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THE TABLET

A W e ek ly N ew sp a p er an d R ev iew .

DUM VCBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

From the Brie] oj His Holiness Pius IX . to T h e T a b l e t , June p, 1870.

V ol. 82. No. 2780. L ondon, A ugust 19, 1893.

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[R e g is tered 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 spaper.

' C h ronicle of t h e \Te e k :

Imperial Parliament: Miscellaneous Matters—The Home Rule Report Stage — Toujours Home Rule— Sir H. James at Sheffield— ^Conservative Victory at Hereford —The United States and the Cur­

Page rency Question— Fatal Accident in the Matterhorn— M. Lockroy and the Cabman Poet— Serious Coal Crisis at Cardiff . . . .2 8 1 ' L eaders

The Bishop o f Clifton . . ». 285 The Currency Crisis . . . . 285 ‘The New Benedictine Abbot Pri­

mate .................................................. 286 \Angels and Atoms . . . . . . 287

C O N T

The French Elections and the

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Church ....................................... 288 The “ Shepherd ” of Hermas and the hour G o s p e ls ........................... 289 “ The Lismore Papers ” . . . . 291 N o t e s ....................................................... 292 R ev iew s :

Fresh Light from Cambridge on the Gospel of Peter . . . . 294 Madoc . . . . . . . . 295 C orrespondence :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent).. .. . . . . 297 Dublin :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) ......................... . . 298

A Silver Jubilee in Limerick . . 299

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

— MISCELLANEOUS

MATTERS.

N the House of Commons on

Monday, Mr. G. Russell, in reply to Sir J. Gorst, stated that no appointments had yet been

.made to the Royal Commission on Opium, but the Secretary of State had taken steps to ascertain whether certain gentlemen would be willing to serve on it if appointed. The arrangements were not yet sufficiently advanced to allow of any estimate being formed as to the cost, but it would no doubt be large. The Council of India had not consented to this charge being defrayed out o f Indian revenues, nor ihad any proposal on the subject been placed before them. In no case could their assent be taken for granted ; but as yet her Majesty’s Government had come to no decision as to the source from which this expenditure should be met. Mr. Chamberlain, in concluding the speech which was interrupted at the hour of adjournment on Friday, declared that up to the present time the Assistant Commissioners appointed by the Imperial Government had discharged their •duties with conspicuous success— a statement the correctness o f which was promptly denied by Mr. Timothy Healy. A t all events, a large number of them had been appointed by Mr. Gladstone, and he presumed that, as far as they were concerned, it would be generally conceded that the Government had endeavoured to select fair and impartial men. The hon. members opposite below the gangway were the representatives of the tenants, and if henceforward the selection were to be left to them only gentlemen who shared their views on the land question would be appointed to the office o f Assistant Commissioner. The extreme views o f the Nationalists on the land question were not shared by a single member o f her Majesty’s Government, and he charged the Government with having failed to fulfil their pledges,

inasmuch as the direct consequence of their action must b e that the landlords would be obliged either to accept prairie value for their property or else to fly for their lives. I f the Government persisted in their policy they would, in the language of Lord Spencer, be doing “ a mean and treacherous thing.” H e asked whether her Majesty’s Government intended to leave the land question unsettled for three years and then hand it over to the Irish Legislature. I f not, the argument presented by Mr. Morleyagainst the clause

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

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“ The Cross o f Christ ” . . . . 300 Catholicism and Politics . . 300 The Roman Pilgrimage at Lourdes 301 Harvest Thanksgiving Services and Agricultural Destitution.. 301 “ La Mission Anglicane Parmi les

Nestoriens” .. . . . . 301 Wanted: A Confutation . . . . 301 Death of the Bishop of Clifton . . 302 An Art Phase of this Century . . 302 Lord Braye’s Address . . .. 303 The Pope and the French Republic 306 A r c h a e o lo g ic a l N o t e s . . . . 306 C a t h o l i c s A b r o a d . . .. . . 307 Installation of a Shrine at Willesden 307 Some Publications of the Week . . 308 Social a n d P o l it i c a l . . . . 308

SUPPLEMENT. The New Benedictine Abbot Pri

Page m a t e .................................................. 313 N ew s from t h e S chools :

Educational Endowments and

Secondary Education Proposals _ . . 314 Humour in the Schoolroom . . 314 About Education . . . . . . 315 N ew s from t h e D io ceses :

Northampton . . . . . . 316 P l y m o u t h ....................................... 316 Glasgow ...................................... 316 The Archbishop of Dublin and Lord

Fingall ...................................... 316

had no weight. Nothing, he maintained, would be settled by the Home Rule Bill as long as the land question remained unsettled.M r.Tim othy Healy said theLandCommissionerswere nominated by the Tory Administration, and these appointments, being for life, could not be affected by the Bill. With regard to the Sub-Commissioners, little more than t o per cent, o f them had been appointed by the Liberals. H e taunted the member for West Birmingham with having departed from the principle laid down in his letter to Mr. Duignan, when the right hon. gentleman said he was prepared to hand over to the Irish members the entire management and settlement of the land question. Mr. Gladstone contended that the Opposition had no right to impute general and wholesale untrustworthiness to the Irish people, or to those who represented the Nationalist party. No doubt there had been agitation about the land question in Ireland, but if we looked back on the history of this country as a whole, it would be found that the Irish tenants had paid in silence and without complaint for long periods rents which no other people in the kingdom would have paid. He held there was no reason for accepting the proposition that [the Irish nation was generally untrustworthy with regard to the eventual formation and administration o f the land laws. In answer to Mr. Chamberlain’s question, he said that according to the best opinion he could form, he did not see how it would be possible to pass over the reserved period of three years without some further legislation by the Imperial Parliament with regard to land in Ireland. It had been supposed that the Irish Legislature would be omnipotent in this matter, but he believed they would be under the strongest moral and prudential obligations to deal with the land in a spirit o f justice and fair play. He was opposed to the clause because it would introduce an anomaly and a machinery which would never be found practicable in any permanent arrangement. Mr. Balfour said they knew what kind o f selections would be made by the Nationalists in appointing Sub-Commissioners when they had the power to do so. The Special Commissioners in their report stated that the leading members o f the Nationalist party had by a system o f coercion promoted an agrarian agitation against the payment o f agricultural rents, for the purpose o f impoverishing and expelling from the country the Irish landlords, who were styled the “ English garrison.” After some observations from Mr. Rentoul and Sir T . Lea, the clause was negatived on a division by 173 to 138. Mr. Arnold-Forster moved a new clause providing that all papers, letters, and other documents of a confidential nature relating to the detection or