THE T
JL U eekly Newspaper and Review. T
DÜM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMÜS UT IN INCŒPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From ike B r ie f o f H is Holiness P iu s IX . to The Tablet, June 4, 1870.
Vol. 82. No. 2791. L o n d o n , N o v e m b e r 4, 1893.
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C hronicle of the Week :
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The Defeat o f the Matabele— Sir George Trevelyan on Future Legislation— The Secretary for "War in the “ Bonnet Rouge ”— The Home Secretary at Leeds— Lord Herschell on the Objects of Education— Mr. Carson on Ministerial Speeches— The New Secretary o f the Post Office — The Armies o f the Powers— Murder of .the Mayor of Chicago— The Duke o f A rgyll and the Peers— Death o f General Sir C. Teesdale ,. 721
L eaders:
The Russian Fleet and the
Church in France . . . . 725 Labour Organizations in Belgium 726
CONTENTS.
L eaders (continued):
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The Late Father John Morris, S .J . 727 Pusey.. . . . . .. . . 728 N o t e s .................................................... 730 The All-Hallowed Bride of M ilan .. 732 R eviews :
Essays^ and Addresses . . . . 732 The Divine Unity of Scripture . . 733 Christian Evidences . . . . 733 The Temporal Power . . . . 733 The Witness of the Saints . . 734 The “ Rescued Nun ” . . . . 734 Prayers for the Dead Among Angli
cans .....................................................735
C orrespondence :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent).. . . . . . . 737 Dublin :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . . . 738 News from F r a n c e ........................... 739 L etters to th e E d itor :
The Coal War . . . . . . 739 Canon Hammond and Polychurch-
ism . . . . . . . . . , 740 A Suggestion . . . . . . 741 “ The Month ” and Spiritualism .. 741 Higher Education and the Train
ing of Catholic Teachers . . 741 Women Working for the Faith . . 742 A Correction . . .. . . 742 English Translations of Sacred
Works . . . . . . . . 742 St. Patrick’s Well at Orvieto . . 742
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Aspects of Anglicanism . . . . 742 The Catholic Association .. . . 745 Some Publications of the Week . . 747
Appeals to the Charitable . . 747 Social and P olitical . . . . 748
SUPPLEMENT. N ews from th e Schools :
The Religious Question at the
London School Board . . . . 753 Father Duggan’s Scheme.— Why
Not? .. ............................753 N ews from th e D io ceses:
Southwark . . . . . . . . 754 Shrewsbury . . . . . . . . 754 The Jubilee of Cardinal Gibbons . . 755
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
IN accordance with expectation news has reached England of the defeat of the Matabele outside Bulawayo, by the forces of the British South Africa Company, from Forts 'Charter and Victoria, and of the occupation of the King’skraal by the colonists : who were joined on the following day by the column from Tati and Fort Tuli, consisting of the Bechuanaland Border Police and some three hundred British and Dutch settlers under Colonel Goold-Adams and Commander Raaf; accompanied by a body of native auxiliaries 'from Khamaland. The Company’s troops, numbering only ¡six hundred, but having with them a seven-pounder and six Maxim guns, were commanded by Major Forbes. Captain White also accompanied them with a large body of Mashonas as scouts. The latest news before that of the ¡recent battle received from them came from a point some eighty miles distant from Bulawayo, and judging from the rate of progress to that place it was not expected that the intended junction with Colonel Goold-Adams’ force could be effected before the end of this week: and fears were freely expressed among military men and persons acquainted with the country that the rainy •season would set in before it was possible to accomplish anything sufficiently definite to be of permanent value in the settlement of the colony. Various means were pointed out in the papers by which Lobengula, if he knew of them, might, if he did not destroy the various small columns in -detail, hold his enemies at bay until the rains, and then make good his position and harass the forces sent against him with impunity. It appears, however, that Mr. Cecil .Rhodes and his colleagues knew better what they were about than the metropolitan daily press, and that, having accurately gauged the worth of the Matabele Impis and the weight of their own forces, they have found themselves justified by the result. Lobengula appears to have been thoroughly beaten, and to have fled in a north-westerly •direction with a view to making his way into the country ■ beyond the Zambesi. The Chartered Company, however, are reported to be in close pursuit; and it is to be hoped they are successful in capturing him, for, as in the case of other South African chiefs— notably
Cetewayo— no complete and permanent settlement and civilization of his subjects can be hoped for, while their King, surrounded by a group of armed savages, is permitted to roam at large and gather round him an ever-increasing band of bloodthirsty marauders. We have it on the best authority that a war with Lobengula was inevitable; not for the sole purpose of commercial aggrandisement, but in the ! interests of humanity, both white and coloured. Such being the case, we can only congratulate the British South Africa Company on the success of their little campaign ; and on what, having regard to the smallness of their force, and the number and reputed fighting properties of their enemy, must be considered a brilliant victory.
Sir George Trevelyan, addressing s ir g e o r g e ^t r e v e l y a n j-jjs constituents at Glasgow on f u t u r e l e g i s l a t i o n . Tuesday, managed to review nearly all the topics in which his party are at present interested. He dealt with the rivalry existing between various sections of the Liberal party as to who should first obtain a hearing for their various Bills ; temperance advocates, labour members, rural voters, and liberationists, both Scotch and Welsh, all of them pressing forward their claims and all sure to be disappointed if some other is preferred before them. After quoting a number on authorities— from Dr. Johnson and Carlyle to Holy Writ— in favour of beginning at once the work set before them, without waiting to weigh the relative values of every item of the programme, or standing on nice questions of precedence, Sir George authoritatively announced that in the remaining weeks of the Session the Employers’ Liability Bill would first be dealt with, and that the Local Government Bill, which ivent by the name of the Parish Councils Bill, would come next. By the passing of this Bill Parliament would bind itself to pass a similar one for Scotland. He further stated that this Session would be notable for a declaration of the House of Commons in favour of religious equality in Scotland, a measure founded on public expediency and public justice, common-sense, and common equity. The precise position of this Scots omnibus in the procession of six, which, in the metaphorical language of Sir George, is to be driven successively through Temple Bar by such skilled drivers as Sir W. Harcourt, Mr. Fowler, Mr. Asquith and Mr. Morley, was not stated. But Mr. Gladstone’s Irish Car is evidently to take a position in the extreme rear. This is its appropriate place. In concluding his speech Sir George Trevelyan attacked the House of Lords in studiously moderate language, having probably noticed the lack of success which had attended the efforts of his colleagues to
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