THE TABLET.
A W e ek ly N ew sp a p er a n d R ev iew .
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS ÜT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX. to T h e T a b le t , June 4, 1870.
V ol. 80. No. 2726. L ondon, A ugust 6, 1892.
P r ic e sd ., b y P o s t 5% d .
[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 a s a N ew s pa p e r .
«Chronicle of t h e W e e k :
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Mr. O ’Brien and the Liberal A lliance— Mr. Chamberlain on Public Affairs — The Manchester Ship Canal—County Councils and Publ i c House Reform— England and Morocco — Extraordinary HeatWave in America—Prince Bismarck and the Catholic Party— The Cholera in Russia — The French Anarchist Trial— Funeral •of Lord Sherbrooke— A Holiday Collision— Mr. Rudyard Kipling on* Over-sea Clubs— Meeting of •the New Parliament— The Troubles in Afghanistan . . . . 197 Headers:
Is a Tunnel Better than Home
Rule ? . . . . # . . . . 201 Education and Morality . . . . 201 Our Own Ghost . . . . . . 202 "The Coming Pallium.........................204
CONTENTS.
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Notes from Mediæval W ills.. . . 206 N o t e s . . . . ............................ 207 R e v i e w s :_
The Spirit of St. Ignatius . . 209 The Pallium .. . . . . . . 210 Miracles at Lourdes . . . . . . 210 Archbishop Ireland’s Return to
America . . . . . . . . 211 C orrespondence :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . . . 213 Dublin :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . . . 214 L e t t e r s to t h e E d it or :
Our “ Catholic” Choirs . . . . 216 The Husband of Princess Henri
etta .. . . . . . . . . 217 Mass Fees in England . . . . 217
L e t t e r s t o t h e E d itor (Con
tinued) : Ulster............................................ 217 Conference of Catholic Young Men’s
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Societies .. . . . . . . 217 County Councils and the Public-
house Problem . . . . . . 219 Uganda and the Foreign Press . . 220 False Missions of Charity . . . . 220 Just like Justice ............................221 Social a n d P o l it i c a l . . . . 222 C r ic k e t ........................................... 222
SU PPLEM EN T . N ew s from t h e S ch o o l s :
The Stonyhurst Academies . . 229
N ew s from t h e S chools (Con
tinued) : Exhibition Day at St. Augustine’s,
Ramsgate .. . . . . . . 230 Exhibition Day at Fort Augustus 231 Beaumont Academy . . . . 231 Prize Day at St. Aloysius’ College,
H ig h g a te .................................... 231 Exhibition Day at Downside . . 232 Catholic Collegiate Institute
(Xaverian Brothers) Manchester 232 St. Joseph’s High School, Cardiff 232 St. Aloysius’ Day Training College . . ^.. .. .. . . 232 The Archbishop-Elect at Barnet 233 About Education .. . . . . 233 N ew s from t h e D io ceses :
Westminster . . . . . . 233 Southwark .. . . . . . . 221 Middlesbrough . . . . . . 22r Newport and Menevia . . . . 221 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 222
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
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MR. O ’BR IEN addressing a somewhat noisy meeting at fa l lo w , took the opportunity to discuss the present posi
tion and prospects of Home Rule. Naturally there was a ring of triumph in his words as he spoke of the i position of vantage which had been gained— a position \ which neither they nor their fathers had ever dreamed of occupying. For in the old times whatever hope of freedom there was for Ireland had been in the chance of beating the whole power of England in the open field. To-day instead of that desperate and forlorn hope they saw the power of Great Britain now ranged on their side. A Parliament had been elected for the express purpose of satisfying the •demands of Ireland. They were now within sight of that promised land for which so many generations had fought and travailed in vain. Unfortunately there were critics of their own race who seemed bent upon breaking down the spirit of the people by prophecies of discouragement and despair. Undoubtedly there were difficulties before them, but for all that the cause of a National Parliament stood to-day where it never did in the time of O ’Connell, Butt, -or Parnell. A Home Rule Bill would be the first work of the Imperial Parliament. After six years of deliberation the electorate of Great Britain had returned a verdict in favour of Ireland, and he asked them whether there j had ever been a single great reform which a House j of Commons had been elected to pass which had I not eventually found itself upon the statute-book. The next twelve or eighteen months would be a time o f trial to try the patience and the self-control of the Irish people and their capacity for self-government. Home Rule could still be defeated, but it could be defeated by Irishmen, and Irishmen alone. It was his solemn conviction that they had nothing to fear either from Liberal treachery or from the puny attempts of the House of Lords. He would not believe either that the faction of Irishmen who were swayed by Mr. Redmond would ever be mad enough to try and bring Mr. Balfour back to power. In the first place, they were not in a position to do so, their nine votes
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would not be enough. In the second place, for the sake of old times, he declined to believe that those men could be brought to unite in doing so foul an act of treason to their country. Apparently, however, their programme now was to harrass and worry Mr. Gladstone, and stir up ill-blood between the English people and the people of Ireland by some story of a plot to put Home Rule on the shelf. They did their best before the elections to ’make Home Rule impossible by joining with Mr. Chamberlain in clamouring for details and particulars. They had done their worst to harm Mr. Gladstone by hateful scenes of discord at Irish elections, and by preventing Nationalist members from taking part in English contests. As for their talk about Home Rule being put in the background, the Irish people had every assurance which separates men of honour from scoundrels, and they had, further, this other guarantee against Liberal treachery— that they could, and if need be would, whip the Liberal traitors out of office within 24 hours. Come what might this Parliament would have to be first of all a Home Rule Parliament, or it would be shattered to pieces. At the same time if, as he believed, the strength and the power of the Liberal party were honestly placed at their service, they would treat those men as friends and allies, and not as Mr. Redmond would suggest, as though they were a gang of card-sharpers. Once assured that Home Rule would be the indispensable point of the British Liberal programme the Irish members would certainly not attempt to set themselves up as infallible dictators as to the precise method by which the measure was to be won. The close of Mr. O’Brien’s speech was marked by some uproarious scenes, and the proceedings were further enlivened by an attempt to mob the representative of The Dublin Independent.
Mr. Chamberlain, at a dinner at the
MR. c h a m b e r l a i n Birmingham Liberal Unionist Club the p u b l i c a f f a i r s , other night, was in his best form. He referred to the results of the general elections, and said that the magnificent triumphs in Birmingham showed that Birmingham was still what Lord Salisbury described it, the Mecca of the Unionist cause. He wished very much that the verdict of the rest of the country had been as decisive, in which case they would have finally disposed of the unhappy delusion of Home Rule which Mr. Gladstone had sought to impose on the country, and been spared the risks which the formation of Mr. Gladstone’s Government gave them cause to fear. Although he was inclined to think that Unionists might have to pay dearly for Mr. Gladstone’s majority, still the smallness of that majority and its curiously composite
