A W eek ly N ew spap er and R e v iew .
D D K VOBIS G R A T U L AM U R , AN IM O S E T IA M A DD IM U S U T IN INCCEPTIS V E S T R IS CON S TAN TER M AN E A T IS .
From the Brie] o j H is Holiness P iu s IX . to The Tablet, June 4, 1870.
V ol. 82. No. 2779. L ondon, A ugust 12, 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 s t O f f i c e a s a N ew s p a p e r .
/Ch r o n ic l e o f t h e W e e k :
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Imperial Parliament: Report of the Home Rule Bill— The Indian ‘Currency— The Exclusion of the Irish Members— The Veto o f the Lords— “ The Patriot from Maurit iu s ”— Mr. Gladstone on A rt— The •Great Coal Strike— The Feeling in the Country— The Dunmow F l i t c h ................................................241 L e a d e r s
The Mutilation of Siam . . . . 245 A Healthy Mind . . . . . . 246 .The Liber Vitee o f H yde Abbey . . 247 ** The Lismore Papers ” . . . . 247
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Palma Cathedral : An Historical
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Survey . . . . . . . . 249 N o t e s ............................................... 252
R eviews :
The Life of Father Charles, C .P . 254 C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :
Rome :— (From Our Own Correspondent) . . . . . . . . 257 Dublin :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . . . 258 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :
Offertories at Folkestone . . . . 260 A Memorable Walk . . . . 260 The Marriage Law . . . . 261 Catholicism and Politics . . 261
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L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r (Con
Page tinued) : The Syon Martiloge . . . . 261 “ The Cross o f Christ ” . . . . 261 Catholic Young Men’s Societies in
Carlisle . . . . . . . . 262 L a Mission Anglicane Parmi les
N e s to r ie n s .................................... 264 Italian Loyalty to Pope and Hearth 265 An Expedition to the Tarumares . . 266 Catholics and Home R u le . . . . 266 C a th o l ic s A b r o a d . . . . . . 267 Some Publications of the Week . . 268 S o c ia l a n d P o l i t i c a l . . . . 269 General Terms . . . . . . 269
SU P P L EM E N T . N ew s from t h e S chools :
The Education Report . . . . 273
N ew s F rom t h e Schools (Con
tinued) : Rate - aid for Denominational
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Schools . . . . . . . . 274 St. Mary’s College, Blairs . . 274 The Municipalization o f Schools 275 Prize Day at St. George’s, Wey-
bridge . . . . . . . . 275 Prize Day at St. Joseph’s, Cardiff 275 The Evening School Code Changes 276 About Education . . . . . . 276 N ew s from t h e D io c e s e s :
Southwark . . . . . . . . . 276 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 277 Newport and Menevia . . . . 277 Nottingham .. . . . . . . 277 Portsmouth . . . . . . . . 277 Glasgow .................................... 278 Bishop McQuaid’s Jubilee . . . . 278
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
IM P E R IA L PA R L IA M E N T .
— REPORT OF T H E HOME R U L E B I L L .
[N Monday the Report stage
Oof the Home Rule Bill was proceeded with, the new Clauses being first taken up.
O f these there were forty-four upon the paper, besides a large number of Amendments to them and to other Clauses o f the Bill. The first of the new Clauses stood in the name of Mr. Balfour, but the questions having been disposed of at an unusually early hour, he had not arrived, and was not in his place to move it. Mr. Bartley desired to adopt it in his absence, but was not allowed. Several Clauses immediately following were then ruled out of order, or the members who had put them down were not present to move them. At last the Speaker reached a long list of Clauses in the name of Mr. Parker Smith. Four of these were ruled out of order, and Mr. Smith was allowed to proceed with the fifth of the series, which he did, according to The ;Standard, in a very thin House. Mr. Parker Smith’s new Clause, of which he moved the Second Reading, proposed the appointment of Boundary Commissioners, to determine the constituencies which were to return the eighty Irish members to their House of Commons. These constituencies are fixed in a Schedule to the Bill, to each of which a certain number of members have been allotted by the ^Government. A t least half-a-dozen attempts were made, some of them by Mr. Healy, in the early part of the discussion, to throw out the Clause on points of order, but they were set aside by the Speaker. A great many members took part in the debate. Mr. T . W. Russell, in supporting the Clause, dwelt on the enormous inequalities in the -Schedule framed by the Government. A more odious case •of gerrymandering had never taken place, and the Schedule had been studiously gerrymandered with the view of disfranchizing the Unionist minority as far as possible. Kerry,
for example, with twenty-one thousand electors, was to have 1three members ; while the Unionist county of Armagh, with twenty-six thousand electors, was only to have two. These were only two instances of the gross injustice which the Government were committing ; and the effect of the Schedule was that, whereas the Unionists returned twentytwo members at present, they would, under the Schedule, return on'w fifteen. Mr. Gladstone said that the new
New Sesies, Vol. L., No. 2,oS8.
Clause had no operative enactment, and would have no force, even if passed. The Government had adopted the scale of population in framing the Schedule, and their object had been to avoid having different sets of boundaries for the election of members for the Imperial and Irish Parliaments ; but if this was found to be unfair to any division of the people, he was not certain that they would not meet that by an amendment of the Schedule. But it would not be convenient to proceed with an Amendment of this kind. Sir H. James condemned the Schedule as being founded on a principle which had been discarded in previous Redistribution Bills— the Government, instead of creating singlemember constituencies, having fallen back on the old County constituencies. This was retrogression, and the result of their plan was an extraordinary inequality, and all in one direction against the loyalist minority. Mr. Roby condemned the Amendment, but urged the Government to recast their Schedule on the basis o f single-member constituencies. Sir C. Dilke took the same view, and Mr. Morley, in defending the Schedule, admitted it was by no means perfect, but he pointed out that, according to Mr. Russell, the Unionists would return fifteen members under the Schedule. I f the Schedule, however, were constructed so as to give them under the new scheme the proportion they had at present they would be entitled only to sixteen — a mere fraction of injustice. Mr. Goschen pressed upon the Government the necessity of adopting the principle of single-member constituencies instead of giving to each elector three votes in a constituency returning, say, three members. He elicited from Mr. Morley that the Government would adopt single-member constituencies if they came to the conclusion that the House desired it, Mr. Little, a Gladstonian member, declared that if he was to vote for the Third Reading of the Bill the Government must provide a fair representation for the minority in Leinster and Munster, as well as in Ulster. Mr. Chamberlain said that, according to the basis of population, which was the basis taken by the Government, the Unionists ought to obtain twenty-three seats; by the Schedule, they would only obtain fifteen seats. He did not know where Mr. Morley got his arithmetic. Under the Schedule, the Unionists were four worse than they were at present, and they would be eight worse than they ought to be. He defied any member of the Government to stand up, as a Liberal, and defend a scheme which gave to a vote five times the representation in one constituency which it had in another. On the other hand, Mr. Healy thought the Tory Party were getting more than they were entitled to,
