THE TABLET:
A W eek ly N ew sp aper a n d R ev iew .
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS ÜT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the B r i e f o j H i s Holiness P iu s I X . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4,
V o l . 9 1 . N o . 3029.
L o n d o n , M a y 28, 1898.
P r ic e sd ., b y P o s t sJ£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 r o n ic le o f t h e W e e k
P a g e
Imperial Parliament : Tributes to Mr. Gladstone— Speeches in the Commons— The Immigration of Aliens — The Closing Sitting— The Work of the Session— President Kruger and Great Britain— The Zola Trial— Queen’s Birthday Celebrations in the U .S .— Cable-Cutting in W a r — The French Elections— Mr. Gladstone: Lying in State and Funeral Arrangements— The W a r .. . . 833 L e a d e r s :
The Belgian Elections . . . . 837 Russia and Germany in Eastern
Europe . . . . . . . . 837 A Russian Theologian on Angli
can Reunion . . . . . . 838
C 0 N T
ENTS.
Page
Fra Girolamo Savonarola . . . . 840 N o t e s — ». — — . . 843 R e v ie w s :
Motion : Its Origin and Conser
vation . . .- . . . . 844 The Child Who W ill Never Grow
O l d ................................................ 847 The Alps and the Pyrenees . . 847 C orrespon d e n c e :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . — — — 849 News from Ireland _ « 8 5 0 News from F ra n c e ......................... 851 News from America . . . . 852 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r : Catholics and the London Hos
pital . . . . . . . . •• 853 Savonarola . . . . . . . . 853 A New Maestro . . . . 854 I
L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r (Con- Page tinued : Mr. Hope’s Punctilio . . . . 854 Feast of the Patronage o f St.
Joseph, 1898 . . . . . . 854 Was Trollope Mistaken ? . . 854 A Rubrical Q u e r y ............................ 855 A Conversion ............................ 855 A Sphere for Missionary Labour . . 855 St. Edmund's H ouse.. . . . . 856 The “ Veneration o f the Cross” . . 859 The C o u n c i l o f Clovesho and
Appeals to Rome . . . . . . 859 The Madras University and the
Thomist Philosophy . . . . 860 Books of the W e e k ............................861 So c ia l and P o l i t i c a l . . . . 8 6 1
S U P P L EM E N T . N ew s fro m t h e Schoojls :
A Technical Nunnery in Ireland 865
N ew s from t h e Schools (Con- P a g e tinued): The Education Returns . . . . 866 In Parliament . . . • • 867 The Half-Time System . . . . 867 Arno’s Court Reformatory for
Girls, Bristol .......................... 867 N ew s from t h e D io c e se s : Westminster . . . . . . 867
S o u th w a r k ....................................... 868 Birmingham.. ............................868 Middlesbrough ............................ 868 Nottingham.. ............................868 P l y m o u t h ........................................868 Salford ....................................... 868 Shrewsbury ............................868 Argyll and the Isles . . . . 869 The Dignity of Our L ady . . . . 869 Irish Local Government . . . . 870 The Vatican and the Italian Riots 871
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
TRIBUTES TO MR. GLADSTONE. T
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT :
H E speeches uttered in both Houses of Parliament moving the presentation of an address to the Throne praying that a State funeral and a monument in Westminster Abbey might be accorded to Mr. Gladstone were indeed worthy of the occasion. Thenation was in mourning overthe loss that it had sustained, and the nationalsorrowwas fitly voiced by the nation’s representatives. Lord Salisbury, speaking with unrepressed emotion, directed attention to the wonderful spectacle presented by the universal assent of all persons of all classes and o f all schools of thought in doing honour to a man who had been more mixed up in political conflicts than almost any other man ever known. What was it that caused this agreement but that men recognized that he was a man guided in all the steps he took, in all the efforts he made, by a high moral ideal ? From nothing but the greatest and purest moral aspirations he sought the attainment of great ideals, and he would go down to posterity as “ a great example to which history hardly furnished a parallel of a great Christian statesman.” Lord Kimberley followed with a few brief words, in which he declared that he could add little to the touching speech of the Premier, in which the keynote of the national feeling had been struck. The Duke of Devonshire bore testimony that no word had fallen from Mr. Gladstone which added unnecessarily to the painful position of the Unionists at the time of their severance from the Liberal party. During a long political life Mr. Gladstone had ever been actuated by a sense of public duty. As was to be expected, Lord Rosebery’s words glowed with tenderness and feeling. Beginning with a quotation of Lord Salisbury's estimate that Mr. Gladstone’s intellect was the most brilliant that had been applied to the service of the State since Parliamentary Government had begun, Lord Rosebery pointed out how that intellect, mighty by nature, had been fashioned and prepared by almost hourly labour. He dwelt upon the deceased statesman’s power of concentration, the infinite variety and multiplicity of his interests. Then turning to Mr. Gladstone’s moral character, he laid
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stress on the universality and humanity of his sympathy. The last note written by him had been to Lady Salisbury after her carriage accident. As for his deep-seated Christian faith, it was the pure faith of a child confirmed by the experience and conviction of manhood and it pervaded every act and part of his life. His last years had been spent in preparation for death. Lord Rosebery next made allusion to Mrs. Gladstone, and paid a touching tribute to her long wifely devotion. The loss to his family and his nation was indeed great, but, finely concluded Lord Rosebery : “ The nation lives that produced him, the nation that produced him may yet produce others like him, and in the meantime it is rich in his memory, rich in his life, and rich, ahove all, in his animating and inspiring example.”
The address in the Commons was moved
— speeches by Mr. Balfour, who, in spite of the serious the commons, weakness and indisposition consequent upon influenza, paid a splendid tribute of homage to the commanding qualities of Mr. Gladstone. Opening with an allusion to Mr. Gladstone’s motion 17 years ago in favour of Lord Beaconsfield, he gladly confessed that difficult and impossible in some respects as his task was, certain difficulties at any rate did not beset his path. A great part of Mr. Gladstone’s career was already a matter of history, for he was a Cabinet Minister before most of those present were born. It would be impossible on such an occasion to take the many-sided aspects of such a life, and so he must confine himself to Mr. Gladstone as a politician. He was the greatest member of the greatest deliberative assembly the world has ever seen, for there was no gift which would enable him to move, influence and adorn such an assembly which he did not possess in a supereminent degree. No man combined all such gifts as they were combined in his person. Reviewing Mr. Gladstone’s oratorical feats, Mr. Balfour said finely : “ Alas ! Sir, let no man hope to be able to reconstruct from our records any living likeness of these great works of genius. The words, indeed, are there, lying side by side with the words of lesser men in an equality as if of death. But the spirit, the fire, the inspiration are gone, and he who could alone revive them, he who could alone show us what these words really were, by reproducing them for us, he, a la s ! has now been taken away. Posterity must take upon our testimony what he was to those, friends or foes, whose fortune it was to be able to hear him.’ Mr. Balfour next pointed out that whatever might have been the point at issue at the moment there was one thing which Mr. Gladstone always d id : “ He added a dignity, as he
