THE TABLET.
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F rom the B r ie r oj H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T he T ablet, June 4, 1S70.
V o l . 83. No. 2820. L o n d o n , M a y 26, 1894. P r ic e sd . b y P o s t 5% d .
[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 spaper
C hronicle o f t h e W e e k :
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Imperial Parliament : _Monday’s Sitting — Tuesday’s Sitting— The International Miners’ Congress— The Close o f the Conference — •Church and State in France— Lord Selborne onDisestablishment — Defeat of the French Ministry— A l l e g e d Servian Conspiracy— Servian Coup d’Etat—East and Central Africa— The French Army 797 L e a d e r s :
Last Phase of the Naval Revolt in Brazil .. .. . . . . 801 The Cab Strike . . . . . . 802 The Royal Academy . . . . 803 T h e Gelasian Sacramentary . . 803 N o t e s . . ........................................ 805 R e v iew s :
A Life of Archbishop Laud .. 807 The English Religious Drama .. 808 j
In the Face o f the World .. . . 809
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R eview s (Continued) :
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Ecce Homo . . . . . . . . 810 In Varying Moods . . . . . . 810 Maiianela .. .. . . . . 810 Books of the Week . . . . 810 A C a t h o l i c Summer School for
England .. . . . . . . 811 C orrespondence :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) .. . . . . . . 813 News from Ireland . . . . . . 814 Whit-Monday at Lourdes .. . . 815 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d itor :
Secondary Education for Women 816 Irish Industrial Co-operation . . 817 Aspects of Anglicanism .. . . 817 On a Return to the Divine Liturgy 817 St. Paneras . . ......................... 818 Sacred Congregation o f Indul
gences . . . . .. . . 818
ENTS. L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it or (Con
tinued) : The Words “ In Se ” . . .. 818 Mis-statement of Catholic Doctrine 818 Nazareth House, Kilmarnock .. 818 Lending Reference Library .. 818 Difficulties of Dissenters .. .. 818 An Appeal for Poplar . . .. 819 The Pilgrimage to Rome, Loreto,
and S i n i g a g l i a .........................819 Legend o f the Three Lilies and
Dominicans . . . . .. 919 Holy House of Loreto . . . .8 1 9 Report of the Association of the
Holy Childhood, 1893 . . . . 819 St. Winefride’s Well . . .. . . 819 The Coming o f the Catholic Social
Union to Canning Town .. .. 8?o Claim o f Undenominational Schools to an Equal Share in Public ! Monies . . .. .. .. 821. “ T ru th ” and Dr. Barnardo .. 8231 Reunion of Churches . . . . 823*
A Whit-Monday E x c u r s io n to
Oxford .. . . .. . . 823 Catholic Yong Men’s Society .. 824 The Cardinal Archbishop and the
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Peace Society . . . . . . 824 F rom E veryw h ere . . . . 825 Social a n d P o l it i c a l . . . . 825
SU PPLEM EN T . N ews from t h e S chools :
Buckfastleigh School Contest .. 829 Bishop Brown Memorial Indus
trial School, Stockport .. .. 831 H ews from t h e D io ceses : Westminster ......................... 831
Southwark . . . . . . . . 833 Birmingham ......................... 833 Clifton . . . . . . . . 834 Newport and Menevia . . . . 834 Northampton . . . . . . 834
* * Rejected MS. cannot be returned unless accompanied with address and postage.
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
----------- ♦ ----------r " \ 'H E House of Commons reassemiMPERiAL I bled on Monday after the Whitp a r l i a m e n t . JL «¡„ntide Recess Next Fridav M o n d a y ’ s s i t t i n g . suntiae .Kecess. in ext - r r ia y was fixed for the discussion o f the
Uganda question. The adjourned debate on the second reading of the Bill for accelerating the making up of the parochial registers to enable the Parish Councils to be elected under them in November was resumed, read a second time, and referred to a Select Committee. The House then went into Committee o f Supply on the Civil Service Estimates. Sir A . Rollit urged that a proper laboratory should be provided for the London University, and Sir J. Hibbert admitted that it was required, and stated that the question o f a site was under consideration. There was a long discussion on the fact that Burlington House is let to the Royal Academy at a peppercorn rent, on condition that they should add a storey to the building ; the said storey, Mr. Bowles contended, disfiguring the building, should be paid for with a swinging rent by the Royal Academy by reason of its defacement. He was profane enough to speak of the Academy as not fostering art at all, being merely a rich society of picture showmen. The votes, however, were agreed to by midnight, and progress 'having been reported, the remaining orders of the day were disposed of.
Sir G. Trevelyan formally moved the Second __T u e s d a y ’ s Reading of the Scotch Local Government s i t t i n g . Bill, which was strongly objected to by Sir
C. Pearson. He reviewed its provisions in ■ detail. H e objected to the existing Board o f Supervision o f the Poor being superseded by the new proposed Administrative Board. H e likewise cautioned the House against ■ agreeing to the composition of the present Poor Law Boards in the various parishes being so altered that the administration of the Poor Law wrould be placed in the hands of a class not very far removed from those receiving relief. Consequently he very strongly objected to the abolition of the rating qualification, and he deemed the abolition o f the Standing Committee, which had control of the police, to be both unnecessary and uncalled for. The debate occupied he whole evening, Scotch members alone being present.
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The Conservative speakers, for the most part, followed Sir C. Pearson’s line of objection ; the Ministerial Liberals generally approved o f the Bill as far as it went. Some urged that the control o f education should be handed over to the Parish Councils. Shortly before twelve the Chancellor of the Exchequer moved the closure, and the Bill was read a second time, and referred to the Scotch Grand Committee.
The proceedings of this Congress in i n t e r n a t i o n a l Ber!in w .e r e o f interest chiefly as accen- m in e r s ’ c o n g r e s s , tuating in a very marked way the great diversity of opinion and methods which separates the British and Continental miners. It is freely admitted that the British delegates have been distinguished by the practical nature o f the object they pursued, but there seems to have been a disagreeable impression that they wished to force their views upon their continental colleagues. The friction first appeared during the discussion upon the question o f employers’ liability. One o f the foreign delegates moved that employers should be made responsible for each and every accident occurring in their mines. The Englishmen failed to appreciate this astonishingly simple proposition. They admitted that the English A c t was defective because it permitted contracting out, and declared that employers ought to be made answerable both for accidents caused by their own negligence and for those which cannot be referred to carelessness on the part of the men. So far they could go with their foreign colleagues, but they objected to making themselves ridiculous by extravagant demands when the employers had done their best to protect the lives and limbs of their workmen. The Belgian and French delegates protested vehemently against these moderate views, and in fact fairly screamed at them. A Frenchman asked ironically whether if a boiler were to burst the children of those killed by the calamity were to live on the scattered scraps of iron ; and a Belgian maintained that the employers ought to be held responsible for every case which could not be proved to be one of suicide. Argument having failed there was nothing to do but to put the question to the vote. The resolution was unanimously rejected by the British delegates, and as unanimously supported by those from Germany, France, and Belgium. According to the system of voting adopted, which provides that the results of the divisions shall be decided by the numbers o f the miners represented, and not by the numbers o f the nationalities voting, this was a triumph for the English view, and a rejection of the proposal by a majority o f 182,700 votes. It fell to the lot of two of the English
