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DOM VCBIS GRATULAMÜR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS OT IN INCOEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT1S.

F ro m th e B r i e f o j H i s H o lin e s s P iu s I X . to T he T ablet, J u n e 4, 1870.

V ol. 83. No. 2814. L ondon, A pril 14, 1894. P r ic e sd . b y P o st sJ^d.

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■»Chronicle of t h e W e ek :

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Death of Bishop O’R e illy— Imperial Parliament : The Business o f the House— Behring Sea, and the Navy Estimates — Wednesday’s Sitting : Land Tenure (Ireland)— Lord Cromer on Egypt— The Death o f Lord Bowen—The New Station Indicator— The Proposed Nile Reservoir — K in g Humbert on Peace and War— Royal and Imperial Reunions— Events in Spain — Copyright in •Canada — The Sanitary Convention — Voluntary Schools in the Metropolis — The Royal Niger Company and th e F r e n ch — French W a r .M a t e r ia l from English Firms — T h e M o n e y Market. 557 L e a d e r s :

The Fate of Uganda . . . . 561 Rome and the Medical Congress 562

CONTENTS .

L eaders (continued):

Laymen in the Pulpit Cardinal Pole and the Reconcilia tion o f England . . The Bishop of Clifton N o t e s ............................

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563 564 565 566

R e v ie w s :

The Coinage of the European Con tinent The Making of a Novelist Handbook to Fairford Church and its Stained Windows Connor D ’A rcy’s Struggles A Legitimist Kalendar Pat-O’-Nine Tales and One Over Books of the Week St. J o s e p h ’ s Foreign Missionar>

Society, Mill Hill, London C orrespondence :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre spondent) ..

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News from Ireland .

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L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it or :

The _Deluge and the “ Higher

Criticism ” . . .. • . . 575 Duties of Men Towards Animals 576 Books of Devotion in Large Type 577 Catholicity in Kent . . . . . . 577

The Catholic Social Union .. The Late Bishop of Liverpool Important Meeting on Secondary

Education for Women . . W h a t Catholics Have Done for

Education in Mexico . . “ Education Up-to-Date Centenary of Pius IX . F rom E veryw h ere

577 578

580 581 581 582

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SU PPLEM EN T . N ews from t h e S chools :

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Twelve Months under Mr. Acland in the Diocese of Nottingham 589 Board Teachers and Religious

Tests . . . . .. . . 590 The Buckfast School Question . . 591 School Board Elections in Scot­

land Education Department .. 592 592 N ew s from t h e D io c e s e s : Westminster

Southwark . . Clifton Hexham and Newcastle .. Plymouth St. Andrews and Edinburgh Glasgow

592 593 593 593 593 594 594

Rejected M S . cannot be returned unless accompanied w ith address and postage.

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

DEATH OF BISHOP O’REILLY. A

FTER a prolonged illness, which had on several occasions assumed dangerous phases, the venerable Bishop of Liverpool peacefully passed away at three o’clock on Monday morning, surrounded by his faithful friends, in St. Edward’s College, Liverpool. On Sunday night his medical adviser saw that the end was drawing near and summoned to the dying chamber the Vicar-General of the diocese and the rest of the clergy ^ ■ residing at the Bishop’s house. The distinguished prelate ; •was more or less unconscious, though by his movements during the recital of the Litany and prayers for the dying, it was evident he had lucid intervals— but he had lost the power of speech. It was during a renewal of the recital of prayers and just as the clock was on the stroke of three that the beloved Bishop breathed his last. When all was over prayers for the dead were sobbingly said, and no eye in the room was dry. The body was then clothed in its episcopal robes and reverently borne to the library of the College, where it lay in state preparatory to the funeral. The whole o f his life, since his ordination, was spent in Liverpool, where his death is universally and deeply deplored. He was essentially of a quiet and unassuming nature, working in silence and ever shrinking from public notice. His greatest pleasure and truest ambition was in forwarding the spiritual interests of his flock, in befriending the poor, and in attending to the many demands which a scrupulous and exemplary attention to the cares of his diocese made upon his time. As a priest, in his early days, he had laboured among the poorest class of his beloved Irish people in the north end of Liverpool, and even among the roughest of the rough, so ■ great was his influence, his appearance was sufficient to ■ quell the most violent street disturbance, amid which the efforts of the police had been unavailing. There is no need for us to say how he was esteemed and ■ beloved by his people, to whom he had devoted his strength, his zeal and his life. He was a man who gave himself heart and soul to his work ; no one could be more zealous, none more self-sacrificing, more unsparing of himself than he. In the year 1847, during the outbreak of cholera and fever that ravaged Liverpool and carried off

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some 15,000 souls, and well-nigh decimated the local Catholic priesthood, young dauntless O’Reilly volunteered with others to fill the gaps, and before his theological studies were completed was ordained and sent at once as assistant priest to St. Patrick’s, Liverpool. Here the gallant young priest found himself face to face with a task of supreme danger and importance— the deadly epidemics making terrible inroads amongst the inhabitants, but especially amongst the poor ill-fated Irish peasantry, who had been driven from their own land in those dark days of “ Black ’47.” His warm Irish heart was wrung at the sight of the havoc the dread maladies were creating, but no danger daunted him, no difficulty was too great to be encountered. Down the dark lanes and fever-laden alleys, into the slums where the suffering starving poor were dying in hundreds, the fearless shepherd of God’s fold made his way, ministering at their bedsides the last rites and consolations of religion. It is comforting to know that they for whom he had laboured so hard and risked so much would not be unmindful of him in his hour of need, but would prostrate themselves at the throne of mercy and importune the Father of the Poor to remember him who had been the poor man’s friend and the sick man’s comforter ; and that they were privileged to usher his soul into the Divine Presence and to hear those blissful words, “ Well done, thou good and faithful servant,” is the fervent prayer we are sure all Catholics will join us in breathing for the good Bishop of Liverpool.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. — THE BUSINESS OF

THE HOUSE.

On Monday the House of Peers reassembled after their holidays, when Mr. Majoribanks took the oath and subscribed the roll as Lord Tweed-

mouth. In the Commons the course of Government business was discussed on the motion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer that the whole time of the House on Tuesdays and on Friday mornings during the remainder of the Session should be given to the Government. Pie acknowledged the assistance the Government had received from the Opposition in concluding the business of the first quarter of the year. If the Government could help it, they were not going to repeat the experiences of last year, as continued and continuous sittings of Parliament were good neither for the House of Commons nor for the country. By the present arrangements of the House, the Government had only eight days a month, or thirty-two days if the Session were to end on August 10, which was not sufficient for the business Government had to do. The distribution of time between the Government and private members was not