THE TABLET.

A IV?ekly Newspaper and Review.

DOM VOBIS GRATULAMOS, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMOS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT.S.

From the B r ie f of H is Holiness Pitts IX. to The Tablet, June 4, rifo.

V ol. 93. No. 3061.

L o n d o n , J a n u a r y 7, 1899.

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•Chronicle of th e W e e k : Page

The New Year’s Honours— A Memorial to Lady Cromer— Irish Salmon Rivers and American Example— Lord Beaconsfield and the Irish University Question— How Irish Catholics are “ Kicking the Ball ”—The British South Africa Company—The Dreyfus Case— Sir Charles Dilke on Armaments— The Spanish F.xodusfrom Havana — T h e Newfoundland -Shore Question — Interesting to Newspaper Proprietors — A "Bonapartist Policy — A Further Fall in Tithe—The Prospects of the Revenue — The Hungarian Difficulty— The Cobden Club and Territorial^ Expansion — America and the Philippines-An Abyssinian Feast—Another Dervish Defeat.. 1 L e a d e r s :

English Unionists and Irish Educatjop ................................................ Positivism and Imperialism . . 6

C O N T E N T S

L eaders (Continued) :

Sir Edward Burne Jones at the

New G a l l e r y .........................7 Sir W. Harcourt and the Angli­

Page can Bishops . . .. .. 7 A University for Irish Catholics o N otes . . R eview s :

Lives of the Saints . . . . 12 The Battle of the Strong . . . . 13 Francis I. and Henry V I II . . 14 The Delusion of Diana . . . . 14 The Life of Cesare, Cardinal

B a ron iu s ..................................14 University and Social Settlements 15 A New English Dictionary on

Historical Principles . . . . 15 Dr. Horton on Catholic Truth­

fulness . . . . . . ..15 The Plague and Distress in Ban­

galore .................................... 15 C orrespondence :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . M « — 17

C orrespondence (Continued) :

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News from Ireland _ _ 18 News from France.. ,• . . 19 L e t t e r s to t h e E d itor :

Mr. Gee and the Elizabethan

C l e r g y ..................................20 Church Music . . . . . . 20 Belgian Railway Stations . . 20 Mr. Fillingham and the Catholic

C h u r c h ..................................20 The Bishopric of Aberdeen . . . . 20 The Evangelization o f Africa . . 21 The Ritual Controversy . . . . 22 Jubilee of the Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle ............................. 24 The Bishop of Newport's Jubilee.. 25 The Irish University Question . . 26 Handell’s “ Messiah ” .. . . 27 The Leighton Burial Board: A

Catholic Grievance . . . . 28 Flowers of Speech . . . . ..28

Books of the Week . . . . . . 2 Social an d P o l it ic a l m ..28

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SUPPLEMENT. N ews from th e Schools :

Secondary Education in Ireland 33 Grants to Denominational Indus­

trial Schools . . . .

St. Joseph’s Academy, Kenning-

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t o n ............................................ 34 N ews from t h e D io ceses : Westminster 34

S o u th w a rk ................................ 35 Birmingham................................ 35 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 35 Middlesbrough ............................. 36 Salford . . . . . . ... 36 Glasgow . . « «. ..36 The Fathers of the Desert . . . . 36 Indian E d u c a t i o n .....................38

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Peera§ e C0Qferred upon

,n e w y e a r ’ s I Lord Crom er will be the most h o n o u r s . .

popular o f the promotions in the new _ list o f honours. While the man whose years o f labour in Egypt prepared the way for the brilliant achievements o f Lord K itch ener becomes V iscount Cromer, new peerages are created in favour o f Sir Philip Currie, Sir Henry H awkins,Sir Joseph Bailey,and Mr. Thornton Gurdon. T h e first named is now British Ambassador at Rom e and has well earned the distinction bestowed upon him by a long record o f service, which includes some years as Permanent Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs. T h e Dame o f Sir Henry Hawkins tells its own tale, but those o f Sir Joseph Bailey and Mr. Thornton Gurdon convey no idea to the public. Both gentlemen have fought elections in the Conservative interest, and both have large estates, and are likely to feel at home in the H ouse o f Lords. T h e new Privy Councillors are all more or less well known ; among them are Sir William Walrond, Sir Charles Hall, Colonel Saunderson and Mr. K enrick. A l l four are members of Parliam ent and have been active in support o f the Government. O f the four new Baronets Sir H enry Thompson, the well-known surgeon, has a national reputation. Mr. John Murray-Scott was executor to the late L ady Wallace, and has had the superintendence o f her bequest to the nation o f a great collection o f art treasures. Mr. Hornby and Sir Francis Barry come under the familiar category o f good party men who, as members o f Parliament, have done good service. There are eight new knights who need not detain us. O f the other honours the first step in the civil division o f the Bath, which is conferred upon Mr. Jasper Badcock, o f the Post Office, is remarkable i f only because it serves to accentuate the omission of reference to the existence o f the member for C an te rb u ry ; the Press generally, led by The Times, has commented upon this extraordinary failure to make any recognition o f the services o f Mr. Henm'ker Heaton in connection with the greatest postal reform o f our generation. We imagine, however, that such complaints are premature. In a few weeks or months the great work will be completed by the adhesion o f the Cape and the Australian group, and then the Govern-

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ment will, no doubt, make use of its opportunity. While we are speaking o f official promotions we may note that of the five gentlemen raised during the week to the rank o f Q .C . two, Mr. Arthur O Connor and Mr. Buffer Cole Aspinall, are Catholics.

A Committee has been formed in Egypt,

a m e m o r ia l un<3er the presidency o f Prince Hussein l a d y c r o m e r . K am il Pasha, to raise a fund to be devoted to

’ some permanent work o f charity in memory o f the late Lady Cromer, “ in the country where she was so greatly beloved and in which she spent so many years o f a life consistently devoted to high ideals and acts o f public and private beneficence.” T h e idea is, i f sufficient funds be forthcoming, to establish either a hospital for children or an asylum for incurables. T h e names o f the working Com mittee are as fo llo w s : President, his H ighness Prince Hussein K am il P a sh a ; his Excellency Boutros Ghali Pasha (M inister for Foreign Affairs), his Excellency Mohammed Cherif Pasha (Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs), his Excellency Mohammed Maher Pasha (Governor o f Cairo), Mr. Rennell Rodd, Dr. Keatinge, Mr. E . Harrison, hon. secretaries Mr. W . W ilfred Carey and M . Mohammed Bairam Bey.

Mr. Moreton Frewen draws attention in The Times to the antiquated

Am e r i c a n e x a m p l e , methods o f stocking and preserving salmon rivers which are still in use in the British Isles. I t is said that some o f the finest salmon waters in Ireland are now commercially worthless, owing to the disappearance o f the fish. Before 1871 salmon swarmed in the rivers o f New England, but netting at the estuaries and poaching in the upper waters did their deadly work, and the dearth o f fish was reported o f which we now hear in Ireland. But the New Englander found a remedy, and now the price o f salmon has fallen to fourpence per pound. Mr. Moreton Frewen tells us how this happy change was brought a b o u t : “ Salmon are cheap and abundant in America, and indeed here also within American tins, because, instead o f employing countless keepers to watch the spawning-beds o f innumerable tributaries, a sufficient number o f male and female salmon are netted each year, at convenient points, are held in ‘ pens ’ until ‘ ripe,’ are then ‘ stripped,’ the ova o f the female and the milt o f the male fish being miDgled in pans, and the eggs thus fertilized are hatched in boxes. T h e report o f the Washington Department o f Fish and Fisheries for 1897 states that over five hundred million ova were hatched that year, and the fry