THE TABL

A . W e ek ly N ew sp a p er a n d R ev iew .

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ODM VOBIS GRATÜLAMDR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS OT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT1S.

F r om th e B r i e f o f H i s H o lin e s s P iu s I X . to The Tablet, J u n e 4, 1870.

V ol. 86. No. 2880.

L o n d o n , J u l y 20, 1895.

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[R e g is t e r ed a t t h e G e n e r a l P o st O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper

C hronicle of t h e W e e k !

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Saturday’s Poll— Monday’s Poll — Tuesday’s Poll — Wednesday’s Poll— Notes on the Elections— Amusing Contests— Mr. Curzon and “ the R a t ” — More Ministerial Appointments— Mr. Chamberlain and Voluntary Schools— 'Lord Salisbury and Armenia— A m e r i c a n Opinion on I r i s h Nationalism—The French Ambassador on Arbitration— Assassination of M. Stamboloff—Attitude of the Bulgarian Government— Prince Ferdinand on the_ Outrage — Russia and Abyssinia — The Russian Workman— Sir W . Har•court in Wales—The Fighting in Formosa ......................... ~ 89 L e a d e r s :

A Week o f Victories . . . . 93 Jtalian^ C a t h o l i c s and Local

Adm in istration .........................94

L eaders (Continued) :

CONTENTS.

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The St. Vincent de Paul Jubilee in

Yorkshire Chantries . . . . 95 The Pleasures of a Duffer . . 96 N o t e s . . _ . . . . — 97 R e v iew s :

The Holy Places at Jerusalem . . 99 The House of the Hidden Places 99 The Wild Ass’s Skin . . . . 100 Three Controversial Pamphlets.. 100 “ The Dublin Review ” . . . , 101 Foreign Catholics Periodicals . . 101 The Great Eastern Railway Com­

pany’s Tourist Guide to the Continent . . . . .. . . 102 The Devotion to the Holy Face o f Our Lord .. . . . . 102 A Handbook on Welsh Church

Defence . . . . . . . . 102 Books of the Week . . .. 102 Oxford University . . . . . . 103

Dublin .. . . . . . . 103 C orrespondence :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) ......................... 105 News from Ireland . . «. 106 L e t t e r s to t h e E d it or :

Anglican Orders . . . . . . 108 A Calamity on the LagoMaggiore 108 Blessed John Payne . . . . 108 Anglican Baptisms . . . . 108 Evolution . . . . . . . . 109 A Warning . . . . . . . . 109 Stonyhurst : The Philosophy Class 109 The E .C .U . and Reunion . . . . 109 Guild of Our Lady of Ransom . . n o Election Intelligence . . . . m Mr. Balfour and Voluntary Schools 113 St. Mary Magdalen at the Foot of the Cross . . . . . . . . 114

Catholic Troops at Quetta . . . . 114 Opening of Schools at Limehouse . . 114 N ew s from t h e D io ceses :

Westminster ........................... 115 S o u th w a rk ................................ 115 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 116 Nottingham................................116 Glasgow .................................... 116 Galloway . . . . . . . . 116 F rom E veryw h ere . . . . 117 Social a n d P o l it i c a l . . . . 118

SUPPLEMENT. N ew s from t h e S chools:

T h e M e t r o p o l i t a n Catholic

Teachers’ Associations .. . . 121 Ratcliffe College . . .. .. 121 Association of the V e n e r a b le

College of St. Thomas de Urbe 122 St. Bede’s College, Manchester . . 122

% * Rejected M S . cannot be returned unless accompanied with address and postage.

