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DUM VOBIS GRATULAM UR , ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS U T IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

From the B r i e f o f H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T h e T a b l e t June 4, i8 jo .

V o l . 77. No. 2656. L o n d o n , A p r i l 4, 1891.

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C hronicle of the W eek :

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Death of Lord Granville— The Struggle in Sligo— The Anti-Parnellites— Mr. O ’Brien Dalton’s Apology— Italy and the United States— The Massacre in Manipore—The Bulgarian Assassination— The Newfoundland Difficulty— A Million and a Quarter Surplus— The Army Returns— Prince Napoleon’s Will— Naval Engagement in Chili— Prince Bismarck’s Birthday— The Lancashire Romance— Emigration Returns . . . . . . . . . . 521 L eaders:

Three Catholic Universities . . 525 A Substantial Victory . . . . 526 Italy in Africa .. . . . . 527 Leo X I I I . and Astronomical

Science . . . . .. .. 528

C O N T

L e a d e r s (Continued) :

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False Philosophy in Education . . 529 Let Us See for Ourselves.. . . 529

N o t e s ........................................................... 531

R e v i e w s :

Faith and Unfaith . . . . . . 533 The Quiet Mrs. Fleming.. . . 534 The South African Catholic Maga­

zine . . _.. . . .. •• 534 The Catholic Magazines . . . . 534 The Jesuit Missions in Bengal . . 535

C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) .................................... 537 Dublin :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) ......................... . . 538 Holy Week in Madrid . . .. 540 One Faith, One Lord, One Baptism 540

ENTS

L etters to the E ditor :

“ The Tories” and Catholic

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Emancipation . . . . .. 541 Marriages of Nonconformists’ Bill 541 Holy Week and Easter Services in Sheffield .. . . . . 541 The Continuity Theory .. .. 541 The English College, Douai .. 541 “ Petitions to Our Lady of Lour­

des” . . . . .. .. 542 The “ Dublin Review,” and Indian

Factories . . . . .. .. 542 The Catholic Church in Scotland 542 A Mediaeval Horror . . . . 542 Irish Training Colleges . . . . 543 Aspects of Anglicanism . . . . 544 Catholics Abroad . . . . . . 545 Social and P olitical . . . . 547

F rom E v e r y w h e r e . . . . . . 547

SUPPLEMENT. N ews from the Schools :

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Irish Teachers and their Grie­

vances .. ......................... 553 About E d u c a t io n .........................553

N ews from the D ioceses :

Westminster.. . . . . . . 555 Nottingham .. .........................555 Portsmouth . . . . . . . . 555 Salford . . . . .. . . 556 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 556 The National Basilica of Ecuador 556 A t St. Michael’s, Hereford . . . . 556 English Society o f St. Vincent de

Paul . . . . .. ,. . . 557 The Humours of Agnosticism .. 557

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

D EATH OF

LORD GRANVILLE.

N Tuesday evening, at a little before five, Earl Granville died, attended by his wife and children, at his London residence. A serious chill, a long attack of gout, and a general enfeebling of his constitution, were the instant forerunners of the end. Lord Granville was born on May n , 1815. His father, first Earl Granville, was the youngest son of the second Earl Gower and first Marquess of Stafford. His mother was the daughter of the fifth Duke of Devonshire. He was educated at Eton and at Christchurch where he took his degree in 1834. The following year he was appointed Attaché at Paris, and in 1836 he entered Parliament. In 1840 he was, for a brief period, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, but in the following year he succeeded to the Peerage. He became President of the Council under Lord Aberdeen in 1855. In 1850 he was appointed Vice-President of the Executive Committee to the Exhibition called the Great of 1851— that deplorable opening of the dams to the worst art of an inartistic age— but it was owing to his exertions that the whole affair was not, as it ! deserved to be, a failure. After the resignation of Lord Derby in June, 1859, the claims of Lord Palmerston and Lord John Russell to the Premiership were so equipoised that Granville was sent for by the Queen and was within an ace of the honour when Lord John Russell’s hostility to the transaction finally exploded it. Failing to construct a . Ministry of his own, Lord Granville took the post of President o f the Council under Lord Palmerston, an office which he held down to 1886. In 1868 he accepted the post of Colonial Secretary in Mr. Gladstone’s Ministry, in which position he did not reap a very singular success. In 1870 he succeeded to the Foreign Office on the death of Lord Clarendon, and the four years of his tenure were made remarkable by the Black Sea Memorandum and the Alabama negotiations, in the conduct of which affairs it would be futile to fix the responsibility on the Minister for Foreign Affairs, when it is remembered who was Premier at the time. In 1874 the once popular Liberal Administration fell and the Conservatives came in. During the six years that followed, Lord Granville was leader of the House of

Lords, when he found himself pitched against such men as Lord Derby, Lord Cairns, Lord Salisbury, and— for part of the time— Lord Beaconsfield. In this position he acted with dignity always, and occasionally with something that looked like brilliance, and when, in 1880, the Tory Government came to grief, it was understood that he should succeed to the Premiership, on the retirement of Mr. Gladstone. As a matter of fact he did not, and, though said to be disappointed, he accepted office under the new Premier. In the House of Lord he once more stood up, with reversed positions, against his formidable Conservative opponents. Of these Lord Beaconsfield too soon fell away, and to Granville the task was appointed of moving an Address to the Crown for the erection of a monument to the great Earl in the Abbey. In 1882, Lord Granville had the difficult task of defending a Government in very hot water, during the miserable time of the dawn of the Egyptian crisis. In 1884 and 1885 the difficulties increased and culminated in the death of Gordon, and the last great debate on Foreign Affairs in which Lord Granville took part as head of that department was on the Motion of Censure which followed, in which the Government was defeated by the enormous majority of 121. In 1886 Lord Granville entered office again as Secretary for the Colonies, going out with his party in June, and since then politics have seen him little. His health has been failing for long, and though he spoke on most important events, he was deserted by activity in public life. The last occasion on which he spoke was at Newcastle during the autumn. Earl Granville was a man of no passions: neither jealous, or egotistic, or violent, or ill-tempered. He was also unambitious, which accounts in part for the falling short of entire success which is everywhere to be recorded of him. He was married twice, and is succeeded by Lord Leveson, who, being born in 1872, is still a minor. He leaves three other children, one son and two daughters. His life is identified with the chief political movements that have lived since the bad old days of the unreformed House of Commons.

THE STRUGGLE IN

SLIGO.

The result of the polling in this important contest is not known at the time at which we go to press, but all the probabilities seem to be in favour of another defeat for Mr. Parnell. The struggle has been bitterly fought out, and blackthorns have taken the place of arguments on a good many occasions, but, happily, no serious injuries have been sustained on either side. No one could read the speeches of the leading men without feeling that, while Mr. Parnell is getting desperate and.ready to snatch at any straw, his opponents

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