THE TABLET.
A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
DOM VCBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS OT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
Prom the B r i e f o f H is Holiness P iu s IX . to The Tablet, fu n e 4, 1S70.
V ol. 82. No. 2789. L ondon, O c t o b e r 21, 1893*
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''Chronicle of the Week :
Death of Marshal Macmahon— Mr. Rhodes at Fort Salisbury— Mr. Gladstone’s Letter to Chicago — The College of Preceptors and the State — A Mail Steamer in Collision— The Balloon Accident in the Alps — The Coal Crisis — The Great Storm in America — “ Feathered Women ” — Mr. .Asquith at Glasgow — A New Russian Port—Corporal Punishment in Board Schools . . . . 641 'L eaders :
The Industrial War . . . . 645 Mr. Hussey-Walsh’s Report on the Beira Railway . . . . 646 The Bangor Antiphonary.. . . 647 T h e Catholic Petition to Parliament 648 Xord Salisbury on Education .. 648 Notes 649
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Reviews :
Letters to the Editor :
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Our Lady and the Early Fathers 651 The Sarum Gradual .. . . 6 5 1 The Soul of the Bishop . . .. 652 The School Calendar . . . . 652 Words o f Wisdom from the Scrip
tures . . . . . . . . 652 Murby’s Scripture Manuals . . 653 Rate-Aid to Voluntary Schools . . 653 Bishop Keane on the Parliament of
Ritual of the Basilican Arrange
ment For the Sake of Dumb Animals . . 660 The Bishop o f Nottingham and
660
W a g e s .................................... 660 A Warning . . . . .. . . 660 Relics of the True Cross.. .. 660 The Coal War . . . . .. 661 A Bazaar at Poplar.. .. . . 661 Convent Schools and Higher Edu
Religions . . . . .. . . 654 With the Missioners in Mashona-
land .. . . . . . . 655 The New Battersea Church .. 655 Correspondence :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . . . 657 Dublin :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) .................................... 658 How Religion is Progressing in
Basutoland . . . . . . . . 659
cation _ . . . .. . . 661 The Dedication of England to St.
Peter .. .. . . . . 662 “ The Month ” and Spiritualism.. 662 Cardinal Gibbons and the Parlia
ment of Religions . . . . . 662 The Archbishops of America and the Catholic Educational Exhibit 664 The School Controversy in America 664 Some Publications of the Week .. 668 Obituary ............................. 668 Appeal to the Charitable .. 669
Social and Political .. . . 669
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SU PPLEM ENT. News from the Schools :
Catholic Female Scholarship Suc
cesses . . . . . . . . 673 The Iondon School Board and the Religious Question . . . . 674 The London County Council and
Technical Education Board . . 676 The Schools of Glasgow Arch
diocese . .
. . . . 677
Rates for Voluntary Schools . . 678 Religion in Board Schools . . 66s About Education . . . . . . 665 News from the Dioceses:
Westminster Southwark . . Birmingham Hexham and Newcastle . .
666 666 666 667
Liverpool .. .. . . . . 667 Middlesbrough . . . . . . 667 Shrewsbury . . . . . . . . 668 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 668
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
DEATH OF MARSHAL MACMAHON. E
A R L Y in the week, just as the
Russian officers were making their triumphal entry into Paris, France was saddened by the news of the death
•of Marshal Macmahon. The news was not wholly -unexpected, for the Marshal had been seriously ill for some weeks past, but not the less it served to cast a shadow for a moment over the brilliant scene which was symbolizing before the world the union of two nations. He -was the last but one of the French Marshals. Marshal Canrobert alone now represents a rank which has too many associations with the glories of the Monarchy and the Empire to be perpetuated under a Republican regime. Born in 1808, Macmahon was the descendant o f an old Irish family, exiled for the Stuart Kings ; was educated at 'St. Cyr, and afterwards took part in the Algerian campaigns. In 1848 he was made a General of Brigade. After the Coup d ’ Ê t a t he found himself out of favour with the Government, but Napoleon’s conciliatory advances were soon accepted, and when, in 1855, General Canrobert left -the Crimea, Macmahon was chosen by the Emperor to succeed him in the command o f a division. The red-letter day o f his life was September 8 in that year, when he was to ld off for the perilous task of carrying the Malakoff. How well he did his work that day is told in every history of France, and his memorable answer when ordered to evacuate the post he had so hardly won, J ’y su is, f y reste is part of the national tradition. In the Austrian War of 1859, he again took a conspicuous and decisive part, and after the battle of Magenta, was made a Marshal and a Due by the Emperor. After representing France at the Coronation of "William I I I . of Prussia in 1861, he was appointed to the command o f the third corps d 'armée, and in 1864 became Governor-General of Algeria. When war broke out with Germany, the Marshal was at once sent to the frontier, and took the command o f the First Army Corps, whose headquarters were at Strasburg. On August 6, 1870, he tasted for the first time the full bitterness of defeat. He had taken up a strong defensive position on the slopes of the Vosges with 50,000 men, but the Prussians, under the Crown Prince, succeeded in turning his flank, and then broke the
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left and the centre, and forced him to retreat in confusion upon Rheims. On August 30 he was again defeated by the pursuing Prussians, and driven beyond the Meuse. On the fatal day of Sedan he was in command, but received a severe wound in the thigh early in the engagement, so that the conduct o f the battle fell to General Weinpffen, who had the sad distinction of signing the capitulation. Macmahon was retained as a prisoner of war at Wiesbaden until March in the following year, when he was made Commander-in-Chief of the army at Versailles. Then followed the second siege of Paris, and the long struggle with the Commune. The Marshal then set himself bravely to the task of reorganizing the demoralized troops, until on the resignation of the Presidency by M. Thiers, on May 24, 1873, Macmahon was chosen as successor to Thiers, and accepted the responsibility, in a letter o f characteristic modesty and simplicity. For four years the Marshal managed to reign without offence, but in 1877 came the famous crisis known as that o f May 16. A strong Conservative Cabinet was formed under the Due de Broglie, and the Senate was induced to concur with the President in dissolving the Chamber. Then followed the memorable campaign of which Gambetta was the hero, with his watchword, applied to the President, se soumettre ou se dim ettre. The Conservative forces were routed, and a frankly Republican Cabinet was formed by M. Dufaure. For two years more the Marshal continued to hold the Presidency, but they were years of uneasiness and strain, and when, in 1877, Dufaure pressed for the removal o f the most conspicuous o f the Anti-Republicans among the Generals and officials, the sturdy old Marshal refused, and resigned. His closing years do not belong to history, and were spent in great retirement.
MR. RHODES
AT FORT SALISBURY.
Great enthusiasm has been aroused in Mashonaland by a speech delivered by Mr. Cecil Rhodes. Those who had undertaken to develop the country two years ago,
he told his hearers, had simply thrown themselves into the wilderness. He could never forget how much was due to the 1,500 who had persevered in spite o f all hardship. The Company had been accused o f being a speculative o n e ; but it had done its best for the country, and had not yet paid dividends. The future held out the hand o f promise to them ; the Beira line was now open, the river transport was excellent, and he had seen no tsetse fly in the vicinity of the terminus. There would shortly be no better road in Africa than that from the terminus to Fort Salisbury. Unfortunately, no sooner had the difficulties of transit been
