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DDM VCBIS GRATULAM UR , ANIMOS KTIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER M ANEATIS.
From the B r ie j o j H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.
V ol. 82. No. 2785. L o n d o n , S e p t e m b e r 23, 1893.
P r ice 3d., (by P ost s ^ d .
[R e g is tered a t t h e Gen e r a l P ost O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper.
CONTENTS.
«Chronicle of t h e W e e k :
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Imperial Parliament : Miscellaneous Affairs— Supply— The Policy of the Government and the Coming Session— The Water Supply of London—Visit of the Russian Fleet to France — The British Association— Mr. A. B. Forwood ■ on Religious Education — Prices and Wages in the Coal Trade— The “ Day o f Atonement” — Serious Mining Accident in Cornwall — Experiments with the Comma Bacilli— An Attack on a G a o l ................................................481 ¡Lea d e r s :
Geography at the British Associa
tion . . . . . . . . . . 485 J
L eaders (continued) :
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The Curse of Cowdray . . . . 486 The Eye of the Mind . . . . 487 Watton Priory . . . . . . 488 Canon Hammond on “ Poly-
churchism . . . .. 489 Aspects of Anglicanism . . . . 490 N o t e s .....................................................492 R e v iew s :
The Life of Sir Richard Burton., 493 The Foundress of the Daughters o f the Cross . . . . . . 493 O b it u a r y .................................... 495 C orrespondence :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent-! . . . . . . . . 497 Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) ......................... . . 498
L e t t e r s to t h e E d it or :
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Convent Schools and Higher Edu
cation .. . .. . . 499 “ The Month” and Spiritualism.. 499 The Missing Author . . . . 500 St. Patrick’s Well at Orvieto . . 500 The Great American Catholic Con
gress ......................... _ .. .. 500 The Faribault Compromise in Ame
rica _ . . . . .. . . . . 505 Catholics and Uganda . . 506 The “ Rescued Nun ” . . . . 507 The Site o f Golgotha . . . . 508 M a r r ia g e . . . . . . . 508 So c ia l a n d P o l it ic a l . . . . 509
SU PPLEM EN T . N ews from t h e S chools :
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The Blue Book on Pupil Teachers 513 The Faculty of Spelling . . .. 513 Rate-Aid and Denominational
Schools . . .. .. . . 514 The Future of Voluntary Schools 515 St. Edmund’s College, Old Hall 515 About E d u c a t io n ......................... 515 N ews from t h e D ioceses :
Westminster . . . . . . 516 Southwark . . . . . . . . 516 Plymouth . . . . . . . . 516 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 517 The Translation of Archbishop
Kain .. .. . . . . . . 517 A Few Days in a Hospital ** . . 518
Rejected MS. cannot be returned unless accompanied with address and postage.
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
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I
N the House of Commons on
Monday, Mr. Paul asked the Home Secretary whether his attention had been called to two
■ recent letters in The S ta ndard, purporting to have been written at Genoa by one William Henry Hurlbert, otherwise known as Wilfrid Murray; whether a warrant had been ■ issued against Hurlbert for wilful and corrupt perjury committed in this country ; whether he was believed to be now i n I ta ly ; and whether any steps had been, or would be, .taken for bringing this person to justice by extradition or ■ otherwise. Mr. Asquith made the following reply : “ My •attention has been called to the letters in question. The warrant for perjury was issued for the arrest o f this person cn November, 1891. It might frustrate the ends of justice i f I were to say where he is now believed to b e ; though I may observe, without any special reference to this particular ■ case, that a letter to the newspapers by a fugitive from .justice, purporting to be written from a particular place, is, as a rule, prim a fa c ie evidence that the writer is somewhere else. A ll possible steps have been, and are being taken, to bring this man to justice.” The House then went into Committee o f Supply, and on the vote of ,£213,101 to complete the sum for the Diplomatic and Consular Services, Sir C . Dilke asked how far any of the recommendations made by the Ridley Commission with regard to the ■ Foreign Office had been complied with, and if it was the •intention of the Government to carry out the most material •of these recommendations, which concerned the amalgamation of a portion o f the Diplomatic and Consular Services. He also desired some information as to the care which was itaken with regard to secrecy in the Embassies. It was unnecessary to go into details, but recently there had been a case where a very important disregard o f secrecy in a .great Embassy had occurred through the action of a person who was a subject of the country in which the Embassy was situated. In this particular case the man had been for so •many years in the service that he was looked upon as trustworthy ; yet it was a very serious fact that when he was ■ .dismissed he was found in possession o f more than one of •the secret keys which existed in our foreign Embassies. With regard to the Royal Niger Company, he should like to have some information as to the working arrangements between the Foreign Office and the Company, and as to the boundaries o f the territories administered by the Company and those more immediately controlled by the Foreign Office. H e thought the House o f Commons ought to be made more acquainted with the proceedings o f the Company than it was, and papers on the subject ought to be laid on the table of the House. As regarded the mission of Sir Gerald Portal to Uganda, the House had not yet received from the Government any information as to their own views on the subject o f the future of Uganda. Less authorized sources of information led them to suppose that there was some idea o f extending the Zanzibar Protectorate so as to include Uganda and the whole o f the territories now or recently under the control o f the British East Africa Company. These protectorates raised a very serious I question as to whether they ought to be under the control of the Foreign Office or of the Colonial Office. In his opinion the Foreign Office was not the department which. J could well be charged with the details of government. As regarded the Uganda Mission, he should like to ask whether the Government had received sufficient information to be able to give the House any statement with regard to the French or Roman Catholic claims. There could be no doubt, from the papers recently published, that Captain Fugard’s proceedings had been more or less condemned by those who had followed him in Uganda. He warned the Government that if money compensation was to be paid many members would ask why the Government and not the British East Africa Company was to have to pay it If, in the course of Captain Lugard’s administration he violated the rights of Roman Catholics, the money ought to come out o f the coffers o f the Company, and not from the British taxpayer. We were face to face with difficulties in those regions which, in his opinion, called for the forfeiture of the Charter. Sir J. Fergusson thought it would be expected, before Parliament separated, that her Majesty’s Government should give some further assurance that they were thoroughly alive to the responsibilities this country had incurred in Uganda, and of which it could not possibly now divest itself. Everything depended upon firm and con1 sistent action, and he hoped the steps taken by the Government would not be marked by that vacillation which had formerly been accompanied by such disaster in the same continent. Mr. R. Wallace feared there was a too decided Protestant attitude taken up in the communications o f Sir Gerald Portal. He trusted the Government would not, as a matter of caurse, take up the Protestant side in Uganda.
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