THE TABLET. r A Weekly Newspaper and Review.

DÜM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMÜS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT1S.

F rom , th e B r i e f o j H i s H o lin e s s P iu s I X . to The Tablet, J u n e 4, 18 70 .

V ol. 83. No. 2813. L ondon, A pril 7, 1894. P r ic e sd . b y P o s t 5% d.

[R e g is tered 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 h ronicle o f t h e W e e k :

Imperial Parliament : The Grand Committee for Scotland — Tuesday's Sitting : Betterment— Home Rule for Scotland— Fatal Rioting un South Carolina— The Liquor Law in South _Carolina — The Birthday of Prince Bismarck — The End of the Financial Year— The Funeral of Kossuth— Miners’ Board of Conciliation— Affairs in -Servia— Light Railways as a Cure

Page for Agricultural Depression— The New Line to Johannesburg — .Another Bomb Outrage in Paris The Budget—The Crisis in Newfoundland— Arrest of Swindlers in Vienna — The Money Market 517 L e a d e r s :

New Lights on Sociology and Pro­

gress . . .. . . _.. 521 Secondary Education— The First

Want . . .. .. . . 522

CONTENTS .

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Notes From the Cape . . . . 522 N o t e s . . . . . . . . 524 R e v iew s :

The Epistles of St. Peter . . . . 526 Institutiones Theologies . . 526 Cuckoo Songs .. .. . . 527 Fairford Church and its Famous Windows, . . . . . .. 528 The New World .. . . . . 528 Books of the Week . . . . 528 Pope Leo X I I I . and the Bible .. 529 Catholic Association .. . . . . 531 Joan of Arc . . . . •.. . . 531 C orrespondence :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . ......................... 523 News from Ireland . . . . . . 535 L e t t e r s to t h e E d it or :

Secondary Education . . . . 536

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

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tinued) : Duties of Men Towards Animals 536 j Inspiration of Scripture .. .. 537 | Catholics and Political Parties .. 537 j Stonyhurst Coats of Arms and the “ Blanch Lion ” .. .. 538 “ Free and Open Churches ” .. 53S The “ Ave Maria ” . . .. 538 Structural Improvements in Vo­

luntary Schools . . . . 539 The Immuring of Nuns . . . . 539 “ Old Chelsea” and the New

Church .. .. .. .. 539 Convent of the Good Shepherd,

Hammersmith . . . . .. 539 “ Public Control ” . . . . . . 539 Books of Devotion in Large Type 539 Bigots Reproved in Canada . . 539 The Catholic Social Union . . . . 540 j Another Catholic Evidence Lecture 540

Paddington Board of Guardians . . 541

An Irish Fairy Tale on the London

Stage

F rom E veryw h ere . . . . 541 Funeral o f Mrs. Munslow of Wilm

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54r s l o w .................................................. 543. O b it u a r y ............................................543 S o c ia l an d P o l it ic a l . . . . 544

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

The Union of Catholic Teachers .. 549 The New Education Code . . 5^0 Association of School Boards .. 551 Children’s H'omes . . . . . . 551 N ew s from t h e D io c e s e s :

Westminster

S o u th w a rk ......................... . . 552 Birmingham . . . . . . 552Clifton . . . . . . 552 P l y m o u t h ......................... . . 552 Salford . . . . . . . . 5 5 2 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 552 Galloway .. . . . . . . 553 The Catholic Truth Society . . 55

552.

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

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

f o r Sc o t l a n d .

