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F rom th e B r i e f o f H i s H o l in e s s P iu s I X . to T h e T a b l e t , J u n e 4, 1870.
Vol. 85. No. 2872.
L o n d o n , M a y 25, 1895.
P r ic e sd . b y P o st
C hronicle o f t h e W e e k ! Page
Imperial Parliament: Monday’s Sitting—Welsh Church Bill— The ' [ Selborne Peerage— Lord Ripon i. and the House of Lords—Bi
metallism in Germany—M. Ribot and the French Budget — The Position of Newfoundland*—The School Question in Canada—The Last Relics of the Culturkampf— Resignation of Count Kalnoky— Count Kalnoky’s Successor—The ■ Situation in Swaziland— Sir W. Harcourt on the Prospects of Trade Revival— The Goldfields of Kildonan—Unionist Leaders on the Political Outlook — Canada and Newfoundland......................... 797 .L eaders :
Law and Tustice in United Italy 801 The Royal Academv . . # . . 802 The Church Historical Society’s
Lectures .. . . . . •• 802 Anglican O r d e r s ......................... 804 INotes . . — . . •• — 807
C 0 N T
R e v iew s :
Gustavus I I I . and his Contem
Page poraries . . _.. . . . . 809 Matrimony and Divorce .. . . 810 Avalon _ .................................... 810 Primogeniture . . . . . . 8x0 The Three Graces . . . . .. 811 The Money-Lender __ . . . . 811 A Royal and Christian Soul . . 811 C orrespondence :
Rome :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . ». 813 News from Ireland . . — _ 815 L e t t e r s to t h e E d it or :
Anglican Orders . . . . . . 816 Catholics and Armenian “ Atro
cities” ......................... . . 816 The Centenary of the Landing of St. Augustine . . . . 817 Bishop Walmesley.. . . . . 817 T h e C a t h o l i c Truth Society
“ English Church History ” . . 817 “ The Daily Chronicle ” and Pope
Pius IV ......................................... 8x7 1
[R e g is tered a t t h e G en e r a l P o st O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper
E N T S .
L e t ter s^to t h e E d itor (Con-
Continued) : “ Operatic Music” in Catholic
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Churches .. . . . . . . 817 The Political Elections in Italy . . 817 A Poor Mission .........................817 Electricity in Printing .. . . 817 Father Bernard Vaughan’s Lectures in Reply to the Bishop of Manchester on Roman Claims . . 818 Anglicanism and Divorce . . . . 82r Catholic Banks . . .. . . 821 Father Jerome Vaughan in Adelaide 822 Catholic Social Union . . . . 822 Foreign Catholic Periodicals . . 823 Books of the Week . . .. . . 823 Queer Characters \mong Birds . . 823 F rom E veryw h ere . . . . 824 O b it u a r y ........................................ 825 So c ia l a n d P o l it ic a l . . . . 826
SU PPLEM EN T . N ew s from t h e S chools :
Protestant Bishops and Volun
tary Schools . . . . .. 829
N ew s from t h e S chools (Con
tinued): Halifax School Board and Volun
Page tary Schools .. . . . . 829 Sunderland School Board ..80 The School Board for London . . 831 Birmingham School Board and
Voluntary Schools .. . . 831 The New Zealand Bishops and the Schools . . . . . . 832 Glasgow Female Training Col
lege . . .. . . . . 832 R e f o rm a t o r y and Industrial
Schools ..
832
N ew s from t h e D io c e s e s :
Westminster . . . . « 832 Liverpool . . . . . . . . 833 Newport and Menevia . . . . 833 Portsmouth . . 833 Shrewsbury.. . . . . . . 833 First Crusade Centenary . . . . 833 The_Catholic Association . . . . 834 National Protestant Church Union S34
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
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THE feeling of unrest among unofficial supporters of the Government which has been so very marked for some days past wras not allayed by the falling majorities of Monday evening on the Welsh Bill. Taking all circumstances into consideration, including the resignation of Dr. Macgregor, the Government ought to have had a majority of twenty without the Parnellites, who, according to the understanding arrived at a fortnight ago, abstain from all divisions on this Bill. T h e fact that the Government only realized half this majority, and in one case less than half, was thought to be due in the first division to absent Liberals who had gone off to dinner in the belief that no division would take place -before the adjournment. But when, later in the evening, the majority fell from ten to nine, the explanation was disproved. It appeared on inquiry that the deficiency was caused by the absence of Liberal, Radical, and AntiParnellite members unpaired, and this slackness of discipline has caused Ministers much uneasiness. The only assurance which Dr. Macgregor’s importunity exacted from the Chancellor of the Exchequer was a dry statement that it nvas proposed to put down the adjourned debate on the appointment of the Scotch Committee for Thursday, and that the occasion would be used to make a statement with reference to Scotch business. Sir William flatly declined to give any more specific undertaking as to the course which he contemplated concerning the Crofters Bill. Anything he had to say on the subject would be reserved till -the motion came on again for setting up the Grand Committee. “ That,” rejoined Dr. MacGregor with laconic and idiomatic emphasis, “ is not good enough for me,” and, suiting the action to the word, he descended from his place, made two profound bows to the Speaker, and so took his leave of the House of Commons. The incident somehow failed to affect the House quite in the way intended by the chief actor. But no Ministerialist could afford to regard it as merely ludicrous. Dr. Macgregor is a member of the party who may, perhaps, be spared without grave inconvenience ; but his seat is very valuable in these hard times,
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and the Home Rule Whips cannot overlook the fact that Inverness-shire returned a Unionist candidate without a contest in 1886, and that at the General Election he was defeated by little more than three hundred votes. The further explanations tendered by Sir William Harcourt after Dr. Macgregor’s exit showed at least that the latter had not been precipitate in concluding that the Cabinet no longer think of sending contentious Bills to the Scotch Committee.
The division on Monday night on Mr.
— w e l s h Lloyd-George’s amendment to the Disestabc h u r c h b i l l , lishment Bill in favour of a Welsh Council might easily have proved fatal to the measure.
There are four Welsh Liberals who regularly act with Mr. Lloyd-George on Welsh questions, and if he had voted for his own amendment they would probably have gone into the Lobby with him, with the result that the Ministerial majority would have been wiped out. Seeing the danger, however, they voted against the amendment, as they were not allowed to withdraw it, while, on the other hand, it was supported by all the Unionists in the House. Mr. Asquith had previously made it clear that if the amendment was carried, the Bill would be withdrawn. The smallness of the Ministerial majorities occasioned general remark. There are four Unionists seats vacant, and most of the Parnellites were absent. I f the Parnellites had been present in force the Government would, indeed, have run serious risk of being defeated.
On Tuesday the Chancellor of the Ex-
— t h e s e l b o r n e chequer brought up the Report of the p e e r a g e . Select Committee appointed to inquire into the succession of Lord Wolmer to the
Earldom of Selborne, which was to the effect that since his election to the House of Commons Lord Wolmer had succeeded to that Earldom, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Mr. Anstruther, the Liberal Unionist Whip, thereupon moved the issue of a new writ for West Edinburgh, for the election of a member in room of Lord Wolmer. Mr. Curzon, as the eldest son of a Peer, criticized the course which was now being adopted, which, he said, was a step entirely new, and one which would involve the House in Constitutional difficulty and trouble in the future. The House of Commons had taken upon itself functions which had hitherto been looked upon as part of the prerogative of the Crown and of the House of Lords, and in taking that step was usurping functions which did not properly belong to it. He referred to the contradiction between the views propounded by the Chancellor of the
