A W eekly Newspaper and R ev 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 T he T ablet, June 1S/0.
V o l . 80. No. 2737. L o n d o n , O c t o b e r 22, 1892.
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[R e g is tered a t t h e G en e r a l P o st O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper.
•Chronicle of th e W e e k :
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The Carmaux Strike and the French Chamber — The Wheat Statistics of the United States— American Census Statistics—A P. and O. Steamer L o s t— Female Bankers in Malta—The Death of Constable 413 J.—Accident to the Austrian Heir Apparent—Trafalgar-square and the Government —The Marquess of Lome on Africa— The Bishop of Manchester and Welsh Disestablishment — The 13th Hussars’ Insubordination — Departure of the Guards from Windsor— A Tardy Commemoration— The Franco-Swiss T r e a ty ............................................. 637 L ea d e r s :
Free Schools in Liverpool .. 641 Programme of the Italian Ministry 642 How London Moves .. . . 643
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The Catholic Truth Society Con
Page ference . . . . . . . . 644 N o t e s .................................................... 646
Marriage at the Oratory . . . . 650 C orrespondence :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . . . 653 Dublin :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . ......................... 654 L e t t e r s to t h e E d it or :
Platform Preaching . . .. 655 The Scully Eviction . . _ . . 655 The Catholic School Committee and Mr. Berridge’s Will . . 655 A Moral of Uganda . . . . 655 The Archbishop of Dublin on N a
tional Education . . . .. 655 The Bishop of Chester’s Licensing
Scheme . . . . . . . . 657
E N T S .
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Maltese M a r r i a g e s .........................658 The Padroado in India . . . . 659 The Ancoats Clergy and the Lord
Mayor-Elect.. . . . . . . 660
N ews from th e S chools :
The Rating o f Bermondsey
Schools . . . . .. .. 660 A Viceregal Visit to a Catholic
C o l l e g e .................................... 661 The Schools of Plymouth Dio
cese .............................................. 662 The Centre System for the In
struction of Pupil Teachers . . 662 St. Mary’s Training College,
Hammersmith . . . . . . 663 Schools at Ascot .. . . . . 663 N ews from t h e D ioceses : Westminster . . . . . . 663
Middlesbrough . . . . . . 663 Newport and Menevia . . . . 664 Plymouth .. . . . . . . 664 Portsmouth . . . . . . . . 664
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St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 664 Aberdeen . . . . . . . . 664 Social an d P o l it i c a l . . . . 664
SU PPLEM EN T . P a pers R ead a t t h e L iverpool
C atholic C on feren ce , 1892 : Christian Art . . . . .. 609 Wants in Catholic Literature and
Needs of Catholic Writers .. 670 Claims and Prospects of the Catho
lic Writer .. . . . . . . 672 Controvesy in Newspapers : Its
Importance, Organization, and Development .. .. .. 673 Our Duty Towards Non-Catholics at Home .. . . . . . . 674 Provision for Catholic Sailors .. 676 Remarks and Suggestions with
Regard to Work Amongst Catholics in the Royal Navy . . 649
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
TH E dreaded debate arising out o f the troubles at Carmaux took place .f r e n c h c h a m b e r . . immediately upon the reassembling o f the Chamber, but, contrary to expecta
his arbitration. It may be presumed that the sole object of the arbitration is to allow the leaders of the strike to counsel submission without too large a share of personal humiliation. As the only thing to arbitrate about is whether the Company had reasonable cause for dismissing the Mayor, the verdict, in presence of the admitted facts of his constant irregularities, can hardly be doubtful. The agitators, whose work has resulted in the loss of two months’ profits to the Company and two months’ wages to the men, will probably have learned a wholesome lesson. The Chamber eventually supported the Ministers by 449 votes to 38.
tion, ended advantageously for the Government. T h e Socialist deputies found certain hard facts very difficult to explain away. There was no getting over the fact that the Mayor o f Carmaux had claim ed the right to absent him self from his work as a miner whenever he considered his municipal duties called him elsewhere. T h e Company put up with h is irregularities for some time, but finding that he had attended only 17 days out o f three months they naturally in quired whether this sort o f thing was likely to go on, and as the M ayor declined to pledge him self in any way, he was •dismissed. T h is action on the part o f the Company is -construed as an insult to universal suffrage and a violation o f political rights. T h e contention came to this— that the persons in whose employment a workman happens to be at the time o f his election to a municipal office must henceforward be responsible for his maintenance. M'. Dupuy-Dutemps, on behalf o f the strikers, drew a touching picture o f the disinterestedness o f men who sacrifice w’ork which was bread to them, not in t h e hopes o f any gain for themselves, but simply to vindicate the political rights o f a comrade. T h e dismissal o f the M ayor was equivalent to the suppression o f universal suffrage, and the Company had done indirectly what they would not have dared to do openly. M . Loubet, the Minister, after taking a great deal o f credit to h im self for the precautionary measures which had been ordered for the keeping o f the peace, announced that the Government was going to bring forward a bill providing arbitration in all cases o f mining disputes. I t was left, however, for M . V ie tte to make the •disclosure o f the evening, which was that Baron Reille, who is Chairman o f the Company, was quite willing to accept arbitration. T h e Baron afterwards rose to explain that the hesitation o f the Company to accept arbitration had been on ly a matter of discipline. H e felt sure that the President o f the Council would be a fair judge, and he had no hesitation in saying that he believed the Company would accept
New Series. V o i . XLV1II., No, 2,046.
An extraordinary result has to be res t a t i s t ' i c s HoEk Tt h e P°rte,d .a “ o n 8 those wh0 hithert0 h™e u n i t e d s t a t e s , supplied the grain statistics upon which the food calculation of Europe depended.
For some years past the Agricultural Department of the United States and the well-known commercial journal, B r a d s t r e e f s, have obtained from the elevator companies and other storage centres, periodical reports of the amount of wheat they had in stock. In this way the approximate wheat supply held in America was known from time to time in Europe. In January, 1890, B r a d s t r e e f s began to give this information weekly, but recently ceased to give any figures at all. 1 he explanation nov/ given of its compulsory silence is of considerable interest to the European public. One and all the elevator companies of the northwest have declined to supply the necessary data. They are of opinion, and make no difficulty about expressing it, that statements as to the stocks of wheat held in America are seriously detrimental to the agricultural interests of the country. As one of them puts it: “ America carefully collects statistics as to her bread-stuffs, and furnishes them gratis to the Old World, which is a buyer of our property, and, in so many words, tells her to bold off from purchasing her supplies, as we have ample and more than enough to take care of her, and that by waiting and tiring out the holders of the stuff in this country, she can get it at her own figure. This is the only line of business that we know of where people have goods to sell who practically depreciate the sale, saying to the buyer, [ Hold off, and you can get our property cheaper than if you buy it now.’ ” All of this B r a d s t r e e f s describes as holding wheat to raise the price, and to compel buyers of American bread-stuffs to purchase heavily for future requirements, but the crop should be too short when the reverse is true. Our contemporary denounces this policy as extremely short-sighted, and likely to p-cfb the wheat-growers nothing.
