THE TABLET.
A W eek ly N ew sp a p er a n d R e v iew .
DOM VCBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMOS OT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the B r ie j o f H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.
Vol. 82. No. 2794. L o n d o n , N o v e m b e r 25, 1893.
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[R eg is tered 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 spaper.
'«Ch ronicle o f t h e W e e k :
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Imperial Parliament: Monday’s Sitting— Enfranchisement of Married Women : An Important Concession — The Progress of the Parish Councils Bill— The First Gale—The French Canadians and Nelson’s Statue— Hawaii and the United States— The End o f the Coal Strike— Lord Charles Beresford on the Navy— Programme o f the French Ministry— Mr. Evelyn in Search of a Party — The Anarchists on the Continent— The Church of St. Joachim in Rome : Initial Services— Lord Randolph Churchill as a Prophet — The Money Market .........................841 L e a d e r s :
The Protestant Propaganda in
Italy
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Between the Picture Seasons . . 846 A Mediaeval Abbot’s Manual . . 846
CONTENTS.
L eaders (continued) :
How English Bishops Were Made
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Before the Reformation . . 848 Father Morris’s Conversion . . 850 N o t e s .................................................... 851 R ev iew s :
Mr. Francis Thompson’s Poems.. 852 The Making of Spain . . . . 853 China and Her Neighbours .. 854 Two Text-books of Philosophy.. 854 The Coadjutor-Bishop of Shrews
bury .................................... 855 C orrespondence :
Rome :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . . . 857 Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) .................................... 858
L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :
The Pope’s Ritual . . . . . . 859
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L e t t e r s to t h e E d it or (Continued): Roman Catholics and English
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Orders . . . . . . . . 860 Acknowledgment .. . . .. 860 A Papal Indulgence for Crucifixes 860 Non-Catholics in Catholic Chur
ches . . . . . . . . 860 The Guild o f Ransom . . .. 860 Cardinal Vaughan in Coventry . . 861 Brother Roland Thomas . . . . 862 Grand Bazaar at the English Mar
tyrs. Preston
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Mgr. Satolli's New House . . . . 863 Ushaw Re-union . . . . . . 864 The Christian Brothers . . . . 865 Six Months’ Work at Newman
House . . . . .. .. 865 Lord Randolph Churchill on the
Voluntary Schools . . .. 866 The Shifts of Anglicanism . . .. 866 Lord Bute’s Address at St. Andrews 867 Theatricals at the Newington Work-
house . . . . .. . . 868
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A p pe a l s to t h e C h a r it a b l e . . . 868 O b itu ary. ...........................................869 So c ia l an d P o l it ic a l . . . . 869
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SU PPLEM EN T . N ews from t h e S chools :
Report o f St. Francis Xavier’s
Schools, 1893. •• •• •• 873 The National Educational Asso
ciation and the Rates .. . . . 874 Centenary of St. Edmund’s Col
lege.. .......................................874 Lord Salisbury’s Declaration on
Education.. . . . . . . . . 874 Vexed Questions about Evening
Schools . . . . . . . . 875 About E d u c a t io n ........................... 875 N ews from t h e D io ceses :
Westminster \ ......................... 877 Southwark . . . , . . . . . 877 Birmingham . . . . . . . 877 Northampton ... . . . . 877 Glasgow . . . . . . . . 878
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
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ON Monday, after greeting the return of Mr. Chamberlain from America with cheers, the House again went into Com
mittee on the Parish Councils Bill, Clause I. The debate developed a great diversity of opinion as to the limit at which it should become compulsory on a parish to have a Parish Council, some members insisting on a limit of five hundred, and others preferring as low a limit as one hundred. An Amendment was also moved by Mr. Fowler, and provided that, in parishes with a population less than two hundred, the County Council, with the consent of the parish meeting, might provide for establishing a Parish Council, and also for the grouping of neighbouring parishes. Mr. Heneage moved to amend this Amendment by providing that the County Council should order Parish Councils to be established in parishes of between one and two hundred of population, on the parish meeting’s deciding in favour of it, and that the County Council should have the option of ordering the establishing of Parish Councils in parishes under a hundred, also with the consent of the parish meeting. Ultimately Mr. Heneage’s Amendment was incorporated in Mr. Fowler’s, and Mr. Fowler’s Amendment, as thus amended, was added to the Bill. The Second Clause, which was next entered upon, provides that the rural parish meeting shall consist of the persons registered, with such portion either of the Local Government register of electors or of the Parliamentary register of electors as relates to the parish. Mr. Balfour supported the Government, believing that a shorter and simpler method than that of the Government of retaining for the administration of the parish the two important classes covered by service franchise and the .owners’ franchise could not easily be found.
On Tuesday, the consideration of e n f r a n c h i s e m e n t t;ie gecon(j clause of the Parish a n im p o r t a n t Councils Bill was resumed in Comc o n c e s s io n .
mittee. By the clause it was provided that the parish meeting shall consist cf that portion of the Local Government register and of the Parliamentary register which related to* the '
parish. Mr. W. M’Laren moved that it should further consist of a supplementary list of all the married women who would be entitled to be on the Local Government register if they were single. Mr. Fowler rose immediately after the amendment was moved, and asked Mr. M’Laren to withdraw it, as it was inconvenient in form, and he promised to introduce, at a later stage, a new clause removing the disqualification of married women altogether, by providing that any married woman otherwise duly qualified to be on the register should not be disqualified in consequence of her being married. Sir H. James expressed satisfaction at the course proposed by the Government, as did also Mr. Stansfeld. In answer to Sir J. Goldsmid, Mr. Fowler stated that all qualified women, married or single, would be possible for election to Parish Councils and Boards of Guardians. Mr. Gibson Bowles caused some laughter by a short speech demurring to the hasty acceptance of proposals which amounted to nothing jess than turning women into men. It was feminine men and masculine women who wished to change the Constitution in this casual and incidental manner. Sir C. Dilke remarked that Mr. Fowler’s proposal would only place married women in the position they were in before the Bill disfranchised them. Mr. Balfour contended that the question was much more important than the House seemed to realize. If the clause passed, it would be impossible to draw any distinction between married and single women, either in relation to the muncipal franchise or the Parliamentary franchise, and if they were put on the municipal register they would assuredly be put on the Parliamentary register eventually. For his part, he wished to see the suffrage for all purposes, political and social, extended to women. After some further discussion, Mr. M’Laren accepted the proposal of Mr. Fowler. Mr. Chamberlain said he did not think Mr. Fowler intended to go so far as to give married women a right to vote in Town Council and School Board elections, and it must be clearly understood that they were nojt changing the present law. Mr. Fowler explained that he did intend to change the existing condition of things, and not only to prevent marriage from being a disqualification, but to give married women in towns the right also of voting for the Town Council and other local bodies. Mr. Chamberlain replied that that would make a very important change, which he should certainly oppose. Mr. Stanhope said he also would oppose it, and Mr. Storey indignantly asserted that this change would wreck the Bill, and that the Government in proposing it wanted sense. Afterwards Mr. Courtney’s amendment providing for the introduction of e w S e r ie s , V o l . L . , N o . 2 ,10 3 .
