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DOM VOBIS GRATÜLAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMÜS ÜT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT1S.

From the B r i e f oj H i s Holiness P iu s IX , to T he T ablet, June p, 1870,

V o l . 89. No. 296Ó.

L ondon, March 13, 1897

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[R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a l P o s t O f f i c e a s a N e w s p a p e r

C h ronicle o f t h e W e e k !

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Imperial Parliam ent: The Financial Relations Question in the Lords — Ships and Men — The Lords and Woman’s Suffrage — Slow Progress in Committee — Voluntary Subscriptions--Associations Fighting for the Crown— Crete Again — Prospects of the Arbitration T rea ty— Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Rhodes — Sir Graham Bower’s E v i d e n c e — Greece and the Powers — The Relief of Cándano . . . . . . 397 L e a d e r s :

The Reply of the Anglican Arch­

bishops . . . . . . . . 401 Federation and Empire . . . . 403 The Bull “ Apostólicas Cur® ” . . 404 Henry V I II . in His Own State

Papers . . . . . . . . 406

C 0 N T

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Ths Christian Nuns Killed in Cret e 406 N o t e s . . . . — ... . . 407 R e v ie w s :

The Catholic Priesthood . . . . 408 Introduction to the History of

Religion . . . . . . . . 409 Wayside Tales . . . . . . 410 Scotch Opposition to the Education

Bill . . . . . . . . . . 410 Nansen’s “ Farthest North ” . . 410 C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) ......................... ... 413 News From Ireland . . — 414 News From France . . . . 415 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :

The Origin of Man . . . . 417 Irish Orders.. . . . . . . 417 Spiritualities . . . . . . 418 : A Question o f Imprimatur . . 418

E N T S .

L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r (Con-

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tinued : The Nuns at Chittagong . . . . 419 Work for Catholic Seamen . . 4x9 Catholic Lectures at Hastings . . 419 A Warning . . . . . . . . 419 The Famine in India . . . . 419 A B it of Anglo-Saxon Oxford . . 420 Silver Wedding of Lord Bute . . 420 Cause of the Venerable Jeanne

D ’A r c .................................................. 421 “ The Tremendous P e rk s ” . . . . 4 2 1 The Trafford Park Scheme . . . . 4 2 1 Books o f the Week . . . . . . 423 M a rr ia g e .......................................... 423 O b i t u a r y ........................................... 424 Social a n d P olitical . . . . 424

SUPPLEMENT. N ew s from t h e S c h o o l s :

Parental Responsibility . . . . 429 The New Revised Code . . . . 429

N ew s from t h e S chools (Con­

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tinued): The Bill in Committee . . . . 43© Anglicans and the Revised Code 430 Education in the Diocese of Salford 431 “ Hamlet” at St. Augustine’s Col­

lege, Ramsgate . . . . . . 432 Eton and Beaumont . . . . 432 N ew s from t h e D io c e se s : Westminster

Southwark Birmingham.. Clifton Liverpool Northampton Nottingham . . Plymouth Salford Newport The Vicariate St. Andrews and Edinburgh Aberdeen

432433 433433 434 434 434434 435435422 423423

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK,

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT : THE FINANCIAL RELATIONS QUESTION IN THE LORDS. L

o r d c a s t l e t o w n ,

who poses as a sort of George Washington in the movement for the readjust­

ment of the financial relations between Great Britain and Ireland, introduced the discussion of the question into the House of Lords by moving that the reference to the proposed Commission should be laid on the table. He thought that logically, legally, and financially, Ireland was entitled to redress. The idea underlying the Act of Union and the legislation and administration from 1815 to 1853, was that Ireland should receive special consideration financially. He threw the blame of the present difficulties on the legislation of 1853, when Mr. Gladstone introduced the income-tax into Ireland, to which, he contended, redress was due, not as a beggar or a suppliant, but as a suitor in the Constitutional Court of the Empire. The Report of the recent Commission should therefore be carried out, and in order to do this he suggested the creation of an Irish Consolidated Fund, to be managed by Irish financiers for the promotion of Irish industries, with power to the County Councils, when established, to draw upon that fund. The fund could be secured upon the resources of the Island, and thus credit could be given to Ireland at a low rate of interest. The Marquis o f Lansdowne assented to the motion for papers which had already been tabled in the other House. He was still, however, in doubt whether Lord Castletown agreed with the Government in thinking that the case called for further investigation. The Commission had produced a litter of Reports, and a main Report described as joint and final, but which in reality was neither. The Report was a desperate effort to obtain agreement on five points, but the beginning and end of it were really found in these two conclusions— that Great Britain and Ireland are for the purpose of this inquiry considered as separate entities, and that while the taxed revenue of Ireland is one-eleventh of that of Great Britain, the relative taxable capacity of the country is much smaller, and does not exceed one-twentieth. Amidst so many reports and in connection with a question which involved so many interests he thought it was quite right and natural for the Governmsnt to call for further evidence.

New Serie«. Vol. LVII.. No. 2,275.

In the House of Commons the same evening

— ships and Mr. Balfour and Mr. Curzon had to face a

men. running fire of questions on the subject o f

Crete, and the Government policy in connection with it. On the motion for going into Committee of Supply on the Navy Estimates, Sir Charles Dilke rose to call attention to the subject of the relative strength of ships and men. He admitted that the administration of the Admiralty was vastly improved, but wished to enforce the lesson that future wars would be increasingly won by administration in time of peace. The country had gone back in the matter of battleships ; Russia and France had built eleven first-class battteships to our seven. Another fact which pointed in the same direction was the reduction of 1,500 men that was to take place in the dockyards. In the matter o f men, France was immensely superior to us in point of numbers, especially of lieutenants. Our reserve was too small, our trained engineers and stokers were too few ; so that it would be impossible to mobilize our fleet in time of war. Mr. Goschen’s reply to these moderate criticisms found favour in all parts of the House. The First Lord of the Admiralty pointed out with much force that we are at present in a period o f transition. The Navy was being increased at a great rate ; its power and personnel had been increased 50 per cent, in a few years. They were not asking for more than 6,300 men this year because they could only get the men they wanted by gradual training. There was no need for every ship to be mobilized in case of war; there would have to be a reserve of ships as well as of men. Mr. Goschen then gave a few facts as evidence of the great exertions which the Admiralty had been making. In five years they had added 26,000 men and 71 ships to the Navy. There was, however, a point beyond which it would be unwise to go, and the Government did not intend to overstep it. They had 100,000 men on the active list, 25,000 men on the reserve, and 10,000 pensioners. The Government wanted to maintain a policy o f steady increase. Others wanted to proceed less judiciously by leaps and bounds, proposing to run a short service system alongside the long service system, and that the Admiralty should undertake the training of boys for the mercantile marine. Without boasting, but as a reply to bis critics, Mr. Goschen was able to point out that, compared with any two great maritime Powers, we had at present a distinct superiority in numbers, in the class of our ships, in the homogeneous character of our fleet, and in the speed with which we could build our ships. The 1,500 men who were to be dismissed from the dockyards were men engaged for special work to