THE TABLET.
A IVeekly Newspaper and Review.
DOM VOBIS GRATULAMOS, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT.S.
From the B r i e f o j H is Holiness P iu s IX . to The Tablet, June 4, ie-,o.
Vol. 92. No. 3045. London, S eptember 17, 1898.
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C O N T
'C hronicle of t h e W e e k Page
Assassination of the Empress of Austria— Universal Sorrow for the Emoress—American View of the Chinese Question—Dismissal of Li-Hung-Chang — The Year’s 'Work at the Post Office—The Dreyfus Case—A Party Struggle — The Situation in the Philippines—The United States War Department — The Increase pf Insanity— Combating Distress in Ireland— Lord Balfour on Secondary Education— Are the French at Fashoda? — England and America— Fresh Murders in Crete — British Ultimatum in Crete— Refusal of the Porte to Withdraw Troops — Destructive Fires in America — Fearful Hurricane in •the West I n d i e s ......................... 437 L e a d e r s :
The Protectorate of the Eastern
Christians . . . . . . •• 441
L eaders (Continued) :
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Anglican Episcopal Theology . . 442 Fra Girolamo Savonarola.. . . 444 Letters from Canada . . . . 446
N o t e s — ~ _ — . . 448 R eview s :
A Manual of Catholic Theology 450 Some Western Folk . . . . 450 Coventry Patmore’s Essays . . 451 The Authorship of “ The Imita
tion” . . . . . . •• 45t Sir Henry Lawrence . . ••451 Life is Life, and Other Tales and
E p is o d e s .................................... 451 C orrespondence :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . — — — 453 News from Ireland _ 454 News from France . . , , . . 455 News from America . . . . 456
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
THE IHMPRKSS OF AUSTRIA A
ASSASSINATION OF
S E N S A T IO N o f world-wide grief and horror has been created by the fiendish crime, b y which the Empress E lizabeth of
Austria, trebly sacred as a woman, a bereaved mother and a Sovereign, lost her life on September 10. H e r Majesty had been staying at Territet near Montreux, and had come thence to Geneva where she spent two days in strict incognito at the H o te l Beau R ivage. In tending to return by the afternoon boat, she lefc the hotel about two o ’c lo ck to walk the few yards separating it from the pier, accompanied only by the Countess Sztartay, her lady-in-waiting. T h e assassin seized his opportunity, rushed up to her, and stabbed her with a sharp instrument in the side, with such violence that she fell to the ground from the shock, but had no idea that she was otherwise injured. She rose, and assisted by the Countess Sztartay and some passers-by, walked to the steamer and embarked, intending to prosecu te her journey. In a few minutes, however, she lost consciousness, and it was only when her dress was cut open in the unavailing efforts to restore her, that the d iscovery o f som e inconsiderable b lood stains revealed the true nature o f the catastrophe. There was no doctor on board, and the captain decided to return to Geneva, from which the boat had only proceeded as far as the next station. On a stretcher, improvised from oars and camp stools, the dyiDg Empress was borne back to the hotel, where medical assistance was obtained, and a priest hastily summoned. S h e received Extrem e Unction while still breathing, and d ied within half an hour o f the fatal stroke, apparently without having suffered a pang. T h e wound was inflicted b y a long triangular stiletto which pierced the region o f the heart, only causing the external effusion o f a few drops o f blood. T h e assassin was foiled in his attempt to escape, and arrested by two cabmen on a stand c lo se by. H e gloried in his crime, and declared before the Commissary o f Police that he had intended to murder Prince Henry of Orleans, who had recently been staying in Geneva, but had not succeeded in finding him. Inform ed by the papers of the visit o f the Empress o f Austria, whom he knew by sight, having seen her at Budapest four years ago, he hung about the hotel until chance favoured him in the opportunity
N ew Series Vol. I.X ., No. 2,354.
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L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it or :
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Art in Small Churches . . .. 457 The Anglican Bishop o f South-
well on Private Confession . . 457 A Sailors’ Home . . . . . . 457 Mr. Brinckman Again . . . . 457 Hymns . . . . . . . . 457 Confraternity of Our Lady of
Light .................................... 458 Encyclical on the Rosary . . . . 458 The Ritual Controversy . . . . 458 Reviews and Magazines . . . . 460 Should Missionaries Fight? . . 462 St. Joseph’s College, Colombo .. 462 Menelik' and the Lazarist Mis
sionaries . . . . . . . . 462 An Aristrocratic Monastery . . 463 The Catholic Congress at Krefeld 463 Tsar’s Peace Proposals .. . . 463 Books of the Week . . . . 463 F rom E veryw h er e . . . . 464 Social a n d Po l it i c a l . . . . 464
SU PPLEM EN T . N ews from th e Schools :
Evening Commercial Schools . . 469 Swindon S c h o o l ............................469 Rural Board Schools . . . . 469 Ideas o f Children . . . . . . 470 Intermittent Visits and Fixed
Grants . . . . . . . . 470 Oxford Locals ........................... 470 N ew s from t h e D io ceses : Westminster 470
Southwark . . . . . . . . 471 Birmingham.......................................471 Clifton ....................................... 471 Salford ....................................... 471 Menevia . . 472 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 472 Glasgow . . . . . . 472 The Holy Shroud . . . . . . 472 The Pope’s Health . . . . . . 473 Mother Russell’s Funeral . . . . 473 Celtic Christianity . . . . . . 473 Irish Point Lace . . .. . . 474
afforded by her embarkation on board the steamer. H e gave his name as Luigi Luccheni, and his age as 25, is an Italian b y birth, a shoem aker by profession, and has been an Anarchist since he was 13. H e had com e to Geneva from Lausanne, where he had been residing, fully determ ined to make a victim o f some potentate, and declared that i f all Anarchists did their duty as he had done, bourgeois society would disappear.
T h e feeling o f horror and dism ay
S O R » ! '™ “ ™ created b y the news in V ienna, is shared em press. by the whole o f the Dual Monarchy, and all its nationalities are united in a common sense o f sorrow for the murdered Empress and o f sympathy with the heavily-tried Emperor in this new and crushing affliction. T h e terrible announcement was made to him at Schónbrunn, and after receiving it he exclaim ed : “ I see I am not to be spared a single misfortune in this w o r ld ! ” T h e whole Im perial family gathered around him, and he made an effort to receive them, and to give the necessary instructions to M inisters and officials. H e is known to have been filled with misgivings during this year, and to have expressed a fervent wish that the Jubilee were safely over. It is thought that the A rch duke Franz Ferdinand will go to Geneva to accom pany the remains to V ienna, which will probably be reached on Thursday, and the burial, which it is expected will be attended by the Emperor and Empress o f Germany in person, will take p lace on Saturday. A t the VaticaD the news was received with consternation, and broken gently to the Pope who manifested deep emotion on hearing it, and remained for some moments absorbed iu prayer. T h e general indignation at the crime in R om e and throughout Ita ly is intensified by the fact that the assassin is an Italian, and it is recalled with a sense of humiliation that Caserío, the murderer o f President C a in o t , and Angiolillo, the assassin of Señor Caovas del Castillo, as well as Acciarino, who attem p ted the life o f K in g Humbert, were o f the same nationality.
AMERICAN VIEW OF THE CHINESE
QUESTION.
Mr. Henderson, formerly United States Consul at Amoy, regarded as an authority on the commercial relations o f China, has written an interesting letter published in
New Y o rk on Septem ber 9. H e is fully alive to the importance o f the Chinese market to American trade, and recommends the Convocation o f an international congress to secure access to it on equal terms to all the nations o f the world, in the belief that in such a measure would the
