TH TABLET.
A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the B r i e f o f H is H o lin ess P iu s IX . to T he Tablet, June 4, 1870.
V o l . 80. No. 2740. L ondon, N ovember 12, 1892.
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C hronicle of the Week :
Page
The New Archbishop of Olmiitz Mr. Conybeare on Home Rule— The French in Tonquin— The Social Democrats in Germany— The Cotton Strike—The Catholics in Uganda—Dynamite Outrage in Paris—The Mayoralty—The Conservative Conference in Edinburgh —Mr. Balfour in Edinburgh — Death of the Duke of Marlborough —The Hungarian Crisis—Opening of the Belgian Chambers— Floods and Loss of Life .. .. 761 L eaders :
The Evicted Tenants’ Commis
sion .. . . •• •. •• 765 The Retention of Uganda .. 765 Day Dreams . . The Labour Encyclical The Pope and Chicago 766 767 768
CONTENTS.
Notes
Page . . 769
Reviews :
“ La Débâcle ” ......................... 771 Early Christianity .. .. .. 772 New Guinea.. .. .. .. 773 Whither ? .. .. .. .. 773 Middlesex County Records .. 774 Council Meeting of St. Joseph’s
Foreign Missionary Society .. 774 Catholic Truth Society .. .. 775 Correspondence :
Rome :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) .. .. .. .. 777 Correspondence (Continued) :
Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) .. . . . . . . 778 Letters to the Editor :
Mrs. Murphy, Deceased .. .. 781 “ Our Duty Towards Non-Catho
lics ” ......................... .. 781
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TLetters to the Editor (Con
PaSe tinued) : Catholics in the Army .. .. 782 “ Meditations” and “ Christian
Rules” .. .. .. .. 782 The Brotherhood of the Divine
Expiation . .. .. .. 782 A Golden Jubilee.. .. .. 782 Angelica Kauffmann .. .. 782 Dedications of Our Churches .. 783 St. George’s and St. Joseph’s
Home for Catholic Boys .. 783 “ The Dublin Review ” .. .. 783 The Spanish Catholic Congress .. 783 Letter from Louvain, Belgium .. 784 The Archbishop of Dublin on the
New Rule of the Commissioners of National Education .. .. 785 The Queen v. Barnardo—In Re
Harry Gossage .. .. .. 78b What’s the Good of Marrying ? . . 786 The Lord Mayor .. . . .. 787 Catholicism in Canada .. .. 787
Presentation toCanon Carlile Social and Political
Page .. 788 . . 788
SUPPLEMENT. News from the Schools:
Mr. Acland on Free Schools in
Liverpool and York History as a Class Subject School Board Rates in the
Boroughs of England and Wales .................................... Scots College, ^Valladolid About Education .. N ews from the Dioceses:
793 794 795 795 795
Westminster . . .. . . 796 Southwark .. . . .. .. 796 St. Andrews and Edinburgh .. 796 Glasgow .. .. .. . . 796 Dunkelcl .................................... 796 Mr. Rowland Blennerhassett on
Irish Education
Mr. Gladstone and the Lord Mayor 798
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
THE NEW ARCHBISHOP
OF OLMÜTZ.
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N enormous sensation has been created in Austria, putting into the shade, according to The Standard, even the Hungarian crisis, by the election o f Dr. Theodor Kohn to be Prince Archbishop of Omiitz, the first and most wealthy and at the same time one o f the oldest episcopal sees in Austria. It is necessary to know the significance in German countries of the name Kohn, a derivative from the word Cohen, “ Priest of the Chosen people,’’ to appreciate what it means in a country torn by the Anti-Semitic agitation for a Dr. Kohn to be proclaimed, amid a salute o f 24 minute guns, Archbishop of Omiitz. He has already been confirmed in his office by the Imperial Commissioner, Dr. Gautsch, the Minister o f Public Instruction, and has taken the seat which for centuries has been occupied only by Archdukes and Princes, or at least, by members o f the noblest families in the land. Never since the Bishopric was founded by St. Methudius in 868 has it been held by a person o f inferior rank. The last Archbishop was the Landgrave Friedrich o f Fiirstenberg. Dr. Kohn is the son of an honest Jewish couple from Wessely, in Moravia, and was himself brought up as a Jew. H e was converted when a student at the grammar school in Strass- J nitz, and afterwards published a treatise on eccleastical j law, which attracted the attention o f the Prince Archbishop j Fiirstenberg. By his influence he was appointed Professor o f Canon Law at the Theological College in Olmiitz, created a Canon of the Chapter of Olmiitz, and finally the Director o f the Chancellery of Olmtitz Consistory, in which capacity he managed the large episcopal estate so admirably that the Cardinal Archbishop and the whole of the Chapter were full of his praises. Being only 47 years old, he is the youngest o f all the Austrian Archbishops, and will be the youngest of the Cardinals— for the occupant of the see has a hereditary right to the red hat, and is always proposed for it by the Austrian Emperor. When the telegram announcing the election of Dr. Kohn reached the Reichsrath about noon suspended for a considerable time, and this evening it is being discussed, not only in Vienna, but throughout th e . Empire. The right o f election o f its Archbishop by the Chapter is a privilege which Olmtitz shares only with Salzburg. In every other case the Archbishops and Bishops are nominated by the Emperor. The Chapter o f Olmiitz consists at present of 16 members, eight nobles and eight commoners. These are divided into two opposing parties— Germans and Czechs. A t the first poll in the Conclave, which is as strictly formal as that in Rome during the election o f a Pope, the candidate o f neither party obtained an absolute majority, and as a deadlock was inevitable it was agreed to elect an outsider, the Director o f the Chancellery. The Prince Archbishop has a private body guard dressed in quaint Grenadier uniforms, and on State occasions sits at the right o f the Emperor, having precedence over everybody except Archdukes in the direct line.
IR. CONYBEARE
ON HOME RULE.
Mr. Conybeare has put forward in the columns o f The T im es a scheme for the extension o f the principle of Home Rule to all the divisions o f the United Kingdom.
And certainly if an Irish Parliament is to have control of Irish affairs, and Irish members are still to be retained at Westminster, some such plan as the Cornish member suggests, would seem to be inevitable. Mr. Conybeare would have the members of the Irish Parliament also members of the Imperial Parliament o f Westminster; and he would have the local affairs o f the United Kingdom entirely disposed o f by the representatives o f each country sitting as a local legislature, separately but simultaneously in the early part of the year. Thus during, say, the months o f January, February, and March, the English members would meet in London in the House o f Commons, the Scotch members in Edinburgh, the Welsh members in Cardiff, and the Irish members in Dublin. Having thus transacted the local business of each nationality, the whole body of 670 members would then be ready to meet— say after Easter— jointly to deliberate upon the common interests of the Empire, as the Imperial Parliament. I f the supremacy o f the Parliament o f Westminster over an Irish legislature is to be effective, it can only be because the former Parliament represents the whole of the United Kingdom— for in these days authority requires the sanction o f representation. But though the presence o f the Irish members at Westminster is thus indispensable to secure the paramount authority o f the on Tuesday, and was shown to ministers and deputies, the j common Parliament, their presence there to meddle among sensation was so great that the business o f the House was 1 English domestic concerns, and to vote money, the pinch o f
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