THE TABLET.
A Weekly Newspaper and Review .
DUM VOBIS GRATULAM UR , ANIMOS ETI AM ADDIMUS UT IN INCGEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
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 T he T ablet, J u n e 4, 1870.
Vol. 81. No. 2763. London, A pril 22, 1893-
price sa., typost 5%<i.
[R eg iste r ed a t t h e G en 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 : The Home Rule Bill — Monday’s Sitting — Tuesday’s Debate—The Reform Struggle in Belgium—The End of the Crisis— The Dowager Duchess of Sutherland’s Imprisonment— The Coup d’E tat in Servia—Mr. Balfour at Limehouse — Lord George Hamilton and Home Rule — The New Cunarder — Great Accident in Birmingham . . . . 597 L eaders
The Struggle at Hull .. . . 601 The Coup d’Etat in Belgrade . . 602 Automatic Confessions . . . . 603 Evening Work and Play . . . . 604
CONTENTS.
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N otes . . . . ............................ 605 R e v iew s :
Commentary on St. Matthew . . 607 Pastime Papers . . . . . . 608 The Vatican and Italy .. . . 609 Time and the Woman .. . . 609 The Cloister and the Heai-th . . 610 The Late Catholic Ex-Premier of
Canada and Annexation . . . . 610 Persecution in Poland . . . . 611 C orrespondence :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . .. . . 613 Dublin :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) ......................... . . 614
L e t t e r s to t h e E d itor :
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The Title “ Cardinal Archbishop ” 615 Free Catholic Thought . . .. 616 Cardinal Newman and Mr. Pro-
byn-Nevins . . . . .. 616 Welsh Catholic Literature . . 616 The Lord Mayor and the Court of Aldermen . . . . . . 6x7 Mission Capital Debts .. . . 6x7 Catholic Progress in Lancashire.. 617 On Christian Art . . . . .. 618 Illuminated Choir Books o f the
15th Century . . . . . . 618 Stoke-Courcy .. .. . . 6 1 8 St. George’s Day . . . . . . 618 An Old Custom . . . . . . 618 The Cardinal Archbishop in Lan
cashire . . . . . . . . 618
The Pope and the Bishops of New
York Province . . . . . . 623 O b it u a r y ........................................ 624 So c ia l a n d P o l it ic a l . . . . 624
SU PPLEM ENT. N ews from th e Schools :
The Catholic School Committee 629 Religious Instruction in Board
Schools . . . . .. 629 About E d u c a t io n .........................630 Birmingham . .. .. . . 631 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 632 Glasgow .................................... 632 The Struggles of a Church . . . . 632 Society of St. Vincent de Paul . . 634
*** Rejected M S . cannot be returned unless acco?npanied with address and postage.
On Monday, Mr. John Burns rose to ask
— Monday’s leave to move the Adjournm ent o f the House,
sitting. to discuss the conduct o f the H u ll Board o f
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
Guardians and local authorities in connection
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with the labour disputes now proceeding at Hull. When the Speaker asked if the application was supported by forty members, all the Irish and Radical members rose, but the Conservatives made no response. Mr. Burns, having thus obtained the necessary authority, proceeded to cite two cases o f application for relief in which the Guardians and Governor had, as he contended, abused their official position to exercise pressure upon poor applicants, with the view o f compelling them to accept the free labour ticket o f the Shipping Federation, and thus enrol themselves on the side o f the masters against the strikers. H e mentioned that twenty o f the thirty-seven Guardians were magistrates, and twenty-three were shipowners. Mr. Burns was proceeding to enlarge on the general incidents o f the strike when Mr. C . H . Wilson asked whether he was in order, and j whether he him self would have an opportunity o f replying
AT the end o f last week
Mr. Asquith resumed the r u l e b i i i Debate on the H om e Rule B ill, and delivered a speech o f an hour and a h a lf ’s duration. A t the beginning he referred ■ to Mr. Chamberlain’s speech o f the preceding day, at B irmingham, and spoke o f him as going about scavenging in the dustheaps of the speeches o f the Irish members ; at the end he drew a caricature o f Mr. J. M orley delivering a t Cork the incendiary passages which Mr. Balfour had delivered in Belfast. Between these two extremes o f his speech la y an elaborate argument in relation to the Imperial Suprem acy, the nature o f the autonomy granted to Ireland, and the safeguards for the minority. H e referred to what he called L o rd R . Churchill’s exaggerations and full-blooded rhetoric at L iverpool. T h e noble Lord, he said, was cast for the part o f Othello, and thought it necessary to black over th e whole o f his body— a jo ke which (according to T h e S ta n d a r d ) convulsed the House. When be was delivering an eulogium on Mr. Davitt, a sudden outburst of excitement occurred on the Irish benches, and half-a-dozen Nationalists started to their feet, making a great commotion. Mr. C r illy , pointing to a member on the T o ry side o f the gangway, exclaim ed, “ Is this man in order in calling Mr. D avitt a murderer ? ” T h e Speaker replied that he did not know to whom he re fe rred ; and there were immediate cries o f “ Cranborne,” “ Cranborne.” Lord Cranborne rose at once, and said that the word had escaped him, and though he thought he had said nothing but the truth, it ought not to have been said. T h e speaker replied that it was not a statem ent to use, and that the noble Lord must apologize to the House. Lord Cranborne immediately d id so, remarking that the expression was not in tended for the ear o f the H ouse. Lord George Hamilton, in rising to reply to Mr. Asquith, was left with a very small audience, but criticized the B ill with great animation. Captain Norton and Mr. Byles supported it, and it was opposed by Mr. Brodie Hoare, and by Adm ira l F ie ld . Mr. B lake wound up the D ebate with a long speech, in which he enlarged on the political situation in Canada, and the Debate was adjourned on the Motion o f Mr. Forwood.
to him. This resulted in Mr. Burns being lim ited to a d is cussion o f the conduct o f the Guardians, which brought his speech to a speedy close. Mr. H . Fowler, as President o f tbe L o ca l Government Board, replied that he had no jurisdiction, but he had telegraphed to the Guardians, and received the reply that they had refused outdoor re lie f on the ground that there was work i f able-bodied applicants chose to do it. Mr. John Wilson, Labour member for Durham, intervened with a question, but without effect, and Mr. C . H . Wilson, the shipowner and member for Hull, rose to reply to Mr. Burns. H e also, however, began to enlarge on the fact that the violent speeches o f the Unionist leaders had thrown H u ll into a state o f terrorism, and, on being ruled out o f order by the Speaker, he contented him self with saying that Mr. Burns’s statem enls were entirely contrary to the facts. Mr. Burns subsequently expressed h im self satisfied w ith the publicity he had given to the matter, and his Motion was withdrawn, though some C on servatives were at first disposed to negative it. Mr. Goschen then resumed the Debate on the H om e R u le B ill in what T h e S ta n d a r d describes as a speech o f striking freshness and power. H e had a large audience, even the bulk o f the Irish members remaining to listen to him. H itherto, according to the same paper, their cue has generally been to destroy his speeches by a series of planned interruptions, knowing that his fatal facility at quick retort often tempts him aside from his chosen line o f argument. On M onday night, however, he was allow ed to proceed almost without a
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