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R.C. DISABILITIES.

SURVIVING PROVISIONS OF PENAL LAWS.

OBSOLETE LAWS.-

Real Disabilities.

BRITISH MUSEUM.

SOCRATES STATUETTE AND JANE AUSTEN MS.

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The objection of Roman Catholles to the present state of the law is not, however, entirely sentimental, Some of the Acts and parts of Acts. in force inflict upon them materini · losses as well. This particularly applies to the religious Orders and The tice which Lord Fitz"Alan element in the constitution of the have an ergan more expressive, than Communities, which are essential

The British Museum is at last to addressed to the "Times" urging Roman Catholic Church. that time should be given for the Catholics may "feel" indignans or which records the additions to its Roman the succinct Parliamentary Return finn sages of the Roman Catholic amused, according to their tem-collections along with the particu Relief Bill will, it says, have come perament, at enactments that relllars of its expenditure and of public to many persons as a surprise,gions Orders are "Huperstitious;" They are unaware, or but very but they feel that their rights as

attendance. The opening number vaguely aware, that" Roman Catho-subjects are infringed, when it is issued by the Trustees at the price. of "The British Museum Quarterly," lies, as such, are under legal dis declared that dispositions or be of two shilings, has thirty-two abilities from which all the rest of quests for the benefit of an Order, well-printed pages of stout paper, their countrymen are free. disabilities are created by certain be declared void us being for super nequisitions of the Museum but These or gifts to an abbey or convent, may and not only describes the latest surviving provisions of the penalstitious uses, ilaws.

These enactments exhibits many of them in effective As described ir memorandum printed with the Bill,been shown in quite recent cases. Finitial number is given to the ata- the are by no means deal letters, as has plates, The place of honour in the they-are-useless and many of them They are, of course. so far as prac-tuette of Socrates recently found at are ridiculous, in the world of ticable, evaded. Property is veated Alexandria, which is regarded as a ¡ to-day.

The Bill purports to dein trustees for the benefit of Orders. more life-like representation of the nothing more than to repeal them. but it cannot be vested in them philospher than has been furnished and if in fact it is limited to this upon express trusts, as in the case by any previously known work of lobject, its speedy enactment is a of matter of common justice and fair rangements of the kind. It is hardly medieval treasures recently nequir

non-Catholic charities.

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Among the other ancient and play. It asks for no privileges. It necessary to say, involve all sorts ed. Illustrations is but an attempt to place Romanof difficulties-and costs-in deal-several pieces from the remarkable Catholles on the same footing asing with the property, besides the hoard of Chinese aver-ware, dating) others in regard to a number of payment of heavy death duties on from the seventh to the tenth cen subjects as to which the law now fine denths of the trustees. places them at a disadvantage. these charges, or most of them, non- the province of Shensi

Fromtury of our era, which came from The Bill has come down from Com- Catholic charities are exempt. Imittee, but it cannot get any fur ther unless the Government give facilities for its fan stages. As it passed the second reading without debate, and as similar Bills have heen read a second time in several former. Sessions, these stages are unlikely to take long. If it were sent up to the Loris it would almost certainly become law before the Thelldays. A large number of men !bers of all parties, said to be as Imany as 186, have signed a memorial to the Prime Minister Jask the him to facilitate its farther progress. Its at depends upan his decision.

Bells and Steeples. Barred.

Among the provisions stated in the memorandum to be actually subsisting are declarations that |books, n' Roman Catholie, ritual shall never be kept in this realm. that no-priest ma ofeiate in w place of worship with a bell and steeple," or may officiate at funeral or may wear the habits of his Order in public. A whole jaystem of provisions affecta mem

bers of religious Orders, with penalties ranging from £50 a month for neglecting to register up to banishment for life on being admit- ted to an Order, and transportation for life if the person "so admitted is found at large three months after Rentence. This codey it is werth Fobserving, is re-enacted by a statute of 1860. He provisions, no doubt. are and have been dead letters. They are, openly and flagrantly broken with entire impunity. But

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are given of

PRISON RULES.

The Museum has now a èunsider-) Illegal Associatieris,

able fragment of the first draft of The pation af Roman Catholle Jane Austen's "Persuasion to place charities has been aggravated of beside the single letter in her hand-! late by the astuteness of the Rewriting which it has hitherto pos- venue authorities and their ad-sessed.. This has an added value as- visers. Exemption from Income-tax the only surviving ME. of any part is allowed upon lands and tenements of her six well-known, works. The owned and occupied by a charity. charm. of her handwriting is! certain-Roman Cathete charity; familiar from other facsimiles, and which is admitted to be within the this specimen has the further in- ordinary legal definition of "terest, of revealing changes in the charity, applied for this exemption. plot of "Persuasion" as it develop- it was disallowed on the ground in the course of composition. that the Ondler carrying of the charity is,

legal associn- tion.

In Another

case nuns engaged in a charity were refused- exemption by the inspector because their Community is affiliated to a foreign association. All these nuns are English, all their work fa done 21. 1925, are amended" as fol- In England under an English trust'

lows:- deech all their money is English,) by the deletion of the words: and they donos transmit any part, "Industrial Light Labour” | of it to any foreign body or any

next before rule 279; foreign person. These grigyinees by the addition to rule 283 at least are palpable and real. It (2) of the following words:- is not creditable that they should

No such allotment of go unredressed in a land which

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