THE TABLET A Weekly Newspaper and Review.

DUM VOBIS GRATU L AM U 1, ANIMOS ETI AM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

From the B r ie f o j H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T h e T a b l e t , June i 8j o .

V ol. 89. No. 2968.

L ondon, March 27, 1897.

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C hronicle o f t h e W e e k *

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Imperial Parliament: The Govern•ment and the Opposition— The C ity o f London and Southwark— The Cost of the Indian Famine— 'The Poor Clergy of the Richest Church in Christendom—A Court o f Criminal Appeal—The Arbitration Treaty Destroyed — More ’ Underground Lines for London— Sir John Gorst on Rural Education— The South African Inquiry —A German Imperial Centenary — Is it Worth While to Drift to the Pole?—The Mercantile Marine o f France— The b i t u a t i o n in Canada . . . . . . •• 477 JLiaders :

Lord Salisbury’s Position.. # - 481 Anti-Semitism in the Austrian

Elections . . .. . . . .4 8 1 The Bull “ Apostolic® Cur® ” . . 483 Methods of Anglican Controversy 485 ■ Notes .. .. — — •• 486

CONTENTS.

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R e v iew s :

Evolution, Disease, and Alcoholism 488 Th.» Navy and the Nation . . 489 Irish Finance . . . . .. 49° The Outlaw of Camargue.. . . 490 The Creed Explained . . . . 49° A Capful o’ Nails .. . . . . 49° The Last Recruit of Clare’s . . 490 The Circus Rider’s Daughter . . 491 Scripture Manuals for Catholic

Schools . . . . •• •• 491 A Widow on Wheels . . . . 491 C orrespondence :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . — — 493 News From Ireland — 495 News From France . . . . 495 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it or : Was Abbé Paris a Jacobite Saint ? 497

Evolution and Dogma . . . . 497 The Anglican Reply : A Sugges­

tion .. .................................... 497 The “ Judicious" Hooker and

the Eucharist ......................... 497

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

tinued : Newman House . .

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. . 498

District Schools and Boarding-Out 498 The Manitoba Schools .. . . 498 Where is the “ Ecclesia Docens ’’

in the English Establishment.. 499 Anglican Orders . . . . . . 499 The Papal Bull and the Privy

Council . . — . . . . 499 Irish Orders.. . . . .. 499 The Imposition of Hands in Epis­

copal Consecration . . . . 499 State Children’s Aid Association 500 St. Elgin .......................................500 The Archbishops’ Reply and the

Eucharistic Sacrifice . . . . 500 The Anglican Archbishops and the

P o p e .................................... . .5 0 1 Cardinal Vaughan and Anglican

Orders . . . . . . . . 501 The New Monastery of St. Benedict

De Urbe .......................................503 Social a n d P o l it ic a l . . . . 504

SU PPLEM ENT. N ews from th e S chools:

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The Bill in Committee .. . . 509 An Exhibition of Partizan Zeal . . 509 Subscriptions as Blackmail . . 509 Tne Liberty of Association . . 510 A Reply to Nonconformist Criti­

cisms . . .. . . . . 510 The Cost o f London Board Schools 510 The Liverpool Board and the Bill 510 Irish Elementary Education . . 511 Elementary Manual Instruction

in Ireland............................... 511 N ew s from t h e D io ceses : Westminster . . . . 511

Southwark . . . . . . 5 x 2 Leeds ....................................... 513 Newport ^ ............................... 513 The Vicariate .- .. . . 513 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 514 Thirteenth Centenary of the Conse­

cration of Saint Augustine at Arles . . . . . . . . . . 514 The Maltese Marriage Question . . 514

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

THE GOVERNMENT AND THE OPPOSITION. T

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HE close of the week witnessed

a determined action on the part of the Government. Day by day for weeks past they have been

hampered, and public business has been delayed by the needless, and in some cases dangerous, questions which have been pressed upon Ministers in regard to negotiations pending with the Powers on the progress of events in Crete. The matter was carried further afield by the speeches made by Lord Kimberley and Sir William Harcourt, in which the two Opposition leaders declared that they have given up the idea of preserving the integrity of the Ottoman Empire, and advocated the withdrawal of Great Britain from the Concert of Europe, which was based upon it as a means of preserving peace. This was particularly embarrassing to the Government at a moment of special difficulty. Their patience was wearied out, and it was time to make a stand when a policy was being advocated which meant the tearing up of contracts and the encouragement of Grecian impertinence. Accordingly Mr. Balfour threw down the gauntlet by daring the Opposition to move a vote of censure in Parliament. The defiance was not, however, accepted at the time, and the Committee stage of the Education Bill was afterwards brought to a close without a single amendment having been carried. This relieved the House of delaying over any Report stage ; and Mr. Balfour, amidst loud cheers from his supporters, formally set down the third reading for Monday, promising, however, to defer it till Thursday, unless that day should be wanted by members opposite to move a vote of censure on the foreign policy of the Government. The same firmness of attitude evidenced by Mr. Balfour’s action was also shown in the statement made on the following day in the House of Lords by Lord Salisbury. The Premier read Lord Kimberley a seasonable lecture for the untoward declaration made in the heat of a party meeting at Norwich. He had given whatever information he could in answer to questions, and so he regarded it as something of an outrage that Lord Kimberley should have declared from a party platform that the Opposition had been told to go for their

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information, not to a Minister of the Crown, but to a Minister of France, because, in addition to an answer, a reference had been made to a speech of M. Meline. Lord Kimberley’s rejection of any policy based upon the integrity of Turkey was momentous not only from the position of the man who made it— a man who had been Foreign Minister, and who was likely to be so again— but from its intrinsic character. The integrity of Turkey was no permanent dogma, for it had been established by the legislation of Europe, and could be modified by the same authority; but it was a grave thing for a man like Lord Kimberley to declare that he would, if in office, disregard his country’s signature, and go counter to the continuous policy of years in face of the other Powers. Europe had been defied by a State that owed its very existence to the Concert, and the memory of Thermopylae and Salamis, or any other such poetical, rhapsodical, or classical feeling was powerless to convert a filibustering expedition into a righteous act. It was necessary for the Government to dissociate itself from such dangerous declarations.

— THE CITY OF LONDON AND

SOUTHWARK.

On Monday afternoon the House of Commons devoted three hours to the discussion of a Bill promoted on behalf of the City of London for transferring certain

portions of Sonthwark to the City. The Bill proposed the incorporation of two Borough parishes. Mr. Causton contended that proposals of so important a nature should have been brought forward in a public Bill, but the Speaker pointed out that, however important the issues might be, its main object was the extension of the boundaries of a borough, which was a proper subject for a private Bill. Mr. Pickersgill lead the Opposition against the measure. The Bill picked out the richest parts of the Borough, leaving the poorer districts to look after themselves ; it disturbed two Poor Law Unions; fixed an artificial boundary running through back streets, instead of the natural one supplied by the Thames ; disfranchised a large number of electors by depriving the Local Government Board of portions of its jurisdiction; and finally attempted to tinker the great question of the government of London by piecemeal legislation. The’Government took no side in the matter, but Sir Edward Clark made a good speech in defence of the Bill. He found precedents in similar measures promoted by such cities as Manchester and Liverpool. A large majority of the population living in the area mentioned in the Bill derived incorporation with the City with which they hada long historic connection under a charter. The City had spent a million on the Tower Bridge, and were responsible for six