TA A W eek ly N ew spaper and R eview .
DDM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UX 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 ol. 86. No. 2879.
L o n d o n , J u l y 13, 1895.
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[R eg is tered a t t h e G e n e r a l P o st 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: ^House of Lords— Friday’s Sitting— Saturday’s Sitting— The Due d’Orleans •and his Friends— Mr. Balfour’s Address— Henley— Lord Ripon at Darwen— Mr. Morley on Home "Rule— Sir William Harcourt on the Local Veto— Mr. Chamberlain on the Coming Struggle— New Appointments—The Visit of the Italian Fleet— Inspection of the Fleet by the Lords o f the Admiralty—The Chinese Loan— The British School at Athens— Mr. •Healy and Radical Promises— English Trawlers Seized by Danish Cruiser 49 L eaders :
The Issues of the Election . . 53 A Non-Catholic Writer on the
Papacy . . . . . . . . 54
C O N T E N T S
L ea d e r s (Continued):
Two Letters on the Maynooth
Centenary . . . .
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The Birth of Music . . . . 56 Mr. Balfour cn Voluntary schools 57 Letters of the First (English)
Prince o f W a le s ....................... 57 N o t e s . . — . . ~ 58 R e v iew s :
Beyschlag’s N e w T e s t a m e n t
Theology .. . . . .
New Testament Greek . . . . 60 Panta Rye I.. . . . . ..61 Eve’s Ransom . . . . ..61 A Seasonable Plea for the Volun
. . 60
tary Schools . . . . . . 61 Hebrew Syntax .. . . . . 61 The World’s Own Book . . . . 62 Arnold Toynbee . . . . ..62 The Month . . .. . . 62 Discussion at Newport Board of
Guardians . . .. _ . . .. 63 The Feast of the Precious Blood at Boulogne-sur-Mer . . . . 63
C orrespondence :
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Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) ......................... News from Ireland .. _ L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :
Anglican Baptisms A Suggestion ......................... In Perplexity John Payne . . . . . . . . 69 Armagh Grand Jury and Catholic
65 67 68 69 69
Industrial Schools General Election, 1895 _ The Church Association and the
Pope’s Letter The Archbishop of Canterbury and
Reunion. Persecutions in South India Distribution o f P r i z e s a t St.
Aloysius’, Highgate. A Smoking Service . . Ushrw College. — A C e n t e n a r y
Memorial ... A Spanish View of Cricket and Dr.
Grace..
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N ew s from t h e D io ceses :
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Southwark .. .........................74 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 74 Leeds . . . . . . . . 74 Nottingham.................................... 75 Mr. Briefless, Jun., on the long
V a c a t io n .................................... 7=; F rom E veryw h ere . . . . 76 Social a n d P o l it ic a l . . «,76
SU PPLEM ENT. N ew s from t h e S chools:
The London School Board and
Religious In s tru c t io n .............. 8r The School Board Budget . . 84 An Unnecessary School Board . . 85 Distribution of P r i z e s at St.
Edmund’s College, Douai . . 83 Legal Aspects of the Buckfast
School Question . . .. . . 85 The Stonyhurst Association . . 86 Catholics and the London Univer
sity _ . . . . . . . . 86 Catholic Children in Totnes Work-
house ........................ ..86
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
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Friday’s sitting. I
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. — HOUSE OF LORDS—
N the House of Lords on
Friday, Lord Herschell moved to go into Committee on the Municipal Franchise (Ireland) Bill,
and again indicated the concessions he was prepared to make. Lord Ashbourne replied that the amendments were so numerous that it was impossible to pass the Bill. The question of going into Committee was then put, and Lord Kerschell challenged a division, with the result that his motion was defeated by 77 to 17. Lord Ripon then moved the Second Reading of the Factories and Workshops Bill, the provisions of which he explained. Lord Salisbury said the Bill belonged to a class which had always been regarded with satisfaction by Conservative Peers. These -measures, which had begun with Lord Shaftesbury’s legislation, had proved of enormous benefit to the country. He had some apprehension as to the treatment of laundries. His sole fear was that the Bill would bear hard on the .poorer industries, and force them into the hands of the larger capitalists, and he would be very sorry if legislation -had any effect in accelerating that result. The Duke of Argyll said he was glad Lord Salisbury had seen his way to allow this Bill to pass into law ; and he entered upon a -long review of the relations of the Liberal party to such legislation. He proceeded to discuss the attacks of the late -Government and its supporters upon the House of Lords, and said that, although they viewed the attacks on that Flouse by the rump of the Liberal party with contempt, -still there was a large number of voters who were as ignorant of history as those who addressed them were unscrupulous in their statements. Lord Herschell condemned the Duke’s speech as an electioneering manifesto on the subject of the House of Lords, and, referring to the Irish Municipal Franchise Bill, he commented on the impossibility of passing Bills in their Lordships’ House without Lord Salisbury’s consent. Lord Salisbury replied in a vigorous little speech,
in which he characterized the treatment of the Bill referred to in the other House as a fraud upon Parliamentary procedure, and as the most monstrous thing that had happened in his time in regard to Parliamentary procedure. After -some further discussion, the Bill passed through Committee, and was read a third time.
N e w S e r i e s , V o l , L1V ., No. 2,188.
The House of Lords met at noon on Satur-
— Saturday’s day, when the Appropriation Bill, brought sitting. from the Commons, was read a first and second time. On the motion for the Third Reading, Lord Salisbury rose, amid cheers from the Government Benches, and, referring to the speech of Lord Rosebery at the Eighty Club, said that his phrase, “ legislative preponderance,” applied to the House of Lords was an absurd and flagrant fallacy. The real crime of the Lords was that they had thrown out the Home Rule Bill. Great reforms- should be supported by the vast majority of the country ; but neither Home Rule nor the recent attack on the Established Church had such ’a majority of the nation at its back. Lord Rosebery had offered a vast vista of reforms, which could only be carried after the bitterest passions had been roused, and while this battle was being fought, no other effective legislation could be done, and the time would be one of perpetual conflict, that could be called little else but civil war. The policy of the Government, on the other hand, was not negative, but positive, in that they would do their utmost to mitigate the misery which attended the vicissitudes of this changeful time, and to lessen the sorrows, that attended the lot of many millions of our fellow-countrymen. Lord Rosebery, in reply, said what he meant by legislative preponderance was that five hundred Peers were fixed in that House in order to arrest Liberal legislation. No man ever contemplated that there should exist in the State a man with such great legislative preponderance as the noble Marquess, who had a fixed band of followers through whom he could exercise a legislative veto on the House of Commons. The Appropriation Bill was read a third time. The Commons were then summoned to hear the Royal Assent given to it and to a considerable number of other Bills, and thereafter, without any Queen’s Speech, Parliament was prorogued formally till July 24.
THE DUC D’ORLEANS AND
HIS FRIENDS.
There are so few of them it seems a pity they should quarrel. But the Monarchists of France are not happy about their Prince, and they are saying so. First, there came a complaint that when the Prince ordered the fragments from his sister’s wedding breakfast to be packed up in many hampers and sent to be distributed among the poor of Paris the gift was less than kingly. To many it might seem, that the thought was kindly and graceful, but to the fastidious friends of the ancien regime the very notion of “ broken victuals ” was unbearable. When once the discontent had begun to find expression the
