THE TABLET A W eekly Newspaper and R eview .
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
Front the Briej o f H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T he Tablet June 4, 1870,
V o l . 78. No. 2694. L o n d o n , D e c e m b e r 26, 1891. P r ic e sd ., b y P o st 5%d.
[R eg iste r ed a t th e G en er a i P o st 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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Death of the Duke of Devonshire —The Catholic Refugees from the Soudan—The Emperor and Chancellor von Caprivi—Chanrel Tunnel Company and the Search for Coal— Canada—The Famine in Russia—Germany and Russian Loans—The Turkish War and the Emperor William—China and the Powers—The Socialist Students at Brussels—The United States and Chili—The Salvationists at Eastbourne—Colonel Saunderson in Londonderry—Death of Doctor Harold Browne—Lord Selborne on Welsh Disestablishment — Arrest of an M.P.—India—The Severe Weather—Australia—The New Head of the Fire Brigade— The Villarosa Murder Trial — Burning of an Atlantic Liner— Mr. Brodrick at Motherwell . . 1001
CONTENTS.
L e a d e r s : Missionary Refugees from the
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Soudan . . . . . . ..1005 Fog . . . . . . ..1006 Lapsus Lingua; . _ . . . . 1006 1 he Victorian Exhibition.. . . 1007 The Romance of the Railway . . 1008 The Question of the Catholic
Church in Wales.......................... 1009 N o t e s ........................................ ..10 10 R ev iew s :
Popular Catchwords . . . . 1012 The First Martyr of Oceania ..1013 Industrial England.. . . ..1014 A Royal Road to Health.. .. 1014 Popular Liturgies . . . . ..1014 The Life of Ice . . . . ..1015 Gods and Heroes . . ..1015 The Prince’s Whim, and Other
Stories ..................................... 1015 ' Gossip of Letters .. . ..1015
C orrespondence :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
Page spondent) . . . . . . ..1017 Dublin :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) .. . . .. ..1018 L e t t e r s to t h e E d itor :
The Services of the Liturgy .. 1019 Lectures . . . . .. ..1019 The Stroud Green Catechism . . 1020 Glastonbury Thorn .. ..1020 The Carmelites at Kensington ..1020 Organization and the School
Board Elections . . . . . . 1020 Archbishop Plunket and the “ Re
formed Church ” of Spain . . 1021 An Enquiry......................... ..1021 The Papal Allocution .. ..1021 j Death of Monsignor Freppel ..1022 I Catholics Abroad .. . . . . 1023
St. Cuthbert’s Body . . .. ..1024 | ! N ews from t h e S chools :
London School Board and Free ' Schools . . . . . . . . 1024
N ew s from th e S chools (Con
tinued) : Catholic Pupil Teachers and their
Prospects .
. . ..1024
The Morality of Talebearing in
Schools
. . .. .. 1025
Shakspere at Prior Park .. .. 1026 Leeds School Board Election and
Cumulative Vote .. ..1026 The Stonyhurst Philosophical
Society . . . . . . . . 1026 N ews from t h e D io c e s e s :
Westminster.. . . . . . . 1026 S o u th w a rk ......................... . 1026 Nottingham.. . . .. ..3026 Some Publications of the Week .. 1027 O b it u a r y .........................................1027 Social a n d P o l it i c a l . . ..1027 Christmas Appeals . . . . ..1027 F rom E v e r yw h e r e .............................1027
SU PPLEM EN T . A Royal Christmas in the Fifteenth
Century
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
---------- 4---------¥ s' HE Duke of Devonshire died on Monday d e a t h o f I at eight o’clock, at Holker Hall, CarnDEVONSHHtE. forth. His death took place in the presence of all the members of his family, including Lord Hartington and Lady Louisa Egerton, his only son and only daughter. He died at the age of 83. He was the son of the late Earl ot Burlington, was born on April 27, 1808, and educated at Cambridge, where he distinguished himself by becoming a Second Wrangler and Smith’s Prizeman in 1829, in which year he was returned as one of the members for the University of Cambridge. At the General Election, which took place on the death of George IV. in the following year, he was rejected by that constituency, but was accepted at Maldon, which he represented until the dissolution in December, 1832. In the following Parliament he was returned by North Derbyshire, a seat he held until May, 1834, when he was transferred to the House of Lords •on succeeding to the title of Earl o f Burlington. In 1836, he was elected Chancellor of the University of London, an office which he held until 1856. In 1858 he succeeded his cousin in the dukedom of Devonshire, and the same year was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire, and on the death of the late Prince Consort he was selected to succeed him as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. His son, Lord Hartington, succeeds to the estates and titles.
Father Ohrwalder and Sisters Chincarini t h e c a t h o l i c ancj Venturini, says the Times' correspont h e s o u d a n . dent, have arrived at Cairo. 1 hey escaped from their captivity at Omdurman 19 days ago, with a female slave who had been in their service and whom it was thought imprudent to leave behind lest she should give information of their flight. Their escort consisted of three camel-drivers. The Sisters wore Arab female costumes, and Father Ohrwalder dressed as a trader. For obvious reasons, since there are still about forty Europeans kept as prisoners at Omdurman, they decline to give details of their escape. A priest, a lay brother, and a sister belonging to the Austrian mission to the Soudan are still there. Slatin Bey holds a high post under the Khalifa, but he is closely watched. The German merchant Neufeld is heavily chained, and is employed in making saltpetre.
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Many of the prisoners have died from starvation and disease. The Mahdi granted no provision for the subsistence of the captives, but allowed them sufficient liberty to earn their living as best they could. Father Ohrwalder lived by tailoring and weaving, and the Sisters by baking and selling bread.
The Reichstag’s passing of the Com-
t h e e m p e r o r niercial Treaties between Germany and v o n c a p r i v i . Austria-Hungary, Italy, and Belgium respec
tively on Friday evening, was communicated by the Kaiser at a public dinner, and the Emperor made it the occasion of an elaborate eulogy of his Chancellor. They owed, he said, that result to this simple, straightforward Prussian General, who has understood in two years how to | familiarize himself with subjects difficult to master even for the initiated. Endowed with a political sense capable of grasping many things, he had known how to preserve Germany from severe dangers. He believed that the consequence o f the conclusion of the Commercial Treaties and of all the work that brought them into being, might be characterized as one of deliverance. The Reichstag, through its great majority (the votes were 253 against 48), had shown that it recognized to the full the scope of the political judgment of the Chancellor. Despite all the calumnies and difficulties that the Chancellor of the Empire and other Councillors had had to encounter from various sides, they had succeeded, proudly boasted the Emperor, in steering the Fatherland into these new paths. ' “ I am convinced that not only our Fatherland, but millions also of the subjects of the other countries which belong with us to the same Customs’ Union, will one day bless this day.” The Kaiser has, moreover, raised General von Caprivi to the rank of Count, and, according to the correspondent of The Daily Telegraph, no such remuneration for State services has been received by the general public with greater approval for many years.
At a meeting of the shareholders of c h a n n e l t u n n e l (-pg Channel Tunnel Company on Mons e a r c h f o r c o a l , day, in the report special reference was made to the trial borings for coal; the engineer reported that a seventh workable seam of bituminous coal had been found, and the total thickness of the seven seams was 14 feet 6 inches. The indications of deeper seams were also favourable. In moving the adoption of the report, the Chairman, referring to the opposition of the Government to the proposed tunnel, said Ministers seemed to be convinced that our army was worth nothing, and at the same time declined the preferred hand of France,
