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

From the B r ie ] o j H is Holiness P iu s IX . to The Tablet, June 4, 1870.

V ol. 82. No. 2783. London, September 9, 1893.

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C h ronicle of t h e W e e k :

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Imperial Parliament: An Autumn Sitting — The Third Reading-*The Home Rule Bill in the House -of Lords—The French Elections — The Grievances of the Cabmen — The Certification of Death— The New Viceroy of India— The Cholera in England—A Revolt in the Brazilian N a vy .........................401 L ea d e r s :

‘ Belgium’s Revised Constitution.. 405 •Lobengula and the Chartered

Company .. .. . . . . 405 Canon Hammond on “ Polychurch-

ism ” .. .. .. . . . . 406 The Primitive Church and Rome.. 408

CONTENTS.

N o t e s .....................................................4°9 R ev iew s :

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The Seven Cities o f the Dead . . 412 Chalmers . . .. . . . . 412 From the Magazines . . . . 412 The Bishop of Nottingham and the

School Board .........................415 C orrespondence :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . . . . . 417 Dublin :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) ......................... . . 418 L e t t e r s to t h e E d it or :

“ La Mission Anglicane Parmi les

Nestoriens” . . . . .. 419

L e t t e r s to t h e E d itor (Con­

tinued) : The “ Order o f the Holy Re­

Page deemer ” .. . . .. . . 420 “ The Month” and Spiritualism.. 420 Free Trade and English Farming 421 The Index Expurgatorius .. 421 Books for Prisoners . . .. 421 An Author Wanted . . 421 The Law o f Abstinence . . . .4 2 1 The Allegations of the “ Rescued

Nun ” .. .. .. .. .. 422 Mgr. Satolli’s Mission to America.. 424 Catholic Peers and Home Rule .. 426 The Late Brother Azarias .. . . 427 Some Publications of the Week .. 429 Social a n d P o l it ic a l . . . . 429

SU PPLEM ENT. N ew s from t h e Schools :

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The Dual System in Our Schools 433 Rewards and Punishments in

French Schools .. .. .. 433 Women and the Oxford Locals . . 434 The Pope’s Letter to the American

Bishops on the School Question 435 The Bishop of London and Church

Schools .. . . . . . . 435 Convent of Notre Dame, Clap-

ham Common, S.W . . . .. 435 About Education . . . . . . 435 N ew s from t h e D io c e se s :

Westminster .........................437 S o u th w a rk ......................... . . 438 Clifton . . . . . . . . 438 Plymouth .. . . . . . . 438 Portsmouth . . . . . . . . 428

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

— AN AUTUMN

SITTING.

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T the end of last week, in answer to Sir R . Temple, Sir C. Dilke and Mr. Balfour, Mr. Gladstone said he would move a Resolu­

tion on Monday in reference to the arrangements for the public business to be transacted during the remainder of the Session. Meantime the Government had so far considered the position o f the House that they had determined at the close of Supply to advise the House to adjourn until November 2 for the purpose o f proceeding with business. Replying to Mr. Balfour, the Prime Minister added that ■ he would state on Monday the Bills that would be taken during the Autumn Sitting. Mr. Tritton resumed the debate on the Third Reading of the Home Rule Bill. He argued that the principal Chambers of Commerce and business men throughout the country were opposed to it, and he objected to it on the further ground that it made the solvency ot Ireland dependent on the drinking o f whisky. The Attorney-General followed, pronouncing what Mr. D. Plunket afterwards called a funeral oration on the Bill of .1886, and replying to the Opposition arguments in reference to the Closure, the Veto, the retention of the Irish members for all purposes, and the want of adequate protection for Ulster. In reference to the exercise of the Veto, where the Irish Executive tacked an oppressive and unjust measure to an Appropriation Bill to compel the acceptance of the oppressive measure, he maintained that it would be perfectly constitutional on the part of the Lord Lieutenant to ■ delay the Bill and take the advice o f the Imperial Government on the matter. The retention o f the Irish members for all purposes would not give them the control of .English and Scotch legislation, as any attempt to exercise it would provoke retaliation. As regarded Ulster, the history •of Ireland showed that the Catholics had been invariably more tolerant than the Protestants. In concluding he denounced Castle government, prophesied, amid Nationalist ■ cheers, that the Bill must ultimately pass, and great, he said, would be the responsibility o f those who relegated the measure to that long category o f Irish Bills which had been ■ yielded from necessity and not from a willing sense of justice. Mr. D. Plunket replied in what The S ta ndard called a calm and effective speech, delivered in a tone almost conversational throughout, in which he dwelt on the omission of the Bill to protect the Loyalist minority and to settle the land question. He quoted, with much effect, Mr. Gladstone’s tribute in 1886 to the high character o f the majority of the Irish landlords, and demanded if the Nationalists had ever given up their doctrine of prairie value, to cause the landlords to be abandoned to them by the Government now. Mr. McCarthy rose two or three minutes before twelve, but had scarcely begun when the debate was adjourned.

In the House of Commons, on the

— the following day, Mr. Campbell-Bannerman th ird reading, stated, in reply to Mr. Dalziel, that the command at Aldershot was a Lieutenant-

General’s command, but tenable by a General, and therefore the Duke of Connaught was eligible. His Royal Highness was selected on account o f his fitness for the duties of the command. The selection of general officers for command in the field must depend on the circumstances o f the emergency when it arose.— The debate on Mr. Courtney’s amendment to the third reading o f the Government of Ireland Bill was resumed by Mr. M ’Carthy, who had no hesitation in saying, on behalf o f his colleagues and the Irish people, that they accepted the Bill with a cordial welcome, and gave their sincere thanks to the great English statesman who had introduced it. No measure could be said to be absolutely final. This measure, however, established the principle that Ireland was to look after her own domestic affairs under the supreme control of the Imperial Parliament and with certain limitations and restrictions which they all most cordially accepted. In that principle they found finality in its true sense, and from it no deviation would ever be allowed. Mr. Chamberlain accepted Mr. M ’Carthy’s assurance as far as the hon. member spoke for himself, but reminded the House that Mr. Parnell accepted the first Home Rule Bill as a complete settlement, and subsequently declared publicly that that statement was made after a meeting of his party at which it was resolved to accept the Bill p ro ta?ito, for what it was worth. H e denied that the time of the House had been unduly wasted in the discussion of the Bill, and pointed out that Home Rule had never been in its true sense a British policy, but had been forced through the House by an Irish majority. It had been borrowed by Mr. Gladstone from Mr. Parnell, and if it had been proposed by any other Englishman or Scotchman it would have been laughed out of the House. To-day his right hon. friend would gain a great personal victory, but it was one o f which some of his greatest

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