THE TABLET

Nt Weekly N ew spaper a n d R e v iew DüM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

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

V o l . 134 N o . 4, 137. L o n d o n , A u g u s t 23, 1919.

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R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e Ge n e r a l P o st O f f i c e a s a N e w s p a p e r .

C h r o n ic l e o f t h e W e e k :

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Imperial Parliament: The Welsh Church Bill — The Profiteering B ill— The Prime Minister and the National Position—More Industrial Trouble Threatened—An Anglo-Persian Agreement— Rumania and the Allies— A British Naval Victory— Our Effort and Losses in the W a r ................................. 221 T o p ic s :

The French Radicals .............224

C O N T E N T S

Topics continued:—

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Our Catholic Statisticians ... 225 A British Cardinal in the

B a l k a n s ................................... 226

N o t e s . . . 229

R e v ie w s :

Archbishop Thomson, of York 231 Christian Apologetics ...............232 The Great P e a c e ......................... 232 Occultism ••• 233

L i t e r a r y N o t e s ............. ... 233 |

C o r r e s p o n d en c e :

Rome— (From Our Own Correspondent)................................... 235 N ew s fro m I r e l a n d .................. 236 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :

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Serbia or Bulgaria ...............237 Catholics and Christian Re­

union ................................... 237 Address Wanted ... 237 Bequests for Masses ...............238 Children’s Country Holidays Fund ................................... 238 Mr. Frederic Harrison as

Historian................................... 238

Letters continued :—

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The Bexhill Library .............238 E t Cæ t e r a ................................. 239 N ew s fro m t h e D io c e s e s : Westminster .............

Southwark ••• _... ... Brentwood................. ... Leeds........................... ... Plymouth ....................... M a r r ia g e ..................................... St. Bede’s College, ManchesterS o c ia l a n d P er s o n a l

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NOTANDA

----------♦---------Father Vassall-Phillips discusses our Catholic statisticians and their statistics, and comes to the conclusion that the Catholic Directory has seriously erred in underestim ating our population and in not making sufficient allowance fo r the annual increase that must take place (p. 225).

Vatican correspondence on the Pope’s Peace Note. How the Holy See strove to obtain definite declarations from Germany as to the restoration of Belgian independence and the guarantees demanded by her (p. 235). The Note and the Caporetto defeat (p. 236).

Father Cortie’s description o f the course of the great magnetic storm accompanying the electrical earth currents that caused the recent telegraphic and telephonic breakdown in Spain and elsewhere (p. 239).

Some of the twenty radical proposals made by a Committee of the American Episcopal Church for “ the revision and enrichment ” of the Prayer Book (p. 229).

Old books and new. Some considerations why the old should not be neglected, based on F ray José de S igüenza’s life of St. Jerome. The allowances to be made for old authors (p. 233).

Mr. W . S. L illy ’ s reply to Mr. Frederic H arrison’s parallel between the Emperor Constantine and Hénry V I I I . (p. 238).

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK

imperial parliament : HE Welsh Church Bill was the welsh church .1 passed by the House of bill. Lords at the week end. There was no division over the second reading, in moving which Lord Peel showed that by the Bill the Church was the gainer in two ways— by gettin g questions o f the commutation of tithes and of lapsed interests fixed by a statutory enactment, and by gettin g a cheque which anybody would cash. The field was, therefore, open to reconciliation and goodwill. The chief interest N ew Series. V ol. C I I , No. 3,536.

in the discussion that followed was the attitude of the Bishops, who accepted the Bill and the million, but not without denunciations o f the measure. Thus the Archbishop o f Canterbury declared that the action taken was unnecessary, unwise, and harmful to religious wellbeing ; but as the th in g had .been done, and as there must be some continuity in public and Parliam entary action, and to save a renewal of strife, he accepted the Bill. It would g iv e the Church less than her due, but the conditions were not so intolerable as to justify refusal. The Bishop of W inchester spoke in the same strain, and the Bishop o f St. D avid ’s, whilst allowing that the policy o f acceptance, though sensible, was not heroic, admitted that the Bill at least g ave them a settlement. It left the Church poorer indeed, but it also g a v e them a sense of independence. In Committee next day an amendment, moved by Lord Dynevor, to place the churchyards under thè care of the Church, instead of the County Councils, though challenged by the Government, w a s agreed to without a division. Lord Phillimore followed with an amendment to replace the provision that, from the date of disestablishment, the Bishops and clergy of the Welsh Church should cease to be members o f the Canterbury Convocation, by one allow ing the disestablished Church to request the Archbishop of Canterbury to relieve them from attendance at the Convocation of Canterbury. It would, he said, be a very desirable thing to form the Church in W a le s intoi a separate Province, but that could not be done without the consent of the Metropolitan— the Archbishop c f Canterbury. W ith his consent, however, the W elsh Church m ight establish itself as a separate Province. This amendment was warmly supported by the Archbishop of Canterbury, who described as high-handed the declaration by Parliam ent that the W elsh dioceses should not be represented in Convocation. Lord Peel could not accept, but would not oppose, as the amendment practically came to the same thing as the provision in the Bill, seeing that it was the intention to form the W e lsh Church into a separate province. But these amendments were afterw ards refused by the Commons.

Upon one matter the Government the rnoriTEERiMc ]lav e a j. lenst shown determination,

_and that was to shove the Pro­

fiteering Bill through the House of Commons with all possible despatch. Thus, on Wednesday in last week