THE TABLET. ¿1 W eek ly N ew sp aper a n d R e v iew .

DOM VOBIS GRATOLAMOR, ANIMOS RTIAM ADDIMÜS OT IN INCCEPTIS VRSTRIS CONSTANTRR MANEATIS.''

F r o m th e B r i e f o j H i s H o l in e s s P i u s I X . to The Tablet, June 4, 18 70 .

Vol. 87. No. 2909.

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[R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a l P o s t O f f i c e a s a N ew s p a p e r

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The Latest from Johannesburg— The Future of the Transvaal — S ir Jacobus de W itt’s Views—The Conversion o f Prince Boris — ' Slatin Pasha’s Story— Agricultural r Depression and Stupidity— The

Case of the Foreign Producer— " The Return of Lord Denbigh—

French Butter and the English Market— Mr. Morleyat Montrose — National B i o g r a p h y — Lord Salisbury on Armenia— Women’s Degrees a t Oxford— A Week of Funeials .................................... 197 ^Le a d e r s :

Africa and the Triple Alliance . . 201 French and Dutch A rt at the

Grafton Gallery ....................... 202 The Catholic Testimony to the

Armenian Massacres . . . . 203 Bucer and the Anglican Ordinal 20^ »Notes . . . . — — 205

CONTENTS.

R e v ie w s !

The Egypt of the Hebrews Hampshire Recusants Rare Books and Their Prices Unsolved Mysteries

Page . . 207 . . 207 . . 208 , . 209

The Poetry of Pathos and Delight 209 Mammals of Land and Sea . . 209 The Educational Campaign.. . . 210

Great Demonstration in Leeds . . 210 The Cardinal at Dewsbury . . 217 Monster Meeting at Middlesbrough 218 The South London League at Bcrm o a d s e y .................................... 219 C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) ......................... » 2 1 3 News from Ireland . . — — 214 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :

Mgr. Talbot : A Disclaimer . . 215 £ Mr. Clarke on Anglicans . . . . 215

Was Barlow a Bishop ? . . . . 216 The Anglican Ordinal . . . . 216 The Consecration of an Anglican by a Schismatic Bishop.. . . 216

L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r (Con­

tinued) : The End o f the Century . . . The “ Life of Cardinal Manning The Shepherd’s Bush Tragedy :

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216 216

An Appeal for the Children . . 217 Cardinal Manning and Cardinal

Newman . . . . . . . . 217 Martyrs and the Sword . . . . 2 1 7 Pope Pius V . and Queen Elizabeth 217 The British Empire and the Catholic

Church . . . . . . . . 222 Books of the W e e k ........................... 225 F rom E v e r y w h e r e .............................. 225 S o c ia l a n d P o l i t i c a l . . . . 225

SU P P L EM E N T . N ew s fro m t h e S ch o o l s :

Cardinal Vaughan and Mr. Birrell 229 The Cardinal and “ Protestants" 229 Religious Teaching in the Bolton

School Board . . . . . 229 A Schoolmaster’s Complaint of the Education Department . . 230

1 N ew s from t h e S chools (Con' tinued):

“ Suitable Occupations ’’ an Op­

Page tional Subject ......................... 230 Mr. Asquith’s Speech_ . . . . 230 The Queen and Religious Educa­

tion

Cambridge Problems The Progress o f the College o f

230

Preceptors . . . . . . Public Aid to Denominational

Schools . . . . ..^

London School Board Salaries N ew s from t h e D io c e se s : Westminster . .

S o u t h w a r k .................................... 2 Leeds . . ......................... Salford . . . . # The Life of Cardinal Manning . . Nuns in Christiania . “ The Church Tim es” on Father

. . 231

23x 23 t 31 231 231 232 234

Georgs Angus . . .^ . . 2-4 Cardinal Manning and Mr. B irrell.. 234. A p p e a l t o t h e C h a r i t a b l e . . 234

Rejected M S . cannot be returned unless accompanied w ith address and postage.

