A W eekly Newspaper and Review .
DUM VOBIS GRATULAM U R , AN IM O S ET IAM A D D IM U 3 U T IN INCCEPTIS V E S TR IS CON STAN TER MANEATIS
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX. to T h e T a b l e t fune 4. rS^o,
V o l . 75. No. 2592. L ondon, January i i , 1890.
P rice sd., by P o s t , 5%d
[R eg i st e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a l P ost O f f i c e as a N ew spaper.
C hronicle of t h e W e e k :
Russia and the Treaty o f Berlin — The Difficulty with Portugal— The Condition of Uganda— Fighting in East Africa— Ministerial Crisis in Spain— Death of the Dowager Empress of Germany— The Spread of the Influenza—A Scientific Theory of its Origin— The Solicitor-General at Plymouth— Mr. Asquith, M .P ., at Leeds—The Solar Eclipse— The County Council and “ Betterment"— Religious Toleration in Russia— Mr. Goschen and the Surplus— The Gas Strike—The Ritualists and the Law .. .. 41 Allocution of his Holiness Pope
Leo X I I I ......................................... 45 L eaders :
Palestine Pilgrims : Old and New 46
CONTENTS.
L eaders (continued) :
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The Tudor Exhibition . . .. 47 Tennyson’s New Volume .. . . 48 The Return of Sir J. Pope Hen-
nessy . . .. .. . . •• 51 N o t e s . . . . . . . . . 51 R ev iew s :
Mary Howitt . . .. •• 53 Eucharistic Jewels for Persons
Living in the World . . . . 54 A Study of Cardinal Newman’s
Grammar of Assent . . .. 55 Death of Father Perry, S.J. .. 55 C orrespondence :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) .. . . . . . . 57
Correspondence (continued):
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Paris:—(From Our Own Correspondent).. . . . . ..58 Dublin:— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . ..59 Mill Hill.— New Departure . . 60
L e t t e r s to t h e E d itor :
Dr. B irnardo . . . .
Maitland’s “ Dark Ages ” . . 61 The Term “ Separatist ” ..62 The Late Dr. Laing . . . 62 N ews from t h e D ioceses :
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Birmingham . . . .
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1NJS.WJ» FROM 1 HE JLDOCLSES QCOtl
Page tinued) : Salford .. . . . . ..63 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . (■: Lord Salisbury 0:1 Christian Educa
tion .................................................... 64 The Bishop of Cork on Secret
Societies .. . . . . ..64 Funeral of Mgr. de Clerc . . . . 64 Mr. Goschen’s Finance . . . . 64 M arr ia g e ............................................. 65 A ppeal to t h e C h a r it a b l e . . 63 F rom E v er yw h e r e ................................ 63 Social a n d P o l it ic a l . . . . 65
Clifton .. . . . . . . 63 Portsmouth . . . . . . ..63
SU PPLEM ENT. Latin Text of the Allocution .. 63
%* Rejected MS. cannot be returned unless accompanied with address andpostage.
C H R O N I C L E O F T H E W E E K .
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Russia and I a step which may be the beginTo f e e ru n .Y ^ ning o f much- A Circular Note has been addressed to its diplom atic agents abroad on the subject o f the Bulgarian loan, and calling attention to an alleged violation of the 21st A rticle o f the Treaty o f Berlin. T h e A rticle runs as follows : “ T h e rights and obligations o f the Sublim e Porte with respect to the eastern Roumelian railways are maintained in their entirety.” T h e Russian contention is that the Bulgarian Government has infringed the Treaty by pledging the revenues o f the eastern Roumelian railways as security for the loan advanced by the Länderbank of Vienna, and this without the sanction o f the Porte. Russia claims that she has a right to complain o f this, not only as one o f the signatories o f the Berlin Treaty, but by virtue o f specific financial obligations contracted by Bulgaria for payment o f the costs o f the Russian occupation after the war o f liberation. T h e Bulgarians point out, in reply, that the eastern Roumelian line forms only a collateral security, and that the principal security for the Austrian loan are the revenues o f the north Bulgarian system. T h e y also contend that when the Porte made their Prince Governor-General o f the province with full administrative powers, it ceded the essential part o f its rights. And finally, they protest that any complaint arising out o f any alleged violation o f the rights o f the Porte, ought to come, not from St. Petersburg, but from Constantinople. M. de G iers’s protest is remark, able as making a departure from the attitude o f nonintervention with regard to Bulgarian affairs which for some time has happily marked the policy of Russia. In some quarters the C ircular Note is considered as a counter-move to the action o f Count K a ln oky in instigating, or at least allowing a quotation o f the Bulgarian loan on the V ienna Bourse, though foreign stocks are not usually dealt wilh there.
News continues to come from Africa in the a very broken an(j disjointed way, so that with portugai. it is often difficult to feel quite sure that we understand the events in their right sequence and are not getting varying accounts o f the same thing. T h e African Lakes Company have received the following telegram : “ Johnston pacified Karongas. Portu-
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gese reached Katungas. Remaining, Makololo, trusting British protection, refused surrender flags. Steamers re searched, forced to lower ensign. War is imminent.” A ll o f which is interpreted by the Secretary to the Company to mean that the English Consul is far away from the scene o f Major Serpa P in to ’s exploits, and has succeeded in establishing peace with the Arabs at Karongas, situated at the north end o f Lake Nyassa ; that the Portuguese have crossed the line of the Ruo and reached Katungas, which is a place on the Shire river, about 60 miles in a straight line above the confluence o f the Ruo, the boundary o f what is undoubted British territory ; that the natives, trusting to the words of Consul Johnston, have refused to give over the flags he gave them to the Portugese; and finally that the steamers belonging to the Company have been boarded and researched by the Portugese, and have had their ensigns lowered. T h e most important and satisfactory part o f the telegram is that our Consul has been able to restore peace along the S tevenson road, between Lakes Nyassa and Tanganyika, but the concluding statement which, after speaking o f the refusal of the natives to give up their flags and the lowering o f the ensigns o f the British steamers, says “ war is imminent,” is perplexing. Does it foreshadow what we already know, that Major Serpa P in to attacked the Makololos and mowed them down with his Gatling guns, or does it refer to the probability o f some new aggression ? It seems most likely that it refers to the engagement o f which we already know. U n fortunately, though a war with Portugal seems something too absurd to centemplate, the road to a peaceful solution o f the question at issue is by no means clear. And for this reason, that the contending parties are not agreed upon the principles by which the questions ought to be decided. What weight is to be attached to the priority o f discovery and what weight to effective occupation? Is more importance to be given to the countrymen o f those who first walked over a district and sketched a map o f it, or to those who, j coming later, built houses and made bridges and roads ? In all the Lake district England can plead the right o f effective occupation, while, over most o f the districts in dispute, the Portugese in the past have had some sort o f nominal sway. The intense dislike o f the English people to quarrel with a little power like Portugal, makes perhaps the most serious danger o f a rupture. In any case, and at the worst, the war would probably resolve itself into a blockade o f Delagoa Bay and Quillim ane.
A curious and interesting letter has been the condition received from Mr. Stanley retelling the of Uganda. history o f recent events in Uganda. Much i o f what he says was known before, but
