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DÜM VOBIS G R A TU LAM U R , ANIMOS KTIAM ADDIMUS Ü T IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER M ANBAT1S» '
From the Brisi oj His Holiness Pius IX. to The Tablet, June 4, 187 o
V ol. 87. No. 2916.
L ondon, March 28, 1896.
P r ick sd. b y P o st
{Reg i s t e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a l P o st O f f i c e a s a N ew s pa p e r
^Chronicle o f t h e W e e k :
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Imperial Parliament : The Nile Expedition — T h e Government Policy— The Division on the Vote of Census — Naval Works and Light Railways— Horseless Carriages— Imported Live Cattle— London Water Supply—Arbitration Between England and America — Mr. Ritchie’s Further Declaration— A Novelty in Co-operation — The Late Archdeacon Denison — The Manitoba School Question — Spain and Cuba—The S p i: in the Salvation Army — Life-doat Work— “ Home Rule A ll Round ” — Im p e r ia l Penny P o s t a g e — Colonial Patriotism.. . . . . 477 L e a d e r s :
The Maltese Marriage Question . . 481 The Manitoba Schools Question in the Dominion Parliament . . 482 The State o f Virginity in the Early
Church . . .. . . . . 483
CONTENTS.
The Poem “ Christo Crucifixo ” :
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Its Author . . . . . . .. 484 N o t e s .................................................... 485 R e v iew s :
Criminal Sociology.. . . . . 487 With an Ambulance .. . . 488 Christ in Type and Prophecy . . 489 A Woman Intervenes . . . . 489 The Trespasses of Two .. . . 489 “ The Ushaw Magazine ” . . .. 490 Towards the Eternal Snows . . 490 The British Empire and the Catholic
Church .. . . . . . . 490 General Booth in India . . . . 401 Ex-Priests as Lecturers . . . . 491 C orrespondence :
Rome :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) ......................... . . 493 News from Ireland ... — — 495 News From France . . . . 496 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it or : Was Barlow a Bishop ? . . . . 497
The Canonization of Mary Stuart 497 Bucer and the Anglican Ordinal 497
L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r (Con
7 Page tinued) : Archdeacon Manning at Louvain 498 Alms for the Catholic Armenians 498 All Saints’, Derby . . ^ . . . . 498 The Educational Campaign.. . . 498 Meeting at Newcastle . . . . 498
Demonstration at Bow . . . . 500 The League of the Cross Annual
Festival . . . . . . . . 501 The Marriage Question in M alta.. 502 Père Marquette, the Jesuit Explorer 503 “ The Church Times ” and Sunday
Observance . . . . . . 503 Books of the Week . . . . M 503 F rom E veryw h ere . . . . . . 504 O b it u a r y .................................... 506
SU PPLEM ENT. N ew s from t h e S chools :
The Education Bill : Sir John
Gorst's Crux . . . . . . 509 Why the Bill Hangs F ir e . . ^ . . 509 The Needs of the Washington
University.. ..1 . . . . 509
N ews from t h e S chools (Con
Page tinued): The New Education Code _ . . 510 The Results of Over-Education . . 510 The Logical Consequences . . 5x1 Expenditure of the London School
Board ......................... .511 School Grants an d T e a c h e r s '
Salaries in Ireland . . .. 511 What is a Voluntary School ? . . 511 Mr. Chamberlain’s Attitude on
Education................................ 512 N ews from t h e D io ceses : Westminster ............................512
Southwark . .
513
Birmingham................................ 514 Middlesbrough . . . . . . 514 Nottingham .. . . . . . . 5l4 Plymouth . . 514 Portsmouth . . 5*4 Salford . . 514 Glasgow . . . . . . . . 514 Newport and Menevi3 . . . . 504
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK,
— THE NILE EXPEDITION. M
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
IN ISTERS were naturally closely questioned by the Opposition on various questions concerning the Nile Expe
dition. There was an evident desire that information and diplomatic correspondence, best kept private, should be fluttered before Europe, but Mr. Balfour and Mr. Curzon managed, without passing the limits of prudenct, to give the House a statement that was thoroughly reassuring. The Powers forming the Triple Alliance had already sanctioned the necessary advance for the expenses of the Expedition ; the French Minister had disavowed responsibility for the statement attributed to him concerning the gravity o f the situation; the Italians would hold Kassala as long as they could ; and though there was no formal alliance between this country and Italy, the British advance was expedient as a piece of friendly co-operation in defence of common interests. In spite, however, of such reassuring explanations Mr. Morley rose in the Committee of Supply to move the reduction of the Foreign Secretary’s salary by ^100, which was, of course, in effect a Vote of Censure upon the Government in connection with their present Egyptian policy. He thought the reasons given for the advance of the troops were meagre, irrelevant, and absolutely unjustifiable. He thought it preposterous to hope to spread a panic among the Dervishes at Kassala by advancing 9,000 Egyptian troops to Akashed or Dongola, 500 miles away. The present Egyptian frontier was safe enough, and he feared that the present determination of the Government seemed to mark a new departure of some kind.
— THE GOVERNMENT
POLICY.
Replying on behalf of the Government, Mr. Chamberlain, in a singularly lucid statement, made it plain that the movements in the Nile Valley are based upon no ambitious designs of territorial acquisition, but are cautious and even tentative acts limited to the defensive needs of the hour. The results of British administration of Egypt had been of the most beneficial kind to that country. She had been put in a position of solvency, and law and order were being introduced and placed on a firm and sure footing. This would
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all be undone if we evacuated the country before our work was thoroughly completed. The re-establishment of Egyptian authority over the Soudan has been the ideal and the aspiration of every wise and patriotic Egyptian statesman, and if not an actual guarantee for the repose of the settled provinces in Northern Africa, is, at any rate, largely conducive to their peace and prosperity. If Kassala should fall, an attack on Egypt by the Dervish forces, flushed with victory, would be almost certain to follow. It is the wisest course, therefore, for Egypt to anticipate such an attack and prevent any concentration of the Dervishes upon a single objective by a diversion for the protection of the frontiers in another direction. An advance had accordingly been determined upon to Akasheh, which, as Mr. Curzon had pointed out, might possibly be extended to Dongola. This protection of the frontier is not the ideal but the practical policy, and those who would draw the frontier at Wady Haifa under the impression that the desert beyond is a barrier against conquest, must also remember that it is a screen for raids. The advance of the troops will, however, Mr. Chamberlain made it clear, be limited by two most important considerations— the security of our line of communications, and the nature and extent of the resistance opposed to us. The railway will follow the troops to Akasheh, and will be a pledge that where we go we shall remain. The reason of this is, as Mr. Chamberlain significantly pointed out, that the Government had no idea of handing back to barbarism such territory as may be recovered for civilization. But there was no question of the pursuit of a policy of reckless adventure, seeing that the Government intended to place no undue strain upon the resources of Egypt if the power of the Dervishes was still found to be unbroken. By this policy the Government is not only defending Egypt but is also assisting Italy.
The interest in the debate rapidly
_ o"n ' t 1i e voteT diminished after Mr. Chamberlain’s state-
o f c e n s u r e , ment of the Government policy. Mr.
Labouchere declared that the real object of the Ministry was to occupy Khartoum. Sir Charles Dilke said it looked as if the cheap and easy conquest of the Soudan was the object of the advance, whilst Mr. Dillon accused the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs of deceiving the House. Sir William Harcourt’s criticism was naturally of a careful kind after his well-known declaration years ago about withstanding the Mahdi at Khartoum. Mr. Curzon, in reply, said that the policy of our remaining in Egypt had been determined by the Liberal party, who, though
