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THE TABLET.

A. Weekly Newspaper and

R ev iew ,

DCJM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS BTIAM ADDIMOS ÜT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTRR MANEAT1S.

From, ihe 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 ol. 83. No. 2816. L ondon, A pril 28, 1894. P r ic e sd . b y P o st

[R e g is t e r ed a t t h e G e n e r a l P o st O f f i c e a s a N ew spape

•Ch ronicle of t h e W e e k :

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Imperial Parliament: The Evicted Tenants _Bill— The Mines Eight Hours Bill— The Radicals and the Duke of Coburg— Anarchists in London— Lord Rosebery on the Eight Hours Bill— The Betrothal •of the Tsarewitch— The Labour ■ Church— The Ville de Paris Loan — Joan of Arc Celebration in Notre Dame—The Rioting in Hungary — The Money Market . . . . 637 L e a d e r s :

Mr. Gore’s Criticism o f the Papal

Encyclical.. .. .. . . 641 Transformations of Gases .. . . 643 T h e Eight Hours’ Day .. . . 644 •S a lfo rd Protection and Rescue

Society .. .. .. . . 645 Summary o f the Will and Codicils of Mr. John Gillow .. . . 645 N o t e s .....................................................646 Catholic Social Union .. . . 648

CONTENTS.

R ev iew s :

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Adversaria Critica Sacra . . . . 648 Saint Ann’s . . . . . . . . 648 An American Peeress . . . . 649 The Month of Mary of Our Lady o f Lourdes .. . . . . 649 Canon Schmitt’s Catechism . . 649 The Priest in the Pulpit . . .. 650 Life o f Cardinal Pole . . . . 650 Emynau Catholig . . . . . . 650 Father Faber’s May Book . . 650 Angelus D o m i n i ........................... 651 Books o f the Week . . . . 6 5 1 C orrespondence :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . .

News from Ireland...........................654 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it or :

653

Taxing the Landed Interest .. 656 The Deluge and the “ Higher

Criticism ” . . . . .. 656

L e t t e r s to t h e E d it o r (Con­

tinued) : “ Manuals of Catholic Philoso­

phy ” .................................... 656 The Proposed Secondary Training

College . . : .. . . 657 Joan of Arc and “ The Daily

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News” .................................... 657 Laymen in the Pulpit . . . . 657 English Versions of the Bible . . 657 The Paschal Candle .. .. 658 Catholic Candidates and L o c a l

Examinations .. .. . . 658 Children of Mixed Marriages . . 658 Venerable Jokes . . .. .. 658 “ The Monsignorial R in g ” .. 658 A Legitimist Kalendar .. . . 659 The Cardinal Newman Memorial 659 St. Mary’s, Llanelly .. . . 659 The Catholic Social Union . . . . 659 About Catholicism in New York . . 659

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The White Nun’s Trial .. . . 6 0 Lecture on Blessed Thomas More 66r O b itu a r y .. . . . . . . 66r F rom E veryw h ere . . .. 662 Social an d P o l it i c a l . . . . 663

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

The London County C o u n c i l

Technical Education Board . . 669 The Education Code . . .. 669 The Head School Teachers’ Asso­

ciation . . ............. .. 670 St. Charles’ College, Notting Hill 670 N ew s from t h e D ioceses :

Westminster . . . . . . 670 Southwark . . . . . . . . 671 Hexham and Newcastle . . ..671 Newport and Menevia . . . . 672 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 673 The Impression of the Burnt Hand o f Foligno . . . . .. . . 673

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

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

IMPERIAL PART.TAMENT.

— THE EVICTED TENANTS BILL. O ' i N Thursday of last week Mr. Morley explained the proposals of the measure known as the Evicted Tenants Bill.

