THE TABLET

A Weekly Newspaper and Review.

DOM VOBIS GRATULAMUX, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS Or IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT.S.

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

VoL. 93. No. 3080.

L ondon, May 20, 1899.

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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 .

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^ R O n i c l e o f t h e W e e k : _

imperial Parliament : Concession on New Wine Duties— The Pacific Cable Scheme--Lord E lgin and the Indian Famine — Lord Rosebery’s Tribute to Lord E lg in— *he Fate o f the Imperial Institu te— The Afrikander Party of the Cape— Seven-Day Newspapers ^-Withdrawal of “ The Sunday Mail”— Are Sacred Pictures Suit-

tL f ° r a Protestant Church ? r-Tne^ Dreyfus Case : Another cene in the Chamber— The Hops tampnds—T h e Queen at South ^cnsington — The Peace Con-

fence— Arrests in Johannesburg ■ TT.^fe-ident Kruger and S ir 'A . Mllner .................................... 757 Riversai Jubilee of the H o ly Year 761

: Ways of Reviewers . . 762

CONTENTS

L ea d e r s (Continued) :

Unrest in South Africa .. The Defacement o f St. Paul’s An Episcopal ¿Bishop . .

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R ev ie w s :

The Gospel According to St.

Matthew . . . . . . . . 769 L ’ApOtre Saint Paul . . . . 769 The Black Curtain. . . . . . 770 Through the M is t s . . .. . . 770 Devotion to the Blessed Virgin . . 770 Peasant's in Exile . . . . . . 771 Blossom o f the Cross . . . . 7 7 1

A “ Escape ” from a Convent . . 771

C orrespondence :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . — — — 773 News from Ireland _ — 775 News from France.. . . . . 775

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John Morwen or M orren.. . . 775 The Unionist Position . . . . 776 The_Interpretation of Documents 776 British Central Africa . . . . 777 N ew Cathedral ............................777 The H o ly F a m i l y ........................... 778 A Caution . . 778 The Seal cf Confession . . . . 778

The Ritual Controversy . . . . 778

The Archbishop o f N ew York and the Pope .................................... .... For Orphan Children........................... 780 Preston Catholic College . . . . 781 1 Awful Results o f Convent Schools” 781 Catholicity in C h i n a ........................... 782 Don Perosi’s Oratorios . . . . 782 Books o f the W e e k ............................784 O b it u a r y ' ..................... .. ... 784

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S o c ia l a n d P o l i t i c a l . . M 784

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N ew s fro m t h e Schools :

The Annual Conference o f Catho­

lic Colleges^ __..................... 789 The Irish University Question . . 790 Defects in our Educational System 791 The Government and tne Educa­

tion C o d e .................................... .... Sports at St. Augustine's Col­

lege, Ramsgate . .

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N ew s from t h e D io ceses :

Westminster ........................... 792 Southwark .. .. .. .. 793 Middlesbrough ........................... 793 Nottingham......................... 794 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 705 A Literary Appreciation . . . . 795

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

S1PERIAL PARHAMS! r»KCNT«C^ SI0N ° N WINE DUTIES. A1

N important concession has been made by the Government on the proposed new wine duties. During a discussion

Q Budget Bill in Committee of Ways and Means, after .Attempt had been made to obtain a reduction of the tea

Sir Howard Vincent’s amendment for the exemption Colonial wines from the increase proposed in the Budget p severely snubbed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer,

remarked : 11 We are asked in return for nothing to ’!Ve advantage to two Protectionist Colonies which impose iiSh duties upon the goods of the mother country.” Sir j eQry Fowler denounced the proposal before the House as 0ihing but Protection, pure and simple, and suggested, in “?c°rdance with Mr. Harwood’s idea, that cheap wines, aether from the Continent or the Colonies, should be . ‘owed to come in at the old rate. In spite of this, how'Ver>the House rejected Sir Howard’s amendment, by 192 ,°tes [o 37- Then Mr. Harwood’s amendment, that the .'t.t? on wine containing not more than 26 degrees of proof P‘rit should remain as at present a shilling a gallon, was ?llhdrawn in favour of a proposal from the Chancellor of be Exchequer, who admitted that sixpence all round was, 3,° doubt, comparatively a larger increase on the lighter wines on the stronger. He, therefore, now proposed to ask 0r 00 more than an additional threepence instead of sixi Qce on the lighter wines, trusting that the House would U°w him to recoup himself by a surtax of a shilling a all°Q on such wine imported in bottle, and a similar one ¿ f°reign-bottled spirits. These sensible and conciliatory tfers were accepted by the House in the spirit in which were proposed and agreed to without a division.

It now seems not unlikely that the Government may make some modifications of the stipulations made by them in connection with the offer of an annual subsidy not p. ''THE ACtIrIC CABLE

Scheme. R e d i n g y-'-cuing .£20,000 towatds the projected Pacific cable.

matter was brought forward in the House of Lords on "J°oday afternoon by the Earl of Aberdeen after the Board 0f Education Bill had been allowed a third reading. His lord-

ship pointed out that it was felt in Canada and Australia that the conditions on which the Government offer was based were a great deal too stringent. He feared, therefore, that the effect of the Government communication would be to retard the carrying out of the scheme by want of confidence in its success. Once granted the principle of a contribution, he thought the Government might have gone a little further, not so much in the amouDt as in the manner of giving it. The Earl of Selborne, in reply, assured the House that the Government had not the slightest idea of throwing cold water upon the project. They had undertaken to bear a full share of the annual burden which had been suggested as appropriate by the colonies concerned, and at the same time not to demand any share of the profits realized. As to the conditions attached to the subsidy, they were merely of the kind which the Treasury made it a rule to impose in such matters. If, however, it should appear that the Australasian and Canadian Governments had any objections against the form in which the proposal had been made, the Government was quite prepared to review the whole matter in the light of those representations, and to arrive at a decision mutually satisfactory. The House of Commons was busy with the London Government Bill. During question-time Mr. Caldwell asked for information as to the amount by which the Education Estimates for the years ending March 31, 189? and 1899, were increased owing to the repeal by Section 2 of the Volunt&ry Schools Act, 1897, of the 17s. 6d. limit. Sir J. Gorst replied that the Education Estimates for 1898 were framed before the repeal of the 17s. 6d. limit, and it was impossible to say how much of the rise in 1899 was due to that repeal. It seemed probable that the amount of the deduction of these two years during which the limit was in force would have been between £60,000 and £70,000. The sittings during the other days of the week were occupied with the London Government Bill,and were undistinguished by anything of general interest]

Lord Elgin took the opportunity of his lord Elgin and g rst public speech in this country since his INDIAN FAMINE. return from India to answer the critics who complained that the Indian Executive had not realized at the outset the magnitude of the impending famine, and had been responsible for the disastrous delay in the institution of the famine fund. Presiding at the reading of a paper on the famine by Sir C. Elliot, late Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, at the Westminster Town Hall on Monday,Lord Elgin, in reply to the first complaint,

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