A W e e k l y N e w s p a p e r

DTJM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS OT IN INCCEFTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

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, 1870.

V o l . 84. No. 2848. L ondon, D ecember 8, 1894. P r ic e sd . b y P o s t 5% d .

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President Cleveland’s Message— Finance and Foreign Affairs — Lord Jersey and the Ottawa C o n f e r e n c e— Earl Spencer on -Allotments — Mr. Rhodes’ New Empire—Mr. Matthews on OldAge Pensions—On the House of Lords— King Humbert and M. Zola — Peace N e g o t i a t i o n s — 'Chinese Outrages on a Priest— Mr. Balfour on Revolution— Opening o f the German Reichstag— France and Africa— Sir M. HicksBeach on Religious Education . . 877 «Lea d e r s :

The French in Madagascar . . 881 The Triumph of “ No Popery ” . . 882 The Old Masters in Church Choirs 883 Lewisham L e c tu r e s ......................... 884 "Notes . . ~ . . . . 884

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R ev iew s :

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From Edinburgh to Antarctic .. 886 A French H is to r y ............................887 A Wonder-Working Saint . . 888 A Life’s Decision . . . . . . 888 A Defence of Probabilism . . 889 A Wessex Novelist . . . . 889 Peg, The Rake . . . . . . 889 Foreign Catholic Periodicals . . 889 Books of the Week . . . . 890 The Bishop o f Salford on the An­

glican Church . . . . . . 890 Catholic Evidence Lectures . . 891 C orrespondence :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . .

News from Ireland . .

Catholics and Their Civic Duties 896 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :

Divine O m n is c i e n c e and Free­

will _ . . . . . . . . 898 The Miracles at Lourdes . . . . 899 Bibliography of the Rosary . . 899

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L e t t e r s to t h e E d it o r (Con

Page tinued) : The Protestantism of History . . 899 An Anglican View of Reunion .. 900 Surreptitious Communions . . 900 Catholics and their Civic Duties 901 Security of Tenure and “ Our

Teachers” . . . . . . .. 901 The Pilgrimage to Holywell . . 901 A Caution . . . . . . .. 901 An Appeal.. . . . . . . 901 Christmas Appeal.. . . . . goi Elementary and Religious Educa­

tion in Ontario . . .. . . 901 So c ia l a n d P o l it ic a l . . . . 902

SU PPLEM EN T . N ew s from th e S chools :

Bradford School Board Election 909 Foleshill School Board Election 909 Coventry School Board Election 909 M id d l e sb r o u g h School Board

Election .. .. . . . . 909 Otley School Board Election . . 909 Sheffield School Board Election 910

N ew s from t h e S chools (Con­

Page tinued) : Swansea School Board Election 910 The Walthamstow School Inquiry 910 The Use o f Schoolrooms . . .. 910 Training College of the Sacred

Heart, Wandsworth . . .. 91T Leicester School Board Election 91 r The London School Board . . 911 N ew s from t h e D io ceses : Westminster . . . . ... 911

Southw ark ........................................911 Birmingham ............................912 Clifton ......................... . . 912 Leeds .. . . . . . . 912 Newport and Menevia . . . . 912 Northampton . . . . . . 913 Nottingham.......................................913 P l y m o u t h .......................................913 Portsmouth .. . . . . 913 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 913 Glasgow . . . . . . . . 914 The Late Cardinal Gonzalez . . 914

* * Reacted M S . cannot be returned unless accompanied w ith address and postage. CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

MESSAGE. T

PRESIDENT -CLEVELAND’S

HE overthrow of the Democratic party at the polls finds no reflection in the message which the President has just sent to Congress. It is as bold and clear and unwavering in its allegiance to party principles as if it had Deen written by a a man whose policy had just been sanctioned by a plebiscite. He begins by a brief reference to the negotiations undertaken in the interests of peace with victorious •Japan. Apart, however, from the war, Japan is declared to be worthy of increased sympathy and attention. Her evident desire to cultivate more liberal intercourse with other Powers, and her desire to obtain a position of full ■ equality among the nations, are pointed to as reasons why the relations of the United States with so progressive a •nation should not be less broad or less liberal than those of other peoples. All of which being translated into particulars ■ means that President Cleveland thinks that the United States ought to hurry to conclude with Japan a treaty similar to that which has just been concluded with her by Great Britain. In regard to the tariff question, Mr. Cleveland asks Congress to put coal and iron on the free list. H e strongly urges a change in the laws which regulate American shipping. He invites Congress to complete the work it has taken in hand and to remove the chief, if not the only obstacle, which prevents Americans from sharing in the carrying trade on the sea. A tariff built upon the theory that it would check imports and that the home •market should bound the industry and effort of American producers, was fitly supplemented by a refusal to allow American registry to vessels built abroad, although owned and sailed by Americans. The new tariff, on the other hand, rests upon the theory that it is well to encourage such importations as the people need, and that American products and manufactures should find markets in every part of the world. Consistency, therefore, requires that it should be supplemented by the greatest possible liberty in the ownership of vessels. Ship-building, which has been “ protected to strangulation,” should be revived by a prospect of the profitable employment of ships when built. Accordingly, Mr. Cleveland earnestly recommends the repeal of the law which confines] American registry to vessels built in America.

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Turning to the currency question the

— finance and President deplores the legal inability to foreign affairs, meet the drain upon the gold reserve in the Treasury to issue bonds at a low rate of interest and maturing in a short period. Happily, however, the excellence of the national credit has pretty well compensated for this legislative omission. Bonds were issued bearing interest at the rate of five per cent., and maturing ten years after issue; but the demand was so great that the premium received reduced the rate of interest to less than three per cent. The chief recommendation for the future is that all laws providing for the deposit of United States Bonds as a security for circulation should be repealed, that National banks should be permitted to issue circulating notes not exceeding 75 per cent, of their paid-up and unimpaired capital, provided that they deposit with the Government as a guarantee fund in United States legal tender notes, including Treasury notes of 1890, a sum equal in amount to 30 per cent, of the notes they desire to issue. This deposit is to be maintained always, but whenever any bank withdraws any part of its circulation a proportionate part of its reserve fund is to be returned. The first place in the portion of the Message devoted to Foreign Affairs is devoted to the boundary dispute between this country and Venezuela. The President declares that it is the established policy of the United States to try to remove from their hemisphere all causes of difference with Powers beyond the oceans. Accordingly an attempt will be made to induce both parties to accept arbitration, “ a resort which Great Britain so conspicuously favours in principle and respects in practice, and which is earnestly sought by her weaker adversary.” In regard to the Republic established in Hawaii Mr. Cleveland merely says that the new Government is in effective operation, and therefore the recognition usual in such cases has been accorded. A different course is adopted in the case of Samoa. The President says that the system of Government devised by the three Powers and forced upon the Samoans against their will can be maintained only by a foreign military force. Under these circumstances Congress is recommended to authorize the withdrawal of the United States from the arrangement “ on some reasonable terms.”

Lord Jersey’s report to the Colonial lord jersey and Office upon the recent Intercolonial Ottaw a conference. Conference at Ottawa, is a document of considerable interest, and will be specially appreciated by those who look for the consolida­