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

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PO L L IN G S in the first series o f borough elections took p lace on Saturday, and resulted in the C on servatives gaining five, and the L ib eral

Unionists three seats, from the L ib erals, whose only victory was at Perth. T h e prominent feature o f the contests was the defeat b y large majorities o f Sir W illiam Harcourt and S i r T . R o e at D erby. T h e Marquis o f L om e captured the seat for South M anchester from Sir H . Roscoe, and the ■ Conservatives gained a seat in South-west M anchester, in North Salford, and in Stockport. T h e L iberal Unionists a lso won a seat at L in coln and one at Darlington. T h e p lace o f honour is due to Derby, where one o f the greatest and most unexpected trium phs ever recorded has fallen to th e Conservatives. I f any man in England thought his seat isafe, it was Sir W illiam H a r co u r t ; and it is only fair to say that his confidence was not deemed unreasonable even by •the most hopeful o f his opponents. Y e t both Sir W illiam -and his colleague, Sir T . Roe, are at the bottom o f the poll, and have experienced the most crushing defeat it is possible to imagine. In 1892, the Separatist majority at Derby was over 1,800, and now Sir W illiam Harcourt finds him self L eaded by a Conservative majority o f over 1,100.

On M onday pollings took place in over 50

— Monday’s constituencies, o f which 14 were in the p o l l . Metropolis. T h e Conservatives gained 12,

and the L iberal Unionists four, whilst the

L ib e ra ls won four seats, making a net Unionist gain o f 12 seats. T h e Conservatives were successful in both divisions •of W est Ham , and in three divisions o f Bradford, two seats being also gained at O ldham . Kennington, North Lambeth, Reading, and Rochdale were among the list o f Unionist gains. T h e tide o f misfortune which set against the late Government on Saturday thus continue to flow. In no fewer than 16 instances did the Unionists capture seats which were formerly in the possession o f the Separatists, while to balance this the latter had only four gains to show. T h e net result was that, on M onday’s figures alone, the balance in favour o f the Ministerialists was 12, while on the whole record as it stood on Tuesday they had already made a net gain o f 19.

New Series, V01, L lV .,JN c. 2,187.

Twenty-one contests in Metropolitan Divi-

—Tuesday’s sions took place on Tuesday, resulting in poll. several important Unionist victories. Finsbury returned two Conservatives in place o f Liberals,

and Shoreditch, Bethnell Green, and H ackney each added another to the Unionist majority. Mr. A rnold Morley, Postmaster-General in the late Government, was rejected at East Nottingham , and seats were wrested from the L iberals at Bedford, Coventry, Norwich, Northampton, Southampton, G loucester, Stoke-on-Trent, Yarm outh, and Whitehaven. T h e Liberals, on the other hand, gained four seats ; but there remained a net Unionist gain on the whole e lection o f thirty seats. T h e most striking thing about the series o f election so far contested is that in them the Unionists have not only regained all the ground lost in 1892, but have even greatly improved the position they held in 1886. T h e y stand, in fact, now much better than they d id in that year o f victory. T h e follow ing table shows the distribution o f the 156 seats contested on Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday, in 1886, in 1892, and at p re se n t :

1886.

1892.

1895.

Unionist ........ ........ IO4 . . . . 84 . . . . . . 1 1 5 R a d i c a l ............. ........ 52 . . . . 72 .. . . . . 41 T h e Separatist majority, therefore, which at the close o f the late Parliam ent was twenty-eight, is now converted into a Unionist majority o f thirty-two.

Over sixty pollings took p lace on Wednes-

—Wednesday’s day, o f which fifteen occurred in Metropolitan poll. divisions. Six seats were captured by the

Conservatives in London, those for North

Kensington, North Camberwell, Bermondsey, Lim ehouse, Bow and Brom ley, and St. George-in-the-East. G lasgow added two to the list o f Unionist victories, and South Edinburgh, when the declaration was made, another. Seats were also gained at Swansea, Hull, Walsall, Carmarthen, and in the Ratcliffe division o f Lancashire, and there was not a single gain on the L iberal side to counterbalance these losses. On the whole, the Unionists have gained fifty-four seats and lost ten.

T h e elections throughout the country notes on show that the star o f Separatism has set. the elections. Mr. A rnold Morley, late Postmaster-

General, is the third M inister of Cabinet rank in the late Government who has fallen before the great political reaction. Mr. Naoroji is beaten in Central Finsbury, and gives up his larger seat as “ member ior