A W eekly Newspaper and R eview .

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

From the B r ie j o f H is Holiness P in s IX . to T h e T a b l e t Ju n e 4, 1870

V ol. 79. No. 2709. London, A pril 9, 1892.

p K.cE 5d., by po st s j * i .

[ 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 Of f i c e a s a N ew s p a p e r .

«Ch ro n ic l e o f t h e W e e k :

imperial Parliament : Miscellaneous — Monday’s Sitting—Tuesd ay ’s Sitting—The Surplus—The Escape of the Spanish Cortes— The New Disturbances in the Argentine—Cyclone in the United States—Agricultural Prospects— The Great Western Widows— Death of Mr. John Murray—The Standards of Weight and Measure — Mrs. Montagu’s Trial— "The Telephone in Ireland—Two Men Shot by a Sentry—Lord George Hamilton and the Navy —A Canadian Scandal—The Behring Sea Question . . . . ..557 The Archbishop-Elect of West minster . . . . . . . . 561 L e a d e r s :

The Trial of Mrs. Montagu _ . . 561 The End of the World—In Sight ? 562

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ENTS.

L e a d e r s (Continued) :

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Anarchists at Home and Abroad 563 Evidence and Inference . . . . 564 ! St. Cuthbert’s Birthplace . . . . 565 N otes . . . . . . . . . . 566 1

R e v iew s :

“ The Dublin Review ” . . . . 568 “ The Irish Ecclesiastical Record ” 569 Nature Supernaturalized . . . . 569 Gossip of Letters . . . . . 570 Council Meeting o f St. Joseph’s

Foreign Missionary Society . . 570 C o rr e s po n d en c e :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . . . . . 573 j Dublin (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . . . . . 574 I

L e t t e r s to t h e E d ito r :

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The Stroud Green Catechism . . 575 The Converts’ Memorial Church and the L eakage.. .. . . 576 The Old and New Calendar . . 577 St. Helen . . . . .. . . 577 The German Education Bill and the English Press . . . . 577 The Doxology . . . . . 578 The Extension of the Portsmouth

Cathedral . . . . . . . . 578 A Lourdes Miracle . . . . . . 580 j The Press and the See of West­

minster . .

. . . . 581

Notre Dame de Consolation,

Hyeres . . . . _ . . 582 S o c ia l a n d P o l it ic a l . . . . 582 Some Publications of the Week . . 583 I F rom E v e r y w h e r e . . . . . . 583 1

S U P P L EM E N T . N ew s from t h e S ch o o l s :

The Irish Hierarchy and the Edu­

cation B i l l ...................................... 589 The Proposed Portsmouth Catholic

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Schools .. . . . . . . 590 Scottish Education Taxation Bill 591 Funeral of Father^ Marks at St.

George’s, Weybridge .. . . 591 Downside and Sir Francis Fleming 591 About Education . . . . . . 591 N ew s from t h e D io c e se s : Westminster .......................... 591

Southwark . . . . . . . . 592 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 592 Leeds . . . . . . . . 592 Newport and Menevia . . . . 592 Nottingham . . . . . . . . 593 Dr. Barnardo’s Liverpool Intrusion 593 O b it u a r y . . . . . . . . 593

* A Rejected M S. cannot be returned unless accompanied with address and postage.

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

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A T the end of last week in the i m p e r i a l p a r l i a m e n t f - \ House of Commons, Mr.

— m i s c e l l a n e o u s .

Balfour replied to Mr. J . Lowther on the anticipated exodus

•of Russian paupers from their native land, and said the Government was not of opinion that anything had occurred ;as yet that would justify the introduction of a Bill to prohibit the admission into the United Kingdom of persons likely to become a public charge or to increase the difficulties o f obtaining a livelihood already oppressing many of the native labouring population in this country. He assured the House that the Government appreciated the gravity of ■ the problem and were vigilant in its regard, feeling that such an invasion as had been suggested, as to which apprehensions were expressed last June, would be an insufferable abuse of the system of immigration. In Committee of Supply, the consideration of the Civil Service Estimates was resumed. On the vote of £ 3 5 ,8 5 0 for Royal Palaces and j Marlborough House, Mr. Morton moved its reduction by £ 1,000 for palaces not in occupation by the Queen, and after some discussion the motion was negatived by 205 to 107. Mr. Labouchere next moved the reduction of the j vote by the sum of £ 1 7 , 9 2 0 , or one-half, contending that it was undesirable to give a vote for the entire year without j first obtaining some assurance from the Government upon j the probable dissolution of Parliament. He asked whether, i f the dissolution took place between August and January next, the Government would bring in the usual Bill anticipating the effect of the registration to concludeon July 3 1 , and thus take the election on this year’s registration. He also asked Mr. Balfour to give an assurance that, if there were a dissolution before the end of the financial year, Parliament should be called together immediately. Mr. Balfour explained that the precedents for a new register had reference to years in which the Blouse had passed Reform Bills, thus compelling new voters to a fresh registration to enable them to exercise the franchise. He added that such a course now would be .neither wise nor expedient. The Crown had the power of dissolving in any one of the seven years during which a Parliament might legally exist, hut if Mr. Labouchere’s policy were carried out it would be impossible to dissolve

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Parliament between August 3 1 and December 3 1 in each year. Precedents and common sense and reason were against the proposal by the very nature of the Constitution, which directed that full discretion and liberty should be left to the Crown in regard to a dissolution. It would be matter for the decision of the Government of the day as to the summoning of Parliament after the elections. Whatever advice the Government gave her Majesty they would carefully consider every argument which could be brought to bear upon the subject. After further discussion the motion for the reduction was rejected by 232 to 92, and the vote was subsequently agreed to. The vote for Royal Parks and Pleasure Gardens was next discussed and Mr. Plunket was speaking on it when progress was reported. Upon the sitting being resumed, the House was counted out before any business was done.

After various business on the motion to go

— Mo n d a y ’ s into Committee on the Small Holdings Bill,

s i t t i n g . Mr. Cobb moved that it be an instruction to the Committee that they have power to insert clauses in the Bill creating parish councils by popular election for the purposes of the Bill, and conferring upon such councils initiatory powers of acquiring, selling, letting, and managing land for small agricultural holdings. After some discussion this was rejected by a majority of 27, and Mr. Stephens proceeded to move that it be an instruction to the Committee that they have power to insert clauses in the Bill providing that, on the petition of any urban sanitary authority, or of the vestry of a rural parish, or of the vestries of two or more rural parishes jointly, to the council of the county within which the district of such urban sanitary authorit)', or such rural parish or parishes, is or are situate, such County Council may make an order empowering such urban sanitary authority, vestry, or vestries, to exercise powers of acquiring, selling, letting, and managing land for small agricultural holdings by voluntary arrangement with the owners thereof, subject to approval by the County Council. When this had been lost by a majority of 23— Mr. Gladstone spoke in its favour—the Speaker ruled the last instruction as unnecessary and the House, going into Committee, immediately resumed ; after some further business an adjournment was made shortly after midnight.

On Tuesday, in the Commons, SirM . Hicks-

— T u e s d a y ’s Beach moved that the special report of the s i t t i n g . Select Committee on Railway Servants’ Hours of Labour should be considered, and after it had been read he further moved that Mr. J . W. Maclure,