A W eek ly N ew sp ap er a n d R ev iew .
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
F rom th e B r i e f o f H i s H o lin e s s P iu s I X . to T h e T a b l e t J u n e p, 1870.
V ol. 77. No. 2663. L ondon, May 23, 1891.
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[R eg ister ed a t th e Gen e r a l P ost O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper.
•Ch ronicle of t h e W e e k :
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Mr. Davitt’s Departure—Mr. F. Hugh O ’Donnell on the Irish Parties—The National League of Great Britain— The Servian Crisis — Expulsion of the Queen— The Jews in Corfu—The Attack on the Tsarevitch— Parliament in Sydney — The Chase after the “ I ta ta ” — The Boer Trek— Lord Salisbury on Party Government— Death of Lord Edward Cavendish—Death o f Mr. E. Long, R .A .— The CoOperative Congress Mr. Stanhope on Assisted Education—A Story of Locusts--The Recent Weather — Great Tornado in America . . . . . . .. 801 The New Encycical . . . . 805 L eaders :
The Government and the Schools 807 The Rights of Catholic Minorities 808
CONTENTS.
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N o t e s . . . . . . . . . . 809 R eview s :
Sir Walter Scott’s Journal .. 811 A Local Humourist _ . . . . 812 Save Me from My Friends .. 812 Aspects of Anglicanism . . . .8 1 3 New Catholic Church at Carlisle . . 814 C orrespondence :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) .. .. .. . . 817 Dublin :— (From..Our.Own Corre
spondent)
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L e t t e r s to t h e E d itor :
London University Reconstitu
tion . . .. . . . •• 820 Pilgrimage of Youth to Rome . . 820 The Demonstration at Thurles . . 820 The Irish in Chile .. . . .. 821
L e t t e r s to th e E d itor (Con
tinued) : Catholics and Modern Philosoph3T 821 Mr. Gore’s Bampton Lectures . . 821 The Dublin Synod .. .. . , 822 The Sacrilege at Mile-end-road.. 822 Mr. E. Dwyer Gray and Mr. Par
nell .. . . .. . . . . 822 Catholics Abroad . . . . . . 824 The Apostolate of the Sahara . . 824 Mr. Calderon’s Academy Picture .. 825 “ The Dublin Review ” and Indian
Factories . . . . . . .. 826
O b itu a r y ........................................827
F rom E v e r yw h e r e ........................... 827
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Social an d P o l it ic a l . . . . 827
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SU PPLEM ENT. N ew s from th e S chools :
The Position of Catholic Teachers 833 Results of Scots Free Education 833 Heron’s Ghyll School . . . . 834 About Education . . . . . . 834
N ews from t h e D io c e s e s :
Westminster.. . . . . . . 835 Southwark . . . . . . 836 Northampton . . . . . . 836 Nottingham.. ......................... 837 Salford . . . . . . . . 837 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 838 Dunkeld . . .. . . . . 838
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CHRONICLE OF TILE WEEK.
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ON E o f the most form idable o f Mr.
Parnell’s opponents in the present struggle has retired from the fight and left the country for a prolonged journey.
In a conversation with a journalist, on board the vessel which is now bearing him to Quebec, Mr. Davitt explained that his trip round the world is undertaken so le ly on account o f his health. H e is suffering from a chest affection occasioned by the repeated colds caught during the K ilk enny contest, and he has been told b y his doctor that he must live for six or eight months in a d ry clim ate. H e intends to pay a brief visit to the States and then to go to Vancouver, and thence to Yokoham a , and afterwards to Australia. Mr. Davitt hopes to be home in tim e to take an active part in the general election which, however, he does not expect to take p lace for another year and a half. A sked whether he thought there was any chance o f a reconciliation in the Irish ranks he replied : “ N o t on this side o f the general election.” H e thinks that after the election, when Mr. Parnell finds h im self with sim p ly the ghost o f a following, his party will see the necessity for reuniting the National ranks. H e anticipates that Mr. Parnell’s followers will be opposed in every constituency by the followers o f Mr. M ’Carthy, and that the former will be practically w iped out o f the land, that not more than four or five will survive. Considering the former relations o f the two men, there is a certain melancholy interest attaching to Mr. D avitt’s opinion o f Mr. Parnell. Mr. Davitt believes that his late leader’s action in regard to the Land Purchase B ill is thoroughly dishonest. “ Mr. Parnell is supporting a B i ll now' which he denounced.last year as a fraud and a swindle. What he is doing now is not for the purpose o f benefiting the Irish tenants, evicted or otherwise, but to embarrass the National representation and to curry favour with the Tories. H e wants the support ot the Tories in Ireland at the next general election. It is only w ith their assistance that he can hope to get him self returned for C o rk .” Mr. Davitt repeated with great emphasis that Mr. Parnell had becom e an impossible leader, that he was the author o f the trouble, and that it was in his power f i t any moment to undo it all.
I t is so long since Mr. F . Hugh O ’Donnell m r . f . has taken any part in political affairs, that o n t h e his letter to I he Freem an s J o u r n a l will be ir i s h p a r t i e s , read with interest and curiosity. T h e occasion o f his letter was the kindly but unavailing attempt o f Mr. E . D. Gray to bring about a reconciliation between the Nationalist parties. We have described elsew'here the manner in which that well-intended effort wras met by the organ o f the majority. Mr. O ’Donnell says sharply there must be union or else ruin to the cause. T h e danger he fears is “ an overwhelming R adical majority for sham Home Rule and godless education.” H e believes that it will be an easy thing for the Gladstonian party to win 50 rural seats from the party in power, and that then the trium phant Radicals will laugh out at any Irish party which has not at its back the whole force o f the united Irish people. ' Mr. O ’D onnell recognises that Mr. Parnell is entitled to support his claim to be the leader o f the Irish race by every legitim ate means, and admits that no one can expect him to surrender that position without a struggle. But that is a matter which the general election must decide. H e has this in his favour, that there is no other candidate, but for him self Mr. O ’D onnell believes that the day o f single leaders is over and done. When a nation has made a certain progress in se lf government, uncrowned Caesars becom e as superfluous as crowned ones, and the Co-operation o f Several takes the p lace o f the Domination o f One. But as to the Chairmanship o f the party there can be no doubt. T h a t is a question o f obvious fact. Mr. M ’Carthy has been e lected b y a clear majority o f the party. T h e nation will decide in a few months who is to be the leader o f the race, but meanwhile the modest position o f chairman should surely be left to the Parliam entary majority. A ccordingly Mr. O ’D onnell would have Mr. Parnell’s Parliam entary followers act with the majority : he believes that the result would be that some 20 o f Mr. M ’C arthy’s party would generally co-operate with them when it was a question o f asserting the independence o f the party against the wirepullers o f the English Liberals. H e further pleads that until the general election there should be a truce, and that the filling o f casual vacancies should be left to the localities concerned. T h e letter ends with the follow ing suggestion : “ Perhaps, seeing that Catholic orators on both sides have w ielded the sharpest and most unsparing tongues, if the Catholics on both sides would be only so old-fashioned as to go to confession and repent them heartily o f uncharitableness, with an honest resolution to keep truer comradeship for the future, they would cut a better figure, even in
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