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•Cronicle of the Week :
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Imperial Parliament : The Lords and th e B u d g e t B i ll — The Evicted Tenants Bill—Monday’s Sitting — Equalization of Rates {London) Bill—The Corean Crisis —Great Britain to Remain Neutral—A Despatch Received at the Chinese Legation—The Capture of Kassala—Belgians at the Mansion House—President Cleveland and Free Trade — The Greek D ebt— The London C ounty Council—The Carlists—Fate of the Wellman Expedition—Action of the Coal Conciliation Board— The Projected Russian Port on the Arctic Ocean — Opening of Western Australian Parliament —Irish National T e a c h e r s — Sweden and Norway . . . . 117 '¡Leaders:
Anglicans on Holy Scripture . . 121 The Indian Import Duties . . 123
C O N T
Notes . . .......................... . . 125 The Stonyhurst Centenary . . . . 126 Correspondence :
Rome :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . .......................... 133 News from Ireland......................... 135 Letters to the E ditor :
The Inverted Image on the Retina 136
Aspects of Anglicanism ” . . 135 The Training of Teachers.. . . 135 Association for the Propagation of the Faith : English Branch .. 137 The Committee and Dr. Barnardo 137 English Sermons in Swiss Catholic
Churches . . . . .. . . 137 The International Catholic Scien
tific Congress .. . . .. 137 The Name of the Bishop in the
Canon of the Mass . . . . 137 The Austin Friars . . . . . . 137
E N T S .
L etters to the E ditor (Con
Page tinued) : St. Constance . . .. . . 137 St. Anselm’s Society . . . . 137 Pontifical High Mass for the First
Time . . . .
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Statue of St. Thomas . . . . 138 The Papal Encyclical on the Bible 14 1 The Interlinear Note System . . 142 Exhibition Day at Oscott . . .. 142 Lourdes and the Doctors . . . . 143 Obituary ........................................ 143 Marriage . . . . ..144 Social and Political . . ..144
SUPPLEMENT. News from the Schoots :
The Buckfast School Contest .. 149 St. Cuthbert’s Grammar School,
Newcastle-on-Tyne . . . . 149 Catholic Bazaar at Fckington . . 149 Ursuline Convent, Upton, Essex 150
News from the Schools (Con
Page tinued) : Children in Pauper Schools . . 150 The School Board for London . . 15 1 St. Edmund’s College . . . . 15 1 An Interesting Ceremony at Farn-
borough . . . . .. . . 152 Convent of Notre Dame, Sheffield 152 St. Joseph’s Convent School, New
port, Mon. .. . . .. 152 St. Margaret’s Convent, Paisley 152 Catholic Collegiate I n s t i t u t e
(X av e r ian Brothers), Man Chester . . . . . . ..152 St. Mary’s College, Wo.lhampton 152 News from the Diocesfs : Westminster . . . . ..152
Portsmouth . . . . ..152 Salford . . . . . . . . 153 The Custody cf Children . . . . T53 The Guild of St. Gregory and Sir
Stuart Knill, Bart. .. ..154
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT — THE LORDS AND THE
BUDGET BILL.
TH IS Bill was read a first time in the H ouse of Lords on Thursday week, and, in consequence of a request from Lord
•Salisbury that the Second R ead in g should b e fixed for the following Thursday, Lord Rosebery rem arked that he would •assent to the delay, though he did not see any need for it, -as he thought their lordships had nothing to do with Money Bills. Lord Salisbury then referred to a precedent of the days o f Lord Derby, when the House of Lords, which then 'had a L ib e ra l majority, am ended a F in ance B i l l ; and he ■ cited Mr. Gladstone’s authority for the principle that the H ou s e of Lords had never abandoned its right to consider Money Bills. The assertion of this Constitutional right took L o rd K im berley and Lord Rosebery by surprise, as Both asserted they had never heard of the House of Lords Interfering with a Money Bill. Lord Salisbury stated that h e h im self had no intention of moving any amendments to i h e Bill.
— th e evicted
TENANTS
BILL.
Mr. Morley on Thursday week moved the Second R ead in g o f this Bill, and mentioned that theC ourt of Arbitration between the landlords and the tenants would consist o f Mr. Piers White, Q.C., Mr. George Fottrell, and Mr. Greer. He also stated that the Irish Church Fund would b e available for the purposes of the Bill to the amount of ^ 2 5 0 , 0 0 0 instead of only _ £ 10 0 ,0 0 0 . Colonel Saunderson moved the rejection of the Bill, which would affect 1 ,8 0 0 tenants, who were to b e e je cted for the purpose of reinstating men who were either bankrupts or had jo in ed the Plan of ■ Campaign. On Friday Mr.W. O’Brien pleaded for his clients, the Plan of Campaign tenants, and said that if his Party were offered Home R u le to-morrow on condition that those tenants were driven into the workhouse they would repudiate any such bargain.
The adjourned debate on Colonel Saunder-
— Monday’s son’s amendment to the Second R eading of sitting. the Evicted Tenants Bill was resum ed by Mr.
Chamberlain in a speech o f marked argumenta
tive ability and incisive force. H e maintained that the
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Government were bound to show an overwhelming case upon which to base a demand for such extraordinary legislation. H e would vote against the Bill though he would have no objection to an extension in certain cases of Clause 1 3 of the Act of 1 8 9 1 . If the arbitrators were fairly impartial, he said, it was certain that all cases such as those of the Tipperary and Luggacurran tenants would b e excluded from their decision altogether, and so, how could an effectual and final settlem ent be expected from a Bill which only dealt with the fringe of the subject ? Such tinkering with the subject would only be an incitement to crime and disorder. The right of the old tenants to the land was implied by the Bill, which, therefore, put the new tenants in the wrong, and suggested that pressure should be brought to bear to get them out o f their holdings. H e urged the House to consider what would b e the consequences of white-washing the “ plan of campaign,” which, in the words of Mr. Painell, was begun, not for the benefit of the farmers, but of an English political party. I f these “ plan of cam paign ” tenants were to b e relieved by law from the consequences o f their own acts, the House would either he justifying an organization which it had hitherto condem ned, or making the shameful confession that the organization was too strong for it. It seem s to b e very generally adm itted that the Bill must inevitably lead to greater evils than those it proposes to remedy. That the State should tell its tenants who refuse to pay their rents that the men who offer to take their places are legalized brigands is rather a big order. Mr. Balfour took exception to the view that it was the duty of Parliam ent to meet Irish fancies as well as Irish grievances. It was perfectly certain that if the Bill passed every man who had suffered for throwing in his lot with the Nationalist members would b e considered to b e entitled to a share of public funds. He failed to see why members of the British House of Commons should be turned into fellowconspirators with the Nationalist representatives by making a contribution of public money to the Paris Fund. Mr. Morley, in briefly closing the debate, insisted that all the classes whom Mr. Balfour had said would suffer, would benefit by the passing of the Bill. He regretted that at such a critical moment the Opposition should have allied them selves with the irreconcileable section of the Irish landlords. On a division the Second Reading of the Bill was carried by 2 5 9 votes against 2 2 7— majority 3 2 .
Mr. Shaw-Lefevre, on Tuesday, moved b i l l .
equalization of q ie second reading o f this Bill. After RATES (LONDON ° , , .
quoting statistics to show the disparity between rates in various parts o f the
