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C hronicle ok th e W e e k :

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Imperial Parliament: The New Session — Lord Crewe’s Reply— Mr. Balfour’s Criticisms — The Prime Minister’s Defence— The New Session: The Position of Parties — Old-Age Pensions in Ireland —_French Functionaries and Asscciation— The Discussion intheChamber— Electoral Reform in France— The Poor Law Report — The Minority Report — The New Customs Tariff in France— Pit Explosion in Durham . , . . 277 T opics of th e D a y :

A Retrospect.................................... 281 41 T w o W e i g h t s a n d T w o

Measures” . . . . .. 281 “ Acta Apostolicae Sedis” . . . . 282

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T opics (Continued):

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Adire Corinthum . . . . . . 284 The Pope and the British N a vy . . 285 N o t e s ............................ ... . . 285 R eview s :

The Plantagenet Roll . . . . 286 The Book of Witches . . . . 286 A Man’s Love . . . . 287 The Letters o f Christina Rossetti 287 Ai istotle in English . . . . 287 A Catechism for Teachers . . 287 Mary o f England . . . . . . 287 The Natural History o f Language 288 Literary Notes.. . . . . . . 288 Books of the Week . . . . . . 280 Catholics in the United States . . 289 The Archbishop o f Canterbury and the Marriage of Divorced Persons 290 The King’s S p e e c h ......................... 290

The Catholic Confederation.. . . 291 Funeral of Mr. H. G. Shee, K .C . . . 291 C orrespondence :

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Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) .................................... 293 News from Ireland.. . . . . 294 News from France . . . . . . 295 L e t t e r s to th e E d itor :

Socialism .. . . . . . 295 A Grievance of Architects.. . . 296 Unobserved Rubrics . . . . 297 The Order of Corporate Re­

union . . . . . . . . 297 Imperial Sunday Alliance . . 298 The New Catholic Journal in

New York.................................... 298 Et Cætera . . . . . . . . 299 The Archbishop at Hull . . . . 300 O b i t u a r y . . . . . . . . 304

Westminster Earthquake Fund S ocial and Political

SU PPLEM EN T Educational Notes The Government and Education Secular Education Dr. Clifford and Passive R N ew s from t h e D ioceses

Westminster .. Birmingham.. Clifton Hexham and Newcastle Liverpool Middlesbrough Plymouth Evolution The Oxford Museum.. In Memoriam .. Students’ Library, Tokyo

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T h e great Catholic Demonstration at H u ll. T h e full t e x t o f the A rchbishop’s Address. T h e secular education b o g y (p. 301). M i . Runcim an ’s views (p. 310).

Som e account o f the “ A c ta Apostolicse Sedis.” What is th e Roman Curia, and how is the Church governed ? (p. 282).

A Catholic Truth Society tract on Socialism . Several correspondents challenge the sufficiency o f the writer’s definition o f his subject (p. 295).

Last year’s Eucharistic Congress. A Belgian visitor’s impressions o f London. Why cats abound in its streets (p. 299).

T h e Italian elections. T h e attitude o f the H o ly See. Instructions to voters (p. 293).

Catholic statistics. T h e A rchbishop o f St. Paul explains how an informal religious census is taken with the encouragement o f the Governm ent (p. 289).

T h e B ishop o f Carlisle’s view o f the Church o f England’s a ttitu de towards the Sacraments (p. 286).

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

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P A R L I A M E N T reassembled on Tuesday, and after the reading o f the K in g ’s Speech in the H ouse o f Lords by the Lord

Chancellor, the Address was moved by the Earl o f L iverpool and seconded by Lord Hemphill. Lord Lansdowne I

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then rose and after speaking o f the benefits to be derived from the Royal visit to Berlin, and o f the indefatigable energy shown by the K in g in his efforts to strengthen the foreign relations of the kingdom, he alluded to the removal o f sources o f friction with the United States. In regard to Persia he did not quite understand what was meant by the phrase in the Speech on the introduction of rej re-entative institutions in a practical form. Such it stitutions could not be regarded as a panacea for the il s o f Eastern communities. T h e situation in the Balkans, he noted with pleasure, was improving, and Russia and England were working together with that object. In regard to India further information was desirable and would doubtless be forthcom ing, especially as Lord Morley had described the circum stances o f the moment as “ form idable and obscure.” There must be no weakening o f the Indian Governm ent by distrust or by the law’s delay. H e welcom ed the changes about to be made in South Africa. H e next turned to the situation in Ireland which he regarded as most serious, scandalous and deplorable. Under the present administration a rake’s progress had been going on in that country— cutr; ges with firearms and cattledrives being on the increase. W hy did not the Government use the weapon that lay at their hands, the Coercion A c t ? A s to finance it did not require an expert in finance to know that we have a waning >eveiue with vast demands upon it, and that we have im[ rovidently dispensed with sources o f revenue which would now have stood us in good stead. Large demands were being made by the N avy, oldage pensions and social reform, and Mr. L loyd-G eorge was confronted by a serious situation. T h e speech was marked by two significant om ission s ; it contained no mention o f any action against the H ouse o f Lords in spite o f the many lurid speeches made by Ministers in the country, o r o f any proposals in regard to education. In regard to the Poor Law the Governm ent were waiting for the report o f the R oyal Commission, but they were about to proceed against the Welsh Church without regard to the R oyal Commission inquiring into that subject.

T h e Government reply to this was made

—lord crewe’s by Lord Crewe, who pointed out how the reply. K in g ’s visit to Berlin cleared and improved the whole atmosphere o f the two countries. A s to affairs in the Near East, the Government were not in full possession o f the circum stances which led to the change in government, but they hailed the fact that Turkey