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DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCŒPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
F rom the B r i e f o j H i s H o lin ess P iu s I X . to T h e T a b l e t , J u n e 4, 1870.
V o l . ço. No. 2987.
L ondon, .Au g u s t 7, 1897.
P r ic e s d . , b y P o s t 5 ^ d .
[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 e w s p a p e r .
C h ro n ic le o f t h e W e e k !
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Imperia. Parliament : The School .Subsidies— Mr Balfour’s Reply to Sir W. Harcourt— Old Arguments Re-Arrayed — Bills Advanced — Nearing the End of the S e ss io n Lord Salisbury and the Peace Negotiations— Tuesday’s Debates — Mr. Chamberlain’s Explanations — The Relief of Chakdara— A New .Move in Our Commercial Relations—Trade With the _Colonies— The Handicaps on British Trade — The Sheffield Election — Low P r i c e s ................................................*97 L e a d e r s :
St. Gregory and St. Augustine . . 201 Canada and Commercial Federa
tion . . . . . . •• •• 203 Can We Restore St. Gregory’»
Mass Book? . . . . . . 204
CONTENTS.
L e a d e r s (Continued) :
The Progress and Needs o f the
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Uganda Mission . . . . . . 206 N o t e s . . . . — — . . 206 R ev ie w s :
The Religion of the Ancient
E g y p t ia n s ......................... _ . . 209 The Protestantism o f the Anglican
Church ......................... . . 2To C orrespon d e n c e :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . — — 213 News from Ireland — - 214 The Catholic Summer School in
America . . . . .-. . . 215 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :
St. Augustine of Canterbury . . 216 The Ecclesia Anglicana Docens 216 Orientation of Churches . . . . 216 The New “ D iocese” of Bristol . . 216
Catholic Young Men’s Societies :
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Conference in Glasgow . . . . 21? Demonstration in St. Andrew’s
Hall . . . . . . . . 219 Conclusion of Conference . . . . 220 Corporation Reception . . . . 220 The St. Augustine Centenary . . 221 Catnolics“and the Education Grants 222 Public Religious Processions . . 223 Archbishop Redwood’s Welcome
H om e . . . . . . . . . . 223 South Wales League o f the Cross . . 223 Guild o f Our Lady of Rsnsom in
Brittany . . . . . . . . 223 Death of the Bishop-Elect c f Con
cordia, U .S . A . . . . . . . 223 Michigan’s Tribute to Father Mar
quette, S J . . . . . . . . . 223 Books of the Week . . . . . . 224 P'rom E v e r y w h e r e ........................... 224 So c ia l and P o l i t i c a l . . . . 225
SUPPLEMENT. Pag N ews fro m t h e S c h o o l s : Prize D ays :
The Stonyhurst Academies . . 229 Convent of Notre Dame, Black-
Jum .................................... 230 Girls’ Schools, Sutton Coldfield . . 230 Mount St. Mary’s . . . . . . 230 Maltese Matriculation . . . . 230 Sir John Gorst on School Associa
tions . . . . ......................... 230 A Central Authority for Secondary
Education . . . . . . . . 231 Universities in France . . . . 232 The Agricultural Rates Act and
School Boards . .
Old Hall and the Cambridge Higher
. . 232
Locals . . . . . . . , 232 N ew s fro m t h e D io c e se s Westminster
Southwark Leeds ....................... L i v e r p o o l ....................... Newport
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
THE SCHOOL SUBSIDIES. T
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT :
H E place was the House of
Commons and the lim e was near the end o f the session. T h e weather was hot, and those of
-our legislators who were present were weary, and in no way wanting or expecting to have to listen to a long speech on an expenditure which had been already sanctioned after loDg weeks o f parliamentary war. An election, however, was in prospect at Sheffield, and so something must be done to supply the Liberal candidate and his supporters with texts and points. And so the Leader o f the Opposition rose aod made, with some audacity, what Mr. Balfour described as a platform speech. It was all very well to vote money for education, but Sir William Harcourt also wanted to know how it was to be administered. In the first place, it appeared that the town schools were to receive 5s. 9d. a scholar, while the country schools were to be subsidized at the rate of only 3s. 3d. a scholar. This he regarded as a misapplication ot the money, seeing that the country schools were as a rule the most backward in the country. This, in Sir William’s eyes, could only be explained as an attempt on the part of the Government to enable the Voluntary schools to fight the Board schools in the towns where the competition was keen, without any care for raising the standard o f education in the country where the Voluntary schools were in the ascendant. H is next point o f complaint was the Voluntary Associations, which the Government, reckoning without their host, had described as having no further power than that o f advising the Department. T h e Archbishop o f Canterbury had beaten the drum ecclesiastic and issued the golden bull from Lambeth by which the associations were being turned into ecclesiastical organizations for the promotion, not o f education generally, but of sectarian objects. Lord Cranborne, who had great ecclesiastical sympathies though he had not all ecclesiastical qualities, and who might be regarded as a sort o f AdjutantGeneral of the Church militant, had let the cat out o f the bag by declaring that the new A c t had created machinery by whicn Denominationalists would be able “ to fight a better battle against the enemy who had accepted it.” Who was this? Sir William demanded. T h e Secularists,
promptly replied Lord Cranborne; which Sir William immediately explained as including the Nonconformists and the Board schools. H e then referred to the Berkshire incident and the dispute about the Denbighshire portion o f Howell’s Charity as illustrating his contention that the idea was to raise the associations into a sort of College o f Propaganda to work against the religious compromise o f 1870. I t was a sort o f conspiracy, too, on the part o f the dominant highpriesthood, “ with all their panoply o f ecclesiasticism ,” ta lord it over the poor country clergymen.
, T o take up the cudgels for the parochial
rw ' [ y t o Lsi°rURw . cle rgy> wholn he had over and over again
harcourt. desciibed as petty tyrants in the matter o f
education, was certainly a new ro le for the
Leader o f the Opposition to play. T h e form o f the speech and its irrelevancy to the Vote before the Com mittee, with its attack on the Government and the Bishops, brought up Mr. Balfour, who, whilst admiring his opponent’s courage in making such a speech at such a time, soon disposed of its “ thunderous oratory.” H e pointed out that ¡d the course o f the passage o f the recent A c t through the House he had never suggested that the areas o f the associations would not be the existing ecclesiastical areas, or that the associations would not be formed on exclusive denominational lines. I f there was nothing else to prevent him from making any such suggestion there was the “ knowledge undoubtedly that the Roman Catholics, so far as they were concerned, would certainly not consent to admit other schools into their association.” An attack had been made on the Archbishop o f Canterbury for clerical intolerance, although his Grace had no authority under the Act, and although several Church associations had been formed which did not exclude other denominations, so that the denunciations fulminated against him were wasted. Other Church associations were exclusive, but in this they were only doing what the Catholics and the Jews were also doing. Mr. Balfour then went on to show that whilst the associations had nothing more than advisory powers, they would exert a collective influence o f the most wholesome and beneficent kind on the education o f their several districts which could never be attained by the parochialism and individualism o f which Sir William Harcourt had become so suddenly enamoured. A s a matter of fact, the A c t was working admirably and the associations were being formed without any serious difficulty or friction. Mr. Balfour concluded in the following cheering strain: “ For my own part, while I always expected much from them in
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