THE TABLET.

A Weekly Newspaper and Review.

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

From the B r ie f o f H is Holiness P iu s IX . to The Tablet Ju ne 4, 1870.

V ol. 78. No. 2686.

L ondon, October 3 1 , 1891.

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[R eg iste r ed a t th e G en e r a i P ost Offic e a s a N ew spaper.

C hronicle of th e Week :

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The Strand Election — Mr. J . Morley on John Bright—Mr. Morley on Local Option—The Tactics of Opposition —Mr. __Balfour at Bury—The Famine in Russia— The Floods on the Continent— Collision off the Eddystone — Monetary Crisis in Spain—Australia—German Imperial Decree on Crime—The United States and Chili—France and Italy — M. Ribot on the English in Egypt— Siam—Second Class on the Great Northern—Mr. Morley and Mr. Chamberlain—A New Boom—The Speaker on Technical Education— Mr. Courtney and Disestablishment-North Kilkenny Election 681 ^Lea d ers :

Chicago and the World’s Fair . . 685 “ Wholesome History ” . . . . 686

CONTENTS.

L ead ers (Continued) :

The Pope to the Archbishop of

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Aix . . . . . . .. .. 687 A Thirteenth Century Prelate .. 687 N o t e s ...................................................... 688 R eview s :

Autobiography o f Archbishop

Ullathorne .. .. . . 690 Bishop Wilberfore . . . . . . 691 A Gospel Commentary . . . . 692 The Antiquities and Curiosities of the Exchequer .. . . . 693 Thirteen Essays on Education ._. 693 A New English Dictionary in

Historical Principles . . .. 693 Aspects of Anglicanism . . .. 693 Royal University of Ireland . . 695 Correspondence :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) .. . . •• •. 697

Correspondence (Continued) :

Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre­

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spondent) .......................... . . 698 L e t t e r s to th e E ditor :

What we Ought to Do with our

Pupil Teachers . . .. . . 700 A Bust of Cardinal Newman .. 700 The Catholic Mission at Amble-

side .. . . .. .. 701 Lay Knowledge of Latin in the

Middle Ages . . . . .. 701 The Catholic Union .. . 701 An Urgent Appeal.. .. . . 701 Catholics Abroad .. . . .. 701 Consecration of the Coadjutor-Bis­

hop of Plymouth . . .. .. 703 An Anglican Dignitary on the

Encyclical .. .. .. .. 705 The New Church in Newcastle .. 706 Catholic Attendance at Liverpool

Churches . . . . . . . . 707 Social and Po l it ic a l . . . . 708

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F rom E v e r yw h e r e . . . . . . 708 A ppeals to th e C h a r it a b l e . . 708 The Tomb o f Pius IX . at Rome . . 708

SU PPLEM ENT. How to Save the Voluntary

Schools . . . .

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Mr. Balfour on Voluntary Schools 7 15 Dr. Arnold’s Method o f Educa­

tion . . . . .. . . 7x5 Mr. D ig g le s Education Policy .. 7 15 Chelsea School Board Election . . 715 About Education . . . . , . 715 N ews from th e D io ceses :

Westminster.. . . . . . . 7x6 Southwark . . . . . . . 7x7 B irm ingham .. . . . . . . 7 17 Salford . . . . . . . . 717 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 717 Centenary o f Baltimore Seminary . . 717 Carmina Mariana . . . . . . 718

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

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THE polling for the Strand election for a member in the room of the late Mr. W. H. Smith, took place on Tuesday. The examination of the papers did not commence until a quarter past nine, but at five minutes to ten the High Bailiff declared the result of the poll as follows : Mr. W. F. D. Smith (C.), 4,952 ; Dr. Gutteridge (G.L.), 1,946 ; Conservative majority, 3,006. Mr. Smith, who had been present during the counting, was congratulated by his friends. Dr. Gutteridge had not put in an appearance, and for this reason the customary vote of thanks to the Returning Officer was, at the request of Mr. Lee, omitted. The total number of papers handed in was 6,958, and 60 of them were either spoiled or improperly marked. Outside the hall a fairly large crowd had collected. The general expectation was that the poll would not be declared until half-past ten or eleven o’clock, and the people were beginning to gather when the figures were posted on the doors of the hall. Loud cheers and some hooting followed, and Mr. Smith appeared for a moment at a window and bowed his thanks to his supporters below. On the late Mr. W. H. Smith’s acceptance of office in 1886, and on his appointment as Warden of the Cinque Ports this year, there was no contest. At the two previous elections the figures were :

1886, Mr. W. H. Smith (C.), 5,034; Mr. H. Skinner (G.), 1,508; majority, 3,526; 1885, Mr. W. H. Smith (C.), 5,645 ; Mr. E. G. Johnson (L.). 2,486 ; majority, 3,159.

On Saturday, Mr. John Morley unveiled a m r . j. m o r i .e y bronze statue of the late John Bright at

JOHN b r i g h t Rochdale. In his speech he said that they had met with an object having the united sympathy and support of men and women of all shades of political and religious opinions. Mr. Bright, he said, had no marked advantages of literary education ; but possessed the natural gift of a great orator. Speech was not eloquence. Eloquence was character, conviction, sincerity, purpose, service, fitness—eloquence was the moment and the man. The foundation of Mr. Bright’s oratory was the possession of what to him were living principles, and his habit of thoroughly mastering the facts of the case with his rare power and skilful use of details. In every speech he made there was a moral fervour beating like a pulse under the array of spoken words, warming political objects into moral objects, and sending a current of moral ideas, like a gulf i stream, enriching political discussion, nourishing it and ! making it alive. Mr. Bright had rendered two services in a pre-eminent degree. He was careful of the dignity and simplicity of the English tongue, and although he was the most strenuous reformer of his day, and was called a revolutionist and a destroyer, he was always the first to appeal to historic precedent and to the great fathers and principles of English freedom two centuries ago.

On Tuesday night, Mr. John Morley, pre-

MR' q° RLEY siding over the Annual Meeting of the United lo c a l o p t io n . Kingdom Alliance at Manchester, said that a great many ingenious attempts had been made to put a good face upon the “ Sharpe v. Wakefield ” decision, and to make it mean something which it obviously did not, and could not mean. It was essential to insist that when the question was next touched, whether by a Tory Government or a Gladstonite, good majorities should have the plenary powers attributed to justices by that important decision. They had a right to be grievously disappointed with the actions of magistrates in Brewster Sessions, actions which were timid, wavering, uncertain, and altogether unsatisfactory. It was monstrous, he thought, that the magistrates at the Quarter Sessions should overrule the decisions of the borough magistrates, who must necessarily be better acquainted with the circumstances of their own localities than gentlemen who lived at a distance. The Alliance contended that the people in a locality had full powers of determining either the existence or the number of houses. He hoped when Lord Randolph Churchill had slain lions enough he would come back to help them to slay the lion in their path. He denied that the principle involved an indefensible tyranny of the minority by the majority, and asked whether it was right that the minority should compel the majority to undergo, and to have forced upon them, all the consequences of this particular source of evil and of mischief? He concluded by significantly declaring that he was not suie that it was the working man who protested that they were interfering with his rights and comforts, or whether it was the rich man who protested for him.

Mr. Akers-Douglas, M.P., speaking at Ash-

tactics OF next-Sandwich, on Saturday night, commented o p po s it io n , npon the curious fact that Mr. Gladstone, who was so extremely anxious to repeal the Septen-

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