THE TABL
A W eek ly N ew sp a p er a n d R e v iew .
DOM VOSIS GRATULAMOS, ANIMOS BTIAM ADDIMUS DT IN INCCEBTIS VBSTRIS CONSTANTE» MANBAT1S.
From the B r ie f oj H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.
V ol. 89. No. 2960.
L o n d o n , J a n u a r y 30, 1897.
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[R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a l P o st O f f i c e a s a N ew spaper
C hronicle of t h e W e e k !
Page
Imperial Parliament : The Irish University Question—Mr. Balfour and the Government View—The Release of the Dynamitards—The Famine in India—Our Representative at Constantinople — Mr. Rhodes in England— “ The Meaning o f it A ll ”—The Irish Parliamentary Party—The Wreck of the “ Warren H a s t i n g s ” — K in g Prempeh’s Deportation— Robinson Crusoe's Island : Safe— A Legacy for Masses is a “ Charity ”— Conservative Victory at Salisbury— For the Relief o f the Famine . . 157 L æaokrs :
A Catholic University for Ireland 161 Criminal Statistics and Secular
Education.. . . •• •• *61 Lord Leighton’s Works at Bur
lington House . . . • •• 162 The Authorship o f the Bull
“ Apostolicae Curae ” . . . . 163
CONTENTS
N otes . . R ev iew s :
Page . . 166
Sir John Drummond Hay .. i 63 Nicholas Breakspear .. .. 169 The Queen's Cup . . . . . . 170 “ The Dublin Review" . . .. 170 The Gleaming Dawn . . . . 171 C orrespondence :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) ... . . — _ 173 News From Ireland M — 175 News From France . . . . 176 L e t t e r s to t h e E d it o r :
The Manitoba Schools . . .. 177 The Preface to the^ Edwardine
Ordinal, and Validity of Intention . .................................. Ï7S Laud on Episcopacy and Apos
tolical Succession . . . . 1 7 8 Evolution and Dogma . . . . 179 The “ Continuity Theory ” . . 179 Mr. Puller and the Bull “ Apos- \
tolicæ Curæ ” ......................... 179
L e t t e r s to t h e E d it o r (Con
tinued : Antonio Vieira The Anglican Ordinal “ Unnecessary” Schools . . The Queen’s Year . . Dogmatic Works Old English Churches o f St.
Peter . . ......................... A c com m o d a t io n for Hats at
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180 180 180 x8o 180 180
C h u r c h .......................................180 For Houseless Nuns . . . . 180 An Urgent Appeal........................... 180 Cardinal Vaughan in Sheffield . . 181 The Bishop of Salford on Co-opera
tion . . . . . . . . . . 1S2 Catholic University News . . . . 18 2 The Church in South Africa . . 183 Father Bernard Vaughan, S.J., on
Competition and Co-operation . . 1S3 Books of the Week . . . . . . 184 O b it u a r y ...........................................184 Social a n d P o l it ic a l , . . . 184
SU PPLEM ENT. Page N ews from t h e S chools:
Nottingham School Board . . 189 School Attendance at Eastbourne 189 The Lord Chief Justice and Edu
cation . . . . . . . . 189 The Blind and Deaf Act and
Catholic Children .. -. 190 Science and Art Teaching and the
Department
. . . - 190
The English Church Union and
the Education Question . . 190 Inauguration of St. Joseph's Col
lege, Colombo
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N ew s from t h e D io ceses : Westminster . . . . — 192
Southwark Nottingham....................................... 192 Portsm outh.......................................192 Salford .......................................192 Shrewsbury....................................... 192 Newport .. . . . . . . 193 Features o f Irish Taxation.. . . 193 The Lord Chief Justice on the
Ulster Association .. .. . - 194
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
THE IRISH UNIVERSITY QUESTION. T
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT :
H E R E was only a thin House
on F riday afternoon when Mr. Harrington rose to continue the discussion on the amend
