TA A W eekly New spaper a n d R ev iew .

DGM VOBIS GRATÜLAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

From the B r ie j o j H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T he T a b l e t , June p, 1870.

V ol. 81. No. 2772.

L ondon, June 24, 1893.

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[R e g is t e r ed 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 s pa p e r .

CONTENTS.

C hronicle of t h e W e e k :

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Imperial Parliament: Home Rule Everlasting— Monday’s Sitting— Toujours Home Rule—The German Elections— Salient Features o f the Election— The French Republican R igh t— The “ Execut io n ” o f M. Clemenceau—The Historian of the Oxford Movement—Panic in a Church—The Royal Christening— Suspension of Six Banks— The Cholera— Gatty v. Farquharson .......................... 957 'L eaders

The German Elections . . . . 9 6 1 Religious Liberty in Italy . . 962 Prymers According to Salisburye

U s e ......................................... 9^3

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N o t e s ..................................................... 965 Mary’s Dowry and Peter’s Throne 966 R e v iew s :

A Central Seminary . . . . 967 The Past of Old Hall . . . . 969 The Adventures o f Sherlock

H o l m e s ......................... . . 970 Founders of Old Testament Criti­

cism _ .... . . . . 970 The Alien Invasion . . . . 970 The Life o f St. Monica . . . . 971 Historical P a p e r s ......................... 971 My Contemporaries . . . . 971 C orrespondence :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . . . . . 973 Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) .................................... 974

“ The Church_Times” on “ The

Creed Explained” . . . . . . 964 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r : “ The Cross o f Christ ” . . •• 975

L e t t e r s to t h e E d it or (Con­

Page tinued) : The History o f Old Hall College 976 Old Hall Centenary . . . . 076 Holy W e l l s .....................................976 “ The Happiness in Hell.” — Mr.

Mivart’s Retrospect

. . 977

Aspects of Anglicanism

. . 979

Parsons and Poverty.. . . . 981 Religious Orders for the Portuguese Padroado . . . . . .9 8 1 The Irish Pilgrims In Rome . . 982 An Organization of Catholic Women 982 Lord Gormanston’s Career in British

Guiana . . . . . . . . 983 Downside Dinner . . . . . . 983

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Social an d P o l it i c a l . . . . 984 Some Publications o f the Week . . 984

SUPPLEMENT. N ew s from t h e Schools :

Salaries and the Teachers’ Con­

troversy . . .. . . .. 989 The Visit of the Lord Mayor to

Beaumont . . . . . . . . 989 The London School Board Budget 990 What is Undenominationalism ? ,. 991 Aberdeen Nazareth House Indus­

trial School . . . . . . 992 About E d u c a t io n ......................... 992 N ew s from t h e D io ceses :

Portsmouth . . . . . . . . 993 Glasgow .....................................993 The New Catholic Church in Car­

lisle . . . . . . . . . . 093

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C H R O N I C L E O F T H E W E E K .

IMPERIAL PARLI AMENI

— HOME RULE EVERLASTING. •AT

the end o f last week the Fourth Clause o f the Home Rule Bill was considered in Committee. It prevents the proposed

Irish Legislature from passing laws whereby any person might be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or might be denied the equal protection of the law, or whereby private property might be taken without just compensation. The battle was renewed upon the phrase, “ due process of law,” to which Mr. G. Balfour, who moved the first Amendment, endeavoured to set a specific limit by requiring that the process o f law should be in accordance with the settled principles and precedents of judicial procedure, unalterable save by the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Attorney-General, while denying that the Amendment was at all necessary, agreed to accept its first words, “ in accordance with settled principles and precedents.” Mr. Balfour said he appreciated this concession, to which, however, Mr. Sexton objected. The effect o f it, he said, would be to withdraw the subject of criminal procedure from the Irish Parliament altogether. He, therefore, reserved to himself at a later stage the right o f resisting any addition being made to the Sub-section. The most .noticeable thing (according to The S tandard) in the earlier part o f the discussion which followed was the statement by .Sir H. James that, before the concession made by the Government, the Irish Legislature could have altered the criminal procedure and suspended the Habeas Corpus Act ut will, but that now they could only do so in accordance with settled principles and precedents. After this the next event of importance was the intimation by Mr. Sexton that h e did not approve of the words “ in accordance with,” and that he would prefer “ regard being had to.” A t this point Mr. G. Balfour withdrew his Amendment, in order that the concession o f the Attorney-General might take its place. Sir C. Russell accordingly moved that the due process of law should be “ in accordance with settled principles and precedents.” Mr. Sexton met this at once by a counter Motion to substitute the phrase “ regard being had to ” for the expression “ in accordance with.” He divided the Committee upon it against the Government, and was beaten by 324 to 144, or a majority of 180. The discovery that the

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Nationalists had been supported by fifty or sixty Gladstonians gave rise to much cheering. The Division led to an outburst o f Nationalist opinion. As soon as Sir Charles Russell’s Amendment was put to the Committee as the main question, revolt was sounded by Mr. Clancy, a member of the Parnellite section. He said the time had come for the Irish Party to protest against the acceptance o f any more Amendments of this kind. The present Amendment, as now worded, would seriously curtail the power o f the Irish Legislature to settle its own criminal procedure, and the Bill -was the absolute minimum which the Irish people would accept. He was followed by Earl Compton, who had supported Mr. Sexton in the Division. The Earl, rising from behind Mr. Gladstone, expressed the hope that the Government would not be too ready in future to grant concessions which were not demanded to improve the Bill but to destroy it. Mr. Sexton next rose, and in a voice of suppressed indignation, joined without qualification in the protest o f Mr. Clancy. Mr. Sexton desired to emphasize Mr. Clancy’s remarks in reference to the unaccountable fatuity of the course of concession lately pursued by the Government, in the hopeless endeavour to conciliate the Opposition. Taking no heed of interruption, Mr. Sexton went on to tell the Government in very emphatic terms that the Irish members had always understood that the Bill would be satisfactory to the Irish people, but day by day they were incurring the fatal danger of alienating the people of Ireland. H e begged that this course be no longer pursued. I f it was continued, the Bill, which, as Mr. Clancy had said, was the unquestionable minimum which Ireland would accept, would become unacceptable, and there -would be no settlement o f the question. Then he spoke of “ this most unfortunate Sub-section,” which had been dragged by the heels out o f the American Constitution; and, as an instance o f the effect of the Amendment, he declared that it would make it impossible for the Irish Legislature to deal with the compulsory sale o f land. Mr. Macartney rose and asked if the Government, after this speech, would not report progress, in order to consider whether they would not withdraw the Bill, a sarcasm which produced some laughter. The Division was called, and the Parnellite Mr. Clancy was nominated along with Sir T . Esmonde, an Anti-Parnellite, as tellers against the Government. The Amendment was carried by a majority o f 145. An Amendment moved by Major Darwin to prevent the Irish Legislature from passing an A c t of Indemnity, elicited from the Attorney-General the opinion that they could only pass Bills o f Indemnity in regard to matters which before-