Guardian from London, Greater London, England • Page 1

No. SHEETS. WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1893. trader Ooz. mce pa.

By tytimt Week Foreign News Diocese of Sew Westminster Ireland Politleirtpt Ecclesiastical In Enthronement of the Bishop of Norwich KIATB-ALD FOB DENOMINATIONAL SCHOOLS THB NEW NINTH CLAUSE FBANOE AND SIAM BAD LANGUAGE IN A Policy for Church Schools: Religious Instruction and the London School Board New School Parson's View; Open-air Preaching; Are Churchyards Assessable? Tendencies of Scottish Presby- terianiem; Memoir of James Lonsdale and the Revised Version Bishop's College, Lennoxville: The Old Catholic Church at Munich; Lower House of Report; Bishop's College, 5 Blackheathj An Appeal Home News University and Collegiate Gospel of Peter A Fortnight in Holland DID MOSES WRITE THE PENTATEUCH APTEB ALL? THE POETICAL WOBKS OF SAMUEL TATLOB COLB- BIDGB EVOLUTION AND MAN'S PLACE IN NATURE Explanatory Analysis of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans The Poetical Works of William Basse; Hebrew Idolatry and Superstition; Novels Notices; New Editions; Note Music Canterbury Conference Parliament Extra-Parliamentary Speeches London School Marlborough College Jubilee Advertisements 1150, 1153, 1137 1137 1139 1139 1140 1140 1143 1143 1144 1144 1144 1144 1145 1146 1147 1147 1149 1154 1154 1155 1155 1156 1156 1157 1158 1158 1159 1164 1166 1166 1167 1167 THE WEEK. On Monday Lord Rosebery in the House of Lords and Sir Edward Grey in the House of Commons read a written statement on the present position of affairs between France and Siam. It laid down a distinction which it is of great importance to keep steadily in mind- between those aspects of the question which do not concern Great Britain and those which do. Under the former head come tlxe claims of French subjects for com pensation in respect of wrongs alleged to have been done them by the Siamese Government, the settlement of the frontier in the Mekong Valley, and the recent action of the French gunboats.

Under the latter head come the protection of British subjects and property at Bangkok and the independence and integrity of Siam. Lord Rosebery tells us that the naval force now at Bangkok is sufficient to secure the former object, and that her Majesty's Government are fully sensible of the grave importance of the latter. In these assurances of the Foreign Secretary we are quite content to put our trust. No instructed and serious politician can bo indifferent to tho inconvenience' of having a European neighbour not far from the eastern frontier of India as we already have one not far from the north-west frontier. Lord Dufferin's absence from his post at this moment is certainly inopportune, but it is none the less obvious that no Government can expect the representative of a friendly Power to submit to the kind of treatment which an English Ambassador has lately had to put up with in Paris.

The plea of the French Foreign-office is understood to be inability to prevent it. The press is free, and the use a section of it chooses to make of this freedom is to insult Lord Dufferin; how can any Government stop this kind of thing provided that journalists are found willing to stoop to itP The answer is that a Government is bound to stop this kind of thing or to put up. with the inconvenience of doing business with a charge d'affaires. If a guest is rudely treated in a friend's house his remedy is not to go there again until his host can ensuro him against the repetition of the insult. If the French Government wish to have Lord Dufferin back in Paris they must find some means of keeping their newspapers in order.

The labours of the House of Commons yesterday week were enlivened by one of those scenes which every member deprecates and every member is sorry to have miiwed. Mr, Brodriok began it by calling tho Irish nation impecunious and garrulous; Mr. Sexton not at Mr. Brodrick's language was grossly impertinent; the Chairman of Committees deprived his intervention of all its value by allowing his ruling to be disputed; the Government made matters worse by not supporting their Chairman. When Mr.

Mellor had ordered an offender to withdraw Mr. Gladstone should have seen that it was too late to beg him to accede the Chairman's wishes. Both Mr. Sexton and Mr. Healy made their attitude more contemptuous by treating Mr.

Mellor's directions as prompted by the clerk at the table. Whether the direction to withdraw was suggested by Mr. Milman or evolved out of Mr. Mellor'B own consciousness was a point which did not concern Mr. Sexton.

In any case, Mr. Mellor had made the direction his own, and if Mr. Gladstone rose at all it should have been to protect an official who had no means of defence or reply against wanton insult. But when Mr. Sexton and Mr.

Healy act together they are too powerful to be resisted by a Minister who holds office at their plcasure and Mr. Gladstone, perhaps wisely, preferred not to provoke hostility which might have influenced the division on clause 9. It is to be hoped that the next time Mr. Mellor offends an Irish member he will take that less lenient course which Mr. Sexton was so anxious to provoke on this occasion.

On the following day the disfranchisement of Dublin University was attacked by Mr. Parker Smith, defended by Mr. Gladstone, and carried by a majority of 32. The only reasons assigned by the Prime Minister were his general dislike to the representation of Universities and his special obligation to leave the question to be dealt with as regards Dublin by the new Irish Legislature. But in that case why deal with it in a sense unfavourable to the University in the present BillP Why not leave the University represented in the Irish Parliament, and let the Irish Parliament have the responsibility of excluding itP The University of Dublin would contribute to the Irish Legislature an element which it will not be easy to introduce into it in a degree at all proportionate to its numerical strength in the country, and so would make the representation of Ireland more complete and accurate.

