THE TABLET.
A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
DÜM V0B1S GRATDLAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCŒPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT1S.
From the B r ie f o f H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T h e T a e l e t , Ju n e 4, 1870.
V o l . 85. No. 2870.
L o n d o n , M a y i i , 1895*
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'Imperial Parliament: Friday’s Sitting — Welsh Church Bill— Tuesday’s Sitting—Repeal of the Crimes Act—The Death of Lord Selborne—The Sorrows of British Honduras--The English in Algeria —The Marquis of Ripon on the Progress of Western Australia— A Labour Bureau in Brussels— The Austrian Government and the Papal Nuncio—Mgr. Agliardi Interviewed — The Finances of Servia—Lord Dunraven and the Plural Voting Bill—Divorce anti Disestablishment..........................717 Headers :
Anglicanism and Divorce . . 721 The New Gallery . . .. .. 722 T h e C a r d in a l Archbishop at
Orleans .. . . . . - • 722 The Bruges Procession . . . . 724 Anglican O r d e r s ..........................725
CONTENTS.
N otes . . —
Pace ... 728
R eview s :
The Lamaism of Tibet:
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The Tremlet Diamonds .. •• 731 “ The Month ” . . 731 Royal Academy Pictures • • 731 C orrespondence :
Rome :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) ......................................733 News from Ireland . . ... — 735 L e t t e r s to th e E ditor :
The Marriage of Divorced Per
sons . . . . .. . . 736 National Union of C a th o l i c
Teachers .. .. .. .. 736 Catholics and Armenian “ Atro
cities” .. . . . . .. 736 The Election to the Senate of the
University of London . . . . 737
L etters to th e E ditor (Con-
Continued): St. Joseph's Industrial School,
Tranent Froude’s “ English Seamen ” The Catholic Truth Society Mag
Lantern Slides .. The Pro-Cathedral Debt Society of St. Vincent de Pau
Council of England Letter of the Ho'y Father Bishop Walmesley.
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737 737 737 737 737 738 738
Father Bernard Vaughan’s Lectures in Reply to the Bishop of Manchester on Roman Claims .. 738 Catholic International Congress .. 710 j Marriage of D ivorced Persons . . 741 j The Fraternal Society of Converts 743
F rom E verywhere . . .. 743 Books of the Week .. . . . . 744 I Marriage . . . . . . . 744 1 S ocial and Political . . . . 745
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Education Department . . 750 N ew s from th e D ioceses : Westminster . . . . » . 7 5 1
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
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REPLYING to a question by
Sir E. Ashmead-Bartlett, at the morning sitting of the House of Commons, as to the reported annexation of Tongaland, Mr. Buxton stated that the action now being taken by her Majesty’s Government was not in any sense of the term dictated by unfriendly or unneighbourly feeling towards the South African Republic. The Government intended to adhere to the proclamation which had been issued in reference to the territories. The remainder of the sitting was spent in Committee on the Naval Works Bill. A number of amendments were moved, but the Clauses were all disposed of and the Committee <was engaged upon the schedule of the Bill when the discussion by Rule stood adjourned, and the House resumed. The remaining orders were gone through, the Budget resolutions being reported and agreed to, and the morning sitting was suspended. At the evening sitting, Mr. A. Morton brought forward a resolution declaring that, in the opinion of the House, it was desirable that the annuity of ten thousand pounds to the Duke of Coburg should cease. Mr. Labouchere seconded the resolution. A considerable number of members on both sides took part in the discussion, the supporters of the resolution being Radical members. After it had been debated for two hours, the Chancellor of the Exchequer rose, and, in opposing the resolution, said it was much to be regretted, and the House had great reason to complain, that a question of this character should be so frequently brought forward without cause, especially after the decisive majority by which it was defeated on a previous occasion. He explained the circumstances under which the grant had been made, and the reasons which had induced Mr. Gladstone to advise the Queen not to revoke the grant. To that advice he still adhered, and he hoped the House of Commons would take the only course which was worthy of that great Assembly. Mr. Balfour cordially agreed with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who had spoken with dignity and authority. He and his friends would follow him into the lobby in defence of the only policy consistent with the honour and dignity of the country. He then proceeded to reply to some of the
N e w S e r i e s , V o l LIII., No 2 ,^ 70 .
Radical arguments advanced in support of the resolution, and in reference to the feeling of the working men of the country, he said he did not believe they would treat a member of the Royal family in a manner in which a Town Council would hesitate to treat a police constable. On a division, the resolution was defeated by 193 to 72, being a majority against the resolution of 12 1 . The numbers were received with cheers.
On Monday the Home Secretary signified
— w e l s h that her Majesty had placed at the disposal c h u r c h b i l l , of Parliament, for the purposes of the Estab
lished Church (Wales) Bill, her Majesty’s interest in the bishoprics and other ecclesiastical dignities in Wales and Monmouth. Mr. Grififith-Boscawen moved an Instruction for the purpose of dividing the Bill into two measures, one dealing with Disestablishment and the other with Disendowment. The Instruction also required that the Disestablishment Bill be reported to the House before the Disendowment Bill was proceeded with. Mr. GriffithBoscawen gave a number of reasons in support of his Instruction, all centring round the argument that the two subjects had no connection, and that Disendowment could not be argued on its merits unless it was separated from Disestablishment. Lord Cranborne seconded his motion, and argued in favour of the necessity of separating the subjects in consequence of the vast interests which Disendowment affected. The Home Secretary then rose, and briefly opposed the Instruction, which, he contended, involved matter which would have been better considered on the motion for the Second Reading of the Bill. After the Home Secretary resumed his seat, speaker after speaker was allowed to rise from the Opposition side of the House and support the Instruction without any Ministerialist offering to reply. At last Sir R. Webster called attention to this conspiracy of silence in a very pointed manner, and alleged that no Welsh member dared to rise to reply, as they knew that there was a large and growing feeling among the Nonconformists in Wales against Disendowment. Even this produced no rejoinder from the Welsh benches, and the one-sided debate went on. After a time, Sir G. Osborne Morgan rose and asserted his belief that there were not a hundred people in the whole of Wales who, being in favour of Disestablishment, were against Disendowment. At this point Mr. D. Thomas, a Welsh member, who had an amendment on the paper, moved it with the view of dealing in the Disestablishment Bill with the transfer of the temporalities to Commissioners, and of transferring to the Disendow
