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From the B r ie i 01 H is H o lin ess P iu s IX . to T he T A B L E T , J u n e 4 , i l . J

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'C hronicle o f t h e W e e k ! Page

The United States and Cuba— Prohibition in New York— M. Bourgeois and the French Chamber — Another Reverse in the Senate — The Snowdon Railway — The Sunday Opening of Museums— The Italians at Kassala—Children in Poor Law Schools— Small-Pox a t Gloucester —The New National Portrait Gallery— National Union o f Teachers at Brighton— The Indian Government and the Opium Question—Sir William Butler on the Army—The Teachers’ Registration Bill— The Olympic Games — Weddings in Workhouses — Re-assembling of Parliament . . 557 L e a d e r s :

The Bill . . . . . . . . 561 Tilting at the English Refor­

mation .................................... 562 M. Tissot’s “ Life o f Christ ” . . 563 A Catholic Nun’s Testimony to the Armenian Atrocities . . 564

CONTENTS.

Pace

More on Reunion . . I . . 5^4 N o t e s .................................................... 566 R e v iew s :

History of the City of Rome in the

Middle Ages . . .. . . 568 The Daughter of the Deputy . . 563 Holiday House . • .. .. 570

Oh ! What a Plague is Love ! ” 570 The X Jewel ....................... 570 The Real Lady Hilda . . . . 570 Books of the W eek.. .. 570 The British Empire and the Catholic

Church .................................... 571 C orrespondence :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) ......................... — .«573 News from Ireland . . _ — 574 News From France . . . . 576 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d itor :

The Poem “ Christo Crucifixo "

and Father Southwell .. . . 577 The Anglican Ordinal .. .. 577 Anglican Ordinances . . . . 577 Manning and Newman . . . . 577

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

Page tinued) : Immuring of Nuns _ . . . . 578 Devotion to the Virgin Mother of Good Counsel .. . . .. 578 Barlow’s Book— “ The Burial of the Mass ” . . . . . . 578 For the Suffering Catholic Arme­

nians . . .. . . . . 578 Appeal for St. Mary’s, Moor-

fields . . .. . . . . 578 “ Knights of the Order of Christ ’’ 578 The Apostleship of the Sea . . 578 Conference o f Catholic Teachers .. 579 St. Joseph’s Foreign Missionary

Society, Mill Hill . . . . . . 581 Holy Week in Rome . . . . 582 Father Jerome Vaughan in Tasmania 583 A Tribunal of Arbitration . . . . 584 The Press on Arbitration . . . . 584 F rom E v e r y w h e r e ........................... 584 A p p e a l to t h e C h a r it a b l e . . 586 I O b it u a r y ........................................586

S o c ia l a n d P o l it ic a l . . . . 586

SU PPLEM ENT. N ew s from t h e S c h o o i s :

Mr. Macnamara on the Education

Bill . . .....................................589 School-Boardism and the New

Pa^e

Bill .. . . .. . . . . 590 The B i l l : Bold and Comprehen­

sive . . . . . . . . . . 590 Wesleyan Opinion . . . . . . 591 Country Schools and the New

Code . . . . . . . . 591 Education Returns.. . . . . 591 Catholic Statistics . . . . . . 5 9 1 A Board Teacher and the Circular on Religious Instruction . . 591 N ew s from t h e D io ceses : Westminster . . . . . . 592

L i v e r p o o l .................................... 593 Salford ......................... . . 593 Newport . . . . . . . . 503 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 503 Glasgow . . . . . . . . 593 Diamond Jubilee of “ The Dublin

Review ” . . . . . , . . 593

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force, and on Sunday the citizens had their first opportunity o f judging how they liked it in practice. Its provisions are, at any rate, free from the taint o f compromise. A correspondent o f The Westm inster Gazette gives a graphic account of the working of this drastic piece of legislation. Under its provisions no restaurant-keeper is allowed to serve wine with dinner, and every saloon and restaurant, except hotels, is required to close from Saturday midnight until five o’clock on Monday morning. No woman at all is allowed to serve liquor, and two waitresses in a Dutch beer saloon were arrested on Sunday simply for serving customers with beer, there being no question raised as to the respectability of the girls. In private clubs it is forbidden that drinks shall be served to members on Sundays, either with or without meals. A person is even forbidden to offer liquor in his own home to visitors, and a police officer is empowered to invade a private residence if he suspects that others than the actual members o f the family are drinking wine at dinner. The room where the liquors are kept at hotels must be open to the street, and a policeman stands in front, where he can watch that no person other than the proprietor or his assistant be allowed to enter the room, and then only for the purpose of getting a bottle to serve to an actual resident or guest in the hotel.”

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

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H E American House o f Representa­

tives has passed a resolution calla n d c u b a . mg upon Mr. Cleveland to recognize the Cuban insurgents as belligerents.

T h e resolution, which was carried by 244 to 27, is •identical with that which was passed by the Senate, and further invites the President to open negotiations with Spain to induce that Power to grant independence to Cuba. T h e passing o f this resolution, however, is not likely to have any immediate effect. No doubt it will have weight with the President as a remarkable expression o f American opinion, but the matter is one which falls within the province of the Executive branch o f the Government, and any action by the Legislative branch is regarded as simply ex tra vires. Sooner or later, however, the American Government is pretty sure to intervene to end the quarrel which has been carried on so long, and with such disastrously indecisive results to all parties. T h e hope that the new Spanish Commander would succeed where Marshal Campos failed, is beginning to die away even in Spain, and it is most unlikely that anything serious •can now be done before the rainy reason suspends operations. Meanwhile certain friends of the Spanish Government would do well to reflect how ill they serve the cause they have at heart by representing the insurgents as composed solely of brigands and discontented negroes. If eighty thousand men, the flower of the Spanish army, led by the most trusted General in Spain, have been unable to put down the rebellion, “ the brigands ” must be actuated by some other and stronger motive than a desire for plunder. T h e offer o f autonomy under the sovereignty o f Spain might still do what force has failed to do, and bring back peace to the distracted island. A state of things which is neither peace nor effective war is ruinous to Spain and cannot continue.

Statesmen in this country are becoming

— p r o h i b i t io n v e r y w a r y 0 f {^6 liquor question, and Sir n e w "v o r k . William Harcourt’s recent experiences are not likely to make them more bold. In New

York the new liquor law, called the Raines Bill, is now in

Expectation was disappointed in the m. bourgeois and explanation made by M. Bourgeois in the f r e n c h c h a m b e r . Chamber of Deputies last week. It was known that several interpellations were to be made on the foreign policy of the Cabinet, and it was whispered that the Premier had a mysterious despatch to communicate which would effect a complete transformation. There was a determination if possible to make it necessary for the Cabinet to resign. Precedence was voted for the interpellations, three in number, on the Egyptian question. T h e second was brought forward by M. Delafosse in a diplomatic speech, in which he complained of the decline in France’s foreign policy, and wanted to know how it was that, in spite of M. Berthelot’s explanation, England had gone ahead all the same. M. Bourgeois then ascended the Tribune to reply. His performance was a very tame affair after all. He went into a disquisition to show that Egypt was part and parcel o f the Ottoman Empire which Europe was pledged to protect, and that it was time the British evacuated the country which they had received no mandate from Europe to occupy. After recapitulating the steps taken by the Government after the announcement o f the Dongola Expedition, he declared that this was a violation

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