A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
DÜM VOBIS G R A T U L A M U R , AN IM O S E T I AM ADD IM U S U T IN INCCEPTIS V E S T R IS C ON S TAN TER M AN E A T IS .
From the B r i e f o f H i s H o lin ess P iu s I X . to T he T a b let , J u n e p, 1S70.
V o l . 81. No. 2767.
L ondon, M a y 20, 1893.
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[R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a l P o s t O f f i c e a s a N ew s p a p e r .
C h r o n ic l e o f t h e W e e k :
'Imperial Parliament : The House ••o f Lords— In the Commons : The Home Rule Bill— Tuesday’s Sit
Page ting — Wednesday’s Sitting — Prince Bismarck and the Emperor —The Banking Crisis in Australia — The New Greek Ministry— The London Chamber o f Arbitration— The Duke of Edinburgh on the N a v y — London School Board B u d g e t .............................. 75 7 L e a d e r s
Catholics and Disestablishment . . 761 Under the Greenwood Tree at
Earl’s Court . . .. . . 762 The Royal Academy and New
Gallery . . . . . . . . 763 A Retrospect . . ^ 764 The Catholic Hierarchy and D e
nominational Education . . . . 766 The Eucharistic Congress in Jeru
salem of 1893 . . . . . . 766
C O N T E N T S .
N o t e s ............................
Page
R e v ie w s :
The First Book of Kings. . . 768 The Partition of Africa . 77° St. Thomas on Free Will and the
Divine Co-operation
•• 771
The Biblical Illustrator . . ..771 The Client of the Sacred H eart.. 771 A t the Rising o f the Moon . . 771 The Primer of Church Latin . . 771 Sermons for A ll Sundaj’-s and Fes
tivals of the Year . . . . 771 C orrespon d e n c e :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . . . 773 Dublin :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) ......................... . . 774 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :
The Primrose League . . . . 776 A Monster Petition.. . . . . 777 . The Indian Leprosy Commission 777 1
L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r (Con
tinued) : The York Pilgrimage, 1893 . . 778 I On Christian A rt . . . . . . 778 I An Inquiry .. .. .. . . 778 | Free Catholic Thought .. .. 779 The Centenary of St. Edmund’s 779 * “ Rescue and Salvage ” . . . . 779 | Poplar Mission .. . . . . 779 1 Testimonial to Cardinal Logue .. 779 I Uganda and the Duke of Norfolk 731 Centenary of the Archdiocese of
New Orleans
.. .. 7S1
The Pope and the Congregation of
St. Vincent de Paul . . . . 7S2 Catholic Missions to the Heathen 782 Catholic Temperance Congress . . 782 Catholic Nuns in Hospitals . . . . 735 S ig n i f i c a n t N o t e s . . . . . 733 Mr. Davitt and the Temporal Power 784 The Late Cardinal and the Late
Critics.. . . . . .. . . 784 S o c ia l a n d P o l i t i c a l . . . . 7841
SU P P L EM E N T . N ew s from t h e S chools :
Birkenhead School Board E lec
tion . . ......................... 789 An Interview with Mr. A . R iley 790 The Religious Instruction Me
morial .. . . .. .. 791 Religious Instruction and the
London School Board . . .. 792 St. Augustine’s College Athletic
Sports . . . . . . . . 792 About Education . . . . . , 793 N ew s from t h e D io ce se s :
Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 793 Newport and Menevia . . . . 793 Plymouth . . . . . . . . 793 Salford . . . . .. . . 794 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 794 The Jesuit Martyrs of Cuncolim . . 794
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CHRONICLE O F THE WEEK.
IM P E R IA L PA R L IA M E N T
— TH E HOUSE OF
LORDS.
