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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 Holi7iess P iu s IX . to T h e T a b l e t June 1870

V ol. 79. No. 2702. L o n d o n , F e b r u a r y 20, 1892.

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C hronicle of th e W e e k :

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Imperial Parliament: Monday’s Debate— The Lords and the Fog — The Calais-Brindisi Mail Service — Opening of the French Chamber — Lord Cross on the Political Situation— Sir William Harcourt in Whitechapel— Mementary Education in Prussia— Return of “ General ” Booth— The German Government and the Reichstag— The Russian Famine —Riot at the Piraeus— Constitutional Government in Japan — Destructive Fire at New Orleans —The Sultan and the Khedive— Death of Sir George Campbell, M .P .— Serious Fire in London . . 277 L eaders :

Church and State in France . . 281 Exhibitions.— II. . . . . . . 282 The Fundamental Idea in Archi­

tecture . . . . . . . . 282 The Famine in Russia . . . . 283

N o tes

CONTENTS.

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. 285 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d itor :

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R eview s :

The Footsteps of St. Patrick . . 288 Montrose .. .. . . . . 289 Memorials of Cardinal Manning 289 Among the Moguls.. .. . . 289 Human Testimony.. .. . . 290 Nouet’s Meditations for Every

Day in the Year .. .. .. 290 The Duchess of Powysland .. 290 Les Catholiques et les Temps

Presents . . .. .. .. 290 Catholicism in America . . . . 290 O b it u a r y ........................................ 291 C orrespondence :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . . . . . 293 Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) ........................ . . 294

The Stroud Green Catechism . . 295 Conjugal Rights .. .. .. 296 American Rejoinder to a Criticism 297 Protestant Intolerance . . . . 297 An Old Abbey .. .. .. 297 A Vital Question .. .. .. 298 The Converts’ Memorial Church and the Leakage.. . . .. 298 The New Catholic Club .. . . 298 Anti-Clericals .. .. .. 298 How the Papal Indulgence at

Death may be Lost . . . . 298 Crozier and “ Baculus Pasto-

ralis ” . . . . . . . . 299 The Apostolate of the Press . . 299 Episcopal Arms and Crosses . . 299 The Cardinal Archbishop’s Arms 299 The Bishop of Newport’s Panegy­

ric .. . . .. . . . . 299 Ethics and Economics . . . . 300

Notes from Spain

29e; Catholics Abroad

300

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Reminiscences of Cardinal Manning

Page in the English Church .. . . 301 Social an d P o l it ic a l . . . . 303 A ppeals to th e C h a r it a b l e . . 303

SUPPLEMENT. N ews from th e S chools :

The Schools of Birmingham Dio­

cese _ .. .........................309 Education in Ireland . . . . 3x0 Willesden Catholic Schools . . 310 The Ramsgate Society . . . . 311 About E d u c a t io n .........................311 N ews from th e D ioceses :

Southwark . . . . .. . . 311 The National Drink Bill for 1891.. 311 The Bishop of Canea and the Late

Cardinal Simeoni .. . . . . 312 The Louisiana Lottery .. _ 313 The Prussian Education Bill . . 313 F rom E v e r yw h e r e ........................... 314

* f Rejected M S . cannot be returned unless accompanied w i th address j a n d postage.

C H R O N IC L E O F T H E W E E K .

MR. SEXTON resumed the debate on the Address, — ^ moving an amendment to declare the inability of the Im­

applause the coldness o f his early reception from the Conservative side. Colonel Saunderson claimed that the policy of the Government, judged as a whole during the past five years, had been a distinct success. Mr. Healy expressed his unswerving confidence in Mr. Gladstone and in the honesty o f the Liberal party to the cause of Home Rule. Mr. Radcliffe Cooke followed Mr. Healy, and was speaking at three minutes to midnight, when Mr. McLaren moved the closure. This was agreed to without a division. The House then divided on Mr. Sexton’s amendment, 158 members voting for it, while 179 supported the Government. The majority o f 21 was loudly cheered by the Irish and Liberal members, and the Address was agreed to.

perial Parliament to legislate for Ireland, to be a conviction on the part of a majority of the Irish people, which had been intensified by the failure of the Land Purchase Act of last year. Mr. Sexton attributed the failure of the Imperial Parliament in legislation for Ireland partly to ignorance and to an inability, owing to pressure of business— an influence not likely to decrease. Turning to Mr. Chamberlain, he observed that in the matter of Home Rule schemes the right hon. gentleman had confessed his failure as a parent, and he now wanted to be the guardian of other people’s progeny. After ninety years of a forced partnership between Great Britain and Ireland the British population had trebled, almost quadrupled, whilst in the matter of wealth and individual prosperity Great Britain had advanced by leaps and bounds. On the other hand, the population of Ireland had been brought down to the numbers at which it stood at the time of the Union, and was now at the lowest level recorded for a century. The result of the Union had been unexampled j social misery for the population, whilst from a political point of view England, having begun by taking away Ireland’s native constitution, had in this Parliament put her outside the pale of constitutional law. After Mr. Jackson had defended the operation of the Act, Sir George Trevelyan explained that English, Scotch, and Welsh business was in great arrear, and would have to wait till Irish members were allowed to attend to Irish business “ according to Irish ideas.” He thought it was time to put an end to this mutual hindrance between nations. Mr. John Redmond commenced an animated speech by an attack upon Mr. Chamberlain and Sir William Harcourt, informing the former (who was present) that he was an object of distrust to all Irish members ; and rebuked the latter warmly for his reference to “ Mr. Parnell’s Fenian Home Rule scheme.” Mr. Redmond’s suspicion that the result of Mr. Gladstone’s being returned to power would be to hang up Home Rule j whilst the Newcastle programme was advanced, changed to 1

N e w S e r i e s , V o l . XLVII., No. 2 ,0 1 1 .

In the House of Lords, at the end of last

~ THAENp0RDS week, Viscount Midleton asked her Majesty’s the fog. Government whether they were prepared to issue a Royal Commission to inquire into the causes o f the prevalence of fogs in London ; to ascertain how far and by what means they were preventable; and to make such recommendations as, after inquiry, they might deem advisable. He said the grounds on which he ventured-to ask the question were the magnitude o f the evils which a London fog inflicted, and further, the magnitude of the population affected by it. It was computed that there were 700,000 houses within the metropolitan area, with 1,500,000 chimneys, that 40,000 tons o f coal were daily consumed during the cold weather, and that 480 tons of sulphur were daily emitted into the atmosphere. Last year there were 150 days on which there was more or less fog, as compared with 90 days in the preceding year. There was no question that fogs were steadily increasing, and that the question was one which, affected, not only London, but also the counties which surrounded it. The cost of appointing a Commission, which need not be a large one, would not be heavy, as it would be on the sp o t; and he hoped that, in the interests o f the poorer classes of the community, who were compelled to remain in London under all circumstances, the Government would give a favourable answer to this question. The Marquis of Salisbury, in reply, said that he was 'quite sure that none would differ from Viscount Midleton as to the evils he had depicted, and he had no doubt that the opinion, not only of both Houses o f Parliament, but of the inhabitants of the metropolis generally, went fully with the noble lord in the mode in which he had expressed the feeling created by the continuance of the evils he had described. For his own part, he had never yet met with anybody who proposed