THE TABLE

/[ W eekly Newspaper and Review .

DDM VGB1J GRATULAMUR, ANIM0S ETIAM APDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT.S.

From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX. to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, /¿?0.

Vol. 94. No. 3112. L ondon, D ecember 30, 1899. P r ic e 5«!., by Post s&d* [R eg is tered a t t h e G en e r a l Post O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper.

C hronicle of t h e W e e k : Page

More Light on the Tugela Fight —A British Patrol Surprised and Avenged—The War in the West and South— Mr. Winston Churchill's Escape-France and China -F u l l Satisfaction Accorded- Kailway Accidents-Landshp at Amalh —The Future o f Delagoa Bay The State Trials in France—The State of Russian Finance—Has Ophir been Discovered? — 1 he History of the Postal Order—A Cheerful Colonial Secretary • . 1037 L e a d e r s :

The War . . •• Sicily under the Mafia . . ••io42 Young Contemplative^ . . - . io 43 The First Bishop of Bath and

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CONTENTS

L eadrrs (Continued) :

One More Word with Dr. The Situation in France . N otes . . — — R eview s :

The Late Archbishop of bury ....................... Italy and her Invaders . Adam Grigson ••# • Napoleon’s War Maxims . A rabesques....................... C orrespondence :

Page Leyds 1045 . ..1046 .. ..1046 Canter­

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Rome (From Our Own spondent) . . — News from Ireland News from France.. . L e t t e r s to t h e E d itor :

The English Martyrs . “ The Tablet ” and the vatore Romano ” . . •

Corre­

- 10Ç3 - 1055 1 ..1055 . ..1056 :Osser. - 1057 1

L e t t e r s to th e E ditor (Con­

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The Grievances c f the Uitlanders 1057 An Indian Bishop and the Famine 1057 Et Caetera . . . . . . ••™57 The War .....................................1058 “ The Daily M a il” and the “ \oce della Verith” . . .. ..1059 The Ritual Controversy . . .. 1059 Statistical Aspect of Wealth and Welfare .....................................1066 Church Music . . . . . . ..1062 Monsignor Bethune . . . . ..1063 The St. Vincent de Paul Society and the Poor . . •• .-1063 Cardinal Vaughan and the Catholic

P ress.............................................. .1063 N ews from th e D ioceses : Westminster . . -• ..1064

N ews from th e E iocesps (Con­

Pag tinued) : S o u th w a rk .....................................1064 Clifton . . . . . . ..1064 Liverpool . . 1064 O b itu ar y .. M . . ..1065 Books of the W e e k ..........................1066 Social and P o l it ic a l . . *.1065

SUPPLEM ENT. John Philpot Curran .. ..1059 N ews from th e Schools :

Convent of Our Lady of Sion and

Catholic High School, Chepstow Villas, W ... .. . . ..1074 Distribution of Certificates at St.

Joseph’s College, Dumfries . . 1074 Football .................................... 1074

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N O T A N D A .

The Comte de Muu has put himself at the head of the campaign against the Bill promoted by M. Waldeck-Rousseau’s Cabinet for compelling all candidates for Government employ to pass three years in a State school. M. de Mun is finding many supporters in his opposition to what a Liberal senator describes as the most audacious enterprize undertaken against the liberties of Frenchmen during the last hundred years (p. 1055).

We give a translation of the plea which Prf side“ t..^ rug®f laid before the Raad last Augustin favour of the abolition of the religious disabilities from which Jews iand Catholics have suffered8 so long. It will be remembered that the Raad declined to take action, and postponed the consideration o the question for a year (p. 1045).

Cardinal Vaughan’s letter to his clergy places in the clearest light the justice of the war in which England is engaged in the Transvaal, and indicates the present duty of Catholics in its regard (p. 1058).

A verbatim report is given of the brilliant and instructive address upon “ Curran ” delivered by the Hon. Charles Russell before the Irish Literary Society (p. 1069).

A summary is given of a pamphlet drawn from original ¡LrbTes hv Mr Tohn A. C. Vincent, in which the history of the unioi of Bath and Wells as the title of an episcopal see is set forth (p. 1044)

Our Roman correspondent gives a full account of the ceremony ? f the opening of the Holy Door by the Pope <P-1° 53)

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X Z S S K S E . M * C 8 S . D . ™

statistical a p and present condition of the United S T ' C h t e a g o and London, and from this comparison draws th?ksson that in treating of the wealth and wel are of nations two chief precautions are necessary. Particulars o nnH nlace of comparison must be given, and a o f a °d drawQ up. Two social facts must also h i taken °into^ consideration—-the growth of towns and the decline of the birth-rate (p. 1000).

The Life of the late Archbishop of Canterbury is reviewed i ne J-eij crhoolboy impressions of Newand attention called to h/snS“ ° T ° yrecord of his visit to man’s preaching, and also to t h m His attitude Stonyhurst when Headmaster of wemngto . to successive “ calls” to promotion is illustrated { 1047;.

New Series. Vol. LXII.» No. 2,421.

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK

tugela fight.

ONE of the mysteries of the present campaign is why the Press Censors, who are so active in other respects,

^ sendiQg of messages which are absolutely untrue. Thus last week Reuter’s representative seems to have been simply romanciog when he delighted London by the news that the guns abandoned by General Buller had not fallen into the hands of the enemy, but were still under the protection of our rifles. The correspondent’s exact words were: “ The troops are entrenched and are watching the guns, and it is not believed that the Boers will cross the river and attempt to capture them.” According to the Daily Mail correspondent all the ten guns were taken at once by the Boers and thrown into the river. He tells us that by noon the battle was practically over,and that the only men remaining in the front line were some of the Devons aDd men of the artillery, who had taken shelter from an overwhelming fire in a donga with the unhorsed guns. Cut off from the main body, this isolated detachment could only wait for nightfall. About five o’clock, however, “ the Boers, seeing that the field was clear, and that the r aval guns on the distant ridge could not shell them for fear of hitting our own meD, sent three men, who, riding out from behind the kopje, made for the donga in full view of the helpless batteries. One of the trio carried a white flag, presumably to cover their demand for the surrender of our men. Two of the three were instantly shot from the donga and the third rode back to the kopje. Several of the enemy then reconnoitred the donga, and presently a body of about 400 rode out and demanded the surrender of the little party and the guns they were guarding. By way of response Colontl Bullock said to their leader, a big man with two stars on his shoulder, ‘ Get back, you Boer,’ and declined to give up his revolver; whereupon one of the Boers knocked him down