THE TABLET.
A Weekly Newspaper and Review .
DOM VOBIS GRATÜLAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMÜS OT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTSR MANEAT1S.
F rom the B r ie r 0/ H i s H o l in e s s P iu s I X . to T h e T a b l e t , J u n e 4 , 1870
V ol. 87. No. 2913.
L ondon, M arch 7, 1896.
P r ic k sd. by P o s t sJid
[ R e g i s t e r e d a t t h k G e n e r a l P o s t O f f i c e a s a N ew s p a p e r
Pa?e ]
C h ron ic le o f t h e W e e k !
Imperial Parliam ent: Supply En B lo c— The Naval Programme: Ships, Men, and Money— The Defrayment o f the Cost—Second Reading o f the Light Railways B i ll— Sympathy with Armenia— The United States and Cuba— Feeling in Spain— Austro-Hungarian^Crisis^— English Cricketers Victorious in the Transvaal — Anti-Semite Victory in Vienna— Marriages in Malta— Terms of Surrender at_ Krugersdorf—Split in the Salvation Army— Fighting in Nicaragua— The Venezuelan Blue Book— The Pope on Prince Feidinand o f Bulgaria— Reports o f the Royal Commission on Agriculture — The President of th e French Republic and Mr. G l a d s t o n e — Demonstration in Favour o f Anglo-American Arbi- , Oration, & c ........................................ 357
CONTENTS.
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L e a d e r s :
The Italian Defeat in Abyssinia Our Food Supply in War Time . Mgr. Wilpert on the Catacombs The Missal o f St. Augustine’s
Abbey, Canterbury N o t e s . . . . “ The Life of Cardinal Manning " R e v ie w s :
Brendaniana......................... Socialism and Sense The Cavaliers C orrespon d e n c e :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) ......................... — News from Ireland . . — — News From France L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r : Was Barlow a Bishop ? . . . .
The Signature “ Edgbaston ” : A
Disclaimer Bucer and the Anglican Ordinal .. Authorization for Certain Litanies:
A Query . . .........................
361 362 363 364 365 367 370 371 37*
373 37+ 375 375 37s 370
L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r (Con*
Page tinued) : The Spread o f Leprosy . . . . 377 Leo X I I I . Our Holy Father . . 377 The Daughters o f Blessed Columba at Perugia . . . . . . 377 In Honour o f St. Chad : A Sug
gestion . . ......................... 377 “ Convert Relief Fund” . . . . 378 Father Sole and the Oscott MS. 378 The Early British Church . . 378 Armenia . . . . . . . . 378 The Educational Campaign . . 378
Great Meeting at Sheffield . . 378 Demonstration at Stratford . . 381 Meeting at Plymouth . . . . 382 The British Empire and the Catholic
Church . . . . . . . . 382 The Irish University Question . . 383 Foreign Catholic Periodicals _ . . 334 Cardinal Vaughan and the British
Empire ..................................... 384 O b i t u a r y ........................... . . 384 S o c ia l a n d P o l i t i c a l . . . . 384
SU P P L EM E N T . N ew s from t h e S c h o o l s :
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Restrictions Upon Board Schools 339 Canon Nunn and Rate Aid . . 389 Mr. Goschen and the Fads of the
Education Department . . 389 The Christian Brothers in France 390 An Old Liberal on Voluntary
Schools . . . . . . . . 390 The Education Estimate . . 390 Aged Teachers and Pension Fund 390 Mr. Asquith on Voluntary School
M an agers......................... . . 391 N ew s from t h e D io c e se s : Westminster . . . . . . 392
Southwark . . . . . . . . 392 Birmingham .....................................392 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 392 Liverpool . . . . . . . . 393 Newport and Menevia ... . . 393 Northampton . . . . 393 P l y m o u t h ..................................... 393 Glasgow ................................... - 393 The Catholic Mission to Uganda . . 394
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
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IMPERIAL PARLIAM ENT
T will have been observed that the debate on the New Rules o f Procedure has been conducted on the whole with a large
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tended that it would be tedious and undignified to spend a long time in a series o f mechanical divisions, but finally, appreciating the delicacy and gravity o f the question at issue, suggested the appointment o f a Select Committee by which the point in question may be settled before the 5th o f August arrives. This proved satisfactory, and the House allowed the Reforms to pass by a majority o f 202 against 65.
