T A B L E T. A Weekly Newspaper and Review.

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

From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX. to The Tablet, fune 4,-1870.

V o l . 76. No. 2631. L ondon, October i i , 1890.

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[R e g is tered a t t h e G en er a l P o st O f f ic e a s a N ew s pa p e r .

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

Murder of Councillor Rossi— The New AraericanTariff—Mr.Morley and Ireland— About the Channel Tunnel— Sir M. Hicks-Beach at Gloucester— Sir J. Gorst on Home Rule—Lord Rosebery at Glasgow — A Publisher’s Retort—The Zinbaoye Ruins—Copyright in America— German Massacre in Africa — Mr. Stanhope on TipperaryRevolutionary Alarm in Buenos Ayres—The Monument to Delacroix — Mr. Courtney on the Famine .................................... 561 ^Lea ders : ,

The M’Kinley Law .. •• 5^5 Shall Jesuits Return to Germany? 566 Padroadists and Propagandists . . 566 The Memorial to Cardinal New­

man •- . . # •• •• 567 Napoleon’s Matrimonial Schemes 568

C 0 N T E N T S .

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L eaders (Continued) :

The Truth about William Tell . . 569

N o tes

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R ev iew s :

Father M a t h e w .........................572 Ludlow Town and Neighbourhood 573 The Magazines . . . . -573 Publications of the Catholic Truth

Society ....................................575 Lord Wolseley’s Views on Slavery 575 C orrespondence : •

Rome (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . •• •• •• 577 Paris : - t-(F rom Our Own Corre­

spondent) .. . • •• •• 578 Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) .. • ■ •• •• 579 The Catholic Congress at Saragossa 580

L e t t e r s to t h e E d it or :

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Cardinal Newman’s Mother \.. 581 Feast o f St. Edward the Confessor 581 The Controversy of Mr. McMullen 581 Blue Vestments in Spain .. . . 581 The Prayer “ Anima Christi ” . . 581 Monumental Inscriptions . . . . 582 Aspects o f Anglicanism . . . . 582 Education and Politics . . . . 583 The Scandal at Gethsemane . . 584 The Symposium on the Schools . . 585 “ Leaving all Things-----” . . . - 587 F rom E v e r yw h e r e ........................... 587 O b it u a r y .................................... 588 Social an d P o l it ic a l . . . . 588

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Ushaw College . . .. . . 593 Sir Philip Magnus on Technical

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The Schools of Mile End-road .. 594 The Smyllum Schools, Lanark .. 594 New Educational Fund .. . . 594 About Education............................ 594

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Westminster.. . . . . . . 595 Southwark .. . . . . . 595 Liverpool .. . . . . . . 596 Portsmouth .. .. . . . . 597 St. Andrews and Edinburgh .. 598 Glasgow ......................... -. 598 Aberdeen and Dunkeld . . .. 598

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CH R O N IC L E O F TH E WEEK.

MURDER OF COUNCILLOR

ROSSI.

I' T will be remembered that when the Liberal party in the Canton of Ticino succeeded in seizing the seat of Government, Councillor Rossi was murdered standing on the steps of the Court-house. It is satisfactory to think that the Federal Government have demanded the extradition by this country of the man who is accused of this cowardly and coldblooded outrage. Angelo Castioni, described as a sculptor, has been arrested in London, brought before, a magistrate and then remanded. The counsel for the prisoner had the astonishing impudence to suggest that this man accused and arrested for murder should be released on bail. We need hardly add that the request was refused, and the prisoner duly placed under lock and key. The Pall Mall mentions as a relevant fact, that Castioni denies his guilt as if that were an unusual circumstance for persons in his position. Happily, however, the guilt or innocence of the accused is a matter which the tribunals of this country are not called upon to decide. All we have got to do is to comply with the demand of the Swiss Government and hand over the prisoner. No doubt an attempt will be made to invest the murder with “ a political character ; ’ but events in recent years have somewhat sobered the old British readiness to accept that sort of excuse for the practice of assassination. It will be difficult to show that the absurd disturbance in Ticino attained the dignity of sedition, and still more to prove that the wanton shooting of Councillor Rossi was an act of civil war. Whether Castioni was the than who committed the murder is another matter, and one which the Swiss tribunals will decide.

The immediate result of the McKinley t h e n e w tariff law has been the appearance in American a“ N newspapers of circulars announcing increased prices for shoes, carpets, and clothes. Speaking

-generally, it may be said that there has been an advance all round in the prices of the commodities affected by tne new tariff equal to the new duties. Extraordinary efforts were made at the end of the week to evade the crushing duties o f the new law by getting goods across the Canadian frontier before the hour sounded which brought the new system into force. Steam ships and whole fleets of tugs hovered in the offing of New York harbour to bring tidings and help the arrivals of vessels expected from Europe. Of the magnitude of the sums at stake some idea may be gathered from the fact that on the ability of the Captain of the Etruria to reach the shore and hand in his papers before midnight on Saturday depended more than a million dollars. Happily the famous liner, though heavily laden, was equal to the task, and crossed the bar at 9.40 in the evening, and reached the quarantine station at r i . A tug then took Captain Haines off and landed him at the battery, where a coach with fast horses awaited him, and, driven at a gallop, took him to the Custom House just before midnight, where, amid ringing cheers, he signed the ship’s papers just in time. Unfortunately the dislocation of trade which the M !Kinley law will cause in Europe must result at least in much temporary misery. In Sheffield and in Birmingham numbers of workmen will be thrown out of employment until other markets and other openings for capital and industry can be found. In Canada a bitter feeling has been aroused by the belief that the protective policy of the United States has been adopted partly with a view of coercing the Dominion into joining the Union. The distress caused by the loss of the great markets of the States is certainly calculated to give rise to the wonder whether it would not be wise to secure commercial freedom, even at the cost of political absorption. At present, however, resentment and anger seem the dominant feelings, and the Canadian Premier has declared that if ever the Canadian lamb is found lying down with the American lion, it will be because the lamb is reposing inside the lion. From Austria and Spain and France also come angry complaints about the American law— though with what appearance of consistency these protectionist lands can complain, it is not very easy to conjecture. And, meanwhile, the policy of freetrade for friend and foe remains nailed to the mast of Great Britain.

On Tuesday night Mr. John Morley was m r . m o r l e y the chief speaker at a Gladstonian meeting a n d Ir e l a n d , at Swindon. ’Twas the case of Humpty-

Dumpty, said he, with the landlords of

Ireland. No power on earth could set them on their feet again. Their political power, he was pleased to say, their moral power, their material power— all was clean swept away. Half of them (he smiled over it) were impoverished, bankrupt, broken; and all that remained was in the most distressed parts of Ireland a body of men mighty for evil but powerless for good ; though how this could be of broken,

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