THE TABLET A IVeekly Newspaper and Review

D ü M VO B IS G RATULAM U R , ANIMOS ET IAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCGEPTIS V E S T R IS CONSTANTER M AN EA Y IS .

P r om th e B r i e f o f H is H o lin e s s P iu s I X . to T h e T a b l e t , J u n e 4> I *J0i

Vol. 54. No. 2064. L o n d o n , N o v e m b e r r, 1879.

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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 .

-Ch ro n ic l e of t h e W e e k : —

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The News from Afghanistan.— Herat,—The Liberals in Manchester.—Second Day of the Demonstration.—Conservative Conference at Birmingham. — Mr. Fawcett and Mr. Brassey.—The Attorney-General and the Secretary for War at Preston.—The Land Agitation in Ireland.—Reclamation of Irish Wastes. — Government Employment in Ireland.—Socialism in France.—The Education Question.-TheFrench Ministry and its Successor.—The Opening of the Prussian Landtag.—The Austro-German Agreement. — Italy and England.— Affairs in South Africa, &c. .. 545

CONTENTS.

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P e t e r ’ s P e n c e ................................ 549 L e a d e r s :

Some Anglican Difficulties . . 549 The Catholic University of Ire­

land

.. . . 550

Crime and Criminal Trials in

Italy ...................................... 55* The Crisis in the Establishment.. 552 A Polish National Celebration . . 553 R e v ie w s :

Religion y ciencia............................555 Classical Writers _ .. . . . . 556 Elementary Classics . . . . 556 S hort N o t ic e s ;

Cousin Henry . . .. . . 556 Bernadette ; Sœur Marie-Bernard 556 L ’Accusé .. . . .. . . 556

S hort N o t ic e s (continued):

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Children’s Books . . : . . 556 Tree-Planting ........................... 556 A r t :

Exhibition of the Photographic

S o c i e t y ......................................557 C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :

F. O’Haire’s Scheme of Emigra­

tion ..

The Mission to the Afghans . . 558 St. Patrick’s Institute . . . . 558 “ All Soul’s” Church, Peter­

558

borough .. .. . . .. 558 Waste Land Reclamation in Ireland 558 The Life of St. Hugh of Lincoln 559

Autobiography of a Convert” .. 559

R ome :— Letter from.

Page our own

Correspondent ... . . . . 561 D io c e s a n N ews

Southwark .. Birmingham

Middlesbrough

. . 563

. . . . 563

Newport and Menevia . . . . 563 F o r e ig n N ew s :

Germany

. . 565

I r e l a n d :—

dent

Letter from our own Correspon

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M em o r a n d a :

Religious . . ,. G e n e r a l N ew s : . .

. . 568

CHRONICLE OF TH E W EEK .

FROM AFGHANISTAN. T

THE NEWS

H E last news from Cabul is that

Yakoub Khan persists in his resolve, and has placed his formal abdication in Sir Frederick

Roberts’s hands, “ refusing to rule over such subjects as his have proved to be.” At Cabul all is quiet. The Kotwal of the city and four others have been hanged for complicity in the massacre at the Residency, other officials of the Amir are in custody on suspicion, and a strict inquiry is proceeding. About 3,000 stands of arms have been brought in under the proclamation. Meanwhile Colonel Money at the Shutargardan was surrounded on the 17 th, 18th, and 19th, by large bodies of hostile Ghilzais, -estimated at 10,000 and upwards, who sent him a message that they would spare the lives of the British if they would surrender. General Roberts then resolved to withdraw the posts from Shutargardan and Ali-Khel, and to trust to communications via Jellalabad and the Khaibar pass. He therefore sent General Hugh Gough to the relief of Colonel Money, who received notice of General Gough’s approach by heliograph from Shinkao. Colonel Money, who had husbanded his ammunition till the 19th, then attacked the Ghilzais and dispersed them, and General Gough saw them flying in all directions. This tribe is the one which is giving most trouble. Some apprehension prevails that they will attack the column advancing from Jellalabad somewhere near Jagdalak and the Khoord Cabul pass. But General Roberts, reinforced by the troops drawn in from the Shutargardan, will have no difficulty in joining hands with the •other General Gough, who is advancing from Jellalabad. From Candahar we learn that some of the Cabul mutineers have arrived there, but that it is not yet ascertained how far they were implicated in the guilt of the massacre. The Governor of Khelat-i-Ghilzai has abandoned his post, fearing it is said that Yakoub Khan, who had sent for him to Cabul, might deprive and detain him as he did his uncle and predecessor, and the Governor of Ghazni has shut himself up in the citadel of that place. Another assault was prepared by a band of about 1,000 of the Tarak Ghilzai tribe on General Hughes’ camp at Khelat. But the General, having got wind of the affair, sent Colonel Kennedy to attack the enemy, who were dispersed, leaving their leader and 50 men dead.

HERAT.

Colonel Malleson has written a strong letter to the papers advocating an immediate occupation of Herat, and M. Vambery writes to the lim e s in the same sense, pointing out that the Heratis, who are not Afghans, but of Iranian descent, are well disposed to the English, and have always been very impatient of Afghan rule.

New Series, Voi. XXII. No. 573.

A great Liberal demonstration in Manchester THE has followed close upon the Conservative disMan c h e s t e r . P 'ay ln the same city. Scarcely had Lord

Salisbury and his friends departed, when Lord Hartington and Mr. Bright made their appearance on the same boards. We may compare the performances of both parties to the speeches of counsel for plaintiff and defendant in some great trial, except that, so far as regards Manchester, the order of a legal proceeding was reversed by the case for the defence being taken first. The speech of the leader of the Opposition was certain to excite great interest, and additional importance was attached to it in the public mind from the fact that he came to the meeting from the home of Lord Derby, and was supposed to be the interpreter, not only of his own views but also those of his host. In point of the numbers and of the enthusiasm of his audience, the success of the leader of the Opposition equalled that of the Foreign Secretary. Lord Hartington did not depart in his first address from the well-worn topic of the foreign policy of the Government. In fact, as his speech was an answer to that of Lord Salisbury, he could not well do so. The principles upon which the Liberal party opposed the action and policy of the Government, and their reasons for being dissatisfied with the results of the Treaty of Berlin, have been so often explained, both in and out of Parliament, that it was not easy for Lord Hartington to say anything new on the subject. He endeavoured to fix upon Ministers thr* charge of being prepared to go to war in support of bad Governments whenever such a policy appeared to be favourable to our own interests, a course which he said was systematically denounced by the Liberals. From the fact of the alliance between Austria and Germany, and Lord Salisbury’s satisfaction at that combination, Lord Hartington deduced the conclusion that the Government no longer relied upon the Treaty of Berlin or the Anglo-Turkish Convention to effect the objects which they had at heart; and he said that it was indeed good news that the Government had at length discovered, what the Liberals always held, that Austria and Germany had interests quite as great as our own in repelling the aggression of Russia, and that there was no reason why England should put herself forward alone as the antagonist of the latter Power. The Liberal leader found fault with Lord Salisbury's derogatory remarks respecting the independent nationalities which now occupy a part of what once were the Turkish dominions. I f these races are deficient in organisation, and powerless in their present condition to withstand the advance of such a Power as Russia, it is not, Lord Hartington thinks, the part of an English statesman to pour contempt upon their struggles and to do all in his power to repress their growth. The policy foreshadowed by ignoring these nationalities is, in his opinion, that the use