THE TABLET.

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

DÜM VOBIS GRATULAM U S , ANIMOS ETIAM ARDIMOS OT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT.S.

From the B r i e f of H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4. rejo.

V ol. 92. No. 3048. L ondon, O ctober 8, 1898.

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’C h r o n ic le of t h e W e e k :

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Anti-Foreign Campaign in China — Protection for Foreigners in China— The Heroes o f Humble L i fe— Germany and South Africa — New Province for the Chartered Company — Prohibition in Canada 1— Professor Virchow on Medical Science—Attitude of the Filipinos— Police and People in Germany— Fashoda and a Precedent— Sir W. Harcourt and the Bishops—The Sirdar at Fashoda — The Dreyfus Case— Russia and the Balkan States— Bloodhounds as Detectives—Affairs in Austria — Indian Rising in Minnesota . . 557 •Le a d e r s :

The Congo and the N ile . . . . 561

L e a d e r s (Continued)':

Abbé Batiffol's “ History of the

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Breviary” . . . . . . . . 562 The First Printer of Bruges . . 563 Letters from Canada . . . . 564 N o t e s ... ~ — — . . 566 R ev ie w s :

The History of the Popes from the Close of the Middle Ages 569 Harrow School . . . . . . 570 A Crowned Queen . . • •5 7 * Brittany and the Due d’A iguillon 571 The Prodigal’s D aughter.. . . 571 C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . «. _ 573 News from Ireland _ _ 574 News from France . . . . . . 575 News from America . . . . 576 I

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“ R e xR e g um ” ............................577 A rt ip Small Churches . . . . 578 “ Laissez-Faire” a n d Church

Music ....................................... 578 The Wedding R ing . . . . 578 Mr. Brinckman Again . . . . 578 Free Lectures to Protestants in

Wales ......................... . . 578 Amateur Photographers . . . . 579 Reviews and Magazines . . . . 579 The Bishop of Newport’s Jubilee.. 580 Plain Song . . . . . . . . 581 Historical Research Society . . 582 Prize D ay at Oscott College . . 583 Catholic Evidence Lectures . . 583 Celtic and Roman Christianity . . 584 The Jesuits in Madagascar . . - .5 84 Mr. E lgar’s “ Caractacus ” . . 58+ The Bishop o f London and Reunion 585

Books of the Week . .

So c ia l a n d Po l i t i c a l . .

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

Certificate Examination . .

The Education Report . .

The Antwerp Institute o f Com­

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merce . . . . . . . . 590 A Successful Catholic Student . . 590 A Schoolboy of the Second Century 590 N ew s from t h e D io c e se s :

Westminster . . . .

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S o u th w a r k ....................... . . . 592 Birmingham.. . . . . . . 592 Leeds 592 Liverpool . . 593 Nottingham ................................... 593 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 594 Mr. Balfour on Ritualistic Practices 595

patty in China have been encouraged by recent events to petition the Throne against the execution o f the convention for the cession of territory near Hong K on g for the more effectual protection o f that colony.

The withdrawal o f the British squadron

¿ANTI-FOREIGN CAMPAIGN IN

CHINA.

T'H E revolution in China has not been slow to bear fruit in an outbreak o f anti-English violence in Pekin, where, according to a telegram from Sir

C laude Macdonald, Mr. Mortimer, a member from the British Legation, was attacked in the streets by a Chinese mob when returning with a lady from the railway station. Stones and other missiles were flung at them, and they were covered with the peculiarly unsavoury mud of the Chinese capital. Later in the same day similar outrages were pei petrated on some American missionaries, and the Chinese Secretary of the American L egation was attacked and had a rib broken. Pekin, under the present régime, is no longer safe for any but Russians or their protégés. Meantime an anti-missionary movement, specially directed against the Catholic missionaries, has broken out in Szechuan, under th e leadership o f a local fanatic named Lu Mantse. This man has been long notorious as a fomenter of such disorders, and ■ in 1886 he instigated an attack on native Christians in Tatsu, which place he kept in a state o f rebellion for six months. H e was then taken and imprisoned, but contrived to escape, on which his son was captured and beheaded. H is following is reported to be increasing, and the movement is assuming the form o f a ievolt against the ■ Government. A letter from Chungking, dated July 16, reports that a French priest is in his hands, and he refuses to release him until an indemnity is paid for his ransom, which M. Haas, the Erench Consul at Chungking, had declined to pay. Tw o other missionaries have been badly ■ beaten at Swunking, on a small river some sixty miles north-east o f Chungking. T h e British Consul at the latter place is vainly trying to obtain justice for another crime, an attack on one o f the colporteurs o f Mr. Laughton o f the American B ib le Society, a wealthy farmer and his son being in this case the guilty parties, and at Sae Hung Hsien, about sixty miles north o f Chungking, the life o f Mr. Mason, the missionary, had been threatened, and two o f his servants beaten, but the magistrate there was said to have effected a satisfactory settlement. T h e Anglophobe

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FO^rKO°REEIGNERS ^ ^

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i n c h i n a . have been rather premature, as it was immediately followed by occurrences which necessitated a demand on the part o f Sir Claude Macdonald for a detachment o f 25 marines for the protection o f the Legation, and the parallel action o f Russia despatching an escort o f Cossacks from Port Arthur on similar duty. These measures have been followed up by an order from the Government o f the United States to Admiral Dewey to send two warships from Manila to a point as near the Chinese capital as navigation permits, and by the sailmg o f the Baltimore and Petrel on this mission. T h e former cannot ascend the river higher than the Taku Forts, but the latter may go as far as Tien-tsiu. T h e United States Minister in Pekin telegraphs that though no immediate danger is apprehended there is much anxiety for the future, and that the foreign fleets were assembled at Tien-tsin. T h e English press in China advocates the drastic measure o f the arrest and deportation o f the Em press Dowager and L i Hung Chang, in which view it is supported by educated Chinese opinion. Joint action by England, Japan, and the United States is recommended by the Japanese press in opposition to Russia, which is accused of having instigated the coup d'etat in order to prevent the Japanese alliance with China and the arming and drilling of her troops. T h e provinces o f Kwang-tung, Kwang-si, Hu-nan, and Sze-chuan are described as in a state o f rebellion, and a movement on Pekin by the adherents o f the Emperor is considered possible, in which case, England, it is said, would seize the mouth o f the Pei-ho.

“ T h e material prosperity o f a natiou is not

THE o T ° ES an h i d i n g possession. T h e deeds o f its h u m b l e l i f e . Pe°p le a ie.” With such a declaration did

Mr. G. F. Watts, R .A . , eleven years ago recommend that as one memorial in honour o f her Majesty’s Jubilee there should be erected in an open gallery a record o f the brave and noble deeds o f heroes in humble life during the period o f the Queen’s reign. T h e scheme caused some little talk at the time, but lapsed amid the multitude of other suggestions. A t last, however, Mr. Watts sees his way to make a start towards its realization.