A W eekly
TABLET. Newspaper a n d R eview .
DUM VOBIS GRATOLAMCR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMOS ÜT IN INCCEPTIS VBSTRIS CONSTANTER MÄN2AT1S.)
From. the B r ie f 0/ H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T he T ablet, June 4, 1S79
V ol. 87. No. 2905. London, January ir , 1896.
P r ic e sd. byP o st s K d
[R e g is t e r ed a t t h e G e n e r a l P o s t O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper
(Ch ronicle o f t h e W e e k : £2Dr. Jameson’s Ride — A Relief
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Expedition — The Two Battles — The Emperor of Germany’s Message — The Trouble with America — The Surrender of Johannesburg—The End o f the Crisis— The Preparations of the G o v e r n m e n t— Dr. Jam eson ’ s Career — A Deputation to Mr. Chamberlain—The Uganda Railway—The “ Lancet ’’ and Dangerous Lamps—The Government and the London School Board— An Irish Round Table— Postal Improvements in 1S95—Cabinet Crisis in Canada . . . . •• 41 •Le a ders :
The Paramount Power in South
Africa . . . . ■ ■ •- 45 Spanish Art at the New Gallery.. 46 Lord Halifax’s Distinction . . 47 Bucer’s Influence on the Anglican
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CONTENTS.
|i Notes .. ..
Revifws :
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— 51 Letters to the Editor (Con
tinued) :
Clerical Attire in Lisbon . .
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Professor Ramsay on St. Paul . . 5 3 Consecration o f an A n g l i c a n Sir Everard D igby.. 5 4 Clergyman by a S c h is m a t ic Stonyhurst Memories Bishop .................................... 62 Parental Right over Education.. 55 Rosary o f Five Decades .. 62 Archseologia Oxoniensis Correspondence :
55 St. Augustine : A Query . .
“ The Church Tim es” and the 62
Rome :—(From Our Own Corre
Manitoba School Question spondent) . . . - — — 57 The Educational Campaign
News from Ireland . . — — 5 * The Venezuelan Crisis
A Permanent Board o f Arbitration 65
Letters to the Editor :
Was Barlow a Bishop ? . .
Between England and America . . 65
60 The Funeral of Lady Petre
Lunn
Father Sydney Smith and Mr. The Future o f the British Empire 67
6l Confeaence of the Heads of Catholic
The Anglican Church and Non
Episcopal Orders
Colleges
6r Suicide m St. Peter’s
Anglican O r d e r s ......................... 61 Death o f Father Placid Sinnott, The Anglican Form of Episcopal
Consecration
Martyrs and the Sword . .
6r O .S .B ................................................ 63
62 Social and Political
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SU PPLEM EN T . N ew s from t h e S chools:
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The Report o f the Royal Com
mission on Secondary Education .. . . .. . . 73 The Richmond Town Council and a Voluntary Rate . . . . 73 Rural Schools . .. . » 74 Entries for the College of Pre
ceptors .. . . . . . . 74. A Welsh School Board's Device 74 The School Board Election at
Cardiff . . .
Deaf-Mutes and the Pure Oral
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S y s t e m .........................................63 Educational Prospects . . . . 63 N ew s from t h e DrocESES : Westminster ............................. 69
Southwark . . . .
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Nottingham .........................................70
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK,
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\ 7 ERY slowly the situation in South < Africa is beginning to become intelligible. The following diary, compiled by The Westminster Gazette, states
■ conveniently, and with sufficient accuracy, the sequence of events as far as they are known, and may help the reader to see through a haze of telegrams what reallyhappened : ■ ■ Saturday, Dec. 28.— Uitlanders' Committee, presumably,
send urgent appeal to Dr. Jameson at Mafekingto come and help them.
-Sunday, Dec. 29.— Dr. Jameson starts to their relief. Monday, Dec. 30.— Committee go to President Kruger
“ to discuss conciliatory measures with a view to the averting of a crisis.” President Kruger, having heard of
Jameson’s advance, and having sent picked Boer forces to cut him off, grants some concessions, and promises more— on condition that they all keep quiet. Uitlanders presumably go to bed,
thinking they have done a good stroke of business. Jameson still on the march.
Tuesday, Dec. 31.— Committee send urgent appeal to Sir
Hercules Robinson, declaring their lives at stake. Boers and Johannesburghers arming and watching one another. U itlanders forming a kind of Provisional Government under the Transvaal flag, but “ business is going on as usual.” “Little anxiety is felt for Dr. Jame
son, who is considered well able to push his way through.” The news of Jameson’s advance “ not very favourably received (vide Times correspondent). Star says it will be misconstrued.
TNbw Series, Vol LV., No. 2,214.
Sir Hercules Robinson publishes pro
clamation in Johannesburg, calling on all loyal subjects to disown Jameson and keep the peace.
Wednesday, Jan. 1.— Jameson arrives within reach of Johan
nesburg. Finds no Uitlanders, but plenty of Boers. Jameson defeated at Krugersdorp. No news as to Johannesburghers.
Thursday, Jan. 2.— Jameson defeated at Doornkop, and carried off to prison by Boers. Uillanders “ bitterly indignant with terms imposed by Boers ; ” Uitlanders' present position all the fault of the Imperial proclamation. Committee is, however, condemned by populace. Joubert guarantees Johannesburg’s safety during armistice. Volunteer force leaves Johannesburg to “ Dr. Jim’s” assistance— too late. Great excitement in Johannesburg.
Recruiting. “ Jameson is a martyr,” The Committee will stand by him and carry out original programme in spite of all control. Indignation in Capetown at Uitlanders'
behaviour.
Friday, Jan. 3.— Continued indignation in Capetown. Monday, Jan. 6.— Surrender of Johannesburg.
There can hardly be any doubt that Dr.
— a r e l i e f Jameson’s expedition was an impulsive piece e x p e d i t i o n , of quixotic chivalry. To talk of a deep-laid plot is absurd in the presence of the certain fact that this cautious and able administrator rode at a hard gallop to Johannesburg without staying to collect enough food to last his men for the journey. Nothing but a conviction of overwhelming peril to women and children and unarmed men in Johannesburg can account for what, on the face of it, looks like insanity. To save his kinsmen from massacre Jameson was ready with a few hundred horsemen to make a rush for the threatened city, though he knew that the Boers, moving on interior lines, would be certain to be massed to meet him. At present we do not know what was the nature of the message that reached him, but we do know that the National Union had appealed to Sir Hercules Robinson in the following words : “ We have absolute information that large numbers of Boers have been
