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F rom th e B r i e f o f H i s H o lin e s s P i u s I X . to The Tablet, J u n e 4, 18 70.
V o l . 81. No. 2756. L ondon, March 4, 1893.
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Chronicle of the Week :
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Imperial Parliament: The Suspensory Bill — The Government and Temperance— Bi-metallism on Tuesday— Mr. Gladstone’s Answer —Wednesday’s Sitting— Queensland and the Colonial Office—The Home Rule Bill— M. Jules Ferry in the Senate— Anglo-American Arbitration— An Archbishop E x pelled from Bulgaria — Spanish Elections— Education of the Blind and D e a f .................................... 317 •Leaders :
Welsh Parsons and British Pub
licans . . . . . . . . 321 Prince Henri d’Orleans and the
Far East . . ^.........................322 Diocesan Seminaries . . . . 323 .Professor Mivart and St. Alphonsus 324
C O N T E N T S .
The Papal Jubilee and the British
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P i lg r im a g e .................................... 325 Malta and the Queen . . . . 327 No t e s ....................................... 328 Reviews :
Buddhism Old and New . . . . 329 The Sacramentáis of the Catholic
C h u r c h ....................................... 330 A Visit to Europe and the Holy
Land .......................................330 La Débâcle . . 331 Security of Life in Rome and Italy 331 Papers by Catholic Architects . . 331 Correspondence :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) .......................................333 1
Correspondence (Continued):
Dublin :— (From Our Own Corre
Page spondent) .................................... 334 Letters to the Editor :
Catholic Literature at Chicago . . 335 The Archbishop and the Nuns . . 335 St. Frances of Rome and the
Benedictine Oblates . . . . 335 On Christian A r t ......................... 335 Literature for Seamen . . . . 336 Southwark Poor Law Guardians 336 An Inquiry .. . . .. . . 336 Free Catholic Thought . . . . 336 Interesting to Junior Convent
Children . . . . . . . . 337 A Cheap Library . . . . . . 337 Assyria, Rome, and Canterbury . . 337 England and the Papal Jubilee . . 338 An Oscott Disputation . . . . 339 A Possible Hierarchy for Hawaii . . 340 A Further Account of the Irish ' Pilgrims . . . . . . . . 341
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The Condition of Uganda . . . . 341 The National Union o f Catholic
Teachers of Great Britain . . 342 Obituary ..............................343 Social and Political .. .. 343
SU PPLEM EN T . News from the Schools :
London School Board and Religious Education . . .. . . 349 Demoralization in Birmingham . . 350 St. Vincent’s, Watford . . . . 351 About Education . . . . . . 351 News from the Dioceses :
Westminster . . . . . . 351 Southwark . . . . .. . . 351 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 352 Newport and Menevia . . . . 353 Salford ......................... .. 354
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C H R O N I C L E O F T H E W E E K .
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT
-— THE SUSPENSORY
BILL.
T the end o f last week Mr.
A squith occupied half an hour in a very full House in moving for leave to introduce a B ill to prevent, for a lim ited time, the creation o f new interests in Church of England bishoprics, dignities, and benefices in Wales and Monmouthshire. A further object o f the Bill, as it stood on the paper, was to restrain for the same period, in certain respects, the proceedings o f the E ccle siastical Commissioners, but this part o f the Bill, as he subsequently explained, had been dropped. In the opening sentences o f his speech he gave expression to some remarks in favour o f Welsh Disestablishm ent, towards which, he said, the B ill was the first step. T h e policy of W e lsh D isestablishm ent was a policy to which the L iberal party were distinctly pledged, and which was in the minds o f the electors at the last e le c t io n ; and the Government, therefore, would be failing in their duty i f they did not take advantage o f the first opportunity afforded to them to give a prompt and effectual disposal o f the policy entrusted to them . H ence the present Suspensory Bill, which consisted o f one single simple C lause, providing that in all appointments com ing within the scope o f the B ill, which were made after its passing, all emoluments would be held by the new incumbents subject to the pleasure o f Parliament. T h e result would be that they would have no claim for pecuniary compensation, as they took their offices with full 'knowledge o f the intentions o f the House. A remark that he would not treat the question controversially brought out loud ironical cheers from the Opposition, to which he retorted that he regarded the ethics and finality o f the question as having been conclusively settled in 1869 by the Disestablishm ent o f the Irish Church, and, i f any belated controversialist did not believe that, he should be banished to some museum o f political antiquities. H e went on to argue that the Nonconformists were in a great m a jo r ity ; that thirty-one o f the thirty-four W e lsh members were p ledged to D isestablishm en t; that the principle which the Duke o f Devonshire applied to Scotland was now applied b y the Government to W a le s ; and that it was impossible
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to flout the national sentiment o f Wales b y supporting an institution to which the Welsh people were themselves opposed. D isestablishm ent would not destroy or even harm the Church in Wales. T h e only change it would effect would be that the Bishops and Deans would no longer be appointed by the Prime M inister o f the day, and the national property which had been given to the small minority o f the people would be devoted to Welsh national purposes— a remark which brought out vehement cheering from the Welsh members. T h e B ill was submitted in no sentim ent o f hostility to the Church, but the Government had a duty to perform which political justice cast upon it. Sir J. Gorst, who rose to criticize the Bill, spoke to a small audience. H e said that his main position was that it was foolish to destroy or even injure any institution which either was useful or capable o f being made useful, and i f that proposition applied to any institution, it applied in a greater degree to a Church. A fte r some discussion, L o rd Randolph Churchill threw new life into the Debate. H e spoke o f the H om e Secretary’s speech as more aggressive than any that could have been delivered b y a N onconformist, and o f his denunciations as having been almost furious. H e quoted, amid frequent Opposition cheering, passages from a speech by Mr. G ladstone in 1871 asserting, in the strongest terms, the impossibility o f separating the Church in Wales from the Church o f England, and he pointed out that the B ill pledged the House to D isestablishment, and that i f D isestablishm ent was not passed, the B ill would gradually starve and k ill the Church in Wales b y inches. H e could not believe in the sincerity o f the W e lsh members, who were supporting a Home R u le B ill that would put them in a minority which would not allow them to carry the present Bill. Referring to the effects o f the Bill, he contended that it would suspend all marriages, all funerals, and absolutely arrest the administration o f the Sacraments in Wales. A s there was no W e lsh nation, so there was no Welsh C h u r ch ; it was not the Church o f Wales they were dealing with that night, it was the Church o f England. Plunder was the local motive for the B i l l ; but votes, votes, votes were the political motive o f the Government— votes at any price. H e concluded with an eloquent denunciation o f the policy o f the Government, “ which was suited to a Whitechapel auction,” and he called on the T o ry party to resist inch b y inch the Government’s politically infamous aims. Mr. Gladstone, in a speech o f great vigour, asserted that the Government was merely carrying out the Opposition pledges, and whilst he was charged with endeavouring to play Welsh Disestablishm ent against Home Rule,
