A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
DUM VCBIS GRATULAM UR , ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER M ANEAT1S
From the Brier oj H is Holiness P iu s IX . to The Tablet, June 4, 1870.
V ol. 83. No. 2819. L ondon, May 19, 1894.
P r ic e sd . b y P o s t 5%d.
[R eg i st 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 spaper
C hronicle of t h e W e e k :
Imperial Parliam ent : The Budget • D e b a t e — A n U n c o n s i d e r e d
A spect o f Disestablishment— How ’4o End the Peers — M r. Mund e lla ’s Resignation — T h e C a b
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S trike — P r o p o s e d U n i o n o f • C h u r c h e s — Funeral U r n s in Churches — England and I ta ly in A frica — T h e Brazilian Quarrel 'w ith Portugal— England, Spain, and G ib raltar — T h e Provisional Government in H aw a ii — Spain and Morocco— Attempts to Bribe Senators— France and Germany— T h e Anarchists in Belgium— The Money Market . . . . . . 757 •Lea d e r s :
M r . Gore’s A ttack on the Papal
E n c y c l i c a l . . . . . . . . 761 T h e Scare in In d ia .. . . . . 763 A N ew L igh t on an O ld Subject 764 The R o y a l A cadem y . . . . 765
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N o t e s .....................................................766 R e v iew s :
T h e Poems o f Thomas Gordon
H ake . . . .
The L ittle Sisters o f the Poor . . 769 Letters and W r itin g s o f Marie
. . 768
Laytaste . . . . . . . . 769 A Woman’s Whim . . . . . . 770 T im ar’s Tw o Worlds . . . . 770 Notes o f Spiritual Retreats and
Instructions . . . . . . 770 Tales of the Supernatural . . 771 Books of the W eek . . . . 771 C orrespondence :
Rome (From O ur Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . . . 773 N ew s from I r e la n d ...........................774 L e t t e r s to t h e E d it or :
Secondary Education for Women 775 Duties o f Men Towards Beasts . . 776 “ Aspects o f Anglicanism ” . . 778
E N T S .
L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it or (Con
tinued) : T h e T e a c h i n g o f Cookery in
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Catholic Schools . . . . . . 778 St. Pancras or St. Martin . . 778 Death Duties . . . . . . 778 Sacred Congregation o f Indul
gences . . . . . . . . 778 T h e Catholic Social Union . . . . 778 L lan tw it Major and St. Patrick . . 779 Im p r e s s i o n s o f Catholicism in
Mexico . . . . . . . . 780 Jubilee Celebration o f the Apostle-
ship o f Prayer in Portugal . . 781 Catholic Defence Lectures . . ... 782 Report o f the Association for the
Propagation of the Faith, 1893 . . 782 “ T r u t h ” on D r . Barnardo’s M e
thods . . . . . . . . . . 783 F rom E veryw h ere . . . . 784
So c ia l a n d P o l it ic a l . . . . 7S4
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S U P P L E M E N T . N ew s from t h e S chooi.s :
The Beginnings o f Speech . . 789 Parliam entary Intelligence . . 789 N E W S FROM T H E D lO C E SE S :
Westminster . . . . . . 790 Southwark . . . . . . 790 C lifton . . . . . . . . 790 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 790 L i v e r p o o l ........................................791 Newport and Menevia . . . . 791 N o t t in g h am . . . . . . . . 791 P l y m o u t h ........................................ 791 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 792 G lasgow . . . . . . . . 792 Catholic Social Union . . . . 792 Hostility to Catholics . . . . 793 Flowers o f Our L a d y . . . . 794
Rejected M S . cannot be returned unless accompanied w ith address and postage.
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
IMPERIAL ■ PARLIAMENT.—
THE BUDGET
DEBATE. M R. J. ELLIS, on Thursday, resumed the debate on the second reading of the Budget Bill, claiming that it gave the Govern
ment a far higher title to the confi
dence of their supporters than any number of promises in the Queen’s Speech. Mr. Clancy, speaking ■ on behalf of the Parnellites, roundly condemned the 'Bill as a wanton aggravation of the injustice of which Ireland had so long complained. The increase of the spirit duties would make Ireland pay ;£ i 00,000, or three ■ times more than she ought to pay compared with England. He charged the Chancellor of the Exchequer with having thrown to the winds his original pledge that the tax would be only imposed for a year, a charge which led to the intervention of the Leader of the House, who insisted that he :had given no pledge, and could not, that the duty would "not be reimposed ; he had merely stated that it would not be continued without an appeal to Parliament. Mr. Clancy challenged him to give a single instance of an increase of ■ duty which, having been once put on Irish whisky, had ■ ever been taken off. He wound up his speech by declaring that this plundering system as regards Ireland must cease, and that 'he and his colleagues would vote against the Government. Mr. Balfour, in one of his most animated debating moods, rose shortly afterwards and said that the Budget was wholly inconsistent with the traditions of Liberal finance, and that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had reared himself on the ruins of his predecessors. Its provisions were borrowed partly from the Socialist programme, while one of its best ■ provisions had been taken from the financial principles of the Opposition. The increase of the Spirit and Beer Duty had been imposed for no other reason than that the trades were supposed to enjoy exceptional prosperity. As to graduation, which was alleged to be one of the glories of the Budget, he would not discuss the general principle whether it was good or bad, but he said emphatically that the system now proposed was essentially bad. The proposed Estate Duties would cause some estates to be iniquitously mulcted, while other properties would get off with little imposition.
New S e r i e s , V o l . L I ., No. 2,128.
It was impossible to carry through this Bill unless the House was prepared to break existing settlements, and the inequity of it would be too intolerable, unless they were willing to release property from the bonds of settlements which were made under very different conditions. He took the strongest exception to the method of estimating value on the capital amount of property. It would be expensive and litigious. He objected to be governed by valuers, and money in Consols had nothing in common with land for purposes of taxation. The new duties would destroy the land system of England, would empty the country houses, and would hand over small sporting estates to American millionaires. The greatest blot of the Budget was the absurd pretension that it would redress the inequalities of taxation. The Chancellor of the Exchequer denounced the Opposition for the unprecedented course-they had taken, and, amid a wild burst of cheering from the Ministerialists and Anti-Parnellites, he taunted them with accepting aid from an Irish contingent. The Division, he said, would enable the Government to take the opinion of the House first, and of the country afterwards. He went on to justify the imposition of the Spirit and Beer Duties, and, amid further resounding cheers, he drew the inference that the Opposition had now accepted the principle that beer and spirits ought not to bear additional taxation, and tauntingly asked them if they would raise the money required by taxing tea, sugar, and corn. To this a Conservative shouted the humorous response, “ On soda water,” causing much laughter. Sir William proceeded to defend the proposals of his Budget, and concluded, after having spoken an hour and a half, by further challenging the verdict of the House and country. The Second Reading was carried by 308 to 294— a majority of 14. At its rising the House adjourned till Monday, May 21.
The debate upon the question of
AN KrerTne*™ Welsh Disestablishment was marked by d i s e s t a b l i s h m e n t . one singular omission. No member alluded to its probable effect upon the balance between the rival systems of elementary education. According to Mr. Asquith the gross annual value of the ecclesiastical endowments of Wales is ,£279,000 per annum. Its real value is, of course, considerably less. The Government Bill puts a heavy fine upon the capitaliza tion of clerical life interests. Under such circumstances the liberality of the members of the Church of England will obviously be taxed for the maintenance of the parochial system, and the question of funds for support of Church schools, which now cost ,£34,000, will still have to be faced.
