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A W e e k ly N ew s p a p e r a n d R e v ie w .
DOM VO B IS G R A T D L A M Ü R , AN IM O S B T IA M ADD IM O S ÜT IN INCCEPTIS V B S T R IS CON S TAN TER M A N E A T IS .
From the Brief oj His Holiness Pius IX. to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, iSyo.
V o l . 89. No. 2963. L ondon, F ebruary 20, 1897. pk.c* 5d. byPoST,*i
[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 ew s p a p e r
C h ronicle o f t h e W e e k ! Page
Imiperial Parliament: The Education Debate — The Opposition’s Amendment— Mr. Morley’s View’s — The Clearing of the Issue— Getting on Step by Step— Lord Salisbury and the Cretan Question — In Sight o f the Second Reading —The Summing Up o f the Case— The South African Inquiry — Descriptions o f Mr. Rhodes— The Crisis in Crete—The Greeks Land in Crete—The Growth o f British Shipping—Tne New Governor of the Cape— The Bridgeton Election 277 ^Le a d e r s :
The Lessons o f the Debate . . 281 Crete and Constantinople . . . . 282 The Bull “ Apostólicas Curse ” . . 283 Catholics at the Universities . . 286 N o t e s . . . . ~ ... . . 286 R eview ’s :
Pickle the Spy . . ^ . . . 288 ■ Some Text-Books o f Philosophy.. 289
Reviews (Continued):
Tw'o Benedictine Nuns Studies in Judaism . . “ The Month” Some Magazines Nature’s Wonders . . An Anxious Moment
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L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r (Con
tinued : The Burial Vaults Under
Mary’s, Moorfields The Anglican Ordinal The Gilbert Memorial Cardinal Newman’s Statue
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C orrespon d e n c e :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . ... . . 293 News From Ireland ~ —294 News From France . . . . 295 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :
The Manitoba Schools . . . . 296 Evolution and Dogma . . . . 296 The Papal Bull and the Privy
Council . . . . . . . . . 297 The Elizabethan Religion.. . . 297 The Flemish Question in Belgium 297 “ The Marian Reaction ” . . ^ . . 298 State Children’s Aid Association *98 Diana Vaughan — . . . . 299
A Catholic in the New American
Cabinet . . . . . . . 299 The New Education Bill . . . . 300 Naples and Pompei . . . . . . 300 Installation of the New Rector of
Washington University . . . . 301 Catholics and the Education Bill . . 302 New Catholic1Cathedral for Zanzibar 303 The Bible in New York Schools . . 304 An Unimpeachable Presentiment . . 304 Catholic Union of Great Britain . . 304 The Roman Aristocracy . . . . 304 A p p e a l t o t h e C h a r i t a b l e . . 304 Books o f the Week . . . . . . aos So c ia l a n d P o l it i c a l
SU P P L EM E N T . Page Decree of the Sacred Congregation
o f Indulgences and Relics . . 309 N pw s from t h e S c h o o l s :'
Fault-Finding . . . . . . 309 Dr. Clifford and the Bill . . . . 309 The Education Question . . . . 310 Voluntary Schools Not to Suffer.. 310 “ Necessitous” Board Schools and
the Education Bill . . . . 310 The Working of the New School
Associations . . . . . . 310 Voluntary Schools . . . . . . 311 Statutory Equality . . . . 311 The Durham County Council and
Catholic Children in Industrial S c h o o l s .................................... 311 Extravagance of School Boards . . 311 N ew s from t h e D io c e s e s : Westminster . . . . . . 312
Southwark
Birmingham.. ............................313 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 314 Liverpool . . . . . . •• 3r Shrewsbury . . . . . . . . 31
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therefore he could only regard the Bill before the House as an interim measure, a defence hastily thrown up rather than deliberately planned.
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
IM P E R IA L PA R L IA M E N T
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speech moving that the future stages of the Voluntary Schools B ill should have pre
cedence o f all Orders o f the D ay and Notices o f Motion on the days for which the Bill is put down for discussion, gave rise to no less than two hours’ debate. H is most urgent reason was that though it was not absolutely necessary that the Bill should come into operation on a given day, it was in the highest degree desirable, for the sake o f the Voluntary schools and to give time for the formation of the associations upon which its success would so largely depend, that it should pass into law as soon as possible. T h e motion was opposed by Mr. J. Lowther and Mr. Seton-Karr, from the ministerial side o f the House, and by Sir William Harcourt, who denounced it as an anticipatory vote o f censure upon the Opposition. Two amendments were proposed and rejected, and others were pressed out b y the carrying of the Closure, after which precedence was granted by a majority o f 138.
T h e leaders o f the Opposition had accepted
~ THE , as their own an amendment down in the a m e n d m e n t . Dame o f Mr. M ’Kenna, with the proposition
o f which it was expected that Mr. Morley
would begin the resumed debate on the Bill. Matters, however, had been dragged on till so near the dinner hour that the amendment, which declared that no B ill would be satisfactory to the House which did not provide for Board schools as well as Voluntary schools, was left in the hands o f Mr. M ’K enna himself. It found a seconder in Mr. J. H . Roberts, who declared the B ill would result in grave injustice to Wales, and would strengthen and perpetuate the denominational system which is “ a great barrier to spiritual progress.” Lord Cranborne denied that the measure would inflict any injustice on the ratepayers. It would on the contrary give them a large amount of control over the educational expenditure o f the country, and would also remedy the present inequality that existed between the two systems. That inequality, owing to the rapid increase in School Board expenditure was a growing one, and
New Series. Vol. L V I I . . N o. 2,272.
A t last Mr. Morley found his opportunity
— m r . m o r l e y ’s to rise and put some little life into the
v i e w s . stock arguments o f the Opposition, which
persists in talking about Board schools
when the question before the House is the case of the Voluntary schools. Personally, he was still o f the same mind as when between 1870 and 1880 he and Mr. Chamberlain had worked for Unsectarian State schools, but he admitted that owing to the efforts o f the friends o f Voluntary schools a new situation had been brought about. H e twitted the Government with the sharp spurs that had compelled them to promise an early treatment o f the case o f necessitous School Boards. Then he had a word against the change of opinion o f Mr. Chamberlain, whom he described as laying his dead-self by executing an exultant war-dance over its grave. O f course an attempt was made to explain the inevitable injustice to the ratepayers that would be the result o f the B ill. Mr. Morley instanced the cases o f Newcastle and Nottingham, the former of which has an equal number o f children in Voluntary and Board schools. H e complained that the Voluntary schools would receive about ,£3,100, whilst the Board schools would get nothing, absolutely disregarding the money for the buildings, &c., which had not cost the ratepayers a penny. But this was not the worst. H e declined to entertain the idea of the education rate being raised nearly two shillings in the pound by the extinction o f the Voluntary schools. That was merely an assumption. The Attorney-General quietly corrected him, however, by pointing out that it was neither an assumption nor a prediction, but a hard fact which must be reckoned with. H e next criticized the B ill as giving no guarantee for effective popular control, increased efficiency, or the maintenance o f rhe level o f subscriptions. I t was a mere skeleton o f a Bill providing not for a public but a sectarian object.
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T h e adjourned debate was resumed in a
thin House on Monday afternoon b y Mr. t h e i s s u e . Chanmng with a reassertion of the injustice
that would result from the Bill. H e was
followed by the Solicitor-General in an admirable speech which exposed the hollowness o f the claims put forward by the School Board party for equality o f treatment and the intolerance o f those who profess to have tolerance. Naturally,
