TH TABLET

A Weekly Newspaper and Review.

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DOM VOBIS GRATÜLAMDR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMÜS OT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT1S.

Front the B r ie f o f H is Holiness P iu s IX . to The Tablet, June 4, 1870.

V ol. 86. No. 2883. L ondon, A ugust io , 1895. P rice sd. by P ost

[R egistered a t th e General P ost O ffice as a N ewspaper

C hronicle of th e W e ek J

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"Mr. Gladstone and Armenia— Municipal Statesmen and their Programme—Mr._Chamberlain on 'the General Election—The Future of Chitral— London School Board —Resignation of the Chairman— Armenian Reforms—Bomb Outrage in France—The Cape Parliament and Bechuanaland—New Southampton Dock— The Ischl Meeting—Spanish Finance — To the North Pole_ in a Balloon— Massacre of Missionaries in China —The Spanish Struggle in Cuba —Mr. McCarthy and Mr. T. M. Healy—Mr. Healy’s Reply . . 205 *L BADERS :

The French in Madagascar . . 209 Some Time Problems .. . . 210 The Rehabilitation of the Monk 211 Folk-Lore .. . . .. •. 212 Jesuit Missions Among the Copts 213

CONTENTS.

N otes . . R ev iew s :

Page . . - 213

The History of Northumberland 215 Lecture i on Preaching .. . . 216 A History of the Councils of the

Church .. . . .. .. 216 Literary Studies .. . . .. 2x7 Bunyan’s W o r k s ........................... 217 The Destiny of Man and Reason 217 “ The Month” ........................... 218 The Leopold Shakspere .. .. 218 C a rd in a l Ledochowski and the

Bishops of Canada.. .. .. 219 Irish Peat Moss Litter .. .. 219 C orrespondence :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) ................................... -221 News from Ireland .. — — 222 L etters to th e E d itor :

Yorkshire Chantries .. .. 223 Annual Meeting of the Society of

St. Vincent de Paul .. .. 223

L etters^to th e E ditor (Con-

Continued) : Protestant U ls te r ............................223 Anelican Baptisms.. .. .. 223 Individual Submission and Angli­

can Orders . . .. .. 223 New Church of Our Most Holy

Redeemer, Cheyne-row, Chelsea S.W. .. ......................... 224 The Irish National Board and the

Christian Schools . . . . 224 An A p p e a l .......................................224 Guild of Our Lady of Ransom .. 224 Cardinal Moran on Reunion .. 224 Was Dante a Franciscan Tertiary 229 The National School Teachers .. 230 Bees in Summer .. .. .. 231 A Malay Fishing Festival .. .. 232 The _Religion of Two Catholic

Children .. . . .. .. 232 Irish Pilgrimage to Lourdes and

Montmartre .. .. . . .. 232 F rom E verywhere . . .. 233

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O b ituary ’ ........................... 233 Social and P olitical . . — 234

SUPPLEMENT. N ews from th e S chools:

The Breaking-up at Stonyhurst 237 Stonyhurst Philosophers .. .. 238 St. Mary’s College, Woolhampton 238 St. Joseph’s High School, Cardiff 239 Speech Day at Beaumont .. 239 The Education Report .. .. 239 The Government and Voluntary

Schools .. . . . . .. 240 Annual Report of the Education

Department .........................240 N ews from th e D ioceses : Westminster .........................240

Clifton .................................... 240 Leeds .. . . . . .. 240 Nottingham................................24 ‘ Dunkeld .. ......................... 241 Catholic Conference..................... 241 Catholic Scientific Congress .. 242 Public Elementary Schools Warned 242

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

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

------------ ♦ -----------r T "'HE unspeakable Turk still has the x:r . Glad s t o n e I power to fascinate Mr. Gladstone.

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While he let the Radical Government go to destruction at the polls almost without a word of sympathy, he can speak by the hour in ■ denunciation of the misrule of the Porte. Speaking at •Chester in favour of the claims of the Armenians in Turkey, Mr. Gladstone pointed to the presence of the Duke ■ of Westminster as sufficient proof that the question had nothing to do with party politics, but was one which belonged to a higher region and appealed directly to the consciences of the people. It was not a question of indifferent laws ■ indifferently enforced. It was not a question of administrative violence or abuse. It was a matter which went to the ■ root of all that concerned human life in its elementary conditions. Mr. Gladstone insisted that the Treaty of 1856 .gave the Powers of Europe the right to march into Armenia and take the government of it out of the hands of the Turk — in consequence of pledges given to Europe and broken, ©ut England had a special right. The Treaty of 1878 had •bound the Porte to carry out reforms which, if they had been so much as honestly attempted would have made the recent horrors impossible. Mr. Gladstone then considered •the reply of the Porte to the demands of the three Powers, and spoke with much of his old fire and force. The Sultan was rather shocked by the narrowness of ■ the demands of the Powers. He found that besides Armenia his government was not perfect in other Provinces. It was a pretty thing to inquire into the state of government in the entire Turkish Empire. But the Sultan and Turkish Government said, “ All these reforms which you demand in Armenia we will have everywhere.” The meaning of that was that he would interpose an interminable series of inquiries, and trust to the chapter of accidents. He would feebly illustrate the case by saying, What would you think of any Government in this country,

■ the present or any other, supposing we had established a very strong case indeed of faults and grievances under a particular Act of Parliament and made out an overwhelming ■ case for reform of that Act of Parliament, and made application to the House of Commons for that reform, and the Government were to answer, “ But your demands are so small: that is not the only law that is defective ; hundreds of others will have to be inquired into and the defects remedied.” That sounded strange and monstrous, but it was a mere every-day trifle in the proceedings of the Ottoman Government wheD they are driven to straits and hard put to it to find excuses to cover horrors such as those we have now before us. Then came another statement that the Ottoman Government were disposed to refuse the proposals of the Powers, and especially to refuse the European control in Armenia, but that they were disposed to disarm the Kurds. Well, supposing we agreed to that and said: “ We cannot get the whole of what we want; let us be content with a part. The disarmament of the Kurds is not all, but it is a most important part, and therefore we will dispense for the present with the European control.” What would happen ? Probably 50 or 100 Kurds would have their arms taken from them and given to other people, greater ruffians than themselves. The meaning of it was this, that the Ottoman Government know perfectly well that the whole matter lies not in the things promised, but in the guarantees for their performances. Mr. Gladstone then declared that there must be an end to this trifling, and that in his opinion the cleanest method of dealing with the thing would have been to tell the Turk to march out of Armenia. At the same time he recognized that the time was not ripe for that drastic remedy. The three Powers would probably not be unanimous in desiring such a settlement. But he urged that if the three Powers, with fifty times the strength and influence of Turkey, gave way before the insane resistance of the Turk, they would be dishonoured in the eyes of the world. After again insisting upon the importance of an immediate settlement and the folly of trusting at all to the promises of the Turk, Mr. Gladstone concluded by recalling that within his own lifetime sixteen or eighteen millions of people inhabiting some of the most beautiful and famous countries in the world had been liberated for ever from the bondage of Turkey. The whole speech, though perhaps in parts somewhat diffuse, was a wonderful effort of eloquence and vigour.

Mr. Whitmore, member of the m u n ic ip a l^statesm en London County Council, and Cont h e i r p rogramme, servative member for Chelsea, has drawn attention to the fate which befell the leading members of the Progressive Party in London at the recent elections. Seventeen Unionist and 17 Progressive Councillors in all stood as candidates for the House of Commons. Fourteen Unionists were returned, and only three were unsuccessful. On the other hand, 14 Progressives were beaten, and only three were elected.

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