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DOM VOBIS GRATUL AMUR* ANIMOS BTIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

From the B r i e f oj H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.

Vol. 88. No. 2941.

[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 ! Page

The Railway Companies and Agriculture— Cyclone in Paris— The Constantinople Massacres— Opinion in England—Mr. Gladstone and the National Indignation—The Deceased Wife’s Sister in J e r s e y — The Capture of “ Number One” — A Dynamite Plot—Dr. Jameson’s Officers-The Privileged Cab Question— Manuring the Navy—The Small Pox at Gloucester—The Draining of the Zuyder Zee—The Durham Goal Trade—The British Association at Liverpool . . . . — 437 L eaders :

The Armenian Agitation . . . . 441 A Trilogy of Catholic Congresses in Italy . . . . . . . . 442 The Pope and the Pamphleteer . . 443 The Massacre of a Nestorian

Bishop and His Suite in Kurdistan ......................... — 446

CONTENTS,

The Pope on the Anti-Masonic Con­

Page gress ................................................447 Notes . . . . — •• 447 R eview s :

Mgr. Isoard, Eveque D ’Annecy.. 449 The See of St. Peter . . .. 449 The Divine Redeemer and His

Church . • .. • 45° Catholic Truth Society’s Publica­

tions .. . •• • • 45° Foreign Catholic Periodicals . . 451 Books of the Week.........................451 C orrespondence :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . . . — 453 News from Ireland . . — — 454 News From France . . . . 455 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d itor :

“ The Month” on St. Gregory’s

Mass Book . . # . . •• 457 Calendar of Papal Registers . . 457 Alien Priories .........................458 Works on Freemasonry . . . . 458

L e t t e r s to t h e E d it or (Con­

tinued : “ The Arsenal of Devotion : ” A

Caution . . ......................... 458 Corporate Reunion Under Queen

Page

Mary ......................... . . 458 The Index and Mythology . . 458 Barlow’s Consecration . . . . 453 Urgent Needs for Workhouse

Chapels . . _ .........................458 British Columbia as a Colony . . 458 Second-Hand Irion Church Wanted 459 The Late Father Jerome Vaughan 459 M. De Pressens6 and Cardinal Man­

ning . . . . . . . . . . 460 Blessed Thaddeus M ’Carthy . . 461 The Duke o f Norfolk and the

Catholic League . . . . . . 462 Social an d P o l it i c a l . . . .4 6 5

SU PPLEM ENT. N ews from t h e S chools:

Certificate Examination, 1896 . . 469 The Christian Brothers’ Schools in Ireland.............................. 469

N ews from t h e S chools (Con­

Page tinued): Education and Commerce . . 470 T h e National Association o f

Voluntary Teachers Declare for Rate-Aid ; ....................... . . 470 N onconformists and R eligious

Education .........................471 Are Country Rates for School

Maintenance Practicable? . . 471 Teachers at the British Museum 471 Mr. Balfour and School Board

Expenditure . . . . . . 472 N ews from t h e D ioceses : Westminster ........................... 472

Clifton .......................................472 Northampton ........................... 472 Nottingham.. . . .. ...473 P l y m o u t h ...................................... 473 Portsm outh.......................................473 Salford . . . . . . . . 473 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 474 Glasgow ....................................... 474 Dunkeld . . . . . . . . 474

Rejected MS. cannot be returned unless accompanied with address and postage.

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

companies. Happily this sacrifice o f public to private interests is not to continue, and the Board of Trade has interfered, and the Midland and Great Northern have waived any objection which they might have raised. The whole experiment is full of promise, and will be watched with interest by every friend of British agriculture.

THE RAILWAY COMPANIES AND AGRICULTURE. G

R E A T importance attaches to the experiments which during the last nine months have been made by the Great Eastern Railway Company t o bring the British farmer into direct communication ■ with the consumer. It will be remembered that at th e beginning o f last December there was brought into operation on the Great Eastern Railway a system under which agriculturists were enabled to send by passenger train farm and market garden produce to London and stations in the Great Eastern suburban district at a reduced charge of fourpence for 20 lb., and one penny addi­

tional for every 5 lb., or part thereof, up to 60 lb., including free delivery within the usual limits (about three miles of Charing Cross), provided that the produce was packed in boxes o f certain sizes, such boxes being secured (for convenience in packing in the vans) by nails, and not by rope or cord. A correspondent o f The Tim es, whose words we cite now, informs us that further steps have been taken by the Company with a view to making up for that want of initiative which is so characteristic of the farmer all the world over. The Company has compiled a list of all farmers in their district who are ready to forward farm and garden produce direct to consumers. This list contains the names and addresses of 900 persons, and the Company has circulated it broadcast. The result has exceeded all expectations, and the average number of boxes sent under the special rates is 5,000 per month, and it is thought that these figures would have been greater if the supply had been equal to the demand. Finding that the supply of eggs and poultry was far short of what customers require, the energetic Company has circulated 25,000 copies of a pamphlet showing how poultry should be treated. Up to the present a considerable number o f towns have been shut out from the benefit of the special rates on the curious ground that the Great Eastern Company was at these places brought into competition with the Midland and Great Northern, and they did not wish to do anything which might possibly disturb harmonious relations with those

The end of last week was marked by a c y c l o n e in curious phenomenon in Paris. A tornado p a r i s . swept across part of the city, and besides causing great destruction of property caused the loss of seven lives. The tornado appears to have begun at Place St. Sulpice and ended at the Boulevard de la Villette, a distance of perhaps two miles. The Eiffel Tower was happily outside the affected area, and so escaped a crucial test of its stability. The Paris correspondents draw lively pictures of the havoc worked by the wind. Boats were sunk, trees uprooted, omnibuses blown over, cabs driven off the streets, and foot passengers thrown down, doors burst open, and stalls and sentry boxes and kiosks swept away. The meteorologist at the Tour St. Jacques states that the storm lasted less than a minute. Some black clouds passed swiftly overhead and there was one flash of lightning. The barometer suddenly fell from 748 mm. to 742 mm.

THE CONSTANTINOPLE

MASSACRES.

It is not surprising that the indignation which has been gathering for so many months against the Sultan and his Government has now increased in intensity. As long ago as August 31, the representatives of the six great Powers at Constantinople addressed a Collective Note to the Porte charging the Turkish authorities with direct responsibility for the horrible massacres of the 26th and 27th of August. The text of that Note was published in Monday’s papers, and the evidence it brought forward was of the most damning kind. It roundly declares that the savage bands which massacred Armenians and looted houses and shops were not accidental gatherings but special organizations “ known by certain agents of the authorities, if not directed by them.” This statement the Ambassadors proceed to prove by the simultaneous risiDgs in various parts of the town, the wearing of a common dress, the distribution of cudgels and knives by the heads of the detective po'ice, the impunity with which the crimes were committed, and the fact that several of the bands were led by Softas, soldiers, and even police officers. In the face of such facts the Representatives of the Powers demanded that the origin

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