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C hronicle of the Week :

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Imperial Parliament :The Finance Bill Debate—The Peril of the Peers — “ Laodican ” A r ch d e a c o n s— England and France in Africa— French C o lo n ia l Policy — The Mining Catastrophe in Austria— Mrs. Humphrey Ward on Utilitarianism — Italy’s Indispensable Man— The Black Plague at Hong Kong—The Westport Disaster and the Government— Mr. Morley •and Ireland— The Discoveries at Delphi— England and America .. 957 L eaders:

Catholics and Lord Dunraven’s

B i l l ............................................... 061 Korea and the Far E ast.. . . 962 The Royal Academy . . .. 963 H i s t o r i c a l Documents of the

Society of Jesus . . .. .. 963 'The New Encyclical . . .. 964 The Pugin of Belgium . . .. 965

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N o t e s .......................................... 965 Parentage and Birth of St. Cuthbert 967 Reviews :

Santa Teresa . . . . . . 968 The Historical Geography of the

Holy Land .. # •• . . 969 The Catechism of Nicolas Bul-

garis .. . . • • . • 97° The Portfolio .. . . •• 971 Books of the Week . . •• 971 Correspondence :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) .................................... 973 News from Ireland . . . . . . 974 Letters to the E ditor :

“ Aspects of Anglicanism” . . 976 Secondary Education for Women 977 Liturgiological Studies . . . . 977 Mr Rider Haggard and the Im­

muring of Nuns .. .. . . 977 Work for Catholic Seamen in the

Port of London .. . . . . 978

ENTS. L etters to the E ditor (Con- 1

tinued) : Westminster Cathedral . . . . 978 Stonyhurst Centenary Celebration 979 Thomist and Scotist . . . . 979 Anniversary of the Coronation of Our Lady of Consolation . . . . 979 Leavesden Lunatic Asylum . . 979 Robbery at the Catholic Church,

Grtys . . . . . .9 7 9 The Catholic Social Union .. . . 979 Church History at Mountain A sh . . 980 “ Truth” on Dr. Barnardo.. . . 981 Anglicans and the Greek Church . . 982 The Laval University at Quebec .. 982 Driffield School Board and Catholic

Schools . . ^ . . .. . . 983 Monument to Kosciusko .. . . 983 Death and Funeral of Mrs. Horace

Mellor .. ......................... 984 F rom E veryw h ere . . . . 984 S cial and Political .. .. 985

Page SU PPLEM ENT. N ews from the Schools:

School Managers and the Fads of the Department . . . . 989 Raid-Aid for Voluntary Schools .. 990 Father Bernard Vaughan, S.J.,

on Education . . . . .. 991 Voluntary Teachers’ Association and Rate-Aid for Voluntary Schools . . . . . . .. 991 The Buckfast School Contest .. 992 Report on the Schools in the

Metropolitan Division . . . . 992 N ews from the D ioceses :

Westminster . . . . . . 992 Birmingham . . . . . . 992 Clifton . . . . . . . . 992 Leeds . . . . . . . . 992 Liverpool . . . . . . . . 993 Newport and Menevia . . . . 993 Plymouth . . . . . . . . 993 Shrewsbury . . . . . . . . 993 Glasgow . . . . . . . . 994 The Ushaw Museum . . .. 994

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

HE House of Commons on Mon­

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day went into Committee on the Budget Bill. Fifteen lines of the bill debate. Sixth Clause remained over from last week, and they gave the Commissioners -power to ascertain the value of any property in such manner as they thought fit, with the right to any person aggrieved by the valuation so ascertained of appealing to the High Court, on condition that the duty in accordance with the Commissioners’ valuation was previously paid, any excess o f duty to be afterwards repaid. In an amendment moved by Mr. Bartley, he endeavoured to fix the Commissioners •down to the principle of calculating each life interest according to the age of the person receiving it. The Attorney-General replied that he believed it would be impossible to lay down a hard and fast rule by which to calculate the value of a life interest, and the amendment was withdrawn. He, however, moved another, defining the way in which terminable annuities, whether ground-rents or any other, ■ should be valued. He proposed that they should be valued according to the age and length of time they had to run. Mr. Balfour said that the injustice of which Mr. Bartley ■ complained was inherent in the Bill, and could not be •excised now by any surgical operation that could be proposed, so the amendment was withdrawn. Mr. GriffithBoscawen moved that the Estate Duty should not be payable on any advowson or Church patronage which would Grave been free from Succession Duty under the Succession Duty Act of 1853. The Government accepted the amendment, which was inserted in the Clause. Finally, Clause Six, as amended, was added to the Bill. The Committee then entered on the Seventh Clause, which consisted of twelve Sub-sections, containing supplemental provisions as to the collection and recovery of Estate Duty. On the first Sub-section, which made the existing law applicable for the collection and recovery of the Duty, the SolicitorGeneral moved words exempting from duty the property of seamen and marines and soldiers who are slain or die in the service of her Majesty. This was agreed to. He moved an additional provision, making the Executor accountable for the Estate Duty on all personal property

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of which the deceased was competent to dispose at his death. Sir R. Webster contended that the executor should be liable only when the property came into his hands. The Solicitor-General gave effect to this suggestion, and the Committee divided on his amendment as thus amended, when it was carried by 158 to 108. Upwards of six pages of amendments were disposed of during the sitting, representing forty lines of the Bill.

THE PERIL OK THE

PEERS. The bolt that has been so long in forging is now ready for hurling— in other words, the National Liberal Federation have formulated the resolution which is to end the power of the hereditary branch of the Legislature. Three resolutions are to be submitted to the forthcoming Congress at Leeds. The first and third may be dismissed as obvious and formal, but the second is vital and revolutionary. It runs as follows : “ That this meeting therefore calls upon the Government to introduce a measure for the abolition of the House of Lords’ veto, by providing that whenever a Bill passed by the House of Commons shall be altered or rejected in the House of Lords, such Bill may be reaffirmed by the House of Commons, with or without such alteration, and, subject only to the Royal Assent, shall thereupon become law.” The Liberal party, therefore, will be committed to the absolute abolition of the veto of the Lords whether exercised in mending or ending a Bill passed by the Commons. The Lower House is to have the power of reaffirming its measure, whether in the shape in which it originally passed, or with such improvements as the Commons may allow. No delay is tolerated, and no new Session is required. The Commons, having re-passed its Bill, would surely ignore the Peers, and send it to the Crown, where it would have to risk only a Royal veto, which, as T h e D a i l y C h ro n ic le carefully reminds us, has been in abeyance for nearly two hundred years. It is needless to observe that the change here proposed amounts to a revolution in the constitution. It is more to the point to note that the Radical organ insists that this resolution, if adopted at Leeds, will carry with it a direct mandate to the Ministry now in power. Lord Rosebery will then have received that direction from the party for which he so dutifully asked. It will then remain for him to show himself the loyal executant of the will of the party, and to proceed at once to reduce to impotence the order to which he belongs. In other words, the Government will be asked to rule the country by means of the House of Commons alone. T h e C h ro n ic le is concerned only to point out to some of the