The foundation of these proposals was the institution of a Board of three Arbitrators, whose office was to last for three years. The Bill would apply to tenancies which had been terminated since 1879. The tenancies were divided into itwo classes; first, those farms which were now unlet in the ’hands of the landlords themselves, and, secondly, those from which the old tenants had been evicted, and which had been taken by new tenants. In the first case, an evicted tenant might within one year of the passing of the Act ¡petition the arbitrators to be reinstated, and, if in their ■ opinion he had made out a case, they would give a conditional order for reinstatement, of which the landlord would >be notified, and if the landlord did not object the conditional order became absolute. If the landlord objected the Arbitrators would decide the cases on their merits, after having heard both sides. The tenant would be required to .go in provisionally at the old rent, but, after investigation ■ either by the Land Commission or, if the parties consented, by the Arbitrators, that could be transformed into a fair Tent— the payment to the landlord of arrears and costs, not ■ exceeding two-thirds of the old rent, might also be directed by them. Also a free grant, not a loan, of one-half of the •sum to be placed at their disposal by Parliament, the other ■ half being paid by the tenant, might also be made by them >to the landlord. But the landlord might require the tenant ■ to purchase his holding, and if he refused the re-instatement claim was forfeited. The guarantee of one-fifth, which, ainder the existing Purchase Acts, was at present retained in the hands of the Commissioners, it was not proposed to retain in the present Bill. In cases where the farm-house bad become dilapidated the Arbitrators were empowered to advance the tenant £ 5 0 to enable him to re-build it. As to the second class of cases, in which new tenants had taken the holdings of the evicted tenants, the Bill provided that an evicted tenant could also petition for re-instatement. Notice would be given to the new tenant, and if he objected bis objection was an absolute block to re-instatement. If 00 objection was raised the Arbitrators would fix the com-

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pensation to be allowed him, one-half of the amount being advanced by the Arbitrators from the fund placed at their disposal by the State. The funds for the above three classes of payments it was proposed to raise by a charge of _jC ioo,ooo on the Irish Church Fund. Mr. Balfour could not understand why it was proposed to create a new Board for three years to deal with questions already coming within the jurisdiction of the Land Commission, thereby leading to great risk of collision between the temporary and permanent tribunals. They had received no information as to the principles which were to guide the arbitrators in their judgments. What constituted a p r im a fa c ie case ? How was the evicted tenant’s share of the compensation to be paid if he was insolvent, or what account was taken of the ability of the tenant to pay his half? Upon what principle was the fair rent to be fixed ? Was it to be on the condition of the farm when the tenant was evicted, or when he returned to it? How about a farm which the landlord himself had cultivated and improved ? As to the new tenants who might be unwilling to give up their holdings to the evicted tenants, Mr. Morley had seen that it would not be possible to repair one eviction by carrying out another, and as regards the Irish Church surplus, he himself had been informed in 1891 that it was then mortgaged up to the hilt. Had anything occurred since 1891 to make that fund able to meet the call of one hundred thousand pounds ? But that amount would not provide for all the tenants that had been evicted since 1879, most of whom were not Plan of Campaign tenants at a l l ; and the inclusion in the Bill of all those evicted tenants between 1879 and the Plan of Campaign opened up a financial problem of which the Government did not seem to have the slightest idea. Mr. T. Harrington opposed the Bill with uncompromising hostility, because it did not propose to compulsorily evict those new tenants who refused to leave their holdings. Mr. T. W. Russell said he was willing to sacrifice many of the views he held to see a settlement of this question. Replying to Mr. Harrington’s argument, he said it was absolutely impossible for the Government to evict fifteen hundred well-to-do tenants in order to put fifteen hundred bankrupt men in their place ; and if these fifteen hundred bankrupt men were kept out of the holdings, he wanted to know what the condition of affairs would be. He protested strongly against the Church Fund being used to carry out this Bill. Mr. Dillon, speaking on behalf of the Anti-Parnellite section, thought the Bill a valuable one, as it would settle at least three-fourths or four-fifths of the evicted tenants back