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J i Z / e e k iy Newspaper and Review.
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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.
VOL. 89. No. 2965.
London, March 6, 1897.
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'Imperial Parliament : Instructions on the Education Bill—The Massac-e of the Amendments— Lord Salisbury and the Cretan Question— Sir William Harcourt and the Good Samaritan — Mr. Rhodes on His Defence — The Government and School Board Rates—The Cretan Blue Book— The Powers and Crete—A Blow •to the Labour Party at Halifax— The American Ambassador’s Farewell ................................................ 357 Leaders 1
The Bill in Committee .. . . 361 The Constitutional Crisis in the
Transvaal.. .. .. . . 362 The Bull “ Apostolicie Curse ” . . 363 N otes . . . . - .......................... 367 Reviews :
Farthest North ......................... 369 Tosti’s St. Benedict . . -- 370 Flora, the Roman Martyr . . 371
CONTENTS.
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Reviews (Continued) : With the Red Eagle . . . . 380
The Christian Inheritance . . 380 Three Daughters of the United
Kingdom ... .............................381 C orrespondence :
Rome :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . .
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News From Ireland .» ~ 374 News From France . . . . 376 L e t t e r s to t h e E d itor :
State Children’s Aid Association 377 Irish Orders.. . . . . . . 377 The Flemish Question in Belgium 378 The Origin of Man . . . . 378 Evolution and Dogma _ . . . . 379 The Theory of Evolution . . 379 Diana Vaughan \bout to Appear 379 The Methods o f the Protestant
Alliance . . . . . . _.. 379 The Preface to the Edwardine
Ordinal and Validity of Intention . . . . . . . 380
L e t t e r s to t h e E d it or (Con
tinued : The Translation o f Janssen’s His
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tory . . . . . . .. 380 Work for Catholic Seamen in the
Port of London . . . . .. 380 Beaumont C o l l e g e ..................... 380 Curiosities o f Church Defence . . 381 England and the Catholic Restora
tion . .
Anglicans and the St. Augustine
Centenary . . . . . . . . 381 The Protestant Alliance and Its
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Agents ....................................... 382 The Pope and Anglican Orders . . 382 Chiniquy of Chicago . . . . .. 382 The Washington University . . 383 Catholic Lectures at Hastings . . 383 Reunion at Wolverhampton . . 383 A p pe a l to t h e C h a r it a b l e . . 383 M a r r i a g e s ........................................... 384 O b itu a r y ...........................................384 Social a n d P o l it ic a l . . . . 385
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SU PPLEM ENT. Lenten Indult .. . . . . . . 389 N ew Fitom th e Schools:
School Boards and the Financial
Aid Question . . . . . . 389 Distraint for School Board Rate 389 Parliamentary Intelligence . . 390 “ The School Guardian ” and the
B i ll.. .. . . . . . . 390 Stonyhurst and the University of
London .. .. . . . . 391 St. Wine ride’s Convent, Swansea 391 N ew s from t h e D ioceses : Westminster . . . . *. 391
Southwark
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Birmingham.. ......................... 393 Leeds Northampton Portsmouth......................... Shrewsbury . . Newport St. Andrews and Edinburgh Glasgow .........................
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
EDUCATION BILL. T
.IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT :
INSTRUCTIONS ON THE
H E Education B i ll is at last
fairly launched on its passage through Committee, and that passage promises to he
difficult and tempestuous. N early thirty pages o f Am endments were down upon the paper. Many o f these will be doubtless done away with by the Speaker’s ruling upon the Instructions to the Committee. Only one o f these was allow ed— one proposed by Mr. L loyd-G eorge urging the insertion of clauses to make provision for ensuring adequate representation o f local authorities or parents on the managem ent o f the schools in receipt o f the aid-grant. This, o f course, is a restatem ent of the point round which the Opposition has centred its contention. T h e y want to in troduce an elem ent to destroy the denominational character o f the schools, and the Government will not hear o f it. T h e Catholic bishops, whilst thinking that there is already sufficient control over the management o f their schools, are nevertheless willing to allow certain representatives of the parents to b e associated with the managers, but this is not the sort o f local control aimed at by the Opposition. Some curious reasoning was brought forward in support o f the Instruction. Mr. L loyd-G eorge contended that popular management conduced to increased efficiency. H e attributed the higher merit grant earned by Board schools to superior efficiency gained from popular control rather than from the resources o f a lim itless purse, and he also made the curious assertion that an extension of the circle of control would bring about a w idening o f the c ircle of subscribers. Mr. Balfour m ight well declare such a conclusion “ amazing.” A permanent opposition would be introduced into the management o f many schools, which was not calculated to benefit education, or to promote harmony in parochial life. Sir Henry Fowler acknowledged that it would be unjust and unfair to Denominational schools to entrust their control to representative authorities who would destroy their denominational character, but still he hugged the notion o f having representatives on the Board o f Management to keep the school authorities in check. H e twice recurred to the 8,000 parishes in which there was no Nonconformist school, and was especially
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sad that in some places little Nonconformists had to attend Catholic schools, so reaping the advantages o f the sacrifices and energy o f the Catholics o f those districts. T h e Solicitor-General then rose to reply amid loud O pposi'ion calls for “ Gorst.” H e said that the Government suspected the advice o f their candid friends opposite, and preferred to keep the management o f the Bill in their own hands. T h e Instruction would destroy the B ill, and the very fact that it was not mandatory supplied reasons for prolonging the discussion. I t was an insidious Instruction, the insertion o f the thin end o f the wedge, for the Opposition would never be satisfied with the hall-measure they were now proposing. A t midnight Mr. Balfour moved the C lo sure and the Instruction was rejected by an enormous majority.
— THE massacre of
In expectation o f a b ig debate on the policy of the Government in regard to
th e ' "a men dm ents. C rete on a motion for the adjournment
o f the House to be proposed by Sir
William Harcourt, a large number o f ladies had assembled behind the grille. There were technical difficulties, however, in the way o f such a motion, owing to a motion already on the paper by Mr. D illon . T h e debate was accordingly postponed until Tuesday. T h e H ouse was thus enabled to get into Committee on the Education B ill at early hour with Mr. J. W. Lowther in the chair. Short work was made o f several amendments. Mr. Lewis wanted to postpone the first C lause till the second had been disposed of. It would certainly be a curious method o f procedure to settle the machinery o f a measure without having first agreed upon the principle o f it. T h e House by allow ing the Bill to be read a second time had already approved o f the principle, and had entered upon the Com mittee stage to discuss the question of details. Members therefore rightly declined, by a majority o f a hundred and fifty, to enter upon such a topsy-turvey method. T h e next attempt to defeat the object of the measure was made b y Mr. Lambert, who proposed that the grant should be lim ited to “ necessitous ” Voluntary schools. Mr. Balfour pointed out that such a proposal aimed at reducing the total amount available. Besides, if the matter were to be raised, it should be done upon the sub-section on associations o f schools which are to furnish reports to enable the Department to judge which schools are necessitous. T h e amendment was therefore superfluous, seeing that the B i ll will operate for the relief o f the necessitous schools. On a division the answer o f the Committee was p la in : the amendment was rejected by a majority o f 172. Then M r.
