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I)UMVOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS e t i a m a d d im u s u t i n i n c c e p t i s 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 B r ie f oj H is Holiness to The Tablet, Ju n e 4, 1870.
Vol. 40. No. 16^4. L ondon, J u l y 20, 1872.
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C hronicle of the W e e k : The
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Ballot Bill.—Business of the House. 'The Scotch Education Bill.—The Public Health B ill.— The Mines Regulation Bill.—Case of the Rev. P. Walsh.—The Phcenix Park Verdict—The Geneva Arbitration.— Persecution in Japan.—Persecution at Constantinople.—Persecution in Germany.—School Persecution.— The German Jesuits.—M. Thiers, M. Gambetta, and the Assembly. —The French Budget. — The French Loan.—The Bishop of Or
leans and the Vatican Decrees.— The Late Comte de Montalembert. —The Lanza Circular and its Results.— Devotion to the Sacred Heart.—Catholic Unions.—Spain . 65
C O N T E N T S .
L ead ers :
The Catholics of England and the
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C orrespondence :
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Persecution of the Religious Orders . . . . 6 5 The'International Prison Congress 7c The Galway Judgment . . - 7 1 The Positive Religion ; or, The
Worship of Humanity
R ev iew s :
Lectures on the Present Position of
Celtic MSS. in the Vatican . . 77 The Bigotry of the “ Times” . 78 Superior Education and Competi
tive Examinations . . . 7 8 Civil Service Preparation College .78 • 71
P a r l ia m en t a r y S ummary . . 78 R ome :
Catholics in England . . . 7 3 The Legends of St. Patrick . . 74 The House of Yorke . . . 7 5 The Catholic World . . - 7 7 S hört N OTiCES :TheDivine T eacher. —Manners of Modern Society.—
The Farm Boys of Rockstone.—S. John the Beloved Apostle . . 77
Letter from Rome . . . . 8 1 The Irish Franciscans of S Isidore,
Rome ...... 81 The Bishop of Orleans and the
Vatican Decrees . . . 8 2 Protest of Catholics against the
Persecution of the Religious O r d e r s ...........................................82
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Peter’s Pence D io cesan N ew s : Westminster .
N ottingham . Salford Scotland—Caithness
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84 84 84 S3
I reland :
Letter from our Dublin Corre
spondent ...................................... 85 M emoranda :
Religious. — Educational. — Fine Educational.
Arts and Music G en e r a l N ews
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C H R O N I C L E O F T H E W E E K .
THE BALLOT
BILL.
H EN the Ballot B ill came back again from the Lords to the Commons, the three amendments to
-which the House was asked to assent were the compensation for the loss o f the grant caused by the use o f schools as polling places, the making o f the declaration o f inability to read or write before the return ingofficer instead o f before the magistrate, and lastly the limitation o f the B ill to the year 1880. T o the first Mr. Forster could not agree, but proposed to insert a clause in the Education Code, providing that the days lost should count as days o f school attendance. This was what Lord Salisbury had expressed his willingness to accept, and it seems a pity that Lord R ipon did not close with it at once. A s to the declaration, Mr. Forster made the extraordinary suggestion that it should be made before any registered elector, which was immediately scouted, and eventually it was settled that the declaration, should be made on a printed form before the returning-officer, so that a fraudulent declaration may be detected. Lord Beauchamp's amendment confining the operation o f the B ill to eight years was accepted, and when the B ill returned to the Lords on Monday the alterations were .agreed to without opposition. Inconsequence, however, of the word “ polling-place ” having been introduced by mistake instead o f “ polling-station ” in the Commons’ amendment, the B ill had to go back as a matter o f form to the Lower House.
The usual “ massacre o f the innocents ” took b u s in e s s o f p ] a c e on Monday. Seven measures were imTHK HOUSE. mojate(j . tw0 Xrish bills, the Grand Ju ry Presentments and the County O fficers; one Scotch, the Land Transfer B i l l ; the Juries Bill, Master and Servants (Wages) B ill, Metropolitan Police Superannuation Bill, and the Contagious Diseases Prevention Bill. The two Mines Bills (Coal and Metalliferous), the Public Health Bill, the Licensing Bill, and the Corrupt Practices B ill are to be pushed; the last-named, however, only in case the House likes the look o f it after seeing the Government amendments, which are considerable. Other measures, which the Government hopes to pass, are the Thames Embankment, Irish Local Government, Enclosure, Education, Elections, and Merchant Shipping Bills. Thursday, the 25th, was named by Mr. Gladstone for the discussion o f the Galway judgment, but he would not pledge himself to make a motion of his own until he knew whether the Irish Attorney-General would be ready with his report before that time.
In Committee on the Scotch Education B ill t h e sco tch jn tbe Lords, the Duke o f Richmond carried some important amendments. The first was the substitution for the Board o f Privy Council for Scotland o f a Local Board o f Education at Edinburgh,
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to consist o f the Lord Advocate and Solicitor-General for Scotland, with three others appointed by the Crown, one o f those three to be the chairman. The principle o f this was carried by 8 1 to 70, the details passing without a division. The second important alteration was the introduction of the English Conscience Clause, which allows four opportunities for religious instruction during the day, instead o f two, and to this the Duke o f Argyll assented, thus retrieving the loss— which we lamented at the time— o f Mr. Collins’s amendment in the Commons. The third alteration to which we allude was the introduction into the preamble o f a recital that “ whereas it has been the usage in Scotland, sanctioned “ by legislation”— which is doubtful— “ to make provision for “ religious instruction, it is desirable in extending the system “ o f education, to afford means for continuing such religious “ instruction to all children” whose parents do not object to their receiving it. Lord Rosebery’s amendment prohibiting distinctive religious formularies was postponed till the Report.
On the motion to go into committee on this h e a l th b i l l o n T uesday, Mr. Disraeli, in the midst o f a somewhat desultory debate, took the sensible line that, whether, by taking it earlier, a better measure could have been prepared or not, the question now was whether this B ill would improve our sanitary legislation. That it would do so “ every candid man must admit,” and the concessions made by Mr. Stansfekl being considered satisfactory by Sir Massey Lopes, who in these matters had always “ shown as much discretion as ability,” he would consent to go into committee. These concessions, as stated by Mr. Stansfeld on the previous Friday, are, that the Public Works Loan Commissioners are to be empowered to lend money to the Local Boards at 3% per cent., and that half the salaries o f the medical officers and sanitary inspectors are to be paid out o f the Imperial Treasury. Mr. Newdegate despaired o f success “ now that the leader o f the Opposition had become “ a supporter o f Government” ; and after a few prophecies o f evil from Mr. Henley, the House went into Committee, but immediately adjourned till Thursday.
THE MINES REGULATION
BILL.
The Coal Mines B ill passed its third reading on Monday, Mr. Goldsmid, on behalf o f Mr. Fawcett, withdrawing the amendment for striking out the clause enacting that the men shall be paid by weight and not by measure ; and Mr. Auberon Herbert “ liberating his conscience” by protesting against Qver-legislation and interference in matters o f contract between employer and employed, which Mr. Scourfield also stigmatized as a system o f “ grandmaternal ” government.
Mr. Vance put his question respecting the c a s e o f t h e SUpp0sed suspension o f the Rev. Patrick Walsh
REV. P. WALSH.
on Monday, and elicited the following satisfactory reply. First, as we said last week, Mr.
