THE TABLET. A Weekly Newspaper and Review.

DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX. to T h e T a b l e t June p, 1870.

V o l . 78. No. 2683.

L o n d o n , O c t o b e r 10, 1891. P r ice sd., by P ost 5% d.

[R e g is tered a t t h e Gen e r 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 Mr. W . H. Smith— Death of Mr. Parnell— Death of Sir John Pope Hennessy— Death o f the King of Wtirtemburg— Mr. Gladstone at Newcastle — The Evacuation of Egypt—Sir Edward Clarke at Torquay— The Princess Beatrice— General Boulanger’s Funeral— Railway Statistics— The Financial Situation in France— Lord Ripon in Wales— The Distress in India — Mr. Edison’s New Tramway — The Famine in Russia— The Agitation in China— Emin Pasha

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L ea d e r s :

The Deaths ..

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The Pantheon Incident .. . . s«« Australia and its Critics . . •• 567 N o t e s ........................................

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R ev iew s :

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The Works of Heinrich Heine •• 570 Life of Tane Welsh Carlyle •• 570 Rockingham Castle and the

Watsons ..

The Co-ocerafive Movement Today .. “ Merry England ”

Edmund Burke

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The Encyclical on the Rosary •• 573 The Newman House Inauguration 575 The Laicisation of the French Hos­

pitals ............................................... 575

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L e t t e r s to th e E d itor :

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The “ Padroada ” in India .. 581 Title of a Secular Priest .. . . 582 The Catholic Church in Wales .. 582 The Disorders in Rome .. .. 582 Holidays of Obligation in the

Workhouse . . . . .. 582 Feast of St. Edward the Con­

fessor .. .. . . . . 582 A Withdrawal . . . . .. 582 Earth to Earth .........................582

Royal University of Ireland . . 583

Aspects of Anglicanism . . . . 583

C orrespondence :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . .. . . 577 Dublin :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) ......................... . . 579

Catholics Abroad .........................585

A p pe a l s to t h e C h a r it a b l e . . 586 ' Some Publications of the Week . . 587

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F rom E veryw h ere . . .. . . 587 Social a n d P o l it ic a l . . . . 58S

SU PPLEM EN T . N ew s from t h e S chools :

A Year of the London School

Board . . .. . . .. 593 St. Cuthbert’s College, Ushaw . . 594 St. Augustine’s, Ramsgate .. 594 About E d u c a t io n .........................594

N ew s from th e D ioceses :

Westminster.. . . . . . . 595 Southwark . . . . . . 595 Birmingham . . . . . . . . 597 Leeds .. . . . . . . 597 Portsmouth . . . . .. . . 597 Carmina Mariana . . . . . . 598

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

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R . W . H . SM I T H died unex­

pectedly, though after a long illness, on Tuesday afternoon a little after three o ’c lock. H e was seized with serious illness so far back as July 12, and since that date he has not sat in the House o f Commons. S in ce then he had never entirely thrown o ff the attacks o f gout, which ■ were com b ined with a profound ansemaic state, causing great anxiety from the first to those about him. H e arrived at Walmer Castle towards the end o f August, and at the time o f his arrival he was so weak and prostrate that he had to be carried bodily from the railway carriage to his private carriage. H e had to remain on his back throughout his illness at the Castle. H e once attempted to use his feet about three weeks ago, but it was found to be so great a strain upon him that his medical adviser deemed it wise to forbid his patient to tax his strength until he had further improved. A lth ough he had o f late improved in his general health, he was very weak, and, as a matter o f fact, had to b e carried to the boat when he went for his cruise, and was hoisted by a derrick into the steamer. Lately, however, he went out every day for a carriage drive or for a cruise in the Channel, which made the suddenness o f the end all the more grievous. T h e remains o f the deceased M inister will be rem oved to Henley-on-Thames. Telegram s o f condolence have arrived at Walmer in great numbers, and Mr. G lad stone wired that he and his wife “ received with grief the news o f Mr. Sm ith ’s death, and will long retain the recollection o f his kindly nature, his fine qualities, and his distinguished devotion to the public service.” Mr. W . H . Sm ith was indeed one who can ill be spared from his party. W ithout those brilliant gifts which might mark him out as a prominent politician o f his time, he had every quality which is useful, even invaluable, in a public servant filling such a post as that which he was appointed to fill. H e did his work quietly and with d ig n i ty ; with occasional humour, and with a civ ic sense which bound him closely to the great party which it was his privilege to serve.

“ Unarm, Eros, the long day’s task is done,

d e a t h o f and we must sleep.” Down in Brighton on h r . PARNELL. Tuesday night, after an illness, the absolute secrecy o f which well accorded with the New Series, Vol. XLV1., No. 1,192.

secrecy o f his whole life, Charles Stewart Parnell, a man upon whom more interest has at times been centred than upon any other contemporary politician, died at the early age o f 45. Agitator, leader, organiser o f men, orator, a politician o f the by-ways, and gentleman, this was one o f the most notable, and at the same tim e interesting figures o f this generation. Upon him has been lavished more emotion— be it o f love, of loyalty, o f hatred, o f fear— than upon most modern men. A t one tim e he inspired his countrymen with a devotion and a zeal for his person to parallel which you must cast back to the days when the loyalty o f thousands clung to some Prince— o f the Stuart race perhaps— -through every trial and misfortune : to the days o f Cavaliers and Jacobites. On the other side you have powerful organisations, such as might be represented by The Times newspaper, using every weapon, honest and dishonest, even down to the petty calumnies o f a professional forger, for his destruction, in a very passion o f terror, as it seemed, before the witness o f his influence. Through every crisis, down to the last, he passed silent and a little sa tu rn in e ; but when the divorce case o f last November crashed upon his path, when his organisation, his leadership, his whole life-work, were slipping out o f his fingers, it seemed as though flood-gates were opened • and the spectacle has been afforded during the past year o f a lonely man struggling against terrible odds by help o f speech, o f travel, by every resource o f oratory and energy, by all those weapons, in a word, which he had previously seemed to lack most conspicuously. H e who had disappeared for weeks without a sign, whose words w-ere few, and whose influence was only calculated b y effects, becam e a passionate speaker, a scornful and loud adversary. A n d in this he persevered till within five days o f his death. Then it was as though the old desire for mystery returned to him, and those last five days o f illness were kept absolutely from the knowledge o f the world, which heard first o f his danger • by learning the news o f his death. ’ W e may pass very rapidly over the details o f his career summarised from The Globe. In 1878, he rvas elected President o f the Irish party in the p lace o f Mr. Butt, and it was in the autumn o f 1880 that he took an active part in the organisation o f the Land League which quickly grew to be the most powerful o f modern Irish agitations. In the November informations were la id b y the Irish Attorney-General against Mr. Parnell and several other members o f the Land League Executive, j and the trial opened in Dublin on Decem ber 18, finally, j after 19 days’ hearing, ending in a disagreement o f the jury. J In the beginning o f the Session o f 1881, the Government