A W eekly Newspaper a n d R ev iew .

DOM VOBIS GRATOLAMOR, ANIMOS BTIAM ADDIMOS OT IN INCŒPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTBR MANRAT1S.

From the B r ie f oj H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1S70.

V o l . 88. No. 2945. L o n d o n , O c t o b e r 17, 1896.

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C hronicle of t h f W e e k • Page

Loid Rosebery and Armenia—His Reasons for Resignation — Mr. Asquith Supports Lord Rosebery —Mr. Redmond on the Liberal Leadership— Sudden Death of the Archbishop of Canterbury— Grave “Situation in Madagascar—A Hyde Park Demonstration— The Policy o f the Government Towards Armenia— A Pure Milk Supply—The Tsar’s Visit to France—Prospects of a Peaceful Settlement in Vene■ zuela-Tynan’s Extradition Refused — Winchelsea House — Ancient Monuments in Ireland—A Prearranged Railway Collision . . 601 L eaders :

The Danube and the Eastern

Question . . . . • • . . . • * 6°5 ■“ Concernentia,” or a Criticized

Passage in the Recent Bull . . 606 'The Pope and the Pamphleteer . . 606 Quare Fremuerunt Gentes? . . 609

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L ea d e r s (Continued) :

My Last Word on the Sin of

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Drunkenness . . . . . . 6ro “ Controversial Methods ” . . — 612

N o t e s . . . . — — . . 612 R ev iew s :

Ecclesiastical Continuity .._ _ . . 613 The History of Modern Painting 614 The City of Refuge .. 615 H is E x c e l l e n c y ’ s E n g l i s h

Governess . . . . . . . . 615 C orrespondence :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

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News from Ireland . . _ _ 618 News From France . . . . 619 A p pe a l to t h e C h a r it a b l e . . 620 L e t t e r s to t h e E d itor :

The Canterbury Missal . . . . 621

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Anglican Orders . . . . . . 623 A Sydney Controversy . . . . 624 The Kirk and Bazaars and Rafiles 825 News from Uganda . . . . .. 626 The Reformation a Raid on the

Poor . . . . . . . . . . 626 Cardinal Vaughan and the Armenian

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Encyclical Letter on the Rosary . . 633 N ews from ^he S chools:

A School Board Mistress Dis­

missed for Becoming a Catholic 634 Education at the Church Congress 634 Tactics at Hey wood . . .. 636 The Teaching of Religion . . 636 The Manners o f Children . . 637 State-Aid or Rate-Aid . . . 637 Cardinal Vaughan and School

Board Expenditure . . . . 637 The Bishop of Lincoln and the

Education Question . . . . 637

N F.WS FROM T H E D lO C E SE S ! Westminster ........................... 638

Clifton ....................................... 638 P l y m o u t h .......................................639 Salford _ ....................................... 639 The Vicariate . . . . . . 639 The Feast of Edward the Confessor 639

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LORD ROSEBERY'S long-promised speech at the Empire Theatre in Edinburgh was received with an interest rendered all the keener by his unexpected resignation of the leadership of the Liberal party. Dealing at the outset with the policy to be pursued in regard to the massacres in Armenia, he declared that he believed he was, in his suggestions, pleading for the interests of his country and of his Party as included in his country. He welcomed the meetings that were being held as showing that the spirit of the country was not dead, as tending to demonstrate to foreign Governments our honest intentions in the matter, and as strengthening the hands of her Majesty’s Ministry ; for in foreign politics, he declared amid cheers, that he had never known Party. Public opinion needed guidance rather than stimulus. The agitation against the Bulgarian atrocities in 1876 was different in two essential points from the present movement on behalf of the Armenians : Russia was then with us, and the agitation was directed against a Government which Liberals believed was thwarting the wishes of the nation; whereas now, Russia was against us and the Government was animated by the same feelings of indignation and the same resolution as the most ardent of the demonstrators. The earlier massacres had taken place in remote districts; the later ones had been perpetrated under the very eyes of the representatives of Europe. Thus had been raised up in its entirety what was the bugbear of Europe— the Eastern Question in all its issues. Referring to some of the remedies proposed, his lordship showed that the deposition of the Sultan would need the Concert of Europe to effect it, and would, after all, if effected, only scotch the question, which was that of a system rather than of a man. As for the withholding of the Cyprus tribute from the SultaD, we paid none, and so we could withhold none. Others recommended the handing over of the Dardanelles and the administration of the Turkish empire to Russia, but these were not ours to give. His lordship next explained his difference with Mr. Gladstone, who had

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been the indirect cause of his resignation of the leadership. If Mr. Gladstone’s suggestion of recalling our Ambassador and of giving the Turkish Ambassador his passport were carried out, it would necessitate our withdrawal from the European Concert and the handing over of our interests to the Ambassador of some friendly State. We should thus lose our only means, feeble as it is, of influencing the Sultan. It was a policy of affront, upon the drift of which we should inevitably be borne into war. We were in no ways bound in honour by the Cyprus Convention, which was impracticable and futile, and which had always been a dead letter: the Sultan had not performed his part, and that had been considered, by successive Governments, as sufficient to absolve them from attempting to fulfil their pledges under the Convention. The Tripartite Treaty of 1856 had been similarly ineffective. Our isolated intervention would result in no mere phantasm of evils, but in the horrors of a European war. Before dismissing the question, his lordship considered it in the light of our imperial interests. The British Empire means peace and needs peace. Within twelve years we had added 2,600,000 square miles to our territory, which were still to be regulated and administered and we had thereby excited the envy and probably the active malevolence of other countries. The only possible solution of the Eastern Question, a long postponement of which was impossible, was the concerted action of the Powers of Europe.

After entering a deep and earnest protest

_HISfokASONS aSa'nst perilous policies of which the r e s i g n a t i o n , eloquent commencement can be seen but of which no one can see the catastrophe, Lord

Rosebery gave a personal explanation of the reasons by which he had been led to resign the leadership of the Liberal party. He had not much to add to those stated in his letter to Mr. Ellis. His action had not been the result of attacks in the newspapers, “ pertinacious and almost universal ” as they had been. Neither was it the outcome of differences upon the Armenian question. That was only the last of a series of incidents. A Liberal leader who is also a peer, from the disadvantages of his position from a Parliamentary point of view, needs exceptional support and exceptional loyalty and co-operation from his party. This he had never received. He had been deserted in Parliament; his suggestion of a “ definite and concentrated policy ” before the general election had not been adopted ; and lastly, Mr. Gladstone had intervened, and had thus, innocently and unconsciously, administered the final coup de grace to his successor. Those were the