THE TABLET. A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
Fro?n the B r i e f o f H is Holiness P iu s IX . to The Tablet June 4, i8 jo .
V o l . 78. No. 2687.
L o n d o n , N o v e m b e r 7, 1891.
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[R eg iste r ed a t th e Gen e r a i P ost O f f i c e a s a N ew spaper.
C hronicle of t h e W e e k :
The Horsewhipping of Mr. Timothy Healy—Other Accounts— Mr. Healy’s .Sunday Speech — The Gift of Laurels — The United States and Chili-The Earthquake in Japan— The Germans in East Africa— The Cholera — The_ F inances of Canada : The Dominion —The Provinces — The Peace Congress — Lord Coleridge on Matthew* Arnold— Fire at Sandringham— Sir E. M. Shaw and the London Fire Brigade—The Son of Prince and Princess Henry •of Battenberg— The Dean of St. Paul’s on Board Schools— Brazil — Russian Famine— The New Warden of the Cinque Ports— The Speaker on Athletics— The London School Board—The K ilkenny Election— Bankers and the Baring Crisis . . . . •• 721
CONTENTS.
L e a d e r s :
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“ Wholesome History ” . . . . 725 Chili and the United States . . 726 The Oil Colour Institute . . . . 7 7 Liverpool Catholic Churchgoers.. 725 The Vacant Hungarian Sees . . 728 The Question of the Catholic
Church in Wales........................... 728 N o t e s ....................................................... 73° R ev iew s :
A Christian Apology . . . . 732 The Early History of Balliol Col
le g e .................................................. 733 Life of the Curé d’Ars . . . . 734 “ The Critical Review ” . . . . 734 “ The Month" ........................... 734 Dumaresq’s Daughter . . . .7 3 5 Gossip of Letters . . • . . 735 Some Publications of the Week . . 755
C orrespondence :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
Page spondent) . . . . .. . . 737 Dublin :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) ..................... . . 738 L e t t e r s to t h e E d itor :
Fruits of the Padroado in Sou
thern India .. . . . . 73Q St. Vincent de Paul Society . . 740 “ The Month" and Gregorian
Song .. .. .. . .7 4 0 Litany of the Blessed Virgin .. 741 Lay Knowledge of Latin in the
Middle Ages . . . . .. 741 ‘ Aspects of Anglicanism . . . 741 ; “ The Italian^Mission ” in England 743 , The Trouble in France . . . . 744
Catholics Abroad . . . . . . 745 I A p pe a l to t h e C h a r it a b l e . . 745 , O b it u a r y . . . . . . . . 745
So c ia l a n d P o l it ic a l . . . . 745 1 F rom E v e r yw h e r e .........................746
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SU PPLEM EN T . N ews from th e S chools :
The School Board Elections .. 753 Organis ng Visitors for Schools . . 753 Successful Scotch Students . . 753 About E d u c a t io n .........................753 N ew s from th e D io c e s e s : Westminster
Southwark Leeds Middlesbrough Newport and Menevia Salford St. Andrews and Edinburgh Glasgow Dunkeld
•• 754 - 754 •• 754 •• 754 •• 754 •• 754 . . 755 •• 755 •• 755
The Case o f an Altar Stone.. . . 755 The Pope to the Archbishop of
Armagh .................................... 756 Carmina Mariana . . . . . . 756
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
THE HORSEWHIPPING OF MR. TIMOTHY HEALY. w
HAT the correspondent of
The Times rightly describes ¡ as a “ new and startling episode in the war of the Par-
nellite factions” occurred on Tuesday afternoon. At three o’clock Mr. T. M. Healy, M.P., was in the law library of the Four Courts, when the porter informed him that Mr. MacDermott wanted to see him in the coffee-room. Mr. Healy asked who Mr. MacDermott was, and the officer replied that he did not know, but he believed that the gentleman was a solicitor. Mr. Healy thereupon left the library and proceeded to the coffee-room, which is situated in a range of buildings in which the solicitors have their hall, at the back of the Four Courts, and connected with that building by a covered porch. On entering the passage of the solicitors’ buildings Mr. Healy observed a tall young man about 20 years