THE TABLET

A W eek ly N ew spap er a n d R ev iew .

DUM VOBIS GRATULAMÜR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMÜS ÜT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT1S.

F rom the B r i e f o f H is H o lin ess P iu s I X . to T he T a b let , J u n e 4, i8 y o .

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C h r o n ic l e o f t h e W e e k :

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Imperial Parliament: Mr. Chamberlain’s Amendment — Mr. Asquith’s Reply—Monday’s Sitting —The Government and Uganda —Catholics in Uganda — Lord Salisbury on the Government— The Colchester Election — The Death of the Archduke Albrecht —The Suicide of Admiral Ting— Anti-Jesuit Laws in Germany— The Prosecution of the Jockey Club—The Railway Half-Year— The Franco-Malagasy War — Home Rule in Cuba—The Mass in the Irish Protestant Church— The Bank Rate — S p a in and Morocco . . . . • •• 277 L e a d e r s :

The C a th o l i c Press and the

Italian Tribunals . . . . 2 8 1 The Late Vicar-General . . 282

C O N T E N T S

L e a d e r s (Continued):

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Anglican Orders . . . . . . 2S3 The East-End and the Catholic

Social Union . . . . . . 285 N o t e s ... — 288 R e v i e w s :

The Foundations of Belief . . 289 The Last Abbot of Glastonbury.. 291 A London Legend . . . . 291 C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) ................................... 293 News from Ireland . . ... - . 294 L e t t e r s to t h e E d it o r :

Rate or State-Aid . . . . . . 296 “ Anglican Orders ” . . . . 296 T h e D r a k e n s b e r g Mission

(Basutoland) . . . . . . 296 Misnomers . . ...................... 296 St. Patrick’s, Wapping . . . . 297

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

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Continued) : A Plea for Catholics in Business 297 The Woodcut of Elizabeth and

Parker . . . . . . . . 297 The Poor of St. George’s Cathe­

dral . . . . . . . . 297 Children’s Thanks . . . . . 298 Reunion of Christendom . . . . 298 The Archbishop of D u b l in on

Amnesty . . . . . . . . 299 St. George’s Cathedral, Southwark 300 Lord Russell and the B i s h o p

O’Reilly Memorial . . . . 300 Cardinal Moran on Christian Edu­

cation.. . . . . . . . . 301 A Fragment of Shireburn History 302 Opening of Oriental Church in

Sydney __ . . ^ . . _ . . . . 302 The Catholic Social Union . . 303 The Late Sir John Thompson . . 303 Short N o tice s ................................... 304 Books of the Week . . . . . . 304

National Board of Education The Protestant Truth Society O b i t u a r y ......................................... S o c ia l a n d P o l i t ic a l

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SU P PLEM EN T . N ew s f r o m t h e S chools :

School Board Hostility Towards

Catholics The Irish System . . . . . . 3 1 1 The Buckfast School Contest . . 3 1 1 Crowle School Board Election . . 312 N ew s f r o m t h e D io c e s e s : Westminster . . . . . . 312

Southwark . . . . , , . . 3 1 2 Clifton . . . . . . . . 313 Liverpool . . . . . . . . 3x3 Plymouth . . . . . . . . 313 Portsmouth ........................ 313 Glasgow ........................ . . 313 The Polish Question . . . . 313 Poor Law Schools Committee . . 314

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C H R O N I C L E O F T H E W E E K .

IM PERIAL PARLIAMENT — MR. CHAMBERLAIN’S

AMENDMENT.

ON Friday Mr. Chamberlain, in his speech in support o f his amendment to the address, began by saying that the amendment raised a very broad issue. He desired to challenge the whole tactics o f the Government, and especially the latest electoral device, which was known as filling up the cup, and which consisted in wasting the time of the House in discussing a number of measures which were not expected to pass. Although they did not expect to defeat the Government, they claimed the right to put the issue before the •country. H e proceeded to establish that the primary policy o f the Government was the passing o f Home Rule for Ireland. Everything else, Welsh Disestablishment and One Man One Vote, was secondary to that. In accepting Home Rule as their primary policy, the Government had put themselves out of harmony with the general opinion of the country. The Government did not believe that they had a majority in the country. Where was there a trace of any agitation in Ireland when the Home Rule B ill was thrown out by the Lords ? There was no sign anywhere of that energy and patriotic self-devotion which alone could carry through a great revolution. Wales did not care one straw for Home Rule, and as for Scotland, he appealed to the recent speeches o f Mr. McEwan and Mr. Wallace, two o f the members for Edinburgh. Well, how could the ■ Government pretend that the country was with them? But the Government had found a new issue to redeem their popularity in the good old cry, “ Down with the House of Lords.” The Government’s primary policy, then, was Home R u le ; the secondary policy was, Down with the House o f L o rd s ; and their tertiary policy was what was known as filing up the cup. The Government, he said, were tottering. Lord Rosebery had asked the nation to give him a propelling power. He wished Lord Rosebery would give the nation the chance.

The Home Secretary turned Mr. Cham-

m r . a s q u i t h ’ s berlain’s reference to the Melbourne r e p l y . Administration adroitly against him, and,

as the Corn Laws only survived Lord

Melbourne’s new departure for five years, so he inferred

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that Mr. Chamberlain gave the House o f Lords only five years’ existence. He quoted a speech of Mr. Chamberlain’s at Denbigh, in 1885, in which, in advocating Disestablishment, he spoke o f the insults, injuries and injustice inflicted upon Wales at the hands of a privileged Assembly. But that was not all, continued Mr. Asquith. Mr. Chamberlain went on to say “ that the cup was nearly fu l l ; the career o f high-handed wrong was coming to an en d ; we had been too long a Peer-ridden nation.” The policy of filling up the cup, therefore, was ten years old, and the credit for this most useful and picturesque simile was due to Mr. Chamberlain. He wanted to know what had happened during the ten years that the House of Lords had now become the last refuge o f popular liberty. Amid expiessions of dissent from the Opposition he spoke of the Unionists and Parnellites as comrades sitting down to the same political table, because the Unionists had supported Mr. J . Redmond’s amendment, calling for a dissolution on Home Rule. The Government, he contended, were bound to adhere to their pledges and promises to the country. B y passing these Bills through the House of Commons the principles embodied in them were advanced, and if they were prevented from having them passed into law by the House o f Lords they would have the satisfaction of knowing that they had done their best to deserve the confidence that the country had reposed in them.

The debate on Mr. Chamberlain’s Amend-

— Mo n d a y ’s ment was brought to a close on Monday. I f s i t t i n g . it languished in the middle, it revived at the end. Sir William Harcourt was quite brilliant on the inconsistencies o f Mr. Chamberlain, and Mr. Balfour came briskly in with well-timed reminiscences of the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s many appearances in the part of weathercock. It was all fair war, played according to the old tradition. Sir William Harcourt began by a humorous description of the three Votes o f Want of Confidence in the Government. He asked the Conservatives why they did not fight under their own flag. Where was the old blue flag ? There was a streak of yellow in it from Birmingham, o f green from Ireland, and of red from West Ham. He absolutely denied that there was such a doctrine as that the House of Commons, in discussing a measure, should consider whether or not that measure would pass the House of Lords ; and declared that he never held any other opinion than that there was a fair and reasonable chance of the measures the Government had introduced being carried. This assertion brought about an amusing