I

N the Commons on M onday Sir

G . Trevelyan brought forward his motion for the appointment o f a Standing Committee consisting

<jf all the members representing Scottish constituencies, together w ith fifteen other members, for the consideration o f all B ills relating exclusively to .S cotland. H e supported the motion on the ground that the neglect o f Scotch legislation im peratively demanded remedy, that the rem edy proposed was adequate, that the dangers and difficulties it m ight in volve would not at all approach in gravity those it would remove, and that the w'ell-informed public opinion o f those most interested in the question was in favour o f a change in the direction indicated by the motion. T h e proposal was brought forward in the interest, not o f Scotland alone, but o f the whole H ouse. Such a body would be not merely a m icrocosm o f the whole H ouse in Committee, but would actually be the H ouse in Committee on Scotch business, since the H ouse in Committee on Scotch business seldom consisted o f anybody but Scotch members. Amendments were set down in the names o f Sir Herbert M axwell, Sir John L ubbock, and Dr. C lark. Sir H erbert’s was d irected against the principle o f the motion, and asked th e H ouse not to entertain any proposal to refer Bills to G rand Committees on the ground o f separate nationalities a n d irrespectively o f the subject matter o f such B ills ; Sir J. L u b b o c k ’s proposed to make the same principles applicable to England and Ireland as well as to S c o t la n d ; and D r . C la rk ’s proposed that B ills should b e sent to such ■ Committee after the first reading, whereas the practice has h itherto been that B ills should only be referred to a Grand ‘C omm ittee after the second reading. Mr. Balfour moved an amendment, which was to the effect that the H ouse declines to sanction any plan by which the ancient practice should be fundamentally altered until it had had an opportun ity o f pronouncing on a general scheme which extended a lik e to B ills relating to each o f the other portions of the U n ited K in gdom . Mr. Balfour contended that the proposal o f the Governm ent would revolutionize the practice o f th e H ouse and be in flagrant opposition to its immemorial usage. But if they were going to upset the imme-

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morial traditions o f the House, they should do so on a plan o f which the full details were laid before them, and which should apply equally to England, Scotland, and Ireland, and not to a comparatively small proportion o f the thirty-five millions o f the people o f the United K in gdom . T h e proposal was not one o f Scotch patriotism or nationality, but was made to enable the Government to carry through more quickly Scotch legislation. There was no such thing as a B ill relating exclusively to Scotland, and the scheme was only a trick to give the Government a power which, as the H ouse was at present constituted, they d id not possess. I f they granted such a Committee to Scotland, they could not refuse it to England, but as the English Conservatives were in a majority, the Government would not dare to make such a proposal.

On Tuesday the London County Council’s F ittingS Hill for power to make a southern approach. — b e t t e r m e n t . t0 the Tower Bridge stood for Second R e ad ­

ing on the Order Paper o f the H ouse o f Commons. Being a private Bill, it was proceeded with as soon as the Speaker took the Chair. T h e formal motion for the Second Reading gave rise to a long discussion on Betterm ent, which was embodied in one o f the C lauses o f the B ill. Mr. A lb an G ibbs had put down a notice o f motion for the rejection o f the Bill, but he did not go on with it , though he made a speech protesting against the Betterm ent C lause. H e objected to the arbitrary areas to the preposterously short tim e allow ed for objection to the assessm ent, and to the new principle o f denying to the owner or occupier a jury to detennine what he was to pay. T h e principle w as new to our law, and it would have been better i f the proposal had been made in the form o f a public B ill, after inquiry b y R oyal Commission. Mr. R . G . Webster, who condem ned the principle o f Betterm ent, said that, b y the Bill, the com munity was to take half the profit, if there should be any profit, and the individual was to take all the loss. I t meant nothing more or less than “ heads I win and tails you lo se.” A grave wrong would be inflicted on occupiers, for they would be taxed for a ll tim e b y the ip se d i x i t o f the Surveyor o f the County Council. T h e object o f the Council in this matter was to have a good fighting question with which to attack the House o f Lords. A principle that would conduce less to the benefit o f the taxpayers than that o f Betterm ent it was im possible to conceive. Sir J. L ubbock said that on property could be taxed unless it could be shown that it had been really im proved, and it was a mistake to say that th e tax would be im posed according to the decision o f the C ouncil’s Surveyor, for the Council had to satisfy the L o c a l