Weekly Newspaper and Review.
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX. to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.
V ol. 81. No. 2753. L ondon, F ebruary i i , 1893.
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[R eg i st e r e d a t t h e Gen e r a l P o st O f f ic e a s a N ew s pa p e r .
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C hronicle of th e W e e k :
Imperial Parliament : Monday in the Lords— In the Commons—The Adjourned Debate—Tuesday in the Lords— In the Commons—On Wednesday — The Bye-Elections — Mr. Chamberlain at Walsall— Death of Lord Brabourne — Cruelty to Children and the Duke o f York— Exploration in Turkestan—A Jacobite Demonstration— The Panama Scandals— The Sentences— M. Cavaignac’s Success — Catholic Events in Spain . . 197 L eaders :
The English Pilgrimage . . . . 201 The Italian Bank Scandals . . 201 Simony in the Establishment . . 203 “ Becket ” . . . . .. . . 204 Mr. Mivart’s Secopd Article .. 204
CONTENTS.
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N o t e s ........................................................ 2°7 R e v iew s :
St. Francis of Sales ; . . . 208 The Master o f St. Benedict’s . . 208 Union in Trade .. . . . . 209 The Gentleman’s Magazine . . 210 A Batch of Second Editions . . 210 O f the Imitation of Christ _ . . 210 The Church Under Queen Eliza
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Raoul de B^rignan............................210 The British Pilgrimage . . . . 210 C orrespondence :
Rome :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent).. . . . . •• 213 The Late Mr. J. Baker Gabb . . 2 1 5
Dublin :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent).. . . •• •• 215
L e t t e r s to t h e E d it or :
St. Justin and the “ Gospel of
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Peter” ^ .. . . . . . . 216 On Christian Art . . . . . . 216 The Origin o f the Human Soul.. 217 Catholic Lectures . . • . . .. 217 Roman Pilgrimage, 1893 . . . . 2 1 7 The Archbishop of Dublin and Irish
Training Colleges . . . . . . 218 Mgr. Satolli in America . . . 218 The Education Screw . . . . 219 The Site of Golgotha . . .. 220 Mr. Wilfrid Blunt and the Khedive 221 The Catholic Hierarchy and the L i
quor Traffic .. . . . . . . 221 Mr. Leonard Stokes on London Im
provements .. . . . . .. 222 A New Convent in Ceylon .. . . 222 A Miscellaneous Assortment of Bills 223 O b it u a r y ........................................ 224 A p pe a l to t h e C h a r it a b l e . . 224
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Social a n d P o l it ic a l . . . . 2 2 5
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SU PPLEM EN T . N ew s from t h e S chools :
London School Board . . . . 229 The Teaching o f Geography in
Schools . . . . .. . . 229 London County Council and Tech
nical Education............................230 Poplar Schools ............................230 Consecration of Studies at St.
John’s, Beaumont.. . . . . 230 The Instruction o f Infants . . 231 About Education . . . . . . 231 N ew s from t h e D ioceses :
Southwark . . . . . . . . 232 P l y m o u t h ....................................... 232 Portsmouth . . . . . . . . 223 Salford ....................................... 23^ St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 224
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
The adjourned Debate on Mr. Labou-
— the adjourned chere’s Amendment to the Address,
debate.
advocating the evacuation of Uganda, was resumed by Sir J. Kennaway, and
LORD BRASSEY addressed a question in the House of lords Lords on Monday to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs in regard to the steps taken by the Government to secure the peace of Uganda after the retirement of the British East Africa Company. Lord Rosebery, in reply, cited the Parliamentary papers on the subject which had been issued, remarking that Sir G. Portal had ample authority to do all that might be required. In answer to the Marquis of Salisbury, his lordship further stated that Sir Gerald had with him an ample Staff and about two hundred and thirty Zanzibar troops, with power to take over any forces belonging to the Company. After transacting formal business, the House adjourned.
Mr. Gladstone, who was questioned by
— in th e commons. Mr. Chamberlain in reference to the instructions to Sir G. Portal in connec
tion with his mission to Uganda, read extracts from the African papers published in 1892, and from those issued on Saturday. He added that Sir Gerald had a large discretion under the instructions, and had power to make whatever arrangements he might find to be necessary. In further reply to Mr. Labouchere and Mr. Burdett-Coutts, he said that the object and desire of the Government was that Sir G. Portal should approach the question with a perfectly free .and open mind. Being further interrogated by Sir G. BadenPowell and Mr. Balfour, Mr. Gladstone replied that Sir G. Portal had a sufficient force with him to carry out, if necessary, his powers, and that, instead of sending out to him specific instructions, giving him authority to act in the case ■ of certain eventualities, it would be safer for the Government, knowing the peculiarities of the country and the distance, to leave the matter in his discretion, as instructions, however carefully framed, might limit such discretion, and interfere with the object in view. Mr. Mundella introduced a Bill to amend the law with respect to the hours of labour of railway servants ; and the Home Secretary brought in a Bill to amend the Building Societies Act. Both Bills were read a first time.
continued by Mr. A. C. Morton and by Mr. Burdett-Coutts, who spoke as a representative of the Company, for which he claimed that it had been instrumental in securing for this country a territory nearly equal in size to British India. Sir E. Grey, Under Foreign Secretary, replied for the Government, and carried the Ministerial explanation a little further than Mr. Gladstone had done. He stated that the House would be free to decide what should be the policy with reference to Uganda when Sir G. Portal’s Report was before i t ; and replying to the question whether the Government had taken steps to secure that the status quo in Uganda would be maintained, he said it had never occurred to him that Sir Gerald would consider his instructions to mean that he was bound, as soon as he had framed his Report, to hurry away to the Coast with it, and leave nobody behind him. Sir Gerald would decide whether he would send it home or bring it back himself. Mr. J. W. Lowther affirmed that the late Government had no intention of leaving Uganda. After some remarks from Mr. Wallace, Mr. Labouchere withdrew his Amendment, with the intention of resuming the discussion and dividing the House on the Estimates. Mr. Wharton then moved an Amendment, regretting that no measures for the present relief of agricultural depression were suggested in the Queen’s Speech. The Amendment was supported by several members. Mr. Chaplin declared that neither the Royal Commission for Wales nor a Committee to inquire into the whole agricultural question was necessary. What was wanted ivas immediate and permanent relief; and he advocated certain immediate remedial measures, to be followed by the greater remedy of bi-metallism. Mr. Gardner justified the determination of the Government to appoint a Select Committee by the fact that agriculturists themselves had failed to agree upon a remedy, and that it was impossible to legislate without having a sound and proper basis on which to do so. The Debate stood adjourned.
In the Lords on Tuesday, the Lord Chantuesdav ceiior> jn rep ]y to Lord Stanley of Alderley, th e lords, stated that he thought it jvould be competent for the Treasury to issue a warrant directing that foreign lottery advertisements sent by post in open envelopes might be stopped by the Post Office; but as they might be sent in closed envelopes, which could not be stopped,
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