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C h r o n i c l e o f t h e W e e k : Defeat

Page of the Irish University Bill.—Resignation of the Ministry.—Thursday’s Debate.—Monday’s Debate. Protestant Testimonies to the Force ■ of the Irish Claims.—Mr. Cardwell's Concessions. — The Irish Members.—Mr. Disraeli on the Bill — On '* Concurrent Endowment”—And “ Confiscation.”—Mr. "Gladstone’s Speech.-The President and his Heirs.—Debate on the Constitution—The Veto— On “ Interpellations”—'On the Time of Dissolution.—Vote on the Last Clause. — The Prussian Constitutional Amendments.—The Archbishop of Posen and the Government.-Spain and the Federalists. &c., &c. . 321

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The Conservatives and the Uni­

versity Bill. . . . 325 Irish Opinion on the University

Bill .............................................. 325 Spoliation in Rome.—Pledges of the Italian Government . . 326 O ur P r o t e s t a n t C o n t e m p o r a r i e s :

Christian Unity.—Modern History. —A View of Religion . . . 327 R e v i e w s :

The Life and Letters of S. Francis

Xavier . . . . 329 The Gospel of the World’s Divine

Protestant Orders .... 332 The Clergy and the Labour Move­

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Theology of S. Francis Xavier ‘. 333 Publication of Standard Catholic W o r k s ...................................334 Catholic Books . . . . 334 “ S. Augustine, Anglicanism, and the Catholic Deaf and Dumb” . 334 The Mission in the Isle of Dogs . 334 The Distress in South Wales . 334 A Third Appeal to the Ladies . 335 Melancholy Accident.—Death in a

O r d e r ................................. 330 The “ Month” . . . * 3 3 1 S h o r t N o t i c e s : Revue des Ques­

tions Historiques.— Etudes Religieuses.- The Magazines for March 331

Coal-Pit.—An Appeal . . 335 P a r l i a m e n t a r y S u m m a r y . . '335 R o m e :

Letter from our own Correspondent 337 Peter’s Pence...................................340

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Westminster . Beverley Liverpool Newport and Menevia .

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spondent ..................................... 340 The University Bill.—The Peti­

tion of the Catholic Bishops . 341 Cardinal Cullen on the University

Bill ...... 342 F o r e ig n N ew s :

Russia

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C H R O N I C L E O F T H E W E E K.

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¡DEFEAT OF THE IRISH UNIVERSITY

N Tuesday, the fourth night o f the debate, the Irish University Bill was thrown out by a majority o f three in a House of 5 7 1 ; Mr. Bourke’s amendment concerning the names of the Council, which had been pretty nearly lost sight o f during the whole discussion, having been first negatived without a division. The House felt that the motion did not represent the real issue, and that the turn which matters had taken since it was first introduced had deprived it o f all practical importance, and the division was accordingly taken on the second reading of the B ill itself. Since last week everybody has been prepared for this result, although •attempts have been here and there made to show that Government would secure a small majority. But there has been such a consensus against the Bill in all other quarters that as soon as it was clear that the mass o f Irish members would also vote against it, there could have been but faint hopes of its passing. Outside the Ministry itself very few speakers indeed were found to advocate the second reading, and even o f these the large majority would only vote for it with the intention o f materially altering it in Committee. O f Irish Catholic members only two spoke in favour o f it, Sir R . Blennerhassett and Sir D. Corrigan, with Mr. Pirn and Mr. McClure among the Protestants. The rest o f the debate— putting aside the speeches of Cabinet Ministerswas a perfect chorus o f disapproval from Catholics, Conservatives, and independent and “ academic” Liberals.

In spite of the elaborate arguments o f a cer-

OF T H E MINISTRY.

RES/.j” Ni^ rij 0N tain Liberal organ to prove that the Govern­

ment should not and could not resign, the Government has resigned, as Mr. Gladstone •stated on Thursday evening. At this moment it is as yet impossible to say whether Mr. Disraeli will undertake the task o f forming a Ministry, and whether he is prepared to carry on the Government in the face of a hostile majority, o r to dissolve before the Estimates are passed.

Mr. Horsman's speech, which opened the

T h u r s d a y s debate on Thursday, was a thoroughly mis-

chievous one. It was a bitter and almost personal attack on the Government for having attempted to remove a Catholic grievance, the existence of which he denied. H e maintained three things : first, that mixed education had failed inconsequence of the hostility o f the clergy, secondly, that the clergy did not carry with them the sympathies of the laity, and thirdly, that the clergy were claiming a power not accorded to any other State in Europe, and predicted that “ no further legislative effort would ever be made in the

N ew Se r i e s . Y o l , I X . No. 227.

“ same direction to disturb the mixed system of education “ in Ireland. They would fall back to that sound position “ which they ought never to have abandoned.” The speech was a simple defiance to the Irish Catholics, and it received a well-deserved castigation from the Prime Minister in his concluding speech, while the statements respecting the views o f the laity on this question were triumphantly refuted by Major O’Reilly and Mr. Ronayne on Tuesday, on whose speeches we shall have a few words to say presently. Mr. Chichester Fortescue, who was put up to answer Mr. Horsman, denied that it was ever intended to swamp the Council with representatives o f “ bogus” colleges, or that there would soon be “ a Catholic predominance in the governing body.” I f Catholics chose to make a vigorous use of the opportunities afforded by the Bill, they might no doubt obtain “ an advantageous and important position that was the very object of the measure; but the Protestants would be able to hold their own. As for the Catholics, he warned them that there was “ a tide in the affairs of men,” and so forth. Subsequently, Mr. Lowe created considerable amusement by reading a letter from Mr. Horsman to the T im es, dated the day after he got the copy o f the Bill, in which he spoke o f it as a measure “ which did Mr. Gladstone great honour,” as “ conceived in “ a large and generous spirit,” and likely, when amended in Committee, to be “ a noble crowning to the work o f the “ present Parliament.” Dr. Playfair’s speech was a replica o f Mr. Fawcett’s. The “ arrogant pretensions” o f the Bishops, the “ inquisitorial power” granted to the Senate, the fatal obstacle placed in the way o f science by ecclesiastical authority, whether Catholic or Protestant, were only the usual commonplaces o f academic Liberalism. But Dr. Playfair repeated the astounding assertion that the people did not want separate education. “ What the Roman “ Catholic laity o f Ireland wanted was the removal o f all “ religious disabilities,” in other words, Mr. Fawcett’s Bill. They have told him over and over again, in most unmistakable language, that they want something quite different from this ; but in the case o f Ireland it seems never to be admitted for a moment that what the people say they mean, and what they mean they intend to stick to. Mr. Hardy, who was the last speaker on Thursday, left little doubt as to the policy which would be his i f he were in power. “ The “ grievance, as stated by the Roman Catholic prelates, was “ one which the House could not meet, and no House in “ this country ever would meet.” “ The claims o f the “ Bishops were incompatible with the principles o f the “ Reformation and the liberties o f the people, as had been “ asserted from time immemorial.” And any grievance which the lay Roman Catholics might have “ might be effec“ tually met” by the existing Dublin University and the Queen’s Colleges. As for the Government scheme, Mr.