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

From the B r ie ] o f H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T he T ablet June 4, 1870.

V ol. 79. No. 2716. L ondon, M ay 28, 1892.

P r ic e 5c!., b y P o st 5%d.

[R eg iste r ed a t th e G e n e r a i . P ost O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper.

C hronicle of th e W e e k :

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Imperial Parliament : Irish Local 'Government — Mr. Gladstone’s Speech and Mr. Balfour— Disestablishment of the Scottish Church —- Mr. Morley on the Coming Election— General Elec­

tion in Belgium— Hurricane in Mauritius— French Army Reforms The Nancy Scare — The Jebu Expedition— The Birthday of the Queen— Sir Mountstuart Duff on Educational Matters—Execution •of Deeming—The End of the Broad Gauge— Mr. Chaplin at Birmingham—The Italian Ministry — Narrow Escape of Lord Salisbury— Golden Wedding Celebrations in Denmark .. . . . . 837

ILe a d e r s :

Is It to be Protection ? . . . . 841 M. Leroy Beaulieu on Modern

Society .. . . . . . . 842

C O N T

L eaders (Continued)

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Royal Academy . . . . . . 843 Insanity of the Stomach . . .. 843 The Dedications of Our Old Eng­

lish Churches . . .. . . 844 N o t e s . . . . ............................846 The Living Voice . . . . . . 848 R ev iew s :

Margaret de Valois .. . . 849 The Deanery of Bilchester . . 850 Rogers on Elections .. . . 850 The Spirit of the Sacred Heart . . 850 The Biblical Illustrator . . . . 850 Ireland and her Religious Orders.. 851 The Amalgamation of the Dublin

Papers . . . . .. .. 851 C orrespondence :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . . . . . 853

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1 C orrespondence (Continued):

Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre­

Page spondent) . . . . . . . . 854 L e t t e r s to t h e E d itor :

“ Vox Clamantis ” . . .. .. 856 William of Wykeham’s Architect 856 The Converts’ Memorial Church and the Leakage.. . . . . 857 Pius IX . and Railways .. .. 857 Services at Shorncliffe . . ..8 5 7 Scotch Disestablishment . . . . 858 Was Walter Hilton a Carthusian? 858 Daphne Monastery and its Trea­

sures . . . . . . . . v 858 The Bishop of Exeter and Catholi­

cism . . .. .. .. •. 858 The Samoan .Hurricane and Cap­

tain Kane . . . . .. _ .. 859 The Duke of Norfolk and the Prim­

rose League . . . . .. ^ . 860 Catholic Presentation to Anglican

Livings . . . . . . . . 860 Catholics Abroad ; . . . . . 861 The Clarence Memorial . . . . 862

SU PPLEM EN T . N ews from th e Schools :

Education and the House of Com

Pag •

mons .. . . . . . . 869 Manual Instruction in Elemen­

tary Schools .........................869 Corporal Punishment and the

London School Board . . . . 869 The Elementary Schoolmaster .. 870 Funeral of Father Lockhart at

Ratcliffe . . . . . . . . 870 Brain v. Brawn . . . . . . 870 About Education . . . . . . 870 N ew s from t h e D io c e s e s :

Westminster . . . . . . 871 Southwark . . . . ..............871 Leeds• . . . . . . . . 872 Middlesbrough . . . . . . 872 Newport and Menevia . . . . 872 Northampton . . . . . . 872 Portsmouth . . . . . . . . 872 Salford . . . . . . . . 872 Glasgow . . . . . . . . 872

Rejected MS. camiot be returned unless accompanied with address and postage.

we will give you a Dissolution immediately.” Mr. Timothy Healy, who followed, observed that the Bill was a mere debating society Bill presented in dummy by the Government for debate, not there, but at the polls ; and Colonel Saunderson expressed a hope that the Government would accept the challenge o f Mr. W. O ’Brien, and appeal to the country immediately after passing the Bill., The Ulster “ loyalists ” he declared to be at one in regard to this measure, which he heartily supported because the Government, in framing it, had successfully overcome the difficult task o f giving to Ireland popular control over county affairs, at the same time securing that the majority should not oppress the minority. Without Home Rule there were signs o f all the elements o f future prosperity in Ireland. Six years ago the most sanguine Unionist could not have imagined that Ireland would be as peaceful, as prosperous, and as contented as she was to-day.

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

TH E debate on the Second Read­

ing o f the Irish Local Governgovernment. ment Bui, which lasted till Tuesday night, is of course too lengthy,

in spite o f its importance, even to be summarised here. We can but indicate the points of the chief speeches which were delivered in its course. Mr. Balfour formally moved the Second Reading, and Mr. Sexton immediately followed in opposition. Among other speakers Mr. Chamberlain was to the fore on Monday, and he contended that none had a right to vote against the Bill unless he believed it undesirable to vote local county government to Ireland, or unless he held that securities to protect the minority were not required. The policy of the Unionists was that local government was a good thing on its own merits, and o f far more importance than Home Rule. Moreover, he urged that the franchise given by the Bill was as liberal, as democratic, and complete as England possessed. On the other hand, he objected to the cumulative vote, and would support any amendment to excise it. The effect o f the safeguards, he held, would be almost insignificant. Where is the insult to Ireland in a Council being arraigned for corruption, malversation, and oppression. In England a Council might be sent to gaol by a Court of law ; and this Bill declared that, where such a Council was guilty, it should be dissolved. I f the Irish members preferred that the Councils should go to gaol, he would not object. As to the supremacy of the landlords on the Joint Committee the balance obviously lay with the Chairman, and the Government had said they were willing to accept any Amendment which would secure an impartial Chairman. Moreover the representatives on this Committee o f the Grand Juries were not necessarily landowners, but persons who paid the largest amount of cess. In conclusion he observed that the opposition to the Bill was an electioneering opposition, and that it might not be possible to carry it through this Session. At this point he was interrupted by the exclamation from Mr. W. O ’Brien— “ Give us a Dissolution in exchange for the B i l l ; ”— “ Give us this Bill without discussion, or with such discussion as is fair and reasonable,” replied Mr. Chamberlain, “ and

On Tuesday night the chief excitement

— mr. Gladstone’s came_ Mr. Gladstone delivered a long and mr balfour and desperate speech. H e contended that the promises made by the leaders o f the

Unionist party in 1886 and 1887 ran beyond the establishment o f mere local institutions in Ireland. The Duke o f Devonshire and Mr. Chamberlain had then spoken of provincial councils, of radically reconstituting the whole Irish administrative system, and of a large devolution o f national powers to Irish assemblies. Those promises had dwindled to the dimensions of the present measure, which, in giving local government, delivered Ireland over to inequality, and falsified even the narrowest engagements that were accepted by the country as the condition upon which the Government was entrusted to the present majority of the House. Local Government was to be given to the Irish people in lieu of the larger measure on which their hearts were set, and Lord Salisbury warned them that, if they pursued the object dearest to their hearts, they would do so at the certain cost o f civil war, towards which the Prime Minister held the language o f distinct encouragement. A definite statement, he explained, ought to be made as to whether the opinions of Lord Salisbury on this subject were shared by the Ministry at large. In the English and Scotch Bills, he went on to remark, there were a number of doubtful enactments, and some of unquestionable unwisdom. Whenever one of these could be found it had been made to do duty as a.precedent, and in its transfer to Ire'and it had been stripped of every limitation and safeguard. True the franchise was a wide one, but its efficacy was destroyed by the provision enabling the

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