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From the B r ie f o f H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4,, 1870.
V ol. 81. No. 2759. L ondon, March 25, 1893.
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Chronicle of the Week :
Page
Imperial Parliament : Behring Sea — Uganda — Local Government Bill— Labour in Shops—Wednesday’s Sitting— M. Jules Ferry— The Funeral—The Evacuation of Uganda—The German Army Bills — The Clapbam Railway Scheme —The Separatist Struggle in Norway— Sentences in the Panama Trial— T he Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race— Religious Instruction and the London School Board . . 437 •Leaders
The Government and Uganda . . 441 Diocesan Seminaries . . . . 442 Historical Manuscripts at Canter
bury .......................................443 ''Professor Mivart’s “ Happiness in
Hell ” .................................................. 445 N o t e s ...................................................448
CONTENTS,
Reviews :
Church and State in India The Brighton Road The English Reformation.. A Mixed Marriage
Correspondence :
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.. 450 .. 451 •• 455
456
Letters to the Editor (Con
Page tinued) : Catholic Teachers’ Resolutions . . 460 The Late Sir Charles Clifford . . 460 Assyria, Rome, and Canterbury . . 460 Missions and Missioners in Orange
Free State . . . .
. . 461
Rome (From Our Own Corre
spondent) .....................................453 Dublin :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) .....................................454
Letters to the Editor :
On Christian Art . . . . - - 457 The Education of Our Girls . . 458 The 125th Psalm .. . . . . 458 Free Catholic Thought . . . . 459 The Martyr Nuns of Minsk . . 459 Diocesan Seminaries . . . . 460
Superannuation and the London
School Board . . . . . . 462 Stoke-Courcy . . . . . . . . 463 Catholics and Home Rule . . . . 464 The American Delegate’s Authority 464 Social and Political . . . . 465
SUPPLEMENT. News from the Schools :
The Education Code, 1893 .. 469
News From the Schools (Con
Page tinued) : Two Deaths at Ushaw . . . . 470 The Religious Instruction Con
troversy .. . . . . . . 471 Tooting College . . . . . . 471 A Successful Prior Park Student 471 Girls Industrial School, Dalbeth,
Glasgow .. ......................... 471 Religious Instruction in Board
Schools . . ......................... 471
News from the Dioceses : Westminster ......................... 472
Southwark . . . . . . . . 473 Birmingham . . . . . . . 473 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 473 Nottingham .. . . . . . . 473 P ly m o u th .................................... 473 Salford . . . . . . . . 473 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 474 Glasgow . . . . . . . . 474
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
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ON Monday, in the Commons,
Mr. Gladstone, in reply to Sir R. Temple, stated that in consequence of the failure of the
Government to bring Supply to a close last week, the Vote on Account could not be taken this week. He also replied to Baron H. de Worms, in reference to the Channel Tunnel Bill being now left to the free judgment of the House, that the course taken in former years was taken on special grounds, and not on the merits of the scheme. In answer to Mr. Balfour, who questioned him as to the business of the House, he stated amid Liberal cheers, that the Parish Councils Bill would be taken on Tuesday, and that the Second Reading of the Employers’ Liability Bill would be proceeded with on Thursday. Sir W. Marriott made a personal explanation in reply to the bantering charge of the Secretary for War on Friday last, that he, in his capacity of Judge Advocate General, had worked with such energy that in two months he became entitled to all the money voted for the fees of his Department, and had left only one hundred and fifty pounds for his successor under the present Government. Mr. Campbell-Bannerman, in reply, stated that the explanation merely confirmed everything he had said. The first Vote was for ^24,900 for the Diplomatic and Consular Service, of which Mr. Gibson Bowles moved the reduction by ¿£4,000. Speaking for upwards of an hour, he reviewed the history of the Behring Sea Question, with the view of bringing out his belief that by the decision under the arbitration in Paris we might be forced into some measures having for their object the coercion of the British Colonies into a course of conduct objectionable to them. Sir E. Grey replied that as Canada was represented on the Commission it was a reflection on her loyalty to insinuate that she would not abide by the result. It was singularly inopportune to discuss this question on the very eve of the opening of the Arbitration. Mr. J. W. Lowther also condemned the discussion at present as undesirable, and he suggested that the Amendment should be withdrawn. Dr. Hunter sarcastically complimented Mr. Bowles on the brevity of his condensation of the Blue Books, which might as well have occupied six hours as one. Mr. Bowles then withdrew his Amendment.
New S e r i e s , Vor.. X I IX . , No, 2,068.
Mr. Labouchere moved the reduction of the
— Ug a n d a . Vote by ¿£5,000, the amount of the item for the expenses of G. Portall’s Mission to Uganda. He gave a history of the events which preceded the despatch of Sir G. Portal’s Mission, contending that Sir Gerald had gone there with a free hand to set up an Imperial Protectorate, which might involve Imperial responsibility. This temporary occupation would leave the Government only one choice, and that would be to convert the temporary occupation into a permanent one. The projected railway, he understood, would cost ¿£3,000,000, and it would require a subsidy of ¿£300,000 a year to maintain and work it. The hon. member then began to satirize the Jingoism of Lord Rosebery, whom he described as having lately gone into a nest of Jingoes, where he played the part of the High Priest of Jingoism, and talked about “ pegging out” claims for the future. There was a Newcastle Programme, said Mr. Labouchere, and what would have been said if anybody had stood up when it was propounded, and proposed to add to it this doctrine of pegging-out claims. There was no character in history whom he despised more than that leprous Syrian opportunist, Naaman, who, when he was in the Temple, bowed down to the gods, and when he got outside abused them. I f Lord Salisbury had sent this Mission, he would have been eloquently denounced on the Liberal benches; but as it was the Mission of a Liberal Government all that eloquence was now lost. As he had done in the case of the Soudan, so now would he oppose the policy of annexing the whole of Africa under the plea of pegging out claims for posterity. Mr. Labouchere’s speech was greeted with loud and frequent cheering from the Opposition benches. Mr. Gladstone, replying to Mr. Labouchere’s criticism on Lord Rosebery’s expression as to pegging out claims for the future, remarked that any one who pointed out that the Anglo-Saxon race had a great mission in the Colonies was immediately convicted by his hon. friend of favouring a Protectorate or the annexation of Uganda. Sir G. Portal had received no authority to occupy the country, or to establish either a Government in the country, or a Protectorate over it, nor had he received power to annex it. He had not gone to Uganda to bind the Government to any future policy, but simply to report as to the best way of dealing with it. He admitted that it was a serious thing to send a mission into a country like Uganda; but there was a question which the Government were not prepared to answer, whether out of the whole mass of proceedings there had grown up circumstances which made it their duty to inquire how far it was necessary to
