THE TABLET A IV eekly N ew spaper a n d Review .
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETI AM ADDIMÜS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the B r i e f o j H is Holiness P iu s IX . Io T he T a b l e t , June 4 iS/O.
Vol. 90. No. 3004. L ondon, D ecem ber 4, 1897.
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A Step Towards Imperial Penny Postage — German Affairs — The Kaiser and Ship-Money — The London School Board— Elections In the Provinces—The Fury o f the Gale—The Chief Secretary and an Irish Agricultural Department — The Charge of Breach o f Faith — Anti-Catholic Agitation in the U .S .A . — The Engineers’ Conference— Opinions of the Press— The Venezuela^ Boundary Question— Anglicanism and Divorce— The Dispute in the Cotton Trade — The Dreyfus Case—England and China— Life-Boat Disaster at Margate . . . . . . . . 877 L e a d e r s :
The New London School Board 8S1 The Struggle in the Austrian
Reichsrath . . . . . . 881 The Ambrosian Liturgy . . . . 883
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N o t e s . . . . — _ . . 885 R e v ie w s :
Life o f E. B. Pusey, D .D . . . 887 Biblical Handbooks and Commen
taries . . . . . . . . 888 Baddesley Clinton . . . . . . 889 Shakespeare the Boy . . . 890 I .’Univers Catholique . . . . 890 A Welsh Singer . . .. .. 890 A Short History of the Catholic
Church . . . . . . . . 890 Children’s Books . . . . . . 891 Outlines of English Literature for
Young Scholars . . . . . . 891 Catholic Doctrines Explained and
P r o v e d ......................... . . 891 Catholic Evidence Lectures . . 891 C orrespondence :
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spondent) . . ... — — 893 News from Ireland _ . . 895 News from France . . . . . . 896
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An Appeal for the Children .. 896 1 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d itor :
Our Reformatory and Industrial
Schools .. . . . . . . 897 Staffordshire Folklore . . . . »97 An Appeal from Kerry . . . . 897 The Anglican Mass .. .. 897 Toys for Catholic Children . . 898 The Friars Minor . . . . . . 898 The Church in the Antipodes .. 898 A Coptic Mass . . . . .. 900 “ The Church Times ” and Polish
Old Catholics . . . . . . 900 Protestant Lecturer in Wigan . . 901 The Guild o f Ransom and the
Cardinal’s Jubilee . . . . . . got Title to Church Property in New
York _ . . . . . . . . 902 St. Sulpice and Prayer for England 902 Books of the Week . . . . . . 903 O b i t u a r y ............................... ... 903 Social a n d P o l it i c a l . . . . 904
SU PPLEM EN T . St. Gregory the Great and the Future of His Work in England..
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CH R O N IC LE O F TH E W EEK .
WH I L E the Governm ent at home lets its good intentions towards postage. a Penny post for the Empire be thwarted by the obstruction o f the
Post Office, Canada has taken a long step in advance. T h e Postm aster General of the Dominion has announced that, in view o f the closer and more intim ate commercial relations likely to be established between Canada and G reat Britain, the Government has decided to cheapen the cost o f postal communication. A t present it costs three cents to send an ounce letter to any part o f Canada, Newfoundland or the United S ta te s ; it costs ten cents to send that weight o f letter to G reat Britain. T h a t anomaly is to be ended, and after January next an ounce letter will be carried for three cents from Canada to any part o f the British Empire. T h e L ib eral newspapers hail the new arrangement as “ a new lin k o f Empire.” I t is confidently expected that the move will b e promptly reciprocated by the Mother Country. W e hope, however, that the Governm ent will not make the m istake o f taking two b ites at the cherry. T h e Empire must not wait merely because certain permanent officials are unwilling to realize the dreams o f Mr. H enniker Heaton.
Governor o f S h a n tu n g ; 5. T h e punishment o f th e murderers and minor officials; 6. A railway monopoly in Shantung; 7. T h e occupation o f K iao-Chau by Germ any as a coaling station. T h e first five arise legitim ately enough out o f the murder o f the missionaries, and i f insisted upon and carried out will teach the Celestial Empire to be careful in future in its treatm ent o f Europeans. It is not, however, so easy to see how the last two claim s are con nected with the unfortunate incident at Zin-ning. T h e occupation o f K iao-Chau by Germany as a coaling station links itself with the sudden increase o f the German fleet in Chinese waters and the appointment to its command o f no less a personage than the Kaiser’s brother, and this again carries us on to the movement which is being made for an immediate increase in the German navy. T h e newspapers in the Fatherland are already actively discussing the prospects o f the N avy B ill o f Adm ira l T irp itz, the new Secretary o f State for the N aval Departm ent. T h e R ad ica l and Social Dem ocratic press are expressing strong dissent from its proposals, whilst the semi-official papers are emphasizing the possession o f a strong fleet as necessary to Germ any’s very existence. Besides the adequate protection o f the native coasts it is also pointed out that the flag must follow trade in order to afford effective protection to German interests abroad. T h e R ad ica l view o f the matter is voiced by Eugen R ich ter, who has declared that “ the new N a vy B ill, besides affording a perspective o f colossal money demands for the N avy, is a severer attack on the Budget rights o f the R e ich s tag than has ever been tried before, even in the days o f Prince B ism arck.”
T h e demands made b y Germ any in german affairs, compensation for the murder o f the two priests at Zin-ning are sufficiently cate
gorical, and bear out what we said as to the determ ination on the part o f Germany to gain a foothold in China. It would have been scarcely possible to have overlooked the circum stance which was the immediate cause o f the occupation o f K iao-Chau, but it will be sufficiently clear that the murder o f the missionaries is now being used as a convenient peg upon which to hang claim s for what Germ any has long been wanting. T h e demands as telegraphed from Shanghai are as fo l lo w s : i . A money indem n ity o f two hundred thousand taels for the murder o f the two German m issionaries; 2. T h e erection o f a c a th ed r a l ; 3. T h e refunding o f the expense incurred in the occupation o f K ia o -C h a u ; 4. T h e degradation o f the
T h e prom inence given by the public to
_THandVISER discussion ° f the Dew naval programme s h i p -m o n e y . w a s fu lly justified by the K a iser’s speech from the throne when opening the last session o f the current legislative term o f the R e ichstag on Tuesday. T h e speech, which was longer than usual, began with a reference to the N avy B ill in terms o f studied moderation. T h e German navy did not correspond with Germ any’s mission at sea ; in the event o f warlike complications it was insufficient to defend the home ports from b lo c k a d e ; and it had not kept pace w ith the rapid growth o f German trans-oceanic interests. I t was insufficient to afford protection to Germ any’s increased carrying trade and to maintain her prestige. Therefore, without wishing to enter into rivalry w ith maritime nations o f the first rank, it had been determ ined to present a B ill which would lay down what ships should be added to the home and foreign
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