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From the. B r i e f o f H is Holiness P iu s IX . to The Tablet, June 4, 1870.
V ol. 76. No. 2632. London, October i 8, 1890.
P r ic e sd ., b y P ost s & d .
[R eg is tered a t t h e Gen e r a l P ost O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper.
C hronicle of t h e W e e k :
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England and Italy in Africa— Extent o f the Potato Blight— Lord Rosebery at Glasgow— Mr. Stanhope at Macclesfield— Mr. Campbell-Bannerman at Stirling— Lord Spencer at Newport— Mr. Ritchie at Manchester— Proposed Antarctic Expedition— The Australian Strikes— Queer Licensing Board —Mrs. Booth’s Funeral— Fire at Cloth Fair—The Guards at Bermuda — The French Budget — Minor Events in France . . . . 601 ILea ders :
An Archdeacon on Commerce . . . 605 Fretting at Florence . . . . 606
C O N T E N T S
L eaders (Continued):
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Cardinal Hergenrother . . . . 607 “ Lo ! The Poor Socialist— . . 608 A Belgian View of our Cardinals 608 N o t e s .................................................... 609 Shooting Fatality at Morpeth . . bio P *
On Right and Wrong . . . . 611 The History of the Parish of R o
chester in the County of Lancaster . . ........................ • 61 t “ The Irish Ecclesiastical Record 6x2 Aspects o f Anglicanism . . . . 613 Centenary o f Father Mathew . . £14
C orrespondence :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
Page spondent) ....................................617 Dublin :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) .. .. .. . . 6x8 The Catholic Congress in Spain . . 6 1 9 L e t t e r s to t h e E d itor :
Is Cardinal Newman Forgotten ? 621 Monumental Inscriptions . . . . 621 Movable Dwellings Bill . . . . . 622 The Prayer “ Anima Christi ” . . 622 Peter Pence .. .........................622 “ The Catholic Directory ” . . 622 The Priest Chiniquy . . ... 622 New Cambridge Church .. . . 626 M arr ia g e . . ........................... 627
SU PPLEM ENT. N ews from t h e S chools :
Successes at Hammersmith Train
Page ing College . . . . . . 635 Liverpool Training College . . 633 Annual Statement for London
School Board .........................633 About E d u c a t io n ......................... 635 N ew s from th e D io c e s e s :
Westminster........................ S o u th w a rk ......................... Birmingham........................ Hexham and Newcastle . . Shrewsbury........................ St. Andrews and Edinburgh Glasgow . . . .
. . 636 .. 636. . . 636 . . 636 . . 636 . . 637 V 637
The Manchester Catholic Bazaar . . 637
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
ITALY IN AFRICA. T
ENGLAND AND
H E negotiations between the British and Italian Governments have not gone .smoothly, and for the time are abandoned. It would have been easy enough to arrive at an arrangement for the delimitation of the spheres o f interest o f the two countries in Africa, had not the negotiations been complicated by considerations affecting a third party. As the protecting power in Egypt, Great Britain could not take it upon herself to give away territory still nominally belonging to the Porte. The task was primarily to fix a frontier line somewhere between Massowah, where the Italians are in possession, and Suachim held by England in behalf of the Khedive. With such a line drawn across the wasteland between the two ports, all to the north would fall to Egypt, while the districts to the south w'Ould be recognised as legitimately belonging to the sphere o f influence of Italy, or o f her protected State, Abyssinia. Considering the almost worthless nature o f the land o f the littoral thus to be partitioned, probably this task would have presented little difficulty had it not been for the further question how far the frontier line was to extend into the interior. A t present Kassala helplessly claimed by Egypt belongs in fact, to the dervishes who occupy it. For all practical purposes Egypt might just as well lay claim to a district in the moon. I f either English or Egyptian troops would d r iv e ; out the dervishes and hold Kassala for civilisation, the Italians would be satisfied; but as to this country Kassala is not to be weighed against the bones o f an English soldier, and if the Egyptians were to come within striking distance o f the dervishes they would probably be speared or otherwise made mince-meat of. As far as either country is concerned, Kassala is likely to be let alone. •Then, say the
Italians, let us go to work on our own account, and when we have cleared out the dervishes keep Kassala, so redeemed from barbarism, under our own flag. T o this arrangement the Ministers of the Khedive will by no means agree, and we may presume that it is a point upon which Egyptian sentimcSfif^WtlS |pronounced itself strqngly. T h e Italians are told they may occupy Kassala temporarily, but must be content to render it back in quieter times.
The Italian Government was willing in the event o f its cor.* sidering an occupation desirable to agree to reserve the rights ” of Egypt over Kassala. A t the same time they declined to give an express undertaking to restore the town as soon as the object o f the occupation has been attained. It is impossible not to feel some sympathy with the Italian contention that they are to be asked to do the dirty work o f Egypt, to bear the cost o f fighting the dervishes, without any reward for their trouble. The Khedive would probably reply that at present he does not particularly care about having the dervishes expelled, and that if Italy interferes at all it is entirely for her own ends. And certainly it is not easy to see why a Power which is ready to “ reserve the rights ” o f Egypt should not also be ready to pledge itself to restore the town when the objects for which it desires to expel the dervishes have been attained. Italian diplomacy seems to have lost its traditional wiliness, else one thinks itwould have consented very easily to restore Kassala when the object o f the occupation was secured. As the primary object would be to keep the place free from the dervishes, that could hardly be secured till the Khedive was ready for an effective occupation— an interval in which many things may happen. •
So many perplexing and conflicting reports thY potato are a^roac*as t0 the extent o f the potato blight blight. and of the area affected as well as to the necessity for relief, that the letter which Mr.
James Tuke has addressed to The Tim es is likely to be read with an eager interest. The subject is not new to Mr. Tuke. As one of the workers for the relief o f the dreadful famine o f 1846-7, and as one who since that time has made’ the economic condition of the peasants of the West o f Ireland a subject of special study and care, he is well entitled to speak with authority. The problem o f how far the disease has extended is obscured in some degree by the facts that in those backward regions the potato crop being still in the ground it is not possible to say with cdrtaiiity what the yield will be, and that the crop is found when dug to vary remarkably in adjoining holdings. Mr. Tuke, however, considers that enough has been ascertained to make it sure that there is no danger of what is termed “ famine,” that the area over which serious failure in the crop exists is limited to a few western unions, and does not appear to extend so widely as the failure o f 1879-80. The general condition o f the people in the congested districts also renders them better able to bear the loss— be it partial or entire— than was the case ten years ago. For this last conclusion he gives the following reasons: The price o f stock
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