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DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
F rom the B r ie ] o f H is 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 4, 18 7 0
V ol. 79. No. 2706. L ondon, M arch 19, 1892.
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. L e t t e r s to t h e E d ito r (Con
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Imperial Parliament: Miscella- i The Late Earl of Denbigh . . 443 neous—Monday’s Sitting—Tues- j The Village .. . . . . . . 444 day’s Sitting — Mr. Goschen’s j Behind the Books . . . . . . 445 Finance—Naval and Educational Expenditure — Death of Lord ; N o t e s . . . . . . . . . . 446 Hampden—The Kirkcaldy Elec- | tion— One Hundred and F ifty R e v iew s : _ Miners Entombed Alive—Dyna- [ The Passion o f St. Perpetua . . 448 mite Outrage in Paris—Proposed j An Old English Epic . . . . 449 Extension of the Death-Penalty— Meditations on _ the Principal Reported Fighting in East Africa j Truths of Religion . . . . 450 —The Murder of Dr. Vulkovitch —Gambling at Monte Carlo— i Gossip of Letters . . . . . 450 Clocks for the People—The Eng- i The Missions in China . . . . 450 lishman’s Arrest in Paris—The Coal Crisis—Professor Freeman ! C o rr e s po n d en c e : —The Quebec Government and | Rome :—(From Our Own CorreMr. Mercier...................................... 437 spondent).......................................453
tinued) : The Stroud Green Catechism . . 455 Crosier and Baculus Pastoralis .. 457 The Apostolate of the Press .. 457 The Painter Etchers’ Exhibition 457 The Converts’ Memorial Church j and the L eakage.. . . . . 457 I The Church at Lydd . . . . 458 The Daughters of B. Columba at j Perugia . . _ . . ^ . . . 458
Cardinal Manning’s Pedigree . . 458 “ Surgere Qui Curat Populo” . . 458 St. Cuthbert.. . . . . . . 458 ! Mr. L illy and the Temporal Power 459 1 | The Late Earl of Denbigh . . . . 461 j ! The Late Canon Toole . . . . 464 | | S o c ia l a n d P o l it ic a l . . . . 464 !
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Andrews and Edinburgh . . 441 j L e t t e r s to t h e E d ito r : The National Movement in China 442 1 Mr. L illy on the Temporal Power 455
S U P P L EM E N T . : D ec is io n s of R oman C o n g r eg a
t io n s . . . ...........................469 | ! N ew s from t h e S chools : ; The Skeleton and the London ^ School Board . . . . . . 469
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G l a s g o w ...................................... 469 Tooting C o l l e g e .......................... 470 The Conway School Board Ques
tion . . . . . . . . . 470 St. Joseph’s Industrial School,
Tranent .. . . . . . . 470 N ew s from t h e D io c e s e s :
Westminster . . . . . . 471 Southwark . . . . . . . . 472 Salford . . . . . . . . 472 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 472 Glasgow . . . . . . . . 472 Consecration of the Bishop of Cleve
land . . . . . . . . . . 4;2 The Archbishop o f Dublin and the
Irish Education Bill . . . . 473 Catholics Abroad . . . . . . 473 The Missioners o f St. Gregory . . 474 O b it u a r y .......................... . . 474
%* Rejected M S. cannot be returned unless accompanied with address and postage.
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
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A T the end of last week Mr. P . i imperial parliament / - \ O’Brien had placed on the —miscellaneous. paper a notice o f his intention j to move that the Select Committee on the Eastbourne Improvement Act Amendment B ill should | be instructed to insert clauses exempting Eastbourne from the operation o f the section of the Catholic R e lie f Act of j 1829 which prohibits Catholic religious processions in the | public streets ; but the Speaker ruled that the motion would be out o f order, as its object would abolish, for Eastbourne alone, the provisions of a general law. Thereupon Mr. P. O’Brien said that he would introduce a B ill to abolish “ those infamous clauses ” o f the Emancipation Act. The House, having gone into Committee of Supply, Mr. MacNeill renewed his motion that the votes of Sir L . Pelly, Mr. Burdett-Coutts, and Sir J . Puleston, given in favour of the grant in aid of the cost of a preliminary survey for a railway from the coast to Victoria Nyanza, should be d isallowed. We referred to this motion last week. After citing cases in which members pecuniarily interested in measures had been disqualified from voting, and after admitting that the rule had been greatly relaxed in recent times, and that railway shareholders had been allowed to vote on Bills relating to the companies in which they were personally interested, he pointed out that in such instances the money was provided, not by the Government, but by the companies ; in the present instance there had been a transaction between the Government and that Company of which those three gentlemen were directors or shareholders. In the course of his speech Mr. Balfour noted that this was not a discussion in which the Government as a Government desired to take part. After remarking upon the case o f Mr. Plunket, whose vote on a North-Western Railway B ill was allowed although he was a director of the Company, he went on to say that in the present instance the pecuniary advantage of the East Africa Company was nc : really of a direct kind, inasmuch as it was perfectly possibi. that the survey would not result in the making of a rail , at all. I f constructed, however, the railway would in such great objects as the suppression o f the sir .., and i f the House excluded gentlemen who me
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pecuniary interest in the Company from voting on a question of such magnitude, it would be logically impossible to stop there, and the House would be obliged to examine the financial investments and the pecuniary position o f every hon. member before he was allowed to vote on any public question. Mr. Gladstone, a little curiously, said the meaning o f Mr. Balfour’s speech was that the established rule prohibiting members from voting upon questions in which they were personally interested ought to be abrogated ; the Chancellor of the Exchequer, however, explained that the Government considered that the existing rule should be maintained, but he thought that in the present instance the House should adhere to the precedent established in the case o f the North-Western Railway. The Committee divided and the resolution was carried by a majority of five, the numbers being: Ayes, 1 5 4 ; Noes, 149. The announcement o f the numbers was received with loud Opposition cheers. In the evening the House then went again into Committee o f Supply on the Army Estimates, and the votes for 154 ,0 73 men and .£ 5 ,6 35 ,0 00 pay and allowances were at once agreed to.
On Monday, in Committee o f Supply on
— Mo n d a y ’s the vote for 74 ,10 0 men and boys required for s i t t i n g . the sea and coastguard services, including
14 ,505 Royal Marines, Captain Price, speaking upon the general subject of the Navy Estimates for 1892-93, considered them satisfactory on the whole, but he asked for additional information on various matters, especially as to the size o f the battleships which it was intended to build. The ships laid down in the Royal Dockyards had been constructed more economically than those built in private yards, but there was a feeling at Devonport that in very few classes were the dockyard workmen paid so a high rate of wages as they would be able to get outside. After some discussion, Lord G. Hamilton, in the course of a general reply, said that, in regard to the objection against large ironclads, he should always give it his uncompromising opposition. I f we had not large ironclads, better have none at all. “ Moderate ” had been a term applied to the programme for this year, but it should not be imagined that because they had only laid down three ironclads this year the same course would be followed in another year. During the next five years the sum o f _£8,ooo,ooo would
' available under the Naval Defence Act, whereas only ,£ 70 ,0 00 was available this year. H e was doing all that lay in his power to meet the legitimate complaints o f the warrant officers, and, as to the flag captains, he expected that in future officers of greater seniority than those recently
