A W eek ly N ew spap er a n d R ev iew ,
DOM VOBIS GRATÜLAMOR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMÜS C T IN INCOEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTBR MANKATIS.
F r om th e B r i e f o j H i s H o l in e s s P i u s I X . to T h e T a b l e t , J u n e 4 , 1S 70 .
Vol. 89. No. 2962. L o n d o n , F e b r u a r y 13 , 18 9 7 .
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«Ch r o n ic le of t h e W e e k ! P a g e
Imperial Parliament : The Education Bill head a First Time—The Occupation of Egypt-T h e Changes in the Army— A Debate on Dis«stablishment— The Immigration of Alien Paupers— Failure of the Hamburg S t r ik e— The French Foreign Minister and Egypt— T h e Explanation o f the Walthamstow Election— The Flemish Question In Belgium— The Manitoba ■ Schools Question — Mr. Bryan’s Book— Disturbances in Crete—Will Greece Intervene?— Foreigners in France— A National Holiday— The Indian Famine Fund . . 237 L e a d e r s :
The Government and the Schools 241 England on the Nile . . . . 241 Two Establishments . . . . 243 The Bull “ Apostólicas Curse ” . . 244 M r . Gladstone on Anglican Orders 246 N o t e s . . . . - ........................246
CONTENTS.
R e v ie w s :
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The Sermon on the Mount . . 248 Archbishop Wake and the Project
of U n i o n .................................... 249 Edmund Campion . . . . . . 250 Beyond the P a l e ......................... 2sc Keenan’s Catechism . . . . 251 Three D i a l o g u e s on P u l p i t
E loquence.. . . . . . . 251 C orrespon d e n c e :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . .
~ 253
News From Ireland — — 254 News From France . . . . 255 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :
The Manitoba Schools . . . . 256 Evolution and Dogma . . . . 257 S. Sunniva . . . . . . 258 The Preface to the Edwardine
Ordinal and Validity of Intention . . . . . . . . 258 The Anglican Ordinal . . . . 258 The Encyclical “ De Unitate ” . . 258
L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r (Con
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tinued : Translation of the Papal Bull “ Spiritualities” “ Spiritual Equivalents ” .. The State Children’s Aid Asso
ciation Houseless Nuns in Perugia The Ransomers’ Tract Fund . . __ Pastor Chiniquy . . . . . . 260 Catholic Peers and the House of
259 259 259 259 2Ó0 260
Lords .. ......................... 260 Dogmatic Works . . . . . 260 The New Education Bill . . . . 260 The Elizabethan Religion . . . . 262 Work for Catholic Sailors in Bel
gium . . . . . . . . . . 264 Father J. Prenger and the Dusuns
of Borneo . . . . . . . . 264 O b i t u a r y ........................................264 S o c ia l a n d P o l i t i c a i .......................266
SU PPLEM ENT . N ew s from t h e S chools :
Text of the New Education Bill 269
N ew s from t h e S chools (Con
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tinued): Mr. Balfour’s Vacillation . . . . 269 Only T e m p o r a r y ......................... 270 The Dog in the Manger’s B a rk . . 270 Refusal to Pay School Board Rate 270 Ratcliffe College : The Memorial
to Father H i r s t ......................... 271 N ew s from t h e D io c e se s : Westminster
Southwark Birmingham.. ......................... Clifton ..................................... L i v e r p o o l .................................... Plymouth Salford ..................................... Newport . . . . St. Andrews and Edinburgh Dominican Missions and Retreats A Fourteenth Century Grammar,
271 272 273 273273 273273274 274 274
Papal Indulgence, and Fragment o f Manor Roll Candlemas
274 275
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
the people than the Catholic Church ? ” He demanded a frank answer from the Government. Mr. Chamherlain, in a speech which will be found in full in another column, pointed out that the oft-quoted remark of the Duke of Devonshire about statutory equality between our two school systems had no reference to equality as regards 'he rates. The removal o f inequalities was not class legislation, but justice ; and, as a matter of fact, the money given by the Bill would, after all, go into the pockets of the ratepayers. He instanced the case of Birmingham as an illustration of his statement. While Birmingham had Board schools it also had efficient Voluntary schools, and i f those schools, which were necessitous, were allowed to be extinguished, the result would be that rates of the city, which at present amounted to is. oj^d. in the pound, would be raised to is. 9d. The question for the ratepayers was whether they would prefer to give a small grant as contributors to Imperial taxation in order to preserve these schools from extinction, or pay is. 9d. as a school rate in order to have a theoretically complete and uniform system. When a division of the House was taken the resolution was carried by 283 votes against 99, a majority of 184. The announcement was received with loud Ministerial cheers, and the Bill was brought in by Mr. Balfour and read a first time. The second reading was put down for Thursday.
TH E debate on the first reading
of the Education Bill was r e a d a f i r s t t i m e . continued by the Opposition on the lines and in the determined
attitude of uncompromising antagonism which had been assumed from the first. Mr. Asquith spoke as if public money were to be carelessly, and without any restriction, thrown into the hands of the managers of Voluntary schools. H e explained that the Opposition based their resistance to the resolution, not upon any unwillingness to make good the admitted deficiencies of our educational system, but upon the fact that the resolution, in its principle o f invidious discrimination, was entirely opposed to the statutory equality that had hitherto prevailed, and provided methods and machinery which afforded no adequate security that the intentions of Parliament would be carried out, and that the taxpayers’ money would not be irremediably squandered. Mr. Balfour, in reply, admitted the ingenuity of Mr. Asquith’s course, but was compelled to deny its statesmanship. The procedure followed by the Government was in strict accordance with precedent, the terms of the resolution having been settled by the officers of the House. The attendance in Denominational schools was continually increasing; and so the impolicy of a fixed grant, which would rapidly fall behind their needs, was evident. Necessitous Board schools certainly stood in need of relief, but the machinery for their relief could not be included in the present measure, the greatest justification of which was that the Act of 1870 was only tolerable so loDg as it gave room for the Board and Voluntary systems. Sir William Harcourt argued that the Act of 1870 had wrought no harm to Voluntary schools; but in pointing out the way in which those schools had increased, both in numbers and resources he quite ignored the loDg and tremendous sacrifices which had made that increase possible. The present measure, like its predecessor of last year, was aimed against the Board schools, and was a mere piece of legislation in the interests of a class. As to the question o f popular control he took Mr. Dillon’s word for it, that “ the Catholic Church, which was not less denominational than the Church of England, had declared in favour of popular control. Why was the Anglican communion more afraid of
On Friday the House went into Com-
— t h e mittee on a vote for -£798,802 for a grant e g y p t . the expenditure incurred in con-
nection with the Dongola expedition. The
Chancellor of the Exchequer made a lucid straightforward statement of the Government policy in the Soudan, which by some curious misconception was thought to be the language of menace and defiance to certain of the Great Powers, The Chancellor of the Exchequer’s statement fell naturally into three divisions— the question of finance, the future of the Mixed Court o f Appeal, and the intended resumption of the military advance. The cost of the Dongola expedition had been ¿£733,000. Of this, ^185,000 had been incurred in gunboats, the extension of railways and telegraphs, assets which still stand to the good. The cost of the Indian troops at Suakin which came to ¿£145,000 is a separate item. O f the total vote, over ^500,000 goes to repay the Caisse for the advance declared by the Mixed Tribunal to be illegal. The cost of the expedition is thus evidently very little, and its success was achieved with little loss o f life. Only forty-seven men had been killed in action, but over three hundred had fallen victims of cholera
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