A W eek ly N ew sp a p e r a n d R e v ie w .

DUM VOBIS GRATÜLAMÜR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMÜS ÜT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT1S.

F rom th e B r i e f o f H i s H o l in e s s P iu s I X . to T h e T a b l e t , J u n e 4 , 1870.

V o l . 88. N o . 2933.

L o n d o n , J u l y 25, 1896.

P r ick 5<J. b y P ost

[R e g is t e r ed a t t h e Gen e r a l P o st O f f i c e a s a N ew spaper

C hronicle of t h e W e e k !

Imperial ^ Parliament: Indian Troops in Suakin — Arbitration With America—The Irish School Grant—The State o f Public Business—The Irish Land Bill—The Trial of Dr. Jameson—The Pros;pect of a Coal Strike— The Sug­

Page gested Remedies — The Burns Centenary— How to Man the ’Fleet— The Accident to the Scotch Express—The Death of Raini-

laiarivony— Marriage of Princess Maud—The Rising in Rhodesia — The Uganda Railway Bill . . 121 ''Le a ders :

The Position of the Venezuelan

Question . . ......................... 125 The Catholic Revival from An

Outsider’s Point of View . . 126 The Religious Condition o f the

People in England . . . . 127 The Catholic Mission in Uganda 129 ^¡No tes . . . . «. . . . . 129

CONTENTS.

R ev iew s :

P.ige

The Doctrine o f the Incarnation 131 The Two M a r y s ......................... The Hastings Chess Tournament,

.............................................. Li* “ The Dublin Review” . . 132 The Wooing of Phyllis . . -• 133 Bernicia . . •• •• •• T33 Autobioghraphies of Boyhood . . 133 The Four Temperaments.. . . 133 Books of the W eek.. . . • • 134 The Bishop of Salford on Catholic

Education . . . . •• •• T34 Newman and Tennyson .. •• *34 The Archbishop o f Dublin and the

Irish Education Grant . . . . 135 C orrespondence :

Rome (From Our Own Corre-

spondent) . . . . — « .1 3 7 News from Ireland ... — — 138 News From France . . . . 139 L e t t e r s to t h e E d itor :

Barlow’s Consecration •• *4° Dean Fremantle and Christianity 140

L e t t e r s t o t h e E d itor (Con­

Page tinued : The Holyhead Miseion . . . . 141 Dr. Benson and the Pope’s Ency­

clical .......................................141 “ A Life Spent for Ireland ” . . 141 A D \y’s Outing for Dock Children 141 “ The Modern Goth ” .. .. 141 Beaumont College and the Lon­

don Matriculation . . . . 141 Reminiscences of Father Hunter, S.J. 142 The Abbé Portal on Reunion .. 143 Disestablishment by Inches : A

Bishop’s Complaint . . . . 143 The Census o f Sunday Work in

Newcastle . . _..................... 144 Mgr. Nugent’s Jubilee . . . . 144 The St. Vincent de Paul Society . . 144 A Roman Catholic H om e at

Orpington . .

................145

N ews from t h e D ioceses :

Westminster

Birmingham..

................... 146

................... 147

Hexham and Newcastle.. . . 147

D iocesan N ews (Contined) :

Page

Liverpool . . . . . . . . 147 Salford ..............................147 Newport .............................. 147 Glasgow ..............................147 F rom E veryw h ere . . . . . . 147 A p pe a l t o th e C h a r it a b l e . . 148 O b it u a r y .................................14S So c ia l a n d P o l it ic a l . . . . 150

SU PPLEM ENT. N ew s from t h e Schools:

Exhibition Day at St. Edmund’s

College . . . . . . . . 1 5 3 Prize Day at Douai . . . . 153 “ The School Board Chronicle ”

and Sir John Gorst . . . . 154 Mr. Dillon’s Attitude . . . . 154 Convent o f the Assumption, Rich­

mond, Yorkshire . . . . 154 Prize Day at St. Wilfrid’s,

Oakamoor . . . . . . 145 Speech Day at St. Bede’s, Man­

chester . . . . . . . . 145 Board and Voluntary Schools . . 146

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explanation about the necessity of garrisoning Suakin as quite a novel statement of the objects of the Egyptian expedition. The argument of India’s interest in Egypt might be pressed too far, and he thought that a claim upon India for the expenses of the occupation of Malta might be made with as good reason.

