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DGM VOBIS GRATDLAMOR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMÜS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT1S.

Front the Brief oj His Holiness Pius IX. to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1&70.

V ol. 89. No. 2967.

London, March 20, 1897

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(R e g is t e r ed a t t h e Gen e r a l

P o st O f f i c e a s a N ewspaper

'’C hronicle of t h e W e e k •

Imperial Parliament:Rival Navies — The Personale of the School Associations — The Associations and the Department— The Educa’> tion B i l l : Quicker Progress — 1 Town and Country Schools —

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Europe and Crete—The Attitude o f France— The South African Inquiry—The Evidence o f Mr. Schreiner— Betting Rings Illegal — “ The Old Political Trainer ” at Norwich — The Admirals and Crete.. ....................... . •• 437 'Leaders :

The Holy See and Manitoba^ .. 441 Italy on the Eve o f An Election.. 442 The Bull “ Apostolicae Curse ” . . 443 The Anglican Encyclical: A

Caution to Critics . . . . 445 N o tes . . . . ... ... . . 446 ’’R ev iew s :

The “ Traditional T e x t ” of the

Gospels . . . . . . . . 448

C O N T

Reviews (Continued):

Trooper Peter Halket of Mashona-

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land .. . . .. . . 449 The Thackerays in India and

Some Calcutta Graves . . . . 450 “ The Month ” . . . . . . 450 Catholic Doctrine and Discipline

Simply Explained .. . . 451 St. Patrick’s Day : Banquet in

London ......................... . . 451 C orrespondence :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . .

—453

News From Ireland _ _ 454 News From France . . . . 455 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it or :

The Easterns and the Eucharistic

Sacrifice ^ . . . . . . . . 456 The Archbishops’ Reply . . . . 456 The Papal Bull and the. Privy

Council . . .. . . . . 457 The Manitoba Schools . . . . 457 Irish Orders.. ......................... 457 . Evolution and Dogma . . . . 457

E N T S .

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

tinued : Pre-Reformation C o a d ju t o r or

Suffragan Bishops . . . . 457 Mr. George Russell’s Reply to Mr. Round _ .. . . 458 Our Lady of Willesden's Schools 458 The Imposition of Hands in

Episcopal Consecration . . . 458 Church of the Sacred Heart,

H a n l e y ......................... . . 458 The Tract Fund . . . . . . 458 An Anglican Interpretation of the

Archbishops’ Reply . . . . 459 Children Under the Poor Law . . 460 Cardinal Vaughan on the Anglican

Reply to the Pope’s Condemnation of Anglican Orders . . . . 462 The Late Archbishop of Montreal 463 Books of the Week . . . . . . 463 A ppeals t o t h e C h a r it a b l e . . 465 O b it u a r y . . ............................465 Social an d P o l it ic a l . . . . 465

SU PPLEM ENT. N ew s from t h e S chools : _

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The Tactics of the Opposition . . 469 Tynemouth School Board and

the Bill . . . . . . _ . . 469 C a th o l i c s and Denominational

Teaching . . .. .. . . 469 The School Board Question at

Heywood . . .. .. . . 470 The Future Educational Policy

of Liberals . . . . . . 470 Nonconformists and Religious

T e a ch in g ...................................... 470 Educational ^hrases . . 470 University In -nee . . . . 471 N ew s from t .,^, D io ceses : Westminster . . . . ... 471

Southwark . . . . . . 472 Birmingham.. . . . . . . 472 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 473 L i v e r p o o l .......................................473 Northampton ........................... 473 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 473 S ic ily .. 474

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

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THE scene which occurred in

the House of Commons

when Mr. Lowther refused, on the resumption of the Committee

stage of the Education Bill, to leave the Chair for half an hour in order to give time for refreshment to Sir William Harcourt’s famished battalions, was the occasion of an appeal to the Chair from the Leader of the Opposition which elicited an answer that should allay any uneasiness amongst aggrieved members. Sir William begged for the expression of an opinion on the part of the Speaker that would give members an interval for dinner every evening. In reply the Speaker pointed out that, as the usual halfhour’s suspension of business was not an indulgence granted to itself by the House, but rather a concession to the natural infirmities of the occupants of the Chair, the Chairman having had the necessary intermission was justified in continuing to s it ; but he would make it his practice to allow the usual half-hour unless it seemed likely that the House was on the point cf adjourning. T 1 is certainly seems the common-sense view of the matter, and will doubtless meet with general approval. The House afterwards got into Committee of Supply on the Naval Estimates. Mr. Goschen, in reply to the numerous criticisms passed upon the Government policy by Admiral Field, Mr. Robertson and others, explained that their naval programme had been formed with reference to the force this country might be called upon to meet. The amount of work which is to be done in all classes during the year was estimated at ¡£6,791,000, and included the completion of 66 ships and the progress of 180 under construction. That surely was no little programme, and it was, in the opinion of the Government, amply sufficient to preserve the balance of power among the Navies of Europe. That balance of power was being closely watched, and if any abnormal programme to disturb it were to be carried out by any foreign country the Government would reconsider the position, and the House would be equally ready to pass a supplimental estimate.

New S e r i e s . Vol. L V I I . , No. 2,276.

¿nid uuuisicis nau repnea, on ivionaay,

t h e p e r s o n a t e q u e s t i o n s from members concerning a s s o c i a t io n s . the sending of live bees by post, contra­

band tobacco and the cost of and payment

for policemen's boots, and after Mr. Curzon had undergone his daily exercise of parrying fussy questions in regard to Crete, the House resumed consideration of the Voluntary Schools Bill in Committee. The Opposition again renewed their obstruction tactics on the subsection of the first Clause providing for the constitution of the new associations being representative c f the managers of the schools. No less than eleven amendments were down upon the paper to obtain the inclusion of other persons besides managers on the governing bodies of the associations. Mr. Lloyd Morgan wanted to give the parents of the scholars using the school a place in the associations. Mr. Acland acknowledged the difficulty there would be in giving representation to parents, and Sir J. Lubbock was of the same opinion. There was the difficulty of determining the constituency, and Mr. Balfour pointed out other obstacles. The object of the associations was to advise the Department in matters financial. The amendment was defeated by a majority of 141. Nothing daunted, Mr. Perks then pleaded for the inclusion of the teachers. The governing bodies must govern something he contended, and that something was the Voluntary schools connected with the associations. The teachers would be useful in dealing with educational matters and would also serve to neutralize the probable clerical constitution of the new bodies. Mr. Balfour, in opposing the amendment, explained that as School Board teachers were not allowed to sit on School Boards, there was no reason why teachers in Denominational schools should have any place on the governing bodies of the associations. Three members on the front Opposition bench spoke for the amendment. Mr. Morley, in reply to a remark made by Mr. Jebb that the function of the associations was to advise the Department in the distribution of the grant, quoted Mr. Balfour’s description of the services that the associations might render to the cause of education. Sir Henry Fowler followed this up with a long extract from a speech by Sir John Gorst, in which the Vice-President had rehearsed the numerous duties that would fall to the associations in connection with the efficiency of the education given in Voluntary schools. Mr. Balfour reminded the House that the elasticity of the present measure was far greater than that of the existing Code in regard to Board schools, and altogether refused to omit the words “ representatives of managers” as Sir Henry