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

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THE LATEST

FROM JOHANNESBURG. O '

, N Tuesday afternoon Mr. Cecil

Rhodes arrived in England, and his coming will be welcomed by all who are anxious to learn the truth about the story o f Jameson’s raid. For the truth has still to be told, and as yet all is conjecture and suspicion. A s the days go on it seems more and more certain that the advance o f the Chartered troops was not part o f an arrangement with the Johannesburg leaders. T h e town seems to have been taken completely by surprise. W e are told that the Transvaal Government knew o f the invasion hours before the news reached the 'O utlanders, and that the latter, absolutely without military organization or arms that were immediately available, heard ■ it with dismay. One correspondent writes: “ They were without knowledge o f Jameson’s whereabouts, and even if it had been possible to effect a junction with him they had not two hundred men to get for him. T h e leaders, hoping to protect Dr. Jameson, offered a number o f persons as hostages to the Government against a further advance, trusting thus to minimize the consequences o f the appalling blunder. T h e ofler was refused. T h e question as to what induced Jameson to cross the border remains to be answered, but that Johannesburg was innocent o f either starting a revolution, or refusing help when help could be given, is easily demonstrable.” It is added that under these circumstances the talk at home about the cowardice o f the people o f Johannesburg is bitterly resented. Captain Thatcher, who returned in the same vessel as Mr. Rhodes, says there is little doubt that the letter which Jameson received was part o f a plot, and had been forged for the .purpose o f catching him in a trap. H e adds that the telegraph wires were cut, not with the object o f frustrating the attempts o f the H igh Commissioner to communicate with the force, but to prevent the Boers from mobilizing quickly. W e strongly suspect that events will show that there were several copies in existence o f the letter which reached Jameson ; that its authors had them in readiness against an hour o f need ; that one of them fell into the hands o f the Boers, and was used to decoy Jameson over the frontier before the people o f Johannesburg were in a position to render him any assistance.

New Series Vol, LV., No. 2,218.

Meanwhile President Kruger, one of whose

_ T of theURE Pet *a w s ’ s t^at everyminjng inspector in the transvaal. country must be o f the Protestant religion,

has been talking vaguely of refoims, and specially holds out hopes o f a free municipality for Johannesburg. On the great question o f the franchise he explains that “ his conduct in this respect in the past would be an earnest o f what he was prepared to do in the future.” It becomes necessary, therefore, to consider for a moment what that conduct has been. In 1882, that is one year after the restoration of the Repub ic, the old franchise law, which required simply one year’s residence, was changed, was amended, and a five years’ residence was made necessary. Under this stipulation a large number o f Outlanders settled in the country in 1886. But as such a term o f probation was consideied unusual and excessive, an agitation was started to get it reduced. The result o f this movement, says a correspondent o f The Times, was that in 1890, just one year before the completion of the five years’ term o f those attracted by the first opening o f the Johannesburg goldfields, the right to vote for the first Raad was restricted to burghers who had already obtained their hargher rights and to their children. In order to increase the existent Dutch voting power the age o f voting was reduced to 16, and for aliens a permissive clause was added under which, after 12 years’ residence, a right to vote for the first Raad might under certain circumstances be obtained. In this year a second Volksraad was invented, o f which the legislative powers are limited to a few selected subjects, which has no control o f the finances o f the country, to which the Executive is in no way responsible, and o f which the resolutions remain inoperative unless submitted by the President to the first Raad and confirmed by that b o d y ; and, in return for the deprivation o f the real franchise, Outlanders were offered the power o f becoming naturalized after two years’ residence, with the power o f voting for this minor Assembly. The oath o f allegiance required under this A c t included a definite renunciation of allegiance to the Sovereign o f the native country o f the alien. T h e right to vote for the second Raad, being regarded in the light o f a vote for a county council or other local administration, may be dismissed from consideration in dealing with the question of the franchise. It was generally held to have been invented for the purpose which it has in any case fully served— o f misleading external opinion. T h e only real franchise o f the South African Republic is that which confers the right to vote for the first Raad and at the Presidential election. In 1894 further restrictions were introduced, and the net result