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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, June 4, 1870.

V o l . 81. No. 2757. L o n d o n , M a r c h i i , 1893.

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[R eg is tered a t t h e Gen e r a l P o s t O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper.

’C h ronicle of t h e W e e k :

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Imperial Pa liament: Monday’s Sitting— In the Lords on Tuesday — Railway Rates— Foreign Cattle — The Navy—Wednesday’s _Sitting — By-Elections — President Cleveland’s Message—The Death o f M. Taine— Death of the Sultan of Zanzibar— Parliamentary Reform in Belgium—Exploration on the Congo — The Melbourne Bank Trials— The German Army Bill— Earthquake Shock in New York — The Representation o f Greenwich ................................................357 L e a d e r s :

The Return o f the Pilgrims . . 361 The Italian Press and the Papal

Jubilee .. . . . . . . 362 The Malta Marriages . . . . 362 ■ On Diocesan Seminaries . . . . 363

CONTENTS.

The Pope’s Jubilee in Holland and

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Belgium .................................... 364 The Pilgrimage to Rome . . . . 365 N o t e s .................................................. 365 R e v ie w s :

The Missions of St. P au l.. . . 367 “ Corpus” . . . . . . . . 368 A Retrospect .. . . . . 368 Love in a Life . . . . . . 369 The Pilgrim to Eternity . . . . 369 Susy .. . . . . . • •• 37° The Works of W . Clark Russell 370 Assyria, Rome, and Canterbury . . 370 C orrespondence :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) ....................................... 373 1 Dublin :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . .

374

L e t t e r s to t h e E d it or :

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Southwark Ecclesiastical Students 375 Catholic Teachers’ Resolutions , , 375 On Christian Art . . . . . . 376 The 125th Psalm . . . . .. 377 1 he Chicago Exhibition . . . . 377 Free Catholic Thought . . .. 377 St. Patrick’s, Soho.. . . . . 378 The British Pilgrimage . . 378 An Appeal . . . . . . . . 378 The Irish Pilgrimage to Rome . . 378 Concerning Terra Cotta . . . . 381 The Lepers of Mangalore . . . . 382 The Lord Mayor and Sunday Mu­

seum-Opening . . . . . . 383 O b it u a r y ........................................ 384 Social a n d P o l it ic a l . . . . 384| A p pe a l t o th e C h a r it a b l e . . 384

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SU PPLEM ENT. N ew s from t h e Schools :

London School Board and Reli­

gious Instruction.. .. . . 389 Requiem at Tooting College . . 391 Schools at Seaforth .. . . . . 3gr Religious Teaching in Board

Schools . . . . . . . . 391 About Education . . . . , , 391 N ew s from t h e D io ceses :

Westminster ......................... 391 Southwark . . . . . . . . 391 L i v e r p o o l .................................... 392 Nottingham .. . . . . . . 392 A Mashonaland Missioner and his

Diary . . . .

. . . . 392

Institution of Cardinal Logue to his

Titular Church .. . . . . 394 An Indian Catholic Grievance . . 395

* <* Rejected MS. cannot be returned unless acco7?ipanied with address and postage.

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

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DURING the progress of the and a half years ago had collected the rates of wages in the national dockyards and those paid on the Tyne and Mersey, and the information was ample to enable the Government to come to a conclusion. As to insurance against accidents, he maintained that there should be compensation for every accident except in the case of criminal negligence on the part of the person injured, and he could not see why the Government should not, in all its establishments, have a proper and reasonable provision for its workers in old age which it could ask private employers throughout the country to imitate. The deductions from the men’s wages made for the last-named purpose should be carried to a separate fund and supplemented by Government grants. He expressed surprise at the great noise made in connection with labour questions at the elections, and the slight attention that was paid to them in the House. His Amendment was seconded by Colonel Loyd, the member for Chatham. Mr. Campbell-Bannerman was astonished that Sir J. Gorst, when he was Secretary to the Admiralty, and in a commanding position, and with ample information lying in the pigeon-holes of the Department for two and a-half years, had not seized the opportunity and enforced a remedy on his colleagues. The Government accepted the Amendment of the right hon. gentleman. No one would dispute its principles, but differences of opinion might arise as to what proper maintenance meant. He did not believe in starvation wages, and admitted that the wages of the labourers were too low, and that, sooner or later, a higher rate should be paid. In Woolwich rents were enormously high, and if any increase was made to the men he hoped it would not go into the pockets of the landlords. The subject was discussed chiefly by members representing Dockyard constituencies. Sir E. Clarke pressed for the abolition of the principle of classification of workmen, after which the Amendment was agreed to. On the Motion for going into Committee of Supply being renewed, a discussion on several subjects was carried on till 20 minutes after midnight. The Report of Supply already obtained was agreed to, and the remaining Orders of the Day were disposed of.

questions in the House of — ^. . . . . Commons, Mr. J. Morley informed Mr. W. Redmond that it

■ would be premature at present to make any statement as to the intentions of the Government to legislate during the present Session in the interest of the Irish evicted tenants. He also informed Mr. Carson that the circular directing the refusal of police protection to Sheriffs at night in the execution of judgments of the Superior Courts had been withdrawn, and that there was no means of testing its legality before a higher tribunal. The first Order on the paper was that for going into supply on the Navy Estimates, and, so as to prevent the proceedings from being interrupted at midnight, the Chancellor of the Exchequer moved the suspension of the Twelve o’clock Rule. The Motion gave Lord George Hamilton an opportunity of asking whether the Government intended to proceed at any hour of the night with a discussion of the new ship-building scheme, involving an expenditure of five millions sterling, independently of the cost of armaments. On the House dividing on the Motion, it was carried by a majority of 158 in a House of 396. Sir J. Gorst moved an Amendment that no person in the Government Dockyards should be engaged at wages insufficient for proper maintenance, and that conditions of labour as regards hours, wages, insurance against accident, and provision for old age should be such as to afford an example to private employers throughout the country. He said that though his Amendment was confined by the Order of Business to the Dockyards, the principle of it applied to all national establishments. He argued that the Government should set an example to employers, that the hours of ■ labour ought to be reduced to eight hours a day, and that the reduction should not be defeated by a system of overtime. In the matter of wages, the skilled artisans in the national dockyards were paid at a considerably lower rate than the artisans in any dockyard in the country. This, in his opinion, was not honest, and he held that the rate of Government pay should not be less than that given by private employers. The late Secretary to the Admiralty two

The Lord Chancellor moved the second

— in t h e l o r d s reading, in the House of Lords, on Tues-

o n Tu e s d a y , day, of the Law of Inheritance Amendment

Bill, the object of which is to assimilate the distribution of real property to that of personal property in case of intestacy. The motion was opposed by the Earl of Dudley, who moved that the Bill be read a second time that day six months, as it was mischievous and dangerous

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