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A W eekly Newspaper and R eview .
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DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
F rom the B r i e f o f H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T h e T a b l e t , Ju n e 1S /0 .
Vol. 79. No. 2717. L ondon, J une 4, 1892.
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[ R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a l P o st O f f i c e a s a N ew s p a p e r .
C h ro n ic le o f t h e W e e k :
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Imperial Parliament: Small Holdings — Committee of Supply — Monday’s Sitting — The Derby T)ay Motion—The Ulster Unionist 'Convention—The Duke of Devonshire at Glasgow—Sir William Harcourt and Colonel Saunderson —Mr. Gladstone on the London Programme—Cyclone in Kansas —Fatal Railway Accident at Birmingham—The County Council rand its Wages—Arbitration and •Peace — Anti-Jewish Demonstration in Paris—Sir John Gorst on
‘Public Affairs—Opening of the 1Chilian Congress — The School Board Budget . . . . . . 877 ' L e a d e r s :
Protection for Labour^ . . . . 881 The Last Cabinet Crisis in Ita ly 882
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, L e a d e r s (Continued) ! Composition of a Character . . 883
The Welsh National Banquet . . 884 N o t e s .......................................................885 R e v iew s :
Theosophy . . . . . . . . 886 Saint Ives . . . . . . . . 887 A History of Immortality . . 888 Aspects of Anglicanism . . 888 Mr. L illy and the Temporal Power 890 The Case of Dr. Quigley . , . . 891 Catholic Architecture at the Aca
demy . . . . . . . . . . 891 C o r r e s po n d en c e :
Rome :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . . . 893
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C o rrespo n d en c e (Continued) :
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Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . . . 894
L e t t e r s to t h e E d it o r :
S o u l - S c o t ........................... * . . 896 Exeter Hall Extravagances . . 896 Bethersden Church . . . . 896 The Hurricane at Mauritius . . 896 Walter Hilton .......................... 895 A Contradiction . . .. . . 897 Catholic Books for Free Libraries 897 ! 1 Southwark Cathedral a Free Church 897 j The Butcheries at Uganda . . . . 897 ! Catholics in Court . . . . . . 899
The Catholic Schools at Portsmouth goi I .
Bill for the Rating of Schools . . 901
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M a r r ia g e . . . . . . . 902 S o c ia l and P o l it ic a l . . . . 902
SUPPLEMENT. N ew s from t h e S chools :
Teachers’ Superannuation . . 909 America and Catholic Education 910 National Education (Ireland) Bill 910 About Education . . . . . . 9 11
N ew s from t h e D io c e s e s : Westminster . . . . . . 9x1
Southwark . . . . . . . . 912 Clifton . . . . . . . . 912 The Assemblies in Scotland . . 912 l Exeter Hall Extravagances.. . . 913
Rejected M S . camiot be returned unless accompanied with address a7id postage.
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A T the end of last week in the im per ia l parliament / - \ Commons the Small Hold—small holdings. ings Bill was considered on the Report stage. Mr. Chaplin moved
•a new clause that land included in a small holding should be personal property, and should be subject to the same rules of law as leasehold land, provided that nothing in the clause should render any such Sand liable to probate duty or legacy duty, or exempt it from succession duty. After some discussion, the clause was read a second time and added to the Bill. Mr. Chaplin also moved a clause to provide that when the restrictive conditions consequent upon the Act had ceased to apply to a holding, and the owner wished to use or sell it for other purposes than agricultural, he should be obliged to offer the land for sale to the person or persons whose land immediately adjoined his holdings. The discussion pointed to an unfavourable view of the matter, and consequently Mr. Chaplin said that, as the clause did not meet with approval in its present form, he would consent to its being altered so as to provide that the right of pre-emption ■ should be given first to the County Council, secondly to the original owner or his successors, and thirdly to the adjoining owner. In this amended form the clause was agreed to. The other new clauses having been disposed of, the Bill was read a third time amid loud cheers.
In Committee of Supply the House
—committee resumed the consideration of the vote of of supply. ^4 ,6 32 ,3 50 on account, for defraying certain charges in the Civil Service and
Revenue Departments. In the debate on Polynesian labour in Queensland, Earl Compton said that his friends were ■ not anxious to go to a division if they could obtain an assurance that the Government would do something definite in regard to this matter. Mr. Balfour accordingly explained that her Majesty’s Government held the power of disallowing altogether the Bill passed by the Queensland Legislature, but could not suspend its operation while they considered whether the regulations were sufficient. Those .regulations were now in full force, and the on’y action
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which could be taken by the Government had been repudiated by all the speakers in the discussion. They were all agreed that the traffic had been a fruitful cause of evil in the past, and it would be the duty of her Majesty’s Government to see that there was no recurrence of such evils. Although Mr. S. Smith said that after the remarks of the First Lord of the Treasury he would not persist in his opposition, Mr. Graham, nevertheless, revived the motion which Mr. S. Smith made before, for reducing the vote by ^ 5 0 0 , and this motion having been rejected, Dr. Tanner was speaking on the subject of Newfoundland at ten minutes to seven o’clock, when the Committee stood adjourned. At the evening sitting nothing of essential importance.
In the House of Lords, on Monday, Lord
I —Monday’s Wemyss moved in connection with the Report sitting. oi the Amendments of the Water Companies
(Regulation of Powers) Bill, which ensures to consumers an immunity against having their water cut off by the Water Companies, that the Bill should be extended to Corporations which provide the supply of water. The | motion obtained general sympathy, and Lord Cranbook gave expression to a hope that Lord Wemyss would be satisfied with the unanimous opinion in favour of the extension of the principle of the Bill to Corporations. Lord Wemyss 1 therefore withdrew his motion, and the Report of Amendments was agreed to. In the Commons, Mr. Pickersgill \ had six notices of motion for an Instruction to the Committee on six Electric Railway Bills affecting the Metropolis,
to insert a clause giving the London County Council power to purchase the undertakings after the expiration of a limited period. Not one of his Resolutions passed, and four were not even moved. Mr. Chaplin, in answer to Mr. J . S. Gathorne-Hardy, stated that foot-and-mouth disease still continued in Kent, and he could not, therefore, modify the existing restrictions. On the motion for the Second Reading of the National Education (Ireland) Bill, a fuller report of which we give elsewhere, Mr. Sexton declared that the position of many teachers would be injured by the Bill, ■ and that it should be left optional to the manager to accept or reject the financial part of the scheme. He counselled according to the advice of the Irish Bishops, namely, that,
instead of direct compulsion, indirect compulsion in the form of restricted employment and prizes and rewards dependent on regular attendance, should be adopted. The number of children not at school, he explained, was only 30,000, and not 120,000 as stated by Mr. Balfour, and he objected to the application of coercion in education to a
