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A Weekly Newspaper and R eview .
DUM WCBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS OT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
Prom the B r ie j o f H is H o lin ess P iu s IX . to The Tablet, June 4, 1870
V o l . 82. No. 2795. L ondon, D e cem b er 2, 1893.
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C hronicle of th e W e ek :
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Imperial Parliament: The Betterment Question—The Unemployed —Mr. Gladstone and the Unemployed—The Parish Councils Bill — The Chartered Company in South Africa — Lord Salisbury at Cardiff — The Austrian Army Bill—An Alleged Quadruple Alliance—Anarchist Attempt m Germany—Anarchism Abroad —Socialism in Germany — The Money Market ......................... 881 L e a d e r s :
The New French Ministry .. 885 Italy and the Patriarchate of
Venice . . .. .. .. 886
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L eaders (continued) :
How English Bishops Were Made
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Before the Reformation .. 887 N otes . . R eviews :
Stichometry Parthia
To His Own Master
Michael Lamont
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“ The Geographical Journa The Convert’s Catechism 893 •• 895 Smiles and Sighs .. C orrespondence :
Rome :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) .................................... 897
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Correspondence (Continued):
Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre
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The Pope’s Ritual .. .. . . 899 A Libel Withdrawn . . . . 899 A Lady’s Dowry .. .. .. 899 A Letter of .Gratitude .. .. 899 Non-Catholics in Catholic Chur
ches .. .. — .. 899 An Inquiry.— St. Paul’s Chain .. qoo Catholic Re-union at Hanley .. 900 A Proposed Memorial to Father
Morris .. .. .. .. 901 African Catholic Missions .. .. 902 Church Defence Lecturers .. .. 902 A ppeal to th e C h ar ita b le . . 908
SUPPLEMENT. N ews from th e Schools :
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The London School Board and the Religious Controversy v 913 The London School Board’s Finance About Education .. N ews from th e D ioceses :
Westminster
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Southwark .. Birmingham Northampton
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Shrewsbury ..
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St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 907 Glasgow . . 907
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
— THE BETTERMENT
QUESTION.
THE Employers’ Liability Bill was read a first time in the House of Lords at the end of last week, on the motion of Lord
Kimberley, and the Second Reading was fixed for Thursday. The Earl of Morley brought forward the motion, which has been standing in his name for sometime, for the appointment of a Joint Committee of the two Houses, to consider the'desirability of applying the principle of betterment to property the value of which is increased by any public improvement. He said he had been in communication with the authorities of the other House, but he believed the Government were not in favour of the inquiry. Lord Onslow supported the motion, which was only partially approved of by the Duke of Argyll. Lord Hobhouse regretted that their lordships had not seen their way to subject the principle to actual experiment, which would have rendered an inquiry unnecessary. The Earl of Kimberley, -on behalf of the Government, opposed the motion. The Marquis of Salisbury urged that if the House thought that the proper course was to have a Joint Committee of Inquiry they should pass the present resolution, and leave the other House the responsibility of rejecting it. With reference to the principle of betteiment, a more senseless proposition -was never made than that the value of all property in the immediate vicinity of an improvement must be thereby increased. The Lord Chancellor, in opposing the motion, argued that it would be better to deal with individual Bills •as they arose than to proceed by means of a general inquiry. On the other hand Lord Halsbury supported the motion, which was carried against the Government by 35 to 22. The Shop Hours Act then passed through Committee. Lord Salisbury said he would take an early opportunity of inviting the confidence of the Government as to the future conduct of business, and he had no doubt that Lord Kimberley would give it readily. Their lordships then •adjourned till Thursday.
Mr. Keir Hardie asked leave to move the
— t h e adjournment of the House, to discuss the u n e m p l o y e d , necessity of providing work for the unem
ployed. He was supported by thirty-six New Series, Vol. L., Nc. 2,104.
members only, that being four short of the necessary quorum. His supporters were chiefly Radical andNationalist members. AVhen a member who desires to move the adjournment of the House is supported by ten members he is entitled to claim a division, and Mr. Keir Hardie, availing himself of this privilege, asked for a division to be taken. The House accordingly divided, and leave to move the adjournment was refused by 142 to 44. Mr. Keir Hardie, rising when the result was announced, said he trusted that the unemployed would take the matter into their own hands now, to which the Speaker replied that he had not caught what the hon. member said, but the hon. member must abide by the decision of the House. Mr. Bousfield then introduced a Bill making provision for the establishment of Trades Councils. The Bill was read a first time. The Committee on the Parish Councils Bill proceeded with the consideration of the remaining four lines of the Second Clause, which dealt with the parish meeting. Mr. Fowler accepted an amendment, moved by Mr. H. Hobhouse,that the expense of a poll at a parish meeting should not exceed the scale framed by the County Council, and after one or two unimportant amendments were negatived, the Second Clause as amended was added to the Bill. The Third Clause dealt with the constitution of the Parish Council. It provided that the Council shall consist of a chairman and from five to fifteen councillors, as might be fixed by the County Council; that parish councillors shall hold office for one year ; that they shall retire on April 15, on which date the new councillors shall be elected by the parochial electors of the parish, and that every Parish Council shall be a body corporate. An amendment by Mr. Hanbury, that the Parish Council should be chosen from among the parochial electors only, was enlarged, so as to allow also of persons who had resided for twelve months in the parish, or within three miles thereof, by the Government. The principal discussion arose on a Sub-section, which was moved by Mr. Fowler, that no person shall be disqualified by sex or marriage for being elected or being a member of a Parish Council. Sir H. James made (what The S ta ndard calls) a short and amusing speech against the motion, which Mr. Fowler described as persifla ge. Mr. H. Plunkett was still more amusing in describing his observations during his ten years’ residence in the State of Wyoming, where the sexes were on a political equality. He said he was acquainted with a female Justice of the Peace, who discharged her duties, and, if necessary, her revolver also. After a good deal of discussion the amendment was agreed to, amid Ministerial cheers. A long debate followed on an amendment by Mr. Tomlinson, that
