THE TABLET. A Weekly N ew spaper a n d Review .

DOM VOBIS GRATÜLAMOR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMOS UX IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT1

F rom the B r ie t o j H is H o lin ess P iu s IX . to T h e T a b l e t , Ju n e 4, 1870.

V ol. 84. No. 2833. L ondon, A ugust 25, 1894. P r ic e sd. b y P o s t s % d .

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*Cronicle of t h e W e e k :

Imperial Parliament: Civil Service Estimates— House of Lords Salaries— An All-Night Sitting— Supply— Education-Wednesday’s Sitting— A Blot on the Finance \ A ct—England and the Ottawa

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Conference—The Growth of the Post Office Work— A Useful Postal Reform— The Population of London—The Home-Coming of Jabez Balfour—Murder of a Russian Admiral— Revolt in Morocco — Irish Land Laws—The Christian Brothers’ Schools— Reported Japanese Defeat — The Money Market .................................... 277 •Leaders :

The French in Asia and Africa .. 281 Ever the Same .. .. .. 282 The Recent Decrees on Church

Music . . . . . . -• 283

C O N T E N T S .

Declaration of the International

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

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Catholic Congress held at Liège on April 5 and 6 last . . .. 284 N o t e s ... .................................... 285 R e v iew s :

The New World : Pauline Chris-

tology . . . . . . . . 287 Bibliographica . . . . . . 287 M em o i r s o f the Right Rev.

Edmund Burke . . .. .. 288 “ The English Historical Review ” 289 Apologie des Christenthums . . 289 Books of the Week . . . . 289 Catholic Democracy in Australia .. 290 Archaeological Discoveries in West­

minster .. . . .. . . 291 C orrespondence :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) .................................... 293 News from Ireland . . . . . . 294

The Greek Church.. . . . . 296 Father Ignatius at Cardiff . . 296 English Services at Bruges . . 296 The Rev. Thomas Costigan . . 296 Our Lady Star of the Sea, Broad-

stairs . . . . .. . . 297 The New Mission at Ealing . . 297 Dominican Popes .. .. . . 297 Catholic Social Union . . . . 297 M gr. S a t o l l i ’ s Position on th e

Liquor Q u e s t i o n ........................ 297 Anglican Orders .. .. . . 299 T h e C a r d in a l A rch b is h o p a t

Middlesbrough .. . . . . 300 The Rev. Bernard Vaughan at

Middlesbrough .. .. . . 300 Presentation to the Bishop of Ports­

mouth .. . . .. . . 300 The Religion o f Three Children . . 301 Consecration of the Bishop of Cloyne 302 The Feast of the Assumption at

Boulogne-Sur-Mer . . . . . . 302

“ Up and Doing” . . . . . . 302 Social an d P o l it i c a l . . . . 305

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The Buckfast School Contest . . 309 Oxford Local Examinations . . 309 Upton Hall . . . . .. . . 310 Sir R. Temple on Education . . 310 N ews from t h e D io ceses :

Westminster ........................... 310 Southwark . . . . . . . . 3 1 0 Newport and Menevia . . . . 311 Nottingham.. . . . . . . 311 Middlesbrough . . . . . . 312 Plymouth .. 312 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 312 Glasgow . . . . . . . . 312 Aberdeen . . .. .. . . 312 The Connivance of the Church of

England in Divorce .. . . 312 Life at the Holy Sepulchere . . 313 St. Winefride’s Well .. . . 313 Australia and the League of the

Cross . . .. .. .. . . 314

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TH E House of Commons held a long sitting on Saturday, at which further progress was made with the Civil Service

Estimates in Committee o f Supply, 31 votes being obtained. On the Colonial Office Vote, Sir E. Ashmead-Bartlett again raised the question of “ commandeering” in the Transvaal. Mr. Buxton said it was true that British subjects, like other residents in the Transvaal, were still liable to the war tax, but they were now exempt from personal military service. The relations between the Railway Companies and the t traders in connection with preferential rates were discussed in some detail on the Board of Trade Vote. Mr. Bryce justified the apparent inaction of his Department on the ground that every encouragement ought to be given for the working o f the Conciliation Clauses, by means of which heavy costs were often avoided. Among the other votes passed in Class 2, amounting to about ,£500,000, were those for the Board o f Agriculture, the Stationary Office (¿272,505), Woods and Forests, the Office of Works, and Secret Service. Three Scotch and six Irish votes in the same class were also passed, but those for the Secretary for Scotland’s Department and the Scotch Fishery Board were postponed. Ten English and three Scotch votes were disposed of in Class 3, the principal being law charges in England and Scotland, miscellaneous legal expenses, a sum o f nearly £178,000 to complete the vote for the Supreme Court o f Judicature in England, county courts, police courts, sums o f ¿361,000 and £ 137,000 to complete the votes for prisons and reformatory schools respectively, Broadmoor, Criminal Lunatic Asylum, and Scotch prisons. On the * vote for police in England and Wales Captain Norton

•obtained from Mr. G. Russell, on behalf o f the Home Office, a promise that at the termination o f the present contract for boots to the Metropolitan Police it would not be renewed, the feeling of the Home Secretary being in favour of allowing the men an equivalent sum of money for the purchase of their own boots, though, o f course, of a regulation pattern. The amount obtained by the Government under Class 3 was nearly £925,000, and the total of the votes passed during the sitting was £1,478,340.

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On Friday week a discussion arose in the — h o u s e o f the House o f Commons on the Vote for l o r d s s a l a r i e s . £22,595 for the salaries of the officers attached to the House o f Lords. Mr. Healy said that as £ 500 had been struck off their salaries last year, a further sum should be struck off this year, and he moved the reduction of the Vote by £20,000. Sir J. Hibbert hoped the reduction would not be pressed, as the House of Lords had met the Treasury in a liberal spirit, and had agreed to place their clerks on the same footing as those of the House of Commons. Mr. Healy replied that they must show the House of Lords that the House of Commons was the predominant partner. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said it would be unworthy o f the House of Commons to wage war on fhe enemy by killing the baggage boy. The present reduction would only punish labourers who were as worthy of their hire as the officers of the House of Commons. I f there was to be a quarrel with the House of Lords it should be waged on higher ground than this. He hoped his hon. and learned friend would not proceed with his motion for reduction. The short speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer was accompanied by continuous derisive cheers from the Nationalists, and Mr. Sexton rose, and, in a pungent speech, replied to him, and at the same time bitterly attacked the House of Lords. Every sentence was vehemently cheered by the Nationalists, the Radicals joining warmly in. Mr. Bartley, by raising a. point of order, brought Mr. Sexton’s attack for a moment to a close, but before sitting down he asserted that the peace o f the country had been endangered in a base political game, and he would not vote one penny for the support of such an institution. Mr. T . W. Russell, in a few emphatic sentences, defended the Treasury. Mr. Dillon, in some angry remarks, demanded whether it was manly to strike at the Irish members by starving a number o f women and children, and he insisted that the question o f the House of Lords should be brought to trial— a demand which the Nationalists and Radicals cheered vociferously. The Committee then divided on the reduction. Dr. Wallace, who had fallen sound asleep, was awakened by the chief Ministerial Whip, who wanted him to go into the Government lobby, but Dr. Clark came up and marched him into the same lobby as the Irish and Radical members. The amendment was rejected by 67 to 58. Mr. Bartley ironically called the Government’s attention to the fact that the Opposition had saved them from their own friends. The Nationalists insisted on a division also on the Vote itself, which was carried by 66 to 57 amid cheering and counter-cheering.