THE TABLET,

A W eekly Newspaper a n d Review .

DOM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMOS OT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT.S.

From the Brief of H is Holiness P ius IX . to T he T ablet, June 4, iisjo.

V ol, 93. No. 3062.

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■Chronicle of the W eek : Page

Christmas Greetings to the United btates— Lord Cromer at Khar, toum—Water-Weeds as Wealth—

France and Our Trade with MadaRfscar—Opinion in Paris—Lady Moloney^ and the Windward Islands—Sir E. Clarke has Little Confidence in the Bishops—What ® Liberal Lawyer Says — The Wine Harvest in France — An Air-Driven Omnibus—The Dreyfus Affair — Evidence from Cayenne—A Heavy Divorce List —-Trial of a Submarine Torpedo Boat—The Miners’ Federation— lh e Representation o f Derry— The Yemen Rising— The Acquinaldo Trouble . . . . ..41 L eaders:

Pope Leo's Latest Gift to England 45 Oversea Catholics and Central

Africa .................................... ......

CONTENTS

L eaders (Continued) :

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Characteristics of the Anglican &

Crisis .................. Habitual Inebriates . . Notes . . __ R eviews :

P i t t : Some Chapters of his Life and Tim es.. .. . . ,, Notes from a Diary in Asiatic

Turkey . . . . .. Books for the Young . . . . The Prince and the Undertaker and What they Undertook . . The Educational Systems of Great

Britain and Ireland .. Raphael . . . . , . Some Magazines . . . . “ Truth ” and an Ex-Priest Re-Establishment of the Domin cans at Cologne . . .. Correspondence :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . .

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News from Ireland _ — 58 News from France......................... 58

L etters to the E ditor :

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Physical Science and Faith . . 59 The Black Pope and the White

P?pe .........................................59 British Seamen in Genoa Har­

bour ........................................60 Mr. Gee and the Elizabethan

C l e r g y .........................................60 Going Down ............................. 61 The Motherhood of God . . . . 61 The Leighton Burial Board: A

Catholic Grievance .. . . 61 Attacks on the Church in Bradford 62 What is the Church o f England ? . . 63 Historical Research Society . . 63 The University of Fribourg .. 64 Destruction of St. Mary’s Cathe­

dral, New Zealand.. . . . . 64 The Third Order of St. Francis . . 65 Canon Fleming’s Obedience ! . . 65 The Roman Question . . . . 65 A Woman’s Work in the East-End 66 The Pope and America . . . . 66 The Word “ Catholic ” . . . . 66

Books of the Week . . .. F rom E verywhere . . . . O bituary . . . . ... M arriage ...................................... Social and Political . .

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SUPPLEM ENT. N ews from the Schools :

St. Bede’s College{ Rome . . The Irish University Question . . Secondary Education . . . . A Bishop and the Birch . . . . An Education Question in Mel­

bourne .................................... Sandhurst Examinations . . . .

73 74 75 75 75 76

N ews from the D ioceses : Westminster ............................. 76

S o u th w a rk ........................................ 7s Liverpool . . . 7 7 Salford ....................... . . . 7s Menevia .................................... 7s From Uganda to England . . An Indian Mission .. . .

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C H R O N I C L E O F T H E W E E K .

UNITED STATES. T

CHRISTMAS 'GREETINGS TO THE

H E New York World publishes a

Dumber of messages to America from well-known English men of

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letters. Mr. Rudyard Kipling expresses the belief that the era c f good will between the two peoples is only now beginning, and he bases this faith upon the assur•aoce that when the Americans themselves setto workto create roads, drains, schools, hospitals, and an elementary form of justice, in countries in which these things do not new exist they will^ better understand the work of Great Britain in the world. “ After a nation has pursued certain paths alone in netace of some slight misrepresentation, it is consoling to of raising up in the desert a native civilization. The College was to be wholly undenominational, and as far as possible instruction would be given in the Arabic language. Its funds had not come from either the British or the Egyptian Government, but from the liberality of the English people. His lordship then laid the foundationstone in the name of Queen Victoria. On the following day he went some distance up the Blue Nile with the Sirdar, and the day after started on his return northward. H e had previously paid a visit to the Hospital at OmdurmaD, where the wounded of the ioth Soudanese, who defeated Ahmed Fedil at Roseires, had just arrived; whilst

. Fd Kitchener continued his way up the Blue Nile on a visit o f inspection. Two hundred and fifty men of the Royal Irish Fusiliers have been ordered from Alexandria to Khartoum, in accordance with a decision arrived at last autumn that aBritish detachment should be stationed at Khartoum during the winter months.

n another nation (which one can address without a dictionary) preparing to walk along the same lines to, I doubt not, the same ends.” Mr. Conan Doyle looks further fni. l arnd Wntes as follows: “ If 1 had a siQgle sentiment TTniipH c,U1J progress of mankind it would be, ‘ May the rom l T S ates exPand lnto the Reunited States.’ It will manv rhpS sure>but only after many political convulsions, rr» JJ the .kS ancl set'backs upon both sides of the Atlantic. £ £ " S £ “ 3 l ° th? E»5“ »h-,p«.ki0B nations, absolMo aITl round. and an Imperial Council sittme the f i t te s t “ h ° "nd Washington-that is the light on steer” 1 A f h on towards which every true man will steer. A few years ago such sentiments could not have been nnbiicL^ 6 ■ f o m e n t s could not have Hannifv t l h d ,J lthout expos|ng their author to ridicule. W pL o Y h m0V£S' and many wiI1 j ° in m Mr. Doyle’s w a t e r -w e e d s u 11 u a comtnon-place of modern economics

As that every country is industrially important w e a l t h . in proportion to the mechanical force at its command, and that the most fertile country in the world must remain an unproductive wilderness so long as its mechanical force is limited to manual labour and the draught of beasts.” That hitherto has been the fate of vast tracts o f northern Africa. The normal fuel of the Soudan is the dried dung o f camels, and even Egypt has to depend largely for other fuel upon coal imported from far Great Britain. Colonel Stewart Harrison has suggested in the columns of The P a l l M a ll Gazette, that an unsuspected source of fuel wealth, and, therefore, of mechanical energy, may be found in the masses of waterweed which obstruct the upper reaches of the Nile. The ope, even if they cannot share in his confidence.

■l o r d Cr o m e r • L o r .d Kitchener has shown that he has no at intention of losing any time in beginning the K h a r t o u m , work o f education in the Soudan. On tion-stnno r . ^ast k ° rd Cromer laid the foundao f a tbe Cordon College at Khartoum in presence beine8; ! ! 1 assenablyof people. In a speech which, on CronLJ°terPr?ted to the natives, was well received, Lord initiative xPf ai° e^ College was due to the personal Cordon f T r ord Kitchener as a memorial to General officials’ ° r l , e 9ducadoa a capable body o f native tion of ' gn<rultunsts, and engineers. There was no inten-

ating a race of Anglicized Soudanese, but rather Rw s®Ries. Vol. LXI., No. 2,371.

sudd which sometimes stops navigation altogether south of Khartoum, and the mossy deposits which extend over hundreds o f miles of morass on either bank, consist of a combination of carbon and water. Expel the water and compress the carbon, and the problem is solved. The Colonel urges that all that is needed to provide the Soudan with a cheap and abundant fuel is “ a gigantic mechanical camel that is a machine for digesting the water-weed, and making it dry and hard, and so fit to burn. Another correspondent carries the question a step further thus: “ The vegetable deposit of the morasses of the Upper Nile is nothing but peat in one stage o f development or another, and every bit o f it is capable of being converted into excellent fuel by the well-known methods of treating t