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

From the B r ie j o f H is H o lin ess P in s IX . to T h e T a b l e t Ju n e p, 1870

V ol. 79. No. 2708.

London, A pril 2, 1892.

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

-Ch ronicle of t h e W e e k :

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Imperial Parliament : Payment of Members — Monday’s Sitting : Indian Bill— Tuesday’s Sitting— The Behring Sea Arbitration— The Abandonment of the Prussian School Bill— The Expulsion of Father Leith-Forbes—The Dynamite Scare in Paris—Arrest of Ravachol — Dynamite and the Death Penalty—The End of the Bland Silver Bill — Sir H. D. Wolff at Madrid—Lord Wolseley and Compulsory Service — The English Cricketers in Australia— Mr. Morley at Chester .. . .5 1 7 ^Leaders :

The New Reign of Terror in

Paris .. .. _.. .. 521 Mr. Whistler’s Pictures in Bondstreet .. .. .. _ . . 522 The Expulsion of Father Leith-

Forbes .. . . . . .. 522

CONTENTS.

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L e a d e r s (Continued) : Work in Foreign Missions .. 523

Our Identity .. .. .. 524 Breakfast before Singing Mass .. 525 Notes .. .. . . .. .. 525

R e v iew s :

A Notable Book of Travels .. 527 Muckle Jock .. .. .. 528 Danish Architecture .. .. 529 Sancho Panza’s Proverbs .. . . 529 Catholic Development Abroad .. 529 Two Ancient Norman Sites.. .. 530 C o r r e spondence :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) .. .. .. .. 533 Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) .. . . .. .. 534 A Fragmentary Rood-Screen .. 535 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :

The Stroud Green Catechism .. 536

L e t t e r s to t h e E d it o r (Con­

Page tinued) : St. Cuthbert’s Birthplace .. .. 536 The Doxology .. . .. 537 Payment in Church .. .. 537 The Converts’ Memorial Church and the Leakage.. .. .. 538 St. Helen .. .. .. .. 538 The Old and New Calendar .. 538 Teachers’ Presentation to the Arch­

bishop of Glasgow.. .. .. 538 Dr. Barnardo in Liverpool .. .. 539 The Ursulines in the Rocky Moun­

tains .. .. .. .. .. 540 Miss Cusack’s Lectures .. .. 541 Catholics Abroad .. .. .. 542 The Efficiency of Irish Convent

Schools .. . . .. . . 543 S o c ia l a n d P o l it i c a l . . . . 543 O b it u a r y .. .. .. .. 543

SUPPLEMENT. N ew s from t h e S chools :

Education and the House of Com­

mons .. _.........................549 Catholics and Liverpool School

Board Expenses .. .. .. 550 About Education.........................550

N ew s from t h e D io ceses :

Westminster .. . . .. 550 Southwark .. .. . . .. 550 Birmingham .. .........................551 Leeds .. .. .. .. 552 Salford .. .. .. .. 552 St. Andrews and Edinburgh .. 552 The Late Archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . .. .. 552 The Benefices of Anglicanism .. 553 The Vicar of Preston and the Tem­

poral Power .. .. .. .. 554

%* Rejected MS. ca7inot be returned unless accompanied with address and postage.

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

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

— PAYMENT OF

MEMBERS.

XT the end o f last week, after question time, on the motion for going into Committee of Supply, Mr. Fenwick rose to call attention to the desirability of the payment o f members of Parliam ent; and to move that, as the principle o f gratuitous public service upon which representation in the House is at present based, limits the freedom of constituencies in the selection of their representatives, the House is of opinion that a reasonable allowance should be granted to members for their services in Parliament. He supported his contention in an appropriate speech, and the motion was seconded by Mr. M. Ferguson. In the debate that followed, Lord Elcho delivered an admirably witty speech, declaring that if he criticized the motion at all it would not be to object to its principle, but to its limited scope and application. I f a precedent were made, it should be as emphatic and general .as possible. The motion had been unduly limited in many ■ ways. Looking back over nine years of totally unremunerated political service, he could not help expressing his regret that Mr. Fenwick had not seen his way to make the motion retrospective. Moreover, the political career had its vicissitudes; popular constituencies were fickle; there was an ebb as well as a flow o f the t id e ; and it would we well to consider whether it would not be fair and just to assign some sort of provision for those who were stranded at the bottom of the poll. They ought to remember that human life was uncertain, and that perhaps provision might be made for the widows and orphans of legislators who succumbed during the performance o f their Parliamentary duties. Were they to be rewarded independently o f the quality of their services ? Was it to be on the number of divisions in which they appeared, or on the number and length o f their speeches ? I f the latter, the task of the Speaker would be most invidious, and members desirous of making speeches and earning their salaries would look upon the mover of the Closure as a highway robber, who gagged them before he robbed them of their money. The fact of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales being further than other parts o f the country from the seat of Government might be met by giving free passes to members on every railway, and

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possibly the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in negotiating commercial freedom with Foreign Powers, might devise some means by which hon. members in pursuit of health, recreation, or scientific research might find free access to foreign railways. H e was trying to prove that they should not deal with this motion in a niggardly or half-hearted spirit. Let them be generous to themselves as well as just to other people. When the hon. member had read out that one country gave to each o f its members J \ o o a year there was no answering cheer ; when he said ¿300, there was hardly a cheer ; but when he said ^,1,000 a year, the hon. member for Wick below him gave a hearty cheer. I f the hon. member had raised his bid the cheers would not have been confined to the hon. member for Wick. H e could only regret that, having spoken as he had, he must vote against the proposition. The eye o f the hon. member for Donegal was upon him. L ike that gentleman, he had carefully examined the precedents, and he had come to the conclusion that if the votes of hon. members on the Mombasa Railway were wrong the other night he could not be right in voting for his salary that night. He should not only vote against the motion, but he should support the hon. member opposite in taking those steps which, honestly, morally, logically, and consistently he was bound to take to purify the division list that night of all those who by any shadow of pretence might be said to have a financial interest in the motion. After a serious speech by Mr. Balfour and a brief reply by Sir George Trevelyan, the House divided, and the motion was rejected by a majority of 65.

After question time on Monday, Mr. Curzon,

M0NDAY s in moving the Second Reading of the Indian In d ia n b il l . Councils A ct (1861) Amendment Bill, ex­

plained that its object was to widen the basis and expand the functions o f government in India, and to give further opportunities than at present existed to the nonofficial and the native elements in Indian society to take part in the work o f government, and in that way to lend official recognition of that development both in political industry and in political capacity that had been visible among the higher classes of Indian society since the Government of India was taken over by the Crown in India in 1858. The Act of 1861 constituted three Legislative Councils in India— the Supreme Council of the Viceroy and the Provincial Councils o f Madras and Bombay— and Councils had since been created in Bengal and the NorthWest Provinces. The system had worked well. A t the same time, these Councils had been subject to restrictions