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DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

From the B r ie j o f H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T he T ablet Ju n e 4, 18 70

Vol. 79. No. 2701. L ondon, F ebruary 13, 1892. P r ic e s d ., b y P ost 5 ^ d .

[ R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a i P o st O f f i c e a s a N ew s p a p e r .

C h ro n ic l e o f t h e W e e k :

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Imperial Parliam ent: The House •of Lords—In the Commons--The Liberal Unionist Party—Sir J . | Gorst on Political Education--The New Recorder of London—The Prussian School B ill—Mr. John Morley on Old Age Pensions— Emigration to America—Burning o fa New York Hotel—The Indian Census—Strike of London CoalPorters — Sir Henry Jam es at Bury—The Funeral of Mr. Spurgeon—Death of Sir James Caird— Cabmen and the Four-Mile R a dius—Sir C. Russell at the EastEnd ...................................................237 L e a d e r s :

The Queen’s Speech . . . . 241 Law and License in Ita ly . . 242 The Right Hon. Sir John Lam­

bert, K .C .B .................................... 243 1

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The Traffic in Sermons . . . . 244 Eyebrows and Eyelids •• 245 N o t e s ......................................... R e v iew s :

Political Economy ..

Continuity or Collapse

An Old Abbey A French Bishop . “ Confessio Viatoris ”

Carlyle Lectures . . “ That Stick ”

Old Leicester Yester-Year : Ten Centuries of

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Toilette . . . . . . Essays from Blackwood .. . . 251 Gossip of Letters . . 251 C o rr e s po n d en c e :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

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Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre

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The Stroud Green Catechism . . 255 “ An Irreconcilable Papist ” . . 255 Lord Salisbury at E xe te r .. . . 256 The Calendar .. . . . . 256 The Church in Hungary . . . 256 The New Catholic Club . . . . 256 Crozier and “ Baculus Pasto-

ralis ” . . . . . . . . 256 The London County Council . . 256 The Cardinal Archbishop’s Arms 256 Silver Jubilee Testimonial to the

Rev. Thomas Regan . . . . 257 Catholic Congresses . . .. 257 Death of the Centenarian Priest 257 Opening of Parliament . . . . 257 The Irish Hiearchy and the Educa­

tion Question .. . . v 258 A Retrospect in English Catholi­

cism . . . . . . . . . . 258

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The Rahey Case . . . . . . 259 The Late Bishop of Brooklyn . . 260 The Sources of Influenza . . . . 260 Catholics Abroad .. . . . . 261 “ Darkness and D awn” . . . . . 262 M a r r ia g e . . „ . . • . . 262 F rom E v e r y w h e r e ............................... 263 A p p e a l to , t h e C h a r it a b l e . . 263 S o c ia l a n d P o l it ic a l . . . . 264 Some Publications of the Week . . 264

SU P P L EM E N T . D e c is io n s of R oman C o n grega­

t io n s . . . . . . . . . 269 N ew s from t h e S chools . . 269N ew s from t h e D io c e s e s :

Southwark . . . . . . . . 271 Birmingham . . 271 Liverpool . . 271 Nottingham .. . . . . . . 271 Portsmouth . . . . .. . . 271 Shrewsbury . . .. . . . . 272 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 272 Dunkeld .. . . . . . 272

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El s e w h e r e we print in full the text of the Queen’s

Speech, read at the opening of the Houses on Tuesday.

j the speeches of the Liberal leaders in the House of Commons, j and he stated that they were now awaiting the result of the legislation which had been promised in the Newfoundland Assembly. Lord Salisbury, in conclusion, referred to the intention of that which had been called the agricultural party to pass a measure for increasing the number of owners and occupiers of land, which he regarded as one of the best guarantees that could be provided for the security of our institutions. The Duke of Devonshire also spoke, and the Address was agreed to.

It would be quite impossible to summarize

— in t h e the speeches delivered in the Commons during c o m m o n s , the Debate on the Address in the space at our

After the brief sitting, the Lords adjourned until after four. The Duke of Devonshire, having taken the oath and subscribed the roll, took his seat on the front Opposition bench, next to Lord Derby. Lord Dudley, in a maiden speech of much promise, moved the Address in answer to the Speech J from the Throne, and after alluding in sympathetic terms to the death of the Duke of Clarence, briefly reviewed the policy of the Government. Lord Lamington seconded the motion. Lord Kimberley then addressed the House at length. He also gave expression to the sympathy felt ) throughout the empire with the Royal Family. After dealing j with the other paragraphs in the Speech, Lord Kimberley | said that he refrained from raising any points of controversy ; on the subject of our occupation of Egypt at a moment when the ruler of that country had just been changed ; but ; he reminded the House of the disadvantages to our empire which the continuance of that occupation entailed, and of the fact that the leaders of both political parties were pledged to withdrawal when that was possible. He added that any real measure of Irish local government would be welcomed by the Liberal party. The Marquis of Salisbury, who followed, paid a tribute to the Duke of Clarence, and referred to the sympathy and sorrow which his death had evoked from every corner of the empire, as showing that our institutions were knit together by human and personal feelings, and that their popularity was largely a tribute to the excellence of those who bore the honours of royalty. On the subject of Egypt, Lord Salisbury commenting on the words of Lord Kimberley, said that in reality the difference between the two parties on the question of Egypt was a difference of means and not of ends, and he expressed a hope that no foreign country would suppose that the English people, after all the sacrifices they had made, would abandon Egypt either to the supremacy of any other Power or to disorder and anarchy. He rightly attributed the failure of a settlement of the Newfoundland difficulty to the uncertain feeling caused in the mind of the French Government by present disposal. Mr. Hermon Hodge moved the Address in Reply, and Mr. Milvain seconded him. Sir William Harcourt, instead of Mr. Gladstone, replied, devoting himself chiefly to an attack upon Lord Salisbury’s extra-Parliamentary speeches. Mr. Balfour, as leader of the House, in his reply expressed surprise at the omissions in Sir William’s speech, which was, as the speaker described it, an attack on the Prime Minister, and also an attack on the Liberal Unionists-—unusual subjects to be introduced in the first speech made from the front Opposition bench in discussing the Speech from the Throne. And what were the accusations? He said that the Prime Minister sneered at the poor because he did not anticipate that the result of establishing District Councils would be to prevent the migration of the labourer from the rural districts. Now off the platform, and uninspired by the rhetorical influences of a public meeting, did any man ever suppose that the establishment of a District or a Parish Council—whatever merits it might have— would have the particular merit of inducing a man to stay in a country district when he thinks he could get better employment and improved wages in a town ? Surely, said Mr. Balfour, the idea had never entered into the mind of man, though it had sometimes appeared in the perorations of Sir William Harcourt. To sneer at the , poor was one thing, and to sneer at the nostrums put forward by certain quack politicians was quite a different thing,

and this is a distinction which ought not to be lost sight of. | Then it was obvious that Sir William Harcourt loved to | pass under review every sentence of Lord Salisbury which : could be twisted, contorted, or perverted into any attack upon those who profess the Catholic religion in order that he might embitter for political purposes the feelings of the Catholic population in Ireland. Mr. Balfour does not believe that anything which has fallen from the Prime Minister is capable of a similar interpretation. But Mr.

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