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DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the Brie] of His Holiness Pius IX. to T h e T ablet June 4, 1870.
V o l . 79. No. 2695. L ondon, January 2, 1892.
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C hronicle of t h e W e e k : Page
Embassies at St. Petersburg and Rome— India— Chili— The Hunza Nagar Expedition— The Famine in Russia— Mr. Gladstone and the f iarritz Club—Prince Christian hot — Panic in a Provincial Theatre — Bomb Outrage at a Midnight Service— Death of Mr. Alfred Cellier— Death of the New Dean of Chichester— Prorogation o f the Victorian Parliament— The Crisis at Quebec—Death o f Sir Thomas Chambers— France— The Comte de Paris on Bishop Freppel — Dangers of Paraffin— Nagpur National Congress— The Year’s Marriages, Births, and Deaths— Death of Prince Victor of Hohenlohe L e a d e r s :
An Italian ‘ De Profundis ”
CONTENTS.
L eaders (Continued):
Page
A Chapter of Horrors . . . . 6 Pre-Reformation Romanism . . 6 The Question of the Catholic
Church in W a les.. The Pope’s Christmas Address N o t e s ........................................ R eview s :
Church Music in America British Epidemics The Worth of Human Testimony The Founder of the Jesuits The Way of Peace.. “ Orbis Terrarum ” “ The Dublin Review ” .. Publications of the Catholic Truth
Society Gossip of Letters
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C orrespondence :
Rome (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . . . 17
C orrespondence (Continued) :
Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre
Page spondent) . . . . . . ..18 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it or :
“ The Dublin” on Saving our
S c h o o l s ......................... ..20 Plain Song . . . . . . .. 20 The Newman Lamp at the Ora
tory . . . . . . . . .. 20 The Stroud Green Catechism . . 20 The Catholic C lub .. . . . . 20 The Cardinal Archbishop and the
Catholic Masters of Westminster 21 Ireland and the Educational Surplus _ ................................................23 Catholics Abroad . . . . . . 24 The Bishopric of Waterford.. Some Publications of the Week F rom E veryw h ere Social a n d P o l it ic a l O b itu ar y
Page SU PPLEM ENT. D ecisions of R oman C ongrega
N ew s from t h e S chools :
St. Joseph’s College, Dumfries.. “ The Play ” at Downside Col
lege................................................ London County Council and the
School Board Loan Mozart Centenary at Ampleforth
College The Saving of Catholic Teaching N ew s from th e D io ceses :
Birmingham Nottingham.. Glasgow ......................... The Manor Death of Cardinal Payd. Sir William White Cathedrals and Churches in Southern
F ranee
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CH R O N IC LE O F TH E WEEK.
AND ROME. T
EMBASSIES AT •ST. PETERSBURG
' H E Queen has approved the appoint
ment o f his Excellency the Right Hon. Sir Robert Morier, G.C.B., G.C.M .G ., as her Majesty’s Ambassador at
Rome; and the appointment of Lord Vivian, G.C.M .G ., C.B., as her Majesty’s Ambassador at St. Petersburg. Sir Robert Burnet David Morier was born in 1826, and educated at Balliol College, Oxford. He was a clerk in the Educational Department of the Privy Council 1851-52, and entered the Diplomatic Service in 1853. After being attached to Mr. Elliot’s special mission to Naples in 1859, he, as assistant private secretary, accompanied Lord John Russell to Coburg, when in attendance upon the Queen in i860. Mr. Morier was appointed a second secretary in 1862, nominated a British Member o f the Mixed Commission at Vienna to inquire into the Austrian tariff in 1865, and was promoted as Secretary of Legation in the same year ; in 1866 he was a Commissioner for carrying out the provisions of the Treaty o f Commerce signed at Vienna in the previous year, and in 1867 a Commissioner on the Anglo-Austrian Tariff Commission. From 1876 to 1881 he was Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Portugal, and to Madrid from 1881 to 1884, in the latter year being appointed Ambassador to the Court of St. Petersburg, which post he now vacates.— Hussey Crespigny Vivian, Lord Vivian, was born in 1834, and succeeded his father as third Baron in 1886. H e was educated at Eton and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and entered the Foreign Office in 1851. In 1856 he was attached to the Earl o f Clarendon’s special mission to Paris, and accompanied the late Marquis o f Breadalbane to Berlin as private secretary in 1861. He went to Athens with the draft treaty for annexing the Ionian Islands to Greece in 1864, was Acting Agent and Consul-General at Alexandria 1873, Agent and ConsulGeneral in Moldavia and Wallachia 1874-76, and in Egypt 1876-79. From 1879 to 1881 he was Minister at Berne, and Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Confederation 1881, and to Denmark 1881 to 1884, when he was transferred to Brussels, an appointment which he now leaves for the Russian capital. Lord Vivian acted as first plenipotentiary for Great Britain to the AntiSlavery Conference at Brussels in 1889.
N e w S e r i e s , V o i . XLV1I., No. 2,004.
No important change has occurred with in d ia . respect to the threatened scarcity. Bengal has not yet received the wished-for-rain, and,
although it is not too late for it to do good, it cannot now prevent the crops from being short in many places. Lord Wenlock has returned to Madras from his inspection o f the worst districts, and appears to have come to the conclusion that things are not so bad as they have been represented, although serious distress must prevail for some months. In the Bombay districts water for cattle seems to be the most crying want. Several attempts at rainmaking by dynamite explosions have failed. The general impression in India as to the result of the experiments is that success is improbable unless the atmosphere is already heavily charged with moisture. Some people believe that no thoroughly conclusive trial has yet been made.
Señor Montt was publicly proclaimed Presich il i . dent at Santiago on December 26. The streets were lined with people to salute the new Presi
dent on the route half-a-mile in length, which he had to traverse. Only 1,000 troops were on duty to keep a passage open for the procession. The behaviour o f the masses was exemplary, and they waited patiently for hours under a broiling sun. In the great Hall of Congress, writes the Times' correspondent, were crowded all the first men of Chili. Here the President took the oath and received the tricolour sash, the emblem of supreme command, he then proceeded to the Cathedral, where he was received by the Archbishop and the Roman Catholic hierarchy, and the Te Deum was sung. A ll the Ministers, except Mr. Egan, attended the ceremonial.
THE HUNZA NAGAR EXPEDITION.
The Times' correspondent furnishes further details of the fighting at Nelt on December 2. The enemy’s strong position had been improved by art. The two mountain guns directed against it by Colonel Durand, failed to make any impression, and he ordered an attack by 150 Goorkhas, under Lieutenants Boisragon and Badcock. In spite o f the sharp firing, they made their way to the inner gate, which they were unable to force open. Captain Aylmer determined to blow it open with gun-cotton, which was done, and the three officers rushed in, followed by twelve Sepoys. A hand to hand fight ensued, in which Captain Aylmer and Lieutenant Badcock were severely wounded. The three British officers and their handful o f men showed great dash and courage.
