A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS ÜT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the B r i e f o f H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T he T ablet, June 4, 1S70.
V o l . 81. No. 2765.
L ondon, May 6, 1893.
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[R e g is tered a t t h e G e n e r a l P o st O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper.
C h ronicle of th e W e e k :
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'Imperial Parliament : The Budget Resolutions — The Occupation of Egypt— In the Lords on Tuesday — Miscellaneous — The Eight Hours B ill—The Opening o f the World’s Fair—The French Press on the Egyptian Debate— The Australian Banking Crisis— The Leprosy Commission — The Bishop of London and the School Board— Betrothal of the Duke of York and Princess May .. . . 677 L eaders
The Eight Hours Bill .. . . 6 8 1 The Eclipse Expeditions .. . . 682 Religion in the Board Schools . . 683 The Royal Academy .. . . 684 The Benedictine Order in Rome . . 685 N o t e s . . . . .........................685
R e v iew s :
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Annals of an Old Manor-House.. 687 Lottie’s Wooing .. .. .. 688 Ships that Pass in the Night . . 688 The French Hierarchy : 1682-
1831 .. . . .. . . 689 Memorials Against School Board
Religious Instruction . . .. 639 The Lord Mayor and the Pope . . 691 Columbus and Chicago . . . .6 9 1 C orrespondence :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . . . 693 Dublin :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . -. . . 694 The Spanish Literary Requiem . . 695 Our Lady o f Japan . . . . . . 696
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L e t t e r s to th e E d it or :
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The Title “ Cardinal Archbishop ” 697 Free Catholic Thought . . . . 697 The Conversion of American In
dians .. _......................... 698 De Propaganda Fide . . . . 698 An Inquiry . . . . . . . . 698 Useful Books for a Bov . . .. 698 “ Aspects of Anglicanism” . . 698 “ A Blue Poster ” .. . . . . 698 On Christian Art . . . . . . 698 Archbishop Ullathorne . . . . 699 Among the Lepers . . . . .. 700 The New Bishop of Argyll and the
Isles . . . . . . . . .. 701 Hieroglyphic Bibles . . . . . . 702 S ig n if ic a n t N o t e s . . . . 703 The Lord Mayor and “ The Free
man's Journal” . . . . .. 703 The Late Lord Mowbray and
Stourton .. .. . . .. 703 The Late Sir James Dormer .. 703 ’
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F rom E v e r yw h e r e . . . . . . 704 S o c ia l a n d P o l it i c a l . . . . 704
SU P P L EM EN T . Brief of Pope Leo X I I I . . . . 709 N ew s from t h e S chools :
Religious Education in the Schools 709 Religious Instruction in Board
Schools .. .. . . . . 710 The Newest Statistics . . . . 7x1 About Education . . . . . . 7 1 1 N ew s from t h e D io c e s e s :
Westminster . . . . . . 712 Clifton . . . . . . . . 712 Middlesbrough . . . . . . 712 Plymouth . . . . . . . . 712 Portsmouth . . . . . . . . 712 Glasgow . . . . . . . . 712 Catholicity at Streatham . . . . 712 O b it u a r y . . . . . . . . 714
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
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AT the end of last week, the
Debate on the Budget was m1.3u1.uuu1« resumed in Committee of Ways and Means, and on the Reso
lution for adding another penny to the pound for Income Tax Mr. Goschen offered some very spirited observations, on the general nature o f the financial scheme o f the Government. He pressed the point that the Government, notwithstanding their absolutely baseless and fictitious statements in Opposition that the late Government were spending millions too much on the Army and Navy, were now actually increasing the military expenditure by .£170,000. He invited the Chancellor o f the Exchequer to state his view as to the possibility of carrying out the ^financial promises of his supporters at the late election, especially with reference to the tea and tobacco duties, and caused some amusement among the Conservatives by reading an electioneering card quoted in an evening newspaper, which stated that the poor man’s tea paid threepence in the shilling of taxation and the rich man’s only a penny, and that the poor man’s tobacco paid tenpence halfpenny in the ¿hilling, and the rich man’s cigar only a halfpenny. And all this was to remain unredressed. Not a single member o f the Treasury Bench would, he believed, rise, and say that they would introduce an ad valorem system of either tea or tobacco duty ; and yet the card told the working men that they would not right these wrongs by voting for a 'Tory. H e asked the Radicals if they had righted them by ■ voting for a Liberal. His next point was that our hands were tied by the Customs arrangements under the Home Rule Bill, and he maintained there would have been plenty ■ of time to fall back on some other expedient than the Income Tax, but for great exhibition Bills being preferred to practical reforms. But the Chancellor had found it a simpler thing to cover his deficit by putting a penny in the slot. The Income Tax he looked upon as a great reserve ■ in time o f war, and he condemned the proposed increase, which would inflict great hardship on clerks, small traders, and embarrassed farmers. Financial reform was being sacrificed to tinkering with the Constitution. Sir J. Lubbock reminded the House that Ireland under the Home Rule Bill would contribute nothing whatever to the increased expenditure of over a million. H e was about to speak in support of an Amendment which he had on the paper, and which declared it inexpedient to meet the increased expenditure by a tax which would fall entirely on England and Scotland, when Mr. Mellor, the Chairman of the Committee, informed him that he could not move the Amendment in the form in which it stood, and Sir John, after impressing on the Committee that the increased expenditure was permanent, and would be still further increased next year, varied his Amendment by simply moving that the Income Tax should stand at sixpence. The Chancellor of the Exchequer regretted that the question o f Home Rule had been introduced into the Debate at all. O f the ,£1,100,000 of increased expenditure, the greater part consisted of local and not Imperial charges. The only Imperial portion of that increase was £150,000, of which Ireland’s proportion was about ,£6,000. He charged Mr. Goschen with having relieved direct taxation at the expense o f indirect taxation, so much so that when he came into office in 1886, indirect taxation stood in the relation o f 54^4 per cent, to 45^5 per cent, for direct taxation, and shortly before he left office the proportions had risen to 55'9 per cent, of indirect taxation against 44 per cent, o f direct taxation. The proposed penny to the Income Tax therefore simply restored the proportion to the figures o f 1886. He was o f opinion that the proportion of indirect taxation to direct was greater than it ought to be, and for this reason he had increased the Income Tax. Mr. Courtney said the situation was serious, as the country was now on a downward grade, and he advocated what Mr. Gladstone had called a bigamous union of direct and indirect taxation, so that the incidence of the one might correct the incidence of the other. Mr. Goschen advised Sir J. Lubbock to withdraw his Amendment, as it was not the policy o f the Opposition to produce a counter Budget. Sir John adopted the suggestion, and the Amendment was withdrawn. Sir J, Dorington moved an Amendment that in case o f lands and tenements chargeable with Income Tax, under Schedules A and B, the annual value on which the Income Tax is assessed should be the net, and not the gross, value thereof. The Chancellor o f the Exchequer said he could not remove this inequality in levying the Income Tax without also removing the anomaly connected with the death duties, but he was in favour o f removing both when it could be done. The Income Tax Resolution was then agreed to, as were the other Budget Resolutions.
On Monday Sir Charles Dilke practically,
THE by an amendment on Supply, moved for n c r i T P A i ' T O N n u J raj*
Eg y p t . -3 t h e evacuation of English troops from
" Egypt. He said we could not have two
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