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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22,

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How Edward VII Took

The Declaration of Protestantism

Journalist Recalls Scene when old form of

Declaration was used for Last Time.

By

MICHAEL MacDONAGH Author of "The Pageant of Parliament'

Was present as a journalist at that historic scene in the House of Lords, 35 years ago, when the Declaration against the Mass and the Invocation of Saints was made by the Sovereign to Parliament for the last time, and when King Edward VII, who made it, uttered with such manifest reluctance the words which, as he deeply fell, gave great; offence to the millions of his Catholic sub- jects.

Consort, Queen Alexandra, by his side. The Throne was surrounded by | heralda and pursuivants, officers of the Royal Household, and leading Ministers of the Government who were peers.

Out of this gorgeous group emerged the Lord Chancellor, distinguished by the full-bottomed wig ho wore in addition to his peer's robes, and bend- ing his right knee on the upper.step of the Throne, -presented, the King with one of two, copies of the De claration, retaining the other self.

him-

Then, rising to his feet, the Lord Chanecilor began to read, and the King repeated the words after him from his own copy of the Declara-

The Bill of Rights passed by Parlin-¡ tion. ment in 1889, after the election of King William and Queen Mary as

His Majesty looked dissatisfied, and Joint sharers of the Throne, following is voice was so low and indistinct the flight of James II, prescribed that as it mingled with the voice of the the Declaration should be made and Lord Chancellor, that the words of subscribed to by each new Sovereign the Declaration were for the most at the opening of Parliament or at the part unheard, and, indeed, to many Coronation, which ever should

(including some of my colleagues in' Brat happen after Accession. The terms the Reporters' Gallery) the whole of the Declaration were as follows:

procceding was unintellgible. "Superalitions and Idolatrous"

I, A. B., de solemnly and sincerely In the presence of God profess, trstity, and acclare that I do geneve

spover.

A conspicuous figure at the Throne was the late Duke of Norfolk, Earl Morshal, the leading Catholle layman

of the land. He looked down the Chamber with a fixed stare during the Declaration.

Declaration the New King Will Make

the

that in the Sacrament of the Lora's The Lord Chancellor next gave the Supper there 13 not any aran-King a scarlet-bound copy of the substantiation of the Elenichts vi New Testament, which His Majesty Then a pen and ink-bottle Bread and Wine into the bouy and kissed. Blood of Christ ut or after the conse- wère produced and the King sigried cration thereof by any person what- the Declaration--not his own copy, I

And that the invocation or noticed, but the copy read by Adoration of the Virgin Mary, or any Lord Chancellor, which the noble other saint, and the Sacritice of the lord, again kneeling, held with both Mas, as they are now used in the hands while His Majesty affixed his Church of Rome, re superstitious signature. und Kiolatrous. And I do solemnly in the presence of God profess, testify and declare that do make this De- claration and every part thereof in the plain and ordinary sense of the Words read unto me us they are commonly understood by English Protestants, without any Evasion, Equivocation, or Mental Reservation whatever, and without any dispensa- tion already granted to me for this purpose by the Pope, or any other authority or person whatsoever, or without any hope of any such dis- pensation from any person or autho- rity whatsoever, or without thinking that I am or can be acquitted before God or mun, or absolved of this Declaration

or any part thereof, although the Pope, or any other person or persons, or power whotsu- ever, should dispense with or cancel the came, or declare that it was null and void from the beginning.

The Declaration was, in fact, the oath provided in the earlier Tent Act "for disabling papists from sitting in either House of Parliament."

A new form of the Declaration was June, agreed to by Parliament in

House of 1910-the voting in the Commons being 383 for, 42 against- and this was made for the first time by King George V on Accession. It is in these terms:

I do solemnly and sincerely, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare that I am a faithful member of the Protestant Reform- ed Church as by low established in England, and I will, according to the true Intent of the enactments which secure the Protestant Suc-

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uphold and maintain the sald ennetments to the best of my powers pecording to law.

It will be made by King George VI when he opens his first session of Parliament.

There was no specific statute debar- OUTLOOK FOR TRADE

rlig Catholics from becoming Mem- bors of Parliament, but this outh just as effectively closed the doors of Legislature to them. In the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829, a new oath. was provided for Catholic Members. Daniel O'Connell

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An optimistic opinion regarding trade with China was expressed by Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, chlef Dantel O'Connell, whose election economic adviser to the Government, for Clare in 1820 compelled the recently in an address to the Royal Government to carry Emancipation, Empire Society on his recent financial | was not permitted to take the new

oath, on the ground that the Act was and economic mission

not restrospective-a piece of vindic-East,

live mennness due, it was said, to the

King, George IV-and O'Connell was

to the Far

He said that, considering her alze

thus baudked of his ambition of being and huge population, China was

the first Catholic to take his scat in reasonably tranquil.

the House of Commons. O'Connell

had to be re-elected for Clare.

He thought that manufacturers; should do all they could to maintain prosperous

Meanwhile, the Earl of Surrey, son their position there: A

and heir of the Duke of Norfolk, was China was the largest undeveloped returned for the pocket borough of Horsham and thus gained the dis-market in the world for manufactured tinction of being the first Catholle goods. M.P.

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brillant spectacle. The

What China particularly needed,

On February 14, 1901, the day that and what we could supply, were roll- King Edward VII opened his first way material, engineering supplies. Parliament, the House of Lords pre-power plant, &c., for sented a

her internal ceremony is the most ancient and development. She could not afford splendid associated with the Sover- to buy for cash, and to obtain capital eignty, and a Queen Victoria had he must take the necessary steps to ollowed It to fall into abeyance on

improve her credit, account of her old age, its revival by King Edward was an event of nation al interest.

In the past, rald Sir Frederick, a number of loans had been raised, especially for railways, on which The peers were in their robes of Government had settled a number defaults had occurred. The present scarlet and ermine, the galleries were of those defaults on occupied by the peeresses wearing

a reasonable their coronets or tiaras, but being in basis and In other cases had put for mourning for, Queen Victoria their ward proposals which he hoped ostrich feathers were block. At the would lead to settlements before long. Bar were assembled the Commons,

headed by the Speaker, having on hiá

right Balfour, Prime Minister, and on "LONDON GAZETTE"

his left Campbell-Bannerman, leader

of the Opposition.

It was the largest assembly 'that

ever was known of the three Estates

TO BE REDRESSED

of the Realm-the Lords, Spiritual Typographical Reform

and Temporal, and the Commons.

For it was a revival of the ceremonial Sir William Codling, Controller of opening of Parilament by the the Stationery Ofee, speaking at a Sovereign. In person, which Queen

een luncheon at the Printing Trades Ex- Victoria, on account of her oge, had hibition, stated that early in the new allowed to fail in abeyance. Mare-year

Hansard and the London over, for the first time in history the Gazette would follow the example Queen Consort was to be seen on the of certain newspapers who had throne in equal State with the King, recently redressed in new type. Hitherto the Queen Consort sat in a low chair at the foot of the throne.

Mr. Crowlesmith, President of the Exhibition, said that the printing

In the Reporters' Gallery were 20 Industry in this country to-day was Journalists, the only representatives run by craftsmen rather than by of the general public. I was there wakers in the ordinary sense. for The Times.

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The prevention of accidents and the cultivation of health-saving appll- ances in the factory were to-day the primary considerations of not only The King, arrayed in his Imperial the Government inspector but of Robes, sat on the Throne, with his everyone associated with the industry.

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