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D0M VGBiJ GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS DT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT.S.
From the B r ie f of F its Holiness P iu s IX. to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, life.
V ol. 95. No. 3 ^^®' L ondon, F ebruary 24., 1900. pricesd., by post
[R e g is t e r ed a t t h e G e n e r a l Post O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper1
C hronicle of t h e W e e k :
Page
Imperial Parliament : Leaders in Disagreement — The War Vote Passed—Compulsory Military Service-Ancient History in the Commons—The Relief of Kimberley— The Retreat of General Cronje— Across the Tugela Once M o re Fighting at Rensburg and Dordrecht —General Cronje is Bombarded and Asks for an Armistice —Death o f Mr. Joseph Co wen — The Famine in India — The London Central Railway— France and Germany—The Manchester Ship-Canal......................... 277 Lord Roberts’ Advance . . . . 281 The French Fathers of the Assump
tion . . . . . . . . 282 Purpose and Art in Fiction .. 283 The Struggle for the Schools in
France . . . . . . . . 284
CONTENTS.
N otes
R eview s :
Page
288
A History of Italian Unity .. 290 Tangweera . . ......................... 29x Nicholas and Mary . . •- 291 Rural L i f e .................................... .... Eureka -• •• •• •• 3or Jonah—And Buddha •• 302 Origins and Issues . . . . 302 The King’s Deputy . . . . 3° 2 Correspondence :
Rome :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . — - — 293 News from Ireland — «. 294 News from France.. . . . . 295 L e t t e r s to t h e E d it or :
Mr. Kenyon and the “ Hideous
Blood Accusation" . . . . 295 A Disclaimer . . . . #•- 295 Cardinal Logue and the Irish
Militia .................................... 295
L e t t e r s to th e E d itor (Con- Page tinued) :
The Samoa Convention . . . . 296 A Correction ......................... 296 Et Caetera . . . . . . . . 296 The Ritual Controversy . . . . 297 The Catholic Union and the “ Osser
vatore Romano ” . . . . . . 299 Sir W. Butler 301 Catholic Prisoners’ Aid Society . . 302 Catholics in the Transvaal .. . . 303 Catholic Naval Chaplains . . . . 303 The Loyalty of French Canadians 303 Books of the W e e k ............................ 304 F rom E veryw h ere . . 304 O b it u a r y . . . . . . 305 M a r r ia g e .................................... 306 Social an d P o l it ic a l „ 306
SU PPLEM ENT. N ews from t h è S chools :
Propaganda and thè Christian
Brothers . . . . . . . .
N ew s from th e S chools (Con
tinued): The London School Board and
Evening Schools.................... 30(? Technical Education . . .. ?0n “ Elementary School Humour ” . . 309 Towards a Compromise . . .. 3Io J ubilee of Oakview School, Hath e r s a g e ........................................ West of Scotland Catholic Teach
ers’ A ssociation.....................3lr N ew s from t h e D ioceses :
Westminster , , S o u th w a rk ........................ Liverpool . . . . Northampton . . , , Nottingham........................
« 31* . . 312
3T2 . . 312 •• 313
The French Government and the
Bishops . . . . . . . . 3j3 The Pope and the Third Order of
St. Francis . . . . .. ., 3I^ The Church in the United States!.’ 315
*** Rejected MS, cannot be returned unless accompanied with address and postage.
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK
N O T A N D A .
A letter from the Chief Rabbi points out that, whereas Mr. Kenyon first used words which naturally suggested that the information he had received about ritual murders among the Jews from a well-known priest concerned matters within his personal knowledge, in his last letter he falls back upon a vague reference to the public debates in the Austrian Parliament. Dr. Adler, who writes with justifiable warmth, commends to Mr. Kenyon’s attention Father Thurston’s recent article on the subject in The Month (p. 295).
The School Stage Bill proposed by the French Ministry forms the subject of a striking pastoral by Cardinal Lang6aieux, who enters a protest against what he forcibly describes as a measure of ostracism (p. 284).
In his charge at St. Paul’s the Bishop of London, after declaring that the Church of England was a v ia media in the Aristotelian sense, proceeded to lay down the attitude of the Anglican Church towards the Mass and Confession (p. 297).
Some examination of the extraordinary legend that Cardinal Manning appointed the late Mr. Purcell his biographer as a sort of compensation for having ruined a newspaper with which Mr. Purcell was connected. The true facts as to the newspaper in question, as well as to how Mr. Purcell come to be Cardinal Mannings biographer, are mentioned (p. 296).
A letter from the heads of the Franciscan Order in Rome to Provincials all over the world invites them to co-operate in organising a general congress of the members of the Third Order in the Holy City during the year of Juuilee
The Irish barrister resident at Durban has written a letter to a Cork paper in which he sheds a good deal of light on the kind of toleration shown to Catholics by the Transvaal Government. He does not evince a high idea of Dr. Leyds’s accuracy of statement (p. 303).
New Series. Vol. LXIII. No. 2,429.
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT :
LEADERS IN DISAGREEMENT. L' OR.D ROSEBERY’S intervention in the debate on the military proposals of the , , . . , Government was made in a ringing speech which was obviously intended as a goad to the Government. Those proposals were, he declared, totally inadequate to meet the grave crisis in which the country, denuded of its troops and waging a great war at a distance, now stood. It was no use putting off discussion of such a measure as the mobilisation of the fleet. The crisis was urgent, the danger was upon us. It was not alone that our four months of warfare in South Africa had been unproductive, we had endangered interests all the world over. He could see no signs of the benevolent disposition of foreign countries on which the Government seemed to rely. The Boers knew that time was the essence of the situation, but our Government had not yet realised it. This business was a matter of life and death, and if we lost South Africa we should lose the principal colony of the Empire, the most important base that we could have outside these islands. But we should lose more than that — the prestige on which the Empire rests. These fears were echoed by the Earl of Kimberley, but Lord Salisbury declined to be drawn into the panic by what he described as the gloomiest collection of lugubrious vaticinations he had heard. Next day he was followed by the Leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons who, in plain reference to Lord Rosebery’s speech, declared that there was no need to contemplate the situation in a spirit of panic, and he thanked the Prime Minister for the sobriety of tone that marked his speech. Sir Henry theQ went on to show that conscription was not only repugnant to the spirit of our people, but was also totally inapplicable to the situation, He concluded by renewing his protest against anything that would tend to change the Empire from its basis of commercialism to that of militarism. It may here be noted that Mr. Chamberlain has given the Transvaal a plain warning that if native territory in Cape Colony is invaded the natives will be encouraged and assisted in repelling the invasion. Mr. Balfour also pointed out that if the Boers adopted a policy inconsistent with the idea that the war should be confined to the two European race
