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From .the B r i e f o/ H is H o lin ess P iu s IX . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870
V o l . 87. No. 2904. L ondon, January 4, 1896.
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[R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e G en e r a l P o st Office as a N ewspaper
C hronicle of t h e W e e k !
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The Trouble in the Transvaal— Uitlander’s Appeal-Dr. Jameson’s Raid—The New Poet Laureate— A Peerage for the President of the Royal Academy — Turkey and Armenia : Fall o f Zeitun— Mr. Gladstone and Lord Rosebery— A New Coinage for France— Stepniak : Inquest and Funeral— Ashantee: The Sham Ambassadors—A Surplus o f Six Millions — “ One Class.” — State-Aid to University Colleges—The Protection o f Married Women — The Recent Gales : A Lifeboat Capsized— N a r r o w Escape o f a C u n a r d e r .................................... 1 L e a d e r s :
Suspense in Manitoba . . . . 5 Colonial Federation . . . . 6 Spanish Art at the New Gallery.. 7 N o t e s ........................................ — 8 England and Venezuela . . . . 11
CONTENTS.
R ev iew s :
Catholic Socialism John Knox .. . . . . A Striking Contrast Indifferentism National History in Anecdote “ The Catholic Directory ” On the Threshold A Book of Nursery Rhymes Books of the Week C orrespondence :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . News from Ireland Missionary Work in Western Aus
tralia . .
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L e t t e r s t o t h e E d itor :
Was Barlow a Bishop ? .. The Leper Settlement in Molokai The Nuns in^Tokio A Warning The Rose in Catholic Ritual Anglican Orders . .
L e t t e r s to t h e E d it or (Con tinued) : “ The Tablet ” and President
Cleveland’s Message Fr. Sydney Smith and Mr. Lunn A Letter of Thanks Baptism of St. Thomas of Can-
terbuiy Martyrs o f the Sword The Johannesburg Hospital Ques
tion The Catholic Mission to Uganda Shakspere’s Ancestry The. Pope’s Appeal to the English
People A Theological Point.. F rom E veryw h ere O b itu ar y S o c ia l a n d P o l it ic a l
SUPPLEMENT. N ews from t h e S chools:
The Report of the Royal Com
mission on Secondary Education
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N ew s from t h e S chools (Con
tinued): The Year’s Educational Record Sir John Gorst’s Cardiff Address St. Ignatius’ College, Malta Education in Birmingham “ The School Guardian ” and Sir
M. Hicks-Beach .. The Marquis of Ripon on the
Education Question A Factory Act and the Children New Priory School, Kilburn Xaverian Brothers, Mayfield, N ew s from t h e D ioceses Westminster
Southwark . . Birmingham.. Hexham and Newcastle Newport and Menevia Northampton Nottingham.. Portsmouth .. Salford A ppeals to t h e C h a r it a b l e
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
THE TRANSVAAL. T
THE TROUELE
H E foreign relations of England grow more difficult day by day. President Cleveland’s Message has overshadowed the difficulty with the Porte,
and enabled the Sultan to continue his work of thinning out [the Armenians'at his leisure; and before Lord Salisbury has been able to parry the menace from Washington he is fronted with a new crisis in another part e f the world, which^may easily bring this country into conflict with (JCTmany and France. For years past the new conditjpns of life in the Raad have been preparing for the crisis which has come at last. It is an odd situation. The Uitlander population numbers some 60.000 adult males, owns half the country and nine-tenths o f its wealth, and yet is shut outside the pale o f the constitutution, and has to look on whilst the country in which they have made their homes and in which their children are born, is governed by the nominees o f 1 5,000 Boers. The 60.000 have been accustomed to self-government for all their lives, and now^ee themselves taxed without representation of any sort. These Uitlanders are quite ready to take the oath of allegiance to the South African Republic,but such readiness avails them nothing. Their language is unrecognized, and their children are excluded from the schools they are taxed to pay for, because in the schoolhouse Dutch is the only language which is tolerated. A t present, after two years’ residence and naturalization, the -Uitlander is allowed the privilege o f voting for the members of the Second Raad. But this body is perfectly impotent, and its decrees are valueless, unless President Kruger thinks well to submit them for the consideration o f the First Raad. The situation is thus described by the special correspondent of The Times : “ The real power o f the State, including taxation, resides in the First Raad, which is composed of four-and-twenty members, and in the Executive Council, which, inclusive o f the President himself, Dumbers 10 or 12 persons, o f whom a considerable number are of foreign Dutch blood. The President, if supported by 13 votes in the Raad, is absolute master of the lives, the liberties, and the fortunes of every resident in the Transvaal.” Even then the patient and aged Uitlander would be by no means safe
N e w S e r i e s , V o l . LV., N o. 2,213.
of the franchise. It would require a special vote o f the First Raad and a petition of two-thirds o f the burghers o f his ward before he could be placed on the register. On the other hand, while it seems monstrous that 60,000 white men, willing to swear allegiance to the Government, should be denied the franchise, it must be remembered that there is another side of the question. If the Boers grant the franchise to the Uitlanders the whole government of the country would instantly pass into other hands— would pass from the original owners o f the country to the new-comers, from the Boers to the Uitlanders. A t present it seems as though an armed collision mighc take place at any moment, and President Kruger has used language which is distinctly menacing. H e has observed that when a Boer wants to hit a tortoise he waits until the creature has put its head well out of its shell. And the words have been interpreted, b y Boer and Uitlander alike, as meaning that the President is waiting only for the Johannesburg folk to commit themselves by some overt act of sedition to crush them by force. There is some difference of opinion as to his ability to do this ; but as his force is well organized, and plentifully armed with rifles and maxims, if the quarrel is to be fought out within the bounds of the Transvaal, the Boers would probably be able to work their will. From every possible point of view it is to be hoped that the Uitlanders will have patience and not force a conflict. Time is on their side, and another half-dozen years will see the Empire of Oom Paul a thing o f the past. The flowing tide o f immigration is on the side of the Uitlander.
But serious as the situation in the Trans-
— u itlanders’ vaal was known to be, a tremendous appeal. sensation was caused on Wednesday by the news that the Uitlanders had appealed to the Chartered Company for protection, and by the rumour that Dr. Jameson in response to that appeal had crossed the frontier with 700 men. The appeal, dated last Saturday and signed by the leading residents of Johannes burg, stated a conflict between the Government of the Transvaal and the Uitlanders was close at hand. The signatories declare that when a petition for constitutional rights signed by 40,000 Uitlanders was presented to the Raad, not only was it rejected, but one member, unrebuked, cbaljenged the Uitlanders to fight for the rights they claimed. The address continues : “ What we have to consider is, What will be the condition of things here in the event o f conflict? Thousands of unarmed men, women, and children o f our race will be at the mercy o f well-armed Boers, while property o f enormous value will be in the
