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THE TABLET.
A Weekly Newspaper a n d R eview.
DOM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the B r i e f o f H is Holiness P iu s IX . to The Tablet, Ju n e 4, 1870.
V o l . 80. No. 2724. L o n d o n , J u l y 23, 1892.
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C hronicle of t h e W e e k :
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The General Elections— Mr. Balfour on Irish Votes in British Affairs— The Failure o f Sir C. Euan-Smith’s Mission— Death of Mr. Thomas Cook—An Island Swallowed \yhole— Fatal Railway Collision in Canada— Cholera cn the Continent— The Fire at St.
i ohn’s — The Chicago World’s air — “ Council Broadway ” — Responsible Government in Natal — The Elcho Shield— Mr. Chamberlain and the Gladstonian Majority— The Duke of Devonshire on Technical Education— Quarry Accident in Cork.. . . u 7 ¡Lea d e r s :
** Modified Collectivism ” or
“ Home Rule?” .. . . 121 -Captain Lugard on his Defence.. 121
L ea d e r s (Continued) CONTENTS. Page
Pensions for School Teachers . . 122 Home.. . . . . . . . . 124 Thoughts on the Coming Pallium 125 N o t e s ........................................................ I27 R ev iew s :
A Great Work Ended . . . . 129 An African on Africans . . . . 129 A. T h i e r s ....................................... 130 The Association o f the Christian
C orrespondence (Continued) : ^age
Dublin :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) .................................... ... L e t t e r s to t h e E d it or :
English Laity and Irish Clergy . . 136 Spreading Catholic Literature . . 136 The Catholic School Committee.. 136 Pre-Reformation “ Orders ” . . iq7 The Late Father Canty .. . . I37 The Alienation o f the Tithes.—
The Real Wrong Done to Ireland ............. . . .. i27 Portuguese Pretensions in British
Families ....................................... 130 The Primrose League and the
Elections ........................................131 C orrespondence :
Rome (From Our Own Corre
spondent) ....................................... 133
India .................................... .... Our “ Catholic ” Choirs . . . . 128 A Holiday Appeal.. . . S o c ia l a n d P o l it i c a l . . The New House of Commons The Education of the Young
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SU PPLEM EN T .
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N ew s from t h e S chools 1
Prize Day at St. Charles’ College,
St. Charles’-square . . „ Ratcliffe College Exhibition . . How to Learn Languages . . N ew s from t h e D io ceses i
149 149 149
Westminster . . . . Hexham and Newcastle .. L i v e r p o o l ......................... Plymouth .. .. Portsmouth . . ..
The Uganda Disturbance .. A Local M u se ......................... Catholics Abroad . . . .
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
ELECTIONS. T
THE GENERAL
H E following is the complete analysis o f the results of the General E lection ; one more member has yet to be elected for Shetland and Orkney : Conservative...................................... 2681 Unionist.............................................. 46/ 3 I4 Gladstonite.......................................... 274) Anti-Parnellite .................................. 72 ■; Parnellite .......................................... 9J
Total returned ........................... 669 Gladstonian majority....................... 41
In his speech at Glossop Mr. Balfour
'Iris i f v o t e s i l ^ at Mr. Gladstone had committed B r i t i s h a f f a i r s , bimself to the novel doctrine that each nationality in Parliament should have- the exclusive control o f its own affairs. For instance, it would be an outrage for English members sent to Westminster to modify Scotch legislation against the wishes o f the Scotch representatives. But if that principle were adopted all around, Mr. Gladstone would certainly be unable to carry on the Government o f the country for a week. Suppose his majority approaches 50— it will certainly be an Irish and a Scotch majority, for the greater part o f the English representatives in the coming Parliament will be Unionists. On his own principles Mr. Gladstone is bound to allow the English members to modify every bill he brings in which refers to England, in a Conservative direction, and must not use his Irish and Welsh and Scotch supporters to swamp the wishes o f England. The greater part o f his legislation, therefore, would be shaped and controlled by his opponents, and his position would quickly become untenable amid universal laughter. Again, if the country is to be governed no longer as a United Kingdom, but as a kingdom composed o f three or four separate nationalities, each o f which is to manage its own affairs, surely Englishmen have a right to exclude from a decision upon English matters the multitude o f Irishmen, who, though they live on English soil, belong to neither English party— who remain Irishmen though resident in England, whose allegiance is to an Irish
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and not to an English party, who are governed by Irish and not by English organizations, who remain in fact members o f the Irish nationality although accident may have caused them to live in England. I f we are to be governed by nationalities at all, why should we be controlled by the Irish vote in our great towns ? As a Unionist, Mr. Balfour was quite ready to retain the present system, and to say that as we are all citizens o f the United Kingdom let us vote as we like wherever we reside. But i f we once accept the Separatist principle o f separate nationalities we are forced to conclude that the Irish vote ought not to be allowed to override the English vote in English constituencies Mr. Balfour believed that if the Irish vote were expunged from the boroughs o f Great Britain the Unionist party would sweep the polls from end to end o f the country. Why even at this moment Mr. Gladstone himself represents only a minority o f the Scotchmen o f Midlothian— he is returned by a minority with an Irish contingent superadded. H e supposed that there were about 1,000 Irish electors in Midlothian, and it was certain that they all voted as led, for the Liberal leader. Mr Gladstone was returned by a majority o f less than 700— therefore on the Scotch vote in his constituency he was not member for Midlothian at all, and had no title to speak for them. But that was only one example out o f many what was true o f Midlothian was true o f countless other constituencies all over the kingdom. For instance in Manchester not a Gladstonian would be returned for a single division except for the Irish vote. So that it came to this, that under this new system o f nationalities, the Irish are first o f all to manage their own affairs in Ireland which we are not to be allowed to touch, and they are to manage our affairs in England, partly by means of representatives sent from Ireland to Westminster, and partly bv controlling our elections by the Irish vote in the large towns and manufacturing districts o f England. In a word the Home Rule principles o f Mr. Gladstone meant not only that Ireland was to manage her own affairs, but that she was to manage English affairs as well. Mr. Balfour believed that when once the people o f England and Scotland realized the practical consequences o f these doctrines they would repudiate them with loathing and abhorrence. ’
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negotiations for a commercial treaty which would have benefited all nations equally, had been
