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THE TABLET.

A W eek ly N ew sp aper a n d R ev iew .

DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMÜS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT^S.

From the B r i e f oj H is Holi?iess P iu s 7X . to T he Tablet, June 4) iö /O.

V ol. 92. No. 3034.

London, J uly 2, 1898.

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[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 .

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Imperial Parliament : The South Wales Coal Dispute— Remission oftheEgyptian Loan-Sir William Harcourt and Ritualistic Prac tices — The German Elect ons— The Sligo School Case— A Brisson Cabinet— Chinese and Mis sionaries— A C ity of a Thousand Years — Advance Australia — A Brighter Outlook in Foreign Affairs — The American Senate and the Canadian Commission— The War—Lunacy Statistics . . 1 L e a d e r s :

The German Elections . . . . 5 A t the “ Tablet ” Stall . . . . 6 Ju ly 4, 1898 . . . . . 8 F ra Girolamo Savonarola.. . . 9 N o t e s ... . . _ _ ..13 Canon Knox L ittle and Sir William

Harcourt . . . . . . . . 15

CONTENTS.

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Statistics of Freemasonry . . . . 15

C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :

Rome:—(FromOur Own Correspondent) . . ... —

News from Ireland — _ 18 News from France . . . . . . 19 News from America . . . . 20 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :

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“ The Motherhood of G od ” . . 21 The Church and “ The States

man’s Year B o o k ” . . . . 21 A Presbyterian Bishop and the

Homily on Idolatry . . . . 21 Chaplains in Catholic Families . . 22 The Training Ship “ Indefati

gab le ” _.. . . . . ..22 Representations of the Eternal

Father . . .. . . ..22 The Late Cardinal Manning and the Papacy . . . . . . 22 University Intelligence . . . . 22

Association o f the Venerable Col

Page lege of St. Thomas De Urbe . . 22 R e v ie w s :

St. Paul’s Conception of Christ ;

or, the Doctrine of the Second Adam . . . . . 23 The Spirit is Willing . . . . 25 Humphrey . . .. . . ..25 The Catholic Church in the Philip

pines . . . . . . . . . . 26 Memorial A ltar at Salisbury, Rho

desia . . . . . . .... 26 The Pope and Prebendary Miller 27 A Bishop and the Mitre . . . . 27 The Local Government Bill and

University Education . . . . 27 Conference o f Catholic Guardians . . 28 The Catholic Union of Great Britain 28 Catholic Evidence Lectures . . 28

Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln . . 28 Books of the Week . . ..28 O b it u a r y ............................................. 28

S o c ia l a n d P o l i t i c a l

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S U P P L EM E N T . N ew s from t h e S chools :

The Management of Primary

Schools in Ireland . . . . 35 Meeting o f the Maynooth Union 33 The Bishop of Southwark at

Clapham College . . . . 35 Sir J. Gorst and the Voluntary

Schools . . . . . . . . 35 Xaverian Brothers’ School, May-

field, Sussex . . . . . . 35 Ordination Day at Douai College 35 N ew s from t h e D io ceses : Westminster ......................... 35

Southwark . . . . . .

Northampton . . . .

Newport . . .. . . ..36 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 36 The Ritual Controversy . . . . 3

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

the Barry, the T a f f Vale, and the Rhymney, there had been a total loss in traffic o f ¿ 1 4 4 ,3 2 0 since the dispute began, and the diminution in the receipts o f the Great Western Company during the same period was ¿62,000, a great portion o f which was due to the dispute. T h e market had also been very seriously affected. T h e amount of Welsh coal displaced by German coal during May was ¿ 2 9 041 tons, and when a dislocation of markets once took place it was not an easy thing to restore them. As an indication o f the suffering in the locality which had been caused by this dispute,he stated that 42,504 persons hadbeen relieved at the Bute Docks soup kitchen during a period o f seven weeks. The moral o f all these facts was pointed by Sir William Harcourt, who urged the necessity of the Government taking some action to put a stop to the quarrel between the miners and the owners. In reply, Mr. R itch ie explained that the Board o f T rad e had made inquiries on the spot, and had secured the appointment o f a Committee, which had not, however, been able to negotiate even the preliminaries to a settlement. But it seemed that more hopeful symptoms among the men were manifesting themselves in connection with a ballot on the question of opening negotiations with the masters. It would, therefore, be highly inexpedient for the Board of Trade to intervene or to attempt to appoint a conciliator who had never been asked for. After further discussion the motion was withdrawn, and the House proceeded to dispose o f several non-controversial naval votes. The debate may hurry the parties in the dispute to ask for a conciliator.

WH I L S T the Lords were engaged upon the concoal d ispu t e . sideration o f the Second Reading o f the Prisons Bill, which was allowed without discussion after a a speech from the D uke o f Devonshire, the Commons were debating the expediency o f the Government interfering with the coal dispute in South Wales. T h e discussion followed a motion for adjournment proposed by Mr. B. Jones, who after leave Had been giveD, pointed out the extreme gravity o f the situation that had arisen. Out o f a total o f 130,000 men employed in the South Wales coalfields, no less than 90,000 were now out of work. T h e dispute had lasted twelve weeks, and its results had been disastrous. Its consequences had been felt by the men themselves, and especially by their wives and families, and the distress which it had caused was fast spreading to all classes. But this dispute was also causing wider and more far-reachiDg effects, as the coal produced in the South Wales coalfields was the best adapted for steamship navigation, and there could be no more striking illustration o f this fact, than the circumstance that the First Lord o f the Admiralty had been obliged to alter his plans in regard to the Autumn Naval Manoeuvres. Other instances o f its indirect effects could be found in the fact that the number of seamen shipped at Cardiff, Swansea, and Newport during the month o f May, 1897, was 7,525, while during last month the number fell to 2,210, or a diminution o f 70 per cent., and that there were sixteen blast furnaces at work in Cardiff last year, while there were only three at work now. In seconding the motion, Mr. S. Evans said that 30,000,000 tons of the annual output of 35,000,000 tons o f the district were affected by the stoppage. T h e wretchedness and misery among dependent industries in Cardiff and Barry could not be exaggerated, and among the miners it was estimated that during the stoppage they had lost ¿10 ,000,000 in wages. T h e quantity o f coal shipped from Cardiff, Newport, Swansea, and the neighbourhood during the month of of May, 1897, was 1,792,000 tons. In the same month o f this year the amount was less by about 1,223,000 tons. On the three railways in the district,

There was not much of a House to g o

— remission of ¡nt:o c ommittee on Monday afternoon to Eg y p t ia n loan, consider the resolution authorizing the

Chancellor o f the Exchequer to remit the loan o f ¿780 ,8 0 2 granted last year to the Egyptian Government to relieve it from its difficulty with the Caisse. In moving the resolution, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach reminded the House o f the conviction of the Government that Egypt could never be regarded as permanently secure so long as the N ile Valley up to Khartoum was held by a hostile force. In consequence of the seiies of military operations that had been conducted with so much skill by Lord Cromer, the Sirdar, and the Egyptian authorities, peace now reigned from Dongola to Berber, Kassala, Suakim, and throughout the north-eastern Soudan. The recovered provinces, depleted as they had been o f their male population, could not be expected to pay the cost of their administration within a couple o f years, but there was every ground

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