THE TABLET. A Weekly Newspaper and Review.

DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS,

From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX . to The Tablet, June 4, 18/0.

V o l . 76. No. 2623. L o n d o n , A u g u s t 16, 1890.

P rice sd., by Post 5 ^ .

[R egistered a t the General Post Office a s a N ew spaper.

C hronicle of th e Week : Page

Imperial Parliament: Navy Estimates—Anglo-French Agreement —Miscellaneous Affairs — The Home Secretary and a Scene— Wednesday’s Parliament — The Strike in South Wales—Mr. Balfour at Salford—Mr. Gladstone and General Policy—The American Silver Bill—Massacre in the Caroline Islands—The Cession of Heligoland-The Cholera in Spain —Breach of Promise : ¿10,000— The Agreement with France— The War in Central America 241

John Henry, Cardinal Newman . . 245

CONTENTS

L eaders :

Page

Lord Salisbury and the Vatican . 253 Art in Church ...........................253

N otes

254

Correspondence :

Rome :—(From Our Own CorresfKmdent).......................... . . 257 • P a r is :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) .. .. . . . . 258 Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . . . . . 259 Storms and Strikes in Spain 261 L e t t er s to the E ditor :

Rights of Private Property .. 261 “ The Final Destiny of the Earth ” 261

L e t t er s to th e E ditor tinued) :

Page (Con

.

The Social Congress at Liège . . 262 Running Down a Slander . . 262 A Children’s Treat.. . . .. 262 The “ Rue des Postes ” . . .. 262 The Pope to the Bishop of Malta .. 262 Aspects of Anglicanism . . . . 263 The Late Cardinal Newman and the

P ress...................................................264 Maynooth College . . . . . . 266 Presentation to the Cardinal Arch­

bishop........................ ......................... 266 A ppeals to the Charitable .. 266

SUPPLEM ENT. N ews from the Schools:

Page

Exhibition Day at Fort Augustus 273 Exhibition at Mount St. Mary’s.. 273 Manual Instruction . . . . 273 Drawing for Infant Boys . . . . 274 About Education . . . . .. 274 N ews from th e D ioceses :

Southwark ..

274

Birmingham..........................................274 Clifton . . . . . . .. 274 Liverpool .......................... . . 275 Newport and Menevia . . . . 275 Northampton .. .. . . 275 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 275 Aberdeen . . . . , , . . 275 Mixed Marriages in Malta . . . . 275

Rejected M S . cannot be returned unless accompanied w ith address and postage.

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

— ANGLO-FRENCH

AGREEMENT.

On Monday night, in the Lords, the Marquis of Salisbury rose to say some words on the Paper which had been laid upon the table. That Paper, he said, concerned an

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT— NAVY ESTIMATES. A1 T the end of last week, in the House of Lords, the Earl of Harrowby moved for a return of the official report published by the Ministry of Commerce of France of the proceedings (Procès Verbaux Résumés) of the International Congress held at Paris in September, 1889, in connection with the International Exhibition, under the Presidency of M. Léon Say, on the subject of the social and sanitary effects of the seventh day of rest ; giving the names and countries of delegates—a motion which was eventually agreed to, though the particular effects of it are probably known only to the Earl of Harrowby. In the Commons, questions were asked under headings which begin to make one wonder at the ingenuity which can possibly evolve so many questions out of the same subject. The Ecclesiastical Courts of Malta, the Grenadier Guards, Military Insubordination, the Dismissed Postmen—the thing looks like a problem running something in this fashion : given the Grenadier Guards, find the greatest number of questions which can possibly be asked about them ; and the highest marks would probably lie with Mr. Summers. Questions over, and some arrangements having been made for the assignment of Saturday sittings to Government business, on the vote of ,£220,500 for the Admiralty Office, Captain Verney called attention to the Report of the Committee which sat upon the question of Naval Defence last year, and he complained that none of hand, at the other end its recommendations httd been carried out ; to which Lord George Hamilton effectively replied that he had informed the House “ months ago ” that all the recommendations of the Committee had been acted upon and wère now being carried out. Other complaints were made and answered, among others, one coming from Dr. Tanner, who asked what were the duties of the civil Parliamentary Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. Ashmead Bartlett, who “ was put in office at a salary of _£ 1,000 a year in order to get him to hold his tongue,” and who “ merely went to sleep on the Treasury Bench.” In answer whereto Lord George Hamilton solemnly read up a list of the duties which attached to the office held by Mr. Ashmead Bartlett. The vote for personnel, shipbuilding, ârc., of ,£1,659.300 -was agreed to, as also other votes, of less importance.

Agreement which had been signed by the French Ambassador and himself in respect of two or three matters in which England is concerned in Africa. The first point of the Dispatch dealt with the Agreement of 1862, entered upon by France and England, and subsequently ratified by Germany. The meaning of that Agreement, which was open to considerable ambiguity, had been interpreted by the French as giving them a veto on any protectorate of Zanzibar. Therefore the English Government had asked the French to modify the form of the Agreement, to which they had consented; and for this reason. As, owing to this treaty of 1862, our position in Zanzibar .was open to some misconstruction, the French Government was also in an ambiguous position in respect of the island of Madagascar. From what cause it is not necessary to dwell on here; merely stating that the French Agreement in respect to Madagascar of 1886 had not been recognised in this country owing to a verbal arrangement which had been entered upon with Lord Malmesbury in the same regard. By the Paper in question England had agreed to recognise the Madagascar Treaty of 1886, and France had consented to interpret our view of the Treaty of 1862 in respect to Zanzibar. Both sides had taken' the opportunity to reserve all rights and privileges of the subjects of either Power in either island, and also to give the most explicit guarantee to missionaries and missions, and to the freedom of religious practice and religious teaching. But besides this matter of two islands another question of interest has come up. The country to the South of the Mediterranean possessions of France is open to the action of the French Government; on the other hand, at the other end of the Continent, the British Niger Company had established a very flourishing dominion ; had concluded treaties and made connection with the native potentates of the country— the treaties in question giving to it the right of extending inland. Now by the natural process of development the two Powers would meet. It has therefore been provided that a line should be drawn from a place called Say to another place called Burnou. That line is to limit each party; but as the Niger Company had struck treaties with the great Empire of Burruwa, it is expressly arranged that the line should be drawn so as to include not only Sokoto, but all that belongs to it within the girdle of the Niger Company. “ I feel,” he concluded, “ that the Agreement is a very fair one, that both parties will find their profit in it, and it certainly asserts dominion over a country which neither has explored, and into which

N ew S e r i e s , V o l . X L I V . , N o. 1 , 1 3 2 .