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, fu n e 4, 1870.
Vol. 80. No. 2725. London, July 30, 1892.
P rice sd., by P ost
[R egistered a t th e Generai. P ost O ffice as a N ewspaper.
C hronicle of th e W e ek :
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Further Light on the Morocco Mission — Labour Troubles in America— Hung by the Thumbs — Lord Roberts on Army Reform — The London County Council and the Tramways— The Anarchists at Liège— The Ruins of St. Cloud— Death of Lord Sherbrooke — General Booth on his Stewardship— Railway Accident at Melton Mowbray— Mr. Jackson at Leeds — The Centre Party and the Triple Alliance— Cholera on the Continent— The Miraculous Rescue from a Bohemian Mine— Separatism in Queensland— The Result of the Greenock Scrutiny 157 "Leaders :
A Defeat of Justice . . . . 161 The Holy See and Columbus . . 162 Morocco and the Powers . . . . 163 The Glamour of Words . . . . 164
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' The Coming Pallium . . . . . . 165
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The Pope and the Columbus Ter
centenary . . . . . . . . 167 Hymn on the Pallium . . . . 168 N o t e s ..................................................... 169 R eviews :
Walter de Stapeldon . . . . 170 A Brace of Novels.. . . . . 171 French Military Reader and Writer 171 The Gospel of Paul the Apostle.. 171 Correspondence :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . . . 173 Dublin :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . . . 174 L etters to th e E d itor :
English Laity and Irish C lergy _.. 176 Portuguese Pretensions in British
India . . . . . . . . 176
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L etters to th e E d itor (Con
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tinued) : The Bavarian Highlands . . . 177 U lster.. . . . . . . . . 177 1 A Correction . . . . . . 177 1 Catholic Waifs and Strays . . 177 I Our Aged and Infirm Priests ..177 A Warning . . . . .. . . 177 Cardinal Manning’s Half-Sister.. 178 St. Monica’s Priory, Spettisbury 178 Dr. Barnardo in the House of Lords 178 Catholicism in Africa . .. . . 180 Stonyhurst and Titus Oates . . . 181 Captain Lugard and the Catholic
Missions >........................................ 182 Alderman Knill and the Mayoralty 183 Finances at Clapham ..........................184 A ppeal to th e C haritable . . 184 Social and P olitical . . . . 187
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Exhibition Day at Tooting Col
Page le§ e . . ........................................ 189 Exhibition Day at Old Hall . . 189 Speech Day at St. Bede’s . . . . 190 Prize Day at Beaconfield College 190 St. Mary’s, Woolhampton . . 190 St. George’s College, Weybridge 190 Arno's Court Reformatory School,
Bristol . . . . . . . . 190 N ight Schools . . . . . 191 The Duke of Devonshire and
Technical Education . . . . 191 N ews from th e D ioceses :
Westminster . . . . . , 192 Southwark . . . . . . . . 192 Birmingham . . . . . . . . 192 Northampton . . . . . . 192 Portsmouth . . . . . . . . 192 Glasgow . . . . . . . . 193
S U P P L EM E N T . N ews from th e Schools:
Exhibition D ay at Oscott . . 184 Pilgrims at Fountains Abbey . . 193 The Irish Protestant Church and Home Rule . . . . . . . . 193
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
FURTHER LIGHT
ON THE MOROCCO MISSION. r
HE special correspondent of the
Central News, who is understood to be a well-known American journalist, has arrived in London
‘from Tangier, and gives further interesting particulars o f Sir Charles Euan-Smith’s mission. The correspondent believes that the Sultan was perfectly willing to sign the treaty, and that his failure to do so was owing to the defiant attitude of his too powerful vassal, Bushta-el-Bagdali. He believes that the influence of France in the matter was less than nothing at all. He credits French diplomacy, however, with having done its best to oppose the treaty to the utmost. One of the most important provisions, and the one to which the Sultan was most opposed, was certainly in the interests of mercy and humanity. He was asked to agree that henceforth prisoners in his gaols should not be left to starve and be dependent upon local charity, but should instead be fed with bread and water twice a day. The English Envoy proposed that any representative of the Powers should have power to -visit the prisons, and complain directly to the Sultan should he find prisoners left without bread and water. Whether the opposition of Count d’Aubigny, the French Minister, -was effective or not, according to the correspondent, he was alone among the representatives of Christian Powers at j Tangier in failing to advise the Sultan that the treaty was j advantageous to every party concerned. According to the j same authority, the opposition of the Sultan is easily accounted for on other grounds. The raising of the British Flags over the Vice-Consulate would have been taken by the more fanatical Mohammedans as a sign that Fez was becoming a Christian city. Already the religious element j in Morocco is dissatisfied with the Sultan and his policy, ■ and inclined to listen to the emissaries of the Senussi j Mahdi, who is preaching that the Sultan is a despicable j •Christian, and no longer fit to be Caliph. Upon one point at least the Grand Vizier must be admitted to have given •excellent advice. He pointed out that if a British ViceConsul were appointed at Fez, within a year there would be 20 other Vice-Consuls in the Holy City. In that case how !
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would the Sultan get his revenue? At the present time he is often compelled to make a list of the wealthy men of Fez and Morocco and assess them as seems good in proportion to their reputed wealth. “ Now,” said the Grand Vizier, “ is it not the truth that on the coast there are Consuls and Vice-Consuls who every day sell the protection of the country to Moors and Jews for a 1,000 dollars and less? Suppose these 20 Vice-Consuls gathered in Fez and the Sultan in want of half a million of dollars, the agent of the Treasury would say to one man ‘O f your riches the Sultan desires 10,000 dollars to another, ‘ Of your fortune the Sultan desires 8,000 ; ’ and to another, ‘ From your means his Imperial and Saintly Majesty borrows 5,000 dollars.’ What would these wealthy Moors do ? They would go to one of the Vice-Consuls and for 1,000 dollars would purchase the protection he represented.” According to the Grand Vizier, the objection was not to the appointment of Mr. McLeod as Consul in Fez, but to the admission of the principle which, by bringing in a whole horde of Vice-Consuls would end the Sultan’s satisfactory if unscientific methods of raising a revenue.
The excitement caused by the great strike at Mr. Carnegie’s works at Pittsburg has been America, marked by a fanatical outrage. Mr. Frick,
Mr. Carnegie’s partner and manager, though warned for some time past, had resolutely refused to take any precautions for his personal safety. Whoever came was admitted when the manager was at leisure. Alexander Bergmann, a Prussian Jew, aged 26, and printer by trade, seems to have called several days successively, but Mr. Frick was too busy to see him. At length gaining an audience, Bergmann entered the office and fired four times at his victim. Mr. Frick’s secretary hearing the reports rushed in, and after a brief struggle, overpowered the assassin. One bullet was found to have gone through the body, while another struck the head below the ear, finding its way out at the back of the neck. But Mr. Frick, besides being blessed with a splendid constitution, is a man of extreme coolness and extraordinary courage, and before the bullets had been extracted, quietly dictated a cablegram to Mr. Carnegie who was in Scotland. The prisoner on being asked his motive, replied : “ You know what reason I had — Frick’s position as Chairman of the Carnegie Company.” At the police station a sensational discovery was made. When the prisoner was searched it was found that he was carrying in his mouth two small dynamite cartridges— he was promptly taken by the throat and throttled until the cartridges came out. There is little doubt that he
