THE TABLET
A Weekly Newspaper a n d Review .
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCGEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the B r ie f o f H is Holiness P in s IX . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.
V o l . 79. No. 2718. L ondon, June i i , 1892•
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[R eg is tered a t t h e G en er a l P ost O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper.
C hronicle of t h e W e e k :
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Mr. Chamberlain in Birmingham — Mr. Goschen in Kent— M. Carnot and the French Bishops— V is it of the Grand Duke Constantine— The Cape Parliament and Negro Vote — The Italian Ministry—Cloud-Burst in Pennsylvania— Dynamite in France— 'The Cheapened Travelling in France—Death of Mr. Bristowe, M .P . — Conservatives and the Government — Oddfellows and State Pensions— Professor Dicey on Home Rule—Sir E. Clarke at Plymouth— Mr. Jackson on Old Age Pensions— Sir R. Webster and the Irish Question . . . . 917 '^Le a ders :
The Despatches from Uganda .. 921 The Friendly Societies and Old
A g e . . . .................................... Q22 The Louisiana Lottery .. . . 923
CONTENTS.
L eaders (Continued)
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Tyranny of Intellect .. ••■ 924 Attack on Nuns in India . . 925 N o t e s .. . . . . . . . . 926 Catholic Relief Act (1829) Amend
ment .. . . .. .. . . 927 The Protestant Archbishop of Dublin and the Spanish Reformers .. 927 R e v iew s : I European Serfdom.. . . . . 928
Wayside Tales . . . - . . 929 Chronique du Régne de Charles
IX . . . . . . . . . . 929 Curiosities of Christian History prior to the Reformation v 929 French Unseens for Army Candi
dates . . . . .. . . 929 The Cathedral Churches of Eng
land and Wales . . . . .. 929 The Composition of the Book of ' Genesis . . . . . . . . 929
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Whit Monday Procession in Preston 930 St. Anselm’s Society .. .. . . 931 1 C orrespondence :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) .. .. . . . . 933 j Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . . . 934 I L e t t e r s t o t h e E d itor :
Ancient Dedication of Churches 936 | William of Wykeham’s Architect 936 j Services at Shorncliffe .. . . 937 | A School Chapel at Godaiming .. 937 j European Children in India .. 937 j Memorial of Father Lockhart .. 938 j A Convalescent Home for Women 938 ! Mission at Ross, Herefordshire . . 938 j For Corpus Christi Day .. . . 938 ;
) The American Education Question 938 I I Catholic Schools and the Incorpo| rated Society . . .. . . 940
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Catholics Abroad . . . . . . 941 l
Annual Meeting of the Douai So
Page ciety . . . . . . . . . . 942 O b it u a r y . . . . . . . . 943 F rom E v e r yw h e r e . . . . . . 943 Social a n d P o l it i c a l . . . . 943
SU P P L EM EN T . D ecisions of R oman C ongrega
t io n s . . . . . . . . . 949 N ew s from t h e S ch o o l s :
Superannuation of Elementary
Teachers .. . . . . . . 949 The Archbishop of Dublin on
Compulsory Education.. . . 950 About Education . . . . . . 952 N ew s from t h e D io ceses :
Westminster . . . . . . 953 Southwark . . . . . . . . 953 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 954 Newport and Menevia . . .. 954 Nottingham .. . . .. . . 954 Salford . . . . .. . . 954. St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 954
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
has known and M platform served so
MR. CHAMBERLAIN
IN BIRMINGHAM.
R . C H A M B E R L A IN is gene
rally at his best when he stands on a Birm ingham surrounded b y the men he long. On Tuesday he began the campaign which will end only with the general election. H e began by saying that the peace and prosperity and contentm ent which reigned in Ireland were now apparent to all men, and the contrast they presented to the state o f things which prevailed during the whole o f Mr. G ladstone’s administration was a great source of strength to the Unionist Government. H e , for one, did not believe that for the first tim e in its political existence Birm ingham was go in g to show itself fickle and changeable. T h e decision g iv en six years ago would be repeated. W hy should it not, when the great issue before the country now, as then, was th e question whether the common Parliam ent o f the K in gdom should be broken in two ? It was not as i f a Unionist administration meant a policy o f reactionary Toryism . L e t them see for themselves and note how the present Government had given to the counties o f Great Britain the same popular representative government which had so long been enjoyed in the boroughs. Again, who had freed the schools? A s late as 1885 Mr. G ladstone, in his M idlothian manifesto, had treated free education as a. thing which concerned only the dim and distant future, and to which he could only see objections, and for which he was unable to promise any kind o f sympathy or support. T o free and representative government and unbought schooling for the children o f the people, the Unionist Governm ent had added cheapened tea and tobacco and houses. These were blessings which had been possible because the record o f the present Government had never once been stained by any o f those little wars which in different parts o f the world endured during the whole time o f Mr. G ladstone’s rule. H e rid iculed the debate upon a “ one man vote,” and showed what a trivial business was the inequality it involved compared with the gross inequality which now exists in the value o f votes in different parts o f Ih e k ingdom . T h e smaller in justice the G ladstonians,
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scenting a party gain, were eager to redress, but the grosser wrong they want to leave untouched. In Birm ingham 77.000 electors return seven members, but there are three towns in Ireland, having collectively 5,100 electors, which return three members. I f Birm ingham were represented on the same scale as are Galway, K ilk enny, and Newry, it would have 45 members instead o f seven. For the life o f him he did not know what K ilk enny had done, except breed cats, that could justify the arrangement b y which a K ilk enny elector is made the equal o f six Birm ingham artisans. Mr. Chamberlain then passed on to meet the strictures o f Lord Rosebery in connection with the com pulsory clauses in the Small Holdings B ill. H is case was sim ply this— that he thought the B ill was a good Bill, and was not going to wreck it because he could not get added to it a clause which he thought would make it a better B ill. H e preferred nine-tenths o f a lo af to no bread. Turning to the question o f the probable resistance in Ireland to a H om e Rule Parliam ent, Mr. Chamberlain denounced Mr. G ladstone’s slighting references to the objections o f the U lster Unionists as language o f incredible stupidity. These men had prospered and were happy under the protection o f the common Parliam ent, and now told us that they would never permit us to transfer their allegiance to another body for our convenience. Men like Sir W illiam Harcourt might whistle to keep up their courage and appear to think lightly o f the resistance o f the U lster men, but who should say they were not within their rights in refusing to be put beneath the heel o f a Parliam ent manned by the authors o f the Plan o f Campaign-— men who were responsible before heaven for all the wrong and outrage and misery and crime which have desolated Ireland for the last ten years ? Mr. Chamberlain then very successfully raised a laugh against Lord Rosebery by quoting his words in the debate on the cession o f Heligoland to Germany. A lth ough out o f the 2.000 persons who made up the population o f the islet there were only two o f British origin, Lord Rosebery had said that i f there were but one his views should be carefully considered and consulted. A n d yet that stickler for the feelings o f two British subjects in Heligoland would disregard the passionate repugnances o f a million o f men in U lster. For his part, he believed that compulsion was out o f the question, and he doubted whether even military discipline would stand the strain o f an order to fire upon men resisting in such a cause. T h e speech concluded with a scornful allusion to the Gladstonian attitude o f passive obedience to a leader, as unworthy o f a T o ry squire in the reign o f Queen Anne.