ment to the Address, in which Mr. Engledew had moved the addition o f the words : “ A n d we humbly represent to your M a jesty that the Catholics o f Ireland have long suffered under an in tolerable grievance in respect o f University Education ; that the existence o f this grievance has been recognized b y successive G overnm en ts ; and that it is the duty o f the Government immediately to propose legislation with a view to p lacing Irish C a tholics on a footing o f equality with their fellow-countrymen in all matters concerned with University Education.” Mr. H a rrington had no difficulty in showing that the merits o f the question and the ju stice o f the demand made b y Irish Catholics had received ample recognition from the leaders o f the Unionist party. H e quoted at length from the speeches o f M r. Balfour, who had repeatedly recognized the discreditable fact that though the Catholics o f Ireland numbered four-fifths o f the total population, there was no provision made for their education in Universities which was acceptable to them. T h e next speaker was Mr. L ecky, whose position as one o f the representatives o f Dublin University gave additional authority to his words. T h e H ouse was soon crowded. Though not prepared to vote for an amendment hostile to the Government, he sincerely hoped that the Government would at an early date give Irish Catholics a University o f their own, or at least an endowed College in connection with the Royal University. T h e preponderance o f opinion in Ireland was in favour o f a “ more sectarian and ecclesiastical ” system o f University education than existed at present, and it was a lso equally evident that the number o f Catholics now enjoying a University education was totally inadequate. Speaking for T rin ity College he gave the assurance that there would be no unworthy jealousy o f any new institution the Government might see its way to establish. A t the same tim e he thought that the dimensions o f the grievance were by no means so large or extraordinary as they had been represented. H e enumerated eminent Catholics who had been educated at Trinity, which was, after all, only an
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argument tor the good that would b e effected b y extending the University education demanded. Half-hearted on the matter he confessed h im self to be, inasmuch as he d id not believe in severing Catholics and Protestants in their early days, and he put forward a protest against the education o f laymen being entirely entrusted to ecclesiastics. T h e Government must make sure that their proposals would be accepted, that the proportions o f lay influence in the governing body must b e c learly marked out, and the positions o f the professors secured.
Mr. Balfour said that, afier the long
— m r . b a l f o u r a n d quotations o f statem ents he had already
v i e w .
made, and still adhered to, he only flung h im self on the patience o f the H ouse
in order to explain the view taken b y the Government. H e was in general agreem ent with Mr. L ecky, but w ished to dissociate him self entirely from the views put forward the day before by Mr. Johnston, the member for Belfast. H e could not understand the attitude o f those who acquiesced in thp present system o f Catholic primary education and who yet were horrified at the idea o f giving University education to students at an age far more capable o f reaction against the teaching given. Separation o f the denominations was not what he w an ted ; but any one who knew Ireland must also know that an unsectarian university system was impossible. Formerly, he had advocated the establishment, not o f a Catholic University, but o f a College, to the students o f which degrees should be given b y the University. T h is idea he had now given up because he was impressed with the disadvantage o f dividing the exam ining from the teaching authority. T h e task before the Government was, therefore, to set up a University which would meet w ith general approval in Ireland, and which would be worthy o f the efforts o f the H ouse and o f the great cause for which it had been established. In 1873, on occasion o f Mr. G ladstone’s University B ill, Sir W illiam , then Mr. Vernon Harcourt, had observed that, “ for himself, not being a H om e Ruler, he had never adopted the id ea o f governing Ireland according to Irish id eas.” T h is was a d ig at the leader o f the Opposition which was thoroughly enjoyed on both sides o f the House. Mr. Balfour was not a H om e Ruler, but he was sincerely anxious on this matter to put sectarian prejudices aside and attempt to meet the wishes o f Ireland. Mr. Morley then told the H ouse of what had been agreed to in 1893 b y Mr. Sexton and others— that in the proposed University there should be no endowment c f theological chairs, and that the
