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F rom the B r i e f o f H is H o lin ess P iu s I X . to T h e T a b l e t Ju n e 4 , 18 7 0 .

Vol. 78. No. 2682. London, October 3, 1891. P r ic e 5c!., by P ost 5 % d .

[R eg is t e r ed a t th e G e n e r a i P ost Offic e a s a N ew spaper.

'C hronicle of th e Week :

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Sir E . Clarke in Cornwall—SirW. Harcourt at Derby—Sir W. Harcourt at Ashton—Sir W. Harcourt and Mr. Edward Dicey—Sir W. Harcourt’s Answer— The Acci-dent in Spain—In Praise of the French Government—Outbreak Jn Guatemala — Chancellor Caprivi on the Peace—Suicide of General Boulanger — Election of Lord Mayor—Mr. Parnell at Greggs— Earl Spencer on the Irish Question—The Manchester Election— Russian Forces on the Austrian Frontier — International Stenographic Congress .. . . . . 521 Headers :

Threatened Abandonment of

Uganda . . . . . . _ .. 525 The Outlook for Italian Politics.. 526 The New Portrait of the Pope . . 527

CONTENTS.

N otes

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The Founder of the Jesuits Unnecessary Notes _ .. The Architecture of India Bertha’s Earl

53° 531 531 532 >

Aspects of Anglicanism . . . . 532 Religious Teaching in Schools .. 534 The Railway Accident in Spain . . 535 The Cloister of Columbus . . . . 535

Correspondence :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . . . .. 537 Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . . . •• 538

L e t t e r s to th e E d itor :

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Convents and Examinations .. 540 Theosophists and the Mahatmas 540 The Mission of St. Helena .. 540 Variegated Vestments .. .. 540 “ The Freeman” and the Irish

Bishops . . .. . . .. 541 Holidays of Obligation in Work-

houses . . . . . . . . 541 Lord Arundell of Wardour at Shaf­

tesbury ..

_ .. .. 541

Cardinal Moran on the Rights and

Duties of Labour . . . . . . 542 The Wanderings of a Statue . . 543 Catholics Abroad . . . . . . 543 The Abduction of a Nun . . . . 544 Lord Bute and Cardiff Mayoralty. 545 The Catholic Social Programme of

Belgium .. . . .. . . 545 The New Coadjutor Bishop of

Plymouth .. . . .. . . 545 The Franciscan Capuchins in Canada 546 The Late Mrs. Holland .. . . 546

Salford Catholic Protection and

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Rescue Society . . . . 547 Some Publications of the Week . . 547 Obituary . . . . . . . . 548 Social and P o l it ic a l . . . . 548

SU PPLEM ENT. N ew s from th e S chools :

Parental Rights and Popular

Control . .

. . . . 553

The New Rector of Beaumont . . 554 About Education . . . . . . 554 N ews from th e D io c e s e s : Westminster

Southwark Birmingham Hexham and Newcastle . . Newport and Menevia Plymouth Salford Shrewsbury St. Andrews and Edinburgh Glasgow

555 556 557 557 557 557 557 557 558 553

Rejected M S . cannot be returned unless accompanied w ith address and postage.

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

IN CORNWALL. T

SIR E. CLARKE

HE Solicitor-General, speaking on

Monday night at Launceston, was wise in at once devoting himself to the foreign policy of the Govern­

ment, even though he had nothing new to say about it. And he followed up his opening with a convincing list of the services which the Government had done for England. With the mighty increase in population, the enormous enlargement of commercial prosperity, and the amazing real and capital wealth of the country, they had a smaller National Debt than had existed for 80 years past, and £ 37,000,000 had been wiped out during the five years of this Administration. The process of conversion of the National Debt had not only been carried through successfully, but they had cleared actually by the process ^1,000,000, which had been devoted to public purposes. This had effected an enormous saving to the public, and it had been accomplished, not by the imposition of fresh taxes, but hy carefully husbanding the national resources. It was their duty to keep, as far as possible, a fair and even balance of taxation among the people, and he justly made the claim that the Government had done so. Twopence had been taken off the income tax; the tax on tea had been reduced to the extent of about twopence a pound ; the tax on tobacco reduced by about fourpence a pound; the tax upon currants reduced by about one halfpenny a pound, and the tax on small inhabited houses by about fourpence in' the pound. The Government had provided free education for their children at a cost to the State of about £ 2 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 a year, and no less than ^4,000,000 had been taken from the national income for the relief of local rates. On the other hand, the only increases in taxation during the last five years had been a small addition to the duty on champagne, and a small one to the tax on estates over ^ 10 ,000. As to their Allotments Bill, although their opponents declared that it was too cumbrous to admit of its working, yet, since 1886, the number of allotments had been increased by 100,000. After that it sounded somewhat superfluous that he should claim for the present Government a “ very good record of work.”

Of a very different nature, and much sir w. harcourt less concerned with the facts of things,

at derby. was Sir W. Harcourt’s speech at Derby on the same evening. He answered the ques­

tion, “ What are you going to do now? for there is an end to Home Rule”—by an appeal (the only appeal) to a common experience. Patience and experience, which are in this connection only other words for “ lying low,” were the best answers to cries of that kind. He went on to say—again using his only argument—that the Liberals were denounced as mischievous and destructive Radicals ; yet not only did the Conservatives appropriate their principles, but the measures which were most abused when proposed by Liberal statesmen were in due course admitted to be most beneficial to the country. “ It was because their opponents took up the Liberal principles in this way that the policy enunciated on Liberal platforms was bound sooner or later to pass into law.” They might have to fight hard and long, but in the end they would succeed. In proof of this he gave as an instance the fight for the extension of the franchise to rural voters, and he trusted that one result of it would be to secure solid and permanent benefit to the rural populations. Nothing, in his opinion, will do more to raise the general tone of the country than a successful effort to improve the condition of the agricultural class. He then proceeded to refer at some length to the hardships of the rustic class, and to the hopeless aspect which the future now presented for most of them. Then on the question of labour he found cause for regret that Mr. Channing’s motion respecting the hours of railway servants was not passed, and he hoped that some beneficial result would arise from the appointment of a Royal Commission on the subject. With regard, however, to the demand which was being made in some quarters for a hard and fast line to be fixed for hours of labour, he had some words which were really sensible; he asked whether such a question would not be better dealt with by the men themselves. He believed they had power to deal with it through the medium of their great combinations. He had always supported those combinations, and some years ago assisted Sir Henry James in removing certain restrictions imposed upon their working. The more he looked at the subject the more he was convinced that working men had the power to protect themselves, if they chose to take the matter into their own hands, and he doubted the expediency of laying down hard and fast legislative rules in regard to every kind of employment. He moreover suggested to the working men whether by keeping the power in their own

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