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r A Weekly N ew s p a p e r a n d R eview . DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS. From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX . to T he T ablet, June 4, 1870. V ol. 1 16 No. 3,661. L ondon, July 9, 1910. P r ic e 50., b y P o s t s%d. 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 o f t h e W e e k : Page Imperial Parliament : Amendments to the Accession Declaration Bill— The Public Accounts Committee and the Control of Expenditure— Discussion on the Budget — The _Religion of the Regent— Catholic Views—Wednesdav’s_ Sitting — Extension of Boundaries—The Budget — The Principal Irish Industry — The Italian Education Bill — The French Government and Electoral Reform—East Dorset Election— The Public-House Trust Association—The French Government and its Civil S e r v a n t s ......................... 41 T opics o f t h e D a y : The Effect o f Taxation on Tern 45 CONTENTS. T opics (Continued): Page Church and State in Spain . . 46 The Branch Theory . . . . 47 N o t e s .................................................49 R ev ie w s : Spinoza’s Short Treatise on God and Man . . Practical Hinrs on Education . . The Life of Saint Clare . . Literary Notes The Catholic Church and Divorce The Catholic Union of Great Britain Speech D ay at St. Edmund’s College M a r r i a g e s ........................................ 55 C orrespondence : Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­ spondent) .................................... 57 5 o5° 50 5 1 52 53 54 C orrespondence (Continued) : News from Ireland.. Page . . 58 L e t t e r s to t h e E d it or : Rescue Problems . . . . . . 59 Cardinal Vaughan and Oscott . . 59 Sunday Masses in London . . 59 Esperanto . . . . . . . . 59 The Oath taken by Catholic Bishops . . . . . . . . 59 National Conference of Catholic Trade-Unionists.. . . . . 60 A New Song-Cycle Blackburn Trades] Council and the Secular Resolution E t Camera Convent of the Poor Servants of the Mother of God, Rome . . N ew s from t h e D io ce se s : Westminster.................................... 62 D io ceses (Continued): Page S o u th w a r k .........................................62 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 63 Middlesbrough . . . . . . 6$ Northampton ............................. 63. Portsmouth . . . . . . . . 63 C r icket.. . . . . -. ..63 The Vincent de Paul Society . . 64 The Royal Declaration . . . . 60 “ The Ceremony of the A lphabet” 69 O b it u a r y ......................................... 69 Shrine to Blessed Joan of Arc at Westminster Cathedral . . . . 71 S U P P L EM E N T . Educational Notes . . . . # . . 73 Catholics and the West Riding County Council . . . . . . 74 Doings of Local Authorities . . 75 Our Colleges and Schools . . . . 75 SU B SCR IP T IO N RATES. T H E T A B L E T is supplied post free to subscribers who pay in advance at the following rates : Within the United Kingdom ... 24/- per annum. East India, the Colonies, and Foreign Countries ......................................... 26/- per annum. Shorter periods p r o r a ta . Subscriptions are payable by Cheque on any London Bank or by Money Order (crossed on the Post Office, Bedford-street, W .C .) in favour of T h e T a b l e t . F o r e ig n Sub s c r ib e rs are asked to remit by M o v e ) O rd er in preference to Foreign Cheque. * „ * R e je c te d M S S . can not be r e tu rn e d un le ss accom­ p a n ie d by a n addressed a n d stam ped cover. NOTANDA. What the Catholic Church thinks of divorce. A verbatim report of the striking evidence given by Mgr. Moyes before the Royal Commission (p. 52). Speech Days— at Beaumont College and St. Edmund’s, Ware (pp. 54, 75). Full account of the proceedings in connexion with the Annual Conference of the St. Vincent de Paul Society held in Sheffield (p. 64). Our Rome correspondent offers congratulations to the diocese o f Southwark, the Beda College, and the Collegio Angelico in Rome upon the success of the Rev. George Hitchcock. How the “ laurea ” of the Biblical Commission was won (p. 57). A venerable forgery is once more circulated in the columns of The P a l l M a l l Gazette. What happened when Father John Gerard wrote to expose the absurdity (p. 59). What would happen if some future Prince of Wales were discovered to be “ a bright young Nonconformist” (p. 4 9 ) How the Catholics of Moorthorpe held a meeting in the Church of England schoolroom on behalf of their proposed school (p. 74). N ew S er ie s . V o l . LX XX IV . N o. 3,060. CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT AMENDMENTS TO THE ACCESSION DECLARATION BILL. T H E forcing of a division on the First Reading of the Government’s Accession Declaration Bill shows that Captain Craig and those who think with him intend to be as good as their word and to oppose the measure at every stage. Several amendments have already been handed in from both sides of the House. Thus one Unionist— Mr. Charles Craig— and two Liberals— Mr. Agar-Robartes and Mr. Morton— have given notice to move the rejection of the Accession Declaration Bill ; while three Liberals actively identified with Nonconformity— Mr. Silvester Horne, Mr. Haydn Jones, and Mr. Ellis Davis— will move after the Second Reading has been cartied an instruction to the Committee to insert a provision by which “ the Sovereign, whilst making declaration that he will maintain the Protestant Reformed religion, need not avow himself a member of the Protestant Reformed Church as bylaw established in England.” There was but a thin House when — t h e p u b l i c a c c o u n t s Colonel R. Williams, Chairman of THE CONTROL OF tllG J UDllC ACCOllFltS OoiHIIllttGCj e x p e n d i t u r e . moved the consideration of three reports by the Committee. Such reports were, of course, belated, but they acted as deterrents to financial wrong. Modern legislation was accompanied by a tendency to withdraw expenditure from the control of Parliament and leave it in the hands of Departments unchecked. Mr. Gibson Bowles said that he believed that the report of that Committee would be a revelation to the publieof the true uses and real work of theHouseofCommons, which were not to secure the return of this or that party to power but to control the national expenditure and to control the Ministers who were responsible for it. In regard to old-age pensions the Treasury which had insisted on everyone else being audited now itself refused to be audited. The Post Office was the chief sinner among Government departments. It was a bad business department. It made a loss where the telephone company made a profit. He would not say it falsified its accounts, but it “ sugared ” them to an almost incredible extent. Contrary to the Exchequer and Audit

