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A W eek ly N ew spaper and R ev iew .

DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUX, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMÜS 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 4, 1870.

Vol. 89. No. 2969.

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C hronicle of t h e W e e k !

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Imperial Parliament: The Protection of Infant Life— The Financial Relations Question— The Chancellor of the Exchequer's Reply — The Education Bill in the House of Lords—The Log of the “ Mayflower’’-T h e South African Inquiry—Mr. Newton and Colonel Rhodes—A Memorable Banquet — Mr. Chamberlain and South Africa — The Manitoba School Question—The Year’s Revenue— The Cretan Crisis — Sir John Willoughby’s Release . . . . 5x7 L e a d e r s :

Catholic Abstention in the Italian

E le c t io n s .................................... 321 The News from Canada . . . . 522 The Bull “ Apostolic® Cur® ” . . 522 St. Ambrose.................................... 525

CONTENTS

N o t e s . . . . — R eview s :

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Rome in the Middle Ages . . 529 Cecil Rhodes . . . . . . 530 The History of Tacitus . . . . 531 The Fund for Catholic Schools in

Manitoba . . . . ; . . 531 C orrespondence :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . ». «. 533 News From Ireland ~ _ 534 News From France . . . . 535 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r : Was the Abbé Paris a Jacobite

Saint ?# .................................... 536 The Manitoba Schools . . . . 536 Anglican Bishops and Divorce . . 537 The Imposition of Hands in Epis­

copal Consecration . . . . 537 Work Among Seamen . . . . 537

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

tinued : The Daughters o f Blessed Columba

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at Perugia.. ..........................537 The Anglican Position . . . . 537 Our Lady o f Willesden’s Schools 537 The First Catholic Town Coun­

cillor .......................................537 Anglican O r d e r s ........................... 537 Where is St. Cuthbert’s Body ? . . 538 Father Beinard Vaughan in Rome 539 Bangalore . . .........................540 The Archbishop of Canterbury and

the Education Bill . . . . . . 541 Canadian Liberals and the Papal

Delegate . . . . . . . . 542 The Famine in India.. . . . . 542 Cardinal Moranand Federal Govern­

ment . . . . . . . . . . 543 Hammersmith Training College . . 543 Books of the Week . . . . . . 544 So c ia l a n d P o l it ic a l . . . . 544

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N ew s from t h e S chools:

The Education Bill . . . . 549 Hartlepool and the Bill . . . . 551 What the Education Bill Does . . 551 Temperance leach in g . . . . 551 Beaumont College . . . . . . 551 Local Authorities and Technical

Education . . . . . . . . 551 Catholics and the Universities . . 552

N ew s from t h e D ioceses :

Westminster . . . . 552 Southwark . . . . . . 553 Birmingham.. . . . . . . 553 Clifton .................................... 553 L i v e r p o o l ........................ ». 554 Salford . . . . . . . . 554 Newport . . . . . . . . 555 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 555

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK,

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how considerable a percentage of illegitimate children died before they were twelve months old. Lord Belper accepted the Bill on behalf of the Home Office with certain reservations as to the machinery for carrying the law into effect, and therefore recommended that the Committee stage should be deferred till after Easter.

KMTERIAL PARLIAMENT

THE PROTECTION OF

INFANT LIFE.

HE Earl of Denbigh, on Mon­

Tday, gained the assent of the House of Lords to the second reading of his Infant Life Protection

Bill. His lordship explained that the object of his Bill was to make the existing law less of a dead letter than it was except in the area administered by the London County Council. At present, registration of houses where infants were kept was only required in cases where more than one infant under twelve months of age were kept. Thus any one could take any child of less than twelve months old and any number of a greater age, the result of which was that the mortality in cases where a number of small children were aggregated under one roof sometimes rose to as much as ninety per cent, from ill-treatment, neglect, or the mere fact of such aggregation. In the Select Committee to which the Bill had been referred it had been resolved to abandon the registration first proposed and to substitute notification to the local authorities. The Bill would not interfere with existing charitable societies which put out children to nurse with foster parents, nor with the kindness and good done by voluntary societies. It was rather aimed against those who made a profession of bringing up other people’s children— those who had children handed over to them with the payment of a considerable lump sum, where the children were passed on until lost sight of, and ultimately done away with. The Bill would do something to strengthen the law, and thus stop much of the present mortality. The permissive character of the Bill had been criticized, but unless that permissive character were retained some rural districts would be put to great expense. As to the authority by which the Act should be worked he had still an open mind; the Bill suggested the District Councils, but if the House should consider that Boards of Guardians should be entrusted with its administration, he would have no objection. The Bishop of Winchester, who seconded the motion, thought that the Bill would cause the minimum of personal hardship and friction, as well as of public expense, in preventing the mortality due to carelessness, ignorance, and the ill-deeds which resulted from deliberate intent. Returns showed

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— THE FINANCIAL RELATIONS QUESTION.

In the House of Commons the main interest naturally centred round Mr. Blake’s Resolution on the financial relations between Great Britain

and Ireland, which declared that the Report and proceedings of the Royal Commission establish the fact of an undue burden of taxation on Ireland, which constitutes a grievance to all classes of Irishmen, and imposes upon the Government the duty of immediate legislation. In the course of a speech which lasted for over two hours, Mr. Blake entered into an examination of the economic and social condition of Ireland from the time of the Union down to the present day, in order to show that the conditions of the two islands were wholly different and increasingly divergent in regard to resources, economic circumstances, and interests. The fundamental distinctions between Ireland and Great Britain had been recognized by treaty, and should not now be ignored. Taxation in Ireland began to increase from the time of the Union, till in 1853 Mr. Gladstone introduced the income tax, and began to raise the spirit duties, which, in 1859, were equalized by Mr. Disraeli. In this way, whilst taxation had been reduced in England, it had been increased in Ireland, till the taxable capacity of the country had been seriously exceeded. This was a grievance which he called upon the friends of the Union to remedy by carrying out the recommendations of the , Royal Commission. The motion was seconded by Mr. John Redmond, who claimed that, upon this question at any rate, there was practical unanimity among Irishmen, whether Parnellite or antiParnellite. They were now suffering from the great financial injustice of which Mr. Gladstone was the author, and the question was what should Ireland now pay having due regard to her taxable capacity ? The Government wanted to delay or shelve the question by the appointment of a new Commission, which was merely a dishonest evasion of the whole question. Mr. Whittaker then rose to move an amendment asking the House to affirm that so long as the Exchequers of the two countries were consolidated, all portions of the United Kingdom must, for fiscal purposes, be regarded as one. He devoted himself to showing that the