THE TABLET.
A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
DOM VOBIS GRATOLAMOR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMOS ÜT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT1S.
From the B r ie f o f His Holiness Pius IX . to The Tablet, June 4, 1870.
Vol. 84. No. 2851. London, December 29, 1894. P rice sd. by P ost s ^ d .
[Registered a t th e General Post O ffice as a N ewspaper .
C hronicle of th e W eek :
Trial of Captain Dreyfus— The New Bulgarian Ministry—Resignation of the Hungarian Cabinet — Interesting Facts Concerning Xondon—Mr. Acland on Education—Cambridge and the Spread of Unbelief— Portugal Constructing a Navy—The Responsibility of Directors and Auditors— The Alabama Arbitration—The Armenian Question—Severe Gale and Loss of Life—Catholic Organizatio n -L o rd Randolph Churchill l — The Pamirs — The Apostles’
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Creed in Board Schools — The Bank Holiday .. •• •• 997 X eaders :
The Prospects of Peace .. .. 1001 Account Book of a Mediaeval
Guild ......................... ..1002 The Newly-Found Old Syriac
G o s p e l s .................................... 1002 Hints on Entertaining Ghosts .. 1004
CONTENTS.
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N otes . . ... — . . ..1005 R eviews :
Anglican Orders and Jurisdiction 1007 Life and Times of William Laud 1008 The Archbishop of Tuam on the
Acts of the Apostles .. .. 1009 The Russian Jews .. .. ..1010 The Anglican Revival . ..1010 Some Catholic Boys’ Books . . io n The Red Shirts .. .. . . io n A Church of England Hymn to St.
Thomas of Canterbury .. . . io n C orrespondence :
Rome :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) .. .. . . ..1013 Notes from Paris .. .. ..1014 News from Ireland . . . . . .1015 L etters to th e E d itor :
Father Gasquet and M. Dalbus ..10x6 Ecclesiastical Courtesy .. ..1017 Surreptitious Communions .. 1017
L etters to th e E d itor (Con
tinued) : A Sad Look-Out for the New
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Year .. .. .. ..1018 Rival Schemes .. .. ..1018 Is Scotland Wavering ? .. .. 1018 An Appeal .. .. .. .. 1018 Agnosticism and its Causes .. .. 1019 School-Boy Life in France .. ..1020 The Sheffield School Board.. .. 1021 Christmas Hymn .. .. .. 1022 The Abbey School, Fort Augustus. .1022 Women and Men Teachers in
America
The Catholic Association and the
Election of Guardians . .1023 N ews from th e D io ceses:
Westminster
Southwark .. Birmingham Clifton Newport and Menevia ..1024 Nottingham.........................
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D iocesan N ews (Continued):
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Middlesbrough . . . . ..1024. Salford .................................... 1024 Glasgow . . .. . . ..1024
SUPPLEMENT. N ews from the Schooi.s :
The Art of Child Training and its Duties .. .. .. .. 1029 The Peasants’ High School in
Denmark .. .. .. . . 1030 The School Board for London ..1031 Father Berry’s Homes .. ..1031 The Religion of a Minor .. . .1032 St. Joseph's College, Dumfries ..1032 College of the Sacred Heart,
Wimbledon .. .. .. 1033 The Buckfast School Contest ..1033 A New Scheme of Rate-Aid .. 1033 Stonyhurst College .. .. 1034 Sheffield and the Instruction of
Pupil Teachers .. .. .. 1034 Catholic Successes at the Guardians’
Elections .. .. .. ..1034
'* * Rejected M S . cannot be returned unless accompanied w ith address and postage.
