THE TABLET.

A IVeekly Newspaper an d R eview .

DUM VOBIS GRATÜLAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMÜS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT.S.

F rom ihe B r i e f o f H i s H o lin e s s P i u s I X , to T h e T a b l e t , Ju n e 4, ib fo .

Vol. 93. No. 3070.

London, March i i , 1899.

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Chronicle of the Week :

Imperial Parliament.: Tribute to Coni Herschell—Ritualism and tiie Army Estimates—Ritualism jn the Lords—The End of the Telephone Monopoly— The Swiss System—An Education Debate — the Muscat Incident--The British Side of the Storv—England and France on the Nile—The Bishop of London on Confession— The pope’s Health—The Millenary of

Alfred the Great— Catholic Carriages: A Warning— Sound Liberal Doctrine at Hull—The Navy E s t im a t e s ......................... 357 Headers: M*"- Lloyd George and the Schools 361

I he Scramble for China . . .. 362 father Isaac Hecker . . .. 363 ■ the ^Importance of Christian

■ Epigraphy for Ecclesiastical History . . . . . . . . 354

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Notes ~ . . — — . . 366 Reviews :

The Browning Love-Letters . . 368 The Lord’s Prayer Illustrated . . 369 The Life and Letters of Lewis

Carroll ....................................... 37° B e l l e ...................................................370 Poems . . . . . . . . 370 The Catechist . . # . . .. 371 How to Comfort the Sick . ^ . 371 History of the Catholic Religion in the Sandwich Islands . . 371 Books of the W e e k ............................371 Correspondence :

Rome (From Our Owa Corre­

spondent) . . — — — 373 News from Ireland — — 374 News from France............................375 L etters to the E ditor :

Leper Houses in the Middle Ages 376 Declaration and Defiance.. . . 376

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L etters to the E ditor (Con­

tinued):

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Eighteen Centuries o f the Ortho­

Page dox Greek Church . . . . 376 “ Two Doctrines in One Pulpit " . . 376 Declaration of the English Church

Union .. . . . . . . 376 A School Question in Alderney . . 377 The Daughters of Blessed Columba at Perugia ......................... 377 The Recent Troubles in China . . 377 The Ritual Controversy . . . . 378 Ten Years’ Progress in Lahore . . 381 Southwark Rescue Society .. . . 382 Catholic Evidence Lectures . . 382 O b it u a r y ... . . ~ — 382 Social and Political . . . . 384

SU PPLEM ENT. N ews from the Schools : _

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Cambridge Local Examinations 389 Victoria University and Secon­

dary Education .. . . .. 389 The Raising of the School Age 390 The Religious Difficulty in Rural

S c h o o l s ................................ 39° American College Entrance E x ­

aminations .. -• . . 390 Out-of-School Employment . . 391 Beaumont College . . . . . . 391 News from the D ioceses : Westminster 391

S o u th w a rk ............................... 392 Birmingham...............................393 Hexham 2nd Newcastle . . . . 393 Leeds ..................................... 394 Northampton ......................... 394 Salford .................... .. ... 394 Newport . . .. . . . . 394 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 395

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

Lo r d Sa l i s b u r y ’s tribute to the late Lord Herschell lord „ erschell. , was expressed with unmis-

takeable sigas of deep feeling. After

Pointing out the pathetic character of the way in which a very great public servant and a very eminent public man had oeen taken so suddenly, apart from all he loved and so far from home, with his work in which he was deeply interested, and was carrying to a successful conclusion, only half finished, fre declared that the loss was almost irreparable. After the -Earl of Kimberley and the Lord Chancellor had spoken in ■ * similar strain, Lord James of Hereford told hew, in one ■ °f the last interviews he had with Lord Herschell, his lordship had spoken of the claim that had been made on his services by the Prime Minister to represent this country under circumstances of great delicacy. “ He told me,” ■ continued Lord James, “ of his system, overwrought by Work, how weary and worn he was, and how he was looking forward to a long period of rest and repose with those who Were very near and dear to him. But he turned aside from 'that prospect o f restoration to health and cast not one lingering look behind him in order that he might do his duty to his country.”

On the same afternoon ripples of the

— r i t u a l i s m a n d g r e a t Ritualist controversy reached the

tions put to Ministers. Mr. S. Smith freckled the Secretary o f State for India and the First Lord ° l the Admiralty in turn. He asked the former if he was responsible for the appointment of a Ritualist clergyman to ffre bishopric of Madras, and the latter if he were aware that the obsequies of a naval chaplain in Portsmouth had freen celebrated with Vespers for the Dead and a Requiem Mass. Sir J. Willcox asked Mr. Balfour if, in view of the declaration issued by the English Church Union, which denied the right of the Crown or of Parliament to determine the ‘ doctrine, the discipline, and the ceremonial of the Church o f England, he would confer with the Lord Chancellor with a view o f guarding against any benefice being conferred on any clergyman kuown to be a member of the

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English Church Union. Mr. Balfour replied that, so far as he was concerned, and he thought he could also speak for the Lord Chancellor, he would not recommend to a benefice any clergyman unless convinced that he would loyally obey his Bishop. Mr. Wyndham’s exposition of the Army and of the Army’s finances, which followed, was regarded on both sides of the House as a singularly lucid statement. The Government had no heroic proposals to make, as they thought that the reforms of last year should be given a fair trial. Good progress was being made in the provision of rifle-ranges, there was a steady inflow o f recruits, retired men were increasingly finding civil employment. In referring to the great percentage of recruits rejected on medical grounds, he said that the alarming figures justified him in suggesting that a system of physical drill should be introduced into all schools aided by the State. This suggestion was warmly cheered, and was frequently referred to with approval during the evening. Sir Charles Dilke and Major Rasch then turned the discussion on the supply of trained horses for the Horse and Field Artillery, and after a short speech from Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Mr. Balfour explained that the great and growing Army Estimates had no connection with the special policy of the present Government, but were rather the result of our increasing imperial responsibilities and of the military and naval policy of other nations.

The motion in the name of Lord Kinnaird

— r itualism macje ^ e House of Lords again the centre of th e lords, parliamentary, and, we may add, o f general

" interest. His lordship asked for a return o f all the cases in which the Bishop’s veto had been exercised since 1840, and of the churches belonging to the Church of England in which confessional boxes had been set up. Answering on behalf of the Government, the Earl o f Dudley said that a return of cases in which the episcopal veto had been exercised under the Public Worship Regulation Act of 1874 was in course of preparation. The return as to confessional boxes could not be granted, as the Home Office had no statutory power to obtain the information asked for, and the trouble involved in ascertaining even the approximate number o f churches in which confessionals had been set up would be out of all proportion with the value of the information obtained. As will be seen from the report o f the discussion, which we publish in another column, Lord Salisbury afterwards refused to divide the House on the question of this return, which he ’undertook should be furnished by the Government. The Standard is well pleased with Lord Salisbury’s reply, because it thinks