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

DOM VOBIS GRATULAMUK, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT.S.

From the B r ie f oj H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T he T a b let , June 4, /¿fa.

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L o n d o n , N o v e m b e r 1 2 , 1 8 9 8 .

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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 :

The Sirdar in the C ity— Speeches at the Banquet— Lord Salisbury’s Announcement — Recriminations in the Reichsrath— Alleged Turco»German Agreements— Cape Poli­

Page tics— The French Government and ’ the Chamber—Opinion in France — The Dreyfus C a se : Is There a P lo t — Official Report on the Milan Riots— Further Evidence o f the Gravity of the Riots— Evacuation of Crete— Resignation •of the Greek Cabinet— The Kaiser in Syria— Lord Mayor’s D ay : At ■ the Law Courts— Lord Salisbury on the Political Outlook— Elec’ tions in the United States—The

Peace Commissioners and the 'Philippines — Eastern Christians — Pictures in Anglican Churches 757 ¿Le a d e r s :

The German Emperor and the

Future of the East . . . . 761

CONTENTS

L e a d e r s (Continued) :

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Fra^Girolamo Savonarola . . 762 Letters from Canada— X .— Seal­

ing, Penny Postage, and Civil Service . . . . . . . . 765 N o t e s . . ... _ _ . . 768 R ev ie w s :

Syria and Egypt from the Tell el

Amarna Letters . . . . . . 770 Oxford Conferences . . . . 771 Studies in Scottish Ecclesiastical

History in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries . . . . 771 The Reader’s Handbook . . 771 Meditation Leaflets . . . . 7 7 1 C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre*

spondent) . . ... — _ 773 News from Ireland _ _ 774 News from F ra n c e ......................... 775 News from America . . . . 775

L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :

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“ Art in Small Churches” . . 776 The Catholic Church in Bar­

bados : An Appeal . . . . 776 Another View of Augustine . . 776 National Success and Christianity 776 The West Indian Hurricane . . 777 Bishops Waltham and Southend 777 Laissez Faire and Church Music 777 The Leighton Buzzard Mission . . 777 Catholic Papers at Public Read­

ing Rooms.. . . . . . . 777 Mill Hill Missionary College . . 777 The Plague Outbreak in Vienna . . 777 The November Reviews . . . . 778 The Ritual Controversy . . . . 779 St. Joseph’s Foreign Missionary

Society . . . . . . . . 780 The Evils o f Street Trading . . 782 Books of the Week . . . . . . 783 O b i t u a r y . . . . ... . . 784 M a r r i a g e s ........................................ 784 S o c ia l a n d P o l i t i c a l ... . . 784

SUPPLEMENT. N ew s from t h e Schools :

Pao-e

The Catholic University of Louvain ......................... _ . . 7 8 9 London’s Work for Education . . 790 The Lord Chief Justice on Educa­

tion . . . . . . . . . , 790 Educational Activity in C e y lo n .. 790 Tamworth School Board . . . . 790 N ew s from t h e D io ceses : Westminster ........................... 791

Southwark . . . . . . . . 791 Birmingham.. . . . . . . 79» Clifton . . . . . . . . 792 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 792 Liverpool . . 792 Middlesbrough ............................793 Salford . . . . . . ... 793 Menevia ....................................... 794 Newport ....................................... 794 Testimonies of Converts . . . . 794

* . * Rejected MS. cannot be returned unless accompanied with address and postage.

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

TfHE SIRDAR

IN THE CITY.

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I T H much stately ceremcmy the

C ity o f London, on Friday in last week, at a Court o f Common Council, held at the Guildhall, presented

L o rd K itchener o f Khartoum with the freedom of the C ity and a superb sword of honour. T h e streets along the line of route travelled by the Sirdar were lined with enthusiastic crowds of sight-seers, who cheered •loudly as his carriage flashed past to the Guildhall. There, after the C lerk to the Chamberlain’s Court had read the testimony of the compurgators that the Sirdar was “ a man o f good name and fame,” and Lord K itchener had taken the oath, the Lord Mayor formally made the presentation, i n reply Lord K itchener briefly expressed his thanks for th e honour that had been done to him as the representative o f the army which had been recently engaged in the Sudan. A l l had worked together in the great enterprise of which L o rd Cromer was the master mind, to whose able direction th e reconquest of the Soudan was due.

In the evening this ceiem ony was appro-

— speeches pnately concluded by a banquet in the Sirdar’s th e banquet, honour at the Mansion House, at which all that is representative of the Empire was present. After the usual loyal toasts had been duly honoured Lord Rosebery proposed the toast o f the Navy and Arm y in a speech which, short as it was, touched every heart into sympathetic enthusiasm. T h e high 'fortune of welcoming our heroes of the Soudan was a record that was sufficient to render any mayoralty illustrious. The toast was a comprehensive one, including not only the :Sirdar, but all his able and trusted lieutenants, every soldier, British, Egyptian, and Soudanese, every bluejacket, every platelayer, and every stoker who had taken a part in the campaign. There was one more name, which could not be brought within the compass of the toast, but which was present to every one— the name o f Lord Cromer. What he had done for Egypt only Ministers and Egyptian officials could know ; and it would not be well, in the hour o f dark shadow which had fallen in his life, that he who tvas so largely instrumental in the success of the campaign

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should be unremembered at that board. T h ey were celebrating a consummate campaign, o f far-reaching beneficence, accompanied with little loss o f life to our arms, which had wiped o ff a debt which for thirteen years had lain near the heart and conscience o f every Englishman, and swept out from the heart of Africa the bloodiest and most barbarous o f tyrannies. Admiral Sir Nowell Salmon briefly responded for the Navy, and Lord Lansdowne for the Army.

T h e toast o f the evening, the health

— lord Sa l is bu r y ’ s of the Sirdar, fell to Lord Salisbury,

announcem en t . who called attention to the straDge dramatic interest o f the circumstances and the conditions of the campaign inwhich Lord K itchener had won his laurels, and the note of which was the way in which the Sirdar had furnished himself with the instruments by which his battles were fought and victory won. Their guest was not only a great General, but perhaps the only one who had carried on a campaign for ^300,000 less than he estimated for. H e was a splendid diplomatist too, and his tact had materially helped in the conclusion to which the French Government had come in regard to Fashoda, which as of no sort of value to the Republic, they had at last determined to evacuate. T h e Sirdar’s reply again modestly disclaimed the personal honour done to himself by laying stress upon his character as the representative o f the Anglo-Egyptian army. Amplifying Lord Salisbury’s allusion to the financial side of the campaign, he said : “ Although the accounts have not yet been absolutely closed, you may take it as very nearly accurate that during the two-and-a-half years’ campaign extra military credits to the amount o f two-and-a-half millions have been expended. In this sum I have included the recent grant that has heen made for the extension o f the railway from Atbara to Khartoum, the work on which is already in hand. Well, against this large expenditure, we have some assets to show; we have, or shall have, 760 miles of railway properly equipped with engines, rolling stock, and a track with bridges in good order. I must admit that the railway stations and waiting-rooms are somewhat primitive, but then we do not wait loDg in the Soudan. Well, for this running concern I do not think that ^3,000 a mile will be considered too high a value. This represents two-and-aquarter millions out of the money granted, and for the other quarter o f a million we have 2,000 miles o f telegraph line, six new gunboats, besides barges, sailing craft, and— the Soudan. O f course, the railway did not cost me ,£3,000 a mile to construct, and many other heavy charges for war