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A Weekly Newspaper and Review.

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C hronicle of th e W e e k :

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Imperial Parliament : The Second Reading of the Education Bill Passed— An Eight-Hours Day for Miners— Home Defence and Compulsory Service — The Plural Voting Bill — The Lords and Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister— The Opening of the Duma — An Amnesty Demanded —How the Licensing Act Works— Temperance Teaching in Schools — England and Turkey : The Sultan Yields— The Catholic Union of Great Britain and the Education Bill— Railway Rates—The Dulwich Election . . . . . . 757 L e a d e r s :

The Second Reading—and After 761

C O N T E N T S .

L e a d e r s (Continued) :

The Royal Academy “ The Crowning Unfairnessof A ll” University Notes N o t e s . . R eview s :

The Conflict of Ideals in the

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762 763 765 766

Church of England _ .. . . 767 Three Trafalgar Captains . . 763 The Early Scottish Church .. 768 “ Queen of Prophets ” .. .. 769 The Eternal Sacrifice .. . . 769 The Ordinary of the Mass .. 769 A New French and English

Dictionary . . . . . . 769 Literary Notes . . . . . . . . 769 Books of the Week . . .. . . 770 Catholic Prisoners’ Aid Society .. 771

Correspondence :

Rome:—(From Our Own Corre­

Page spondent) .. . . . . . . 773 News from Ireland . . . . . . 774 News from France .. . . . . 775 L e t ters to th e E ditor :

The Education B i l l . . . . . . 775 “ Disloyal Catholics ” and the New

“ Syllabus” . . . . . . 776 The Second Spoliation .. . . 777 “ Comment Formez-Vous Vos

Idées ? ” . . . . .. . . 777 Terminological Exactitudes and

Others . . .. . . . . 777 Father Angus and the Anglican

Communion

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E t Caetera . . . . . . .. 778 The Catholic Amendments to the

Education Bill . . . . . . 779 Our Colleges and Schools . . .. 781

“ The Guardian ” and Clause IV. 781 Manchester Catholics and Labour

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Members . . . . .. . . 781 The Recognition of Schools . . 782 N EWS FROM THE DlOCESKS 1 Westminster....................... „ 782

Southwark . . . . . . . . 782 Liverpool . . . . . . . . 783 Middlesbrough ............................783 Plymouth . . . . , . . . 783 Salford . . . . . . . . 783 The Dulwich Election . . . . 783 O b itu ary ........................................... 784 Social an d P o l it ic a l . . . . 785

SUPPLEMENT. Educational Notes . . . . . . 789 The Bill in the House . . . . 790 Catholic A c t i o n ............................793

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NOTANDA. -----------♦ ---------The Catholic Amendments to the Education Bill (p. 779). What they aim at, and what, if they are carried, they will secure (p. 761).

How the Catholic members voted— curious statistics (p. 766).

Indignation meetings in Preston (p. 793), Brighton (p. 795), Learning and Newport (pp. 780, 781).

Father Thurston contrasts the positions of Anglicans and Catholics in regard to the schools (p. 763).

University Notes— Oxford and Cambridge (p. 765). The work of the Catholic Prisoners’ Aid Society (p. 771). A French Bishop and the Associations for Worship

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK

THE Second Reading of the e i l i . p a s s e d . Thursday in last week by a majority

Education Bill was passed o f t h e e d u c a t io n after we went to press on of 206. The honours of the debate at the final sitting, if not of the whole discussion, certainly lie with Mr. Redmond and Mr. Healy. Mr. Redmond’s speech, which will be found summarised and quoted at .some length in another column, was a strong plea for con- j ciliation and justice to Catholics. The Bill contravened the ! fundamental Irish principle of denominational education, whilst Cowper-Temple religion was abhorrent to them. There was no mandate to interfere with the control of religious teaching, and Catholics more than paid out of their rates for the upkeep of their schools. Mr. Asquith then intervened with a dispassionate speech, in which he argued that, on the two principles of public control and abolition of tests, the problem before the Government could be attacked in no other way than that of the Bill. Fie next endeavoured to defend the taking over of schools by the local authority in cases where the trustees objected, as a reasonable way of preventing local authorities from having to provide entirely new buildings. He rejoiced that Mr. Chamberlain had dropped tests for teachers ; admitted that not even the simplest form of religious teaching could accurately be called undogmatic, and he defended the Cowper-Temple Clause as being not exclusive of dogmatic teaching but as preventing rate-aided teaching of distinctive formularies. He next argued against the inalienable right of the parent, and the folly of herding and teaching children according to their parents’ religion. The logical alternative was secularism, but that was against the desires of the people. Certainly Clause 4 had been put in to meet the case of Catholics, but it would include others wherever similar conditions prevailed, and he admitted to the full the peculiar position of Catholics. Mr. Healy followed with a speech which fairly gripped the House. It will be found reported at length in our school columns. He was followed by Mr. Herbert Paul, who contended that the opposition to the Bill from Churchmen came only from a small knot of High Churchmen and ecclesiastical laymen. Lord R. Cecil declared that they could not accept as a substitute for Christianity Christian morality and mere historical Bible teaching. Mr. Snowden demanded secular education and civic instruction. Sir Came Rasch and Mr. Burdett-Coutts having spoken against the Bill, Mr. Balfour re-affirmed his statement that the clause on the Welsh Council w’as a step towards Home Rule for the Principality, and that the Bill was aimed at the life of the Church of England. He went on to ask how the Act of 1902 had made things worse for the Nonconformists. He then pointed out that teachers -were not asked before their appointment to subscribe to a definite religious creed, and that the Bill did not forbid managers asking a teacher whether he would be prepared to give denominational instruction. As for the grant of the million it would not bring better religious teaching or religious peace. He concluded by calling for the withdrawal of the Bill as satisfying r,o requirements of the country, and as carrying out no desired policy. Mr. Birrell, on the other hand, declared that the Bill was in full accord with the wishes of the nation. On the question of facilities, “ I hope and believe,” he said, “ we do not disturb the denominational

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