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DOM VOBIS GRATÜLAMÜR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMÜS OT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS .1
F rom th e B r i e f o j H i s H o lin ess P iu s I X . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.
V o l . 87. N o . 2906.
L ondon, J a n u a r y 18, 1896.
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[R eg iste red a t t h e G e n e ra l P ost O ffice as a N ewspaper
C hronicle of t h e W e ek :
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Johannesburg : Before Jameson’s R id e — English Protection for American C i t i z e n s — Colonial Sympathy— What Will Happen to D r. Jameson — The Arrest of Jacques St. Cere— Mr. Balfour on Political Temper— Rural Exodus and the Responsibilities of Municipal Bodies—The College of Preceptors and the Secondary Education Report—Lord Cranborne on the Education Question — The Voluntary School Question at Manchester—The University of ? Wales— The Photography of the
Invisible—Mr. Balfour’s Assurance of an Education Bill . . . . 77 : L <ca ders :
Cardinal Manning . . . . . . 81 Old Masters a t the Royal Academy 82 The New Year in Italy . . . . 83 Bucer’s Influence on the Anglican
O r d i n a l ........................ . . 84
CONTENTS.
N o t e s ....................................... Conference of the Heads of Catholic
Colleges . . . . R eview s :
Professor Ramsay on St. Paul . . A New Life of Blessed Thomas
More .. A Little Tour in America . . “ The Month ’’ Books of the W eek.. C orrespondence :
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86
27 87 89 90 90 9 1 1
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . .
News from Ireland . . _ „ 5 4 L e tt e r s to t h e Ed it o r :
Was Barlow a Bishop ? . . . . 95 Martyrs and the Sword . . . . qq Anglican Orders . . . . . . g5 The Anglican Church and Non-
Episcopal Orders^ . . . . ç6 “ The Church R ev iew ” and the
Patriarch of Venice . . . . 96 Proposed Testimonial to Father
Fletcher . . . . . . . . 9 6
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The Educational Campaign.. Mr. Dillon, M .P ., at Manchester . . 100 The British Empire and the Catholic
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Church . . . . . . . . 100 An Object-Lesson in Christian D e
mocracy . . . . . . . . IC2 The Attitude of the Advocates of
Board Schools: Good Influence o f Catholic Schools . . . . 102 The Fathers of the Sacred Heart in Australia . . . . . . . . 101 The Case of Dr. Jameson . . . . 103 F rom E verywhere . . . . . . 103 Scc ’ a l and Politica l . . . . 105
SUPPLEMENT. N ews from t h e Schools:
The Report of the Royal Com
mission on Secondary Education .. . . . . . . tog Voluntary v. Board Schools . . n o The Education Settlement of 1870 i n Education and Rural Labour . m Lord Hampden at St. Ignatius'
College, Riverview, Sydney . . 112
N ews from t h e Schools (Con
tinued): The Religion of School Board
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Teachers . . . . . . . . 112 The Working of the Board School
System . . . . . . . . 1 ’ 2 A Boy’s Choice . . . . . . 112 The School Question at Gloucester 1x2 St. Francis Xavier’s College,
B r u g e s .........................................112 N ew s from t h e D ioceses : Westminster . . . . . . m
Southwark . . . . . . . . 113 Clifton .................................... 113 L i v e r p o o l ....................................... 113 P l y m o u t h ....................................... 113 Portsm ou th ....................................... n j Salford . . . . . . . . 113 Shrew sbury.. . . . . . . 1 1 4 Glasgow . . . . . . . . 114 Early Catholicity in Manchester . . 114 Mer. Tylee’s Missionary Work in
India ......................................... 114
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C H R O N I C L E O F T H E W E E K .
BEFORE JAMESON’S RIDE. :A
JOHANNESBURG
L E T T E R published in T h e T im es, under date December 16, gives an interesting account of the condition of Johannesburg, and the discon
tent of its people a fortnight before the foray of the Charterland forces. He tells the old tale of Boer superciliousness, of how Oom Paul had spoken in public of the Uitlanders as “ rotten eggs,” and flatly declined all reforms. In reply to a speech setting forth the grievances and claims of the Uitlanders, President Kruger explained that the latter would be conceded only over his dead body. He is represented as asserting as his reason for adopting this attitude of obstinate resistance that as in a dam in which a little hole had been pierced the water eventually comes rushing through till all is cleared away before it, so if the Uitlanders are granted 'but one concession they will surely gain the whole control o f the country. In the opinion of the correspondent the President was quite right, and the only real question was whether in any case the dam was strong enough to keep back the rising tide of Uitlander discontent. The Boer contention that the mining population deserves no consideration because it has no permanent stake in the country, and has not come to stay, is directly traversed by the correspondent. “ The greater proportion of the Uitlander population is composed of the smaller capitalists, tradesmen, shopowners and keepers, mechanics and miners, who in a country with all the advantages of climate and of soil which the Transvaal possesses are as certain to settle in it as similar classes have done in British colonies. And one of the most striking arguments showing that this is likely to be the case is afforded by the fact that the Johannesburg Chamber of Mines, composed of these very capitalists who are accused of only desiring to make all the money they can and carry it off to Europe, have just adopted a scheme whereby over ¿¿30,000 is to be spent in the establishment of schools for the education o f the children o f employés in the mining companies. This was done because the Chamber recognized that ‘ unless the children who are now here are properly trained they will have no chance of becoming useful and industrious citizens, but will rather prove a source of danger to the
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community.’ It is clearly expected, then, by these hardheaded business men that the community will remain here. They are already beginning to provide for the next generation, and another indication pointing to the same conclusion is the fact that in the last ten months there have been applications submitted for the building of no fewer than 2,259 houses, offices, &c., in Johannesburg alone.” The correspondent is fully alive to the sentimental view of the situation, and has some pity for'the primitive people who are now pursued into their last retreat by the sons of a more restless and energetic race. He sums up the situation : “ But the one party works and the other does not. And the one which works will win. In trying to shut themselves off so completely from contact with other people, the Boers have shut themselves off from the conditions which make for progress, and they will inevitably suffer the consequences. They have fled from the competition with other races, and now they are brought into the most severe of all competition— the industrial struggle — with a people who, by such competition, have been brought to the highest state of efficiency. Men who have worked hard and risked much are now demanding the full rewards of their labour.” He concludes by saying that the Boers have resisted all concession, and that in the opinion of every Uitlander the time for action was very near. How near he was evidently not aware.
The press all over the country has
English ^protection been So busy during the last fortnight Am e r i c a n c i t i z e n s , plucking the feathers out of the German cockerel that it has not done full justice to the happier results of the inflammatory letter. O f all the expressions of opinion about the German Emperor’s offensive conduct perhaps the happiest may be found in the following lines in T h e W o r ld :
Oh, Wilhelm, in our hours of ease Effusive, kind, and keen to please ; When pain and anguish wring the brow A double-dyed mosquito thou ! The fighting temper called forth by the German Emperor’s words has been in such striking contrast with the calm with which President Cleveland’s rough message was received that a lasting impression has been made upon public opinion in the United States. T h e S u n , the most anti-British paper in New York, is a witness to what we say. This new “ white flame o f patriotism,” the London correspondent declares, “ compels the respect and admiration even of England’s enemies.” He describes the manifestations of it in churches, in theatres, at banquets, in the press