THE House of Lords have affirmed a Resolution idens u a k i n . tical Wlth that lately passed in the House of Commons in

The Marquis of Salisbury on Friday

— a r b i t r a t i o n laid on the table of the House of Lords w i t h Am e r i c a , a Parliamentary paper containing the despatches between Washington and West­

reference to the payment of the contingent of Indian troops despatched for garrison duty at Suakin. The Resolution, which provides for the payment by the Indian Government of the ordinary expenses of the troops, was moved by Lord Onslow, who maintained that in the demand made, the Ministry were acting on the principles of equity and justice in view of the interest which India had in the stable government and the preservation of order in Egypt. Lord Lansdowne, whose knowledge of India is so intimate, and whose connection with that portion of the Empire is so recent, thought that the apportionment of the expenses of the troops made by the Government was fair and just, and deprecated the idea of there being any risk to India in being called upon to lend one per cent, of her troops for Imperial defence. It was a question, not of risk but of rupees. Lord Kimberley admitted that the Government of 1885, of which he was a. member, had taken the same course as that which was now being pursued. But his views on the question had changed since then ; and he was now quite convinced that the present Egyptian expedition was dangerous and unnecessary, and likely to prove of serious injury to Egypt. Lord Northbrook alluded to the matter as “ this miserable question of ¿£30,000; ” but Lord Salisbury, whilst declaring that he wished to observe the interests and respect the rights of the Indian and British taxpayer alike, pointed out to the House that though the sum in dispute was small, the question was one of principle. The expedition, he believed, would directly benefit Egypt, and indirectly would benefit India also. The defence of Suakin meant the defence of the whole of the southern littoral of the Red Sea, which with the Gulf of Aden, was, geographically and politically, a continuation of the Suez Canal. In speaking against the Resolution, Lord Rosebery declared that he did not recollect having heard a debate in which so statesmanlike a view had been taken of the responsibilities of public men in addressing themselves to a grave and delicate question. He regarded Lord Salisbury’s minster on the dispute with Venezuela and the correspondence between the two Governments on the matter of arbitration with the United States. The negotiations are still incomplete, so that the course taken was somewhat unusual, but it had been done with the consent of the American Government in order that Parliament might not separate without knowing what has been going on. The interchange of opinion has taken two courses. The narrower question of Venezuela, his lordship explained, is still unsolved owing to the difficulty arising out of the large claims made by Venezuela to nearly two-thirds of the colony of British Guiana. Her Majesty’s Government had been glad to negotiate with the United States rather than with Venezuela. They had always acknowledged that unsettled territory was a fit subject for arbitration, but the Venezuelan dispute had not yet arrived at the stage when arbitration could prove a suitable remedy, seeing many of | the facts had still to be ascertained by competent and trust1worthy Commissions. When that was done, there would not, he thought, be any serious difficulty in adjusting the 1diplomatic question that remained. Concurrently with 1these negotiations, the far wider question of a general system of arbitration between the United States and Great Britain, which had been raised under the late Government, had been revised. As a result of the interchange of opinion on the matter that had passed between the two Governments, his lordship thought that the United States desired a “ rapid and summary decision of the question ; ” whereas, in the view of her Majesty’s advisers, seeing that the principle of obligatory arbitration was to be applied for the first time, it was attended with considerable hazards and doubts; and, therefore, they were of opinion that a circumspect and careful method of procedure was desirable. They thought that such a proceeding as an appeal or a protest should be provided in one form or another, in order to prevent any miscarriage of justice arising from error. An ' obligatory system of arbitration might produce speculative

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