A W e ek ly N ew sp a p er a n d R ev iew .
DEM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMÜS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
F rom the B n e f o f H i s H o lin ess P iu s I X . to T h e T a b l e t , J u n e 4 , 1870.
Vol. 90. No. 2985.
L o n d o n , July 2 4 . 1 8 9 7 .
P r ic e s d . , b y P o s t s J 4 d .
[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 .
«Ch r o n ic le o f t h e W e e k ì Page
Imperial Parliament : A Welsh Education Difficulty—A MoneyLender at the Bar of the House— Turkey and the Powers — The South Africa Inquiry—The Lords and the Compensation Bill— Death of Jean Ingelow— The Queen’s Letter to Her People— The Telegraph Crisis—Our Inefficient Telephone Service—The Cape and the •Promised Ironclad — The D isappearance o f Zululand—The Progress of the Peace Negotiations— The National Gallery of British A r t ................................................ ..... 'L e a d e r s :
St. Mary’s, Oscott . . . . . . 121 ' ‘ The Edinburgh R e v ie w ” on
United Italy . . . . . . 122 Webbe, Paxton, and Danby . . 123 Which is the True Successor o f
St. Augustine of Canterbury?.. 124 N o t e s . . . . — — . . 128
CONTENTS.
R e v ie w s :
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British Central Africa . . . . 129 A Christian Apology for the Jews 130 Memoii o f Mrs. Urquhart . . 130 “ TheM on th J _ . . .. . . 131 Notes on Christian Doctrine . 131 The Foundations of Success . . 131 C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . .
— — T3?
News from Ireland — ~ 130 News from F ra n c e .........................137 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :
“ The History o f Indulgences ” . . 138 The “ Ecclesia Anglicana Docens ” 13S A Work o f Mercy .... ; .( 139 “ Regina Sacratissimi Rosarii ” 139 The St. Augustine Celebration
and Catholic Conference . . 139 “ Worship” .........................139 A Correction . . . . . . 139 The Catholic Truth Society . . 139
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The Manitoba Schools Question . . 140 The Catholic Social Union at Arch
bishop’s House . . . . . . 140 An Irish Bishop on Catholic Repre
sentation . . . . . . . . 141 University Intelligence . . . . 142 The Oscotian Society . . . . 143 The Ushaw Jubilee Bonfire . . 143 The History o f the Old Scots Col
lege, Paris .... The Roman Association Funeral of Lord Camoys The Open-Air Campaign . . Books o f the Week .. S o c ia l a n d P o l i t i c a l
SU P P L EM E N T . N ews from t h e S c h o o l s : Scheme for the Westminster Dio
cesan School Association . . . . 149 St. Mary’s College, Oscott . . . 149 Prize Days :
St. Edmund’s College, Oldhall . . 149 St. Bede’s College . . . . . . 150
N ew s from t h e S chools (Con
tinued): St.l’Cuthbert’s Grammar School,
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Newcastle-on-Tyne . . . . 130 The Ursuline Convent, Upton,
Essex
Convent of the Assumption, R ich
mond, Yorkshire . . ..15 t Religion and Education . . . . i s r Catholics and the Advertising of
150
Evening Classes . . . . ..15t English Teachers at Foreign Col
leges ......................... . . . . 152 N ew s from t h e D io ce se s Westminster
Southwark . . Birmingham.. Clifton - Hexham and Newcastle
The Vicariate St. Andrews and Edinburgh Glasgow .........................
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
N incident has occurred in
IM PERIAL PARLIAMENT : Z_A the JJoUSe Of Lords OUt of
A WELSH EDUCATION l % . . . . . .
d ifficu lty.
which certain papers have endeavoured to make a good deal
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o f party capital. The Education Department had sanctioned a scheme relating to the Denbigh share of Howell’s charity for girls’ schools in Wales, by which general scholarships would have been substituted for the division of the funds according to the wish of the founder : to help orphan girls by educating and clothing them by giving them a start in life and a small marriage portion. Against this scheme the Archbishop o f Canterbury, at the instance of the Bishop of St. Asaph, moved an address to her Majesty praying her to withhold her assent on the plea that it placed the control of the schools, which had been under the Church of England since i860, in the hands mainly of the Joint Committee of the County, and gave power to the Governors to make special provision in respect of the withdrawal of the girls from religious instruction. Security ought to be given for the maintenance of the doctrine and discipline of the English Church, but the new scheme gave no such security whatever. The Duke of Devonshire explained that the state of the law with regard to educational foundations was very unsatisfactory. There was nothing in the scheme against the principles of equity, and so the Department had no option but to sanction it. The intention of Parliament was that the endowments in Wales should be made more applicable to the educational requirements of the people, and he thought that the rejection of the scheme would be inconsistent with that intention. His Grace was supported in his opposition to the motion by Lord Herschell. Lord Salisbury, however, took a different view. The matter was not one for which the Government as a whole was responsible. The rejection of the scheme would not be contradicting an Act of Parliament. The desire to reform the bases of many endowments by giving them a more general and more useful application had been hampered by the religious difficulty. There was a fear, well justified, that the desire for reform and the necessity for reconstruction might be used as a pretext for the alienation of theological endowments. It was felt, and experience
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had not belied that fear, that, under the appearance of educational reform, they should be conducting a scheme o f what he might call theological piracy. In the state o f business which had distinguished the other House for many years past, it would have been quite impossible to go into the minute details of enactment necessary to prevent abuses. In regard to the operation of the Act, he thought it was right to keep these schemes clear, as far as possible, of alienating religious endowments from one body to another, and he did not think that the present scheme was clear from that charge. For’ these reasons he thought it would be wise if the House sent the scheme back to the Charity Commissioners to be re-drawn. The matter was carried to a division, with the result that the motion was carried by a majority of 39. This action of the Prime Minister in particular, and of the Lords in general, has been regarded by a grave contemporary as “ destructive of sound administration,” and a “ snub ” to the Duke of Devonshire, about whose resignation it immediately proceeds to speculate.
On the same evening the House o f
— a m o n e y - l e n d e r Commons dealt with John Kirkwood, a b a r o f t h e h o u s e , recalcitrant witness before the Select
Committee inquiring into money-lending.
Having asked if Kirkwood were present, the Speaker sternly ordered him to be brought in. This order was carried out by the Sergeant-at-Arms, and a metal rod, the visible and real bar, so often talked about, so seldom seen, was drawn out from its sheath in the cross benches as the prisoner and his custodian took up their position behind it. The Speaker then asked Kirkwood if it were a fact that he had refused to answer questions put to him by the Committee. He admitted the refusal and made several attempts to give an explanation, but was each time checked by the Speaker. A t length a promise was given by Kirkwood to answer in accordance with the commands of the House. This entailed a formal motion from Mr. Balfour that the witness should attend the next meeting of the Committee and answer the questions hitherto refused by him, A short debate followed in which invidious comparisons were made between the conduct of the South Africa Committee and that of the money-lending question. The attempt to turn the discussion to South African affairs failed however, and the motion was agreed to without a division. Kirkwood was then again summoned to the bar of the House and acquainted with the decision. He renewed his attempt to gain a hearing, but was summarily dismissed by the Speaker. Members then settled down to a discussion in supply of the
