THE TABLET.
JL Weekly Newspaper and Review .
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From, the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX. to The Tablet, June 4, 1870.
V ol. 85. No. 2855.
London, J a n u a r y 26, 1895.
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C hronicle o f t h e W e e k :
The New President of the French [, Republic— Attitude of the Due
Page d’Orleans — Resignation o f the Greek Ministry — Sierra Leone Boundary Question—Lord Rosebery at Cardiff— Capture o f Teng•Chow-Foo— The United States and Japan— The Administration o f the Poor Law— France and Madagascar—The Evesham Election— Mr. Asquith on the Political ^Situation— Death o f Lord Rand o lp h Churchill — A First-class Fighting Man—The Press Censorship an Russia— Rich Gold Discoveries in M a d a g a s c a r—The TNTaval Programme . i . . . . 117 L ea d e r s :
The Government and the House of Lords . . . .
The British South Africa Com
•• 121
pany .. . . •• •• 122
C O N T E N T
L eaders (Continued):
In Memoriam : Bernard Tung-
Page mann . . . . . . 123 New L i g h t s on the Spanish Armada ....................... .. 124 Papal E n c y c l i c a .........................125 N o tes . . — — . . . . 126 R e v iew s :
Addresses on H i s t ó r i c a and
Literary Subjects . . ..127 Laud A ga in ! . . . . .. 128 Meditations for all the Days of the Year . . . . . . . . 128 The Portfolio . . . . . . 129 Deuterographs . . . . . . 129 Foreign Catholic Periodicals . . 129 The Pope and the People . . 130 Books of the W eek.. . . . . 130 Cardinal Vaughan Visits the Monks of the Island of St. Honoratus 130 Benedictine Nuns of Reggio . . 131 C orrespondence :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) .................................... 133
C orrespondence (Continued):
Notes from Paris . . News from Ireland . .
L e t t e r s to t h e E d it or :
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France and Madagascar . . 136 Rate or State-Aid .. . . ..137 Mediaeval Scholarship . . . . 137 Official Scholarship...........................138 Nunsot the Good Shepherd 138 Faith in Fiction .. . . . . 138 Quoted or Misquoted ? . . ..138 St. Trunyon .. . . . . 138 Mr. Kingsley and Dr. Newman 138 Mr. Balfour on the Education Ques
tion ...................................................139 A Church Sentinel ^............................140 Nottingham Catholics and Educa
tion . . . . . . .. .. 142 An Appeal Against the Bishop of
London . . . . . . .. 144 The Health o f the Pope . . . 144 O b it u a r y ........................................... 144 Social a n d P o l it i c a l . . . . 145
SU PPLEM ENT. N ews from t h e S chools :
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A University Scheme for London 149 Report of the Birmingham Dio
cesan Inspector .. .. . . 149 Education Department and Sch joI
Buildings.. . . . . . . 150 The Buckfast School Contest and the Devonport School Board Election .. . . . . . . 151 St. Andrew’s Schools, Glasgow . . 151 Precautions against Fire in Ele
mentary Schools . . . . . . 151 N ew s from t h e D ioceses : Westminster . . . . ... 152
Southwark . . . . . . ..152 Hexham and Newcastle . . ..152 Middlesbrough . . . . . . 152 Portsmouth ......................... 152 Glasgow . . . . .. .. 152 General Survey o f the Labours of the Apostolate in 1894 . . . . 153 Death of the Archbishop of Ephesus 153 Birmingham Catholic Reunion . . 154
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
TH E NEW PRESIDENT
OF THE TRENCH REPUBLIC. T
'H E unexpected crisis caused by the sudden resignation of M. Casimir-Perier was happily of short duration, and terminated within a very few hours in the election to the office o f Chief Magistrate o f M. Felix Faure, who was Minister of Marine in the late Cabinet. A t the first ballot M. Erisson, the candidate o f the Radicals, headed the poll with 338 votes, against 244 given for M. Faure and *85 for M. Waldeck Rousseau, and 21 scattered among various candidates. This was contrary to general anticipation, as M. Waldeck Rousseau had generally been considered the strongest o f the Moderate candidates. However, as M. Brisson had failed to secure an absolute •majority a second ballot was necessary, and was taken after a short interval. The friends of M. Waldeck Rousseau at once let it be known that by his wish their votes would be transferred to M. Felix Faure, so as if possible to keep out M. Brisson. This arrangement was successful, and the votes were 438 for M. Faure and 363 for M. Brisson. This was decisive and M. Faure was at once proclaimed President of the Republic for seven years. The new President is 54 years o f age, and is a shipowner at Havre. During the war o f 1870 he was deputy Mayor there, and captain of the Mobiles o f the Seine Inferieure, in which capacity he .gained the Riband of the Legion o f Honour, his regiment helping to put down the Paris Commune. In 1874 he was deprived o f the deputy-mayoralty by the Breghi Cabinet, but continued to take an active part in all municipal affairs. H e was returned to the Chamber to represent Havre in 1881, and has retained his seat ever since. H e was Undersecretary for the Colonies in the Gambetta Cabinet of 1881, the Ferry Cabinet o f 1883, the Brisson Cabinet of 1885, and the Tirard Cabinet o f 1887. Last May he became Minister o f Marine in the Dupuy Cabinet. Whether in or out o f office he has been an authority in the Chamber on merchant shipping, foreign trade, and colonial questions, and he is the author o f a work on the comparative Budgets o f European States. M. Faure is married and has two daughters, one of whom is married.
New Series, Vol. LIU., No. 2,164.
When the news o f the resignation of M.
—ArnTUDE of Casimir-Perier reached England the Due duc d’orleans. d ’Orleans left London for Dover where he got photographed, and telegraphed a mani
festo to Paris, where, however, it was ignored. The Prince explained that for him the pain o f exile was increased by the anguish he felt at the crisis through which France was passing. He went on to express his opinion that the Republic in France could be only a temporary regime, and that the time was near when the country would wish to return to the form of government which was the glory of its past and would be the guarantee o f its future. His life and blood are at the service o f France whenever she requires them. Meanwhile his advice to his friends was to join all good citizens in electing from the candidates for the Presidency him who would be best able to preserve order and social peace at home and insure respect and honour for the country abroad. In fact, the manifesto, if a little unnecessary, was quite unexceptional.
The excitement in Athens over the pro resignation of p0se(] new taxation has produced an atmosgreek ministry, ph ere o f political uncertainty that made a change o f Ministry not at all improbable.
M. Tricoupis, however, has fallen upon what is apparently a side issue. According to the official organ, the incident which led to this step was due to the action o f fh e Crown Prince. His Royal Highness, who commandsHhe Athens Army Corps, resented not having been consulted as to the movements of the troops, and, riding out to the Field of Mars, ordered the Prefect o f Police to cease preventing the people from expressing their views. The Prefect replied that he had his orders from the Minister o f the Interior. M. Tricoupis at once complained to the K ing of the interference of the Prince, and finding that his representations were not favourably received he resigned on the spot. It is understood that this incident was the occasion rather than the cause of the Minister’s resignation. The new Cabinet, whether formed by M. Delyannis or another, is likely to be non-political, and to be charged only with the conduct o f the impending Parliamentary elections.
The long-pending agreement between Great Britain and France regarding the Sierra question. Leone boundary question was signed in
Paris on Monday afternoon by Mr. Phipps and Sir Joseph Crowe on behalf o f the British Government, and by M. Benoit the representative of the French F r. gn
