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DOM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX. to T he T ablet, June 4, i8yo.

V o l . 81. No. 2760. L ondon, A pr il i , 1893.

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[R e g is t e r ed a t t h e Gen e r a l P o st 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 Parliament : Miscellaneous Business — Payment of Members— The Vote of Censure— Army Annual Bill— Committee of Supply— The British Representativ e at Washington—The Liberator Trial— Mr. S. Jabez Balfour’s Concerns—The End of the Cotton Strike — The Spanish Senate — Fighting in the Congo Free State — The Church in Hungary—The Crofters Commission— A Correspondent Expelled from Paris . . 477 'L eaders

The Double Terror in Rome . . 481 A Cardinal’s Welcome . . . . 482 The Divisibility of Wealth . . 482 Historical Manuscripts at Canter­

bury ....................... . .• 483 A Side Light on Italian Liberty . . 485

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N o t e s ........................................................486 R e v iew s :

The Law Affecting Catholics _.. 488 Recollections o f an Egyptian

Princess . . . . . . . . 489 Y o r k ......................... _•. . . 490 Reports of the State Trials . . 490 The Protestant Archbishop of Dub­

lin and “ The Faith ” in Spain . . 491 The Barnardo Homes . . . . 491 C orrespondence :

Rome (From Our Own Corre spondent)....................................... 493 Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) ....................................... 494 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it or :

The 125th Psalm . . . . . . 496 Stoke-Courcy ........................... 496 Free Catholic Thought . . . . 496 The Education o f Our Girls .. 496

ENTS.

L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r (Con­

Page tinued) : Leprosy and Vaccination . . . . 496 The London Oratory . . . . 497 Mission of Our Most Holy Re­

deemer . . . . . . . . 497 The Advance of Human Know­

ledge .................................... 497 Old Italian Documents . . . . 497 The Unionist Demonstration in

Limerick . . . . . . . . 498 The Bishop o f Meath and the Elec­

tion Petitions .. . . . . 500 The Church in East Africa . . . . 501 Cardinal Newman on the Eternity of Punishment . . . . . . 502 The Duke of Norfolk and Home

Rule . . . . . . . . . . 502 The Apostolic Delegate in America 503 An Unpublished Letter of Leo X 111. 503 O b it u a r y ........................................ 504

The State Opening o f the Imperial

Institute . . . . . . . . 504 So c ia l a n d P o l it ic a l . . . . 305

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

The Education Code, 1893 . . 509 The Religious Instruction Con­

troversy . . . . . . . . 511 Notes from Stonyhurst .. . 512 Cardinal Logue and the Christian

Brothers . . . . . . . . 512 Annual Report of St. John’s

Schools, Islington . . . . 513 About E d u c a t io n ....................513 N ew s from t h e D io ceses :

Birm ingham .............................313 Clifton .. . . . . . . 514 \ Newport and Menevia . . . . 5x4

Portsmouth . . . . . . . . 514

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

— MISCELLANEOUS

BUSINESS.

\ T the end o f last week, in /-V reference to the Vote of

Censure of which Mr. Balfour had given notice on Thursday evening, the Leader o f the Opposition asked the Prime Minister if Monday could be given for discussing it. In describing it he spoke o f it as a Vote o f Censure on the Irish Government. Mr. Gladstone replied that he had considered the state of public business, and he proposed to accede to the right hon. gentleman’s desire that Monday should be appropriated to his Motion, which Mr. Gladstone spoke o f as a Motion for reviewing the conduct of the Irish Department of the Government. H e went on to say that he did not regard a Motion impugning the conduct o f a particular Department of the Government as of itself entitling even a large party in the House to demand a day from the Government. That right was limited by usage and policy to cases in which what was called a vote o f Want o f Confidence in the Government was m oved; but, nevertheless, he conceded the request o f the right hon. gentleman. The first Order o f the Day was the Third Reading o f the Appropriation Bill. Mr. J. Lowther complained of the form in which the Estimates had been drawn up, and he gradually slipped into a discussion of the form o f a particular Estimate, that for the cost o f the Evicted Tenants Commission. Mr. Sexton rose to order, and asked if it was permissible to discuss the framework o f a particular Estimate on the Third R eading o f the Bill. After one or two intermediate rulings, the Speaker held that Mr. Lowther should have stated his objections to the framing o f the Estimates at an earlier stage, and that it would be unusual and unfair to discuss a particular estimate on the Third Reading. Mr. Lowther, resuming, declared that this was exactly the rule to which he desired to conform, but he immediately began to refer again to the same Estimate, and was promptly pulled up by Mr. Healy, and also checked by the Speaker. After a speech of some length, the Chancellor o f the Exchequer referred to his recollections of Mr. Lowther’s early efforts a quarter of a century ago at Obstruction, which he had now brought to a state of perfection, and he denounced this present recrudescence of Obstruction, declaring that Mr. Lowther’s speech was made with the one sole purpose of delay

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ing the debate on the Employers’ Liability Bill. Sir William then referred to some proceedings which had taken place after midnight at the previous sitting in connection with the Army Annual Bill. Sir John Gorst appealed to the Speaker if this was in order, but the Speaker held that the circumstances of the case justified the reference, and Sir William Harcourt proceeded to direct some indignant criticisms at Sir John Gorst. On the conclusion o f his speech, Mr. Hanbury and Mr. Gibson Bowles both stood up and remained standing. Mr. Sexton, however, moved the Closure, which the Speaker said he would put, leaving it to the Blouse to form its own judgment upon it, and declaring that the proceedings were not in unison with Parliamentary practice, a remark which elicited vociferous cheers from the Ministerialists. The Speaker then put the Closure, which was challenged by Mr. Gibson Bowles. The Bill was then read a third time. A further question as to the proceedings during the Second Reading of the Army Annual Bill on Thursday night was raised by Mr. Hanbury, and the Speaker, again referring to the discussion which had just closed, expressed a hope that the discussions on Appropriation Bills would be conducted in a manner more in consonance with ordinary Parliamentary practice than they had been that day. The debate on the Second Reading o f the Employers’ Liability Bill was resumed, and occupied the remainder o f the morning sitting, being further adjourned till Monday.

The evening sitting was occupied with a

— p a y m e n t o f very animated Debate on Mr. W. A llen ’s m e m b e r s . Amendment to the Motion for going into

Committee o f Supply in favour o f a reason­

able allowance being forthwith granted to all members o f Parliament. Mr. Allen repudiated the idea o f the payment being limited to such members as made a declaration of poverty, and explained that by the grant being made forthwith was meant the earliest possible moment, either this year or next, or next again, an interpretation which produced some negative cries from the Radical members behind him. He expressed his belief also that it could be done through the Budget, notwithstanding Mr. Gladstone’s statement that it could not. Mr. Dalziel seconded the Amendment. Admiral Field opposed it vigorously and humorously, and in a style which Sir W. Harcourt later in the evening described as a charming style o f quarter-deck argument. Mr. Rathbone, whohadanAmendmenton the paper, and said the forms of the House prevented him from moving, limiting payment to those who made a declaration of poverty, spoke in that direction. Mr. Fenwick supported the Amendment