THE TABLET.

A . Weekly Newspaper an d R eview .

DUM VOBIS G RAT DLAM UR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT1S.

From the B r ie f o f H is Holiness P iu s IX . to The Tablet, June 4, 1870.

Vol. 85. No. 2861.

L ondon, March 9, 1895.

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[R e g is t e r ed 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 hronicle of t h e W e e k :

Imperial Parliament: The Fac'tories Bill— The Irish Land Bill — Criticisms of the Bill— Opinions o f the Dublin Journals— Conciliation in Trade Disputes Bill — B u r i a l s Bill — The London '■ 'County Council— Meeting of the .Moderates — The F r e n c h and German Armies—The Napoleon of the Cape— The Russian Chancellorship — Unionism in Edinburgh—The Atrocities in Armenia — The War in the East—Desperate Fightingat Newchang—Ministers and the Navy— NewWorks-ShipBuilding Vote

'L eaders :

Death of Ishmail Pasha . . . . 361 j Lord Halifax and Reunion . . 362 [ Anglican Orders . . •. . . 363

N otes

R e v iew s :

CONTENTS.

Page •• 367

L e t t e r s^to t h e E d itor (Con

Continued): S i r Thomas Smythe and Di

St. Paul and his Missions . . 368 Marie de Ste. F.uphrasie Pelletier 369 Cynewulf s “ Elene ” . . .. 370 The Jewish Race in Ancient and

Roman History . . . . . . 371 Bernadette of Lourdes . . . . 371 The English Abroad . . . . 382 Catholic Truth Society’s Publi-

lications . . . . .. . . 382 Magazines.. . . . . ■ •383 C orrespondence :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) .....................................373 News from Ireland . . ... M 374

L e t t e r s to t h e E d it o r :

“ Anglican Orders ” .. . . 375 The Dominican Nuns at Perugia 375 Misnomers . . . . . . . . 375

Edmund Boner, B i s h o p o London .. ....................... Church Endowments Mediaeval Commentary .. A Plea for Catholics in Business East-end Schools Western Civilization Children’s Books Hospital of St. John of Goc

Scorton A Bow with many Strings Rate or State-aid . . Fair Treatment for Honest Work Catholic Union o f Great Britain Society o f St. Vincent de Paul S t . G e o r g e , H an over-square

Board of Guardians

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375 376 376 376 377 377 377 377 377 377 377 379 380

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Stabat Mater . . . . . . . . 382 Children’s Refuge, Whitevale-street,

G l a s g o w .......................................385 O b it u a r y ........................................... 385 So c ia l a n d P o l it i c a l . . . . 385

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

Superannuation of Teachers in

Public Elementary Schools . . 389 The Education Code, 1895, and

Instructions to Inspectors The Buckfast School Contest .. West Ham School Board E le c­

tion Wandsworth Training College .. The Difficulties of Large Classes 393

390 392 392 392

St. Ignatius, Stamford "Hill N ew s from t h e D io ceses : Westminster . . . . _ 393

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Southwark . . . . . . . . 393 L i v e r p o o l .................................... 394 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 394

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

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK,

IM PERIAL PARLIAMENT

— THE FACTORIES BILL.

o N Friday the Home Secretary moved for leave to introduce a Bill to Amend and Extend the Law relating to Factories and Workshops. Among its chief provisions was a Statutory definition of overcrowding, which would be applicable to every factory and workshop. The prohibition referring to the cleaning of machines, which was at present applicable to children, would be extended to young persons. Every owner of a factory would be required to keep a register of accidents; and power was given to the Home Secretary to direct an inquiry to be made into them. In reference to home work done for a factory or workshop, increased powers were also given to the Home Secretary. All overtime in the case of young persons under the age of eighteen would be prohibited; and, in the case of women, it would be further restiicted. Home work for children employed in workshops and factories was prohibited, as it was also in the case of women and young persons employed in a factory for full hours during the day. The Bill made no change in the minimum age at which children could be employed, which now stood at eleven. Steam laundries would be treated as factories, and other laundries would be treated as workshops under the Bill. Docks, wharves, quays, and building operations where machinery was employed were also included, and in the case of tenement factories the owner was made responsible for compliance with the Act. The provisions of the Bill also extend to all bakehouses, and, in conclusion, he hoped the Bill would be thrashed, in the Standing Committee, into a practical shape. In the discussion which followed, the Bill was very favourably -eceived, most of the suggestions made being in favour of strengthening it. Sir J. Gorst urged that the minimum age for children should be raised from eleven to twelve, and said ■ he would move an amendment to that effect, and Mr. Mundella promised to support it. Sir FI. James thought they should proceed gradually and practically. Mr. H. Matthews differed, however, from Sir J. Gorst as to the age limit. Mr. J. Burns urged that the age should be raised to fourteen, especially in dangerous trades, and he suggested that a European Conference should be summoned with reference to the fixing of a maximum day’s work in unhealthy

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occupations. Fie amused the House by telling how some of the sweethearts of the girls employed in the Battersea laundries had urged him to get the hours of labour reduced, as they could not court them till they left work at one o’clock in the morning. The Bill was ultimately brought in and read a first time.

— THE IRISH LAND

BILL.

Mr. Morley, on Monday, moved for leave to introduce his Irish Land Bill-— his explanation of its provisions dividing itself into three sections. First, the changes in the conditions under which a judicial holding is to be henceforth held ; second, the subjects which were excluded from, but were now to be brought within, the privileges of fair-rent legislation ; and, thirdly, the provisions with regard to evicted tenants. As to the change on the conditions under which a holding is to be held, he stated the Bill would establish a presumption that all the improvements on a holding since 1850 had been made by the tenants, unless the contrary was proved ; but if the Court was satisfied that they were made before 1850, then it should ascertain by the best evidence it could get who made them. The Bill proposes that no contract by a tenant not to claim compensation for any improvement made by him on quitting his holding should authorize the allowance of any rent in respect of such holding, so that the tenant would be restored to the enjoyment of the benefits of his own exertions. The Bill abolished the landlord’s right of pre-emption under the Act of 1881 where the tenant sold his holding. The existing exclusion of tenants from a fair rent who had sublet would be almost entirely removed. A provision was introduced,making rent which had been due for two years irrecoverable, but this provision would not come into force for the next two yeais, during which the landlord could recover arrears as at present. As to the evicted tenants, he mentioned that the Bill proposed the re-enactment, with some modifications, of the thirteenth section of the Act of 1891, which last year he had opposed. They had been told by the House of Lords that the reinstatement must be volun! tary, and by way of purchase. He did not profess to believe that this would suffice, but the landlords had the power of fulfilling their own prophecies, and he left the responsibility in their hands. According to the section referred to, a landlord and tenant wishing to agree for the sale of the holding, could go to the Land Commission, and if the arrangement proposed by the Commission did not satisfy either party, the whole affair fell to the ground. Mr. Morley concluded by entreating the House to give a fair and careful consideration to the Bill.