HE TABLET.

A W eekly Newspaper and R ev iew.

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

F rom the B r ie j o j H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T h e T a b l e t , Ju n e 4, 1870.

V o l . 82. No. 2773.

L ondon, J u l y i , 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 st Of f i c e a s a N ew s p a p e r .

' C h ro n ic l e of t h e W e e k :

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Imperial Parliament : The Lords and the “ Victoria”—The Commons and Miscellaneous Affairs— More Miscellaneous—-Supply — The End of the Opposition—The .Lossof H .M .S. “ Victoria”—The Indian Currency Question—Native Catholic Clergy in India— Death of General Sir Lothian Nicholson—The Parnellite Mani•festo to the Irish in America— Lord R . Churchill on Home Rule i L e a d e r s

The Consecration of England . . 5 'Our Lady’s Dower . . . . . . 2 1

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ENTS.

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N o t e s ............................................................ 21 Mons Dei . . . . . . . . 2 2 R e v ie w s :

The Book of Enoch.. . . . . 22 Carmina Mariana . . . . . - 2 3 Clews to Holy Writ.. . . . . 2 4 L i t e r a r y G o ssip .........................25 C o rr e s po n d en c e :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) .. . . . .

Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . . .

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SUPPLEM ENT. N ew s fro m t h e S chools :

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The Religious Controversy and the London School Board .. 33 An Alliance of Catholics and

Anglicans .. .. . . •• 33 About Education .. . . . . 34 N ew s fro m t h e D io c e s fs : Westminster . . . . . . 35

Southwark . . . . . . ..35 Birmingham . .. . . . . 36 Newport and Menevia . . . . 36 Plymouth .. .. . . . . 36 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 36 Glasgow . . . . . . . . 36

L e t t e r s to t h e E d ito r :

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■“ The Cross of Christ ” . . . . 37 Old “ Dublin Reviews ” . . . . 38 Mary’s Dower .. . . . . 38 “ Plucking a Crow ” .. . . 38 An Inquiry .. .. . . ..38 “ Le Liable au X IX . Siecle” . . 38 The History of Old Hall College 38 The Observance of Sunday and

Cardinal Gibbons .. .. .. 39 Catholic Union of Great Britain .. 40 Extracts from the Sibyllian Prophe­

cies of Christ .. .. .. 40 The Silver Jubilee of Cardinal Gib­

bons .. . . .. . . . . 42 S o c ia l a n d P o l it ic a l . . . . 42

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. — THE LORDS AND THE

“ VICTORIA.”

T the end of last week, in the

House of Lords, Lord Spencer, replying to Lord Salisbury, read a telegram received from

Admiral Markham by the Admiralty, announcing the loss •of her Majesty’s ship Victoria while in collision off Tripoli, on the coast of Syria, with her Majesty’s ship Camperdown, whereby, out of the 718 officers and men on board, 430, including Admiral Tryon, were drowned. He said the nation had to mourn a terrible loss. Sir G. Tryon, the Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet, was known far and wide, and had the fullest confidence of the Admiraltty and of the officers and men who served under him. He believed their Lordships would sympathize with the relatives of those who had been so tragically and suddenly lost to the country. At a later period of the sitting Lord Carrington, as Lord Chamberlain, announced that in consequence o f the disastrous catastrophe her Majesty had commanded that the State Ball fixed for Friday night should not take place. Lord Rosebery, in answer to Lord Cadogan, said there had been no theft of documents from the English Embassy in Paris. There had been a fabrication of documents, but the forgeries were such , as not to deceive the most innocent mind. After some formal business their Lordships adjourned.

Mr. Gladstone communicated to the

■AND MISCELLANEOUS

AFFAIRS.

— th e commons House the telegram received by the

Admiralty with reference to the loss of the Victoria and upwards of 430 lives.

To Admiral Tryon’s character and capacity he bore high •testimony, and he said the deepest sympathy of the House would be excited, not only on behalf of the brave •men who had found an early grave, but on account of their surviving relatives and families. Lord G. Hamilton also bore tribute to the rare capacity of Admiral Tryon, and concurred in the expressions of sorrow of the Prime Minister for the loss of so many brave men, who were the very pick of the whole of the British Navy. In answer to Mr. Kearley, Mr. Gladstone said full consideration would be given to the necessity of making some temporary provision at once for the wives and families of those who had perished. The House resumed consideration in Com-

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mittee of the Fourth Clause of the Home Rule Bill, which imposed various restrictions on the powers of the Irish Legislature. Mr. Parker Smith moved an Amendment preventing that Legislature from passing a law whereby the actions of the Government officials shall be removed from the cognizance of the ordinary law. Mr. Morley objected to the Amendment, and complained of the length of Mr. Parker’s explanation of it. Mr. Chamberlain retorted that the longest speeches came from the members of the Government, and that, out of half an hour’s discussion on the protection of Freemasons, the Prime Minister spoke for twenty minutes. Mr. Gladstone said that was not the case, but Mr. Chamberlain replied that the total time occupied by the Amendment was thirty-nine minutes, and that the Prime Minister spoke for twenty of them. The Amendment, after some time, wag rejected by a majority of 42 in a House of 502. On the motion of Mr. Bartley, the seventh Sub-section, which protected the rights of the inhabitants of the United Kingdom as regards public sea fisheries, was omitted in order that a general Clause might be substituted in accordance with a promise on the previous day given by Mr. Morley. A page and a-half of Amendments were ruled out of order, and by this process the list of Amendments to the Clause was completed ; and the question was put from the Chair that the Clause as amended stand part of the Bill. Mr. Balfour said that the labours of the Committee had not left the Clause in a satisfactory or final shape, as various matters of drafting and some of substance had been left over to be dealt with on the Report stage, while the Government, with regard to certain points, had been unable to find words to express their own meaning. The Clause, with all the labour that had been devoted to it, still remained in the condition of an incomplete edifice, and he did not know what steps would be taken to give it its final shape. Referring to the discussion of a few days ago, he asked Mr. Gladstone whether, under this Clause, it would be competent for the Irish Legislature to vote money for denominational training colleges, or for the establishment of a Catholic College or University, or for the establishment of primary schools of a denominational character all over the country. To these questions Mr. Gladstone replied that the Government accepted denominational schools as at present existing in Ireland as consistent with the Clause, and the denominotional training colleges as ancillary to the schools. The Government were of opinion that the Irish Legislature should not be precluded from founding a denominational college, under the conditions that it shall