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F r om th e B r i e f o j H i s H o l in e s s P iu s I X . to The Tablet, J u n e 4, iS y o .

V ol. 84. No. 2832. London, A ugust 18, 1894.

p rice 5d. by po st s H i .

[R eg i st e r e d a t t h e G en e r a l P ost O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper

C ronicte of t h e W e e k :

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Imperial Parliament : Congested D istricts Board— Local Government (Scotland) Bill — Railway .and Canal Traffic Bill—-The Lords and Tenants ^Arbitration Bill —Tuesdays Sitting— The Irish Land Committee—Dr. Tanner and Lord C la n r i c a r d e— France and the C o n g o — T h e G e rm an T r a d e Unions— The Decrease o f Pauperism—Problems in Hygienics— Private Adventure Post-Cards— The London County Council and the Trams—Ministerial Whitebait Dinner—Arrest o f Anarchists in Rome— The Feast of the Assumption in Paris— Lord Edmund Talbot—The Money Market . . '237 L e a d e r s :

The British Association at Oxford 241 The Church in the West .. . . 242 The Enchantment o f Distance . . 243 Papal Decree on Sacred Music . . 244

CONTENTS.

N o t e s . . R ev iew s :

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The Primitive Church and the

See of Peter . . . . . . 247 Life of St. Francis of Assisi . . 248

The Life of St. Philip Neri A Wild West Bride Compendium of Dogmatic Theo­

249 250

logy .. ......................... 250 The Game of Life . . .. 250 The Symbolism of Churches and

Church Ornaments . . . . 251 The Expositor’s Bible . . . . 251 The Budget and Board Schools.. 251 The Perfection o f Man by Charity 251 The Scorpion . . . . . . 2 5 1 Books of the Week . . . . 2 5 1 C orrespondence :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) .. ......................... 2S3

News from Ireland .

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L e t t e r s t o t h e E d itor :

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South African Convent Schools 255 Consecration o f an Altar in an

Unconsecrated Church.. . . 256 Consecration of the Bishop o f Liver.

p o o l .................................................. 256 Life of St. Edward the Confessor.. 258 Catholic Loyalty . . . . . 259 Cardiff Guardians and Catholic

Children . . .. . . .. 260 “ The Contemporary Review” and

Papal Impeccability . . . . 261 Is Divorce Christian ? . . . . 261 Catholic Congresses . . . 262 The Catholics of Austria and Science 263 Catholic Social Union . . . . 264 N ew s from t h e D io ceses :

Westminster . . . . . . 264 Southwark . . . . . . . . 264 Birmingham ........................... 264 Clifton . . . . . . .. 265

D iocesan News (Continued) :

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Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 265 P l y m o u t h .......................................265,. Portsmouth .. . . . . 265 Obituary ....................................... 265 F rom E veryw h ere . . . . 265 Social an d P o l it i c a l . . . . 265

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

Our Schools .. .. . . . . 269 School Board Election, November

22.1894 . . ^ . . . . . . 270 Public Companies and Voluntary

Schools .. . . .. . . 270 Convent of the Holy Child Jesus,

St. Leonards-on-Sea .. . . 271 An Interesting Experiment . . 271 The Buckfast School Contest .. 271 Exhibition Day at St. Ethel-

burga’s, Deal .. .. . . 274 A Head-Master on Football . . 274 Franciscan Pilgrimage to Ennis 274

* 4t* Rejected M S . cannot be returned unless accompanied with address and postage.

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

serious extent, and declared that i f it were passed the B i ll would be useless to the mercantile community. Mr. B ryce urged that the amendment was merely one for making the meaning o f the clause clear, for it was not at all certain that i f the Bill were passed in its present form, the Railw ay Commissioners would go behind the rates o f 1892, except in very special cases.

— CONGESTED DISTRICTS BOARD. O '

TMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

. N Thursday week Mr. John

Morley introduced a Bill, which is backed by Mr A rthur Balfour, dealing with the

C ongested D istricts Board, and it was read a first time. It provides that where the Board buys land for re-sale to a tenant under the Purchase A c ts it shall itself guarantee the fifth o f the sum which, in the case o f an ordinary transact io n between landlord and tenant, is w ithheld from the form er as a contingent reserve, as well as the contribution b y the purchaser towards the Tenants Insurance Fund, •which is also compulsory under the Purchase A c t . R ep ly in g to Mr. Bartley, the C h ie f Secretary said that in the event o f the Congested D istricts Board overspending itself in respect o f these liabilities, the British taxpayer would have to be called upon to make up the deficiency.

This B ill as amended b y the Grand

— l o c a l g o v e r n - Committee was again under the consideram e n t (Sc o t l a n d ) t j o n 0 f the H ouse on F riday week. T h e amendment to C lause 25, giving a right o f appeal to the Law Courts against an order o f the Local Governm ent Board for the compulsory acquisition o f land in the event o f the Board exceeding its powers, was rejected. M r . Hozier moved to lim it the special district rate to 6d. in stead o f 9d. Sir G . T revelyan resisted the proposal, because, as the district committees would have a higher •class o f work to do than the parish councils, they ought to h ave larger financial powers. T h e Government were unable to accept a lower rate than 9d. A considerable number o f •drafting amendments having been disposed of, the B ill passed through the Report stage and was read a third time.

T h e House on Friday week proceeded

— r a i l w a y a n d t0 consider this B ill in Committee. Some t r a f f i c ^ b i l l . discussion arose on an amendment by Mr.

Plunket to C lau se 1, which would enable th e trader to challenge only an increase o f a rate made s in ce the end o f 1891, and not the rates themselves. Mr. Burnie opposed it os lim iting the rights o f the traders to a

New Series. Vol. LII., No 2,14-.

— THE LORDS AND TENANTS ARBITRATION

BILL.

Earl Spencer, in moving the second reading o f the Irish Tenants Arbitration B ill from the House of Commons on Monday, claim ed that it was intended to heal, rather than to inflict, wounds. T h e present ques­

tion was not one between the L iberal Government and any other party ; it was a question that dem anded the attention o f any Government which happened to be in power. H e had never concealed his disapproval o f the “ Plan o f C am paign,” and admitted that in many districts its results had been most unfortunate and disastrous. In the opinion o f the Government ^250,000 would considerably exceed the sum that was necessary to give practical effect to their proposals— remarking that their view was that compulsion was the surest way o f effecting a settlem ent o f the difficulty. Before the idea o f a voluntary settlem ent would be entertained they must have some guarantee that both sides to this bitter quarrel were ready to act loyally ; but, though the Irish members had expressed their willingness to meet the other side half way, there had been no declaration from the leading Irish landlords which encouraged the Government to adopt such a policy. T h e rejection o f the B ill was moved by Lord Balfour, late Secretary to the Board o f T rad e , on the ground that Parliam ent was asked to restore to their holdings men who had com b ined to resist the payment o f just obligations which they had made a boast o f being able to discharge. B y making the B ill compulsory the Government were justifying the authors o f the “ P lan o f Campaign,” rewarding men who had broken the law , and in their treatment o f the “ planter ” tenants in flictin g a wrong and an infamy upon Great Britain. T h e Duke o f A rgyll was willing to give a p lace o f repentance to th e wounded and fallen soldiers of a great social war— men who had been the dupes o f others more designing and w icked than them selves— but such p lace o f repentance could only be found through a 'p ro p e r and really judicial tribunal, acting under the authority and direction o f Parliam ent. T h e B ill, which was a retrospective and entirely e x p o s t fa c t o law, would set up endless inequalities and plant deeply the roots o f discontent and a still more serious objection to it was