THE TABLET

A Weekly Newspaper and Review

DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS V E ST R IS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

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

Vol. 136. No. 4,175. L ondon, May 15, 1920.

P r i c e 6d., b y P o st 6&d,

R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a l P ost Of f i c e a s a N e w s p a p e r

C h ro n ic l e of t h e W e f k :

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Imperial Parliament : The Peers and Ireland—The Illegitimate Child—Home Rule*. The Committee S ta g e—The Divorce Bill through Committee — A Debate on Coal Prices—The Treaty with Turkey — A Liberal Split — The Polish Offensive — Fall o f the Nitti Ministry ••• ••• ••• •• 641 T o p ic s :

Prospects of the Home Rule

B ill.............................................. 644 Blessed Louise de Marillac ••• 645 N o t e s ......................... «• 646

CONTENTS

R e v i e w s :

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Lord Grey of the Reform Bill 648 Julian ......................................649 Two New Roman Reviews ••• 649 The Month.......................- 650 L i t e r a r y N o t e s ...........................650 The Joan of Arc Procession at Westminster ...........................651 Books o f the W eek............. ... 651 London Protest against Divorce 652 Our Separated B re th ren ................652 Ob it u a r y ...................................... 654 C h e s s .................................................656

Co r r e s p o n d e n c e :

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Rome—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent).................................. 659 N ew s from I r e l a n d ................660 Conference of Catholic Colleges 661 L e t t e r s to t h e E d it o r :

The English Church and the

Orthodox..................................... 662 Catholics and Bedford College 662 St. Patrick’s Chapel in Westminster Cathedral

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Starving: Austrian Children ... 663 Our Lady o f Albert ... 663 H unger-Strikes.............. ... 666 A Blessed Bonaparte ia

B o lo g n a ......................... ... 666

Letters continued

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The C .T .S . of Scotland... ... 666 E t C æ t e r a ............................. ... 667 Mr. Fisher’s Proposals ... ... 668 N ew s from t h e D io c e se s Westminster ... 669

Southwark........................ ... 670 L iv e r p o o l ......................... ... 670 Northampton ............. ... 670 Nottingham ... 671 Plymouth ......................... ... 671 Salford ......................... ... 671 M a r r ia g e ............................. .. 672 S o c ia l and P hrsonjajl. ... 672

NOTANDA

The first lieata of the new cloud of witnesses— Blessed Louise de Marillac. An immediate fruit to be hoped for from her beatification (p. 645).

The preparations in Rome for the great ceremony of Joan of Arc’s canonization on Sunday. The visitors from France include 150 Senators and Deputies (p. 659). Pageants in London and New York (p. 646).

Bishop W ard’s successor in the see of Brentwood. The career of the Bishop-Elect and its promise for a fruitful episcopate (p. 646).

A duel between critics. How Boyle “ exam ined” Bentley’s dissertation on the “ Epistles of Phalaris ” and was discovered to be “ confounding the Satyrical Plays of the Greeks with the Satire of the Romans ” (p . 6 5 0 ) .

The week’s losses by death : Father Richard Sykes, S . J . , Prefect Apostolic of the Zambesi (p. 654), Mr. Edwin de Lisle and Mrs. Hamilton K ing (p. 667).

All the school children of a town ordered to a service in the parish church. Objections from Catholics and Nonconformists : what the Faversham Education Committee forgot (p. 647).

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK

im p e r i a l p a r l i a m e n t : f I ' Hli state of Ireland was t h e p e e r s a n d J . brought forward as a sub-

i r e l a n d .

j e c t for discussion in the House of Lords on Friday of last week by Lord Askwith, who said that the condition of the country was probably worse than it had ever been before. He recapitulated the details of outrages of various kinds, and declared that the state of affairs in Ireland was almost unknown to the British public. Sinn Fein had collected around it every evil of the worst type, and the terrorism and other causes were driving great numbers of men out of the country. He criticised the withdrawal of the police from local barracks, which left whole districts without protection. He suggested the possibility of a meeting being arranged, perhaps through the Church in Ireland, with leading Sinn

Feiners, in order to ascertain their views with regard to the future of Irish Government. If there was to be a conference, it should be without conditions beforehand. Lord Denbigh said that what was wanted was publicity of the true conditions in Ireland, where moderate Nationalists had lost confidence with regard to British intentions, and a body of desperate revolutionaries had grown up in the inner ring of Sinn Fein. He himself had opposed Home Rule in the past because of its international danger; but now that that danger had been removed he had altered his opinion about Irish self-government. Lord Macdonnell recalled the precedent of 1903 in proof that a policy of conciliation at Dublin Castle would lead to a general reign of peace throughout the country. In that year, after the passing of the Land Act, the people were no longer hostile to the British Government. Ireland’ s present condition, the worst in living memory, was due to her disappointment, over and over repeated, in regard to Home Rule. Lord Midleton said that one single man caught in an act of outrage in Ireland, and shot, would have more deterrent effect than a hundred internments. He believed the Crown forces prevailed in the towns, but Sinn Fein ruled the country districts. The police, where attacked, should be reinforced by soldiers, and there could be patrols by motor-car. The Government should endeavour to regain the confidence of some part of the Irish people, and two or three men should give their whole time to the question. The Lord Chancellor, in reply, welcomed the debate because, he said, it was necessary that the facts should be known, so that if the situation developed the Government could call upon the nation for any sacrifice needed to meet it. He defended the appointments of Lord French and Mr. Macpherson, and said he had no reason to doubt the complete coordination of police and military in Ireland.

On Friday, in the Commons, Mr.

~ THE cLhild!T,MATE Nevil!e Chamberlain moved the second reading of the Bastardy

Bill, a term for which he hoped a better name would be found, although it had been emploved in statutes since feudal times. The object of the Bill was to mitigate the lot of those unfortunate children whose legal illegitimacy of birth had hitherto debarred them in a number of ways from being treated with legal equality in other things. He outlined some of the handicaps attaching to the present state of the law, as, for ex-

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