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DCM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETI AM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT.S.

From the Brie/ o/ H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T he T a b let, June 4, I I/O.

Vol. 93 No. 3084.

L ondon, J une 17, 1899.

P r ic e 51I., b y P o s t 5 & d .

[ 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 .

C h r o n i c l e o f t h e W e e k :

Tage

Imperial Parliament : Thanks to -the Troops-Our Position in China __Mostly Questions — Tuesday’s Sitting — Passing of the HalfTimers B 'll-Inequalities of Represen ta tio n -M ark Twain on Eng­

land and America— Sir A . Milner on the Transvaal—The Jameson Raid Indemnity— The Fall of M. Dupuy—The K e y of the World— The Russian Famine- A Sentence and an Acquittal— Sir John Gorst -on the Employment o f Children . . 917

L e a d e r s :

The Progress of the Cathedral . . 921 The Bloemfontein Conference . . 9 2 1 The Truth About Omdurman . .9 2 2 The Very Rev. Canon Graham,

D .D ............................................... .... N o t e s 924

CONTENTS.

Page

The Pope and French Catholics . . 926 R eviev. s :

Cours de Philosophie du Droit . . 927 The Inner Life of Lady Georgiana

Fullerton . . . . . . . . 927 Trente et Quarante . . .. 928 TheLaterRenaissar.ee . . . . 92g Apologetics Old and New . . 929 Sagesse Pratique . . . . . . 929 The Hospital Secret . . . . 930 Books of the Week . . . . 930 The Dominicans at Rugeley . . 930 University Intelligence . . . . 931 Impressions of South Africa . . 931 C o r r e s p o n d en c e :

Rome :— (Frcm Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . » —1 — 933 News from Ireland — _ 934 News from France......................... 935 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d i t o r :

The Church and the Dreyfus Case 936

L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r (Con­

Page tinued): The Interpretation o f Documents 936 Mr. Charles Hemans and Canon

MacColl . . . . . . . . Q37 Dr. Wright’s Promise . . . . 937 The Last Catholic Rector of Copford .. . . . .. .. 937 Catholic Marriages •. . . 537 Centenary o f an American Convent 937 A Precursor of the Oxford Move­

ment .................................................. 938 N ew s from t h e D io ceses : Westminster ........................... 940

Southwark . .

. . . . 9 4 1

Clifton ..................................941 Leeds .................................... 941 Northampton . . . . . . 941 Nottingham ................................ 942 P l y m o u t h ................................ 942

N ew s from t h e D io ceses (Con­

tinued : Shrewsbury . . . . . , St. Andrews and Edinburgh !

Page

. 942 . 942

Catholic Evidence Lectures. Help for Children . . .

943 943

C r i c k e t .......................... F rom E v e r yw h e r e . So c ia l a n d P o l i t i c a l .

943 943 944

SUPPLEMENT. The New Cathedral, Westminster :

The Cathedral Mosaics . . . . 949 Decoration of the Nave :

Suggested Historical Subjects 950 Lists of English Sain ts .. . . 952 N o te s ............................................. .9 5 3 Model of the Cathedral . . . . 954 Correspondence . . . . . . 954 Donations and Annual Subscrip­

tions .................................... 955

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

IMPERIAL p a r l i a m e n t :

THANKS TO THE

TROOPS.

H E grant to Lord Kitchener

Twas agreed to by the Lords, after the interchange o f a few words across the floor o f the

House between Lord Salisbury and Lord Kimberley. The Prime Minister then rose, and begged a full House to sanction a public vote of thanks to the generals, officers, Jon-commissioned officers, and men, who had taken part .n ;he Soudan campaign. In speaking of Lord Kitchener s achievement, Lord Salisbury made a point of us wonderfulaess— the limited resources on which the Sirdar had ? vork aDd yet the clock-work regularity and precis on with , S h ” J y thm g carried out. He « « the rray in which the Egyptian troops had been made mto effective soldiers equal to any nat.ve troops in the world by the skill of British officers. In conclusion he called attention to two points in words which are worth remembering “ This campaign will by its result— I do not want to touch on any question of p o l ic y - la r g e ly increase British fame and influence all over the world, and strengthen the whole fabric o f our Empire. This result has been gained by the axercise, in a very unusual and conspicuous degree, o f the tngh qualities by which we believe our race is adorned, and which have largely contributed to the success and power we have achieved The first is that the great industrial progress the enormous power over the. forces of nature which we have used for commercial purposes, and improved year h v v e J is now to an extent never done before, shown to by year, is no > tent weapons that a skilful General in °w ie ld T h e other is, that it has brought out the quality which is the real secret of the domination o f this country over such vast millions and millions of uncultivated people. Our officers have this power— not merely o n e o r t ^ m e o but almost all the officers either in India or Egypt to an extent which I think has never yet bfee“ gJ'J“ ‘ V " / “ ^ race in the world, o f inducing men of a .ower race to attach themselves absolutely to the officers who ‘ repose in them most complete confidence and trust, to obey them without question, and to follow them into any danger, [t is the splendid influence of a handful o f officers over masses o f men of other races which has enabled us to rear

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up that vast Empire so far out o f proportion to the numerical strength which we can bring to support it, and which enables us to make and defend it by the strength o f those vast multitudes o f other races whom our officers have had the singular and marvellous power o f governing, training, and attaching.” This passage in Lord Salisbury’s speech was taken up by Lord Kimberley, and made the burden o f his own. In the Commons a similar motion was made by Mr. Balfour, and cordially seconded by the leader o f the Opposition. When the resolutions came to be put singly by the Speaker, Mr. Davitt undertook the ungracious task of opposing them on the ground that the voting o f thanks to the Egyptian army meant that the House and this country claimed to exercise sovereign rights over a country which was believed by the Powers o f Europe to be an independent country. H e also pointed out that there was no expression o f regret for the killing of the wounded at the battle o f OmdurmaD, and said that they were asked to vote their thanks for the mowing down by machineiy of thousands of people who had done no injury to his country, Ireland. T h e resolutions were voted by overwhelming majorities.

When the House went into Committee

— o u r p o s i t i o n o f Supply on Friday on the Foreign Office in c h i n a . Vote, Sir Charles D ilke opened a discus­

sion on our position in China. H e was followed by Lord Charles Beresford, who in a long and breezy speech criticized the action o f the Government with a good deal of severity. The problem in China, which was perhaps the greatest with which this country had had to deal, was how to secure and develop our trade with an Empire which included a population of 400,000,000. T h e dangers o f the future were two— the dominant position of Russia in the north, and the certainty or rather the likelihood o f a rebellion ; so too there were two policies— the open door and the sphere o f influence. T h e Government, however, had been simply drifting and doing nothing, except using irritating language. H is own suggestion was that Great Britain, America, Japan and Germany undertake to run China and her army for her. China had plenty of resources; she was not rotten but her system was corrupt. T h e one solution o f the problem was to manage the country with and by the Chinese. Mr. Brodrick’s reply was given in a clear and most successful speech. T h e fiscal government of China by foreigners was impossible. Neither could any combination o f Powers work it i f the European Concert’s work in Crete was to be the criterion. AgaiD, whilst Germany would never join such a combination , it was equally