A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
DUM VCBIS GRATULAMÜR, ANIMOS KTIAM ADDIMUS ÜT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT1S.
From the B r i e f oj H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T he T a b let , June 4, iS jo .
V ol. 83. No. 2812.
L ondon, March 3 1 , 1 8 9 4 .
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[R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a l P o s t O f f i c e a s a N ew s p a p e r
C h r o n ic le o f t h e W e e k :
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Mr. Courtney on a Second Chamber— The Home Secretary on the Liberal Policy— The Papal Encyclical to the Poles— Mr. Chamberlain in Edinburgh— The InterC o 1 on ial^ Postal Conference — “Serious Disturbances in Sicily— Servia and Bulgaria— Debate on the Indian Budget— Death of Commander Lovett Cameron— The Canadian Budget— The United States and Hawaii— The Austrian Socialist Congress— The Meetings o f the Emperors— The Late Louis Kossuth— The Money Market . . 477 L e a d e r s :
“ Truth ” and “ The Catholic D i
vorce Court ” .. . . . . 4 8 1 Uganda and Unyoro . . . . 482 The Ministerial Changes in Bel
gium .................................... 483 The Hj'mns o f St. Ambrose . . 484
CONTENTS.
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N o t e s .................................... . . 480 The Catholic Social Union . . . . 48S R e v ie w s :
A Friend of the Queen
Mediaeval Music ..
Guide to the Mining Laws of the
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World . . . . .. . . 490 Stories of Elizabethan Ireland .. 490 Text-Books of Catholic Philosophy 490 The Portfolio . . . . . . 491 Pictures from Punch . . . . 491 Life of the Princess Bcrghese . . 401 Our Lady’»' Tumbler . . . . 491 Books o f the Week . . . . 491 C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :
Ro.ne :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) .................................... 493 News from Ireland.. . . . . 495 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :
The Deluge and the “ Higher
Criticism ” . . . . . . 496 Stonyhurst Coats of Arms . . 407 “ Good Bishop Pursgiove” . . 498
L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r
(ConPage tinued) : Duties o f Men Towards Animals 498 Catholics and Political Parties . . 498 Books o f Devotion in Large Type 498 The Inspiration of Scripture . . 498 Society of St. Vincent de Paul . . 498 The Catholic Social Union . . , . 499 Public Control . . . . . . 499 The Mont de Piété of England
(Limited) . . . . .. . . 501 Union o f Catholic Workmen’s Asso
ciations of Switzerland . . . . 502 The Perils of Football . . . . 502 Lord Rosebery and the Shoeblack .. 502 Inter-Collegiate Association Foot
ball . . . . . . . . . . 503 F rom E v e r yw h e r e . . . . 503 S o c ia l a n d P o l i t i c a l . . . . 504
S U P P L EM E N T . N ew s from t h e S chools :
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Sheffield School Board .. . . 509 Religious Education and Volun
tary Schools . . . . . 5 1 0 C h r i s t i a n Teaching in Board
Schools . . .. . . . . 510 The Catholic Summer-School of
America . . . . . . . . 5 1 1 The Chinese Schoolboy . . . . 511 Mr. Acland and his Fads . . . . 511 Stonyhurst Philosophical Course 512 N ew s from t h e D io c e s e s :
Westminster . . . . . . 512 Leeds . . . . . . . . 512 Newport and Menevia . . . . 512 Nottingham .. . . . . . . 512 Aberdeen . . . . . . . . 513 Galloway ... . . . . . . 513 Decree . . . . . . . . . . 513 Danby Hall Relics .. . . . . 5:4
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
R. LEONARD CO U R TN E Y ,
•m r . courtney \j 1 M.P., made a rather important s e c o n d c h I m b e r . i U sPeech t0 his constituents at
Liskeard on Monday, in the course of which he asked, Was the House of Lords a very strong body ? Did it impress its own will on the legislation of this country, thwarting and denying the demands of the people ? He said, No. When the Lords delayed legislation or negatived a proposal it was because they felt that the hesitation of the people in adopting the proposal justified them. I f they checked legislation it was because the nation had not made up its mind. When the people showed that their minds were made up the Lords at once gave away. He instanced the example of the Peers from 1835 to 1841, when Lord Lyndhurst, leader of the Upper House, was vigilant and active in defeating again and again the measures sent up from the Commons, until in 1841 came a big Conservative majority. The Lords were able then to nullify the work of the Ministry because the nation was halting, fearing they were going too fast, and 'taking a Conservative turn. So now the Lords were entitled to say to the Government: As the nation is not with you, we, holding fast the doctrine of obedience to the will of the nation, have the right to deny you as not holding the conscience of the nation. In throwing out the Home Rule Bill, had the Lords vetoed either what the Commons had unanimously agreed to or what the nation demanded in unequivocal accents ? I f so, it was wonderful that there was no manifestation of displeasure. I f a third Home Rule Bill ever made its appearance, the Gladstonian party would have the same difficulty to meet, unless previously they laid •their scheme fully and freely before the people. To the people the Unionists appealed, by their decision they would abide, when voting upon a clear issue which should represent a decisive national will. He would like to see the Upper House vivified and strengthened with new power, with wider sympathies and deeper intelligence, making them more in touch with the feeling of the people. Surely a Second Chamber was necessary to-day, and the Unionists were undoubtedly Second Chamber men. Apart from Home Rule they were Liberals, but Liberals who desired to move along maintaining the continuity o f the English Constitution, making it gradually in harmony with the j changing ideas of the time. He acknowledged that the j hereditary principle could not stand alone, and he ivould j bring his fad of proportional representation to govern the [ Upper House. He would have as members not merely the life Peers and Peers created by Prime Ministers; but also a j new set of Peers who should be elected, one for each of the I counties and the county boroughs of the United Kingdom. Thus would the Second Chamber be placed in touch with | the people ; it would be a House with a strong popular element, with a knowledge of the wants alike of the rural districts, manufacturing centres, and the great commercial cities. The Lower blouse was becoming more and more responsive to ebullitions of popular feeling, and it behoved j them, therefore, to have an Upper House imbued with the elements of stability. A House constituted in the manner he had indicated would become more and more a valuable element in our Constitution, and his proposal would effect a gradual transformation, and would create a Chamber which would know the wants of the people and carry them out with wisdom and judgment.
Speaking in support of the candidature
I THE H0ME o f Mr. Tennant in Berwick on Tues-
liberal policy; day evening, Mr. Asquith said that the present Government in relation to labour had done two great and important services. They had been the first Government to recognize, or, at any rate, to give practical recognition to, the doctrine that it was the duty of the State, in its active relation with those whom it employed, to set an example to the employers of the country. They had done that by granting an eight hours’ day in the War Department, the Arsenals at Woolwich, the firearms factories, and the Admiralty dockyards. He believed that, while the hours had been shortened for the workman, the taxpayer would get as much, and, probably, more for his money than he ever did before. The second matter in which he claimed credit for the Government was that he himself had exercised to the very limit those powers which he found on the Statute Book for improving the conditions' under which what were called dangerous occupations were being carried on. Touching on the Employers’ Liability Bill, he said he introduced it and advocated it, and it was supported in the House of Commons by the great bulk o f the Liberal party, not so much as a means of giving the injured workman pecuniary compensation for damage he had sustained, but because they thought it would, if honestly applied, give to the employers of the country so strong and
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