THE TABLET,
A W eekly Newspaper and R eview .
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dum" vobis gratu lam u r , animos et iam addimus ut in incceptis v e s t r is constanter m aneatis.
From the B r i e f o f H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T h e T ablet Ju n e 4., 1870.
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L o n d o n , O c t o b e r 1 7 , 1 8 9 1 .
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[ R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a i P o st O f f i c e a s a N ew s p a p e r .
‘C h ro n ic le of t h e W e e k :
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The Severe Gale—Mr. E . Stanhope, M .P ., on the Geneial Election — Statue to Mr. Bright— Decoration Scandals in Berlin— Affairs in Chili—An Attack upon French Ministers—The Overdue Atlantic Liners — The Austrian Budget—Funeral of the King of Wurtemberg—Profe sor Virchow — The Dardanelles Question — King Humbert and M. de Giers —Conservative Victory in Buteshire — The Germans in East Africa—The Attempted Revolution in Monte Video—Military Preparations in Servia . . . . 601
CONTENTS.
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L e a d e r s : • Pilgrimages and Politics . . . . 605
An Imitation of Kulturkampf . . 606 The Question of the Catholic
Church in Wales.. . . . . 607 The Cardinal Archbishop and the
French Church . . . . . . 609 N o t e s ...................................................... 6x0 R e v iew :
Pontefract Friars . . . . . . 612 Aspects of Anglicanism . . . . 613 The Marquess of Bute in Glasgow 614 C o rr e s po n d en c e :
Rome :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) .......................................6x7
C o rrespo ndence (Continued):
Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre
Page spondent) .......................... . . 618 L e t t e r s to t h e E d ito r :
Title of a Secular Priest . . . . 620 The Catholic Church in Wales . . 622 Convents and Examinations . . 623 The Retford Mission . . . . 623 An Inquiry .. . . . . . . 623 Spanish Catholics and English Suf
ferers . . . . .. . . . . 613 Tributes to Sir Frederick Weld . . 624 Work in Foreign Missions . . . . 626 Irish Opinion on Mr. Parnell . . 629 S o c ia l a n d P o l it ic a l . . . .6 2 9
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N ew s from t h e S chools :
School Savings Banks . . . . 633 The Coming of Age of the London
School Board . . . . . . 634 The Schools of Glasgow . . . . 635 About E d u c a t io n .......................... 636 N ew s from t h e D io c e se s : Westminster
Southwark .. Leeds Liverpool Plymouth
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Carmina Mariana Irish National Schools
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
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THROUGHOUT Tuesday night a gale of great severity prevailed over the k,™ .*.. metroplitan area, doing damage to property in some districts. The Meteoro
logical Office reports that in the course of Tuesday a cyclonic disturbance of great intensity advanced over our islands from the south-westward, and occasioned a rapid fall of the barometer over the entire kingdom. At Valencia Island the reading at 10.40 a.m. was as low as 28'47 inches. The wind increased to a strong gale from the south-eastward or southward on all but our extreme northern coasts, and heavy rain has fallen in many parts of Ireland and England. Owing to the great interruption in telegraphic communication the reports from the western and northern stations were nearly all wanting. So far as could be seen, however, the lowest barometer readings were located over the Irish Sea and the north of Ireland. In the extreme south of England the pressure was inclined to recover, but the movement was by no means decided. The Post Office gave notice of considerable delay to all the telegraph offices south and west of Exeter, also to Bristol, South Wales, and Ireland, and communication with the Channel Islands by the English route is at present totally interrupted. At Dover on Tuesday evening the wind was blowing with the force of a hurricane, and the sea was running very high in the Channel. The waves made a clean breach over the Admiralty Pier, near which the force of the wind was so great that it was almost impossible to stand against it. The mail packet Em press experienced an exceedingly rough passage in crossing to Dover. The vessel, however, reached her moorings alongside the Admiralty Pier at halfpast five safely. The Hastings excursion steamer Victoria arrived at Dover through stress of weather, having made a fearful passage up Channel. Considerable anxiety was caused at Hastings for her safety. She drifted past the Admiralty Pier by the force of the gale, and made the port with considerable difficulty.
Mr. E . Stanhope, M.P., a few days country, and the universal testimony to his abilities from all parts of the country and from every political party proved that the late leader of the House had made a name which would not easily be forgotten, one which every true Englishman should cherish and respect. There was, he continued, no immediate prospect ofa general election. Of course it might come at any time up to July, 1893. Between these periods it must come, but, looking forward, there seemed no reason to expect it would take place at an earlier date. The Radical party were holding out baits in order to catch votes. One of these baits was Home Rule. The Liberal party must think the people of this country were very stupid, because they asked them to accept Home Rule whilst at the same time they would not explain what it was. He ventured to say that no leader of the Liberal party would try to explain what Mr. Gladstone meant by the word# “ Home Rule.” He believed that if the Liberal party were polled at the present time it would be found that on one side there was Mr. Gladstone, with a very few followers who did not care much about the rest of the programme, but wanted to have Home Rule whatever it might mean, whilst on the other side the rest of the party did not care about Home Rule, but they wanted to have the rest of the programme. and he would leave them to settle that when the time came, if ever it did, to bring the proposals into practice^ During the past five years the Government had remitted taxation to the amount of ^7,000,000, whilst the new taxation had been of the slightest possible amount, and only upon special objects not enjoyed and used by many, with the exception of certain classes of intoxicating drinks— this not a bad performance. Then again there was the Free Education Act, and the great reason the Government had for approaching this subject was because they felt that the condition of education had altogether changed by the introduction of compulsory education. He supported the measure first in the interests of the parents, and secondly in the interests of education. He claimed that the Allotments Act had worked well in the Horncastle Division of Lincolnshire, and referring to the sweating system which had largely prevailed in London, he said the Department to which he was connected had made full inquiries, and now they had ascertained the breadth of the evil they were determined to put it down. They had taken care to put a stop to the system of sub-contracting, and, so far as Government manufacturers were concerned in the two or three trades where this evil had specially prevailed, they had absolutely compelled the work to be done in factories under proper supervision, and had declined to allow it to be taken away m r . e . s t a n h o p e , m . p . , a g 0 addressed a large meettng of his ppMrDu constituents at Sutton-on-Sea. He said among other things that, by the death o f Mr. W. H. Smith a great man had been lost to this
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