THE TABLET. A Weekly Newspaper and Review.

DOM VOBIS GRATULAMUX, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS ÜT IN INCŒPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT.S.

F ro m the B r i e f o f H i s H o l in e s s P iu s I X . to T h e T a b l e t , J u n e 4 , i& fo .

V ol. 92. No. 3051.

L ondon, October 29, 1898.

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Lord Rosebery and the Crisis— Judges at Mass—Reception of the Papal Delegate by the Emperor—The Kaiser’s Departure from Constantinople—The Russian Famine — War in_ South Africa — Count Muravieff i n Vienna—Speech by Mr. Rhodes —Norway and Sweden — The Empire and its Administration— Russia and Finland — British Attacked by Chinese Soldiers near Pekin—Further Cases of Plague in Vienna —Touching Scene at Dr. Muller’s Deathbed—Storms and Floods —England and the Anti-Anarchist Congress — The Opening of the French Chamber —The Situation — The Sirdar’s Welcome Home—The Crisis . . 677

The Blue and Yellow Books . . 681

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The Sacrificial Idea in the Mass 682 Letters from Canada —VIII.—

Land Allotment and Prohibition 683 Mission Work in China < . . . . 635 N o tes — — «. . .6 8 5 R e v iew s :

Statutes of Lincoln Cathedral . . 688 The Day’s Work . . . . 689 Meditations on Christian Dogma 689 The Impediment . . . . . . 689 Vagaries .. . . . . . . 690 Sister Emmerich . . . . . . 690 “ The Dublin Review ” .. .. 690 The Modern Marriage Market . . 691 C o rr e s po n d en c e :

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“ Rex Regum ” . . . . . . 696 The Catholic Newspaper Guild . . 696 The Feast of St. Winefride . . 696 The Ritual Controversy . . . . 697 Catholic Evidence^ Lectures . . 698 Catholic Social Union Notes . . 699 British Honduras . . . . 699 The Archbishop of Canterbury and

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AF T E R opening a public library in the fair city o f Perth, on Saturt h e c r i s i s . d a y , Lord Rosebery was presented with the freedom of the city. In returning thanks for the honour thus done to him h is lordship took occasion again to refer to the Fashoda difficulty. H e rejoiced in the recent British successes in Egypt as the triumphant culmination of a long campaign of civilization. The responsibility of that campaign had been laid, by one or two of her Majesty’s Ministers, on himself, on the declarations made during the late Government’s tenure of office. H e did not quite see the connection, but if the responsibility was to be cast upon the late -Government he accepted it. Were he a British Minister now no man should rob him o f one shred or jo t o f the honour o f the campaign. The fight at Omdurman had resulted in a victory, not merely for Egypt and Great Britain, but for civilization. “ The forces of slavery and the forces of the most cruel despotism which ever existed in Africa have been driven back for ever, and real civilization is to be substituted in its place. But I think there is another consideration, and a more direct and personal one, which makes us all rejoice in this victory more, perhaps, than in any victory which our arms have achieved in the memory of living man. I think that since the disasters that led to the fall of Khartoum in 1885 and relegated that country back to barbarism every Briton has had in his mind a sense of humiliation which he felt must some day be wiped out, for there was a slur upon the escutcheon of Great Britain, a blot that we could not willingly bear long. A t any rate, if you have not felt it, I have. I speak from the bitterness o f that consciousness when I take pride in this great victory.” H is lordship then in a sentence touched the whole point o f the present question with France concerning Fashoda. “ There is this great truth that every one who studies the Egyptian question has to remember— that is that the Nile is Egypt and Egypt is the Nile.” I f Major Marchand should not turn out to be an emissary of civilization, hut of dominion and encroachment, the matter would be one of great difficulty. The French Yellow Book had not yet been published, and in the meantime Lord Rose-

bery advised Frenchmen to study the English Blue Book. It had been said that England had been using the language of menace towards France. “ I know of no such menaces addressed by any responsible journal or any responsible man,” said Lord Rosebery. “ Menaces are not the language which can be employed between great and friendly nations in the discussion of a d ispute; but, on the other hand, if nations wish to be great and to be friendly, they will only, as I believe, remain friendly and they will only remain great by a wise respect for each other’s rights, by the observance of international law, and by remembering any utterances o f a Government, whether in warning or in deprecation, whichever it may be, that may cause them to desist from any line of action, like not merely to injure those good relations, but to impinge upon the rights of other nations, and to menace by that action the peace of the world.”

The opening of the Law Courts was cele-

judghs at brated on Monday for the second time by a mass. religious service at Westminster Abbey, at which the Lord Chancellor and several of the judges and barristers attended. T h e T im es remarked that the men and boys of the choir wore red cassocks, on the analogy, possibly, of the Red Mass of the Paris Law Courts. Meanwhile in the historic little church o f SS. Anselm and Cecilia, in Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields, the Lord Chief Ju stice of England, accompanied by Mr. Ju stice Mathew and Mr. Ju stice Day in their full robes, and by a goodly following of barristers and solicitors, attended the “ R ed M a s s ”— a Votive Mass of the Holy Ghost— which is usual on such occasions in Catholic countries. The ceremony marked the greatness of the change that has come about in a century. It is only a little more than a hundred years ago that Catholics were first admitted to the degree o f barrister-at-law. Now we have four judges o f the H igh Court, besides County Court Judges and distinguished members of the Bar. The annual Red Mass was re-instituted a few years ago, and it has rapidly grown in popularity. A t first a few barristers and solicitors without robes simply attended a Mass in the old chapel of the Sardinian Embassy in Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields. This year, however, the Mass was said by Father Fitzgerald in presence of Cardinal Vaughan, who intoned the V en i C re a to r , sung at the beginning of the service. The County Court Bench was represented by Judge Bagshawe and Judge Stonor. Of Queen’s Counsel, in full-bottomed wigs, there were present Mr. Joseph Walton, Mr. Mulholland, Mr. H . Shee, Mr. Hugo Young, and Mr. Bowen R ow land s ;

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