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From the B r ie f o f H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T h e T a b l e t , Ju n e 4, 1870.

V ol. 80. No. 2741. L o n d o n , N o v e m b e r 1 9 , 1 8 9 2 .

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C hronicle of th e Week :

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Banquet to Lord Salisbury—The Nonconformist Unionists — The Demonstration in Trafalgar-square —Sir John Gorst on the Unemployed-Sir James Paget at Oxford—Death of General de Failly —France and Morocco — The French in Dahomey—The Macdonald Memorial — The Outlook for Canada—The American Cereal Crops — The Legion of Honour and the Law of Arrest— The London County Council and the Blackwall Tunnel—The Execution of Neill—Sir Richard Webster and the World’s Fair—Curious Crime in Bohemia . . . . . . 801 ^Lead ers :

The Significance of the American

Election .. .. . . . . 805 New Guinea.. . . . . . . 805

C O N T E N T S .

L eaders (continued) :

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Catholic Orphans and a Protestant

Guardian .. . . . . . . 806 ‘ £The Contemporary Review ’ and Hungarian Mixed Marriages ” . . 807 N otes 809 R eview s :

A Country Parson . . . . . . 810 Mr. Blunt’s New Poems . . .. 811 A Novel to Read . . .. .. 811 Aspects of Anglicanism . . . . 8x2 The Columbus Exposition . . . . 814 Cruelty to Children . . . - . . 815 Correspondence :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . . . . . 817

Correspondence (Continued) :

Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre­

Page spondent) ........................... . . 818 L e t t e r s to th e E d itor :

Catholics in the Army .. . . 820 Provision for English Catholic

Sailors at Genoa . . . . . 821 Apropos of Lourdes, &c. . .

“ Our Duty Towards Non-Catho­

lics ” . . . . _ . . .. 821 The Catholic Truth Society .. 821 A Rejoinder . . . . . . . . 822 The Catholic Mayor of Barnstaple 822 1 The National Education Board and the Chief Baron . . . . .. 824 I The Evicted Tenants’ Commission 825 I The Guild of St. Gregory and St. 1 Luke . . . . . . . . . . 826

Denominationalism

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Arrest of Father Fay, P .P ................ 827 Social and P o l it ic a l . . . . 828

SU PPLEM ENT. N ews from th e S chools :

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School Accommodation and Free

Education Questions in York . . 833 School Attendance.. . . .. 834 The Christian Brothers in Ireland 835 About Education . . . . . . 836 N ew s from t h e D io ceses :

Southwark . . . , . . . . 837 Northampton . . . . .. 837 Portsmouth . . .. ... . . 837 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 838 Aberdeen . . . . !. . . 838

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

THE other evening the Marquis j of Salisbury was entertained at lo r d SALISBURY. , a banquet where, of course he was the speaker of the evening. Un-

and the curse of history would descend on the man who was reckless enough to make the desperate experiment. Lord Salisbury then passed on to consider the scene which had taken place at the opening sitting of the Evicted Tenants Commission, and we need hardly add that, with such material, and in the hands of such a past master of gibes, the laughter was loud and bitter. He concluded by inviting his audience to consider, if these things were done in the green wood, what should be done in the dry.

THE NONCONFORMIST

UNIONISTS.

Adversity makes strange bed-fellows, and the stress of the political situation has made the Tory leader an honoured guest at dissenting banquets. At the preliminary fortunately he seems to have caught the spirit of the meeting and his speech too was couched in a semiecclesiastical vein. After a vigorous protest against the abandonment of Uganda, he addressed himself to the question of priestly domination in Ireland, and, as his habit is, at once invoked the name of the Archbishop of Dublin —a name always useful to conjure with when the object is to frighten British dissenters. The greatest proof of power in matters political was when a leader could say to his men “ Right about face,” and be obeyed. Lord Salisbury then recalled how the Nationalist Party had suddenly turned upon Mr. Parnell and became his bitterest opponents. Did not that establish the supremacy of the Irish hierarchy ? It was in that direction they would have to look for the master of Ireland, if Home Rule were conceded. There could be no doubt of the species of policy that would be enforced, or the spirit that would animate the governing legislative and executive bodies. “ The only question,” he said, turning to the long rows of dissenters at the tables before him, “ is, Do you like it ? ” He often used language about self-government, but it was a clumsy and a stupid metaphor when applied to a community that is divided to its base. Selfgovernment might mean something with a community which was generally united, but it became a mockery when applied to one divided by race, by creed, or by a long history of bitter and unrelenting struggle. Then there could be only absolute government by the majority. Lord Salisbury then went onto enforce and illustrate his argument by an analogy. In India, he said, there were two great divisions of the population— the Mohammedans and the Hindoos. The former were distinguished by great qualities, and could point to a splendid history, but they were very distinctly in a minority. Would any one who had ever given a thought to Indian affairs venture upon such a reckless and sanguinary crime as to make the majority of Hindoo voters the masters of the destinies of the Mohammedan minority ? In Ire­

land, he maintained, the problem was essentially the same,

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meeting of the Nonconformist Unionist Association, some highly curious remarks were made by Mr. Thomas Ewing Winslow, Q.C., who took the chair. This gentleman was of opinion that whatever the form of Government, there would always be dissatisfaction in Ireland as long as trie majority of Irishmen acknowledged allegiance to Irish bishops. Ireland could never be pacified until it was made Protestant, and lest the spirits of his audience should be damped by this dismal, and apparently distant, prophecy, he added cheerfully that he did not think that that was a difficult thing to do. For, he added, with great frankness, Irishmen were open to conviction if they could be got at. Some years ago he had read a statement that the Roman Catholic Church had lost about 20,000,000 adherents in the United States of America. He had taken the trouble to investigate the statement, and he believed that it was approximately true—that was to say that if the children had followed the faith of their parents when they landed in the United States, there would be 20,000,000 more Roman Catholics at the present time in the United States than there were now. Upon this extraordinary exaggeration, Mr. Winslow founded the argument that since some of the Irish emigrants to America had fallen away from the faith, the Irish at home must also be amenable to the doctrines of dissent if they were properly approached. After this singular oration, Dr. Evans, of Dublin made a speech in a somewhat similar strain. His argument against Home Rule was founded upon the ecclesiastical education given at Maynooth. The more isolated his countrymen were the worse they became. When priests were educated on the Continent they had broad views, but when they lost the advantages of travel and contact with life in other lands, they became such that the rights and interests of Protestantism were not safe in their hands. In the same way he argued that a separate Parliament in Dublin would make