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A Weekly Newspaper and Review.

DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS OT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

From the B r ie ] o j H is H o lin ess P in s IX . to The Tablet, June 4. 1870.

V o l . 82. No. 2775.

L o n d o n , July 15, 1893.

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C hronicle of th e W e e k :

Page

Imperial Parliament: The Debate on the Ninth Clause—The Suspension of Mr. Sexton : and the Rest—The Doom of the In-andOut Clause—Sir S. Baker on the Ram—The New French Ambassador— The French Admiral in Newfoundland—Woman Suffrage — Mr. Tims—The German Army Bill— Fatal Fire at the World’s Fair— Funeral of M. Guy de Maupassant .. . . .. . . 85

L eaders

The Country and the B ill.. . . 89 The Religious Question in Uganda 90 The Roman Martyrology . . . . 91 N o t e s .....................................................92 Aspects of Anglicanism .. .. 94

CONTENTS.

R eviews :

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Balmoral .................................... 96 The Goal of the Human Race .. 97 Stoke-on-Trent .. .. ..97 Mater Admirabilis .. .. _.. 98 Le Cardinal Manning et sonAction

Sociale ..

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Some Recent Liturgical Publica­

tions .._ .. .. ..98 Guide to the City of Baltimore .. 98 The Life of St. Charles Borromeo 98 Méditations sur la Vie de N.S.J.C. 98 Italian Customs and English Man­

ners .. .. .. . .

98

Religious Education in Elementary

Schools .. .. .. . . 99 Correspondence :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) .. ......................... ior

Correspondence (Continued):

Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre­

Page spondent) . . . . . . .. 103 L etters to th e E d itor :

The “ Victoria” Disaster .. 104 “ The Cross of Christ ” .. .. 104 A Rejoinder .. .. .. 105 Hymn to St. Tohn Baptist _.. io5 A Novel View of “ Religious

Intolerance . . . . .. io5 Social Purity .. .. .. .. 108 The Dedication of England.. .. 109 The Case of a Catholic Child .. no Jubilee-Tide at Douai .. ..in The Cardinal Archbishop at St.

Ambrose’s House .. .. ..in C atholics A broad.. . . . . i n

Some Publications of the Week Page . . 112 O b ituary

Social and P olitical

SUPPLEMENT. N ews from th e Schools :

London School Board and the

Religious Controversy.. . . 117 The Beaumont Union .. .. 106 About Education.........................106 N ews from th e D io ceses: Westminster

Southwark .. Birmingham . Clifton Hexham and Newcastle .. Nottingham......................... Portsmouth St. Andrews and Edinburgh

107 107 108 108 108 108 108 108

* * Rejected MS. cannot be returned unless accompanied with address and p o s t a g e . _____________

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TH E House o f Commons on

Monday resumed the consideration o f the Home Rule Rill in Committee, and pro­

ceeded with the Ninth Clause, which deals with the representation o f Ireland in the Imperial Parliament. The Clause consists o f five Sub-sections, and provides that, unless and until Parliament otherwise determines, these five Sub-sections shall have effect. The following is the substance o f the first Sub-section, which was the one under discussion : “ After the appointed day each o f the Constituencies named in the Second Schedule shall return to the Imperial Parliament the number o f members named in the Schedule, and that Dublin University shall cease to return any member.” The total number of the Irish representation is fixed by the Schedule at eighty. The Debate on an Amendment moved by Mr. Ambrose on Friday, was continued. It was to the effect that the five Sub-sections should not come into force until six years from the appointed day. After a short discussion, it was negatived without a Division. Mr. J. Redmond had an Amendment on the paper to leave out the whole of the first Sub-section, and a series o f questions was raised as to the effect the moving of this Amendment would have on other Amendments which came after it. The discussion was brought to an end by the Chancellor of the Exchequer suggesting that somebody should move something. Mr. K im ber’s Amendment was not brought forward and Mr. J. Redmond moved the omission o f the Sub-section fixing the Irish representation at eighty, his object being to retain it at its present number o f one hundred and three. H e supported it on the ground that, as the Land Question, the police, and the control o f finance were all withheld from the Irish Parliament, it was unfair that the representation of Ireland should be reduced bya single man. According to the custom o f the House, Mr. Redmond’s Amendment could ■ not be put in the simple form “ that Sub-section One be left out o f the B ill.” In such cases, it is usual to put merely "the first two or three words of a Sub-section, so as not to exclude other Amendments in the event o f the original Amendment being lost, and so Mr. Redmond’s Amendment was put to the Committee in this form, that the first four words o f the Sub-section, “ after the appointed day,” be

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struck out o f the Clause. This threw the ■ whole Committee into confusion, and scarcely any hon. member (according to The S ta ndard) saw the full extent o f the consequences to which this change in the form of the Amendment gave rise. Mr. Gladstone spoke to its real purport, and remarked that the actual effect of the Amendment went much beyond the •words from the Chair. The real question was whether the Irish representation was to be maintained at a hundred and three members, or whether the Government plan of fixing the number at eighty was to be adopted. H e believed that the country had made up its mind in favour o f the retention o f the Irish members in some proportion, and the Government had adopted the principle o f population as the one which would most fitly and fairly meet the case. Mr. Labouchere contended that as partial Home Rule merely was given to Ireland, it was only fair that the Irish representation should remain as it was. Mr. Chamberlain pointed out that the Sub-section might be objected to from very different reasons. Some might desire the total exclusion o f the Irish members, in which case they would vote for leaving out the Sub-section, which fixed their number at e ig h ty ; others might desire the number o f the Irish members to be fixed not according to population, but according to the Irish contribution to the Imperial Revenue, in which case they also would vote against the Sub-section which adopted population as a basis; others might want a different proportion than that fixed by the Sub-section. Consequently, there would be an overwhelming majority against the Sub-section o f gentlemen whose opinions were not at all in agreement. He, therefore, wished it to be clearly understood that those voting for leaving out the Subsection were not voting in favour of Mr. Redmond’s contention. I f Mr. Redmond were defeated, the Sub-section would stand as it was, to be operated on by the movers o f future Amendments, but if the Government were beaten the words which would be struck out of the Sub-section would merely be “ after the appointed day.” Then Mr. Gladstone throwing aside all technical points, stated that the issue was between the Government proposal o f eighty members and Mr. Redmond’s proposal o f a hundred and three. This brought before the House the impression which was in the mind of the Government, that the Committee was not voting on a technical issue, but on the two substantial proposals before it. T h e Prime Minister went on to show that the Committee was in this unfortunate position, that if the words put from the Chair were struck out, the proposal o f the Government was lost, but that if the words were carried the proposal o f the Government was not carried. T h e