A W eek ly N ew sp aper a n d R ev iew .
DUM VO B IS G R A T U L A M U R , ANIM OS E T IA M ADD IM U S U T IN INCCEPTIS V E STR IS CON S TAN TER MANEATTS.
F r om th e B n e f o j H i s H o l in e s s P i u s I X . to The Tablet, J u n e 4 , 18 70 .
V ol. 90. No. 2985.
L ondon, J uly 31, 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 s t O f f i c e a s a N ew s p a p e r .
•Chronict v of th e Wfe*- j _ Page
Imperial Parliament : A Teaching University for London—The South Africa Committee— Mr. Chamberlain on the Defensive—Feeling at the Cape— Future Policy— Tuesday in the Lords—Budding Bigotry Nipped— The Additions to the Navy— A Royal Residence in Ireland— T he War in Cuba— The Prussian Government and the Socialists — New Radical Programme — The Gold-Fields of Canada .................................... 157 I f.aders :
The African Debate _ . • . . 161 Hereditary Criminality in Theory
and in Fact . . •• •• 161 The Anglican Doctrine of the
Eucharist . . . . . . . . 1 6 2 N o t e s . . . . « — . . 1 6 5 R e v ie w s :
Customs o f Augustinian Canons 167 The Exeter Diocesan Registers.. t68 Scarlet and S t e e l . . . . . . . . 169
CONTENTS.
Reviews (Continued) :
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Perfection City . . . . . . 169 The Zigzag Guide . . . . . . 1 7 0 The Roman M issa l.. . . . . 170 Chats About the Rosary . . . . 170 Glastonbury Abbey . . .. . . 170 The Manitoba Schools Question . . 171 An Interesting Picture . . . . 171 C orrespon d e n c e :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) News from Ireland — News from France . . - T73 - 175 . . 175 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :
The “ EcclesiaAnglicanaDocens” 176 The Training of Servants.. . . 176 S. Ambrogio, Rome . . . . 176 The Army School System . . 176 The Orientation of Churches . . 177 Tabernacle Doors . . . . . . 177 Missions for Sailors . . . . 177 The St. Augustine Centenary . . 177 The Journey of the Monks . . . . 179 The Douai Society . . . . . . 180
The Cabot Celebration in New
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foundland . . . . . . . . 181 The Duke o f Norfolk and Mr.
Labouchere . . .. . . . . 182 The Stonyhurst Association Dinner 183 Mr. Aubrey de Vere’s Submission
to the Church . . . . . . 183 Funeral of a Convert Clergyman . . 185 Books of the Week . . . . . . 185
M a r r ia g e S o c ia l a n d P o l it i c a l
SU P P L EM E N T . N f.ws from t h e S ch o o l s : Prize D a y s :
J85 . . 186
The Ushaw Grand W e e k . . Prior Park College St. Ignatius’ School, Stamford
. . 189
189
Hill ....................................... i 9o Ratcliffe C o l l e g e .................... 190 Bishop’s Court, Freshfield . . 191 The Convent of Our Lady of
Mercy, Abingdon . . . . 191 St. Catherine’s Convent, Edin
burgh ....................................... i 9i
N ew s from t h e S chools (Com
tinued): Beaconfield College St. James’ School, Baylis House,
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Slough The Benedictine Convent, Dum
fries, N .B ..................................... Coloma House, Croydon Sacred Heart High School, St.
Ethelburga’s, Deal Teacher’s S a l a r i e s ....................... . N ew s from t h e D io ceses : Westminster . . ...
Southwark . . Birmingham..................................... Clifton Hexham and Newcastle . . Liverpool Northampton ......................... Portsm outh.................................... Shrewsbury . . Newport St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . A Flemish July Procession . .
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
IM PER IA L PA R L IA M EN T :
A T E A CH IN G U N IV E R S IT Y FOR
LONDON.
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Y sanctioning the second read
ing of the London University Commission Bill the House of Lords has declared that London shall at last have a Univer
sity. The question of providing the metropolis with such an institution has been under discussion for a considerable period. The recommendations of Lord Cowper’s Commission and the Bill framed upon them and introduced by the late Government in 1895 met with too much criticism and disapproval to warrant their being carried out. Neither was the measure formulated last year by the present administration received with favour. Since then, however, negotiations have been carried on between the parties interested in the question, and the result of those negotiations is the measure to which the House of Lords has just given its assent. The present institution, which is merely an examining body, could certainly never be regarded as supplying London’s need of a university. When it came to be a question of giving the metropolis a university worthy of the name and of London’s position among the cities of the world, it was a moot point whether the present institution should be incorporated with the new body. This has now been satisfactorily settled in the affirmative. It is provided that the University of London shall consist of a certain number of affiliated Colleges, to be called Schools of the University, and that all duly qualified teachers, giving instruction of a University type in public educational institutions within a radius of thirty miles from the University buildings, shall be recognized as University teachers. This arrangement will not interfere with the present Board of Examiners which for the last thirty-nine years has been known as the University of London, and which will continue to hold its examinations and give degrees as before. The twelfth clause of the Bill explicitly provides that “ separate examinations shall be held for internal and external students respectively, and each certificate and diploma shall state whether the candidate has passed as an internal or as an external student; but the degrees conferred shall represent the same standard of knowledge and attainments.” Thus the right of all the Queen’s subjects
to enter the University’s examinations and obtain its degrees is left intact, and so the interests of extern students will not be prejudiced by having to write papers framed upon a course of teaching to which they have not had access. The same spirit of compromise which is evident in this academic matter is also seen in regard to the religious difficulty. A clause has been included in the present Bill which did not appear in the last, providing that “ the statutes or regulations shall not authorize the assignment of money for any purpose in respect of which any privilege is granted or disability imposed on account of religious belief.” The Bill is thus a compromise, and though it is a step in the right direction, has sufficient weak points to delay its progress. It does not supply a university in which social intercourse and formation of character will be prominent features, and it presents the curious anomaly of giving degrees upon two separate tests of efficiency, the examinations set for the students of its own colleges and those set for external students. It is hard, however, to see how this could be avoided if the interests of the externs were to be safeguarded, amongst whom are the students of those Catholic Colleges which have not yet taken up the examinations set by Oxford and Cambridge. The Bill has also settled that the reforms contemplated shall be settled by Statutory Commission instead of by Charter. The Duke of Devonshire was fortunate enough to be able to introduce into the Bill the names o f gentlemen who had agreed to act as a provisional Statutory Commission under the Bill. These Commissioners are Lord Davey, the Bishop of London, Lord Lister, Sir William Roberts, M.D., Fellow of the University of London, Sir Owen Roberts, D .C .L ., Mr. Jebb, M.P., Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge, and Mr. E. H. Busk, Chairman of the Convocation of the University of London. Lord Kimberley expressed his warm approval of the Bill as a careful compromise designed to conciliate conflicting interests, and hoped that it would be passed into law during the present session.
— TH E SOUTH A F R IC A
COMM IT TEE.
A long debate took place in the House of Lords on Monday on the Committee stage of the Workmen’s Compensation Bill. Some small changes were made, but one of more
importance was the striking out of a sub-section of the third clause, which provided that in the event of any scheme being insufficient to meet the compensation payable under it, the employer should be liable to make good the amount of compensation. In the House of Commons the vote of censure on the South Africa Committee was taken on a motion proposed by Mr. Stanhope, regretting the incon-
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