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•E>ÜM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCŒPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT.S.

From the B r ie f o j H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T he T ablet, June 4, /¿yo.

V o l . 92. No. 3054.

L ondon, N o v em b e r 19, 1898.

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C hronicle of t h e W e e k :

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Mr. Chamberlain on the Policy of France—The Murderer of the Empress of Austria— The National Ledger — ImDorts Still Growing — The Sirdar and the East Anglians— Progressin the Dreyfus Case—A Turn for the Better— England and trance— A Word '"from Mr. Rhodes— A Tongue for Political Nonconformity— Major Marchand’s Retreat— The Peace ‘Commission in Paris— King Humbert and his Parliament—¿50,000 for a Baronetcy Declined—Great Britain and America . . . . 797 ¿Lea d e r s :

A Catholic Divorce Case . . . . 801

CONTENTS

L ea d e r s (Continued) :

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East and West . . . . . . 801 Blessed Thomas ^More’s Hesita­

tion and Conscience . . . . 802 The Presbyterian Hymnbook . . 803 Fra Girolamo Savonarola . . 805 N o t e s ». . . — — . . 809 R ev iew s :

A Catholic Gregorovius . . .. 810 Henry V I II . and the English

Monasteries . . .. . . 81 r The Finding o f St. Augustine’s

Chair . . . . . . .. 811 A Popular Missal for the Use of the Laity . . . . . . . . 811 The Enchanted Stone . . . . 816 The Perfect Law of Liberty . . 816

Correspondence :

Rome -(From Our Own Corre­

Page spondent) . . . . — -. 813 News from Ireland _ «.814 L e t t e r s to t h e E d itor :

“ Art in Small Churches ” . . 815 St._Augustine . . . . . . 816 Laissez Faire and Church Music 816 Soc*al Workers for the East-Eend 810 Reviews and Magazines . . . . 8 1 7 Our Mission in Uganda . . . . S17 The Ritual Controversy . . . . 819 Russia and the Holy See . . . .8 2 1 The Late Mg-. Weld . . . . 822 Books of the Week . . . . . . 823 So c ia l a n d P o l it i c a l . . . . 824

SUPPLEMENT. N ew s from th e Schools :

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The Irish University Question . . 829 The Differences in the Needs of

Town and Country Schools . . 830 A Secondary Education Question at Bury . . . . . . . . 831 Football _. . , .. . . 832 N ew s from t h e D io ceses :

Westminster . . . . . . 832 Southwark . . . . . . . . 832 Birmingham.................................... 833 Leeds . . . . . . 833 Salford ......................... ... 834 Funeral of Lady Cromer . . . . 834

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

it becam e a matter o f interest to know in what character he had arrived there. M . Delcassé, the French M in ister o f Foreign Affairs, assured Lord Salisbury that he was therélis an “ emissary o f civilization .” I f he is there only as an emissary o f civilization, it is quite impossible to base any territorial claim s upon his presence on the N ile , and his withdrawal from Fashoda must be follow ed, as a matter o f course, as a matter o f reason, by his withdrawal also from any other posts which he may have established in the territory formerly belonging to Egypt. F inally, Mr. Chamberlain urged that it was France who by her withdrawal from the jo in t control, and refusal to co-operate any longer, imposed upon this country the sole responsibility o f securing the frontiers o f Egypt and safeguarding her inheritance. But though we may agree, and do agree, with all that Mr. Chamberlain urges, it may be gravely doubted whether the cause o f peace is served by saying these things in public at a moment when French feeling is sore to rawness. T h e older diplom acy had its advantages.

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R . C H A M B E R L A IN , speaking in Manchester, took as a fair policy OF FRANCE. general summary o f the attitude assumed b y successive French

Governm ents towards Great Britain the follow ing passage from an article which recently appeared in the Paris Matin: “ W e (the French) have inaugurated the policy o f playing tricks on Great Britain— a policy which had no definite object and which was bound to turn out badly. W e now find ourselves confronted by a people who have at last been exasperated by the continual pin-pricks which we have given them .” In support o f his contention that the conduct o f the French Government in sallowing a political complexion to be given to the expedition o f M ajor M archand was only the clim ax to a long series of unfriendly acts, he instanced the case o f their refusal to a llow the great surplus which Lord Crom er has heaped up to be expended in developing the resources o f Egypt, the malevolent policy pursued towards Newfoundland, the in terference with the chiefs in the hinterland of British West A fr ica , and the destruction o f British trade in Madagascar. A s for the Fashoda incident, it was important only i f it betokened a general change o f policy and a recognition that England as the guardian o f the interests o f Egypt is entitled to the undisturbed control o f the whole valley of the Nile. M r . Chamberlain explained that is not a point o f honour that we are pressing, it is not a sentimental consideration that we are putting forward. T h is claim is for E gypt a matter o f life and death, and all those sacrifices that we have made have been in vain if we are to suppose that hereafter the sources o f the N ile— that great waterway upon which the life o f Egypt depends— should be in hands which are hostile, and which in any circum stances would be unfriendly hands. Nor can it be said that Lord Salisbury has sprung a surprise upon the Government o f France. L o rd Rosebery’s Government four years ago warned France that anything in the nature o f territorial occupation would be an unfriendly act, and the present Government, com ing in to office a little later, repeated the warning. When it appeared, in spite of those assertions, that M ajor Mar'Chand with a small body o f troops had arrived at Fashoda,

T h e trial o f the anarchist Luccheni the murderer of for tjje murcjer 0f the Empress o f empress ofEaustria. Austria was conducted before the

A ssize Court o f Geneva last week with adm irable sim plicity and despatch. Though little that was new was added to the story o f the crime, some o f the evidence was sufficiently sensational. One witness, for instance, mentioned a remark o f Luccheni’s to the effect that i f he had had 50 francs in his pocket on the morning o f the murder he would not have slain the Empress, but would have started for Italy to k ill K in g Humbert. H e consoled him self at the tim e with the remark “ N o matter, that will be done before long by another,” and now stood up in court to corroborate the truth of what the witness had said. In answer to the interrogations put to him by the President o f the Court, Luccheni callously asserted that he had struck to kill. T h e Public Prosecutor’s address was all the more impressive in that it was entirely devoid o f declamation except perhaps the closing sentences in which the full penalty o f the law was invoked. “ Only a few weeks ago,” said he, “ in a dark vault under the Church o f the Capucins in V ienna, the grave closed for ever upon the prisoner’s victim . M ay the tomb close as heavily to-night at Geneva on the footsteps o f the murderer when he has crossed the threshold o f our penal prison, and may he pass into everlasting oblivion 1 L e t this be his punishm ent.” A fter counsel for the defence had addressed the Court the jury, afier a brief retirem ent c f twenty minutes, returned with a verdict o f guilty and with no plea o f extenuating cir-

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