THE TABLET.
A Weekly Newspaper and Review .
DOM VOBIS GRATULAMCJR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT1S
F rom the B r ie f oj H is H o lin ess P iu s IX . to The Tablet, June 4, 1870.
V ol. 83. No. 2822. L ondon, June 9> i^94*
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C hronicle of th e W e ek :
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Imperial Parliament: TheUganda Question— Mr. Chamberlain and L o rd Rosebery — The Liberal ‘Unionist Programme—The New French Ministry : Declaration of P o l ic y — Interpellation in the Chamber — The Italian Crisis : Resignation of the Ministry—The Anglo-Italian Treaty—The Two British Troopers and Lobengula —Russia and the Vatican—The Hungarian Crisis — The Better.ment Question — Stamping Out Strikes in China—Serious Rising in Corea—The Money Market .. 877 L eaders:
Dr. Barnardo and his “ »Popish
Plot” .................................... 881 The Debate on Uganda .. .. 881 The New Gallery .. .. .. 883 Some Recent Arguments on Angli
can Orders .. .. .. 883
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Ih e English Bishops and the
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New Schools for Uxbridge .. .. 887 R eviews :
The English Psalter of 1539 .. 888 The Bard of the Dimbovitza .. 888 Scottish Land Names .. 889 The Life of St. Francis Borgio .. 890 Red Cap and Blue Jacket .. 890 Under the Red Robe .. 891 A Runaway Marriage .. 8gx Stories of the Beatitudes .. 891 The Lamp of the Sanctuary .. 891 Books of the Week .. 891 The Cardinal’s Portrait .. 891 Correspondence :
Rome :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) .. .. .. .. 893 News from Ireland........................ 894 I
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Irish Industrial Co-operation .. 895 Secondary Education for Women 896 Catholic Commercial Employ ment
Association .. .. .. 896 “ Father Michael” on “ Father
Ignatius ” .. .. .. .. 897 Liturgiological Studies .. .. 897 Catholic Summer School .. .. 897 Thomist and Scotist .. .. 898 The Organ for St. Peter’s, Rome.
—A Query .. .. .. 898 Hospital Sunday .. .. .. 898 Laymen’s Welcome to Bishop
Brownlow .. .. .. .. 898 Lord Arundell on Death Duties .. 899 Who are Catholics ? .. .. .. 900 Scotch College, Valladolid .. .. 900 “ Formation of Christendom.” .. 901 Canterbury Cathedral .. .. 901 Rate-Aid for Voluntary Schools .. 902 The “ Red Rag’’ and the City Bull 902 Catholic Protection and Rescue
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“ Truth ” on Dr. Barnardo.. .. 903 The Bells of S;onyhurst .. .. 903 Cardinal Gibbons and Vivisection 903 St. Winefride’s Well.. .. .. 904 Cheyne-row New Church .. .. 904 F rom E verywhere . . .. 904 Obituary ........................................904 Social and P olitical .. . . 90$
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT— THE UGANDA
QUESTION. I N both Houses on Friday week the subject o f Uganda formed the chief business. It arose in the House of Lords in the form o f a motion by Lord Stanmore for the production of papers, which he made with the object of giving the Government an opportunity o f explaining its policy. Lord Kimberley stated that the protectorate now to be proclaimed would extend only to Uganda proper, a country bounded by the territories known as Usoya, Unyoro, Toru, and Koki. The protectorate would be exercised by a Commissioner appointed by the Government, but it would not be the duty o f the Commissioner to interfere in all the details o f the administration, which would be left in the hands of the native chiefs. As to the fate of the East Africa Company, as they had abandoned Uganda, the question of the revocation of the Charter had arisen. In reference to the construction o f a railway for the purpose o f connecting Uganda with the coast, the Government thought the question was not sufficiently advanced for them to make any proposal for the expenditure o f public money upon it. T h e Marquess o f Salisbury said the British East Africa Company was deserving of some consideration, as it had ■ risked and lost large sums o f money, and, as great energy and devotion had been expended in carrying forward British dominion, civilization, and Christianity, he hoped ih a t the region on the north-west o f Uganda forming one sphere of influence would remain absolutely intact. He regretted to hear that nothing was to be done towards the construction of a railway, and, although the Government was not very affluent at this moment, yet something should be done to show that we intended to communicate with the new Protectorate by means more rapid than a three months’ post. The railway would prevent home influence from becoming absolutely nil, and it would save the Government from being in the presence o f a f a i t accom pli by every post from Uganda. In the interests of British trade he earnestly hoped that we would do all we could to maintain, push forward, and strengthen our power in those rich and extensive regions. The discussion in the Commons arose in Committee o f Supply on the vote for ^50,000 for a grant in a id o f expenses connected with Uganda. Sir C . Dilke
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criticized the retention of Uganda from an extremely hostile point o f view and at length, while Lord R . Churchill maintained that the annexation policy was inevitable. Mr. Labouchere denounced the annexation and also the idea o f making a railway, and ridiculed the notion that the retention o f the country would extinguish the slave trade, contending that there was not a single slave in Uganda. Mr. Dunn, having lived in Uganda, congratulated the Government on its policy. Mr. J. A . Pease maintained that the evacuation o f Uganda would increase the slave trade. Mr. Chamberlain was in favour o f a policy of extension. H e urged the Government to do away with its present useless slave squadron, and to apply the money to the making o f the railway, which would be the inevitable destruction o f the traffic in slaves. H e dwelt on the great potential market which Uganda offered, and maintained that it would be better to leave at once a country -which we were either too weak or too cowardly to govern, than to take a mere nominal possession o f it and leave it to chance. Mr. Bryce replied, and Mr. Goschen filled up the two or three minutes that remained till midnight, when the vote was put, and a division was insisted upon by Sir C . Dilke, and other Radicals, The vote was carried by 218 to 52. Progress was then reported.
The Liberal Unionist leader lost no m r . c h am b e r l a in t jm e ¡n niaking his reply to the Prime lo r d r o seberv.I Minister’s elaborately bitter attack upon him in Birmingham. The opportunity offered itself at Bradford, where Mr. Chamberlain was engaged to speak on behalf o f the candidature o f Lord Randolph Churchill. After raising a laugh by describing Lord Rosebery’s Government as troubled with an alcoholic schism on the one side and an ecclesiastical schism on the other, he taunted the Government with their inconsistency in declining a dissolution while maintaining that the flowing tide o f popular favour is with them. Why should they continue to drag on a precarious existence, supported by microscopic majorities, when all the while, by their own showing, they have it in their hands at once to alter this state o f things by appealing to the country? Why don’t they do it ? It was all very well to rail at the action o f the House o f Lords, and to quarrel with its conduct in the past. On the present occasion the Peers were doing nothing more than defend the rights and opinions of the great majority of the people. Their offence is that they have insisted that the nation should be consulted before the final decision is given upon a question -which affects the very existence of the Kingdom. They appeal to the country to
