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A Weekly Newspaper and Review.

DUM VCBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS KTIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

From the B r ie f oj H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870

V o l . 83. No. 2805. L o n d o n , F e b r u a r y i o , 1894. P r ic e sd . b y P o st

[R e g is tered a t t h e G e n e r a l Po st O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper

C hronicle of t h e W e e k :

Imperial Parliament: The Peers and the Parish Councils^— The Guardians and the Vestries— Sir M . Hicks Beach at Bristol— Sir Charles Russell at Sunbury — The Discovery of Oil in 'Somerset — The New RussoGerman Tariff— The AthensLarissa Railway— Reported Annexation by France in West Africa—The Cameroons Scandal — The Vatican and Russia—The Money Market

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L e a d e r s :

The Catholic Claims in Uganda 201 The French in West Africa . . 202 “ The Right of the Parent” .. 203

CONTENTS.

L e a d e r s (continued) :

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Wagner and Catholic Ritual . . 204 Aspects of Anglicanism . . . . 204 N o t e s .....................................................206 R e v ie w s :

The Diatessaron of Tatian . . 20S West Grinstead .. . . . . 209 The Monastery o f the Grande

Chartreuse .. . . . . 210 “ The Dublin Review ” . . . . 210 Phcebe's Shakspere . . .. 211 Shrewsbury Protection Society . . 211 C orrespondence :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) .................................... 213

C orrespondence (Continued) :

News from Ireland . L e t t e r s to th e E d itor :

Two Convents in Danger Affairs in Italy Septuagésima Sunday and the

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Holy Family Tim Interpretation of Scripture.. Choirs and Church Music The Poverty of Kingsland The Immuring of Nuns .. Answer to “ An Enquirer ” Candlemas Day and the Weather Madame de Lignac Statues of St. Peter Catholic Reunion in Birmingham .. 218 The “ Modern Side ” . . . . . . 220

216 217 217 217 217 217 217

‘ The Childhood of Christ ” Prg. . . 222

O b itu ar y So c ia l an d P o l it ic a l

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SU PPLEM ENT. N ew s from th e S chool

Salford Diocesan Schools . . . . 229 Beaumont College : Shrovetide . . 230 St. George’s Schools, Southwark 23c St. Augustine’s, Ramsgate.— An­

nual Reunion .. . . . . 231 N ew s from th e D iocesfs : Westminster . . . . . . 231

Southwark . . . . . . . . 232 Hexham and Newcastle .. . . 232 Shrewsbury . . . . . . . . 233 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 234

Rejected M S . cannot be re tu rn ed unless acco?npanied w ith address an d postage.

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

— THE PEERS AND PARISH COUNCILS. O ’ N Monday the House of Lords resumed the Committee stage of the Parish Councils Bill. Lord Salisbury moved a series of amendments to the Eleventh Clause, the object of the first being to abolish compounding for the payment of rates, and to make those who voted the rates realize their share in paying them. He held there was no danger to be apprehended from Parish Councils being composed of comparatively poor men. On the contrary, he thought poor men were disposed to be more economical than richer men, and they ,had fewer fads. He pointed out that there was no limit in the Bill to the amount of land that might he taken up for allotments by agreement. In some parishes the compounders would be in a great majority, and the peculiarity was that the compounder paid no rates, and would vote for what he would not have to pay. Better security for economy, therefore, w7ould be obtained by ■ making the voters personally responsible for the rates than ■ would be obtained by the most ingenious restrictions that could be devised. Lord Kimberley replied that if Lord Salisbury’s views were carried out this anomaly would result, that in urban parishes, which were not affected by the Bill, compounding would be legal, whereas in rural parishes it would be illegal; besides, the separate collection of the rate would be very expensive and inconvenient. However, the amendment was carried, as were those which followed in Lord Salisbury’s name. Considerable changes were made in the Fourteenth Clause, relating to the control of charities. On an amendment moved by Lord Selborne to subsection 2, those charities in which the churchwardens were ■ mentioned were struck out of the Bill, and accordingly they are no longer placed under the control of the Parish Council. ’The third sub-section, which was the amendment introduced on Mr. Cobb’s motion in the Lower House, provided that, in the case of every parochial charity not being an ecclesiastical charity, the Parish Council shall appoint such a number of trustees as would give the Council a majority in the trust. Lord Salisbury moved that the sub-section be

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omitted, a proceeding which was called for, he said, by the honour of Parliament. He did not think so discreditable a Clause should be left in the Bill. The Lord Chancellor defended the Clause, arguing that its principle was not a new thin?, but was in accordance with suggestions made, in many cases, by the Charity Commissioners in 18S4. The Archbishop of Canterbury contended that it was in only a small number of cases that the Charity Commissioners had swamped existing trustees. But this Clause altered every trust in the country by force, with the view of drowning the representation. He would have no objection to accept such a reasonable representation as the Charity Commissioners had adopted, but this Clause was outrageous. The Committee divided, and the words were struck out by 80 to 19; and on the further motion of Lord Salisbury the remainder of Mr. Cobb’s amendment was struck out without a division. The Bishop of Ripon moved the insertion of a new subsection in the Clause, providing that doles in money or kind might be applied, under conditions to be prescribed by the Charity Commissioners, to pensions for poor persons not in receipt of poor relief, and the provision of nurses or specific assistance for such poor persons in sickness. The amendment was withdrawn on the piomise of Lord Kimberley to give it a favourable consideration at the Report stage.

On Tuesday the Lords proceeded in t h e g u a r d i a n s committee to deal with the Twentieth t h e v e s t r i e s . Clause. Lord Harrowby brought forward two amendments, the object of which was to make the members of a County Council ex-ojjicio Guardians, provided they were qualified to be Guardians. Both Lord Cadogan and Lord Salisbury, from the same side of the House, said they were unable to support the amendments, and they advised Lord Harrowby to withdraw them. After a short discussion, Lord Harrowby said he felt bound to take the sense of the House. The division proceeded upon the first amendment, which was merely verbal, and prepared the way for the main amendment. It was carried by 109 to 36, after which Lord Harrowby said he would not move his main amendment, but would give way to one in the name of Lord De Ramsey, which contained the same principle, but was more specific in terms than his own. T his was then moved, and agreed to without discussion or division. The next amendment, which stood in the name of Lord Cadogan, continued in the Local Government Board the power of nominating Guardians of Unions in London. Lie said that there could be no question that, since this power had been exercised by the Board under statutory authority, its effect had been admirable on the.