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Weekly Newspaper a n d Review.

DOM V G t i J GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS DT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT.S.

From ihe Brief of H is Holiness P iu s JX. to T h e T a b l e t , June ib jo .

V o l . 94, No. 3111. L ondon, D e c e m b e r 23, 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 e w s p a p e r .

C h ro n ic le of t h e W e e k : Page

General Buller’s Defeat on the Tugela—Other Accounts of the Battle—To Meet the Emergency —How the Reinforcements are to be Made Up—The C ity of London’s Response—The Abuse of the White Flag — M. Delcassi and Relations with England— Our First Line of Defence— Sir H . Campbell-Bannerman and Boer Military Expenditure—The Duke of Devonshire at York— Mr. Chamberlain’s Visit to Dublin— M. D6roulfcde’s Passion for Prison—What the Sugar-Bounties "Cost France— Famine in India . . 997 L ea der s :

Dr. Leyds and “ The Tablet ” . . 1001 Lhe German N avy Bill . . . . 1002

C O N T E N T S .

L e a d r r s (Continued) :

Bethlehem—And England’s Con­

Page version ..................................... 1003 Our Fourth Year in Uganda ..1005 The New Education Law ..1006 The Situation in France . . ..1007 N o t e s ... — - — _.ioo8 R ev ie w s :

The Catholic Revival in England 1010 The Clementine E p i s t l e s in

Syriac ..................................... i o n The Brontes After Fifty Years ..10 11 Saint Ambrose ......................... 1021 The Tragedy of Hamlet . . . . 1022 Red Pottage . . . . ..1022 Story Books .......................... 1023 Hazell's Almanack for 1900 ..1023 C o r r e s p o n d en c e :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . « — —1013

C orrespondence (Continued):

Page

News from Ireland — - 10 15 News from France.. . . ..1015 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d i t o r :

A New Translation of John iv.,35 1016 Catholic Allies ......................... 1016 The Law of Fasting : A Curious

D iffic u lty .....................................i o t 6 Missionaries in Samoa . . ..1016 English Education Exhibition,

1900 . . . . . ..1016 Protestant Soloists in Catholi:

Church C h o i r s ......................... 1017 Catholic Literature for Troopships 1017 E t Caster a ......................... ..1017 A C ity C a t a c o m b ........................ .1018 Archbishop I r e l a n d ..........................1019 Sir William B u t l e r .......................... 1020 Books of the W e e k ......................... 1023

A Complaint Against the Local g

Government Board . . ..1024 C h r i s tm a s A p p e a l s ” 10?!. O b it u a r y ......................... i So c ia l a n d P o l it i c a l . . 1026

SUBBL.lj.M ENT. N ew s from t h e Schools :

Compulsory School Attendance . . 1029 Doctrine and Pictures . . . . 1029 Diphtheria and Schools . . . . 1031 N ew s from t h e D io ceses :

Westminster . . . . _ , OJr S o u th w a r k ................................... *1031 Hexham and Newcastle . . ". .1032 Northampton ..........................I033 Portsmouth.......................... I02> Salford ..................................... 1033 Newport .................................... .. A Ward of Chancery . . ..1034

* .* R e ed ed M S . cannot be returned unless accompanied with address and postage.

N O T A N B A .

An important letter from Mr. LHIy drawing attention to the action o f the Local Government Board in refusing to allow a workhouse child to be brought up as a Catholic, even when the local Guardians were o f opinion that he ought to be so brought up. Mr. Lilly explains the principle on which the Local Government Board has acted (p. 1024).

T h e letter which we publish from Bishop Hanlon gives an encouraging report o f the progress o f the Uganda mission, and at the same time shows that the stream o f conversions is not, as has been asserted, the outcome of feudal fidelity to the chiefs ; who are, within the vicariate of the Upper Nile, o f the Protestant party (p. 1005).

In our “ E t Caetera ” page are noted some amazing personalities taken from the pages of Archbishop Benson’s Memoir (p. 1017-8).

A curious discussion took place at a meeting of the Manchester School Board over a resolution for the acceptance of a copy o f one of Raphael’s “ Madonnas ” presented to the Central Board school by the Director o f Technical Instruction in that city. The picture was objected to as teaching distinctive and unacceptable doctrine, and as not being, though a beautiful work of art, of a sufficiently educative character for the walls o f a Board school. The objectors, however, failed to carry the division (p. 1029).

The requirements o f Mr. Robson’s School Attendance Act, which comes into force with the New Year, are explained, and its bearings upon our Catholic schools are indicated (p. 1031).

Some account is given of St. Mary’s, Moorfields, which was for a long period during the first half o f the present century the only place of Catholic burial in London, no less than 3,000 bodies having been interred in its vaults. These bodies are now being removed to Wembley. The remains o f several Bishops and priests are being transferred to St. Edmund’s, Ware (p. 1018).

N e w S e r i e s . V o l . LXII., No. 2 ,1 20 .

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

DEFEAT ON THE TUGELA. N

GENERAL BULLER’S

E V E R since the darkest days o f the Mutiny have the fortunes o f England seemed so low as at the end o f last week. Before the nation had recovered from the shock of Lord Methuen’s repulse at Magersfontein came the news that General Buller, from whom so much was hoped, had been defeated on the Tugela with a loss o f over 1,000 men and eleven guns. A t dawn on Friday, the 15th, the General reports that he moved out in full force from the camp, near Chieveley, with the intention of forcing a passage across the Tugela at one or other o f the two fords, which are situated about two miles apart. General Hart was in command o f the right wing, and General Hildyard of the left Early in the day it was apparent that General Hart could not succeed, but General Hildyard advanced and seized Colenso Station and the houses near the bridge. “ A t that moment,’’ reports the General, “ I heard that the whole o f the artillery I had sent back to that attack— namely, the 14th and 66th I ield Batteries and six naval 12-pounder quick-firing guns, the whole under Colonel Long, R .A .— were out o f action, as it appears that Colonel Long, in his desire to be within effective range— advanced close to the river. I t proved to be full o f the enemy, who suddenly opened a galling fire at close range, killing all their horses, and the gunners were compelled to stand to their guns. Some o f the waggon teams got shelter tor troops in a donga, and desperate efforts were made to bring out the field guns, but the fire was toe severe and only two were saved by Captain Schofield and some drivers whose names I will furnish. Another most gallant attempt with three teams was made by an officer whose name I will obtain. O f the 18 horses 13 were killed, and as several o f the drivers were wounded I would not allow another attempt. As it seemed they would be a shell mark, sacrificing loss o f life to gallant attempt to force passage unsupported by artillery, I directed the troops to withdraw which they did in good order.” He adds that throughout the day a considerable Boer force was pressing upon his right flank, but was held in check by Lord Dundonald’s cavalry and part o f General Barton’s Brigade. A correspondent of The D a i ly M a i l helps us to fill in the picture. From him we learn that the Boers were in great force and occupied a strong entrenched position commanding the river and standing back about 800 yards from the further side of it. Moreover, we learn what did not appear from the official