of age, who proved to be Mr. Tudor MacDermott, a nephew of the late Mr. Parnell. The young man had a riding whip in his hand, and, seizing Mr. Healy by the collar, he proceeded to castigate him with great vigour. He followed Mr. Healy round and round the passage, uttering no words, but using the whip with all his force. Mr. Healy made an ineffectual attempt to get free, but the young man was too powerful, and held his grip tenaciously, while the hon. gentleman jumped about as he received the strokes, which were laid on his shoulders and other parts of his body, “ his face ” as one observed with mock gravity, “ being spared.” A porter connected with the building went into the hall of the Four Courts for a policeman. He returned with a constable, who interrupted the young man after he had given Mr. Healy from 30 to 40 lashes. The constable was about to arrest Mr. MacDermott, and he asked Mr. Healy whether the hon. member would charge his assailant, but Mr. Healy declined to do so, remarking that the young fellow was drunk. This Mr. MacDermott indignantly denied, and, giving his name to the constable, threw his card to Mr. Healy, and said he might make whatever use he liked of it. Turning to the policeman, Mr. MacDermott said he was horsewhipping the person before him. I f the constable wanted to know the reason why, the person before him could tell. Mr. Healy then walked away, and, returning to the library, resumed the reading of his briefs.
New S e r i e s , V o l . XLV1. No. 1,196.
The other accounts of these proceed-
— o t h e r a c c o u n t s , ings put certain details of the affair into some doubt. The E v en in g E xp r e ss pub
lished one account which set Mr. Healy in the light of a pale and dignified hero, preventing blows and scornfully resisting a foolish assailant. That, however, by a preponderating accumulation of testimony, seems to have been not at all what happened, and the above recital, given by The Times, is probably as near the truth as we shall ever get. There remain one or two unessential points which, as The S t . Jam es's Gazette pointed out in an amusing paragraph, are still to be determined. They are: 1. Whether Mr. Healy’s wig came off. 2. Whether Mr. Healy sounded like a carpet beaten with a stick. 3. Whether Mr. Healy “ jumped about ” while Mr. MacDermott was hitting him. 4. Whether Mr. Healy caught Mr. MacDermott by the throat and took the whip away from him. O f these, perhaps, the second is the one which is the most interesting to know. For the rest, the reason of the assault is sufficiently explained by the cruel words which Mr. Healy used on Sunday in regard to Mrs. Parnell, whose nephew Mr. MacDermott is.
The language for which Mr. Healy was m r . h e a l y ’s made to smart on Tuesday was used by him Su n d a y s p e e c h . 0n Sunday. He said that a fortnight ago he went to Paris to ascertain what was the obstacle in placing the money under the control of Mr. Justin M’Carthy. When he arrived he found there was a telegram there from Mr. Harrington and Dr. Kenny, who said they had prior claims on the fund. The bankers did not mind that, but they minded more a letter from Mrs. O’Shea, and when he saw that letter signed by that woman, stopping the relief of the tenants, he could not help believing that there was an alliance between descendants of the men who betrayed the Irish at Ballinamuck and the fomentors of disorder and disunion with the landlords and the Freemason party of the present day. They heard a great deal about English dictation. Was Mrs. O’Shea an Irishwoman? The Paris funds were shut up at that moment by English dictation and the men who attacked them because of their alliance with the greatest statesman of the English race— in which gabble one supposes Mr. Gladstone was explained; we speak of course only of these particular words without any judgment upon the general merits of the controversy. I f the movements of Irishmen were to be guided and controlled from England, said Mr. Healy, they would rather they were controlled from Hawarden than from Brighton. They had said to Mr.
