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L E T .

A W eek ly N ew spaper and R eview .

D U M V O U S G R A T U L A M U R , A N IM O S E T I A M A B E I M U S U T I N I N C Œ P T 1S T E S T R I S C O N S T A N T E » M A N E A T I S

From the B r ie f of H is Holiness P iu s I X . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, l i j o .

V o l . 107. No. 3,441. L ondon, A p r il 21, 1906. P r ic e 5 c ! , b y P o s t

R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a l P o s t O f f i c e a s a N ew s p a p e r ,

C h ronicle of t h e W e e k :

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Imperial Parliam ent: Adjournment for Easter — The Kaiser Telegraphs to Count Goluchowski — The Independent Labour Party and the Education Bill — M . Bourgeois and the Algeciras Conference— Mr. Roosevelt on Mammoth Fortunes— The Work o f M. Combes— The Russian Loan— A Liquor L aw in Ontario— Divorce in America— Another Servian Crisis — San Francisco Destroyed by Earthquake and Fire — The Teachers’ Conference — Catholic Trade Unionists— A Judge Condemns the Criminal Appeal Bill — T h e Outbreak in N a ta l . . 597

L e a d e r s :

CONTENTS.

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N ew s from t h e D io ceses (Con­

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Opposition to the N ew Penal L aw 601 The Catholic Church in Ceylon . . 602 The Pope and Scripture S tudy . . 603 N o t e s ........................... 604 R ev ie w s :

Pro Fide _ . . . . . . .. 605 The Political History of England 606 L ife o f Father B r id ge« . . . . 607 The Skeleton K e y ............................608 Welcome . . . . . . . . 608 The Roman M issa l. . . . . . 608 Literary N o te s .......................................608 Books o f the W eek . . . . . . 609 N ew s from t h e D io c e se s :

Westminster . .

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tinued) : Southwark . . . . . . . . 6 zo Salford . . . . . . . . 610 The Sister« o f Nazareth in New

Zealand . . . . . . . . 610 The Newman Memorial Church .. 611 M a r r ia g e ........................................ 611 C orrespondence :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corres p o n d e n t ) ........................... . . 6 1 3 News from Ireland........................... 614 News from France . . ... . . 615 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d itor :

The Education Bill . . . . .. 616

L e t t e r s to t h e E d it o r (Con­

tinued) : Have Nonconformists a “ Gxievance ” .. . . . . . . 6i8 Spinoza . . . . .. . . 6>8 Divorces in America . . .. 619 Father Tyrrell . . . . . . 619 Mr. B i r r e l l ’ s Sympathy for

Catholics . . . . . . . . 619 E t Csetera . . . . . . . . 620

University Intelligence .. .. 625 S o c ia l a n d P o l it i c a l . . . . 625

b S U P P L E M E N T . Educational N o te s ......................... 629 The Education Bill, 1906 . . . . 630 Views o f Catholics . . . . . . 635 Public Opinion and the Bill . . 622 Catholic Action . . . . 623

Rejected M S . cannot be returned unless accompanied w ith address and postage.

NOTANDA. -----------------------

The full text of the Education Bill (p. 629). How the opposition to the new penal law is gathering (p. 601). AVhat Cardinal Logue (p. 614), the Bishop of Salford, the Bishop of Leeds, and the Bishop of Birmingham, say (pp. 621, 635). Resolutions from all parts of the country (p. 623).

A translation of the recent Apostolic Letter on the method to be observed in ecclesiastical seminaries in the study of Sacred Scripture (p. 603).

M. Doumer’s view of the Republican B lo c and its ways (p. 604).

A graphic description from the pen of our Rome Correspondent of the scene in Naples at the time of the recent eruption of Vesuvius (p. 614).

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK,.

IM PER IA L P A R L IA M E N T :

ADJOURNMENT FOR

EASTER.

O ’ , N L Y one motion was before the House last week, when it met for its last sitting before the holidays. But neither that nor the sparse attendance prevented a rambling discussion upon a multiplicity of subjects. There was a fair crop o f questions, and the motion for adjournment was met by Mr. Walter Long with an objection to the way in which the Government had dismissed some o f the subcommissioners engaged in working the Land Act, and appointed others in their place. He did not charge political bias against the Government, but he did hold that, in the first place, these vacancies had been arbitrarily, unjustly, and even cruelly created, and, in the second, that the new appointments to them had been made in an irregular manner. But it was not Unionists only whom Mr. Bryce had succeeded in offending. The Nationalists were angry that a cleaner sweep had not been made of these temporary sub-commissioners, who are regarded with distrust as “ hangers on o f the landlords.” This view was voiced by Mr. John Redmond, who complained that out of 27 men all but five had been reappointed. There were people in Ireland who believed that there was a deliberate conspiracy for keeping up or raising the price o f land in Ireland on the part of the Commissioners and their friends, and there was, therefore, the greatest dissatisfaction as to the action o f the right hon. gentleman in reappointing the party hacks of the last twenty years. Mr. T . W. Russell, on the other hand, thought the Government were perfectly justified in what they had done. It was not much use to have Liberals at the Castle if Tories were practically in power all over Ireland, and he thought the fault that the Government had committed had been the leaving of so many other landlordsympathising men to go on with their old unholy work of forcing rents. This last suggestion was indignantly denied by Mr. Craig. In reply, Mr. Bryce said he had done the best he could to find the best men for the work, and, having failed to give satisfaction to either side, he hoped that he had steered a safe middle course. The delay in carrying out the work o f land purchase wras not due primarily to lack o f money. Mr. Paul then denounced the appointment of Mr. Milvain as Judge-Advocate-General as a scandalous job, and asked the Government to revoke it. This Mr. Haldane refused to do, on the very sensible ground that Mr. Milvain was performing his duties most efficiently and satisfactorily. The next question raised was that o f land settlement in South Africa, and Sir Gilbert Parker asked that the Government should consider the desirability of keeping the ,£600,000 that still remained for the purposes o f land settlement, and that the whole o f the ,£3,000,000, which would be gradually turned over, should be devoted in perpetuity to enabling British farmers to settle in the new Colonies. I f that were done, he believed it would help towards making our fellow-citizens in South Africa our friends. Mr. Churchill replied that the Government could give no pledge that this balance of _£6oo,000 could be utilised before the new Colonial Government came into existence. Mr. Keir Hardie then brought up the question of the unemployed in London, and complained that the Act had failed miserably. After some discussion Mr. John Burns said he was doing his best to make a good coat out of the bad pair of trousers of the Act, and defended the action of the Government in withholding their new

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