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DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the B r ie j o f H is Holiness P in s IX . to The Tablet Ju n e 4, 1870.
V ol. 78. No. 2692. L ondon, D e c em b e r 12, 1891. P r ic e 5c!., b y P o st 5% d.
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•C h ro n ic le of t h e W e e k : Page
Engagement of the Duke of C larence—President Harrison’s Message to Congress—The McKinley Act—Dynamite Outrage in New York—M. Lafargue’s Proposed Amnesty in France—The Debate on the French Clergy—The R e volts in China—The Anti-Christian Movement in China—Death of the Ex-Emperor of Brazil— London County Council Election —Earl Cadogan in Yorkshire— Mr. Labouchere at Northampton —The Russian Famine—An In teresting Literary Action—Terrible Railw ay Collision in America —The Argentine Republic—India —Accident to the Club Steamer
V ictoria” — Mr. Goschen at Glasgow—The Charge of Murder against Two Boys—Sir J . Fergusson at St. Pancras
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The Mozart Centenary . . . . 925 Ritualism in the French Protes
tant Church .. . . . . 926 The Victorian Gallery . . . . 927 The Scramble for the Pamirs _ . . 928 Holy Cross Society of Trained
Nurses . . . . .. 929 The Question of the Catholic
Church in W ales.. . . . . 929
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The Popes and the Renaissance 932 St. John Baptist de Rossi . . 933 The Glories of St. Jo sep h . . . . 933 Toujours Africa .. . . •• 934 “ Merry England ” . . . . 934 “ The Month ” . . . . . . 935 Handbook of the Christian R e
ligion . . . . . . . . 935 A Wasted Life and Marr’d . . 935 The Gospel History . . . . 935
| Gossip of Letters
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spondent) . . . . . . . . 937 Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre
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The Services of the Liturgy . . 940 Catholics and the London School
Board Election Variegated Vestments The Pilgrimage to Treves The Limehouse Schools . . Lectures Literature for Catholic Seamen The “ Ave Maria ” and the Ca
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C H R O N I C L E O F T H E W E E K .
ENGAGEMENT
OF THE 'DUKE OF CLARENCE.
to her
Victoria Mary of Teck, of the engagement was
’ IS Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence and Avondale is engaged to be married Serene Highness Princess The formal announcement received without surprise
•by all the members of the Royal Family. The marriage, which has thus been arranged, has been a purely love affair throughout. Some time ago the Duke of Clarence paid marked attention to Princess May (as she is known), and they have lately been thrown very much into each other’s company at various country houses where they have been visiting. It is understood that the Duke of Clarence proposed to Princess May on Friday last, and on Saturday he came up to town with the Duke of Teck, acquainted the Prince and Princess of Wales with his proposal and acceptance, and then journeyed to Windsor to obtain her Majesty’s sanction. This, it is understood, was instantly given, and the Prince returned to town. The Duke of Clarence and Avondale (Prince Albert Victor) was born at Frogmore, on January 8, 1864, and was created Earl of Athlone and Duke of Clarence and Avondale on May 24, 1890. His Royal Highness is a Major in the
10th Hussars, Honorary Lieutenant of the Royal Naval Reserve, and Honorary Colonel of several regiments. He is also a Bencher of the Middle Temple, LL .D . of Cambridge and of Trinity College, Dublin, a Knight of the Carter, and a Knight of St. Patrick ; and he has, among other foreign distinctions, the Turkish Order of Osmanli and the German Order of the Black Eagle. The Princess Victory Mary, w'ho is the only daughter of the Princess Mary Adelaide and the Duke of Teck, was born on May 26, 1867, her full names being Princess Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes.
A summary of President Harrison’s p r e s i d e n t h a r r i s o n ’s Message, presented to Congress on
MESSAGE TO CONGRESS.
Tuesday, has been published, and of it we can only make a bare sum
mary, dealing first with the most interesting portion, the Foreign relations of America. After leferring to the reciprocity treaties already concluded, it expresses the hope that further similar arrangements will be made before the close of the year. It then declares that if the Behring Sea agreement with Great Britain could have been reached earlier, in response to the strenuous endeavours of this Government, it would have been more effective; but still it has unquestionably resulted in greatly diminishing the destruction caused by Canadian sealers. He is glad now to be able to announce that satisfactory terms of arbitration have been arrived at, and that an agreement touching the arbitrators is alone necessary for the completion of a convention. Provision should be made for the joint demarcation of the frontier between Canada and the United States wherever required by the increasing border settlements. The President expresses regret that the friendly efforts of the United States have been of no avail to secure a favourable settlement of the dispute between Great Britain and Venezuela regarding the boundary of British Guiana, and declares that the United States Government will continue to express concern at any appearance of foreign encroachment upon territories which have long been under the control of American Governments. Gratification is expressed that Germany, Denmark, Italy, Austria, and France have opened their ports to pork products which have undergone inspection. In regard to the correspondence arising out of the lynching of the Italians at New Orleans, which the President describes as a most deplorable and discreditable incident, the Message says that the temporary absence of the Italian Minister retarded the correspondence; but the President has no doubt that a friendly conclusion is attainable. He believes that it is entirely competent for Congress to make offences against the treaty rights of i foreigners domiciled in the United States cognizable in | the Federal courts; but this has not been done, and the | Federal officers and courts have therefore no power in such I cases to intervene, either to protect the foreigner or to punish his murderers. “ It seems to me to follow now,” | adds the President, “ that State officers must, in the conI sideration of International questions arising from such incidents, be regarded in such sense as Federal agents as to make this Government answerable for their acts in cases where they would have been answerable had the States used their constitutional power to define and punish crimes against treaty rights,” ,and more to a similar effect.
After dealing with foreign affairs,
— t h e m c k i n l e y President Harrison’s message briefly a c t .
examined the results to the Exchequer of the M’Kinley tariff. From a general glance, it says, the business of the country should satisfy
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