’ . . 20 The Bad Old Times . . . . 20 The Approaching Pilgrimage to
Canterbury . . . . . . 20 Catholic Truth Society Conference 21 Catholic Union of Great Britain . . 25
The Jubilee of Gumley House The Late Canon Hannan .. Social an d P o l it ic a l O b it u a r y ...........................
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SU PPLEM ENT. Blessed Peter and the English
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Church and People . . . . 33 N ews from t h e S chools :
A Manchester School on the
Rhine .. . . .. •• 39 The Appeal of Catholic Teachers 40 Glasgow Industrial Schools . . 40 Downside Dinner . . . . . . 41 Glasgow Catholics and Education 41
N ews from t h e D ioceses : Westminster....................................41
Southwark . . . . . . 41 Clifton . . . . . . . . 41 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 42 Newport and Menevia . . . . 42 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 42 Glasgow . . . . . . . . 42 A p peal to t h e C h a r it a b l e 42
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
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ON Monday, in the House of
Commons, Mr. H. Fowler moved that it be an in
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struction to the Committee that they have power to make provision, in the case of districts where there exists no school under public control, for the introduction of the principle of local representation in the supervision of schools receiving the fee grant. Mr. Fowler made a lengthy speech on the motion which was answered very straightforwardly and emphatically and conclusively by Mr. Joseph Chamberlain. The principle of the Bill, he said, was to give free education without disturbing the status of the Denominational schools. Therefore the amendment was hostile to the principle of the Bill, and therefore, if it passed, the essence of the Bill would be destroyed. After some extremely able tactics of a purely Parliamentary kind and scarcely necessary to be recorded here, he characterised the Amendment as even dishonest, and expressed surprise that it had received a moment’s countenance. If public control was to be applied it should concern all schools alike, and if it concerned all schools alike the Bill could not by any possibility get passed through the Commons in present circumstances. He quoted Dr. Dale’s recent declaration recently made in The Nonconformist that “ he was well content for the present that no attempt should be made to secure public control,” and that “ those of us who believe in it are not strong enough to insist on any effective application of our principle.” With Dr. Dale’s words Mr. Chamberlain confessed himself to be in cordial agreement. Any one who voted for the instruction was voting for an amendment which deliberately gave an unfair preference and advantage to one portion only of the existing Voluntary schools. If, on the contrary, they were prepared to adopt the only logical course, and to go for general and universal School Boards, then they must be aware that they were postponing free education indefinitely- - if they made free education conditional upon the adoption of their scheme— until they could persuade the people of this country to accept a system which would involve them in very heavy cost, and until they could persuade them to give such a majority as to make them altogether independent of the Catholic and other Denominational votes. He was in favour of free education. He earnestly desired to see it conferred upon the country at the earliest possible moment. He would do nothing to hinder it, to delay it, or to prevent i t ; and on these grounds he sincerely hoped that the great majority of the House would reject the proposed instruction. The speech was received with loud Ministerial cheers, and on the subject Sir J. Bain delivered a maiden speech in support of the Government. A great many speakers then took up the ball and kicked it gaily along. The Chancellor of the Exchequer spoke on behalf of the Government in words not necessary to reproduce here. Mr. Mundella delivered the final speech, and on a division the instruction was rejected by a majority of 101, loudly cheered by the Ministerialists.
After the customarily uninteresting preludes,
— T u e s d a y ’ s the Education Bill was resumed at Tuesday’s s i t t i n g . sitting, on the order to go into Committee on the Bill. Five instructions down in the names of Mr. de Lisle and others, were ruled out of order by the Speaker, and the one Instruction remaining was moved by Mr. Summers ; since the House presently rejected it by a majority of 53, it is unnecessary to bring it into prominence here. The House then went into Committee on the Bill, and, after certain amendments had been rejected, one was agreed to amid cheers, fixing the minimum age of children in respect of whom grants were to be paid at three years instead of five. Mr. Mundella then moved an amendment extending the grant to children over 14, who might be attending an Elementary school— a change which would be of great advantage, and would not involve an extra expenditure of more than ^21,000. Mr. Buxton then made a curiously inappropriate speech, and, after a considerable amount of discussion had been spent, Mr. W. H. Smith offered, on the part of the Government, to substitute 15 for 14, which was accepted without a division. Progress was then reported.
Mr. Parnell was married at the end of last m r . p a r n e l l ’ s wreek to Mrs. O’Shea, at Steyning, before the m a r r i a g e . Registrar. The religious marriage (it is said)
will shortly be solemnised in London. The only witnesses of the civil function were two servants, and the marriage was permitted by a license taken out at the Registrar’s office at Steyning. As a kind of appendix, to mention the little details that compose a historical event, Mrs. O ’Shea wore a dress of “ black broche silk, a lace
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