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From the B r i e f o f H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.
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C hronicle of t h e W e e k : Page
Imperial Parliament : Unofficial Legislation — Monday’s Sitting : Postponement of Home Rule—A Question of Privilege—The Tenants Commission—Tuesday’s Sitting—Wednesday’s Sitting— The Establishment and the Welsh_Suspensory Bill— The Panama Bribery Trial — Wells of Monte Carlo— The Sandgate Landslip _— Discovery of Bishop Hannington’s Skull— The Direct Veto Bill— Marriage Legislation in Italy— The German Army Bill — The Banffshire Election.........................397 .«Le a ders :
The Visit of the German Sove
reigns to Rome . . .. .. 401 Mr. Athelstan Riley’s Resolution 402 The Grafton Gallery .. .. 403
CONTENTS.
Page
On Diocesan Seminaries . . . . 403 After the Pilgrimages . . . . 405 Irish Catholics and the Home Rule
B i l l ....................... . . . . 405 N otes 406 R e v iew s :
The Naturalist on the River
Amazons . . .. .. . . 408 The Missions of St. Paul.. . . 408 A New P e r iod ic a l.........................409 The London Oratory . . . . 410 Manual of Prayers for Catholic
Youth . . . . .. . . 410 The Earliest Christian
Founded in Britain Church .. . . 410 C orrespondence :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . .. 413 Dublin :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) ......................... . . 414
L e t t e r s to t h e E d itor :
On Christian A r t ....................... Free Catholic Thought . . . Diocesan Seminaries The 125th Psalm Assyria, Rome, and Canterbury. Prayers by Advertisement The Missioner’s Diary . . The English Pilgrimage . . Religions at the Word’s Fair
Page •• 415 • 415
. 4x6 • 417 • 417 • 417 . 418 . 418
418
Terra Cotta and its Alleged Dis
advantages . . . . . . . . 418 Archbishop Ullathorne’s Autobio
graphy .................................... 421 The Deaf and Dumb Institute,
Boston Spa . . ......................... 422 O b itu a r y
So c ia l a n d P o l it ic a l
. . 424 . . 424
SU PPLEM ENT. N ews from t h e Schools :
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The Schools of Salford D The Outlook Elementary Education
Attendance) Bill .. St. Joseph’s Industrial
Tranent About Education ocese. . 429
• 431 School
. . 43t School,
. • 432
432
N ew s from t h e D ioceses : Westminster
Southwark Newport and Menevia Salford ......................... St. Andrews and Edinburgh Re-opening Services at St. Alban’s
432 432 433 433
Church, Warrington . . . . 433
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
T the end of last week there im perial parliam ent. /% was considerable debate as
- “ r t r \ t0 whether there should be a Saturday sitting in the Commons.
It was decided that there should be by a majority of 27. Among other matters Mr. H. Hobhouse called attention to the great and growing difficulties in the way of legislation by unofficial members under the present rules of procedure, .and moved the appointment o f a Select Committee to consider the subject. The Motion was seconded by Mr. J. E. Ellis. Mr. Gladstone was not prepared to accede, on the part of the Government, to the Motion. He was by no means sure that to proceed by Committee was the best way o f procedure, and, besides, such a Committee would be best appointed at the beginning of the Session. A t present the Government could not take charge of such a Committee, and neither the mover nor the seconder was prepared to take charge of the Committee himself, or to submit a definite plan to it for consideration. Sir J. Fergusson and Sir j . Lubbock regretted that the Government could not see its way to the granting of a Select Committee. Sir R. Temple defended the existing arrangements, but Mr. Courtney and Sir E. Clarke supported the Motion. Mr. Hobhouse said he would not put the House to the trouble of dividing, and the Motion was withdrawn. On the Saturday, despite the pains with which the sitting was obtained, nothing occurred which is worth chronicling.
Owing to the absence of Mr. Glad-
—Monday’s sitting : S[0ne through indisposition, on MonPOhomeErdle °F day, the Leadership of the House’ fell into the hands of Sir W. Harcourt.
There was a full assemblage of members. The Chancellor o f the Exchequer, responding to an invitation by Mr. Balfour to state the course of business for the week, mentioned that the Government would endeavour for the present to make what progress they could in Supply. The Prime Minister had desired him to say that in consequence o f the delay in the progress of Supply, the discussion of the Home Rule Bill could not be commenced this week, and that ~ N ew Series, Voi.. X L X . , No, 2,167.
therefore the Debate would not be taken before Easter, but would be taken the first thing after the Vacation. This announcement gave rise to loud cheering on the Unionist benches, in the midst of which Mr. McCarthy rose and asked whether, considering the understanding there was about pressing on the Bill before Easter, it was not still possible to reconsider the position and bring on the Bill as previously arranged. The Chancellor of the Exchequer replied that he had stated the decision at which, with great reluctance, the Government had arrived. Mr. Sexton asked whether, on the assumption that the necessary progress wTas made in Supply, the Debate could not be at least begun before Easter and resumed after it, but to this the Chancellor answered that such a course would not be expedient.
Mr. Hanbury called attention to a letter
— a question from Mr. Conybeare, which had appeared in of privilege, one o f the evening papers, stating that after the first four speeches on Friday, the Debate was sheer and obstructive waste of time, and censuring the Speaker for snubbing Liberal members who had moved the Closure. Mr. Hanbury asked if the letter, which charged a whole party with deliberate obstruction, was not a breach of the privileges of the House. Mr. Labouchere rose to make a statement on behalf of Mr. Conybeare, who was not in the House, but his sentence was cut short by loud cries of “ Order,” and by the Speaker requiring the Clerk, in the usual form, to read the letter to the House. When this was done, Mr. Labouchere did not again rise, and the Speaker, in a low and rapid voice, stated that he might have occasionally given offence to some member, but he had not done so intentionally. But if any hon. member took exception to his conduct in the Chair, he did not think it was in accordance with the traditions of Parliament that such member should write to the newspapers, or take any other steps outside the House. The Closure was in his absolute discretion, and he had lately received several letters from young members on the subject. He hoped, however, the House would not think it worth while to discuss the letter in question. Mr. Hanbury then intimated that after the statement of the Speaker he would not press the subject further.
The House went into Committee o f Supply,
— the tenants and on the Vote for ^ 11,0 00 for Temporary commission. Commissions, Mr. J. Lowther attacked the appointment, as Commissioners to the United
States, of Mr. Schloss, whom he called “ Herr Schloss,” and of Mr. Burnett. H e alleged that they had already com
