THE TABLE
A W e e k ly N ew s p a p e r a n d R e v ie w .
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the B r i e f oj H is Holiness P iu s IX . to The Tablet, June 4, i 8jo .
V o l . 91. No. 3022.
L ondon, A p r i l 9, 1898.
P r ic e 5d., 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 h ro n ic le o f t h e W e e k Page
Imperial Parliament : Uganda Again — Municipalities and the Telephone Service—The Wearing o f the Green — The Post Office and Words— The Second Reading of the Prisons Bill— The Government’s Policy in the Far Ea<t— The Results O b t a i n e d — Mr. Rhodes and South Africa— Tea and Coffee in the Streets— A Check for Dunlops—Wei-Hai-Wei to be British— Crisis in the Welsh Coal Trade— The Pope as Mediator— The Situation in Cuba— Natal and the N a v y .................................... 553 L e a d e r s :
Loss and Gain in the Far East . . 557 Russia and the Catholic Aposto-
late in Noithern China . . . . 558 Gaps or Overlaps ? A Study in
Biblical Chronology . . . . 559 Some Notes on the Recent Change o f Ritual in the Diocese of B r u g e s .................................... 560
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N o t e s _ — _ — . . 561 R e v ie w s :
The Celtic Church of Wales . . 563 Life of the Blessed Master John of Avila, Secular Priest . . 564 With the Conquering Turk . . 565 Many Memories of Many People 566 Mediterranean Days . . . . 566 A Forgotten Sin . . . . . . 567 A Woman Worth Winning . . 567 A Child’s History o f Ireland . . 567 Carmel, its History and Spirit . . 567 A Children’s Study . . . . 567 C orrespon d e n c e :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . — _ 569 News from Ireland _ _ 571 News from France . . . . . . 572 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :
Dr. Horton’s C o n t r o v e r s i a l M e t h o d s .................................... 573
L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r (Con
Page tinued : The Wesleyan Leakage . . . . 573 The Council o f Clovesho and
Appeals to Rome . . . . 573 The Seven Dolours . . . . 574 Spain 574 A Fresh Want . . . . . . 574 Wauchope, Archbishop of Armagh 575 The Anglican Position . . . . 575 The Catholic Union Conversazione 575 Benedictines in London . . . . 575 The Litany of Loreto . . . . 577 Golden Jubilee of the Bishop of
Goulburn . . . . . . . . 578 More Unpublished Letters . . . . 578 The Pope as Mediator . . . . 5-59 The Anglican Church and Divorce 580 The Church in Norway and Sweden 580 Books of the W e e k ............................581 F rom E v e r yw h e r e . . ... 581
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S o c ia l a n d P o l i t i c a l . . . . 582
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S U P P L EM E N T . N ews from t h e S c h o o l s :
School Fees in Manchester . . 585 School Questions in Parliament.. 586 The Pupil Teacher System . . 586 The Danger o f Cramming . . 587 N ew s from t h e D io c e se s : Westminster ............................587
S o u th w a r k ......................... ... 588 Birmingham.. ............................588 Salford . . ... . . 588 The Vicariate — . . . . 588 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 588 Priest and Squire ........................... 589
Irish Presbyterians and the Uni
versity Question . . . . 590 Catholic Guardians’ Association 591
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Iquiries for more precise —1f information in regard to the recent troubles in Uganda were not made without drawing attention to the present serious condition of affairs in the Protectorate. T h e events of the last twelve months in Uganda had been attended, he observed, with very calamitous effects. T h e condition of Uganda had been disorganized from top to bottom, the work on the railway had been stopped for a long time, though its completion was o f great importance, the forts had been destroyed, a very large expenditure had been incurred, and, above all, there had been many valuable lives lost. An inquiry had been promised in the House of Commons ; but he had since heard that it was not quite clear that any such inquiry was intended, and he hoped the Duke of Devonshire would make that matter clear before they separated. Her Majesty’s Commissioner (Mr. Berkeley) had reported that when he left Uganda nothing could be more peaceful and satisfactory than its condition in every point of view. Six months after he left the whole o f Uganda was in a state of seething discontent. This was a matter for serious inquiry. In reply the Duke o f Devonshire explained that Mr. Berkeley, the Commissioner of Uganda, had now returned to the Protectorate with authority to inquire into and report upon the causes of the mutiny and the demoralization o f the Soudanese troops, into all the circumstances preceding the arrival of Major Macdonald, and as far as possible into the circumstances attending the capture and murder o f Major Thruston. It appeared that the Soudanese troops had manifested symptoms of disaffection on previous occasions. H is Grace admitted that otfing to difficulties o f transport they were six months in arrears of pay, but that that grievance had been removed before they were ordered to join Major Macdonald by their payment in full. T h e Earl o f K im berley briefly expressed his cordial agreement with the Duke that it would be no use entering upon a discussion of events upon which full information was not yet forthcoming.
A long debate was raised in the
~M and' the™ 3 House o f Commons on a motion for telephone service. into Committee o f Supply on the
C iv il Service Estimates by Mr. Cald
well proposing as an amendment that the continued refusal of the Post Office to grant licences to and allow municipal corporations and other responsible bodies to compete with the National Telephone Company was contrary to the Treasury Minute of May 23, 1892, and calculated to prevent the establishment o f a cheap and efficient telephone service. Mr. Faithful Begg had put down an amendment to Mr. Caldwell’s amendment, in which he advocated the acquisition by the State of the whole telephone system o f the country as the only solution o f the difficulties which existed. Mr. Caldwell’s amendment was negatived after a four hours’ discussion, and so Mr. Begg’s never came formally before the House. That did not, however, prevent the question of State purchase, as opposed to comDetition by municipal and private companies, being pretty fully discussed. Most o f the speeches were fierce indictments of the National Telephone Company, its heavy charges and inefficient service being declared to be without a parallel in any country. Mr. Hanbury in reply evinced a good deal of sympathy with what had been said. The difficulty had been created by the Treasury’s refusal in 1880 to allow the Government to work the telephones as Mr. Fawcett had recommended. Foui years later the system o f local licences for the working of the telephone service was given up for a system of free competition. It was in this way that the National Telephone Company had become such a power by the absorption o f smaller companies. After reviewing the difficulties o f the situation and the various courses before the Government, he stated that if the Government granted licences to Municipalities the latter had not the necessary powers to exercise them. H e understood that in many cases the Municipal authorities were willing to undertake the licences and work them until 19 1 1 , when they would surrender them to the Government at cost price. But they had not at present the power, and he proposed that a Select Committee should be appointed to inquire whether a telephone service would be of such benefit as to justify the local authority in using public funds for the purpose of working it, and whether it would be for the public convenience that the Municipal exchanges should include any extra-municipal area. H e understood from the Post Office authorities that the extension of the telephone system was not likely to damage the revenue i f properly worked. A t the same time,they were bound to treat theCompany with fairness.
N ew S eries V o l . L I X . , No. 2 331.