T h e event of the week in Parliament nc- has undoubtedly been the statement o f AND MONEY. t l lC p o l i c y O f t h e G 0 V 6 rQH 1 6D t made on Monday by Mr. Goschen.
amount o f benignity and good temper, attributable undoubtedly to th e general feeling o f agreement with the desire o f the Ministry to provide a remedy for a state o f things notoriously unsatisfactory. T h e division in which Mr. Labouchere’s amendment to omit the clauses establishing a tim e lim it was defeated b y a majority o f 258 against 1 2 4 showed plainly enough the side to which the balance o f opinion in the House inclined. An attempt was then made in a series o f amendments, headed by one standing in the name o f Mr. Dalziel to secure an extension o f the twenty days to be devoted to Supply. I t was contended, not without seriousness and substance in the demand, that the twenty days should be increased to twenty-five, but the amendments were finally withdrawn b y Mr. Balfour introducing as his own an amendment giving effect to a com promise o f the Secretary o f the Treasury, and which was accepted without a division, that “ on a motion made after notice by a Minister o f the Crown, additional time not exceeding three days may be allotted, either before or after the 5th o f August.” This finally disarmed opposition on the p o in t ; but when the discussion touched the question as to how the Closure would be applied and the last scene in Supply would be conducted, whether by voting seria tim on the votes that still remained to be considered, which would open the door for aD endless number o f harassing divisions, or by a vote en bloc, Mr. Balfour’s interpretation o f the New Rules was in favour o f the latter course, and he startled the House by explaining that, following the practice in dealing with Votes on Account, it would be competent for the Chairman to put a ll the remaining Votes together so that two divisions would be sufficient. Such an announcement staggered even Mr. Courtenay, and not unreasonably brought Sir William Harcourt to his feet to object that such a course would allow the Government to delay a large estimate on which opposition was anticipated, and so compel its being rushed through at the last moment under the fear that if Supply were refused the service of the State would be thrown into confusion. Mr. Balfour con-
After pointing out that any increase in the fleet is not only an increase in the number o f ships but, i f it is to be effective, an increase all along the line o f naval preparations and expenditure, he proceeded to lay before the House the proposals of the Government. There are now under construction 8 battleships, 21 cruisers and 40 torpedo-boat destroyers. T o these it is proposed to a d d : 5 battleships o f the R enow n class, 4 first-class cruisers, 3 secondclass, 6 third-class, and 28 torpedo-boat destroyers. T h e new battleships, whilst having a displacement o f 2,000 tons less than the M a je s t ic , and drawing two feet less water, will have the same coal capacity and greater speed. T h e ships still in course o f construction are those sanctioned by Earl Spencer’s programme, and they, along with those now proposed by the present administration, are all to be completed and equipped ready for sea by July, 1899. Mr. Goschen pointed out that under the Naval Defence A c t o f 1889 and Lord Spencer’s programme, reckoning in the additions o f an intermediate period, a total o f 105 ships and 62 torpedoboat destroyers had been commenced and partly finished. W ith the additions which he proposes to be made— 18
ships and 28 torpedo-boat destroyers— a wonderful fleet will be formed. It is further proposed to meet the requirements o f the p erso nn e l o f the Navy by increasing the number o f officers and men by 49,000, making a total o f 93,750. Officers have been lately drawn from the mercantile marine, but this, Mr. Goschen explained, was only a temporary expedient. In the regular methods o f supply, which are to be looked to, important changes are to be made. The intention is to raise the age of entry for naval cadets by one year, to lessen the period o f training in the B r i ta n n ia , and to substitute a college on shore for the two hulks which now form the training establishment under that name. B y this means it is hoped that boys will be able to be drawn direct from school, whilst the cost to the State should be lessened b y giving the cadets only 16 months o f preliminary training instead o f 23. T o keep the increased number o f our
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