THE TABLET.
A. Weekly Newspaper and Review.
DOM VOBIS GRATCLAMÜR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS ÜT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT1S.
From, the 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, rSyo.
V ol. 84. No. 2846. L ondon, November 24, 1894. P r ic e sd . b y PosT.5j<£d.
[R e g is tered a t t h e G en e r a l P ost O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper
C h ronicle o f t h e W e e k :
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The Unionist Triumph in 'Forfarshire— Funeral of the late Tsar— The Marriage o f the Tsar— M. Clemenceau on Madagascar—The 25th Anniversary o f th e S u e z Canal—Socialism and the French 'Chamber—A Seven Years’ Siege o f the Pole— Lord Tweedmouth on the House o f Lords—The Opening o f the Dardenelles—AngloRussian U n d e r s t a n d in g—The Earthquakes in Southern Italy— Payment of Members of Parliament— Catholicism in Sydney— 'The French War Budget— The 'Chino-Japanese W a r — Japan’s Rejection of American Overtures — The Repressive Measures in •Germany— Mr. Asquith at Birmingham—The Money Market . . 797 L e a d e r s :
The School Board Elections in
London and the Provinces . . 801
CONTENTS.
L eaders (Continued) :
M. Zola in Rome .. Edmund Gibbon Holy Land Lectures .. N o t e s ............................ R e v iew s :
Mr. Gladstone’s Horace .. The Oracles o f Papias Dr. Dale’s Discourses on Chris
tian Doctrine The Miraculous Medal Books o f the Week Salford Cathedral School Jones v. Lord Beaumont C orrespondence :
Rome (From Our Own Corre
spondent) .. ..................... News from Ireland .. L e t t e r s to t h e E d it o r :
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802 803 804 804 807 808 809
.. 8xi . . 811
813 814
L ’Abbé Duchesne and Anglican
Orders .. .. .. . . 815 Divine Omniscience and Freewill 816 Surreptitious Communions.. . . 816
L e t t e r s to t h e E d itor (Con
tinued) : Trinity Sunday . . .. . . 8x6 Cardinal Newman and Anglican
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Baptism . . . . .. . . 817 Bibliography o f the Rosary . . 817 The Difficulty of Anglicans . . 817 The British Name of Wigan . . 817 Christmas Papers for the Work-
houses .. .. . . . . 8i 3 Restoration of Tower and Spire 8x8 A Fair Protest . . . . . . 818 Journalistic Ethics . . . . 818 A Pilgrimage to Holywell . . 818 King Mwanga and Catholics . . 818 Dr. Pusey . . .. . . . . 819 Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal 820 The Archbishop of Dublin on Edu
cation .. . . . . . . 820 St. Margaret’s Memorial Church,
Dunfermline.. . . . . . . 821 Foreign Mission House in Rozen-
daal . . . . . . . . . . 822
O b it u a r y ........................................824 S o c ia l a n d P o l it ic a l . . . . 824
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SU PPLEM EN T . N ew s from t h e S chools :
The Buckfast School Contest .. 829 Liverpool School Board Election 829 Manchester and Salford School
Board Elections .. . . . . 830 Birmingham School Board . . 830 Rochdale School Board Election 830 Father Bernard Vaughan at West
minster Town Hall . . . . 83c Birkenhead Board of Guardians 831 Gateshead School Board Election 832 N ew s from t h e D io ceses :
Westminster . . . . ... 832 Southwark . . 833 Birmingham ............................833 Clifton ....................................... 834 Liverpool . . .. . . . . 834. Newport and Menevia . . . . 834 Portsmouth 834 Salford . . . . . . . . 824 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 824
Rejected M S . cannot be re tu rn ed unless accom panied w ith address a n d postage.
