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C h r o n ic l e o f t h e W e e k :

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Imperial Parliament: Adjournment of the Commons — Sir -George Chesney and the Empire — The Marquis of Lome and the Colonies— Events in Austro-Hun.gary— Death of M. Waddington — The Troubles in Italy — The French Conversion— Major W ilson’s Fate—The Jewish Colonization Company—The Metropolitan Fire Brigade— The Prussian Budget— The Money Market . . . . 77 L e a d e r s :

A Dublin Reviewer on the Social

Question . . .. . . . . Si Martial Law in Sicily . . . . 82 The Issue Before the London

School Board .. . . . . 83 Russia and the Catholics . . . . 84 The Late Bishop of Bruges . . 85 The Catholic Social Union . . 86

CONTENTS.

Aspects of Anglicanism . . . . 85

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To Aubrey de Vere, Esquire . . 88 N o t e s ......................................................88 R ev iew s :

An Anglican Manual o f Councils 90 The Sacred City of the Ethiopians 91 Markham Howard . . . . . . 91 Pomona .. . . . . ..91 The Little Squire .. . . .. 91 The Stock Exchange Year-Book,

1804 .. .. . . ..91 Hazell’s Annual for 1894 . . . . 91 C orrespondence :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . . . . . 93 News from Ireland.. . . . . 95 L e t t e r s to t h e E d it or :

St. George’s Cathedral Choir and the Conversion of England . . 96

L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r (Continued) Affairs in Italy . . .. . . g5 East Bergholt . . . . . . 97 “ Credo in . . . Sanctorum Com-

Page munionem” .. . ..97 The Banner of Jerusalem . . 97 Rates on Schools . . . . ..97 Spetisbury Priory . . .. . . 97 ‘ ‘ Mr. Rider Haggard and the Im­

muring of Nuns ” ......................... 93 The Agitations in Sicily . . .. iot The Catholic Congress at Budapest 102 Return of Cardinal Moran to Sydney 102 Dr. Barnardo’s Homes . . . . 103 An American on the British N a v y . . 103 A ppeal t o t h e C h a r i t a b l e . . 103

O b it u a r y ........................................ 104 Social a n d P o l it ic a l . . . . 104

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

Buckfast and the School Board . . 109 Speech Day at St. Ignatius’ Col­

lege, Sydney . . .. . . 109 The Revolt of the Parent . . n o St. Margaret’s, Airdrie . . . . m About Education . . . . . . i n N ew s from t h e D io c e s e s :

Westminster ......................... 112 Newport and Menevia . . . . 112 Salford . . . . . . . . 112 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 112 G a l l o w a y ......................... . . 1 1 3 The Ransomers at Salisbury . . 113 The Late Cecil Petre Inquest . . 114

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CHRONICLE O F THE WEEK.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. — ADJOURNMENTOF

THE COMMONS.

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N Friday the Lower House adjourned until February the 1 2th, after reading the Parish Councils Bill for the third time.

Mr. Chaplin entered a formal protest against a Bill o f such importance having been introduced at a period o f the year •when it was impossible to do ample justice to it. Mr. "Goschen wished it to be distinctly understood that it was only out o f regard for the jaded state o f the House after eleven months’ work that the Opposition had foregone their ■ undoubted right to have a debate on the third reading. For the last few days they had been legislating at racing speed, and the Deputy-Speaker had had barely time to get his breath in putting the various amendments, and there had •certainly been sufficient changes made in the Bill to warrant considerable discussion on the third reading. In the House o f Lords on Monday the Bill was brought up from the House of Commons and read a first time. The Marquis o f Ripon stated that in putting down the second reading for Friday next he did so with no intention on the part of the Government o f proceeding with it on that day. He •was not in a position at that moment to fix the date on •which the second reading would be taken, but it would be •some time next week and the Government would take care »that the date selected was such as to give all reasonable Lope that the measure might be passed through its stages ¡in the Upper House before the House o f Commons reassembled.

¡SIR GEORGE CHESNEY

AND THE EMPIRE.

Speaking at a discussion held in the Junior Constitutional Club on Tuesday night under the presidency of Admiral Field, M.P., Sir George Chesney, M.P.,

who took for granted the supremacy of the British Navy, held that our Colonial Empire was now in a position of security ; its great distance and vast size were in themselves potential safeguards, and five millions of free Britons could not be subdued by an expeditionary force. Canada occupied a different position, because it had an enormous line o f frontier faced by another great independent Empire ; but,

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unless we went to war with the United States, Canada was absolutely impregnable. With regard to the centre o f our Empire, even assuming that the British Isles were safe from invasion, we might at any time he called upon to undertake military operations abroad, because our defensive policy had been, and, he hoped, would still be, to ward off attack from our shores by carrying the war into the enemy’s country, so that the enemy might be forced to sue for peace. In order to execute such a policy, it was not sufficient to have 60,000 men available for operations at starting, which meant that 40,000 trained men must be immediately in hand to send off to take the place o f casualties. In point o f fact, we had no reserve in the British Army, for we could hardly call up our reserve before it was used up. What we called the reserve was essentially different from the reserve as understood in Continental armies, which there meant sweeping the country o f every fighting man and taking them all to the field. In regard to reserve, England compared unfavourably even with Holland, Roumania, and Bulgaria. That was scarcely a dignified position. England, with her 60,000 men, really had no means o f filling up their places except by recruiting. I f war were to break out with Russia on the Indian frontier, it would he a contest on a very large scale, absorbing the whole of our reserve, and leaving not a man for England’s defence. It would be necessary to increase the British troops in India in equal proportion to the number o f native troops. The whole world has now entered upon a new military phase, and, should we go to war, we must be prepared to raise a new Army on new and Democratic methods, on a very large scale, and with the most liberal pay, if England was to be put in a position o f dignity, weight, and influence proportioned to her real position. Anything short of that would involve us in disaster. The people of the country would gain if upon every able-bodied man were placed the liability to service, for the defence o f his country, either in the Militia or in the Volunteers. England might then stand before the nations o f the world as an exemplar o f how a free country, with her free institu tions, was absolutely impregnable against all enemies.

The Marquis of Lome in reading a paper

*HlorneQand °F at I mPer*al Institute on Monday night, the colonies, entitled “ Talk o f the Last Ten Years,”

said : During the year 1893, there had b^en seen the formal inauguration of the building in which they were gathered— a monument to the wide sympathies o f the Heir to the Crown, to whose exertions its completion was primarily due. They had seen the structure devoted by the