THE TABLET. A . W eekly Newspaper and Review .

DOM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMOS DT IN INCOEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT1S.

From, the B r ie f o f H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.

V ol. 85. No. 2858. London, F ebruary 16, 1895. pM 5d. sjw

[R eg i st e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a l P o s t O f f i c e a s a N ew spaper

C h ronicle of t h e W e e k :

Imperial Parliament: Mr. Redmond’s Amendment— Mr; Balfour — The Finances o f India — The Distress in Ireland— Amnesty of Irish Dynamitards—Arrival of the

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Gascogne ” at New York— The Story o f the Voyage—The Fate of the Chinese Fleet— Surrender of jthe Chinese Fleet— Methods of Pawnbroking — Election Intelligence— The Convict Twiss-Extraordinary Verdict— The Madagascar Expedition— Great Britain and the United States— “ Free Education a Mistake.” ............................237 L eaders :

“ The Foundations o f Belief ” . . 241 'The Royal Academy .. 242 Father Stevenson and his Work.. 243 Anglican Orders . . . . . . 244 An Appeal for Uganda by Bishop

Hanlon . . . . . . -• 247

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R e v ie w s :

Talleyrand .. . . . . . . 249 Kerrigan’s Quality . . . . . . 251 John Baptist Franzelin, S.J. . . 257 A Song Book of the Soul.. .. 258 Alleyne . . . . .. . . 258 Foreign Catholic Periodicals . . 258 Catholic Truth Society Publica-

tions^ . . . . . . . . 259 M a g a z in e s .......................................259 Studies of Death . . . . . . 259 Some Titles and Aspects o f the

Eucharist . . . . . . . . 259 The Student’s English Dictionary 260 Books of the Week............................260 C orrespondence :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) ....................................... 253 News from Ireland . . ^ «. 254 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it or :

“ Anglican Orders ” _ . . . . 255 A Plea for Catholics in Business 255

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L e t t e r s to t h e E d it or (Con-

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Continued) : Cuckoo Continuity . . .. 255 Misnomers . . . . . . . . 256 Fraternal Society of Converts . . 256 “ She has a Claim upon Us ” . . 256 Monument to Joan of Arc . . 256 Father Morris on the Solitude o f Our Lady . . . . . . 257 A Sad Case . . . . . . . . 257 A Masquerade Priest . . . . 257 The Archbishop of Adelaide .. 260 An Anglican on Anglican Contro­

versy . . . . .. . . .. 260 Dreams and Schemes . . . . 262 Catholic and Nonconformist Ser­

vices .. . . . . . . . . 263 Letter from the Archbishop of

Cashel . . . . . . . . 263 M a r r ia g e . . . . . . . 264 S o c ia l a n d P o l it i c a l . . . . 264 O b it u a r y . . ......................... 264

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

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C o n v o c a t i o n and Voluntary

Schools . . . . .. . . 269 Mr. Athelstan Riley on Christian

Teaching in Public Elementary Schools . . . . . . . . 269 The Buckfast School Question . . 270 The Totnes G u a r d ia n s and

Catholic Children . . . . . 270 Denominational Schools in Eng­

land and Ireland . . . . 270 St. Elizabeth’s School, Richmond,

Surrey . . . . . . 271 N ew s from t h e D io ceses :

Westminster ......................... 271 Southwark . . . . . . . .2 7 2 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 272 The Archbishop of Dublin on Tem­

perance .. .. . . . . 272 The French Fathers of the Assump­

tion in Turkey . . . . . . 273 A Catholic Mission Attacked . . 274. The Pope on Socialism . . . . 274

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

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AMENDMENT.

MR. REDMOND’S Amend­

ment to the Address, call

„ , &W * * * dissolution, i„ order that the question of Home

Rule might be submitted to the electors, came on on Monday afternoon. Mr. Redmond’s speech was in his best ■ style. It was calm, well and orderly arranged, and delivered with considerable grace of elocution. He enforced ■ with great emphasis Mr. Gladstone’s famous declarations •that Ireland blocked the way as regards all English legislation. That dictum had now been superseded by the cry ■ that the cup should be filled up against the House of Lords. This Parliament had done nothing for Ireland except, by the Budget of last year, doubling the proportion of Irish taxation. They were now told that the next election would not turn upon Home Rule at all, but upon the House of Lords— which was one indication of that complete change which had come over the British mind, and the Liberal •Government especially, duiing the last three years on the subject of Home Rule. There had, he said, been seven distinct stages in the history of that change. These several stages he traced, the first being the Newcastle Programme, when Home Rule ceased to have its old urgency and importance in presence of vast schemes of reform which then came abreast of it. The third stage was when the Home Rule Bill was rejected and Home Rule was put on the shelf, and when candidates were told to keep it in the background at bye-elections, as at Birkenhead, where it was declared by a Liberal to be a •red-herring drawn across the track. The last stage was Lord Rosebery’s speech at Bradford, when the Prime Minister declared that the next election would be on the House of Lords, and not on Home Rule. He insisted that the House of Lords had never withstood the will of ■ the people, and would not withstand it in the case of Home IRule if that Bill were pressed upon them. No sane man •doubted that the House of Lords question, which the Ministry had taken up, would not be settled for many ■ years, or without many Governments coming into or going out of office first. The Liberal party itself was not united on the House of Lords question, which had created no

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enthusiasm in the country, and seemed to be dying of inanition. They did not know their own mind upon it ; but if it were taken up, and Ireland was to wait until it was settled, it would have to wait for an indefinite number of years. It was for that reason that he called for a Dissolution. He regarded the present Parliament as absolutely impotent to pass any legislation for Ireland.

Mr. Morley resisted the proposal, and

— mr. balfour. was followed by Mr. Balfour, who, in a bright and pointed speech, said that he had no intention of taking part in the debate when he came down to the House, but Mr. Morley’s insinuation that there was a confederacy between Mr. Redmond’s party and the Unionists might, if it were not contradicted, lead many electors to believe in its truth. Mr. Morley had asked why Mr. Redmond could do the Government this injury by voting for such a resolution. But how could going to the country do the Government any injury if they believed they were coming back with a majority ? There could be but one possible reason why the carrying of this amendment would be inimical to Home Rule, and that was that the Chief Secretary believed that the country would go against him. Mr. Balfour then compared, amid much laughter, the early attitude of the Liberal party towards Home Rule to the fervour of the honeymoon, and its later stage to the calm and rational affection which followed it. But there was often in matrimonial and other life a strange resemblance between calm and rational affection and what cynical outsiders called indifference, and in the present case the calm and rational affection was for leaving Ireland severely alone. He then proceeded to deny that there was any hidden arrangement with the Parnellite party. There were such things as discreditable political alliances, and here he sketched, in abstract terms, the picture of a great party in a minority accepting a great political revolution which, up to that moment, it had rejected, and forming an alliance in order to prolong its tenure of power. The political honour of the party with which he was associated seemed to him one of its most valuable assets, and any one who bartered that honour for the support of a few votes was not only a dishonest and unworthy politician but a political idiot. He would vote for the amendment because he wanted a dissolution, and was convinced that the Government themselves and the people had made up their minds as to what they thought of the prospects of the occupants of the Treasury Bench. Ever since he had had anything to do with Ireland there was nothing which he felt in the