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
THE UNIONIST TRIUMPH IN FORFARSHIRE. T 'H E promotion of Sir John Rigby to the Court of Appeal caused a vacancy in a typical Scotch con
stituency. This election in Forfarshire was of the more interest because it was the first election contested since Lord Rosebery’s appeal for a tremendous uprising against the House of Lords. Forfarshire, which has supported the Liberal cause since 1832, has answered by returning a candidate opposed to the Government, Home Rule, and Disestablishment. The figures were as follows :
Hon. C. M. Ramsay (U.) 5,145 Mr. Henry Robson ( G . ) ............................. 4,857
Unionist m a j o r i t y ............................. 288 The following are the figures of the preceding elections :
1886. J . W . B a rc la y (L .U .) . . . 3,839 D . C. Guthrie (G .) . . . 3,432
1892. J. R ig b y , Q .C . (G .) . . . 4,943 J. W . B a r c la y ( L .U .) . . . 4,077
Unionist majority ... 407 Gladstonian majority 866 It may be noted that when Mr. Barclay was returned in 1886 as a Liberal Unionist, he had already held the seat for 15 years, and was helped by the fact that the disruption of the old Liberal party consequent upon Mr. Gladstone’s sudden conversion to Home Rule left his opponents absolutely without any sort of organization. In 1892 he was easily defeated by Mr. Rigby, then almost a stranger to the constituency. The seat has since been regarded as so safe that when Mr. Rigby was appointed Solicitor-General, it was thought useless to contest the seat. The successful candidate, Major the Hon. Charles Maule Ramsay, is the only surviving son of George, 12th Earl of Dalhousie, by his •marriage with Sarah Frances, daughter of Mr. William Robertson, of Logan, N.B., and was born in January, 1859. He was formerly a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, and has held for the last few years a commission as major in the Forfarshire and Kincardineshire Artillery Militia. Major Ramsay is married to Estelle, daughter of the late Mr. William Retallack Garrison, of New York, and he now enters Parliament for the first time. His return on the pre-
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sent occasion is the gain of a seat to the Conservative party, counting as two votes on a division, and he is the 48th new member who will have taken his seat in St. Stephen’s since the last general election.
On Monday the remains of the Tsar Alex0F ander III. were interred in the Fortress Cathe- l a t e t s a r . ¿Irai of St. Peter and St. Paul at St. Petersburg.
An impressive Requiem Mass was celebrated by the Metropolitan Archbishop in the presence of the Tsar, the widowed Empress, the Grand Duchess Alexandra Feodorovna, the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duke of York, and other Royal personages and representatives of foreign States now in the Russian capital, the congregation also including a brilliant assembly of leaders of all branches of Russian society and the military and civil services. At the close of the Mass the Empress advanced to the coffin, and, kneeling by its side, repeatedly kissed the face of her dead husband. Having risen, she knelt once more and bade him a last farewell. Then she was led from the baldachino by her son, who, with the other members of the Imperial family saluted the late Emperor in like fashion. The Prayer of Absolution followed, after which the coffin was closed and lowered into the grave.
As at present arranged, the marriage of the Tsar will take place on Monday, at the Winter t h e t s a r . Palace ; but as that will be the eve of the first day fast of the Nativity, the ceremony must conclude before two o’clock. Probably only the relatives among the foreign representatives who attended the funeral will be invited. Directly after the wedding the Dowager Tsarina is expected to go to Denmark, or she will join the Tsarevitch in the Caucasus, in either case accompanied by the Princess of Wales ; -whilst the Prince will remain at St. Petersburg for a few days longer. Workmen are already busy erecting set pieces for the illuminations on Monday, and the milliners are overwhelmed with orders for fê te costumes. The unfortunate Office of Ceremonies continues at work, without any respite, at the same high pressure under which it has already Been working for a fortnight.
There seems no reason to doubt that m . Cl e m e n c e a u the Committee of the Chamber appointed Ma d a g a s c a r . t0 rePort upon the proposed expedition to
Madagascar will show itself favourable to the Government schemes. Meanwhile there is one voice crying in the wilderness to unheeding ears : “ It is con
