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DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
F rom th e B r i e f o f H i s H o lin e s s P iu s I X . to T h e T a b l e t J u n e 1870.
V o l . 78. No. 2673. L ondon, A ugust i , 1891.
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•Chronicle of the Week :
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Imperial Parliament : A Business Week — Mr. Atkinson and the Speaker — The Dwindling of France—The County Council and Captain Shaw—Attempt Against French Ministers— The Accident at St. Mandé—America and the Russian Jews—Death of Signor Faccio—The Christian Missions in China— Return of the Guards — Sir M. Hicks-Beach on the ByeElections— Sir A. K . Rollit at Islington — Further Changes in the Fire Brigade— Sir J. Gorst on Indian Careers— Messrs. Dillon and O ’Brien.. . . . . . . 161 X eaders :
Redemptorists and Jesuits in Ger
many . . •. •• •• 165 Russia and Ethiopia .. : . 166 The Catholic Congress o f Mechlin 167
C O N T
E N T S .
No t e s ......................................... 168
Reviews :
The Blind Apostle and a Heroine o f Charity.. . . . . . . 170 A Book to Read . . . . . . 170 Latter-Day Problems . . .. 171 Adventure and Bubble . . . . 171 A Saintly Foundress . . . . 172 The Gentle Art of Soldiering . . 172 The Early Martyrs . . . . 172 The End of a Fable . . . . 172 Aspects o f Anglicanism . . - . 1 7 3 Signor Crispi on France and the
Papacy ....................................... 174 Irish Bishops and the Irish Crisis .. 175 Married Saints and Unmarried
Clergy ....................................... 175
\ Correspondence :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
Page r spondent) . . . . . . . . i 77 Dublin :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . . . 178 Letters to the Editor :
The Prayer for the Queen and the
Anglo-Roman Missal . . .. 180 The Holy Coat of Treves . . . . 181 The London Teachers and the
Bishops .. .. . . . . 181 An Answer Refused .. .. 181 Pictures for the Deaf and Dumb 181 Sir F. Weld’s Politics . . . . 181 Catholics Abroad .. . . . . 182 Exhibition Week at U shaw.. . . 184 | A Jubilee at Norwood .. . . 184 Salford Protection and Rescue So
ciety . . .. .. .. . . 185 Funeral of Sir Frederick Weld . . 185 Marriage ............................. 186 Appeal to the Charitable .. 186 | From Everywhere .. .. .. 187 I
SU PPLEM EN T . Page News from the Schools:
Prize Day at St. Bede’s College . . 193 College of Preceptors . . . . 194 Exhibition at Downside . . . . 194 Exhibition at Prior Park College 194 Prize Day at Beaconfield, P ly
mouth .. . . . . . . igg Exhibition at St. Edmund’s . . 195 Convent of Our Lady of Mercy,
Abingdon, Berks . . . . 195 Religion in Education . . . . 195 Pupil Teachers and their Queen’s
Scholarship Examination .. 196 Voluntary Schools and the Edu
cation B i ll.. . . . . . . 196 About E d u c a t io n ............................197 News from the Dioceses :
Southwark . . . . . . igj Clifton . . . . . . . . 197 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 198 Northampton ........................... 198 Shrewsbury.......................................198 Glasgow .. .. .. .. 198 Argyll and the Isles . . . . 198
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
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EXCEPT for the bout between the Speaker and Mr. Atkinson, recorded in another paragraph, there has been little doing in either House of Parliament save solid business. On Tuesday the Lords considered the amendments of the Commons to their own amendments on the Irish Land Purchase Bill, and Earl Cadogan reminded the House that during the passage of the Bill through both Houses it had received the most full and anxious consideration, and while, on the one hand, peers sitting on both sides of the House had taken the greatest care and pains to improve it, members of the other House had received the amendments made by the Upper House in a spirit of sincere desire not to infringe upon the principles of the alterations. He therefore advised them to assent to the amendments that the Commons had introduced. There were one or two points on which he had ventured to put down amendments, but they were amendments which he had reason to believe would be accepted in the other House. The Marquis of Waterford hoped the Government would accept his proposal to add to Clause A, as amended by the Commons, words providing that any advance made after the passing of the Act which should not ■ exceed two-thirds of the price paid for a holding should be repaid by an annuity of £ 3 15s. per cent, on the amount of the advance for 49 years, and no payment should be made to the guarantee fund by way of county percentage in respect of any such advance. The alteration introduced with the view of inducing purchasers to find one-fourth of the money themselves would have been of great advantage by increasing the amount available for distribution and diminishing the risk to the British taxpayer, but it had been emasculated in the other House. The amendment which he now proposed to substitute for it was a very reasonable one, and he hoped that it would be acceptable in another place. Earl Cadogan said it was impossible to accept the proposal as an amendment upon the Commons’ amendments, and the Marquis of Waterford thereupon withdrew ■ it. The amendments indicated by Earl Cadogan were introduced, and the Peers did not insist upon their amendments to which the Commons had disagreed. In the Commons, Supply was chiefly the order of the day, and the
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customary discussions, amendments, and negations took place. The most interesting question asked was perhaps one by Mr. Labouchere in connection with members of the Government and directorships. In reply to him, Mr. Goschen said there was no prohibition against members of the Government being directors of public companies, and there was no precedent for such prohibition. Members of successive Administrations had held directorships, and he felt quite sure that no member of any Government would retain a directorship if his doing so would clash with the work of his department. As to giving a return of the names of members of the Government who were directors of public companies, he naturally declared that such a course would be invidious, as directed at the members of one Administration, and quite apart from that fact the information was within reach in books of reference. Mr. Labouchere mentioned that when Sir H. Austin Layard was appointed Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs he gave up the directorship of a foreign company which until then he held; to which the Chancellor of the Exchequer said that that exactly fitted with what he had said, that a Minister would not allow a directorship to interfere in any way with his official duties. Mr. Labouchere thereupon asked how, if Ministers attended to their official duties, they could also attend board meetings, and, if they did not attend the latter, how could they protect the money of the shareholders. The question was very sensibly answered by Mr. Goschen, in saying that it was one for the shareholders to decide. The hours of a Minister’s attendance in his department were not mapped out, as were the hours of work in the Civil Service, though he often worked as long as the permanent staff. The matter might be carried further, for a Minister had his own private affairs to attend to. At this even Mr. Labouchere grew silent.
The peculiar relations between Mr.
ME' I ™ " -^t'<*nson ar,d the Speaker which have been the speaker, regarded with a somewhat painful surprise by the House during recent days, have come to a head during the week. On Monday afternoon Mr. Atkinson arose in his might and made a formal attack on the Speaker. In a somewhat hysterical manner he described the things he would or he would not do, if the treatment which had been meted out to him were continued. “ I will do things,” he said in effect, “ and I know not yet what they shall be.” One of these seemed to be, in the last resort, an application for the Chiltern Hundreds, and the determination to come back to the House, supported by an enormous majority. When he had subsided, the Speaker made a calm
