THE TAB LE
A Weekly Newspaper and Review,
W I T H S U P P L E M E N T .
Vol. 35. No. 1563. L o n d o n , M a r c h 26, 1870.
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‘C hronicle of the Week : The
Irish Debate — Reform of the Law Courts — Education— The Diplomatic Service — The Monaghan Case—Sir A. Galt and Canada — The Emperor’s Letter—The Trial at Tours—Count de Montalembert’s Requiem — Liberty of Debate— Spain—New Zealand—Persecution in China and Japan—The Recent Controversy —At a Refuge—Low Dresses— &c., S e e . .....................................38 1 L e a d e r s :
Catholics and the Education De
bate . . . . . . 3 8 5 The Peace Preservation Bill . . . 386 A Theory of the Aurora . . 386 Literary Honesty . . . . 387
C O N T E N T S .
L eaders (continued) :
Peter’s Pence.....................................388 The Anglican Movement :
Questions of the Day . . . 3S8 R eviews :
The Visible Unity of the Catholic
Church .... Petite’s Romance . Mr. J . N. Murphy’s Ireland Short Notice : The Atlantis
389 390 391 392
Correspondence:
Education “ Logic ” and the “ Saturday R e
392
view ” ...... 392 The late Count de Montalembert . 393 The Sub-Sheriff of Monaghan . 393
Parliamentary Summary
• 393
L etters from R ome ; M. de Montalembert—Dr. Grant—Mili
tary—Requiem for M. de Montalembert—The Revolution—Visitors 396 D iocesan News : Westminster .
Southwark . Liverpool Salford .... Scotland—Western District B ritish and I rish N ews
397 398 398 398 398
Great Britain Ireland .
399 399
F oreign News :
Italy: Spoliation of the Parochial
Clergy—Educational Projects of the Liberals—Vacant Benches in the Universities—Truant Deputies ................................................ 399 F r a n c e ................................................ 400 M emoranda :
R e l i g i o u s ....................................... 400 Educational :
Canon Toole on the Education of the People .... 400 The Great Catholic Meeting at
Liverpool .... 401 Meeting of Catholics at Cardiff. 403 L i t e r a r y ....................................... 404 Weather and Health . . . 404 Fine Arts ..... 404 Miscellaneous .... 404
C H R O N IC L E O F T H E W E E K .
DEBATE. T
THE IRISH
'H E debate on the second reading of the
P eace Preservation Bill opened on Monday with a speech from Mr. Moore,
who informed the House, by a somewhat, rhetorical amplification, that if the Bill passed Irish members would no longer have any business there. Mr. Maguire, Mr. Bagwell, and Mr. Synan’s attacks were chiefly directed against the Press clauses, and it was reserved to Mr. Newdegate to discover and point out a connection between the disestablishment of the Irish Church, Ribandism, and the Mutiny at the Nore. The debate was enlivened by one of Mr. Serjeant Dowse’s speeches in the style of which he bids fair to becom e the great master, combining the broadest humour with the most solid sense in equal proportions. And anotherfeature worth noticing is the hearty adhesion which Dr. Ball-— the Conservative exSolicitor-General— gave to the Bill. Tuesday’s debate lasted eight hours, and scarcely anything that was said was new. Lord J. Manners attacked the Government for not having acted before, and he and others returned to the charge about the “ inflammatory speeches ” of Ministers, to which they attributed the present disorders. Then, on the other hand, Mr. M'Mahon, who opposed the bill, attributed it to the vicious land-system. Mr. Whalley asked how Government could hope to pacify the country after disestablishing the Protestant Church, in a “ rubric ” of which four sermons against Popery were ordered to be preached every year. To supply this loss he recommended the organization of a band of men like Mr. Murphy, who “ with his life in one hand, and the doctrines and machinery of the Catholic Church in the other,” had made a victorious progress through the land. The debate was wound up by a straightforward speech from Mr. Gladstone, and the second reading was carried by 4 2 5 votes to 1 3 .
REFORM OF THE L AW -
COURTS.
Since we went to press last week the Lord Chancellor’s two Bills for the creation of the High Court of Justice and of the new Appellate Jurisdiction, passed their second reading. The distinction between Law and Equity is to be broken down. Any division of the Court may deal with any business, and both judges and causes may b e transferred from one to another, if necessary, without fresh proceedings being instituted. The first division o f the High Court is to consist of the Lord Chancellor and four other judges, representing the present Courts of Equity. There will be three other divisions o f five ju dges each, presided over by the Lord Chief Justice of England and two Lords President respectively. A fourth division will be composed of the Judges of the Courts of Probate and Admiralty, and a third judge. The High Court will thus contain 2 3 judges. The Court of Appeal will be composed of the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice, the Master of the Rolls, four permanent judges, and three judges from the High Court, to be named
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yearly by the Crown, who will, sit in both Courts, as required, making ten in all. The Bill is to come into operation in November, 1 8 7 1 , by which time it is calculated that the judges will have drawn up the new rules of procedure. The Bill also abolishes the Home Circuit, and, what is of more importance, gives power to the House of Lords to create, at the beginning o f every Session, a permanent Judicial Committee, which will hear Appeals while the House is not sitting, and report to it when it meets. This Committee is itseif to have the power of calling in members of the Jud icial Committee of the Privy Council to assist it, in such numbers, however, that the Peers on the Committee shall always be in a majority. The Bill is the result of the recommendations of the Royal Commission, originally appointed by Lord Chelmsford, and presided over by Lord Cairns. The two principal objections were made by Lords Westbury and Chelmsford. The former wished that the regulations had been appended to the Bill, instead of being left to the judges to draw up, and thought there would be unnecessary delay before the new system was in working order. To this Lord Penzance replied by the very pertinent question, whether, if it was so very^difficult for 2 3 men, more competent than any others in the kingdom, to frame these rules, it would be more likely that they could be got ready by November, 1 8 7 1 , in the two Houses of Parliament, “ the p lace of all others where the drawing-np of rules on so complicated a subject would be attended with the greatest difficulty.” Lord Chelmsford’s objection was to patching up the Appellate Jurisdiction of the Lords. He would prefer one Court of Appeal to replace the Judicial Committees of the House and o f the Privy Council. The Lord Chancellor justly answered, that as the House is reluctant to part with its jurisdiction, the proper course is to make it effective. Now that we are in a fair way towards amalgamating our Courts, is it too much to hope that we may before long codify our laws ?
We have commented elsewhere upon the education. st-a t-e 0 f tile educational difficulty into which we seem to be drifting, and upon the chances which threaten to destroy the Catholic education of our poor altogether. As Lord Howard truly says, we are in a grave crisis ; and we venture to think that the time is come when the Catholic gentry of this country should assemble from all parts in a public meeting to lay before the nation their sense of the grievance which threatens them. A continuance of that course of public justice which they have hitherto received and gratefully appreciated alone can satisfy them. They are to a man in favour of improving the educational system, but there is not one among them who would do so at the sacrifice of Catholic education.
THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE.
Popular literature has been for some time impressing the public with the idea that diplomacy was a profession, in which some people were very well paid for very little work, 'th e • * flwl ,
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