THE TABLET

A. Weekly Newspaper and Review.

*DUM VCBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT1S.

F rom the B r i e 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. 2807. L o n d o n , F e b r u a r y 2 4 , 1 8 9 4 .

P r ic e sd . b y P o st s K d .

[R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a l P o 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 Employers’ Liability Bill—The Commons : Parish Councils Bill— Tuesday in the Commons — The Kaiser and Bismarck— The Loss of the “ Victoria” — The Anarchists Abroad—The Second Outrage— Italian Finances — Arrival of the Queen at Windsor — The Money Market . . . . .. 277 (Leaders :

The Quarrel with the Lords _.. 281 Count Soderini on Reconciliation with the Papacy .. .. . . 282 The “ Higher Criticism ” and the

Book of Genesis . . . . . . 283 .'No t e s ..................................................... 285

R ev iew s :

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Two Noble Lives . . . . 287 I abour and the Popular Welfare 288 The One Too Many . . . . 289 Fénélon’s Spiritual Letters . . 289 Pilate’s W ife .. . . .. . . 290 “ The Edinburgh Review ” . . 290 The Tiger L ily . . . . . . 290 Carmina Mariana.. . . . . 290 A Voice from the Grave . . . . 290 C orrespondence :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . . . . . 293 News from Ireland .. . . . . 294 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d itor :

“ Parsifal ” and the New Testa­

ment . . . . .. .. 295

L e t t e r s to t h e E d itor (Con­

tinued) : The Eight Hour System — Will

L P a y ? .................................... 295 Mr. Charles Weld-Blundell on

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Conciliatory Language.. . . 296 Choirs and Church Music .. 297 A Claim For Exeter . . .. 297 An Ex-Rector in Want . . .. 297 The Immuring of Nuns .. .. 297 The Daughters of Blessed Columba at Perugia.. .. . . .. 297 The Associated Catholic Charities 297 Septuage-dma .. .. .. 297 The Catholics of Nottingham and the Guardians . . . . .. 298 The Centenary of Pius I X . .. .. 299 Presentation to his Eminence Car­

dinal Vaughan .. .. .. 299

Foreign Freemasonry . . . . 299 £•">0a l an d P o l it i c a l . . . . 304 O b it u a r y ........................................ 304

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

Liverpool Training College . . 309 Hammer mith Training College 309 Bolton Catholics and the School

Rates . . . . .. .. 309 N a t i o n a l Union of Catholic

Teachers . . . . . . . . 310 The Religious Controversy . . 311 Parliament and the Schools . . 313 About Education . . . . . . 302 N ew s from t h e D io c e s e s :

Birmingham . . . . . . 302 Portsmouth . . . . . . . . 304

Rejected M S . cannot be re tu rn ed unless accompanied w ith address a rid postage.

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

IM PERIA L PARLIAMENT.

— THE EMPLOYERS’

L IA B IL ITY B ILL .

T h e first Amendment

ON Monday the House o f j

Lords considered the Com- j mons’ Amendments to the Lords’ Amendments on this Bill, considered was that moved in the

Commons by Mr. Cobb and carried by a majority of t w o providing that the Clause prohibiting contracting out of the | B ill should not come into force for three years in the case o f existing insurance agreements. The Marquis o f Ripon, j on behalf of the Government, moved that their lordships i agree with this Amendment. In supporting his motion, he asserted that there was reason to believe that the unanimity o f opinion among workmen belonging to such societies was not so great as had been supposed, because last week there had been two meetings in London o f themen employed bythe London and North-Western Railway Company for the purpose o f supporting Lord Dudley’s Amendment permitting contracting o u t ; but at these meetings the men had rejected by a large majority a motion in favour o f contracting out. A t this reference Lord Dudley asked the noble Marquis for the date and locality o f these meetings. Lord Ripon replied •that the first meeting was held on the 12th inst., and that there was also in the papers an account of the second meeting to which he had referred. The experience of three years, he believed, would show a different result as to the effects of the Bill from what had been anticipated. He •hoped that the House would accept the Commons’ Amendment. Lord Dudley replied that he hoped their lordships would not accept it. A more shallow or unsatisfactory concession could not possibly have been made. It was difficult to imagine that it could have been seriously recommended as a settlement o f the controversy on the question at issue. It left the whole question o f contracting out untouched, and .if insurance agreements were to be permitted to exist for three years, there was no reason why they should not be similarly protected for thirty or three hundred years. Earl Cowper opposed Lord Ripon’s motion. Lord Denbigh, in speaking against the motion, said that the whole o f the members o f the Government beamed with benevolence on

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these funds, but they seemed incapable of perceiving that this benevolence was simply being made a stalking-horse for parties outside, who were intent on the destruction o f the funds. While certain people were saying that the funds would not be injured by the Bill, others were gloating over the injury it would do them, as they regarded them as detrimental to the success o f the Trades Unions. And it should be remembered that the New Unionism was different from what we had been accustomed to in years gone by. The Commons’ Amendment was ultimately rejected. The Commons had struck out an Amendment of the Lords allowing agreements to be made for contracting out in future, under certain conditions. In moving that their lord ships agree with the alteration made b y th e Commons, Lord Ripon made a reference to the expression “ cruel organizations,” used by Lord Salisbury in a speech during a former stage of the Bill. Lord Ripon’s allusion implied that he understood the expression to refer to the Trades Unions, but Lord Salisbury, interrupting him, remarked that he had not said a word about the Trades Unions. H e had spoken o f the Radical organization which was driving the more moderate members of the Ministry into obedience to their power. He did not say there was much difference, because, undoubtedly, the Trades Unions and Radical Associations were to a great extent part o f the same organization. Lord Monk-Bretton pointed out an omission of an Amendment from the Amendments as printed, which had been carried on his motion. The third Amendment made by the Commons on the Lords’ Amendment was merely consequential on those they had already made, and the Lords accordingly disagreed with it, and thus restored the Clause to the shape in which they had formerly sent it down to the Commons, with the addition o f the corrected mistake pointed out by Lord Monk-Bretton.

Mr. Asquith, replying to a question o f

""THEp m r a 0KS Mr. Howard Vincent, said that the Goc o u n c i l s b i l l , vernment were not o f opinion that there was any necessity for a change in the law with the object of expelling persons dangerous to the Commonwealth. They believed the law to be at present sufficient both for our own protection and for compliance with our International obligations. The Government were, however, anxious to co-operate with other countries in any practical measures for dealing with Anarchists and other similar enemies of society. In their opinion, that direction was to be found, not in increasing the power o f expulsion on suspicion, which only shifted the burden from one country to another, but in the constant interchange of infor-