THE TABLET.
A . W eekly Newspaper an d R eview .
DDM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMOS OT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT1S.
From, the B r i e f o f H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.
V o l . 85. No. 2871.
L ondon, M a y i 8, 1895.
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[R eg i st e r e d a t t h e G en e r a l P ost O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper
C h ronicle of t h e W e e k :
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Imperial Parliament : The Beer Duty—The House and the North Western Railw ay-Lord Selborne’s Position — Tuesday’s S i t t i n g Election News—The Finances of France— M. Ribot’s Budget— The Murder of Abbé de Broglie— The Duke and Duchess of York at Sheffield — The G e rm an AntiRevolutionary Bills — Silvertown Catholics an d “ T h e D a i l y Chronicle ” — Lord Ripon and Government B ills-T he New South Wales Budget— School o f Architecture— Excavations at Athens— Armenian Reforms.........................757 ^Leaders :
Taxation of Religious Congrega-
gations in France . . . . 761 The Royal Academy . . . . 762 Papal Brief for Pentecost . . 763 ( .Anglican Orders^......................... 764 l Notes from Belgium . . . . 766
CONTENTS.
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N otes . . — . . . . — 767 R ev iew s :
The Tragedy of Fotheringay . . 769 The Moon . . . . . . . . 770 The Drift o f Fate .. . . . . 770 “ The Catholic Magazine ” . . 771 Books of the Week. . . . . 771 Parliamentary C a n d id a t e s and
Denominational Schools . . . . 771 C orrespondence :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) .....................................773 News from Ireland . . — — 774 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :
Anglican Orders . . . . . . 775 The Pope’s Letter to the English 776 Catholics and Armenian “ Atro
cities ” . . . . . . _ . . 776 “ Quot Homines Tot Sententiæ " 776 Mass at Goring-on-Thames . . 776 The New Church of Our Most
Holy Redeemer, Cheyne-row, Chelsea _.. .. . . . . 776 Anglican View of Divorce . . 776
L e t t e r s^to th e E d it or (Con-
Continued) : Richard Verstegan Information Wanted The Mission of Hitchin Home of Our Lady of Dolours, St.
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776 777 777
Mildred’s Convent, Minster in Thanet ». An Illustration of Continuity Bishop Walmesley .. History o f the Catholic Church in England Father Bernard Vaughan’s Lectures
777 777 777 777
in Reply to the Bishop of Manchester on Roman Claims Catholic Higher Education F rom E veryw h ere Social a n d P o l it ic a l
SU PPLEM ENT. N ew s from t h e S chools :
The Totnes Guardians Climbing
Down — Confession of Illegal Doings ......................... .. 789 Aid for Voluntary schools .. 789
777 782 782 783
N ew s from t h e S chools (Con
tinued): Mr. Henry Matthews and the
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Factories Bill .. .. . . 789 Secondary Education in Renfrew
shire . . . . .. . . 789 Portsmouth School Board and
Further Financial Aid to Voluntary Schools . . .. . . 790 Evening Continuation Schools
Code . . . . . . .. 790 Boarding-out o f Blind and Deaf
Children . . . : . . 790 N ew s from t h e D io ceses :
Westminster . . . . _ 790 Southwark . . ......................... 790 Salford . . . . . . . . 791 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 791 The White Cornettes in the city of the Phrygian Cap . . _ .. .. 792 The Archbishop of Dublin on Educa-
cation . . . . . . . . . . 793 The Cardinal Archbishop and the
Maid o f Orleans . . . . . . 794
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
— THE BEER DUTY. O
.IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
N Friday the Chancellor of the Exchequer moved the Resolution imposing the additional duty of sixpence on every barrel of beer. Of four amendments on the paper, only one, in the name of Mr. Quilter, was in order. It proposed that the additional Excise duty of sixpence per barrel should apply only to beer brewed from substitutes for barley, malt, or hops. He supported his amendment [in a reasoned, and at the same time amusing, speech, some passages of which caused much laughter. The Chancellor of the Exchequer replied in an equally happy vein, and argued that the amendment would not leave the Government anything at all, as four-fifths of the beer which was brewed was brewed from malt and hops. The amendment was discussed -during the whole of the morning sitting, and within a few minutes of its close Mr. Quilter withdrew his amendment ; but a division was taken on the Resolution itself, which was carried by 230 to 206, being a majority of 24. The numbers were received with loud cheers from the Irish benches, and progress was then reported.
Mr. Lloyd-George, on Friday, moved
— t h e h o u s e a n d for a Select Committee to inquire into THE= ” RN the action of the London and North-
Western Railway Company in declining
4o take into their service Welshmen who could not speak English as labourers in the most Welsh-speaking areas of Wales. Mr. Plunket promised that if any complaints were made to the Company, everything would be done to remove any grievance of the kind. In no respect did the Company make the slightest inquiry as to the nationality to which its men belonged. Mr. Goschen strongly opposed the Resolution. Mr. Bryce did not admit that a case had been made out for a Select Committee. Mr. Lloyd-George desired to withdraw his motion, in consequence of the conciliatory nature of Mr. Plunket’s speech: but the Opposition strenuously resisted its withdrawal, and it was put to the House and negatived without a division.
New S e r i e s , V o l LIII., No 3,180.
In the House of Commons on Monday,
— l o r d s e l b o r n e ’ s Lord Selborne, late Viscount Wolmer,
p o s i t io n . Liberal Unionist Whip, raised the con
stitutional question that though a Peer of the Realm he is not a Peer of Parliament until and unless he chooses to apply for a writ of summons, and is, therefore, not disqualified from sitting in the House any more than an Irish Peer, or than anybody who has sufficient evidence of a right to a dormant peerage, and yet does not choose to press his claim. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said that as far as he was able to state, an English Peer by patent, like Lord Selborne, became on his succession to the Peerage, not only a Peer of the Realm, but also a Lord of Parliament. He could not divest himself of his right to the dignity or of his seat in the House of Lords, and by whatever name he might call himself, he would still be the Earl of Selborne. Although he might abstain from the formalities necessary for qualifying him for taking his seat in the House of Lords, the right to sit there would still exist. Sir William then proceeded at some length to discuss several of the Constitutional bearings of the question, and added that proof was necessary that the noble Lord had succeeded to the Peerage. He suggested that proof should be taken by the Committee now sitting on vacant seats, after which the House could decide on its course. If his suggestion recommended itself to the House, he would put a notice of a motion on the paper during the evening containing the terms of reference. Mr. Balfour agreed, in substance, to the course suggested. It seemed to him that every subject of her Majesty had a right to be either a representative in this House or in the other, but that it could not be left to the will of a subject to choose what his status should be. He suggested, however, that the question should be remitted to a small Special Committee, instead of the unwieldy Committee already existing. Mr. Chamberlain said he could not agree either with the Chancellor of the Exchequer or with Mr. Balfour, and that his sympathies were entirely with the noble Lord in the matter. He was proceeding to discuss the terms of the reference, which he said were too narrow, when he was reminded by the Speaker that there was no motion before the House, and Mr. Chamberlain thereupon resumed his seat, remarking that he would reserve his remarks until the motion was made. Mr. Courtney, however, rose to carry on the discussion, and to criticize the position in which the Chancellor of the Exchequer had put the House; but he was interrupted in the middle of the first sentence by Sir William Harcourt
