THE TA

A Weekly Newspaper and Review.

DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX. to The Tablet, fune 4, 1870.

V ol. 80. No. 2736. L ondon, O c t o b e r 15, 1892.

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[R eg i st e r e d a t t h e G en e r a l P o st O f f ic e a s a N ew s pa p e r .

'C hronicle of t h e W e e k :

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The Late Lord Tennyson—The Funeral—The Prospects of English Agriculture— Funeral o f M. Renan— Russia, Afghanistan, and England—The First Life Guards —The Result of the Court-Martial — French Royalists and the Republic — The Carmaux Strike— Another Palace for the People— Murder and Mutilation in Glasgow—The Canadian Scandals— The Purchase of the “ Foudroy an t”— Jupiter’s new Satellite— The Emperor William’s Visit to Vienna —Sir Michael Hicks-Beach at Bristol — The London School Board .................................... 597 L e a d e r s :

The Laureate to Be . . . 601 The Columbian Festivities in

America . . .. . - .. 602

L eaders (continued):

CONTENTS.

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L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it or :

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Mr. Scully and the Evicted Priest 603 The Platform Pulpit . . . . . . 604 A Venetian’s View of England in the Sixteenth Century . . . . 605 A German Officer on Zola’s “ Dé­

bâcle ” . . .. . . . . . . 606 N o t e s .................................................... 60S

R f .v t e w s :

Faithful Unto Death . . . . 6x0 Fairy Tales from the Far East . . 611 The Catholic Truth Society.. . . 611 ! C orrespondence :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) .. . . . . . . 613 Dublin :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) ......................... . . 614

Portuguese Pretensions in British

India .. ......................... 616 Day Training Schools . . . . 616 Mr. Scully and the Evicted Priest 617 Stipends for Priests . . . . 617 New Mission o f Our Most Holy

Redeemer.. . . . . . . 617 “ Sic ltur ad Astra ” . . . . 617 Rates on Schools . . . . .. 617 The Bishop o f Worcester and

Anglican Orders . . . . . 617 An Impudent Forgery . . . . 617 Schools in the E a s t . . . . . . 617 Mgr. Hirth and Uganda . . •• 618 Pastoral Care in Times of Cholera 621 Archbishop Corrigan and Cahen-

sylism.. . . . . . . . . 622 Catholic Convent for Dundee . . 623 C atholics A b ro a d ......................... 624 Social a n d P o l it i c a l . . . . 624

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SU PPLEM EN T . N ew s from t h e S ch o o l s :

Scholarship List for Liverpool

Training College.. . . .. 629 National Union of Catholic

Teachers . . .. .. . . 629 The Schools of Glasgow . . .. 630 Technical Education in London.. 630 Lord Ripon on Education . . 630 N ew s from t h e D io ceses :

Westminster . . . . . . 630 Southwark . . . . . . . . 630 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 6 3 1 Liverpool . . . . . . . - 631 Northampton . . . . . . 631 P l y m o u t h .......................................631 Glasgow . . . . . . . - 632 “ The Spectator” on the Temporal

Power . . . . . . - 632 The Site o f C a lv a ry ........................... 633

* * Rejected MS. cannot be returned tinless accompanied with address and postage.

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

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TH E remains of the late Lord

Tennyson arrived in London . . . . . . . from Haslemere at half- past eight on Tuesday night, and were conveyed from Waterloo to the Abbey, not in a hearse, as was originally intended, but in an ordinary four-wheeled van. About one hundred people had assembled on the main line platform at Waterloo to watch the simple preparations that were being made. The coffin was met at the entrance to the Cloisters by the Rev. Dr. Duckworth, senior canon in residence, Dr. Troutbeck, and the Rev. Flood Jones, Precentor. A few spectators had assembled outside the gates o f Dean’s-yard, and others were in the Cloisters. A t the entrance, the plain, unpolished oak coffin, which was borne by eight bearers, was covered with a white pall, manufactured especially at the School of Industrial Art, Keswick. This (says The Standard) is a really beautiful work o f textile art. It is made o f home-spun “ Ruskin ” flax linen, backed with white silk and embroidered with pink wild roses. In the centre are inscribed the fourth and last verses of “ Crossing the Bar,” with a laurel wreath above, and a Baron’s coronet and the initials “ A .T .” below. The -embroidery is composed o f 42 flowers, emblematic of the number of years both of the poet’s married life and of his tenure o f the office of Laureate. Escorted by the clergy, the mourners, and such friends as were privileged to obtain admission, the coffin was taken to the Chapel o f St. Faith, and there placed on trestles. It was not originally intended that there should be any kind o f ceremony, but Canon Duckworth, before the chapel was closed, offered a prayer. Following this, the Lord’s Prayer was repeated, and the they came. Then, at a short interval, was the coffin borne on the shoulders o f bearers, half concealed by the drapery that covered it. The pall, which was woven at the Keswick School o f Industrial Art, was of the finest, and all but transparent, texture. Over it was spread a Union Jack, sent by General Lord Methuen, commanding the Home District, and used in accordance with a wish expressed by Lady Tennyson that the coffin should be covered with a flag representing “ the feeling o f the beloved Queen and the nation, and the Empire he loved so dearly.” A t each side walked the pall-bearers, th u s : The Marquis of Salisbury, the Duke o f Argyll, Lord Selborne, Lord Dufferin, Lord Rosebery, Mr. White, United States Legation, Lord Kelvin, Sir James Paget, the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, the Master of Balliol College, Oxford, Mr. W. E . H . Lecky, and Mr. J. A . Froude. And on these followed closely the chief mourners, Mr. and Mrs. Hallarn Tennyson, Masters Lionel and Aubrey Tennyson, and others. Amongst Catholic friends in the Abbey were: The Rev. Peter Haythornethwaite, Mr. E. Granville Ward, Mrs. Granville Ward, Mr. Everard Green, Mr. Wilfrid Ward, and Mr. John H. Dormer. When the musical service was over, the coffin was borne to the grave to Chopin’s Marche Funebre, with the same order in which it had already been brought through the body o f the church. T h e Dean, Canon Farrar, and Canon Duckworth, stood at the foot of the Chaucer tomb. On their left, on one side of the now open grave, stood Lord Salisbury, Lord Selborne, Lord Rosebery, Lord Kelvin, the Master of Trinity, and Mr. Lecky ; on their right were the Duke of Argyll, Lord Dufferin, Mr. White, Sir James Paget, Pro. Jowett, and Mr. Froude. And at the foot stood the group o f chief mourners. A ll round, piessed those who had the privilege of being invited to take part in the procession. “ For a little while ” said The Standard, “ those who had official duties to perform had necessarily to remain most prominent by the graveside, but after the coffin was consigned to the earth, and the solemn words, ‘ Ashes to ashes, dust to dust,’ were said, they withdrew, and only those remained who were there in right of friendship or representative distinction.”

incident was closed by the pronouncement o f the Benediction.

On Wednesday the funeral took place.

— t h e f u n e r a l . Starting from the Chapel o f St. Faith the procession accompanied the body to the grave. First came the Clergy of the Abbey— Dr. Bradley, the Dean, Dr. Duckworth, Canon in residence, Archdeacon Farrar, the Rev. Flood Jones, Precentor, Canon Furse, Dr. Troutbeck, and other members of the Chapter— and the choir in long line advancing two and two, and chanting as

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