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DÜM VCBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS DT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

From the B r ie f o f His Holiness Pius IX . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.

V ol. 82. No. 2797. L o n d o n , D e c e m b e r 16 , 18 9 3 .

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C hronicle of th e W e e k :

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Imperial Parliament: Betterment —The Unemployed — The East Indian Loan Bill— Bomb Thrown in the French Chamber—The Action of the President— The Discovery of the Miscreant—Affairs in Italy — The London County Council and the Fire Brigade Again — The Condition of the Navy—The Money Market . . 961

L eaders:

Betterment and the Peers . . 965 Mr. Lilly on Self-Government .. 966 iA Mediaeval Abbot’s Manual .. 967 N o t e s .....................................................969

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The Catholic Social Union . . . . 971 R eview s :

Dr. Thalhofer’s “ Liturgik ” .. 972 Miss Sweetman’s Poems .. .. 972 Fairy Tales .. . .. .. 973 Outlines of the History of Dogma 973 The Journalist Afield .. .. 974 Mère Gilette .. .. .. 974 Louth Old Corporation Records 974 Blanche : A Story for Girls .. 974 The Spanish Eucharistic Congress 975 Obituary ........................................ 975 C orrespondence :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) .. . . .. . . 977

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News from Ireland .. . . *. 978 Catholicism in Hiniduma .. .. 979 L etters to th e E ditor :

Captain Lugard’s Book .. .. 979 Cardinal Pole’s Biography .. 979 A New Church to the Honour of

St. Pancras .. .. .. 979 A Papal Indulgence for Crucifixes 980 Place Names in Westmoreland and Cumberland Connected with St. Patrick .. .. .. 980 Catholic Charities and Parish

Councils . . .. .. .. 980 N ews from th e D io ceses:

Westminster ......................... 980 Southwark .. .. .. .. 981 Liverpool .. .. .. .. 981

Newport and Menevia .. .. 983 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 986 Glasgow ......................... . . 986 Social and P olitical . . . . 986

SUPPLEMENT. N ews from th e Schools :

St. Ambrose’s College, Bayswater 993 St. Mary’s Training College, Hammersmith .. .. .. .. 993 Religious Education of Catholic

Children .. .. .. .. 996 School» of Plymouth Diocese .. 996 Southwark Diocesan Education

Society .. .. .. . . 997 Distribution of Prizes at Wands­

worth .. .. .. .. 993 Ratcliffe C o l le g e .........................998

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

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ON Monday, during questions,

Sir 1*. Dixon-Hartland, re- ferring to the dynamite out­ rage in the French Chamber, asked the Home Secretary if he would take steps, by search or otherwise, with reference to all persons admitted to the galleries of their House, as would make a similar disaster there impossible. Mr. Asquith replied that that was a matter for the authorities of the House in conjunction with the police, and both were satisfied that the proper and necessary arrangements had been made— a statement that called forth some cheers. The Chancellor of the Exchequer then said that the Government were of opinion that the outrage recently committed upon the great representative Assembly of a friendly nation should not pass without notice. With the approval of the House, therefore, a fitting communication would be made to the French Chamber and their President, expressing the sympathy of the House of Commons, and its horror of the crime which had been committed. The suggestion was received with loud cheering, and Mr. Balfour rose and expressed the entire concurrence of the Opposition with the step which the Government was prepared to take. The assent of the House was again marked by hearty cheers. Sir W. Harcourt, replying to Sir J. Lubbock, said that, as the Lords insisted on rejecting the Clause in the County Council Bill relating to Betterment, nothing could be done this Session to affect the Clause in that Bill. As to the proposed inquiry by a joint Committee, he could only repeat Mr. Gladstone’s former answer, that no advantage could be derived from such a proceeding. Sir J. Lubbock then asked leave to move the adjournment of the House to call attention to the refusal of the Prime Minister to consent to the suggestion of the House of Lords that a joint Committee of the two Houses should be appointed to consider the subject of Betterment. He received the necessary support from the Conservatives and Liberal Unionists, but his request was received with groans from the Ministerialists. He pointed out that the non-settlement of the question was causing great delay in the prosecution of public works in London. Sir W. Harcourt replied that the House of

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Commons, by three to one, had made up its mind in favour of the principle of Betterment, and it would be senseless to go into a joint Committee to discuss it with the House of Lords. Mr. Chamberlain, while regretting the action of the House of Lords, thought the Government had treated the invitation of the other House with contempt. The Government should do its best to establish the principle of Betterment, but they had refused the olive-branch held out by the other House, with contemptuous indifference. Mr. Boulnois set forth the views of the Moderate party in the County Council. Sir A. Rollit saw no objection to a joint Committee. Mr. T. H. Bolton argued that the three Bills introduced by the County Council since 1890 showed that the Council’s own ideas on the subject, on the method of applying the principle, were very unsettled. Mr. Pickersgill, Mr. Whitmore, Mr. Ambrose, and Mr. Barrow having taken part in the debate, Mr. Balfour said that the Opposition admitted the principle, and only Wanted to see it carried out equitably. He denied that it was a question of London improvements with the Government and the Council; it was not a question of the unemployed ; it was a political question from beginning to end, and he did not think the London ratepayer, the London business man, and those interested in the commercial prosperity of London, should be sacrificed to the tactics of a political party. After some further discussion, the motion for adjournment was negatived. After the House had thus proved its fixed intention to listen to no proposals, however just or sensible, proceeding from the Lords, it went into Committee again on the Parish Councils Bill, and succeeded in disposing of Clause 13—after Mr. Balfour had rightly pointed out that the discussion had occupied nearly six days, and that it was the Government who were to blame for this waste of time by having added an amendment which was a scandalous breach of their pledges to the House.

In the House of Peers on Tuesday,

—the unemployed. Lord Teynham called attention to the exceptional distress which existed in the Metropolis, and asked what steps the Government intended to take to cope with it. The question he thought was of much more importance than most of the subjects which had occupied the attention of Parliament during the Session. The conduct of the London County Council was nothing less than suicidal in declining, at a time of great distress, to proceed with works of public improvement because that House had refused to sanction a Betterment scheme, and he challenged the Government to say whether they would take steps to induce the Council to abandon