THE TABLET
A W eekly Newspaper and Review.
D um v o b i s g r a t u l a m u r , a n im o s e t i a m a d d im u s u t i n in c c e p t is v e s t r i s c o n s t a n t e r m a n e a t i s .
From the Bi'iet o] H is Holiness to T h e T a b l e t , Jane 4, 1870.'
Voi. 41. No. 1733. L o n d o n , J u n k 28, 1873*
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C h r o n i c l e o f t h e W e e k : School
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Fees in Denominational Schools.— The Canadian Guarantee. — The Zanzibar Contract. — The Bath Election.— The Ranc Prosecution. Civil Funerals.— Lyons Decree and et Interpellation."— The Electoral ■ and Municipal Law.— Feast of the Sacred Heart in France.— English Pilgrimage to Paray le Monial.— Votive Church of the Sacred Heart.—The Religious Orders Bill, the Ministry, and the Holy See.— The “ Times” on a Future Conclave.— The Spanish Imbroglio.— The Estevanez Scandal.— The Car-
lists, the Alfonsists, and the Holy See.— Theological Seminaries in Germany, &c., &c. . . . 809
CONTENTS
L e a d e r s :
The Education Meeting at St.
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James’s Hall .... 813 The Duty of Registration . .8 13 Mr. O’Keeffe on his Defence. . 814 O ur P r o t e s t a n t C o n t em po r a r ie s :
Marie, &c. — Reminiscences Smugglers and Smuggling . C orrespondence :
Protestant Orders . The Consecration of Parker . Religious Art in England Father Ballerini and the
PaRe of
. 820 . 820 . 820 . 820 Vin-
Uncertain Sounds.— Unwholesome Sympathies.— Unexpected Confessions ..............................................815 R e v ie w s :
God and Man . . , .8 1 6 The Patriarch and the Tsar . . 817 The Story of his Love . . . 819 S h ort N o t ic e s : Flowers o f Chris
tian Wisdom. — History of the Catholic Church.— The Story of diciee Alphonsianse” . Mrs. K ey Blunt’s Reading T h e Sw iss C hurch
. 820 . 821 . 821
P a r l ia m e n t a r y S ummary . . 822 R ome :
Letter from our own Correspondent 825 D io c e s a n N ew s :
Westminster— Consecration o f the
Diocese to the Sacred Heart . 826 Beverley . . . . . 827
DrocESAN N ew s (continued) :
Northampton Nottingham .... Salford .... I r e l a n d :
Letter from our Dublin Corre
spondent .................................... F oreign N ew s :
Belgium ..:...
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M e m o r a n d a :
E d u c a t io n a l ....................................829 Literary ..... 830 L e g a l:—
The Trial of Castro, otherwise called Orton, otherwise Sir R. Tichborne, Bart. . . .8 3 1 G e n e r a l N ew s .... 831
CHRONICLE OF THE W EEK.
SCHOOLS. M
-SCHOOL FEES
IN DENOMINATIONAL
R. M cCULLAGH TORRENS’S
amendment for relieving the rates altogether of all educational charges is not likely, we are glad to see, to gain the support even of the party which feels snost aggrieved by the burden of local taxation. Whether the conversion of the power given to the School •Boards to pay the fees in denominational schools into an obligation to the same effect incumbent on the Poor Law Guardians is or is not an advantage, is an open question which we will not discuss at present, but it is obviously desirable that there should be somebody empowered to pay them, and from a return published by the Education Department it appears that the power given under the 25th clause o f the Act of 1870, has been but sparingly used by the School Boards. The London School Board has not used it at a l l : in four great towns, Leeds, Hanley, Tynemouth and Stockton, no school received as much as ¿ 1 ; and the largest payment at Stockton to any one school was 5s. 8d. for the fees o f two children ; the Boards which have made the greatest ¡use of the clause being those of Liverpool, Manchester, Salford, and Bristol. The transfer of this charge from the School Boards to the Poor Law Guardians “ imposes," as the Standard justly observes, “ no new burden on the rates, “ but even if it did,” our contemporary goes on to say, “ the “ right of the parent to choose his child’s school is more 41 sacred than the rate-payer’s purse, the right of the child to “ a Christian education is dearer than the claim of real pro“ perty to fiscal justice.” We cannot but applaud these sentiments, and shall be always ready cordially to co-operate with those who are fighting the battle of Christian education, emphatically our cause as well as theirs.
THE CANADIAN -GUARANTEE.
The second reading of the Canadian Loan Guarantee Bill was opposed on Tuesday by Sir C. Dilke in an empty house— the members being for the most part at the Windsor Review, where the member for Chelsea was, we suppose, too ■ virtuous a Republican to appear. The objection taken to the Bill was that it was a kind of bribe intended to secure the consent of Canada to the fishery clauses of the Washington Treaty, but Mr. Gladstone and Mr. KnatchbullHugessen contended that the guarantee had nothing whatever to do with the fishery question, and that it was intended as a compensation to the Canadians for what they had -suffered in the Fenian raids, which were really directed, not against them, but against ourselves. An offer of direct ■ compensation was made, but the Government of the Dominion asked instead of this our guarantee for the loan to foe raised for the Pacific Railway. ¿1,100,000 of it is transferred from a guarantee already given for the construction of military works, and there is not the slightest danger that England will ever be called upon to pay either this sum or the remainder, amounting to ^2,500,000. The revenues of the Dominion are amply sufficient to meet the call, but what Canada desired was to raise the money at a cheaper rate of interest, which the help of our credit enabled her to do. This view commended itself to the House, and Sir Charles Dilke’s amendment was lost by 117 votes to 15.
THE ZANZIBAR CONTRACT.
The question which the Government, at Mr. Bouverie’s suggestion, have consented to refer to a Select Committee is this : Last December a Government made two distinct contracts with the Union Steamship Company, one providing for the direct mail service between England and the Cape, and the other for a monthly service between the Cape and Zanzibar. To the first of these bargains the colony objected so strongly that it had to be given u p ; and the Government, to compensate the Company for the loss of it, agreed to pay £26,000 a year instead of ^15,000, as originally agreed, for the second. The question then is, whether the two original contracts were distinct— in which case Mr. Lowe would clearly be throwing away public money in paying on the second contract ^ j i 1,000 above the terms stipulated; or whether they were complicated in such a manner as that the excellence of the one bargain was intended to compensate for the indifference of the other. Prima facie, the latter contention, which is that of Mr. Lowe, will be difficult to establish, and for that reason Government has acted prudently in allowing the subject to be shunted off and reported on by a Select Committee. I f it had been left to be dealt with on the information hitherto supplied, the House could scarcely have helped passing condemnation on the bargain.
THE BATH ELECTION.
The contest at Bath, consequent on the succession of Lord Chelsea to the Earldom of Cadogan, has been enlivened by an episode which it is to be hoped will not form a precedent, or become a general feature at elections. The Liberal candidate, Captain Hayter, not being prepared to oppose the Government on the subject of education, a certain Mr. Cox, from the Midland Counties, was put forward, we suppose by some agents of the League. The Bath Liberals were not unnaturally annoyed at so fatal a division in their camp, but Mr. Cox refused to retire. Thereupon a band of roughs invaded the room where Mr. Cox and his friends were about to hold a meeting, and distributed copious showers of cayenne pepper and similarly persuasive substances. The obnoxious candidate and several others were temporarily blinded, and obliged to leave the meeting and put themselves under medical care, and the next result of the outrage was that Mr. Cox declared that it had now become a point
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