, N Monday the Earl o f North
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brook called attention in the House o f Lords to the home charges o f the Indian Government in
•relation to the condition o f the finances o f India, and •moved for a copy o f certain papers. Lord K im berley admitted that the home charges were not on a satisfactory fo o t in g ; but he was not sanguine that the charges could be much reduced, though the Government would do their utmost to see that they were not increased. After a few words from Lord Cross, the Duke o f Argyll, and Lord ■ Stanley o f Alderley, the papers were granted, and the subje c t dropped. Lord Rosebery, in reply to the Duke o f Norfolk, said that nothing had been heard from Captain M cD onald since his return to Uganda, and that it was inconvenient to discuss the subject o f his mission at present. Several Bills were then forwarded a stage.
From answers given b y Mr. Asquith i n t h e c o m m o n s a n c j ]y [r _ j}ry Ce on Monday in the House
— T H E HOME
RU L E B IL L .
o f Commons, it appears that sixty-nine working men have been appointed magis
trates in England since July last, and that thirty-three of these have been appointed to the Borough Bench in Lancashire. T h e contagion o f this example was felt on the Irish Benches, for Mr. Sexton immediately demanded that ■ similar appointments should be made in Ireland, and Mr. TVIorley laughingly promised to communicate with the Lord Chancellor o f Ireland on the subject. Mr. Darling wanted a definition o f a working m a n ; but though Mr. Bryce explained the class o f working men from whom he had drawn his Justices, he did not give the definition wanted. Mr. Gladstone informed Mr. Jackson that the Home Rule B ill would not interfere in any way with the Land Purchase A c t, and that an Amendment to secure that object would probably be introduced. T h e House then went into Com mittee on Mr. Cavendish’s Amendment to the Second C lause o f the Bill, which he had moved with a view o f indicating what powers should be conferred on the new Legislature, instead o f giving it a general power to make laws with certain reservations as the Clause proposed. The attractions o f Captain Paul Boyton’s aquatic feat (according to the correspondent o f T h e S ta n d a rd ) proved more potent
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than the speech o f Mr. Jesse Collings, who resumed the discussion, and nearly all the Gladstonian members rushed out o f the House to the terrace to watch the performer passing Westminster as he walked along the river from Chelsea to London Bridge. The terrace was accordingly thronged with members, the emancipated Speaker being among the number. T h e Unionist members remained in the House, and the Conservative section o f them especially presented a very solid and unbroken array. When Mr. Collings had completed his brief speech in favour o f the Amendment, there was a short pause, during which neither Mr. Gladstone nor any other member o f the Treasury Bench rose. Thereupon Mr. Chamberlain got up, remarking that he had waited to see i f any member o f the Government would favour the Committee with his views. H e spoke in the quietest and most conversational manner, as if he were talking with Mr. Gladstone across a table, but his speech was one o f the most striking instances o f the way in which he drives his points home to the hilt. H e asked if the Irish Parliament was to have power to deal with the law o f marriage and divorce which was not mentioned in the Bill, and if the exclusion o f navigation from the Bill would still leave the new body powers to pass laws affecting merchant seamen and shipowners. While Mr. Chamberlain was enforcing these points, Dr. Tanner, with much testiness in his tone, asked the Chairman i f this was in order. T h e Chairman assured him that it was strictly in order. Mr. Chamberlain evoked loud Unionist laughter by observing that be was accustomed to these interruptions, and that he thought they had got rather low down. H e next instanced the difficulties which the non-exclusion o f banking and currency from the Bill would give rise to, and argued that i f by delegation Parliament gave too little it could be easily remedied, but that i f by reservation it did not reserve enough, it would be very difficult to take any power away. Mr. Gladstone replied at very considerable length. In his opening sentences he declared derisively that he had hoped Mr. Chamberlain would have had some little thing in his mind that would bear on the su b je c t ; and he had looked for some little pencil o f light that would illuminate it. H e argued in favour o f his own plan, but asked Mr. Chamberlain i f he would accept the Bill if the Government accepted the Amendment. “ Certainly not,’’ exclaimed Mr. Cham berlain promptly, amid much laughter. Mr. Gladstone replied that his right hon. friend’s meaning could be best described by the adage, “ Heads I win, tails you lose.” T h e Prime Minister went on to argue that the acceptance o f the Amendment would lead to a complete reconstruction o f the
