THE TABLET A JNtekly Newspaper and Review DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS V E S T R 1S CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to the Tablet, June 4, 1870.

V o l . 1 3 8 . No. 4,259 L o n d o n , D e c e m b e r 2 4 , 1921.

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Hrgisterbd at the General Post Officb as a Newspaper.

Chronicle of the W eek.

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Imperial Parliament: The Treaty Ratified in both Houses —The Debate in the Commons — The Dail Debate : Mr. Griffith and Mr. de Valera — Mr. Michael Collins—The Oath —Wednesday’s Sitting— Naval Agreement at Washington — Germany and Reparations ••• 825 T opics *

In Washington and Dublin ... 828 Christmastime — Rex Pacificus 828 University Notes: Cambridge 829 No t e s ............................................... 830 Reviews :

Ruskin ......................... ••• 832

CONT

Reviews continued:—

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The Wine o f Sorrow ................833 Stories, Grave and Gay................833 Social P rob lem s ........................... 834 The Eucharistic Sacrifice and

Sacrament

..............834

Literary Notes ... ............. 835 Books o f the Week*» ..............836 From Everywhere ..............836 Consecration o f the Bishop o f

Northampton

..............838

Ch e s s ......................... ... » . 839 Correspondence:

Rome—(From Our Own Correspondeut)............. ..............841

E N T S

L etters to the Editor :

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The Denaby S ch oo l : Applica­

tion Postponed.......................... S43 Father Lester and the Metho­

dist Ttmes ..

... 843

A Native Seminary for Uganda 843 An Educational Grievance in

New Zealand ... ... ... 844 School Sports ... ... ... 844 Et C e t e r a ......................................844 The Road to B e th le h em ................846 The Prospects o f Humane Educa­

tion .................................................84S Obituary ............. 848 News from the Dioceses r

W estmiuster ....................... 849 Southwark......................................850 Brentwood......................................850

Dioceses continued :—

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Clifton ............. ............. 850 Leeds .............. ..............850 Liverpool .............. ..............851 Nottingham ». ». 852 Salford .............. ............. 852 Scotland:

St. Andrews and Edinburgh 852 W ales:

Cardiff .............. ............. 852 Christmas Plays ............. 852 Coming Events ..............852 The Medieval Church ............. 854 St. Joan’s Fair ............. 854 Christmas Appeals ... ............. 854 W ill ........................... » . 854 Social and Personal ............. 854

NOTANDA

Canon Barry and the peace proclaimed at Bethlehem. The deepest of all our problems “ a thing of the spirit. . . . Let the family be Christian, the State will acknowledge Christ Our Lord a s K in g ” (p. 828).

The attempt to pitt Cardinal Manning against C ardinal Bourne. Sir Michael Sadler explains to a Times Educational Supplement correspondent that “ to amend the Act of 1902 in a way which might drive some denominational schools to contract out ” would be against Cardinal Manning’s conviction (p. 830).

A record attendance of Catholic students at Cambridge and demand made on the accommodation of the chaplaincy premises. An old Downside boy in the University’s Rugby X V (p. 829).

Consecration of the Bishop of Northampton, a diocese small in Catholic population but with a larger proportionate increase than any other. Why the Mayor wore h is chain (p. 838).

The Denaby school decision. A snub for the local authority. But in a fit of Board of Education economy Catholics are told to call again (pp. 830, 843).

A book which provides a kind of Christm as party by bringing together “ people united by the tie that binds where others b reak .” Lord F itzA lan ’ s precedence, and Lady F itzA lan ’ s record of social service (p. 844).

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK

fter an historic three d a y s ’

Athe Irish plenipotentiaries was

^ Y botT h o u s signed between Great Britain and debate the Agreement ratified in both Houses of Parliament by enormous majorities. In the Upper House the discussion, initiated by Lord Morley in moving the Address, and summarized as to the first d a y ’ s proceedings in this column last week, was continued, at the opening of the sitting on Thursday, by the Marquis o f Londonderry. He criticized the Agreement as a surrender on the part o f the Government which he did not believe could in the end receive a full measure o f popular support. He quoted from speeches against Home Rule

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made in 19 12 by the Lord Chancellor, one of the signatories to the treaty, and asked what had caused his lordship so quickly to change his views. Ulster, said Lord Londonderry, was passionately attached to the Union with Great Britain, and had accepted the Act o f 1920 reluctantly. The Archbishop of Canterbury pleaded for a policy of “ fo rg iv in g and fo rgettin g .” 1 he Earl o f Midleton, for the Southern Unionists, said that the treaty was based on much wider lines than those which they had consistently urged in the p a s t ; but he added that he believed it was the duty of every Southern Unionist to do his best to work with the new Government. The Duke of Northumberland moved an amendment in terms regretting the Irish agreement. Very- few of the members of the House, he said, in their hearts really believed in o r approved the settlement. Viscount F in lay, following on the same side, said that they must not buy peace at any price. Lord Bryce gave qualified support to the treaty, but Lord Dufferin and A va said that its acceptance would be the beginning of the break-up of the Empire. Lord Donoughmore supported the treaty. Lord Carson and Mr. de Valera were, he said, the only two against it— a queer pair. On the following day, a fte r speeches from the Earl of Desart, the Marquis o f Salisbury, and other peers, the Lord Chancellor replied. There was much in the treaty, he said, which he would have arranged differently had he had the power, but when one was negotiating- one exchanged opinions and balanced suggestions. He referred to part of Lord Carson’s speech the previous Wednesday a s wild and foolish words, and said that neither Lord Salisbury' nor Lord Carson had made any contribution o f an alternative policy. He asked the House to vote with a deep sense of responsibility, and confident that Ireland would at last, a fter centuries o f conflict, be reconciled to this country and the Irish Prime Minister lift up his, voice at ic , Downing Street, an equal among equals, in matters affecting the welfare of the Empire. The division was shortly afterw ards taken and resulted in a majority of 1 19 for the treaty, the voting being 47 for the Duke of Northumberland’s amendment and 166 against.

In the House of Commons the

IN THE commons. debate on Thursday was opened by

Mr. Asquith. He said that with regard to the treaty there was as near an approach to unanimity as he had ever witnessed during his thirty