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
----------- ♦ -----------'n p 'H I S long expected trial was con- triai. of I ducted from beginning to end in CA1fYFus ^ secret, and with the result that a wild crop of rumours have been afloat ever since. When the last speech for the defence had been made the reporters were admitted, and the President of the Court put the question whether the accused had procured for a foreign Power secret documents connected with the national defence, and had had dealings with that Power to induce it to declare war against France. The votes of the court-martial were taken separately, beginning with him of the lowest rank. When it came to the turn of the presiding Colonel it was found that 4he Court was unanimous in its verdict of guilty. Sentence was then pronounced, by which Captain Dreyfus is condemned to perpetual imprisonment in a fortress and to military degradation. In accordance with this last part of the sentence his condemnation will be read out to the ^prisoner in the presence of the troops, and the commanding officer will declare him unworthy to bear arms and strip him of his badges. Many of the Parisian papers have since been complaining that sentence of death was not passed, but the Court had no power to do more than it has done. Seeing that common soldiers are shot without mercy for such an act of momentary insubordination as striking an .officer, it certainly seems that imprisonment is a lenient sentence for such treachery as that of which Dreyfus is accused. Of his guilt, in face of the unanimous verdict of his comrades, there can be no reasonable doubt.
M. Radoslavoff having failed to form a Jrhe new Cabinet, M. Stoiloff was entrusted with the vraKTPvN| task»and has now fulfilled il- M- Stoiloff, the Premier, M. Nacevics, M. Gueschoff, and Colonel Petrcff retain their pcrtfolios of the Interior, Foreign Affairs, Finance, and War respectively. M. Velitch- koff becomes Minister of Public Instruction, M. Mincevics, a Conservative, now Bulgarian representative at Vienna, Minister of Justice, and M. Madjaroff, a Unionist Minister of Public Works. The formation of the Cabinet, as thus constituted, does little to remove some of the difficulties .which led to the Ministerial crisis. The resignation of the
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late Ministry was due in the first place to the withdrawal of the two Liberal members, MM. Radoslavoff and Pesheff, who for a long time had been on far from friendly terms with their Conservative and Russophile colleagues, on account of the systematic campaign carried on by the latter against the Liberal party both in the Sobranye and in the country. The Liberal group of M. Radoslavoff distinguished itself from the other Ministerialist parties mainly by its adherence to the principle that all steps tending to a reconciliation with Russia were against the interest of the country. Consequently when MM. Radoslavoff and Pesheff learned by chance that Prince Ferdinand, acting on the advice of M. Stoiloff and Colonel Petroff, had proposed to the Emperor Nicolas to send representatives of Bulgaria to the funeral of the Tsar Alexander, they determined to retire from the Ministry. Another factor, which accentuated the difference between the Conservative and Liberal Ministers, was this : The institution of a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into the acts of the Stambuloff Cabinet from 1887 to 1894 appeared to the Liberals to be directed also against MM. Stoiloff and Nacevics, as former colleagues of M. Stambuloff, and it seemed to the Liberal party that its representatives in the Cabinet would be placing themselves in a false position by continuing to belong to a Ministry the head of which might be summoned before the Commission of Inquiry to defend acts for which they were responsible, while he belonged to the Stambuloff Government. The new Ministers appeared in their places in the Sobranye and were well received. They brought in two Bills granting a general amnesty to the political exiles. These were agreed to in principle and remitted to a Committee for further consideration.
RESIGNATION OF THE HUNGARIAN
CABINET. The Hungarian crisis has entered upon a critical stage. Dr. Wekerle and M. Lukas, the Minister of Commerce, arrived in Vienna on Thursday morning to tender the resignation of the Cabinet. Dr. Wekerle was received by the Emperor at one o’clock. In Budapest the crisis is eagerly discussed. The Pester Lloyd says: “ Dr. Wekerle’s journey to Vienna is in all probability the last hardship he has to undergo. If the truth must be told, it is that his Cabinet has never been able to obtain the favour and approval of the Crown. The crisis is not of yesterday or last month; it is a crisis of two years’ standing. Dr. Wekerle has obtained the sanction to three of the Church laws, and does not see his way to the rest. He has fulfilled his mission, and thinks it is time to go.” There is nopossi