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A Weekly N ew s p a p e r a n d R eview .

DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX . to T he T ablet, June 4, 1870.

V ol. 1 16 No. 3,661. L ondon, July 9, 1910.

P r ic e 50., b y P o s t s%d.

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 o f t h e W e e k :

Page

Imperial Parliament : Amendments to the Accession Declaration Bill— The Public Accounts Committee and the Control of Expenditure— Discussion on the Budget — The _Religion of the Regent— Catholic Views—Wednesdav’s_ Sitting — Extension of Boundaries—The Budget — The Principal Irish Industry — The Italian Education Bill — The French Government and Electoral Reform—East Dorset Election— The Public-House Trust Association—The French Government and its Civil S e r v a n t s ......................... 41 T opics o f t h e D a y :

The Effect o f Taxation on Tern

45

CONTENTS.

T opics (Continued):

Page

Church and State in Spain . . 46 The Branch Theory . . . . 47 N o t e s .................................................49 R ev ie w s :

Spinoza’s Short Treatise on God and Man . . Practical Hinrs on Education . . The Life of Saint Clare . . Literary Notes The Catholic Church and Divorce The Catholic Union of Great Britain Speech D ay at St. Edmund’s

College

M a r r i a g e s ........................................ 55 C orrespondence :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) .................................... 57

5 o5° 50 5 1 52 53 54

C orrespondence (Continued) :

News from Ireland..

Page . . 58

L e t t e r s to t h e E d it or :

Rescue Problems . . . . . . 59 Cardinal Vaughan and Oscott . . 59 Sunday Masses in London . . 59 Esperanto . . . . . . . . 59 The Oath taken by Catholic

Bishops . . . . . . . . 59 National Conference of Catholic

Trade-Unionists.. . . . . 60 A New Song-Cycle Blackburn Trades] Council and the

Secular Resolution E t Camera Convent of the Poor Servants of the

Mother of God, Rome . . N ew s from t h e D io ce se s : Westminster.................................... 62

D io ceses (Continued):

