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DÜM VOBIS GRATULAMUR» ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS DT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the B r ie f oj H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T he T ablet, June 4, 1870.
V o l . 88. No. 2947.
L ondon, O cto ber 3 1 , 1896.
P r ic e s d . b y P o s t 5& 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 hrontct.k o f t h e W e e k !
The New Archbishop c f Canterbury— The American Elections— Clericalism in the Commons— A N ew Poll-Tax in Turkey— The South Africa Committee — The Agricultural Returns, 1896— Germans and R u s s i a n s : P r i n c e B i s m a r c k ’ s Disclosures — Mr. Labouchere on the Policy of the Opposition — Venezuela — T h e •London Cab Strike— A Boycott of
Page i Railway Stations— Death of . Challemel Lacour— Another Plumper for Rate - Aid — Lord Dufferin and England’s Unpopularity . . .................................... 681 L e a d e r s :
The Coming Education Bill . . 685 A Standard-Bearer o f M o r a l
Anarchy . . . . . . . . 686 One o f the Pope’s Critics . . . . 687 Bishop Creighton and the Nuncio: \
A Question of Precedence . . 689
CONTENTS.
The Anglican Overtures to Rome on Anglican Orders.. N o t e s The Anglican Appeal to Rome R e v ie w s :
Mr. Gladstone on Bishop Butler Animal Symbolism in Ecclesias tical Architecture This Stage of Fools In the Kingdom of K e r r y .. A Visit to Europe and the Holy
Land ........................ Iras : A Mystery Literature for the Nursery Books of the Week The Catholic Social Union at Towe
Hill . . C orrespon d e n c e :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre-
Page
690 691 692 692
693 694 691 694 695 695 695 695
spondent) . . . . ... . . 697 News from Ireland . . «. _ 698 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :
English Freemasonry . . 700 Mr. Lunn and Bishop Heath . . 700
L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r (Con
Page tinued : How to Reach .the Nonconformists .................................... 700 “ Diana Vaughan ” . . . . 701 “ A t Shrewsbury ” .. . . . . 701 God's Work and the Sacraments 701 “ Mr. Lacey’s Theory ” . . . . 701 “ The Special Grace of the Priest
hood ’ . . . , . . . . 701 A Correction . . . . . . 701 _A Warning . . . . . . . . 701 Bishop Luck’s Monument in Auck
land Cathedral .........................701 The Church and the Bible Societies 702 A s Others See It . . . . . . 703 The Anglo-Am erican C a t h o l i c
Colony in Paris . . . . . . 704 Father Bernard Vaughan Replies to the Bishop of Manchester . . 705 The Maltese Marriage Question . . 706 Episcopal Opinions on the Papal Bull 706 Funeral of the Late Mr. HJJ. Stourton 707 S o c ia l a n d P o l i t i c a l . . . . 708
S U P P L EM E N T . N ew s from t h e S c h o o l s :
Page
In Favour o f Rate-Aid . . 713 “ The Yorkshire Post ” and Rate-
Aid . . . . . . . . . . 713 The Education Question in Manitoba Teachers in Industrial Schools .. Sir John Gorst’s Article The Catholic Stand Against Se
cular Education in Victoria . . Rate-Aid and Local Control .. N ew s from t h e D io c e s e s : Westminster
Southwark . . . . . . . . Birmingham.. ............................716 Clifton .......................................716 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 7 1 6 Liverpool . . . . . . . . 716 Northampton ........................... 717 Nottingham .. . . .. ... 717 Salford ....................................... 718 Shrewsbury . . . . . . . . 718 A Priest Drowned in New Zealand 719
714 714 715 715 715 7**5 716
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
T H E NEW A RCH B ISH O P OF C AN T E R B U R Y . T
'H E appointment of Dr. Temple, the
Bishop of London, to the archiépiscopal see of Canterbury has been received with a good deal of surprise. The
Archbishop of York had declared that the burthen needed young shoulders to support it ; there was an expectation, if not an actual call that the courtly traditions associated with ¿he name of Dr. Benson should be continued. But Dr. Temple answers to neither of these anticipations. He is seventy-five years old, and he has been more or less of a fighter throughout his public career. Born in Sierra Leone in 1821, Dr. Temple, after taking a brilliant degree at Oxford, eventually became the Headmaster of Rugby school. Here his vigorous rule met with much success. His contribution on education to the famous Essays and Reviews, and his ardent advocacy of Mr. Gladstone’s proposals for the disestablishment of the Irish Church, caused him to be classed amongst the Broad Church school and brought him into collision with Archbishop Tait. In 1869 Mr. Gladstone nominated him to the see of Exeter. This roused a storm of opposition. Instead of his election by the Chapter being a mere matter of ceremony there was a hot discussion, after which the election was carried by thirteen votes to seven. Then there was a protest in Bow Church against the authoritative confirmation of the election, and that was followed by renewed protests before the consecration took place in the closing days of December. His hard and straightforward work in his western see silenced many of his critics and his translation to London in 1885 passed comparatively silently. Dr. Temple’s views have changed considerably, but of his opinions for the time being there has never been any doubt. He is a man with the courage of his convictions who dares to say plainly what he thinks, and who cares little or nothing for the criticisms of others. His name as Dr. Benson’s successor has received nothing more than mild approbation, as being on the whole more satisfactory than that of any other Bishop. His abilities, his laboriousmess, his strength of characterare acknowledged, but evidently
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he is either feared or merely tolerated. The strong are not always popular. The Standard says that though it would be absurd to call him an enthusiastic Churchman, either High or Low, he is, on the two great questions of the day — religious education and the maintenance of the Established Church— “ as powerful an advocate as the Church of England could supply.” Those who remember his recent speech at the Church Congress and his declaration that he would be amongst the first to fall into line with the prevailing opinion of Churchmen as to a policy for the preservation of Voluntary schools, will watch with some anxiety the effect of Dr. Temple’s altered position— will he draw the line or observe it ?
Right up to the eve of the poll the most t h e A m e r i c a n contradictory reports come as to the probable e l e c t i o n s , result of the great struggle which is to be decided on Tuesday next. While in New
York the betting is three to one on Mr. McKinley, the supporters of his rival affect undiminished confidence. Even so shrewd and distinterested an observer as Mr. Moreton Frewen still believes that the Democratic candidate will win. Writing from Chicago, which is the very centre of the fight, he commits himself with unhesitating directness to a prediction that Mr. Bryan will carry Illinois and go to White House. He admits that the Republican managers expect to carry every State north of Tennessee and east of Colorado, but his own observations lead him to believe that these professional politicians are this time far out of their reckoning, and have no adequate idea of the strength of the forces which have been let loose in the West. He declares that the farmers are listening to Mr. Bryan as to some great preacher, and that “ it is as if some religious ! craze ’ had broken loose upon the farms.” I f Mr. Moreton Frewen is right, the situation stands thus : The South is likely to give Mr. Bryan 156, the West 60— or 216 out of a necessary 224. Therefore McKinley must carry all of the seven great Central States to be safe: whereas, if Bryan wins the smallest of these States (Minnesota), the Presidential prize is his. Should he, however, lose from his apparently safe column those least safe-— namely, Oregon, Wyoming, West Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware (24), and win Minnesota, Michigan, and Indiana (38), he will then be elected with six votes to spare. Mr. Moreton Frewen is anxious to allay the fears of the British investor, and bids him remember that when the silver currency of Mexico fell in value because of the closing of the Indian mints the public was told that the sterling value of Mexican central bonds would be seriously
