THE TABLET

A W eekly Newspaper and Review

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B B s m a a a n K B s From the B r ie f o f His Holiness Pius IX . to T he T ablet, June 4, 1870.

Voi. 52. No. 201g. L o n d o n , D e c e m b e r 21, 1878.

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Death of the Princess Alice.— The Funeral.— Address of Condolence from the House of Lords.— The Division on the Motion of Censure. — Withdrawal of the Proposed Rhodope Grant.— The E x penses of the War— Mr. Fawcett’s Amendment.— Close of the Debate. —Attack on General Roberts’s Baggage Train. — Advance on Jellalabad and Candahar — The PermanentDefence of our Frontier. The Indian Native Contingent.— Italian Catholics and Political Elections.— The Recent Action of the German Centre Party. — Rules of Processes of Beatification and Canonisation, &c. . .

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The Death of the Princess A lice .. 773 The Winter Session o f 1878 _ . . 773 A New Departure in Politics for

Italian Catholics.— VI. . . .. 774 Ecclesiastical Organisation in

Bosnia and Herzegovina .. 775 Dr. Ward’s Work in the “ Dublin

Review.” . . . . . . .. 776 P e t er ’s P ence .........................778 R ev iew s :

Principles of the Faith in Rela­

tion to S in .. . . . . . . 778 The Nineteenth Century .. . . 779 Bjorn and Bera |.. .. .. 780 S hort N otices ;

The Mysterious Rubies, &c. . . 780 A Wayside P o s y ........................ 781

S hort N otices (Continued) :

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A Simple Maiden . . . . . . 781 Cyclopaedia of Costume The Monitor Simple Bible Stories L ’Art ..

781 781 781 781

C orrespondence :

The “ Benevolent Society for the

Relief of the Aged and Infirm Poor” ,,and “ The Aged Poor Society.” . . . . .. .. 781 School of the Society of African

Missions . . . . . . .. 781 Save the Boy . . . . .. 782 Private Judgment ..^ . . .. 782 The Literature of Ancient Rome.. 782 An Urgent Case . . .. .. 782

P a r l ia m en t a r y S ummary R ome : — Letter from our

Correspondent ... ..

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D io cesan N ews

Westminster.. . . . , 786 S o u th w a rk .................................... 787 Hexham and Newcastle .. . . 787 Liverpool . . . . . . . . 787 Newport and Menevia . . . . 788 Shrewsbury....... 788 S cotland :

Argyll and the Isles . . . . 788 j I r e lan d :—

Letter from our own Corre­

spondent ......................... ». 788 j F oreign N ews

Germany . . . . .. . . 790 fi G en eral N e w s : \ .......................... 790!

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

DEATHOF

THE PRINCESS ALICE.

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A T U R D A Y morning brought the melancholy intelligence of the death o f the Grand Duchess o f Hesse. The telegrams arrived in London at abou half past ten, and before the newspapers out a second edition, the tolling of the

James’s, the Royal parish, left in the minds of those who had been prepared by the alarming bulletins o f the previous day little doubt as to what had occurred. Her Royal Highness had ceased to live a little before 3 in the morning, on the anniversary of her father’s death, the 14th of December, which then also, seventeen years ago, fell on a Saturday. The coincidence must necessarily have caused an 1 additional pang to the Queen, and the fact that it was on the 14th of December that the Prince of Wales’s illness reached its most alarming crisis also helps to make this date a memorable one in the annals of the Royal family. The sympathy for the Queen’s affliction which is felt throughout the whole kingdom and its dependencies is increased by the general esteem for the late Princess’s high moral and intellectual qualities, by the remembrance of her devotion to the sick outside as well as within her own family, and by the knowledge that she has met her death in the discharge o f the noblest duties o f a mother and a wife. The Queen was naturally overwhelmed by this first break in the circle o f her children, but is bearing the trial with her usual fortitude. The Duke of Edinburgh learned the news for the first time when he landed at Portsmouth on Monday morning from Canada, and a melancholy end has been put to the rejoicings connected with the reception of Princess Louise at Ottawa. The Prince of Wales, Prince Leopold, and Prince Christian of Sleswig-Holstein left England on Monday night, via Queenborough and Flushing, for Frankfort, from whence they attended the funeral at Darmstadt on Wednesday, thus avoiding the danger of infection which may possibly be still lurking in the Grand Ducal palace.

THE FUNERAL.

The funeral took place on Wednesday, the remains having been removed in a torchlight procession on the previous evening from the

Palace where the Princess died to the Church attached to the Grand Ducal Palace. There they were placed on a magnificent velvet catafalque, covered with a crimson pall, which was almost buried under offerings o f flowers. During the morning of Wednesday the public were admitted to visit the church, and at 2 p.m. the funeral service was performed. The Grand Duke and his children occupied the glazed and ¡curtained gallery facing the altar, and the Prince of Wales,

Prince Leopold, Prince Christian, the Grand Dukes of Baden and Mecklenburg, the Prince o f SchwarzburgRudolstadt, and others, were conducted to chairs on a dais in front of thè altar. The church was filled with diplomatists, nobiiity, and officials, and deputations from different public bodies, among whom, in a gallery to the right of the altar, were the members of the Alice Women’s Union, founded by the late Princess for the care of sick and wounded and the training o f nurses. The service was performed by the Grand Ducal Court chaplains, assisted by the English chaplain, and at its close the procession started for Rosenhohe, about a mile from Darmstadt, the whole route : being lined, as on the evening before, with a dense and i sympathetic crowd. The Grand Duke, with the Grand Duke j of Baden, followed the hearse on foot, and was met at j Rosenhohe by the English Princes, who then joined the | procession. The remains of the Grand Duchess were j deposited in a niche in the vault of the mausoleum, which L was covered with floral offerings. The English Princes then 1 returned straight to Frankfort. The Emperor of Germany, by the advice of his physicians, did not permit the Crown Prince and Crown Princess to go to the funeral, and the Duke of Connaught was summoned home to Windsor by a telegram from her Majesty. The Queen was represented by Lord Hertford, and the Emperor and Empress, the Crown Prince and Princess, the K ing of the Belgians, and the King and Queen Dowager of Bavaria by different officials of their Courts. A solemn funeral service was held at the | same time in the private chapel of Windsor Castle, at which | the Queen, the Princess o f Wales, the Duke and Duchess 1 of Edinburgh, Princess Christian^ Princess Beatrice, the | Duke of Connaught, the Duke of Cambridge, and Princess [j Mary were present. The great bell of the Curfew Tower | was tolled during the ceremony, as were those of many | churches in London, and salutes and minute guns were, fired in St. Tames’s-park, at Woolwich, Portsmouth, and Devonport.

ADDRESS OF CONDOLENCE FROM THE

HOUSE OF

LORDS.

There was a short silting of the House of Lords on Tuesday, the only business transacted at which was the voting of an Address of con - 1 dolence to her Majesty on the death of Princess •jl Alice. The address was proposed by Lord :i; Beaconsfield in his happiest manner, and with !

an evident depth and sincerity of emotion which fully harmonised with the feelings of the assembly which he addressed. ; , He made a touching allusion to the circumstances which are supposed to have caused the communication to the s’; lamented Princess of the fatal infection. “ The physicians,” | he said, “ who permitted her to guard over her suffering j family, enjoined her in no circumstances whatever to be i

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