On the same afternoon Mr. Gladstone announced the abandonment of the in-and-out" plan and the retention of the eighty Irish members with full speaking and voting power in British as well as in Imperial matters. He did not pretend to any change of mind on the subject, nor did he attempt to defend the new proposal on its merits. He had satisfied himself, ho said, that the opinion of the Houso of Commons, and especially of the Liberal members, preferred this solution to any other, and on Thursday a majority of twenty-seven confirmed his belief. Even the majority, however, must havo listened with pleasure to the speech in which Mr.

whom, by the way, wo regret to have done injustice last made fun of tho Prime Minister's change of front, and insisted on the flagrant inconsistency of destroying self- government in Britain by the very measuro which establishes it in Ireland. If ever this monstrous provision should become law, wo promise ourselves some amusement in watching tho disappointment in store for the Radicals when they find that the Irish contingent, on whose support they now count so confidently, cannot be trusted always to vote as they direct. But, though the authors of the scheme will in all probability not reap the results they expect from it, this is no palliation of their conduct in framing it. We can understand the annoyance of seeing the Liberal majority at Westminster disappear from the moment that the Irish members cross the Channel with no intention of returning. But even this prospect should not have reconciled Liberals to this open breach with the representative principle.

If their sole object were to secure votes for future Radical legislation it would have been simpler, and quite as just, to enact that every Radical vote shall count as two in a division. The private inquiry set on foot by the Goveimment into the wishes of tho Liberal members is regarded, we suppose, by Mr. Gladstone as tantamount to a second reading debate. Otherwise it would be difficult to explain Mr. Gladstone's theory that a constitutional change of the gravest and most far-reaching character can be adequately attacked or defended in less than six hours.

After that the guillotine descended on the second compartment of the Bill, and clauses nine to twenty-six inclusive were either nognjtived, or postponed withwt The state of county Clare was under discussion in the House of Lords on Monday, and Lord Spencer again gave expression to the Ministerial dislike of having recourse to a change of venue. As Lord Spencer did not explain the reason of this dislike, we can say as to its adequacy, but there is no need for similar reticence in regard to the argument he actually put forward. Nobody supposes that the determination of juries to acquit a prisoner, no matter what evidence there may be against him, is the only obstacle to the administration of justice in Ireland. The difficulty of getting witnesses to give evidence is an equal, perhaps a greater, difficulty, and this, no doubt, would not be met by a change of venue. All that is maintained is that the disposition of juries is one difficulty, and that in most cases this would be remedied by a change of venue.

'The cures for Irish ills are seldom more than partial, and we fail to see why this incompleteness should be an objection to one more than to another. To be triod by your peers does not mean that you are to be tried by those, who sympathise with tho crime of which you arc accused. Bishop Tucker reports that forty of the chiefs belonging to the Protestant party in Uganda have agreed to abolish domestic slavery. No doubt many of the evils of slavery may for some time survive the disappearance of the word, but if the chiefs of the Roman Catholic party will accede to Bishop Tucker's a great step forward will have been taken, and Uganda under British control will be freed from the great curse of the African continent. Bishop Tucker's action in the matter has been terised by great wisdom and moderation.

The subjects touched upon in the Archbishop of Canterbury's addresses at his diocesan conference are so many that comment becomes impossible. We can only regret that upon two of need of a new and definite policy in regard to voluntary schools, and the prospects of religious teaching in board are wholly unable to rise to the heights of his Grace's optimism. Those, however, to whom the dangers which the Archbishop thinks imaginary or exaggerated seem real pressing must do their best to face them, even at the cost of being thought unnecessarily anxious by their spiritual superiors. Wednesday the Chamber, by 275 votes to 203, resolved on the total repeal of the duties on wine, beer, and cider in lieu of the partial remission proposed by the Government aud tho Budget Committee. This involves a deficit of By 252 votes to 210 it also detached this repeal from the Budget in order to make it a distinct Bill.

Two proposals to raise the duty on wheat from about 30 per as at present, to 40 or 50 por cent, respectively were referred to the Budget Committee. M. Dupuy has intimated that the Government is disposed to accord pardons to tho students and artisans convicted of rioting, provided that the students are not visited, with any punishment by the University authorities. Friday was tho file of tho Republic, the anniversary of the taking of tho Bastille, but the celebration was loss general than it has boon of late years. For some yours many of tho hotter classes have gone out of town on the day, and this was tho case this year to an unusual extent, owing to the fear of disturbances, and for the same reason the excursionists from the pi'ovinces were fewer.

The attendance at the Longchamps review was also thinner than usual. The number of troops present was about the average, as, though the garrison has been reinforced to nearly double strength, the Are brigade, the Republican Guard, and thirteen battalions of infantry were retained in barraoks to deal with any disorder that might arise. The day passed over, however, in perfect quiet. The advice of the municipal council to take no part in tho fSte was not followed except in the Quartier Latin, where the recent disturbances took place. It seems that the absence of Lord Dufferin from Paris is to be prolonged as a silent protest against the violent attacks made against him in the French press.

Tho Temps, the. Foreign-ofilce organ, argues at some length that the Government cannot be held responsible for these attacks, as it has no power to check them. Prosecutions under the press law for insult to an Ambassador have to bo undertaken oithor by tho Ambassador himsolf or at his request. M. Loze" will, it ia said, succeed M.

Decrais at the Court of Vienna. Thursday the colonial question was disoussed in the Chamber. M. Ferou (Extreme Left) maintained that it was a great danger for a country enjoyiug the privileges of neutrality to possess an immense colonial dependency like the Congo State; but the Chamber decided by an overwhelming majority that Article I. of the Constitution should bo revised in snob a ftt to fliinhte Belgium to colonial.