THE TABLET.
A IV tekly Newspaper a n d Review .
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT.S.
F rom the B r i e f o j H i s H o lin ess P iu s I X . to T he T ablet, June 4, l iy o .
V ol. 92. No. 3047. L ondon, O ctober i , 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 .
■ Ch r o n ic le of t h e W e e k
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Operations in the Soudan— Crete •and the Powers— A Peerage for the New Viceroy— Mr. Healy on ■ the Political Situation— Crisis in Pekin— The Late Sir George Grey — Affairs at Pretoria— Widespread Devastation in the West Indies— The Dreyfus Case — Why M. 'Casimir-Perier Resigned — AntiAnarchist Campaign in Ita ly — The West Indies and the Sugar «Question— Prohibition in Canada — Italy's Acceptance of the Peace Conference— Death of Mr. Bayard — French Success in West Africa — Death of the Queen o f Den•mark— 'The Anglo-German Agreement . . . . . . . . •• 5*7
CONTENTS
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The Mutiny in Uganda . . .. 521 The Lesson of the Anglican Crisis 522 An Anglican Version o f an
C o r r e s p o n d en c e (Continued)
News from France . . , , News from America L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :
Eastern Mass . . . . . . 524 Letters from Canada . . . . 525 N o t e s — . . 527 R e v ie w s :
Bismarck : Some Secret Pages of his History . . . . . . 528 The Likeness o f Christ . . . . 530 The Homeric Question . . - . 531 The Hittites and their Language 531 Religion and Conscience in Ancient „ Egypt .................................... 531 C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :
Rome :— (From Our Ow 1 Corre
spondent) . . ... — — 533 News from Ireland _ —535
The Wedding Ring A r t in Small Churches-
Chromos ? . . Jubilee of the Association of petual A doiation .. An Old House in Anglesey Useful to School Managers Amateui Photographers . . Robert Horne, o f Winton,
Church Ornaments Intending Visitors to Rome Mr. Brinckman Again The Ritual Controversy Catholic Evidence Lectures The Monument to Don Bosco
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Faith and the Duty of Catholics . . 54 The Rosary Confraternity . . . . 544 Books of the Week . . . . 544 O b i t u a r y .......................................... 544 So c ia l a n d P o l i t i c a l . . . . 544
SU P P L EM E N T . The Rosary Encyclical . . . . 549 N ew s from t h e Schools :
Certificate Examination, 1898 . . 550 Secularist Hypocrisy and Irish
Claims . .
N ew s from t h e D io c e se s :
Westminster
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Clifton ....................................... 551 P l y m o u t h ....................................... 5^2 Salford . . . . . . . . 552 Shrewsbury . . . . . . 553 Menevia ....................................... 554 Aberdeen . . . . . . . . 554
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papers have already dubbed him “ Lord Kitchener of Khartoum,” a title for the adoption of which there would be many precedents in military history.
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
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The four Powers in occupation of Crete crete and have accepted the Italian proposal to make the powers, joint representations to the Porte on the subject of the withdrawal of the Ottoman
GADAREF, the last stronghold of the
Dervishes east of the Nile, was capth r SOUDAN tured 00 September 22 by Colonel Parsons with a force of 1,300 men from Kassala, after three hours’ severe fighting with a loss of about ninety hors de combat. The enemy, who were 3,000 strong, were totally defeated and lost 500 men. The force under Colonel Parsons consisted of the 16th Egyptian battalion, a battalion of native levies taken over from the Italians, an artillery section, and a camel corps. Gadaref is about 200 miles to the south-east of Khartoum, and its occupation places the intervening country under the control of Egypt. The return of the Sirdar to Omdurman on September 25 after an absence of 16 days has to some extent cleared up the ambiguous situation on the White Nile. The mysterious force at Fashoda proved, as conjectured, to be that under Major Marchand, According to information published in Cairo the Sirdar reports having met the expedition, consisting of eight Europeans and 120 Senegalese soldiers, and having offered them to return by way of Egypt if they wished. This they declined to do, stating that they preferred to remain on the spot until the receipt of instructions from their Government. The Sirdar informed the French officer that it devolved upon him as Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian army to occupy Fashoda, which was in the dominions of his Highness the Khedive. The Egyptian flag was then hoisted with due ceremony, and a force consisting of two Soudanese battalions, and some of the Cameron Highlanders .left in charge ¡of it. The Sirdar then proceeded ■ some eighty miles higher up the Nile, and placed a garrison at the mouth of the Sobat river, on the opposite side of the main stream from Fashoda, but commanding its line of •communications with the Bahr-al-Ghazal. He was greeted on his return by a telegram of congratulation from the City of London, which has since unanimously voted him a sword of honour and the freedom of the City, while a subsequent despatch conveyed to him the gratifying intelligence that her Majesty has been pleased to confer on him the dignity of a Peerage of the United Kingdom. The daily troops, before proceeding to ulterior measures. The terms in which this request is to be conveyed are now under discussion, and it would be in fact, if not in form, a quasi ultimatum, offering the Sultan in return for his compliance the high-suzerainty of the island, and a guarantee for the organization of a gendarmerie under European control capable of affording efficient protection to the Cretan Mohammedans. Germany and Austria, who were invited to associate themselves with the four Powers in the measure, have declined on the plea that it would be inconsistent with their dignity to take part in putting diplomatic pressure on the Sultan unless they were prepared to share in the subsequent measures which would be necessitated by a refusal. Meantime the occupying Powers are said to be agreed on a policy for the future, including stringent coercive measures in the last resort.
It was announced on Saturday that the a peerage Q ueen had been pleased to confer the newviceroy. dignity of a peerage upon Mr. G. N. CurzoD,
Viceroy-designate of India, by the name,
style and title of Baron Curzon of Kedlestone, in the peerage of Ireland. This appointment is an interesting example of the way in which the anomalies existing in ou; constitutional system have unexpected uses of their own Mr. Curzon, as heir to a peerage of the United Kingdom, has already contended against the doom awaiting him of exclusion from the House of Commons. By this exercise of the Royal prerogative, which has been but rare in recent times, he is enabled to go out to India as a peer without being a “ lord of Parliament,” and so if his father, Lord Scarsdale, is living on his return, he will be able to resume his work in the House of Commons. The American papers are naturally elated at the idea of an American woman occupying the vice-throne of India in the person ol Mrs. Curzon, the daughter of Mr. Leiter of Chicago Whilst one paper proudly states that “ she will occupy ar. official position higher than any woman of this nation has ever attained, and is worthy of it,” another chimes in with the assurance that “ she will uphold the prestige of American womanhood.”
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