THE TABLET

A Weekly Newspaper and Review.

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From, the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX. to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1670.

V o l . 94. No. 3103. L ondon, O ctober 28, 1899.

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'Chronicle of the W eek :

Imperial Parliament : Mr. Chamberlain’s Defence of the Government Policy—Men and Money— Ihe Chancellor of the Exchequer on Ways and Means—Tuesday's kitting—Mr. Chamberlain Again °n the Defensive—The Basutos and the Boers—The Progress of the War—The Second Battle—On the Western Frontier—The Concentration on Ladysmith *— A Squadron of Hussars taken Prisoners—The Home Secretary and the Burial Laws—Flight of the Khalifa .. .. . . .. 677 Leaders•

The Transvaal Fights—1881-189Q 68r German Relations with England 682 Anglican Ideals . . . . .. 683 TjTne Crisis and the Congress .. 684 ¿he Situation in France .. .. 686 I^obbs Alias Widdows .. .. 687

c o N 7 E N T s .

Notes

Pace . . 6S7

Reviews :

Cambridge Conferences . . . . 688 The King’s Mirror .. . . 689 The Song of the Golden Bough .. 690 The Dolomite Cavern .. .. 690 A Modern Saint .. .. . . 691 In the Brave Days of Old .. 691 Footsteps of Proserpine .. .. 691 “ Let No Man Put Asunder ” .. 691 A Pious Preparation for Holy

Communion .. . . .. 651 Correspondence :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . — — —693 , News from Ireland w _ 694

News from France......................... 695 L etters to th e Editor :

The Genesis of Anglicanism .. 695 That Trunkless Tree Again .. 695

L etters to th e E ditor (Con­

tinued)!: Catholic Officers at the Seat of

Page

War . ......................... 696 Stage Vestments and Ceremonies 696 Chiswick Vicarage.. .. .. 696 The Grooming of Our Guests . . 696 A Query ....................................... 697 The Famine in India . . . . 697 Et Crntera ......................... .. 697 “ The Dublin Review ” .. .. 698 “ Send-Off” of Lord Edmund

Talbot ....................................... 699 The English Pilgrimage to Rome.. 700 “ The Tablet ” and Dr. Mivart .. 700 Holy Cross College, Washington .. 701 The Apostolic Delegate for Canada 702 The Red Mass.. .. .. .. 702 A Letter of Cardinal Newman .. 702 Sisters of Nazareth in the Transvaal 703 Franciscan Tertiaries and the New

Westminster Cathedral .. ..70 3

The Archbishop of Santa Fe and*38’6

the Pallium .................................... .... Canon and Cab Proprietor .. , OI Books of the W e e k ........................[ -0, O b ituary . . _ . . M arriage ........................... ** - 02 F rom E verywhere . . ** 70. Social and Political . . J 7Q6

' • SUPPLEMENT. N ews from th e Schools:

The Future of Denominational

S c h o o l s ......................... .. 70^ The Unification of Educational '

Authorities . . .. .. 7IO St. Joseph's College, Dumfries .. 711 Football .................................... .... N ews from th e D ioceses : Westminster . . - 12

Birmingham . . .. 7I2 St. Andrews and Edinburgh .. 713 The Ritual Controversy .. .. 713 The Catholic Marriage Rate .. 714 The Society of St. Vincent de

Paul................................... 714

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

N O T A N D A .

A loDg line of instances is cited in support of the proposition that up to the time of the Reformation the Archbishops of Canterbury could and did defend the spiritual liberties of the Church against the encroachment of the State, whereas when the Sovereign was acknowledged as Supreme Governor and a merely national Church was set UP, King and Parliament at once began to rule the State Church (p. 683).

Any delay and difficulty which the members of the Pilgrimage organized by the Catholic Association encountered on their journey to Rome must have found ample compensation in the special audience granted to them by the Pope, an account of which has been sent us by our Roman Correspondent (p. 700).

The first of a series of papers from the pen of M. Cermain-Lacour upon the present situation in France. The writer asks from the readers of The Tablet only a patient bearing. It is an obvious advantage for English Catholics to have an opportunity of hearing at first hand the views of a typical representative of French Catholicism. The writer holds a position which gives him special qualifications for the task he has kindly undertaken (p. 686).

The speeches by Mr, T. C. Horsfall, in Manchester, and the Rev. Archdeacon Wilson, at Oldham, are both evidences of the movement that is growing in favour of some arrangement being arrived at which, whilst securing the denominational character of Voluntary schools, will obtain for them the financial assistance they need by the introduction of some sort of local control (pp. 709-7 n ) .

Under the heading “ Et Cetera” we publish a number of Personal paragraphs which, this week, are mainly concerned w*th the Catholic officers who have gone to the front (p. 697).

The letter which Mgr. Pelvat, Bishop of Nagpur, has sent to Cardinal Vaughan, whilst recognizing the good work done by the Government in combating the ravages of the famine which still prevails in the Central Provinces in India, shows what a great and clamourous chance there is for an outpouring of Catholic charity (p. 697).

New S e r ie s . V o l , LXII., No. 2,412.

DEFENCE OF THE GOVERNMENT POLICY. M

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT: MR. CHAMBERLAIN’S

R. CHAMBERLAIN in explaining and defending the policy pursued by the Government in regard to South African affairs, rose to the height of a great opportunity. He had to rebut the charge that there had been a deliberate attempt to force things to a warlike issue. He admitted at the outset that he had been wrong in hoping for peace. He had believed in peace and striven for peace, but recent events had compelled him to come to the conclusion that war had always been inevitable. The two Governments had appeared at times to be near together, but there had ever been cardinal differences, there being things which it was essential for this country to demand, and which President Kruger had always been determined not to grant. The root of the whole matter was that we were going to war in defence of principles upon this Empire had been founded and on which alone it could exist. We were bound to protect British subjects from oppression, and we were bound to maintain the supremacy of Great Britain in South Africa. The racial animosity in South Africa was based upon contempt. Mr. Chamberlain then drew out the agreement that existed between the Government and its critics, and pointedly asked them what they would have done when their, negotiations for the selfsame objects had failed utterly. Tne real reason in his opinion of the great Boer trek was that the Boer wanted to wallop his own nigger, which he was prevented from doing under British rule. Since 1881 the Boers had persistently striven to get rid of the Queen’s supremacy, which, as Lord Derby had declared, had been kept by the Convention of 1884, though the word suzerainty had been dropped. He next traced the course of the negotiations, the issue of which had been settled by the mad ultimatum of President Kruger.

After the embodiment of the Militia had

—men and been determined on by an overwhelming money. majority, in spite of an amendment from Mr.

Dillon, the House went into Committee of Supply, on the Supplementary Estimate for a land force of 35,000 men. In moving the vote Mr. Wyndhain made a long and lucid statement, which had the further quality of being, as the leader of the Opposition declared, eloquent and absorbingly interesting. The home army had shown that it was not only the army of to-day but also of to-morrow, and that it could maintain defence at home and