Page

S o u th w a r k .........................................62 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 63 Middlesbrough . . . . . . 6$ Northampton ............................. 63. Portsmouth . . . . . . . . 63 C r icket.. . . . . -. ..63 The Vincent de Paul Society . . 64 The Royal Declaration . . . . 60 “ The Ceremony of the A lphabet” 69 O b it u a r y ......................................... 69 Shrine to Blessed Joan of Arc at

Westminster Cathedral . . . . 71

S U P P L EM E N T . Educational Notes . . . . # . . 73 Catholics and the West Riding

County Council . . . . . . 74 Doings of Local Authorities . . 75 Our Colleges and Schools . . . . 75

SU B SCR IP T IO N RATES. T H E T A B L E T is supplied post free to subscribers who pay in advance at the following rates :

Within the United Kingdom ... 24/- per annum. East India, the Colonies, and Foreign Countries ......................................... 26/- per annum.

Shorter periods p r o r a ta . Subscriptions are payable by Cheque on any London Bank or by Money Order (crossed on the Post Office, Bedford-street, W .C .) in favour of T h e T a b l e t . F o r e ig n Sub s c r ib e rs are asked to remit by M o v e ) O rd er in preference to Foreign Cheque. * „ * R e je c te d M S S . can not be r e tu rn e d un le ss accom­

p a n ie d by a n addressed a n d stam ped cover.

NOTANDA.

What the Catholic Church thinks of divorce. A verbatim report of the striking evidence given by Mgr. Moyes before the Royal Commission (p. 52).

Speech Days— at Beaumont College and St. Edmund’s, Ware (pp. 54, 75).

Full account of the proceedings in connexion with the Annual Conference of the St. Vincent de Paul Society held in Sheffield (p. 64).

Our Rome correspondent offers congratulations to the diocese o f Southwark, the Beda College, and the Collegio Angelico in Rome upon the success of the Rev. George Hitchcock. How the “ laurea ” of the Biblical Commission was won (p. 57).

A venerable forgery is once more circulated in the columns of The P a l l M a l l Gazette. What happened when Father John Gerard wrote to expose the absurdity (p. 59).

What would happen if some future Prince of Wales were discovered to be “ a bright young Nonconformist” (p. 4 9 )

How the Catholics of Moorthorpe held a meeting in the Church of England schoolroom on behalf of their proposed school (p. 74).

N ew S er ie s . V o l . LX XX IV . N o. 3,060.

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

AMENDMENTS TO

THE ACCESSION DECLARATION BILL. T H E forcing of a division on the First Reading of the Government’s Accession Declaration Bill shows that Captain Craig and those who think with him intend to be as good as their word and to oppose the measure at every stage. Several amendments have already been handed in from both sides of the House. Thus one Unionist— Mr. Charles Craig— and two Liberals— Mr. Agar-Robartes and Mr. Morton— have given notice to move the rejection of the Accession Declaration Bill ; while three Liberals actively identified with Nonconformity— Mr. Silvester Horne, Mr. Haydn Jones, and Mr. Ellis Davis— will move after the Second Reading has been cartied an instruction to the Committee to insert a provision by which “ the Sovereign, whilst making declaration that he will maintain the Protestant Reformed religion, need not avow himself a member of the Protestant Reformed Church as bylaw established in England.”

There was but a thin House when

— t h e p u b l i c a c c o u n t s Colonel R. Williams, Chairman of

THE CONTROL OF tllG J UDllC ACCOllFltS OoiHIIllttGCj e x p e n d i t u r e . moved the consideration of three reports by the Committee. Such reports were, of course, belated, but they acted as deterrents to financial wrong. Modern legislation was accompanied by a tendency to withdraw expenditure from the control of Parliament and leave it in the hands of Departments unchecked. Mr. Gibson Bowles said that he believed that the report of that Committee would be a revelation to the publieof the true uses and real work of theHouseofCommons, which were not to secure the return of this or that party to power but to control the national expenditure and to control the Ministers who were responsible for it. In regard to old-age pensions the Treasury which had insisted on everyone else being audited now itself refused to be audited. The Post Office was the chief sinner among Government departments. It was a bad business department. It made a loss where the telephone company made a profit. He would not say it falsified its accounts, but it “ sugared ” them to an almost incredible extent. Contrary to the Exchequer and Audit

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