THE A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS ÜT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the B r ie j o j H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T he T ablet, June 4, 1870.
V ol. 81. No. 2771.
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CONTENTS.
C hronicle of t h e W e e k : Page R eview s :
Page
Imperial Parliament : Toujours Home Rule— Monday’s Sitting— Tuesday’s Sitting — The Great Temperance Demonstration — A Massacre of Convicts— Lord Salisbu ry in Blackfriars— The Greek Loan in London— Mr. Sexton and Mr. Healy— Northampton and the' Royal Wedding — New Railway from Spain to France—The Royal Wedding .................................... 9r7 L eaders
“ A Look Ahead ” . . . . . . 921 The Harvest of the Eclipse . . 922 A University^ for Burmah .. . . 923 The Old Syriac Version of the Gos
pels ................................................ 923 N<otes . . . . . . . . . . 925
The Expositor’s Bible . .
927
William George Ward . . . . 928 Lourdes . . . . . . . . 929 The Catholic Dictionary . . . . 930 The Life of Jesus Christ . . . . 930 English Holy Wells . . . . 930 The Queen’s English? Up to
Date . . .. . . . . 931 The Ushaw Dinner . . . . . . 931 C orrespondence :
Rome :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) .................................... 933 Dublin :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) ............................. . . 934 L e t t e r s to t h e E d itor :
“ The Cross of Christ ” . . . . 935 The Degradation of Woman : Is
There no Remedy ? . . . . 936
L e t t e r s to t h e E d it or (Con
Page tinued) : A National Devotion to St. Peter 937 Mr. Sexton and the Government 037 A Misunderstood Case .. . . 937 History of Old Hall .. . . 937 Homes for Destitute Children . . 937 Bishop McQuaid’s Jubilee . . . . 937 Cardinal Logue on Faith and Poli
tics .. .. . . . . . . 938 Archbishop Walsh and “ The Daily
Express” .. .. . . . . 940 The Bishops of India and the Papal
Jubilee .. . . .. . . 940 The Order of the Pious Schools . . 941 A Colonial Bishop Sails for Europe 941 Palestine Exploration .. . . 942 A Catholic Magistrate for Cardiff .. q42 The Bateman Heirlooms . . . . 943 So c ia l an d P o l it ic a l . . . . 944 1
SU PPLEM EN T . D ecision s of R oman C ongrega
Page t io n s . . . . . . . . . 949 N ew s from t h e S chools :
New Jersey and Catholic Schools 949 Glasgow Catholic Industrial
Schools .. . . . . . . 949 SS. Mary’s and Edward’s Schools,
Silvertown . . . . . . 949 About Education .. . . . . 950 N ews from t h e D io ceses :
Westminster . . . . . . 950 Birmingham . .. . . . . 950 Newport and Menevia . . . . 950 Plymouth . . . . . . . . 9151 Portsmouth . . .. . . . . 951 Shrewsbury . . . . .. . . 951 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 952 Glasgow . . . . . . . . 952 Christchurch Guardians and a Ca
tholic Child.. .. . . . . 953 A Poor-House Catholic Chaplain’s
Remuneration .. . . . . 954
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
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AT the end of last week the intention of the Government in reference to the proclaiming of the wedding day of the Duke o f York a public holiday formed the subject of a question in the House of Commons, Mr. Gladstone replying that there had been no case of a general holiday being proclaimed under A c t of Parliament except on the occasion of the Queen’s Jubilee. The duty o f the Government in such cases was to be guided by the manifestation of public sentiment. The question whether or not the proposed Irish Legislature should have power to deal with factory, workshops, and mines legislation, and with hours of labour, occupied the greater part o f the Morning Sitting. By the Bill power was given to the new Parliament, aud an Amendment moved by Mr. Whiteley proposed that it should be withheld. In objecting to the Amendment Mr. Gladstone remarked that it excluded from the power o f the Irish Parliament all industries except agriculture and fishing, and applied to every workshop in every village in Ireland. But these subjects, he held, could be better dealt with by a body having local knowledge than by the Imperial Parliament. Sir J. Gorst, who had a more restricted Amendment on the same subject upon the Paper, merely prohibiting the Irish Government from abrogating the existing factory laws, ■ admitted that the Amendment was too wide. As industrial legislation was now becoming a matter of International -arrangement, and would soon be the subject o f treaties between the civilized Powers of Europe, and as there might be negotiations for an International eight hours day, great inconvenience would arise if there were two separate Legislatures in this country dealing, each in its own fashion, with the subject. Mr. Mundella replied that he did not •anticipate a uniform factory system being arranged for the whole o f Europe, nor did he expect any danger from granting the Irish Legislature power to legislate on labour questions. So far from Ireland forming the rear rank on such questions, he thought it would set this country an example, and he saw no reason why Ireland should not send a delegate to future International Conferences as well as England. Mr. T . W. Russell followed, and argued that the granting of bounties on the preceding day would give the Irish manu-
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facturers the power, not only of competing with Yorkshire manufacturers in Ireland itself, but of coming over to this country and competing with them here. And the Bill, without this Amendment, disabled the English manufacturers still further in this way. The Irish members might vote for an eight hours law in England and against an eight hours law in Ireland, with the view o f giving their own manufacturers, with their long day, the advantage over the English manufacturers with their compulsory short day. Mr. Chamberlain followed up Mr. Russell’s line o f argument. He dwelt on the temptation to the Irish Legislature to allow longer hours and looser restrictions than those which prevailed in this country, and which had been obtained only after a long struggle. By this means they would have an immense advantage over English labour, and with the view o f preserving the advantages which the working classes had obtained, and obtained only after a long struggle, it was desirable that there should be uniformity o f legislation, and that the legislation should be in the hands o f the Imperial Parliament. Then came twenty minutes of a speech from Mr. John Burns, who (according to The S ta ndard “ observer ” ) has never spoken in the House with so much animation and buoyancy. H e attacked the arguments o f Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Russell, and denounced the sweaters of Birmingham and Belfast. It was not to the Liberal party, he said, that the working classes owed the splendid gift of factory legislation, but to the tenant farmers o f England, the Tory gentlemen o f England, the gentlemen sitting there, and he pointed to the Conservative benches, from which there immediately rose resounding cheers. H e ridiculed the idea of the shipwrights of Belfast, with the strong Trade Union which would be developed among them, allowing themselves to be made the victims o f sweating shipbuilders. He next drew a picture of the wealth and commercial greatness of England, and poured raillery on the notion of this great England, this country at the head of the world’s trade, being jealous o f a country like Ireland^ a hundred years behind it in industry, and behind it because o f the treatment it had received at England’s hands. The Debate soon after this ran itself out, and the Amendment was defeated by a majority o f 30 in a House o f 566. Sir J. Lubbock moved the next Amendment, which was to withdraw the currency from the control of the Irish Parliament. He pointed out that their temptation to issue Bank notes would be almost irresistible, especially in times o f difficulty; that the currency would thereby become inflated with notes, which were not a legal tender, and that great injury to the community would arise. The Chancellor of
