THE TABL
A W e ek ly N ew sp a p er a n d R ev iew .
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUX, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS OT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
F r o m th e B r i e f o f B 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 , 18 70 .
V o l . go. No. 2984.
L ondon, J u l y 17, 1897.
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Imperial Parliament : The Irish Catholic University Q u e s t io n An Attack on Diocesan School Associations— The Ecclesiastical Patronage ' o f the C row n— The Difficulties o f Compensation Legislation — Prison-Made Goods — Monumental Love-Making in St Paul’s— The Report of the South African Committee— The' Gift of An Ironclad— The R a ilw ay to Buluwayo — In Justice to the Turks — The Work of Free Libraries — The Sultan and the Powers — The Moderate Programme for the Coming School Board Elections— The Behring Sea Question — The Lifeboat Inquiry . . . . . . •• 77
I e a d e r s :
Leisure o Coin? . . . . ..81
CONTENTS.
L e a d e r s (Continued) :
The Papal Judgment on Anglican
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Orders .................................... 82 Anglican Eucharistic Doctrine . . 82 The Bull “ Apostolicae Curae” . . 85 N o t e s . . . . — — ..88 R e v ie w s : With Plumer in Matabeleland . . 89
Father Hilarion . . . . ..90 Some Magazines . . . . . . oo Nova et Vetera . . . . ..91 Destruction of a Church in Barbados 91 C orrespon d e n c e :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . «. — 93 News from Ireland _ — 95 News from France . . . . . . 96 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :
The Anglican Doctrine o f the
Eucharist . . . . . . . . 97
L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r (Con
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tinued : The History o f Indulgences . . 98 Pilgrimage to Lourdes . . . . 98 The “ Ecclesia AnglicanaDocens ” 98 The Gilbert Memorial Fund . . 98 Catholic Guardians’ Conference :
Catholic Organization for Poor
Children . . . . . . . . 98 Catholic Organization for Girls of
the_Poorer Class . . . . . . 100 Pending Guardians’ Elections,
1898 . . . . . . . . ICI The Years’ Work ............................ 102 The Evening Meeting . . . . 103 The Religious Education o f Catholic
D eaf and Dumb Children . . 105 Downside Annual Dinner . . . . 105 O b i t u a r y ............................................106 M a r r ia g e . . 106 S o c ia l a n d P o l i t i c a l . . . . 106
S U P P L EM E N T . N ew « from t h e S c h o o l s : Prize D a y s :
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St. Mary’s Training C o l l e g e ,
Hammersmith . . . . . 109 St. Edmund’s, Douai . . ..in Convent o f the Visitation, Rose-
lands, Walmer . . . . . . n r The Irish Catholic University Ques
tion ......................... . . ..nt An Appeal for Canning Town
Schools . . . . . . . . 112
N ew s from t h e D io c e se s :
Westminster .. .. -.113 Southwark . . . . . . 113 Leeds .. .. .. .. 114 Portsm ou th ....................................... 114 Salford _ ....................................... 114 The Vicariate ............................115
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CH RON IC LE O F TH E WEEK.
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IN the discussion on the Irish esti
mates Mr. Gerald Balfour made u n i v e r s i t y q u e s t i o n . ®statement of what the Government intend to do with a view to
-assisting the extension o f the tourist traffic in the West of Ireland. Two railway lines in Donegal, a subsidized service o f steamboats in the Shannon, a line of steamers between Belmullet and Achill are the main items in the Government proposals, and are to be carried out at an expense of about ^500,000. This announcement was received by the Irish members with the praise which the liberality of the scheme deserved. When the grant in aid of the Queen’s Colleges came on for consideration Mr. Swift MacNeill desired to know when the pledge given by Mr. Balfour that the Government would deal with the question of Catholic University teaching in Ireland would be fulfilled. Mr. Arnold Forster entered a protest against any such proposal as the establishment of a Catholic University. This Mr. Carson described as harking back to antiquated notions as to what the demands o f the Catholics and their Bishops really were. The Bishops had pointed out that they would accept a University open to all, the public funds of which should not be devoted to sectarian purposes. He wished to see all the advantages of a University education bestowed upon his fellow-countrymen, and he could assure Mr. Balfour of his cordial support in the solution of the problem. Such a direct appeal could not be passed over, and so the leader of the House rose to reply. He acknowledged the importance of the declaration of the Irish Bishops, and he in no way receded from the position he had already taken up on the question. No argument, no casuistry, could shake his conviction that it was a hardship upon the Roman Catholic majority in Ireland that they were not to be allowed to have the higher education which harmonized with their views, in the same sense in which Trinity College in Dublin, Cambridge and Oxford Universities harmonized with the general view of Englishmen and Protestants. Holding these views, he should do everything to forward them, and he saw symptoms, and not small symptoms, of a change in the public opinion of this country which led him to believe that the opinions which he held
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with such earnestness were beginning to penetrate in many directions where they had but little foothold many years ago. Certainly the action of the Catholic Bishops and Archbishops had done much to forward a case which was not the case of any one special form of religious denomination, which was not the case o f Catholicism against Protestantism, but which was the case of higher education against the want of education under which we had, unfortunately, condemned so many people in Ireland for so many years to live. Public opinion, however, was not yet sufficiently advanced for the Government to be able to bring in a simple Bill on the question which would be non-contentious. There were many in Ireland who would regard the establishment of such a University as he had sketched as a retrogade step, and so the process of conversion was still to be carried on. This avowal on the part of Mr. Balfour, interesting and important as it undoubtedly is, loses much of its force by its disclosure that he prefers to remain a mere missionary in the matter. As Mr. Morley pointed out, he had stated the case for higher education with a force and breadth which left nothing to be desired. But it was strange that with practically all the Irish members at his back the First Lord of the Treasury still refused to move a step in a cause which he knew to be right. It is indeed a pity, if not a shame, that the Government should so postpone its opportunities.
It seems that there is an agitation
amongst the supporters and managers of
a s s o c i a t i o n s . certain schools in Berkshire against being
included in the school association formed
with the diocese of Oxford as its boundary. They had been asked in May by the Oxford Diocesan Conference to join an association founded upon the county area, and had afterwards found that without any further notice being given, the Conference had determined that the area for the association should be, not the county, but the diocese. This was the substance of the complaints put forward in the form of questions addressed by Lord Wantage in the House of Lords on Monday afternoon to the Duke of Devonshire as Lord President of the Council. In spite of the treatment they had received, however, the school managers had selected delegates to represent them at the Conference and vote for the county area, who had been persuaded by the speeches of the Primate and other ecclesiastics to vote for the diocesan area. The Bishop o f Oxford defended his action in the matter, and said he had advocated the diocesan area as the plan which he believed would be the most economical, the safest and the most conducive to the
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