THE TABLET
A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
DOM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMOS OX IN INCCEFTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT.S.
From, the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX. to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, ibfo.
V o l . 94. No. 3102. London, October 21, 1899.
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Imperial Parliament: Lord Salis557* Reply to the Opposition — ^he Debate in the Commons—An Opposition Night -Public Opinion lp the Orange Free State—The ^oet_ Laureate in Prose— The America, Cup—Kingship in Samoa Abolished—'The War-Lord Ed'^hund Talbot and Mr. Kipling ^uPport the Government — The Success of the Mobilization—The voulet-Chanoine Mission .. Leaders:
637
Silence of Pope Leo .. . . 641 l-lakeshift Settlement in Samoa.. 642 TJr- Horton Once More .. .. 643 •betters of Giovanni Michiel .. 644 Not®s 645 Reviews :
The New Welsh Prayer Book .. 647
C O N 7 E N T S .
Reviews (Continued) :
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American_War Songs .. .. 648 The Primitive Priesthood and the
Anglican Church
.. .. 648
Music Fancies .. .. .. 648 Religion . . .........................649 The Red Rag of Ritual .. . 649 In Monte Carlo .........................649 The Church and Realm . . . . 649 The Spctt of Circumstance .. 649 The Pickwick Papers .. . . 650 Workhouse Life in 1725 .. .. 650 The Church and Science .. .. 650 The Marriage of Divorced Persons 651 Correspondence :
Rome :—(From Our Own Corra*
spondent) .. — — — 653 News from Ireland . . _ 654 News from France.. .. .. 655 Lf.tters to thf. Editor r
The Genesis of Anglicanism 656
Letters to the E ditor (Con
Page tinued) : The Ven. Henry Heath, O.S.F. 656 The Church and the Dreyfus Case 656 The Ritual Controversy .. .. 658 St. Edward the Confessor .. .. 6^9 The Growth of the Free Churches 661 Missions to Non-Catholics in Ame
rica
.. .. ... .. 66r
For Armenian Catholics .. .. 662 Discovery of a Document of the
Second Century of the Church .. 662 Catholic Prisoners' Aid Society .. 662 Alleged Bigotry on Atlantic Liners 663 Obituary .. ... .. .. 663 Books of the W e ek .........................663 Social and Political . . „ 664
SUPPLEMENT. News from the Schools :
Voluntary Schools.........................669
News from the Schools (Con- *>age tinued : Religious Training Schools .. 669 School Board Comment .. .. 669 St. Wilfrid’s College, Oakamoor 670 The Finance of Voluntary Schools 670 The Maiquis of Ripon on Secon
dary Education.........................670 Football .......................................67(> N ews from the D ioceses :
Westminster
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Clifton ......................... ;>672 Northampton ............................61-2 Plymouth .. .. .. .. 672 Shrewsbury.......................................672 Menevia ......................... 672 Newport .......................................673 Glasgow .......................................673 The Catholic Marriage Rate .. 673 A Jesuit Mission in South Africa .. 673 A Protectory for Boys at Philadelphia 674
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
NOT AND A.
Mr. Bodley’s letter on “ The Church and the Dreyfus ^ase” is one of the few which have appeared on the subject J'Mich throw light upon it. Mr. Bodley’s intimate knowledge of the French people is well known to all readers of Ms classical and indispensable book on France. His long studies in preparation for his forthcoming work on the Trench Church enable him to speak with peculiar authoiity uP°n the question now at issue (p. 656).
In view of the letters which have recently appeared in °Ur columns, the resolutions put forward by a Committee aPpointed for the Manchester Diocesan Conference for Combining the public local control of Denominational schools with the maintenance of their religious character, are deserving of consideration (p. 669).
We recommend to our readers at least a cursory glance at “ Llyfr Gweddi: yn Cynnwys yr Offeren yn Lladin a Cwmraeg; ynghyd a Defosiynau ereill yr Eglws Catholig yng Nghymru. Caerdydd: Cymdeithan Sant Teilo.” A lull account is given of the plan of the work, and some description is added of its reception by the vernacular Tress of the Principality (p. 647).
The Irish Catholic Tiuth Society is now established. The Bishop of Clonfert has been chosen its first President, and an executive Committee has been formed to direct the work (P. 654).
An interesting account of the history of Catholicism in Chiswick is given in the summary of the sermon delivered the Rev. Robert F. Clarke, D.D., at the Church of Our Cady of Grace and St. Edward at Chiswick on the Sunday within the octave of St. Edward’s day (p. 659).
We publish some curious extracts from the State Archives at Venice illustrating the state of public feeling in the early c®ys of the reign of Philip and Mary. The pathetic anxiety
. the Queen for a child, and her reception of the Pope’s 8*ft of the Golden Rose are described in detail. Light is hrowa upon the efforts which the King made to reconcile 0 ^reconcilable people (p. 644).
New S eries. Vol. LX II., No. 2,411.
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT I
LORD SALISBURY’S
REPLY TO THE
OPPOSITION.
THE sixth session of the four
teenth Parliament of the Queen was opened on Tuesday with a short speech from the throne, which explained that Her
Majesty had found it necessary to consult her Parliament concerning the calling out of the Reserves, and for the providing of the expenditure rendered necessary by the state of affairs in South Africa. Following the precedents established by Sir Stafford Northcote in 1878 and by Mr. Gladstone in 1885, the discussions will be at present restricted to subjects connected with the above two points, all other topics being adjourned till the resumption of the session next year. In the Lords the Address to the Throne was moved by the Marquis of Granby and seconded by Lord Barnard. The Earl of Kimberley then rose and said that, whatever divergence of opinion there might he as to the conduct of the negotiations with the Transvaal, he, and those who thought with him, were ready to give all their support to whatever measures might be necessary to vindicate the honour and support the interests of the country. The Ultimatum presented could not have been met with any other response than that which had been made by the Government. He then went on to criticize the “ new diplomacy ” by which the negotiations had been conducted corampopulo, and the reassertion of the claim to suzerainty over the Transvaal. Lord Salisbury in reply complimented Lord Kimberley upon the first half of his speech. All question of peace had been swept away by this great insult of the Ultimatum, which left this country but one course to pursue. As to the policy of the Government’s diplomacy, all he could say was that under the peculiar circumstances of the negotiations an appeal for popular support had to be made, and that could not be done by the careful and secret methods of the older system. Turning then to matters of great moment he went to the root of the whole question at issue when he declared his belief that “ the desire to get rid of the word ‘ suzerainty ’ and the reality which it expresses has been the dream of Mr. Kruger’s life. Long before the Treaty of 1881 was negotiated that was his main desire. It was for that he set up the negotiations of 1884, and, in order to get that hateful word out of his Convention, he made considerable territorial and other sacrifices. The noble Lord— Lord Ripon— will remember certain memoranda he
