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DUM VCBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS DT IN INCfEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
Froin the B r ie ] o j H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.
V o l . 82. No. 2784. L o n d o n , S e p t e m b e r i 6 , 1893* price 5d.,bypost
[R e g is tered a t t h e Gen e r a l P o st O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper.
C hronicle of t h e W e e k :
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Imperial Parliament: Home Rule Bill Rejected— Cordite and the Duke of Connaught’s Appointment — Miscellaneous — Wednesday’s Sitting— The Gladstonian Peers—The Trades Union Congress— The Fetes at Dunkirk— South Australia and its Governor — The Cholera Epidemic . . . . 441 'L eaders :
Chemistry and War . . . . 445 Forecast of a Boy’s Future .. 446 Canon Hammond on “ Poly-
churchism ” . . . . .. 447 A Mediaeval Pilgrimage to the
Holy Places . . . . . . 448 Catholic Educational Exhibit of
America . . . . . . . . 449
CONTENTS.
N o t e s .....................................................451 R e v iew s :
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An Historical Dictionary . . . . 452 The Four Last Things . . . . 453 Cardinal Newman’s Meditations 453 Old Documents . . . . . . 434 A Book of the Mass . . . . 454 The Labour Movement . . . . 454 The Late Bishop Clifford . . . . 455 Some Publications of the Week . . 455 C orrespondence :
Rome :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) .. . . . . . . 457 Dublin :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . . . 458
L e t t e r s t o t h e E d itor :
Convent Schools and Higher Edu
Page cation . . . . . . . 460 The “ Index Expurgatorius” . . 460 A Project Unapproved .. .. 460 The School Boards and Catholic
Schools . . .. .. .. 461 The Date of the Hymn “ Dulcis
Jesus Nazarenus ” .. .. 461 St. Patrick's Well at Orvieto . 461 Sir John Croker Barrow and Mr.
C. Patmore . . . . . . 461 The Late Brother Azarias.. . . 461 “ The Month” and Spiritualism.. 461 Archbishop Satolli in America . . 461 The Late Brother Azarias . . . . 463 Pilgrimage to Chorlton . . . . 464 “ The New Undenominational De
parture in Wales ” . . . . . . 465
Cardinal Vaughan and Anglican
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Orders . . . . .. . . 466 At the Columbian Exposition . . 466 So c ia l an d P o l it ic a l . . . . 467
SU PPLEM EN T . N ew s from t h e S chools :
The Training Colleges of the
Country . . .. . . . . 473 Education and the Country . . 475 Religious Education in Public
Schools . . . . . . . . 477 About Education . . . . . . 477 N ews from t h e D io c e s e s :
Westminster ......................... 478 Southwark . . . . . . . . 478 Plymouth . . . . . . . . 478 Portsmouth . . .. .. .. 478 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 467 Aberdeen . . . . .. .. 467
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
•IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
— HOME RULE BILL
REJECTED.
T'H E debate on the Home
Rule Bill in the House of Lords was resumed by Lord Cranbrook in a speech of remark
able vivacity, which, notwithstanding his years, showed no decline upon his old House o f Commons style. He showed by quotations from Lord Spencer’s speeches that his conversion to Home Rule was astonishingly sudden, that but a few weeks before his going into office his speeches were vehemently Unionist, and that the alteration of his views was coincident with the change of Mr. Gladstone’s majority into a minority. The very fact of establishing a separate Legislature in Ireland gave up everything, whatever restrictions might be put upon it. In examining the Clauses, he said that the veto was a piece of absolute nonsense, and that the restrictions were like a bulwark when a flood was let out— they would be utterly swept away. He made a strong point of the circumstance that the men who would enter into high office in the Irish Legislature were steeped to the Kps in pledges to the evicted tenants, and pledges which had demoralized the people who were to elect them. These pledges would come home to roost as soon as they had the power to fulfil them. Was it to be imagined that the Fenians would not put pressure upon them ? The Irish Americans would not let them be still, or fall short ot the promises by which alone they had got money from abroad. It was no good arguing that the supremacy o f Parliament had been preserved. That supremacy had been parted with, and the Imperial Parliament could not, without dishonour, legislate on those subjects which it had delegated. I t could legislate for the repeal of this measure ; but o f that there was not much hope. The Lord Chancellor then rose and stepped to the side o f the Woolsack, that he might be inside the House, since (as The S ta ndard observes) by a fiction the Woolsack is assumed to be outside it. His Lordship argued that the A c t of Union had not produced that ■ condition o f contentment and those conditions of good government which had been hoped and anticipated from it. It had been established that there had been a disease which bad not been cured either by bribes or by Coercion Acts. T h e only hopeful policy was one which would satisfy the national desires of the Irish people, and which would enable
Ireland to govern herself. As far as he had seen, no other policy had been suggested which held out the slightest hope. The conversion to Home Rule had not been so sudden as was alleged, as he knew many persons who, in 1884, had asked him if Home Rule could not be given to Ireland. He admitted that a change of this kind could not be made without danger, but there was the other danger o f leaving things as they were. In defending the proposals o f the Bill, he said he would willingly see safeguards introduced which, however, would not give the minority the rights o f the majority. He believed also that Ulster would really get more than was her due from the Irish Legislature, and he concluded by prophesying that the granting of Home Rule could not be long delayed. Lord Salisbury rose at ten o’clock, and was greeted with loud cheers. The House had filled up during the two previous speeches, and was now more densely crowded than it had been at any time during the four days’ debate. A vast throng of Privy Councillors and Cabinet and exCabinet Ministers blocked up all the space between the Throne and the Woolsack, till there was not room for another member to stand. Every inch in the Peeresses’ Gallery was occupied, and the rank and file of the Lower House overflowed their limits. When Lord Salisbury rose there was a momentary pause, then a hearty laugh. He had taken out a little bottle from his pocket and placed it on the table before him. Referring to the advantages and disadvantages which he encountered in being the last member who had to make a speech against Home Rule, he briefly commented on the great intellectual resources of the Government speakers, who had shown resources in nothing more remarkable than the ingenuity with which every one had avoided speaking about the Bill. In all these speeches he had not heard why the Government had introduced the Bill. Alluding to Lord Rosebery, he humorously suggested that his great ancestor, Pitt, would be amazed if he could see the position he had taken up on the subject o f Home Rule. There had not been a single sentence in the noble Earl’s speech which could be used against him on future occasions, except the precious observation as to the dangerous character of the London County Council. In reference to Lord Ribblesdale’s account o f his opinions, he remarked, amid much laughter, that confession was very interesting. From St. Augustine to Rousseau, from Rousseau to Lord Ribblesdale, was a most interesting exhibition of the working o f the human mind. Speaking o f the absurdity of the retention o f the Irish members for all questions, he remarked that we heard no longer that by
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