A W e e k ly N ew s p a p e r a n d R e v ie w .
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMÜR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMÜS DT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT 1S.
F rom th e B r i e f o j 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. No. 2944. L ondon, O c t o b e r 10, 1896.
P r ic e s d . b y P o s t s } £ d
(R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a l P o s t O f f i c e a s a N ew s p a p e r
C h ronicle o f t h e W e e k ! Page . Lord Russell’s Reception by the
Catholic Club— Mr. Asquith on the Release o f the Dynamiters — Sir William Harcourt and the Eastern Question—A Solution o f the Problem—A Year’s Railway Accidents—The Armenians’ Committee Threatens the Powers— Death of Mr. Byron Reed, M .P . — France and Italy— Lord Ripon a t Middlesborough— The Tsar in France— Is There an Industrial Future for Cider?—The Church -Congress : A No-Popery Sermon — The Presidential Address— The •Congress and Rate-Aid . . . . 561 L e a d e r s :
Lord Rosebery’s Resignation . . 565 Report o f the Anti-Masonic Con
gress _
. . # 565
Two Points in Lord Halifax’s
Speech .................................... 567 T h e Pope and the Pamphleteer . . 567 Anglicanism and Nonconformity.. 569
CONTENTS,
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The Catholic Conference at Hanley 570 N o t e s R e v ie w s :
The Christian Inheritance The Life o f Richard Cobden False Coin or True ? “ The M on th ” A Winning H a zard .. “ The Harvest ” Lord Halifax and Reunion . A p p e a l t o t h e C h a r it a b l e C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :
570 572 572 573 574 574 574 574 575
Rome :—(From Our Own Correspondent) . . News from Ireland ... News From France
L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :
- 577 - 578 •• 579
English Freemasonry . . . . 581 Mr. Lacey’s Theory . . . . 581 Reunion Under Queen Mary . . 582 Feast of St. Edward the Con
fessor .................................... 582
L e t t e r s t o t h e E d i t o r (Con
Page tinued : “ Miss Diana Vaughan ” . . 582 Father Caswall’s Translation of
“ Stabat Mater Speciosa” by B. Jacopone .............. . . 582 Controversial Methods . . . . 583 D r. Bataille . . . . . . 583 The “ Judicious Hooker” and the Word “ P r ie st” “ The Month” and St. Gregory’s
Mass Book Our Friendless Youths^ Downside : A Correction
Lacordaire and Reunion . . . . 583 How to Bring the Catholic Faith
583 583 583 583
Home to Nonconformists . . . . 584 The Mischiefs o f Misunderstanding 586 The Needs of L a Dilivrande,
Calvados . . ......................... 588 Books of the Week . . . . . . 589 1 S o c ia l a n d P o l i t i c a l . . . . 5 9 0
S U P P L EM E N T . N ew s from t h e S c h o o l s :
Lord Cranborne on Rate-Aid to
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Voluntary Schools .. . . . . 593 The Collegiate Education of Women . . . . . . . . 593 The Board and Evening Classes in Bradford Catholic Schools . . 594 An Educational Charter o f Reli
gious freedom . . . . . . 595 The Coming Education B ill . . 595 Glasgow Training College . . 596 N ew s from t h e D io c e se s : Westminster ............................596
S o u th w a r k ......................... *. 596 Clifton ....................................... 596 Nottingham ................................... 596 P ortsm outh ....................................... 597 Salford ......................... Shrew sbury......................... The Vicariate Glasgow ......................... Three Conferences . .
598 598 598 598 598
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
MR. ASQUITH ON THE RELEASE OF THE DYNAMITERS.
Addressing his constituents in East Fife, the late Home Secretary took the opportunity to offer a public explanation as to his conduct as to the Irish dyna
TH E Lord Chief Justice gave the last evening of his stay in c a t h o l i c c l u b . America to the Catholic Club in New York. It had at first been intended to give a banquet in his lordship’s honour, but in order that a more social character might be given to the gathering, the banquet was changed to a reception. The Club has a membership of about !t,ooo and invitations were issued to a large number of representative men, including Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, Cardinal Satolli, the Papal Delegate, Archbishop Corrigan, of New York, the Archbishop of Philadephia, Mr. Morton, Governor o f the State, Mr. Strong, Mayor of New York, the Judges of the Supreme Court, Mr. Chauncey Depew, General Horace Porter, President Low, of Columbia University, and Chancellor McCracken, of the City University. A cordial welcome was accorded to their distinguished visitor and his family by Judge J. F. Daly, of the Supreme Court, and President of the Club, who pointed to Lord Russell’s devotion to a common faith and to principles that found a response in every American heart as the causes o f the friendly feeling entertained by the American people towards him. In thanking his hosts for their welcome and enrolment of him as an honorary member of the Club, Lord Russell expressed his pleasure and satisfaction at meeting a body of the Catholics of New York ; a body which had demonstrated that, while holding fast to the faith of their fathers, a faith for which their fathers had suffered, they yet formed an important constituent part of the wonderful social and industrial life of that great community. They had shown that men were not worse citizens because they were good Catholics. The story of Irish emigration was too sad for him to deal with ; he preferred to look to the hopeful present and future. Whilst not forgetting their duty to the land of their adoption, they must ever keep a warm corner in their hearts for their “ dear old land,” and endeavour, each in his own sphere, to make the name o f Irishmen respected. This would remove some of those old prejudices which even still existed in certain quarters ___
miters, four of whom were recently released by the present Home Secretary, on the ground that their further imprisonment would endanger their lives. He began by pointing out that three out of the four men now let loose were amoDg the leaders and principal actors in that murderous conspiracy, and then wondered aloud what would have been said if they had been released by a Liberal Government on medical grounds, and immediately afterwards one of them had taken to playing an active part in torch-light processions and amnesty demonstrations in Ireland. At the same time he accepted, with the most absolute confidence, the official explanation that has been given, that the release was dictated solely and exclusively by medical reasons. It was an invariable rule in our criminal system, which was followed by every Home Secretary in turn, which was applied without discrimination to every class of prisoner or convict— that release followed as a matter of course when it was ascertained upon competent medical testimony that continued imprisonment would be dangerous to life. He had acted, as everybody holding the position which he once occupied had acted, in a vast number o f cases on that rule. Nor should he have referred to the matter at all, but for suggestions which reflected upon him and on the Government of which he was recently a member, to the effect that in the case of some of these men there was reasonable doubt for suspecting their guilt, and that in the case probably of all o f them their condition had been produced or aggravated by excessive rigour of treatment and by neglect of ordinary precautions. There were certain classes of offence for which, in his opinion, severe punishment was necessary, and among them was the crime of which these men were convicted, a crime, the essence of which consisted in exacting vengeance from society for wrongs, real or imaginary, to one’s country or to one’s class, by plotting wholesale havoc, suffering, and murder against the innocent and the unprotected. Against enemies of that kind society possessed only three safeguards— -the vigilance of the police, the inevitableness of the informer, and the certainty of exemplary punishment. To deal with this particular case, as regards the suggestion that there has been any doubt as to the guilt of the men who have for many years past been kept in imprisonment, he thought it sufficient to say that their case had now been examined by three successive Home Secretaries, each of them exercising a perfectly detached
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