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THE TABLET.

A. Weekly Newspaper and Remew.

DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS KTIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT1S.

From ihe B r ie f o f H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.

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Political Testament of the Comte de Paris— Speech of Count Kalnoky—Mr. Gladstone and Local Option—Our Treaty with Japan— The War in Corea—Great Naval Battle—British Railways in 1893 —The Franco-Swiss Tariff— The Labour Congress at Nantes—A Trade Union Congress— France -andMadagascar--Church and State in Hungary — Opening o f the Dutch Parliament— The French Labour Market—Convict Prisons in England—The United States— The Money Market .. . • 437 Rosary Encyclical .. .. •• 441 L e a d e r s :

The Present Position of the Educa­

tion Question .. .. ■ • 443

CONTENTS.

L eaders (Continued) :

Saul Among the Prophets _.. 444 The Tercentenary of Palestrina

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C orrespondence (Continued) :

News from Ireland........................ 454 L etters to th e E ditor :

Page and Orlando di Lasso .. . 445 Leaves from a Rambler’s Note-

The Greek Church.. .. .. 456 Convent Schools and the Oxford

Book .. .. .. .. 446 N otes . . ........................................ 447 R eviews :

Maria Deiuil-Martiny . . .. 448 A Rising Star .. .. .. 449 Reminiscences of Prior Park . 450 Meditationson the LifeofSt. Peter 450 The Portfolio .. .. .. 450 Foreign Catholic Periodicals .. 451 The Lord’s Prayer .. .. 451 Books of the Week .. .. 451 C orrespondence :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) .. . . . . . . 453

Local Examinations .. .. 456 The Oldest Church in Lancashire 456 The White Fathers .. .. 457 Conference of Catholic Guardians 457 Catholic Guide to Rome .. .. 457 Science and Faith .. .. .. 457 Catholic Conference and Denomina­

tional Education .. .. .. 459 Missions of the White Fathers .. 460 Centenary of St. Thomas’ Church,

Claughton-on-Brock .. ..461 Half-Communion .. .. .. 463 “ An Ecclesiastical Outrage ” .. 464 The New Bishop of Cloyne .. 464 Irish National Teachers’ Association 46s St. Winefride’s Well .. . .. 466 Social and P olitical .. .. 466

SUPPLEMENT. N ews from th e Schooi.s :

The Buckfast School Contest . 469 St. George’s Boys’ Industrial

School, Liverpool . . . 469 The Coming School Board Elec^ tion ^ .. .. .. . . 470

The Coming Struggle .. ..471 Science v. Literature .. . . 472 ( hurch Control over Education.. 472 Cramming .. .. .. . . 472 St. Edmund’s College .. .. 472 N ews from th e D io ceses:

Westminster .. . . ... 472 Southwark . . .. .. . . 472 Birmingham . . .. . . 473 Liverpool .. .. .. . . 473 Nottingham.. .. .. . . 473 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 473 The Holywell Miracles .. .. 474 The Case of Miss Arter .. .. 474

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not fail some day to enlighten. This is the last wish of the exile for a fatherland to w'hich he recommends his children to remain always devoted and faithful.”

C H R O N IC L E O F T H E W E E K .

.POLITICAL TESTAMENT

OF THE COMTE DE PARIS. L AST July, while still in the full possession of all his intellectual powers, but already consciously under sentence of death,

the Comte de Paris drew up a last message to France. Its first lines strike a note of pathos and disappointment which -runs through and penetrates the whole document. To wrrite a political testament, he says, has •always seemed to him a mistake, even for Princes and statesmen who have played a great role in their time, and for this reason: that God in his mercy has withheld the gift of foreknowledge. The Comte thus at the outset classes himself among those Princes who have never played a great part, and seems sadly grateful that he was spared foreknowledge of the many disappointments of his life. His son knows his wishes, and therefore there is no need for w'ords to him, but the message is written down for •the sake of all those of his friends who have wished well to the monarchical cause, and will pray for him at his death. Then making brief profession of his own unchanging belief that the national and traditional Monarchy is the form of government best fitted to give peace and happiness to .France, he goes on to justify his own conduct at Frohsdorf in 1873. He sacrificed all personal considerations for the sake of unity, and points to the elections of 1885 as proof that his long labours were not in vain. Those elections •were followed by the sentence of exile, and in a foreign land •the Prince protests he has always stood for the traditional principle of which his birth made him the guardian. In handing on this heritage to his son, he adds w'ords which we give textually : “ For France to recover itself now it is necessary that it should become a Christian nation. A nation which has lost the religious sentiment, where passions are no longer restrained by any moral check, where those who suffer do not find a motive for resignation in the hope of a future life, is destined to division, to laceration, to become the prey of its enemies both internal and external. The first duty of my friends, therefore, is to wrest France from the terrible path which would lead it to such a catastrophe. I hope that in this work of salvation they will see uniting themselves with them all honest men, whom experience can-

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The statements made by Count Kal- speech noky on Monday, in his address to the c o u n t k a l n o k y . Delegations at Buda-Pesth, were marked by his characteristic candour, and were on the whole thoroughly reassuring. Nothing could be plainer than the terms in which he referred to Bulgaria, He made it clear that, in his judgment, the dismissal and disgrace of M. Stambuloff, was a deplorable blunder, as he considered the Bismarck of Sofia constituted the real guarantee for order and stability in the Principality. Referring to Roumania he stated that the kingdom had practically decided to throw in its lot with the Triple Alliance. This had, indeed, been suspected or assumed before, but had been formally denied by the authorities at Bucharest. To the powers whose aim it is to prevent a disturbance of the present balance in the East, its cordial and intimate alliance is of great value. Not the least important points of his speech were the assurances regarding the generally tranquil disposition of European Governments -— which, however, would not as yet allow of disarmament. The burden of perpetual preparedness for war must be borne by the nations until guarantees for peace are available which are not at present forthcoming. The great safeguard of tranquillity lies in the absence of interference with the smaller independent States.

In the course of an address the Bishop m r . Glad s t o n e Qf Chester, at Aberdeen on Tuesday evenl o c a l o p t io n . >n c i read the following extract from a letter received from Mr. Gladstone a few days ago : “ For many years I have been strongly of opinion that the principle of selling liquors for the public profit only offered the sole chance of escape from the present miserable and almost contemptible predicament which is a disgrace to the country. I am friendly to local option, but it can be no more than a partial and occasional remedy. The mere limitation of numbers— the idol of Parliament for the last twenty years— is, if pretending to the honour of a remedy, little better than an imposture. The growth ot the system of tied houses continually aggravates the prevailing mischief. Of details I do not speak, but in principle you are working on the only lines either promising or tenable. I am glad to see that Mr. Chamberlain is active in your cause.” This letter is rather rough on Sir W. Harcourt