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DÜM VOBIS GRATOLAMÜR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT1S.

From the B r i e f o f H is H o lin ess P iu s IX . to T he T ablet, June 4, 1870.

V o l . 85. No. 2863.

L ondon, M arch 23, 1895*

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'C hronicle of t h e W e e k :

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Imperial Parliament: The Boers and the Swazis—The Discussion Discountenanced— Conditon o f the Army— Foreign Tariffs and British Trade— Relief of Distress in Ireland— The Occupation of Cyprus — Turkey and Cyprus— Municipal Franchise (Ireland) Bill—Justices of the Peace Bill— Catholic Victory in Manitoba— Church and State in France—A New Country Party— Escape of Slatin Bey—The Army and the Press in Madrid — The Royal Betrothal— The Russian Navy— Loss of a Spanish Cruiser— French Religious Communities— Interesting Discovery of Coins L e a d e r s : 437

The London School Board and its Sessions . . . . •• 441

CONTENTS

L eaders (Continued) :

“ Degeneration ” and Regenera­

Page tion .. . . . . . . 442 Lord Halifax and Reunion . . 443 Anglican Orders . . . . . . 444 N otes . . — .......................... - 447 R e v iew s :

The Literature of the Georgian

Era .. . . . . .. 449 Elocutionary Art . . . . . . 449 Memoirs of Dean B o y le . . . . 450 The Ushaw Magazine . . . . 451 C orrespondence :

Rome (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) .................................... 453 The Feast of St. Gregory the

Great at Rome .. . . . . 454 News from Ireland . . — — 453 L e t t e r s to t h e E d itor :

Conference of Catholic Guardians 456

L e t t e r s to t h e E d itor

Continued): Hanwell Appeal Rate or State-aid ..

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4SÖ 455

The Bishop of Salford’s Second

Reply to the Bishop o f Manchester Stabat Mater Death of Provost Wenhan .. Catholic Greenland .. St. Patrick’s Day in Rome .. The Catholic Press in Germany .. Salesian Congress The Pontificale Presented to the

Bishop of Clifton .. A Protestant Editor on Catholic

Nuns The Pope’s New Diamond .. Books of the Week Senators and the Indian Schools .. St. Margaret’s Convent Chapel,

Edinburgh American Church Statistics

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462 462 4^3 463 463 464

M a x O ’Rell on th e Church in

Australia.. Social a n d P o l it ic a l

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SU PPLEM EN T . N ews from t h e S chools :

The School Board for London Coventry School Board . . The Buckfast School Contest School Accommodation .. St. Helen’s Schools, Brentwood 472 Stafford School Board Election . . 472 Education Estimates . . . . 472 Lord Salisbury and Voluntary

469 473 47t 472

Schools . . .. .. . . 472 N ew s from t h e D io ceses : Westminster . . . . ... 473

Southwark . . . . .. . . 473 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 473 Leeds . . ......................... 473 Liverpool .. . . . . . . 473 Newport and Menevia.. . . . . 474 Shrewsbury . . . . . . . . 474 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 474

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

— THE BOERS AND THE SWAZIS. a

'IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

, N Thursday Mr. Cochrane asked leave to move the adjournment of the House, in order to call attention to the threa­

tened invasion o f Swaziland by the Boers. He was supported by the Conservatives and Liberal Unionists in sufficient numbers to enable him to proceed with his motion. He ■ said that the Boer troops were assembled on the borders of 'Swaziland for the purpose of enforcing a Convention that would destroy the independence of the Swazis, which had been recognized by Great Britain. The South African Republic could not invade Swaziland without the consent of the British Government, and he asked if that consent had been given. I f it had, he could not find words to characterize such a breach o f faith, and if it had not, he wanted to know what steps the Government would take to prevent this invasion. Mr. Buxton, in reply, said it would not be -consistent with the public interest to enter, in any detail, into the present situation. As to the position o f the Transvaal at this moment in regard to Swaziland, the information the Government had received from Sir H. Loch was to the effect that he believed that the carrying out of fh e Convention of 1894 was taking place, and was likely to be carried out, on peaceful lines. The only thing likely to -disturb that peaceful result was the raising, at the present time, o f such questions as had just been raised. It was simply, therefore, on the ground o f public interest that he declined to discuss that part o f the hon. member’s speech which related to the action of her Majesty’s Government in ¡reference to the attitude of the Transvaal and the Swazis.

In reference to the independence of the Swazis, that independence had never been recognized by this country ; it bad never been set forth in any Convention, and the independence of the Swazis which had been recognized, was an independence guaranteed only in this sense, that the two contracting parties, both o f whom were deeply interested in the future o f that country, had agreed mutually that neither would interfere without the consent o f the other. That was the independence intended in 1881, continued in 1884, and further agreed to in 1890. Even if the independence of Swaziland had been guaranteed, the Swazis themselves had,

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by the concessions of their late King, practically given away the most valuable of their interests; so that Swaziland had no real independence as a nation, and retained no power or administrative right that she could use. When the present Government came into office, they found themselves bound, by the terms of successive Conventions, to come to terms with the Transvaal Republic ; and, in doing so, they had endeavoured to defend the rights of the natives, and to reserve for them all the powers and the independence that the Swazis themselves had not given away. A British Consul had been appointed to reside in the country, in order to see that the Convention was properly carried out, especially with regard to the lands and rights which were still in the hands of the natives. The Government had no reason to believe that the South African Republic would not honourably carry out the Convention both in spirit and in letter.

— THE d i s c u s s io n d i s c o u n t e n a n c e d .

Sir J. Gorst said that the Under Secretary for the Colonies had made it extremely difficult to discuss this question, as he had said that any interference at this moment might impede a peaceful settlement. He urged that the claims of the Swazis on our protection could not be swept away by technical objections, and the concessions of the late Swazi K ing could not be used by us as a reason for abandoning the people, seeing that these concessions had all been made before 1890. He hoped the Government would do everything in their power to preserve the Swazis from the horrors of an armed invasion. Sir G . Baden-Powell said that Mr. Buxton had given the House no proof whatever that the Government had in any way endeavoured to obtain practical and material safeguards for the protection of the Swazis, and he asked why we had handed over the right o f controlling the Swaziland nation to our partner in the Convention. The Chancellor o f the Exchequer impressed on the House the danger o f arresting a peaceful solution by what might be said in the course of debate. The Government desired a peaceful settlement, and they had shown their anxiety to safeguard the native rights by appointing a British Consul in Swaziland. Mr. Balfour said that after that warning it was not desirable to discuss the matter further, and the responsibility must be left with the Government. The motion for adjournment was then withdrawn.

— c o n d i t i o n o f THE ARMY.

The House o f Commons went into Committee of Supply on the Army Estimates, and on the first vote for 155,403 men for the service of the Aimy, Mr. Campbell-Bannerman.