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DOM VOBIS GRATÜLAMÜR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

From the B r i e f o j H is Holiness P iu s IX . to The Tablet, June 1870.

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(Imperial Parliament:Educational Grievances in Ireland — T h e Recent Disturbances in India— The Workmen’s Compensation 'Bill— Ladies and the House—The Papal Delegate in Canada — Imperial Unity — The Duke of Devonshire and the Premiers— The South Africa Committee— The Nature of the Committee’s Report— President Faure’s Visit to Russia— Peace Negotiations at Constantinople— Great Strike of Engineers— The Survivors o f the “ Aden ” — W ar Correspondent’s L ibel Action . . ......................... 41 L eaders:

Mr. Balfour’s Duty to Ireland . . 45 The Bull “ Apostolicse Curas ’ . . 45 The Greek P lay at Downside . . 49 Anglican Eucharistic Doctrine . . 51

CONTENTS.

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Notes .. .. « — ..54 Silver Jubilee o f the Archbishop

of Edinburgh . . . . . . 55 Correspondence :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . ... — — 57 News from Ireland «. — 59 Letters to the Editor :

The “ Ecclesia AnglicanaDocens ” 60 Imperial Penny Postage .. . . * 61 Father Duggan and Catholic Edu­

cation . . . . . . ..61 Reviews :

New Poems . . . . . . ..61 Some American Sermons . . . . 63 The Life and Death of James,

Earl ofDerwentwater, 1689-1716 63 A First Greek Reading Book . . 63

Meetings of Collegiate Societies : . . 63

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The Beaumont Union . . . . 63 The Edmundian Association . . 63 The Lisbonian Society . . . . 63 The Douai Society . . . . 64 Father Breen and the Bishop of

Stepney . . . . . . ..64 The Early British Church and Papal

Authority . . . . . . . . 65 The Queen’s Visit to Beaumont . . 65 The Religious Education o f Catholic

D eaf and Dumb Children . . 66 Ransom Pilgrimage to Canterbury 66 Open-Air Lectures at Hamstead . . 66 Catholic Missions to Seamen in

Spain . . . . . . . . . . 66 News from the Dioceses : Westminster

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Liverpool ......................... Nottingham ......................... Plymouth Portsm ou th .........................

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N ews From the D ioceses

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Shrewsbury . .

The Vicariate

Marriage

Social and Political

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S U P P L EM E N T . New« from the Schools:

The Irish University Question in

Parliament Educational Grievances in the

Transvaal . . Definition of, and Rates of Aid

Grant for “ Town School ” and **Cnnntm ” v^uunuy oiuuui .. .. 72 Secondary Education Abroad . . 73 A Satisfactory Secondary Educa­

tion Bill . . . . . . • • 74 The New College at Clapham . . 74 Stonyhurst: Visit o f the Duke

Sotomayor . . . . • • 74 Prize D a y s . . . . . . -• 74

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---------- ♦---------' T N reply to a question put by Mr.

i m p e r i a l p a r l i a m e n t : I Dillon as to the introduction of

0” e“ n A a Government Bill dealing with

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the establishment of a Catholic University in Ireland, Mr. Balfour acknow­

ledged that he fully recognized the conciliatory spirit and the importance of the pronouncement made by the Irish Bishops upon the question, but that he had nothing to add to the statements he had already made. The question was by no means a non-contentious one. This answer was not regarded by Mr. Dillon as satisfactory, and accordingly he raised the matter again on the following day, when in Committee of Supply the .Vote for ¿£137,137 for the maintenance of public buildings in Ireland came up for consideration. He moved the reduction of the vote by ,£150 on the ground that due provision for the Irish Catholic Colleges was not made by the Government. This was defeated by a majority of 154. Mr. Dillon afterwards called attention to the injustice suffered by National teachers through the arrears of fee grant being withheld to the extent of nearly ¿£70,000. The Chancellor of the Exchequer entered upon a history of the question of the fee grant. He said that last year it was arranged that a sum of ¿£107,000 in all should be voted by the House, a small portion of which— about ¿£12,000— was to be applied to the convent schools, and the remainder, ¿£96,000, to the Irish Teachers’ Pension Fund. The Irish National Board unanimously resolved that, having regard to the position of the Teachers’ Pension Fund, which was practically bankrupt at the time, this was a satisfactory settlement both on the question of fee grant and of the Pension Fund. Mr. Gerald Balfour explained that, owing to the insufficiency of the contributions made by the teachers to maintain the fund in a satisfactory position, certain arrears had been paid by the Government. The fund had been endowed out of Irish resources in the first instance, but would in future be endowed out of Imperial resources.

of Irish landlords to some relief from the State in the way of loans granted on the same time as those given to tenants and of facilities for purchase by the landlord of the tenant-right or good-will of the occupier where he is willing to sell. There was a good deal of sympathy expressed on both sides of the House with the terms of the motion, but it was felt that the discussion was merely academic, as Lord Inchiquin avowed his intention of not pressing the motion to a division, and as it could not forward the cause o f compensation, which was a pecuniary matter over which the House of Lords had no power. In the House of Commons Mr. Curzon was able to give reassuring denials of the reports concerning Delagoa Bay, and Lord George Hamilton had much to say of an authoritative nature about the recent disturbances in India. From what he said it would appear that there is no foundation for the hasty assumption that there is some connection between the riots at Calcutta and the assassinations at Poona. The disturbances at Calcutta were due to the attempt on the part of a number of low-class Mohammedans to rebuild a building which they alleged to be a mosque on land which had been taken over by Hindoos acting under orders of the Court. The tumult arose, therefore, out of a determination to maintain the peace of the place and to protect the legal rights of Hindoos against the encroachments of the Mussulmans. The murderous conspiracy at Poona, on the other hand, had as its object to avenge the the disregard for the seclusion of Hindoo households shown by the officials in carrying out the sanitary precautions necessitated by the plague. The best commentary on the action of the officials is the announcement that the city is now free from the awful visitation with which it had been afflicted. Lord George Hamilton read a long telegram from the Bombay Government in answer to the charges against the conduct of the officials. A native local Association, the Deccan Subha, had formulated a memorial which contained wholesale allegations of gross misconduct against the search parties employed by the Government. In reply Lord George was able to give a categorical den ¡a5 to these charges. People had only been sent into hospita after medical examination, and segregation had only been , resorted to where it was necessary; the search parties were accompanied by native gentleman and lady doctors, who would secure proper treatmant for the inmates of the houses. Every precaution had been taken to procure con­

In the House of Lords on Monday after-

— the recent noon there was some discussion on the

resumption of the adjourned debate 00 Lord Inchiquin’s motion which asserted the claim N ew Series. Vox. LVIIL, No. 2.292.

siderate treatment, and one lady who accompanied the search parties had borne generous testimony to the way in which the soldiers, the only European agency obtainable