TABLET. A Weekly Newspaper and Review.

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From the B r i e f o f H is Holiness P iu s IX . to The Tablet, June 4, 1870.

V o l . 81. No. 2762. London, April 15, 1893-

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C hronicle of the Week :

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Imperial Parliament: Home Rule —Mr. Chamberlain Speaks—The Home Rule Bill — Wednesdays Sitting — The Mining Royalties Commission — Liberation of M. Turpin—The Labour Conflict at Hull—The British Ambassador to the United States—The Associated Chambers of Agriculture—Opening of the Spanish Parliament— Lord Randolph Churchill at Perth — The Café Véry Explosion — Colliery Disaster in Wales—Mr. Chamberlain at Birmingham .. 557 L eaders

The Congo State and the Upper

Nile ....................................561 Dr. Mivart and Cardinal Newman 562

CONTENTS.

Historical Manuscripts at Canter bury The Banquet at the Mansion House No t e s .................................... Reviews :

Pere Muard Assyria, Rome, and Canterbury Archbishop Ireland on Hell.. Correspondence :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre spondent).................................. Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre spondent)......................... Letters to the Editor :

Cardinal Newman and Mr. Pro byn-Nevins Mission Capital Debts Stoke-Courcy Free Catholic Thought

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562 564 566 568 569 571

576 576 576 576

Letters to the Editor (Con­

Page tinued) : The Existence of Evil .. .. 577 A Comment .. .. .. .. 577 The Title “ Cardinal Archbishop ” 577 Cardinal Newman and Eternal

Punishment .. .. .. 578 Communion of the Laity .. .. 578 Catholic Teachers’ Union.. .. 578 The Catholic Truth Society.. .. 578 Mill Hill Foreign Missionary Col­

lege .. .................................... 580 Discoveries in Egypt.. .. .. 581 The Catholic School Committee .. 581 Attempt to Murder the Primate of

H u n g a r y .................................... 582 Cardinal Vaughan at Tenby .. 582 Home Rule From Another Point of

View .. .. .. .. .. 582

Obituary .................................. Social and Political .. .. 583

SUPPLEMENT. News from the Schools :

The New Code Clifton Schools and Religious

Knowledge A School Board Controversy in

589 ;• 590

Derbyshire About Education......................... News from the Dioceses : Westminster .........................

P ly m o u th .................................... Salford ......................... [. St. Andrews and Edinburgh .. Glasgow ....................................593 Argyll and the Isles .. ..5 93 The Konnecke Caxton .. .. 595

590 591 591 592 592 593

Rejected MS. cannot be returned unless accompanied with address arid postage.

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

— HOME RULE.

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A S T week Mr. Gladstone moved the second reading of the Home Rule Bill in a speech which it would be useless to summarize. On the following day Mr. Dunbar Barton resumed the Debate on the Home Rule Bill, in a speech which was interrupted on the previous night by the operation o f the Twelve o ’clock Rule. He rebutted Mr. Gladstone’s argument that the prosperity o f Ireland during the 18 years from 1782 to 1800 was due to Grattan’s Parliament, and contended that the real causes of that prosperity were the removal of the restrictions on the trade o f Ireland with Great Britain and the Colonies, the rise o f the price of agricultural produce which took place in Great Britain and all over Europe ; and, lastly, the Protectionist policy of Grattan’s Parliament, which, however, was of doubtful expediency. H e was commenting on the disorders in Ireland during the existence o f the Parliament as an answer to Mr. Gladstone’s argument that there was then perfect harmony, peace, and order in Ireland, when his observations drew a remark from Mr. Gladstone, to which he replied that he was not there to speak against the Grattan Parliament, as three of his own ancestors had been members of it. “ And voted against it,” several Nationalist members called out, which Mr. Barton admitted. H e went on to describe the rebellion o f the time, the 17 Coercion Acts o f the period, and the state o f something like civil war which prevailed in Ulster in 1792 as the true answer to the Prime Minister’s picture o f peace and harmony during the existence of the Parliament. Mr. Stansfeld admitted that the measure was novel and revolutionary ; but the alternative to it was 20 years of coercion, and he urged the Ulster members to accept it, and fight their battles on the floor of the New Parliament. Mr. Brodrick pointed out many dangers which the Bill did not cover, such as procedure by Resolution, the possibility o f expelling the subjects of foreign Powers, the danger of the Irish Government granting bounties or of adopting the Canon Law in relation to divorce, and he dissected the financial Clauses at great length. The result of the financial arrangements, he maintained, was an actual deficit of 22,000 a year beyond the Customs. While Ireland was to pay one-twentieth of the charge, it was to have one-eighth of the representation. The late Government had been anxious to sell 20,000 Snider rifles, but could not find a purchaser; but a purchaser had inquired o f the present Government for them and been refused, from which he inferred that they knew they had created a state o f feeling which made them think it unwise to let arms get into the hands of the people. Mr. Haldane supported the Bill, and condemned the attempt which was being made to excite religious strife in Ulster. 1Mr. Kimber challenged the power of the House to enter| tain the Bill at all, because it did not represent the true ! opinion o f the nation, inasmuch as Ireland was over repre­

sented by 23 members, and England was under represented also by 23 members, making a difference o f 46 against England on a Division. Mr. Leese, in a highly-statistical speech, showed that the officials in Donegal, Waterford, T ip perary, Kerry, and Sligo, were nearly all Protestants, from which he inferred the great extent o f the Protestant ascendancy. He declared there would be no ascendancy o f any kind under Home Rule. Mr. Paul defended the Bill, and was speaking when the Debate stood adjourned at midnight.

— MR. CHAMBERLAIN

SPEAKS.

The Debate on the Second Reading o f the Home Rule Bill was resumed by Mr. Paul, on Monday. He was followed by Mr. Chamberlain, who addressed an over­

flowing audience. For an hour and forty minutes he held the ear of the House with a masterly speech in reply to Mr. Gladstone’s line o f argument when moving the Second Reading of this Bill. It divided itself into two main contentions, in the first o f which he disputed a proposition o f the Prime Minister that there was no other plan of settling the Irish question than that provided by this Bill. Under this head, he argued that even taking the very worst view o f the conduct of Great Britain towards Ireland from 1800 to 1870, and admitting that during all that time no serious effort had been made to get to the root o f Irish discontent, it did not follow that when a serious attempt had been made a good result would not ensue. But, in any case, the period o f sixteen years, from 1870 to 1886, was altogether too short to undo the consequence o f seventy years o f misrule. And, taking the time up to 1886, he was prepared to show that Ireland was in a greater state of prosperity then than she had ever been in before. The right hon. gentleman had, therefore, been in too great a hurry in starting his Home Rule scheme, starting it before recent legislation towards the settlement o f the Irish question had had time to bear fruit. The second main contention disputed the

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