T A B L E T . A W eek ly N ew sp a p er a n d R e v iew .

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, June 4, 1870.

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■ Ch r o n i c l e o f t h e W e e k :

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The General Elections — The Catastrophe on Lake Geneva— Terrible Catastrophe in the Alps — The Victoria Cross— St. John’s City in Ashes— Home Rule and Foreign Analogies— Labour Troubles in the United States— Fight­

ing in Idaho, United States— Twelfth of July in Ireland — France and Dahomey— Sir H. James and Unionism— Death of Mr. Cyrus Field— Mr. Stanley Attacks Mr. Gladstone— Serious Rioting in Spain — Eruption of Mount Etna— Riots at Saratoff— Asiatic Cholera Abroad—A London Improvement . . . . . . 81

The Majority for Home Rule . . 85 General Booth’s Farm^ . . . . 86 Religion and Social Disorder . . 87 The Crime of Youthfulness .. 88

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L e a d e r s (Continued)

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Portugal and British India .. 89 The Recent Disturbances in

Uganda . . . . . . . . 90 N o t e s ............................................. ..92

Appointment of the Archbishop of

St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 93 Royalty Among the Colonies . . 94

R e v i e w s :

Mr. Kipling— and Another .. 94 The Descent of Charlotte Comp­

ton.. _..................................... 95 American Literature . . _ .. 95 Aristotle and Ancient Educational

Ideals . . . . . . v 95 The Conversion of the Teutonic

Race .. ......................... 95 The Witness of Hermas to the

Four Gospels .. .. .. 95 The History of P. Cornelius

Tacitus . . . . r. . . 95

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C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

Page spondent) . . .. . . . . 97 Dublin :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) ......................... ..98

L e t t e r s t o t h e E d i t o r :

Dr. Parker and Catholic Loyalty 101 English Laity and Irish Clergy . . 101 A Scottish Catholic upon U lster.. 101 Our “ Catholic ’ Choirs . . . . 102 The Election of American Bishops 102 America’s Catholic School Question 103 The Canterbury Pilgrimage . . 104 The Drink Problem in Sweden . . 105 The Barry Dock Catholic School . . 106 Catholics Abroad , . . . . . 107

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The Protestant Church in Ireland and Home Rule . . . . . . 107

N e w s f r o m t h e D io c e s e s : Westminster . . . .

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Southwark . . . . . . . . 108 Clifton . . . . . . . . 108 Newport and Menevia . . . . 108 Northampton . . . . .. 108 Plymouth .. . . . . . . 108 Aberdeen . . . . . . . . 109 Recent Publications.........................109

S o c i a l a n d P o l i t i c a l . .

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O b i t u a r y ............................................. 109

SU PPLEM EN T . N evvs f r o m t h e S ch o o l s :

Distribution of Prizes at St.

Joseph’s, Dumfries . .

Education and Crime .. . . 113

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

NEXT week, as usual, we shall give the full list of the newly-elected Parliament. At present, up to the time of going to press the state of

Parties was as follows :

Conservative..................................... 247\28c Unionist............................................ 384 3 Gladstonite........................................ 228'j ■Anti-Parnellite ................................. 50 1-285 Parnellite ........................................ 7J Doubtful (Greenock) ..................... 1

571

So far 571 members were returned, leaving 99 more results to be declared. Of these, in the last Parliament, 21 were held by Conservatives, 10 by Liberal Unionists, 44 by Gladstonites, and 24 by the Irish parties.

THE CATASTROPHE

ON LAKE GENEVA.

An accident which has cost the lives of some 30 pleasure seekers has startled all the tourist world. The M ont Blanc, the largest paddle-steamer of the little fleet which plies round the Lake of Geneva, was making her usual trip with about 100 passengers on board when, without warning, the steam cistern in connection with the boiler exploded. The top of it, a mass of iron measuring six feet in diameter, was blown off and hurled in a horizontal direction straight along the whole length of the first-class saloon, which was filled at the time with ladies and children. O f the 30 persons present in that death-trap two were killed instantly and six others were scalded to death in a very few minutes by tbe steam which at once filled the saloon, and 16 others died within a few hours, of their injuries. As the steam entered the saloon from the end near the door there was no escape for the unhappy occupants of the room. The whole of the furniture, lamps, crockery, and human beings were swept together to the stern end of the saloon. The scene when the rescuing party was able to face the steam and effect an entrance was indescribably horrible. The faces of the dead were terribly disfigured

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and the survivors were in such pain that their only cry was to be thrown overboard as the speediest death. One of the waiters, who was able to get to the door, rushed on deck and plunged into the Lake to cool the scalding agony, and was drowned. Two of the ladies endeavoured to follow his example, but were prevented. The survivors, with the skin mostly burnt off their hands and faces by the scalding steam, were got as quickly as possible to a hospital, but all save three or four died on the way. It is stated that the engineer had examined the boilers and machinery before leaving Geneva and found all in order. Among the victims were three English ladies.

A very important watering-place of Savoy,

c a t I s t r o p h e in S t Gervais-les-Bains, a short distance off t h e a l p s . the main road to Chamounix, was visited on

Monday night by a frightful inundation,

which swept away part of the Etablissement des Bains and the hamlet of Le Fayet. The large hotel erected at the sulphur springs of Saint-Gervais, a little off the road leading from Geneva to Chamounix was reduced to ruins, a neighbouring village was almost entirely destroyed, and upwards of 100 lives were lost through one of those convulsions of nature to which mountainous regions are peculiarly subject. The catastrophe arose in this manner, according to Reuter : The lower end of the glacier of Bionnay became detached from Mont Blanc and fell into the torrent beneath, carrying away with it the little village of the same name. The masses of ice and the wreck of the village formed a dam which held up the waters for some time, until they suddenly broke through the obstruction and burst like a cataract into the mountain stream known as the Bon Nant, which flows by St. Gervais-les-Bains. These thermal springs, the medicinal virtues of which attract many visitors to the hotel during the year, rise in the wooded ravine of Montjoie, through which the Bon Nant, or “ Good Stream,” passes on its way down to meet the River Arve. The gorge in which the Etablissement des Bains, erected at an altitude of 2,066 feet above the level of the sea, stands, or rather stood, is narrow, and the hotel consisted of five separate buildings, joined together by walls of stone roughly hewn from the mountain side. At a quarter-past two on Tuesday morning, or thereabouts, the people in the hotel were awakened by a terrific noise of rushing water, and the crashing of rocks one against the other. Then a furious gust of wind drove through the gorge. The next moment a torrent of water, carrying with it fragments of rock, trees, debris of all descriptions hurled itself upon the hotel. Of the five