THE TABLET â

A Weekly Newspaper and Review.

DUM V0BI3 GRATDLAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMÜS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT.S.

From ilie Brie; oj His Holiness P ius IX . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1*70.

Vol. 94. No. 3105 L o n d o n , N o v e m b e r i i , 1899. P r ice sd., by P ost

[R e g is t e r ed a t t h e G e n e r a l P ost O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper.

C hronicle of th e W e e k : Page

The Progress of the War—The Military Situation Improved —The Commander-in-Chief on the Army and the War—Sir Edward Grey’s Support of the Government — Cyclists and the Railways—Boer Tactics and the Positional Lady-

—-Incidents of Transport — lh e Exeter Election— British i rade in China— Civil Engineering in England— Foreign Opinion on the War—The Samoan Agreement Between Great Britain and Germany—A Seasonable Word . . 757 L e a d e r s :

ThS of the War . . . . 751 J-ne Language Question in Aus­

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C O N 7 E N T S .

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L eaders (Continued):

Dr. Mivart’s Letters .. .. Some Aspects of the “ Spiritual

Exercises” . . .. .. Letters of Giovanni Mirhiel .. The Situation in France . . .. Notes . . ... _ — . . R ev iew s :

English Satires . . Darwinism and Religion Clement of Rome.. The European Tour A Catechism Explained Bishop Butt . . . The “ Civilth Cattolica ” on

Anti

Clericalism and Dreyfus . . .. C orrespondence :

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Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . .

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C orrespondence (Continued):

News from Ireland _ News from France.. . . L e t t e r s to th e E d itor :

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An Explanation . . . . .. 776 Mr. Mallock’s Article . . . . 776 Canon Graham Memorial Fund.. 776 Astounding! .........................776 A Suggestion .........................776 E t Csetera . . . . . . . . 777 Reviews and Magazines . . . . 778 The Catholic Truth Society . . 779 Agriculture and Industry in Ireland 780 The Jesuit Nightmare . . .. 781 Missionaries for Uganda . . . . 783 Catholic Army Chaplains in India.. 783 Mr. Hubert Wolseley .. . . 783 Books of the Week . . . . . . 784

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SU PPLEM ENT. N ews from th e S chools :

The Committee of Council on

Education.................................... 78g The British Resident at Santa

Cruz High School . . . . 789 Football .................................... ... N ews from t h e D ioceses :

Westminster . . . . Southwark . . . . . . Birmingham . . . . Hexham and Newcastle . . Portsmouth......................... Salford . . . ,, Dunkeld . . .. . . - - , Archbishop Chapelle and the Friars 794 Historical Research Society . . 795

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Rejected MS. cannot he returned unless accompanied w ith address and postage.

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

N O T A N D A .

A letter (rom Dr. Mivart (p. 776), and his use of the 'name of Gallileo are considered in some details. It is ■ Pointed out that Papal Infallibility cannot be put into commission (p. 763).

The letters which we publish this week from M. GermainLacour and our Paris correspondent seem to leave no room for hope that the French Government will refrain from 'entering upon the policy of persecution, which was first threatened in the speeches of M. Millerand (pp. 766-775)

father Thurston’s reply to Mr. Hensley Henson’s silly attack in The Saturday Review upon the moral teaching of St. Ignatius is very merry reading. Mr. Heoson is gi\en a lesson as to the meaning of the phrase cbligcitio^ ad peccatum, which he is likely to remember. Incidentally Father Thurston examines the fiction that all the leading actors in the Dreyfus drama were old pupils of Jesuit colleges (p. 781).

In spite of the divisions which rend the Irish Parliamentary party, there is one subject at least upon which no discordant voice is heard, and that is the demand for University education for Catholics in Ireland. This demand has been repeated during the last week by Count Arthur Moore, M.P., and the Bishop of Limerick (p. 780).

The shrewd observations of Giovanni Michiel are again laid under contribution to illustrate the state of public feeling in England towards the Queen’s restoration of Church property. We find Mary pleading personally with fhe Commons, and urging that those who had “ hitherto evinced so much love for her person, ought to display let greater love for her soul as the more important of the U'° ” (P 765).

The appreciation of the late Bishop Butt from the pen of ^priest of the diocese of Southwark affords one more '(lustration of the respect and affectionate confidence with jvhich the Bishop’s singularly simple and winning character '"spired those with whom he was brought into contact (P 77o).

New Series. V o l . LXII., No. 2,414.

TH E PROGRESS

OF THE WAR. T HE phrase "no news is good news ” is eminently applicable to the situation in South Africa. If the Boers cannot crush the little force hemmed in at

Ladysmith within the next few days their chance of final success disappeais. What news has come from the front tells not of disaster, but of confident activity and success. The nature of the operations undertaken by Sir George White is clear, but there are widely differing versions as to the measure of success which attended them. What we know definitely is that up to Sunday the Boer bombardment had done no harm, and had begun to slacken. We also know that they have made no attempt to take Ladysmith by assault. This pause in the attack, however, may be due only to a wish to wait for the bringing up of heavier siege guns, a work necessarily of time and difficulty. Sir George White, however, has not been idle. The Boer force which surrounds Ladysmith is stationed on the hills which lie in a circle round the town at a distance of something like seven miles. This means that they have spread their troops over a circuit extending over forty-two miles. The holder of the central position must obviously have opportunities of neutralizing the numerical supeiiority of the investing force by striking quickly at unexpected points. This is what Sir George White did on Thursday and Friday of last week. On Thursday he struck hard to the norlh-west in the direction of Bester’s Station and shelled the camp of the Free Staters, and the next day he raided to the south-east towards Colenso. Reports brought in by natives state that, firing having been heard in the direction of Colenso, Sir George White on Friday sent out a force from Ladysmith. They came up with the Boers, who had taken up a position on Grobler’s Kloof Hill, and had guns with them. The artillery was at once got to the front, and opened on the enemy from a position on an eminence to the north. Our fire was very effective, shell after shell being planted among the enemy, and they were finally driven out of their positions. In their retreat, however, they were obliged to cross open ground, and this was their destruction. In the meantime the Lancers and Dragoons had worked round the base of the hill upon which the enemy was posted, and, when their retreat began, charged in among them. The Boer force was virtually cut in pieces. Those who escaped fled in the direction of the