A W eekly Newspaper and R ev iew .

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

F rom th e B r ie j o j H i s H o lin e s s P iu s I X . to T he T ablet, J u n e 4, 1870.

V ol. 82. No. 2781. L ondon, A ugust 26, 1893.

Peice byp0ST5*d.

[R eg iste r ed a t th e G en e r a l P o st O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper.

^Chronicle o f t h e W e e k :

Page

Imperial Parliament: The Closure—The Coal Strike — Home Rule—Wednesday’s Sitting—The Co-operative Festival— Registrars and Matrimony — The Tsung-liYamen and the Geary Act—The French Elections— The Fight at Aigues-Mortes — Death of the Duke of Coburg — The Italian Naval Manoeuvres . . . . 321 X eaders

Leo X I I I . and France . . . . 325 The Latest Prophet on the Future of Society . . . . . . , . 326 The Archbishop of Canterbury and William o f Wykeham . . 327 The Primitive Church and Rome.. 328

CONTENTS.

The French Elections and the

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Church .. . . . . . . 329 N o t e s .....................................................33° R ev iew s :

Augustus Henry Law . . . . 332 Madame de Krudener . . ^ . . 332 “ The English Historical Review” 333 An Art Phase of this Century _ . . 334 Archbishop Satolli and American

Catholic Education . . . . 335 Correspondence :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . .. . . 337 Dublin :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . . . . - 338

L e t t e r s t o t h e E d itor : Page

Our Lady’s Dowry.. . . . . 340 Irish Nationalist Prisoners . . 340 The Expenses of Catholic Schools 340 “ Please Remember the Grotto” 340 A Possible Danger .. .. . . 340 The Anglican Mission to the Nes-

torians . . .. .. . . 340 Norman Monks in Ireland .. 341 “ The Cross of Christ ” . . . . 341 An Inquiry .. .. . . •• 341 Funeral of the Bishop of Clifton . . 341 Cardinal Gibbons on Sunday Ob­

servance

.. .. . . 343

Opening of a New Catholic Church at Llandudno .. .. . . 344 Complimentary Dinner to Sir Am­

brose Shea, K .C .M .G ., Governor of the Bahamas . . . . . . 345 C atholics A bro ad . . . . . . 346

N ew s from t h e D io c e s e s : Westminster

Southwark . . Clifton Middlesbrough P l y m o u t h ......................... Portsmouth St. Andrews and Edinburgh So c ia l an d P o l it ic a l

SU PPLEM ENT.

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The Portuguese Jurisdiction . . 353 N ew s from th e S chools :

Religious Instruction in Board

Schools .. . ...... 354 St. Francis Xavier’s College,

Bruges, Belgium . . . . 356 Free Education in the Provinces 356 Cardinal Vaughan on Education 357 About Education . . .. .; 358

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

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ON M onday the Twelve o ’c lo ck

Rule was suspended on the Motion o f Mr. Gladstone, who proceeded to move his R esolu­

tion for applying the C losure to the Report stage o f the 'H ome Rule B i ll on Friday. H e justified the Resolution on the ground that seventy-four days had been spent on the B i l l— not very far from double the tim e that had ever yet been occupied on the discussion o f any Constitutional measure. T ak in g the fifty-eight days occupied on the C om mittee and R eport stages, forty o f them had been expended b y the opponents o f the B ill. T h e Government was bound b y the iron chain o f consequence, and the Motion was necessary to secure in any real and Constitutional shape the liberty and efficacy o f Parliam entary discussion. T h e correspondent o f T h e S ta n d a r d records that Mr. Cham berla in ’s speech produced less impression on the House than any o f equal importance which he has delivered during the Session. Nevertheless, it possessed all the usual charm o f his masterly lucidity o f expression, o f the severely logical arrangement o f his ideas, and o f the sharp incisiveness o f his arguments. T h e M inisterialists occasionally laughed iron ica lly , but the Nationalists were not roused by it into that running commentary o f interruptions, derisive laughter, expletives, and exclam ations with which they usually accom pany his expositions o f the character o f the Government •policy. H is Amendment was to the effect that the proposal o f the Governm ent to curtail debate on the B ill was calculated to degrade the H ouse o f Commons to the position o f a voting machine, and that the H ouse declined to accept a Resolution by which the Government arbitrarily claim ed to lim itd ebateonam easurethe greaterpart o f which had already been forced through the Committee without any discussion. H e dealt first with the want o f precedent, and referring to the iron chain o f consequence, he told Mr. G ladstone that h e was not yet at the end o f the iron chain, and that they would yet see him closuring Supply, which had never been •closured before, as well as the discussion o f the Bills which h e might bring forward in an Autumn Session, and substitu tin g legislation b y gag for legislation b y discussion. R ep ly in g to the Prim e M in ister’s reference to the length o f tim e the Bill had been discussed,he pointed cut that the effect

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o f the discussions had been to amend one hundred and fiftyfive o f the lines out o f the three hundred and thirty-one which had been considered in Committee. There never had been a measure, he said, o f which the authors had been convicted o f so many blunders. H e asserted that there never had been any idea among the Unionists o f k illin g the B ill by time. Speaking o f the dictatorship o f Mr. Gladstone, the right hon. gentleman, he said, would be able to use the words o f a character to whom he him self had been compared “ M y mouth shall be the Parliam ent o f England.” These words produced great cheering in the Unionist ranks. H e then completed his argument by denying that the Governr ment had a mandate to proceed with a B i ll which made the supremacy o f the Im perial Parliam ent a sham, and by analysing the majority o f the Government, which was largely returned by priests, illiterates, and moonlighters, had been convicted by a Judicial tribunal o f a conspiracy to destroy the United K in gdom , and had forced that policy on Government which the Government was now forcing on the House o f Commons. Mr. S. Whitbread replied to Mr. Chamberlain, and, while expressing his dislike o f the Closure unless there was an over-mastering necessity, he maintained that in the last resort it was absolutely necessary that the will o f the majority should prevail. Mr. Goschen followed with an animated and powerful argument, but in a House which becam e empty as soon as he rose. H e made a strong point o f the fact that the B ill was really made up o f sixteen Bills,, each o f which would require a month for itself. “ That makes sixteen months,” in terjected the Chancellor o f the Exchequer. “ W e ll,” continued Mr. Goschen, “ I am not sure that they would not require sixteen months.” H e argued that i f the Closure was carried it would render discussion on the F inancial Clauses, the Land Clauses, and other important principles in the B ill impossible. T h e Resolution would lead to future political trouble, and change the public life o f England. Mr. T . W . Russell, in a vigorous strain, told Mr. G ladstone, who was one o f the few members who had remained in the House, that he could not gag the constituencies, before which the B i ll must ultim ately go. When Mr. Russell sat down the Debate was carried on from half-past six till eleven o ’c lock, in an empty Hotise, by General Chesnet’, Mr. Bodkin, Mr. Radcliffe Cooke, Sir E . Ashmead-Bartlett, and others. One o f the speakers, Mr. T . H . Bolton, strongly condemned the Resolution as an. arbitrary act and the greatest insult to the H ouse this Session. A t eleven o ’c lo ck the Chancellor of the Exchequer rose. H e insisted that the only question before the H ouse was whether or not reasonable tim e had been given for the