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

From the B r ie f o f H is Holiness P iu s IX . to The Tablet, fu n e 4, 1870.

V o l . 80. No. 2727. L ondon, A u g u s t 13, 1892.

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C h r o n ic le of t h e W e e k :

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Imperial Parliament : Labour Members in the House — The Debate on the Address— Tuesday’s Sitting— Coloured People in the United States — Sun-Signals to Mars — A Yorkshire Colliery Drowned-The Fire at St. John’s— Cheap Justice— Murderous Attack on Ladies at Chislehust — Mr. Blake at the “ E igh ty C lu b ”— Railway Accident in Austria . . 237 L e a d e r s :

The Masonic Programme in Italy 241 Sir C. Freemantle on Pensions for the Old Minor Miseries

. 242

The Coming Pallium . . Cardinal Pole and the Pallium . . 245 The Archiépiscopal Oath . . 246

C O N T E N T S .

N o t e s ..................................................... 247 R e v ie w s :

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Durham C o u n t y .........................249 The Principles o f Ornament . . 250 The Pope at Home . . . . . . 250 C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) ......................... . . 253 Dublin :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) ......................... . . 254 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :

Our “ Catholic ” Choirs . . . . 256 Newman House EmigrationHome 257 The Benduff Quarry Disaster . . 257 The Doxology . . . . . . 257 Rood-screen, Pertenhall, Bedford­

shire . . . . . . . 258

L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r (Con­

tinued) : U ls te r .. . . . . . . . . 258 The Day of the Children.. . . 258 ] “ B y this Shall Men Know ----- ” . . 258

The Boxley Rood . . . . . . 259 A Missionary Survey of South

Africa . . . . . . . . 260 The Religious State of France . . 261 The Earl of Denbigh inthe Lords 262 Ritualism in Ireland . . . . . . 262 Temperance R e fo rm .........................263 Catholics Abroad . . . . . . 264 F rom E v e r y w h e r e ........................... 264 S o c ia l a n d P o l i t i c a l . . . . 264

SU P P L EM E N T . N ew s from t h e S chools :

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The Denominational Question in

Canada . . . . . . . . 269 Great Academies, Mount St.

Mary’s, Chesterfield . . . . 271 Prize D ay at Blairs College . . 271 St. John’s Industrial School, W al­

thamstow . . . . . . . . 271 About Education ............................271 N ew s from t h e D io c e se s :

Westminster ............................272 Southwark . . . . . . . . 272 Birmingham . . 272 Liverpool . . . . . . . . 273 Newport and Menevia . . . . 273 Plymouth . . . . . . . . 273 Portsmouth . . . . . . . . 274 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 274

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

IM PERIAL PARLIAMENT

— LABOUR MEMBERS

IN THE HOUSE.

T

H E usually monotonous pro­

cess o f swearing in the members for the new House o f Commons was brightened this y ear b y considerable variety. First came the Privy Councillors and Ministers. T h e first in the first batch o f five to take the oath was Mr. Matthews— then came a rush of th e ordinary members, and there seems to have been a sort o f scramble to grab at the five Testaments. Those members who wanted to affirm, grouped themselves at an extra table in the centre o f the House where the thing was administered to them by the Junior Clerk. Among those who affirmed were Mr. John Morley, Mr. Jacoby, Mr. Cremer, Mr. Harry Smith, and Mr. Naoroji, the Fire-Worshipper who is the elect o f Finsbury. Mr. Montagu was ■ sworn in Jewish fashion, wearing his hat the while. Mr. Cohen and Baron Rothschild were sworn in the same manner. A centre o f much observation was Mr. Michael Davitt as he took the oath o f allegiance to the Queen, but the most remarkable figure was that o f Mr. Keir-Hardie. Most o f the labour members had so far conformed to the ordinary Parliamentary etiquette as to appear in black coat and silk hat. Mr. Keir-Hardie, however, seemed determ ined to assert his independence even in trifles. H e marched up the House in a blue serge coat and yellow waistcoat, checked tweed trousers and flannel shirt without a collar ; his cap o f a soft tweed workman’s style completed his raiment. . Unfortunately for the effect o f his entry he was mistaken by the policemen for one o f the workmen employed in the House, and it was only after considerable delay and explanations that he was allowed to take his place. When it came to his turn to take the oath he walked up to the table keeping his cap on his head. T h e sound o f the Speaker’s “ order, order,” seemed to convey no idea to his mind, and he had to be informed by one of his friends that it is customary to uncover when taking th e oath.

In the Lords the Address was agreed to

— t h e d e b a t e o n without many words on Monday. In the t h e a d d r e s s . House o f Commons the Speaker took the

Chair at one o’clock, when the process of N ew S er ie s . V ol. XLY1IL, No, 2,036.

swearing in members was resumed. A little after two o’clock the House was summoned by Black Rod to the House o f Peers to hear the Queen’s Speech read, and on the Speaker’s return the sitting was suspended. On the resumption o f the sitting the usual sessional orders were agreed to, and the Queen’s gracious Speech to both Houses o f Parliament was read from the Chair. Mr. Barton, in moving the Address in reply to her Majesty’s Speech, dwelt upon the beneficent consequences which had followed the measures passed by the present Administration, and pointed out that the result o f the general election had been ineffectual for any great legislative action which would have important and permanent results. Mr. W. H . Cross, in seconding the Address, enlarged upon the splendid record o f the Government, and mentioned in particular four first-class measures which they had passed— namely, the Local Government A c t for England and Wales, the reconstitution o f our Navy, the conversion o f the National Debt, and the A c t giving free education in our national schools. Mr. Asquith moved, as an amendment, to add to the Address the following w o rd s: “ We feel it, however, to be our duty humbly to submit to your Majesty that it is essential that your Majesty’s Government should possess the confidence o f this House and o f the country, and respectfully to represent to your Majesty that that confidence is not reposed in your present advisers.” T h ey were assembled there, he said, to take part in the obsequies o f a dead majority, for it was undoubtedly true in point o f fact that the present Government had lost the confidence o f the House and o f the country. No other topic, he contended, was relevant to the issue raised. T h e majority o f 1886 had gone, and the mandate then given to the Government had been deliberately revoked. Consequently no cause cOuld be shown why the House should not as its first act record and render effective the considered judgment o f the country. With regard to the composition o f the majority it was urged on the other side that i f the votes o f the members from Ireland were subtracted it would cease to be a majority at all. H e asserted, however, first, that it was no more true to say that the present majority was constituted bv Irish votes than to say it was constituted by Scotch and'W elsh votes; secondly, that the dominating fact which had brought about a real change in the situation was the shifting o f English and Scotch op in io n ; and, thirdly, that on the principles o f true unionism, when we were considering upon what lines the Government and the policy o f the Kingdom as a whole should be conducted, we were bound to look to the majority o f the whole o f the electorate and to nothing else.