E TABLET Weekly Newspaper and Review.
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the B r ie f of His Holiness Pius IX . to T he T ablet Tune rSjo,
V ol. 75. No. 2594. L ondon, J a n u a r y 25, 1890.
P r ic e sd ., by Post,
[Registered at the General P ost Office as a N ewspaper.
CONTENTS.
C hronicle of th e Week :
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England and Portugal — The Crisis in Spain—The Newfoundland Dispute—Death of the Duk° of Aosta—The Bohemian Diet— Strikes in Germany—The French Chamber—Lord Herschell on the Situation — Mr. Gladstone at Chester— Mr. Goschen to his 'Constituents — Lord Napier’s Funeral—The Influenza Bacillus —National Education Association —Proposed Palace for the County Council — Are Tithes National Property?—The Forth Bridge .. 117 E ncyclical of P ope L eo X I I I . :
Necessity of a Christian Perfec
tion.. . . . . .. .. 121 Catholics have Special Duties . . 121 Two Duties Identified .. . . 121 All Bound to Aid the Church .. 122 Faith Comes by Hearing.. . . 122 “ Union is Strength ” . . .. 123
Perfect Obedience Necessary What is Obedience? The Constitution of 'he Church.. The Danger.-, of Public Life Final Exhortations .. “ Per Crucem ad Coronam ” Analysis of the Encyclical . . . : L e a d e r s :
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123 123 124 I2| 125 126
The Route of the Coming Pil
grimage .. .. ..
Notes on Father S. J . Perry, S .J.
—His Last Expedition and Death ; The New Bishop of Hexham
:
N otes
131 I
Correspondence (continued):
Paris:—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) .. .. . . .. 134 Dublin:—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) .. . . .. 135 L e t t e r s to th e E ditor :
Liturgical Doubts .. .. .. 137 S ’ster Rose Gertrude .. .. 137 Laymen and the Passion.. . . 137 Salary for a Catholic Chaplain . . 137 The Late Father Perry . . .. 137 i , 11 Greater Love Than This------” .. 139 i Conference of Poor-Law Guardians 139 Marriage of Lord Clifford .. ..140
Correspondence :
Rome :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) .. .. . . .. 133
F rom E v eryw h er e . . . . . . 140 Social and P o l it ic a l . . . . 141 O b it u a r y ......................................... 141 A ppeal to th e C h a r it a b l e . . 141
SU P P L EM EN T N ews from th e S chools :
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The New Education Department
Secretary .. .. .. . . 1 4 9 The Late Mr. Cumin .. .. 14^ The Free Education Political
Situation .. New Catholic Schools
H? 149
N ews from th e D ioceses :
Westminster Southwark .. Birmingham Northampton Salford Shrewsbury .. St. Andrews and Edinburgh Dunkeld
150 153 iS® 150 150 151
Consecration of the Bishop of
Waterford . .. .. .. 1
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
ENGLAND AND PORTUGAL. T
news fiom Lisb>n is that new Ministry has decided HE best the to dissolve Parliament and send the deputies back to their constituen
cies. This step was not expected and excites some grumbling, but the excitement of a general election will do much to dUtract public attention, and some of the animosity now directed against this country will find vent for itself in party warfare. Meanwhile the popular resentment has taken strange forms. The Lisbon Geographical Society has published a protest against a great European nation, which, at the end of the 19th century is disposed to revive Algerian piracy and Cuban buccaneering. The Duke of Pamella who once served in the British navy has sent his Baltic medal to Mr. Petre and dismissed all his English servants. An unfortunate clown at one of the theatres was denounced by the populace, but succeeded in pacifying them by explaining that he was an American. A national subscription to buy an iron-clad, which would cost about half a million sterling, has resulted in about ^5,000. A vigilance committee has been formed to denounce the importers of English goods. As the trade with Portugal is about one per cent, of the English trade, and about one-half the trade of Portugal, these reprisals seem ill-considered. Finally, English sovereigns which form an appreciable portion of the gold currency of Portugal are to be vigorously boycotted. Unfortunately, the merits of the quarrel have been quite lost sight of in resentment of the manner of settling it.
THE CRISIS IN SPAIN.
The baby King of Spain had scarcely entered the preliminary stages of convalescence before the Queen Regent was called upon to face the Ministerial crisis which her son’s illness had temporarily averted. The Queen at once decided, perhaps with more firmness than discretion, to throw Señor Sagasta overboard, and called on the President of Congress, Señor Alonso Martinez to form a Cabinet. This Señor Martinez, with the best will in the world, attempted to do. To the dissentient Liberals he offered five out of eiglt possible seats in the Cabinet, and to the late party in office three. But hither Señor Sagasta refused to walk, and after a barren attempt or two at some sort of a coalition, Señor Martinez returned his portfolio, and the Queen returned
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to Señor Sagasta, who obligingly consented to farther efforts in the formation of a Cabinet. In these he obtained success, and for a time at least things may run smoothly. The resourceful ability of the Premier may, therefore, despite his own Liberal tendencies and the possibility of himself losing the reins, tide over an undoubted danger.
THE NEWFOUNDLAND
D ISPUTE.
If ever French statesmen think it politic to try a quarrel with this country there will be no lack of opportunity; besides the standing grievance of the occupation of
Egypt, there is a whole group of questions clustering round the rights of fishery conceded to France by the Treaty of Utrecht and fought over ever since. So considerable a man as M. Flourens has now taken the claims of the French fishermen under his special protection, and has in the Chamber invoked the active intervention of the Government. The mere presence of the French fishing fleet is a sort of offence to the people of Newfoundland, who find it difficult to realise that their waters should still be controlled by the dead hands that drew the Treaty of Utrecht. After the attempt to settle the question at the Convention agreed upon in 1885, the Parliament of Newfoundland prohibited the sale of bait to the foreigners. M. Flourens denounced this law as monstrous, and said that the Government of Great Britain had been called upon to repudiate it. But for a long time past, M. Flourens went on to explain, England has governed her colonies only on condition of obeying them, and the Government of the Queen hesitated to give the required satisfaction. New complications have now arisen owing to the claim of the French fishnrs to catch lobsters, a pursuit to which they have been driven owing to the growing scarcity of the cod fish. The Newfoundlanders, hacked up in this by the mother country, declare that lobsters are not fish, and that therefore the Treaty cannot be pleaded. M. Flourens impatiently asked that the French cruisers should receive orders to protect the French fishery, and not as last year be left without instructions. M. Spuller answered in a tone of great moderation. He pointed out that the fishing rights conceded to France in Newfoundland were essentially temporary, a kind of usufruct enjoyed in a country not belonging to France, and in which she was bound to respect the police regulations made by others. However, as the Treaty rights undoubtedly exist they could not be surrendered without “ just reclamations.” He saw no way out of the difficulty except by arbitration, and that England had refused. However, negotiations were still going on, and he called on the Chamber to trust for the present to the vigilance of the
