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From the Brief oj H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T h e T a b l e } , June p, iSyo.
V ol. 88. No. 2942. London, September 26, 1896.
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C hronicle o f t h e W e e k ! Page
The Longest Reign in English History— Tynan’s Appeal Against ’Extradition— Fresh Massacre o f Armenians— Lord Rosebery and the Armenian Agitation — Lord Spencer on the Situation— Mr. Gladstone Appeals to France— The Education Policy o f the Government— Pope Leo and the Italian Prisoners— The Loftiest Viaduct in Europe—The Question o f Pure Beer— Soudan Finance— The Cab Strike—The Coming p f -the Tsar— Science Teaching in England and Germany—A Town’s Meeting at Manchester—Dongola Taken— Religious Intolerance in the Transvaal — Mr. Gladstone Speaks for the Armenians.. . . 477 Letter Apostolic on Anglican
Orders ........................ . . 481 L e a d e r s :
The Bull “ Apostolicae Curiae ” 484
CONTENT S
L eaders (Continued):
The British Association on African
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Development . . . . . . 486 The Rosary Confraternity : Some
Recent Decisions . . . . 487 N o t e s . . . . ~ ... . . 4s8 R e v iew s :
Blundell’s Diary _............................489 Dr. Rumsey’s Patient . . . . 490 “ The XJshaw Magazine ” . . 490 Books of the W eek.. . . . . 491 St. Wilfrid’s and Parkers’s Society 491 Provincial Chapter of the Franciscan
C a p u c h in s .......................................491 C orrespondence :
Rome :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . ... — — 493 News from Ireland « — ~ 494 News From France ^ . . . . 495 Feast of the “ Engelweihe” at Einsiedeln .. ......................... 496 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it or :
The Decision on Anglican Orders 597 Reunion Under Queen Mary . . 597 Gibbon ....................................... 497
L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it or (Con
tinued : “ The Month” on St. Gregory’s
Page
Mass Book .. .. . . 497 The Style “ S ir” as Applied to
Anglican Clergymen . . . . 498 Father Jerome Vaughan’s Funeral 498 Barlow’s Consecration . . . . 498 Anti-Masonic Works . . . . 499 The Condemnation of Anglican
Orders .. . . . . . . 499 A Cadet Corps for Catholic Schools 499 Jansenism in the 18th Century . . 499 The Eucharistic Congress of Lugo 499 The Press on the Apostolic Letters on Anglican Orders . . . . 501 Revival of Devotion to Our Lady of Walsingham . . .. . . 503 Interview With the New Delegate
Apostolic . . . . . . .. 504 A p peal to t h e C h a r it a b l e . . 504 O b it u a r y . . ......................... 506 M arr ia g e . . ^ . . . . 506 Social a n d P o l it i c a l . . . . 506
SU PPLEM ENT. P age N ew s from t h e S chools: Wesleylan Children in Catholic and Anglican Schools . . . . 509 Catholics and the New Educa
tion B i l l ................................ 509 A Broad View of the Education
Question Necessary . . . . 509 The Teachers’ Registration Bill 510 The Education Question in the
Transvaal.. . . . . . . 511 An Address to Boys . . . . 511 N ew s from t h e D io ceses : Westminster ........................... 512
Southwark . .
512
Birmingham.. ............................512 Clifton Hexham and Newcastle , Nottingham.. Salford Newport .. The Vicariate Galloway
512 513 513 513 513 513 514
The Cardinal Archbishop at Wapping 514
Rejected M S . cannot be returned unless accompanied with address and postage.
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
REIGN IN ENGLISH HISTORY. O 1
THE LONGEST
N Wednesday the Queen surpassed her grandfather, K ing George III., in length o f reign. It is pointed out that the actual regnant period of George
I I I . contained only thirteen additional days contributed by leap years— the 29th o f February not occurring in 1800, according to the rule for the correction of the Calendar, and the K in g ’s death taking place on January 29, 1820. But the Queen’s reign is to be credited with fifteen such additional days since her accession to the Throne. On Wednesday the 23rd, and not as the Almanac would seem to show on Friday the 25th, her Majesty had reigned longer than any o f her predecessors. No European Sovereign, except Louis X IV ,, who was not yet five years old when he succeeded to the throne, has ever reigned so long. Moreover, it must be remembered that no English Sovereign has reigned effectively for anything like so long a period as Queen Victoria. George III. was indeed of full age when he came to the throne, but for long years before his death he was insane, and K ing in name only. Henry I I I . , Edward III., and Henry V I ., had all long minorities. Her Majesty has been served by the Prime Ministers— Melbourne, Peel, Russell, Derby, Aberdeen, Palmerston, Beaconsfield, Gladstone, Salisbury, and Rosebery. Her Majesty has now outlived all those members of the House of Lords who were Peers of the realm at the time o f her accession excepting the Earl of Darnley and Earl Nelson (both of whom were minors at that time), and all those peers who were then, or had been previously, members of the House of Commons except the Earl of Mexborough, the Earl of Mansfield, and the Duke of Northumberland. She has seen five Archbishops o f Canterbury and six o f York, and four Bishops o f London; she has seen eleven Lord Chancellors, ten Prime Ministers, and six Speakers o f the House of Commons; she has outlived all the members of her original Privy Council; and of her first House of Commons only Mr. Gladstone, Mr. C . P. Villiers, Mr. J. Temple Leader, and possibly one or two others, now survive. Since her Majesty came to the Throne she has
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seen every Episcopal See vacated and refilled twice at the least, and most of them four and even five times, and her Judicial Bench recruited twice at least from end to end. And finally she has been served by four successive Earls Marshal in the persons of four Dukes of Norfolk.
Tynan is leaving no stone unturned to t y n a n s a p p e a l 0bi;ain bis release from prison and to pre-
e x t r a d i t i o n . vent b 's being surrendered by the French authorities into the hands o f English justice.
Mr. Eustis, the United States Ambassador in France, has received a letter from Invincible Number One, in which he states that he arrived in the States in March, 1883, where he was naturalized as a citizen in April, 1888, by Judge Daly, now Chief Justice of the Supreme Court o f New York. A demand for his extradition by the United States was refused on the ground of the political nature of his offence. It would appear that the profession of dynamite is a remunerative one, for he states that his residence is a villa on the Hudson River, where his wife and eight children, with two servants, are now living. H e left New York on a European tour, and he pledges what he calls his honour that he did nothing in France beyond the ordinary sight-seeing usual to American tourists. His surrender to England means certain death to him, and his release by France will be hailed by millions of Irish all over the globe. Meanwhile the question of his extradition is under the consideration o f a special administrative Committee, and there was an impression in Paris on Monday that the Report would be unfavourable to the demand of the English police authorities, seeing that the warrant for his arrest referred either to a political offence or to such offences as under French law are covered by the Law of Lim itation.
1ESH MASSACRE
OF ARMENIANS.
Tuesday’s papers made it plain that the hand of the Turk is not yet stayed. Eguin is a village in the vilayet of Kharput, and seems to have escaped the massacre which occurred in that district in November last, owing to the fact that the Armenians purchased security by payment to the Kurds, both in money and kind. Now, however, the immunity so obtained has come to an end. A few days ago the usual scene of massacre and pillage was enacted at Eguin. The Armenian quarter was attacked by the Kurds, who slaughtered the inhabitants, and then set to work to loot and fire the houses. Large numbers escaped to the mountains, but even according to the accounts furnished to the Porte, no less than 600 persons were killed. It is
