THE TABLET
A Weekly Newspaper and Review SttfM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS V E ST R IS GONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to the Tablet, June 4, 1S78.
VOL. I38. No. 4 , 2 1 9 . L o n d o n , March 19, 1921.
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Chronicle of the W eek".
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Imperial Parliament: Lord Gorell’s Divorce Bill — The German Reparations Bill—The Second Reading—Military and Naval Expenditure— Resignation o f Mr. Bonar Law—The Russo-Polish Peace Treaty— Revolts in Russia—The Week in Ireland — The Allies and Turkey — England and the Soviet ................................ 357 T o p ic s :
The Divorce B ill...................... 360 The True Portrait o f Manning 361
CONTENTS
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University Notes : Oxford ••• 362 Notes — — — — 363 Reviews :
John Clare’s Poems .............. 366 Insect L i f e .................................. 366 The Latin. Apocalypse.............. 367 The English Historical Review 367 Books of the Week .............. 367 L iterary Notes ............... 366 The Bishop of Salford and a
Fixed Easter .........................369 Canon W . Murnane’s Jubilee — 370
Correspondence :
Rome—(From Our Own Correspondent)............. .
News from Ireland
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Letters t© the Editor :
The Obit of St. David in
“ Annales Catnbriae” The Title “ Father” Upper Silesia ............ Old Chalices the
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Canon O’Hallolran’s Funeral ... 377 Ch e s s ....................................... ... 378 Et CffiTERA....................... ... 379 Obituary ........................... ... 3S0
Lord Gorell’s Divorce Bill; Lord
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Br^ye’s Protest in Parliament 381 “ The Cruelty Man” .............. 382 News from the Dioceses : Westminster ■*.. ... ... 382
Southwark.................... . ... 382 Leeds .................................. 383 L iv e rp oo l ...................................383 Nottingham ... ... 383 P lym outh...................................383 Salford ...................................383 Wales:
Menevia...................................384 Social and Personal ... ... 384
NOTANDA
“ Ecce Manning! ” Canon Barry’s appreciation of Mr. Shane Leslie’s “ L i f e ” of the Cardinal : ‘ ‘ a true portrait which will correct Purcell merely 'by setting it beside his own ” (p. 361).
A full account of the functions and allocutions at the recent Consistory. The Pope’s insistence on the necessity of a community of feeling as well as of faith (P- 373)
Lord Gorell’s Divorce Bill. Why the Archbishop of York and the Bishop of Durham support it. “ The higher expediency ” v. “ the teaching of Christ and the principles of the Church ” (p. 360). Lord Braye’s protest in Parliament; and Mgr. Brown and the Catholic Women’s League (p. 381).
Catholics at Oxford. Successes on the river and at Rugger. Conferences and lectures (p. 362).
Fifty years of priestly service in South London. Canon W. Murnane’si “ wonderful! record ” of disinterestedness as priest, friend and Londoner (p. 370).
Good news from Rome : the Beda College gets a home of its own (p. 366).
naturally took the same view on this point, but said that he would not oppose the second reading. He would, however, ask that the ground of desertion should be admitted. Support for the Bill came from the Anglican Bench in the persons of the Archbishop of York and the Bishop of Durham ; the former said that the Archbishop of Canterbury also was in favour, and would have supported if he had not been prevented by indisposition from being present; but he added that this support of the two Archbishops would be turned to strenuous opposition if any amendment were introduced to extend the grounds for divorce. The Bishop of Durham’s support, on the other hand, was accompanied by the view that the grounds of divorce would have to be increased. His speech, following soon after that of the Archbishop of York, was an apt illustration of the “ great difference of opinion among the ranks of Churchmen,” on this question, to which he himself had alluded. The Lord Chancellor praised last year’s Bill, welcomed the Bishop of Durham’s speech, and promised to- support Lord Buckmaster in his announced amendment to restore the ground of desertion. Earl Russell having withdrawn the amendment in his name, Lord Braye, who had already opposed the Bill on the single ground of its opposition in principle to Catholic teaching, now formally moved its rejection. On a division the motion was negatived by 47 votes to 1 1 —a majority of 36 for the Bill, which was then read a second time.
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK
i m p e r i a l p a r l i a m e n t : T n the House of Lords on Thurs-
l o r d g o r e l l ’ s X day of last week, Lord Gorell d i v o r c e b i l l . moved the second reading of his Matrimonial Causes Bill. The main provision of the measure is to place the two sexes on a position of absolute equality in respect of facilities for divorce ; and unlike the Bill introduced last year, it restricts the ..-rounds for Divorce to adultery alone : other provisions are referred to in oiur leading article. The Bill, said Lord Gorell, had behind it the findings of the Royal Commission as a whole. Earl Russell moved the rejection, on the ground that the Bill did not go far enough ; it provided, he said, no remedy for the cases of hardship dealt with in last year’s measure. Lord Buckmaster
---- THK GERMAN REPARATIONS BILL. The formal introduction of the German Reparations Recovery Bill,
by Mr. Chamberlain, took place on
Friday, when the measure was read a first tim e; but the whole subject came up on the previous afternoon, when Lord Robert Cecil raised a debate on the Foreign Office vote, complaining that members of the Government had their own lines of foreign policy irrespective of the Foreign Office. On the specific question of reparations he said that no person in any public position, with any sense of responsibility, would desire to say anything that would hamper or impede or interfere with the Executive Government at this juncture. Sir Ed'ward Carson, who followed, said that in this matter the Government had the House and the country behind them; but Mr. Clynesi, for the Labour Party, ureed that a line was being taken which was losing us the
N ew S er ie s . V o l . CV . N o. 3, 618.
