T H E T A B L E T
A W e e k ly N ew sp a p e r a n d R e v iew .
DUM VOBIS GRATULAM UR , ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER M ANEATIS.
From the B r i e f o f H is Holi?iess P iu s IX . to T he T ablet, June 4, 1870.
V ol. 79. No. 2719. L ondon, J une 18, 1892.
P r i c e 3d ., b y P o s t s % û .
[ R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a i P o s t O f f i c e . N e w s p a p e r .
CONTENTS.
C h r o n ic l e o f t h e W e e k :
Page
1 Aspects of Anglicanism
Page . . 967
Imperial Parliament: Uganda and the Lords — The Dissolution — Tuesday’s Sitting— Mr. Morley at Plymouth— Collision on ^the Midland Railway—The Italian Ministry — Lord Rosebery and Mr. Chamberlain—The Convention at Minneapolis — Refugees from Equatorial Africa— The Floods in Austria— Mr. Balfour and the Dissolution— The Death of Captain Stairs— Fatal Fire at Holloway—The Collision at Bishopsgate — The Telephones Bill
I R e v i e w s :
Modern Catholic England . . 969 Johnson’s Letters . . . . . . 969 I A Royalist’s Romance . . . . 970
A Saint’s Correspondence.. . . 971 A Story o f the Jews .. ••971 The Protestant Episcopal LayI man’s Handbook.. .. . . 971
The Faith and Life of the Early
Church .. . . . . .* 9 7 1 Manifestation o f Conscience .. 971
957 ; C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :
I j L e t t e r s t o t h e E d i t o r (Con
Page tinued) : Jubilee of Mount St. Mary’s . . 977 St. Osbert .. .. . . . . 977 Cardinal Manning’s Birthday . . 977 I The American Catholic Education
Question . . . . . . . . 977 French Royalists and the Holy See 979 | Ushaw and the Archbishop-Elect of
Westminster.. .. .. . . 980 ! The Hurricane in Mauritius . . 980
^Le a d e r s :
The Declaration of the Royalists 961 Minneapolis and Chicago.. .. 961 Proposed Evacuation of Uganda 902 The Revival of an Ancient Guild 963
N o t e s . .
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . . . 973 Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) ......................... . . 974
St. Vincent de
Cardiff Paul Conference at
The York Pilgrimage
L e t t e r s t o t h e E d i t o r :
965 I William o f Wykeham’s Architect 976 ’ S o c i a l a n d P o l i t i c a l
981
983
SU PPLEM EN T . Page
D e c i s io n s o f R o m a n C o n g r e g a
t i o n s . . . ............................... 989
N ew s f r o m t h e S ch o o l s :
The Irish Education Bill and the
Commons .. .. .. . . 990 The Irish Christian Brothers’
Schools .. . . . . . . 991 Aberdeen Nazareth House Indus
trial School .. .. .. 991 The Superannuation of Teachers 992 About Education .. . . .. 992
N e w s f r o m t h e D io c e s e s :
Westminster . . . . . . 993 Southwark . . . . . . . . 993 Leeds . . . . . . . . 993 Liverpool .. . . . . . . 993 Salford . . . . . . . . 994 Northampton . . . . .. 994
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
•IM PERIAL PARLIAM ENT
— UGANDA AND TH E
LORDS.
U ORD H E R R IE S did a public service when he questioned Lord Salisbury as to the ati€citiesv said to have been com
mitted in Uganda under the direction o f officers still holding her Majesty’s commission. He was careful not to express any opinion or to impute blame to any man, but •confined himself to asking the Prime Minister what steps be intended to take to satisfy himself o f the truth or the untruth of the charges which have been so circumstantially made. At the same time he pointed out that something •more was acquired than an ex parte statement from the servant of the East Africa Company. An independent report ought to be obtained. Lord Salisbury rising to reply •gave the latest news which has yet been received, and this though exceedingly meagre and shedding no light upon the conduct of the accused officers, at least lets us feel that the actual letting of blood is over for the time. A telegram had been received from Zanzibar reporting letters under date March 31, written from a point near the southern end o f Lake Victoria Nyanza. These tell of the arrival there o f Captain Williams, one o f the officers whose name has figured so prominently in the reports of the massacres. H e brought news that the actual fighting was over, and that terms would probably be arranged with Mwanga and his followers. The English missionaries were with the victorious party in Uganda, while 19 Catholic missionaries were in the Buhoba district. For the rest, Lord Salisbury declared that if he could for a moment believe the English agents had been guilty of the conduct imputed to them, he should join heartily in condemning them. A ll he pleaded was that these men, whose record had been uniformly good in the past, should not be judged unheard or out of the mouths of their enemies. They knew from experience that reports coming from the interior to the coast were apt to be very much disfigured on the road. As for an independent report, that would be difficult to obtain, seeing that it takes six months for a caravan to get from the coast to the lake and back, so that if a commission started at once and encountered no difficulties it could not return to
N e w S e r i e s V o l X L V 1I . , N o 2 ,0 2 8 .
the coast before next December. Subsequently Lord Salisbury stated, that though orders had been sent to Captain Lugard to withdraw from Uganda, the withdrawal was not to the coast, but only to a spot almost half way. In conclusion, he observed that with a railway to the lake there would not be the smallest difficulty in retaining our hold upon Uganda. It need hardly be pointed out that this last remark has very little bearing upon the immediate question o f the hour— as to the responsibility for the atrocities of which the Catholics in Uganda have been the victims.
— THE DISSOLUTION.
On Monday Mr. Balfour made his promised statement in the House o f Commons as to the arrangement o f public business with a view to the Dissolution. After men
tioning the chief Government Bills which had been passed, or were just passing, he referred to the conversation between Mr. Sexton and himself in thé House on the Friday before upon the Irish Education Bill, and said that circumstances had occurred which left no doubt that that measure also might be counted among those to be passed this Session. He had no prospect o f being able to pass the Irish Local Government Bill, the Tithes Procedure Bill, and the Private Bill Procedure Bill. Such uncontentious Bills, however, as the Naval Knights of Windsor Bill, the Land Commissioners (Ireland) Bill, the Poor Law Schools (Ireland) Bill, and the Casual Wards Bill (about to be introduced), and four private members’ Bills— namely, the Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Bill, the Witnesses’ Protection Bill, the Coroners’ Deputy Bill, and the Public Health Amendment Bill, and a measure to enable promoters of Private Bills to resume proceedings next session at the stage at which they were left during the present session ; a Local Loans Bill, which has to be passed every session ; the Statute Law Revision Bill, a Bill authorizing the expenditure o f money in Ireland for the extermination of pleuro-pneumonia, a Bill authorizing and guaranteeing a loan for the Mauritius, and the Bill relating to the Crofter emigration to British Columbia would all be proceeded with. He had also hopes that the Telegraphs Bill, the Superannuation Bill, and the Criminal Evidence Bill, which were before Select or Grand Committees, the Military Lands Consolidation Bill, the East India Officers Bill, and the Public Elementary Schools Bill might pass. On the other hand, he did not think time would permit the passing of the Ulster Lands Bill, the East India Post Office Bill, and the Public Elementary Education Bill, if they were met with serious hostility. The Access to Mountains Bill was hardly likely to pass, as one section of the House
