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V o l . 88. No. 2940. L o n d o n , O ctober 24, 1896.

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The Armenian Agitation — Mr. Asquith at Galashiels— Acetylene Explosion in Paris— A Warning to Manchester—Scarcity in India — Lord Rosebery at the OysterFeast—The French Ministry and Its Opponents— Sir John Gorst’s Appeal to Public Opinion—Armenian Incidents— Germany and Her ■ Colonies— The London Cab Strike — The Russian Ambassador in 'Paris-Trafalgar D ay-The United States and Cuba . . . . . . 641 L e a d e r s :

The United States Election _ . . 645 . European Politics and the Triple

Alliance . . . . •. •- 646 Cardinal Richard and the Con­

version of England . . ^ . 647 Jeanne Jugan and the Little

Sisters of the Poor . . . . 647

CONTENTS

f-athoüc Social Union N o t e s . .

Rfvtkws j

Pace .. 650 .. 651

The Year After the Armada . . 6=52 The Life of St. Monica . . . . 653 The Story of Hannah . . . . 654 Our Martyrs . . .. . . 654 The Child, Its Spiritual Nature.. 654 The Press on Anglican Orders . . 655 A Friend o f the Friendless.. . . 655 O b it u a r y .................................... 635

C orrespondence ;

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . ... ~ 657 News^Vom Ireland . . .» ^ 658 News From France . . . . 659 L e t t e r s to t h e E d it or :

“ Mr. Lacey’s Theory ” . . . . (To “ Diana Vaughan ” . . . . 660 Darwinism and Creation . . . . 66r

L e t t e r s to t h e E d itor (Con­

Page tinued : Works on Freemasonry . . . . 66r God’s Work and the Sacraments.. 662 Clothe the Naked . . . . . . 662 The New Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham . . . . . .. 662 The Sin of Drunkenness: One

More Last Word . . . . 6*3 The Church Congress . . . . 663 Resolutions of the Irish Bishops.. 663 The Catholic University of America 664 The Church and the Bible . . . . 665 Departure of Missionaries from Mill

Hill ...................................................66(5 The Jesuit Hall at Oxford . . . . 667 Rate-Aid for Voluntary Schools . . 667 Books of the W e e k ............................ 668 Marriage in Paris ............................668 Social a n d P o l it ic a l . . . . 670

The Jubilee of the St. Vincent de

Paul Society in Canada . . . . 670

Pag

SU PPLEM ENT. N ew s from "-'ie S chools:

The School Board Persecution . . 673 Sir John Gorst’s Administration 674 The Lower Certificate Examina- ’

tion .................................... 675 Elementary Education at the

Church Congress .. . . 675 The Department’s Reply to the

Buckfastleigh School Board . . 676 “ he Church Times ” and the

Congrtss . . . . . . . . 676 N ew s from t h e D ioceses : Westminster . . „.

Hexham and Newcastle . . Leeds Northampton Salford ......................... St. Andrews and Edinburgh

676 676 676 676 669 669

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK,

THE ARMENIAN

AGITATION.

J HAT we suppose may be regarded

^ y \ / as the concluding demonstration

* * of the Armenian agitation was held ir The political reduced almost night. been

St. James's Hall on Monday significance of the meeting had to nothingness by Lord Rose­

bery’s speech in Edinburgh, and there was very little to quarrel with in the tone of the speeches delivered. Mr. Gladstone, in spite of Lord Rosebery’s statement, since endorsed by two members of the Cabinet, declines to believe that isolated action on the part of Great Britain would be opposed by Russia. In a letter read to the meeting he said : “ To say that our enforcement of our treaty rights to stop systematic massacre, together with effective security against our abusing them for selfish purposes, would provoke hostilities from one or more Powers is, in my judgment, a wild paradox with no support from reason or from history.” Sir Arthur Arnold, who proposed the first resolution, made it quite clear, however, that he, at least, recognizes the impossibility of any effective interference without the co-operation of Russia. He thought it useless to consider whether the Cyprus Convention was still a binding instrument or not, “ because possi-1 bility was the essence of the existence of a treaty, and the protection of the Armenians in their own homes in Asia by j the forces of this country against the Sultan and without support from Russia was absolutely ar.d absurdly impossible.” None of the other speakers ventured to quarrel with this j view of the situation, though the Bishop of Hereford played j with the danger, and talked vaguely about what ought to be j done if the European Powers cannot be brought into line j with Lord Salisbury’s diplomacy. “ If he rightly under- J stood the meaning of all these meetings it was this— that | the English people, now that they came to have some ! understanding with respect to the matter, having pierced j through the veil of secret diplomacy, were resolved that j the inheritance of British honour, that the moral obligation they had taken upon themselves, that their sense of | Christian duty, should not be sacrificed, and that they I

expected their statesmen so to move in this matter that, if need be, when it came to the supreme moment of choice, j they would prefer that England should stand alone rather | than that they should debase and degrade that inheritance j which they had received from their forefathers.” The apparent meaning of this rhetoric is that the Bishop would j have this country face a European coalition unless the Powers effectively intervene themselves. Such words are merely mischievous ; we cannot act alone, and no respon­

sible statesman of either party would propose to do so. Happily we have Lord Salisbury's assurance that he is now working in co-operation with other Powers. In answer to a correspondent who wanted to know exactly what was being done he has replied : “ As Great Britain is taking no isolated action at Constantinople there are obvious objections to his speaking freely on the subject which would not exist if this country were acting independently of the other European Powers.” If those negotiations fail England will have done all she can do, and the responsibility for the misrule of the Sultan will rest elsewhere.

MR,

AT GALASHIELS.

On Monday night Mr. Asquith touched upon asquxth many things in a speech delivered to a demon­

stration of Liberals held in the Drill Hall at Galashiels. He endeavoured to allay the anxiety which had been caused by Lord Rosebery’s resignation by assuring his hearers that however much they and he might regret what had happened, there was really nothing which ought to threaten the unity of the party or to weaken its fighting energies. Lord Rosebery was still in sympathy with it in all vital issues; and in the House of Commons they were as well led and equipped as any party could desire to be. Passing to the Eastern Question, he did not hesitate to press the Government for information which, as Lord Salisbury has pointed out, it is impossible to give as long as this country is acting in concert with the other Powers. On subjects of administration which had engaged the recent attention of Parliament, he had a few words to say on the defeat of the Education Bill. He gave his reasons for the failure of the Bill categorically : it perished, first, because it attempted to destroy, or, at any rate, to paralyze the activity of the Education Department; secondly, because it menaced the whole School Board system ; and thirdly because it established an invidious and unjust discrimination between Board schools and Denominational schools in the distribution of relief. The two great and only safeguards of national education were the supremacy of the central Education Department and the

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