A. W eek ly N ew spaper and R eview .
DÜM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX. to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.
Vol. 85. No. 2875.
L ondon, June 15, 1895.
P rice sd. by P ost s % d
[Registered a t th e General P ost O ffice as a N ewspaper
"Chronicle of th e W eek ! _
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Imperial Parliament: Meeting of the C ommons—The Time of the H ou se — The Crofter’s Bill — Politics and Parliament — S ir Charles Dilke on the House of Lords— The Foreign Policy of France — The Chinese Loan — Fighting in German West Africa —Russia and the Pamirs — The Austro-Hungarian Delegations— •A National Testimonial to W. G. f<Grace — The London County Council and Tramways — Dis.missal of the Grand Vizier of Turkey—Lord Acton’s Inaugural
'Lecture— School Board Election E x p e n s e s .................. •• 9*7 L eaders :
Our New Beati.— II. .. •• 921 The Visit of the Shahzada .. 921 St. Augustine, the Apostle of
England, in Anjou .. .. 922
CONTENTS .
L eaders (Continued):
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Catholic University News .. 923 Notes from Belgium .. .. 924 N otes .. — . . .. ~ 925 R eview s :
History of St. Francis of Assissi 928 The Abbey of St. Edmund at Bury 928 The Measurement of Man . . 929 Sir Robert’s Fortune . . . . 930 First things First .. .. .. 93° The Inner Life of Pere Lacordaire 930 The Ceremonies^ of some Eccle
siastical Functions .. .. 931 Good Reading about many Books 931 The Flower of the Flock and the
Badgers of Belmont .. .. 931 The Church of Old England .. 931 Books of the Week.. . . .. 931 Memorial to the late Father Moore,
of Southend......................... .. 931 C orrespondence :
Rome .’—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . ... 933 News from Ireland . . . . «. 935
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L etters to th e E ditor :
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Anglican Orders .. .. . . 936 Anglican Church History .. 936 Catholics and Armenian “ Atrocities ” “ God Forsaken ” .. The New Church at Tottenham Oscott College : Claims and Concessions Resistance to the “ Droit d’Accrois
sement How Catholic Soldiers are Treated at Q u e t t a .................................... The Catholic Education Bill E ly Schools, Cardiff Anglicanism and Divorce .. C a th o l ic Procession in M a n
chester A L u n a t ic Threatens Cardinal
Vaughan St. Anselm’s Society .. F rom E verywhere O b ituary ........................................ M arriage
936 937 937 937 937 939 940 940 942 943 943 943 944 944 945 I 946
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Social and Political . . ». 946 Westminster Cathedral .. . . gig
SUPPLEMENT. N ews from th e Schools:
Sheffield Board and Voluntary
Schools .. .. .. .. 953 The Archbishop’s Committee on
Voluntary Schools .. .. 951 Correspondence between the Edu
cation Department and the Buckfast Abbey School Managers .. .. .. .. 952 Totnes Guardians and Catholic
Children .. .. .. .. 952 School Board Election Expenses 952 The Teaching of Greek .. .*953 N ews from th e D ioceses :
Westminster . . . . 953 Southwark . . . . .. . . 953 Birmingham.. . . . . .. 954 Leeds 954 Liverpool .. . . . . . . 954 Northampton . . . .. 954 Glasgow .......................................954
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
^IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
— MEETING OF THE
COMMONS.
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N Monday a very small num
ber of the members of the House of Commons reassembled after the Whitsuntide
Recess. In the course of the evening Mr. Ambrose asked the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs for information as to any Treaty obligations on Great Britain, as distinguished from a discretionary right, to coerce the Porte to carry out the reforms in Armenia required by England, France, and Russia, and Sir E. Grey referred him to the Treaty of Berlin, which was laid before Parliament in 1878. Mr. •Gibson Bowles asked if it was not the fact that there was no such obligation in the Treaty, and that the only obligation was that the Porte undertook to carry out certain reforms according to local requirements. Mr. Ambrose also asked Sir E. Grey to specify the particular article of the Treaty which imposed the obligation, but the Speaker intervened, and said that this was a matter of which notice ought to be given. Several questions were addressed by Lord Cranborne and others to the Chancellor of the Exchequer as to the business of the House, and, in answer to one of them, Sir W. Harcourt said that the Second Reading of the Local Veto Bill would certainly be taken this Session. Sir E. Grey brought in a Bill re-enacting the .Act of two years ago in order to carry out an agreement with Russia as to catching seals in certain parts of the Pacific. It was read a first time. The Bill introducing •into Scotland a public inquiry into cases of fatal accidents was referred to the Grand Committee on Scotch Bills. On the motion for the Second Reading of the Local Government (Scotland) Bill, Mr. Caldwell moved an amendment in favour of giving County and Pariah Councils power to purchase lands compulsorily for the erection of workmen’s dwellings, public halls, and public reading-rooms, and also power to pay the travelling expenses of County Councillors attending meetings of the Council and its Committees. Sir G. Trevelyan said that such an amendment would kill the Bill, as the matters dealt with in it could not be included in a Bill which was meant to complete the machinery of the Scotch Local Government Act. After some discussion the amendment was withdrawn, and the Bill read a second time. It was thereupon referred to the Grand Committee on
Scotch Bills. The Outdoor Relief (Ireland) Bill, which authorizes the granting, in certain cases, of outdoor relief, was read a second time, without a division. The adjourned debate on the Second Reading of the Conciliation (Trade Disputes) Bill was resumed. The principle of the Bill was generally approved of, but considerable exception was taken by some members of the County and Town Councils being empowered to appoint Boards of Conciliation, and to such compulsory powers as the Bill conferred upon the arbitrators. As an experiment which will, at the worst, be nugatory in its effects, it has not been seriously opposed in any quarter of the House, and on Monday it was read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Trade.
Sir William Harcourt is in no hurry to
— t h e t im e clear himself of the suspicion which prevails o f t h e h o u s e , among the ardent Radicals, that he is not by any means a convert to the principle of
Legislation without Debate. Not a hint did he drop on Tuesday that he is disposed to resort to any exceptional measures for terminating discussion on the Welsh Disestablishment Bill. No doubt, inasmuch as the invariable maxim of the administration is to give in to pressure when it becomes unendurable, Sir William may, later on, gratify his dictatorial followers by announcing that the assent of the House of Commons to the spoliation of the Church in Wales is to be secured in much the same way as was its sanction to the destruction of the Union. On Tuesday, the leader of the House was content to explain in courteous compliance with a request from Mr. Balfour, that the demand he intended to make on Thursday for a further control of the time of the House, will be identical with that submitted by him at a corresponding period last year. The effect will be to give Ministers an absolute monopoly for the rest of the Session. Private members will be ruthlessly suppressed. The whole of the Wednesdays and Fridays are to be given up to the Government during the remainder of the Session.
On the motion for the Second Reading
— t h e c r o f t e r s of the Scottish Crofters Bill, Mr. Graham b il l .
Murray criticized it at great length. He had an amendment on the paper condemn
ing the Bill, which, while interfering with contractual rights, did not provide means for the improvement of the material condition of the poorer crofters and cottars in the Highlands, or for the relief of distress in overcrowded districts, and was not calculated to diminish the difficulties which
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