THE TABLET. A. W eekly Newspaper a n d Review .

DOM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS ÜT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATiS.

From, the B r i e f oj H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T h e T a b l e t , Ju n e 4, 1S 70 .

V o l . 86. No. 2889. L ondon, S e p t e m b e r 21, 1895. P r ic k sd . b y P o st 5% d

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Railway Statistics _of 1894— A Birmingham Experiment--Agricultural Education—Vaccination and Political Agitation—Sunday Closing in New York—The British Association : Oysters and Typhoid Fever — Fishery Survey of the West Coast of Ireland—Cannibal Customs— The Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition—The Nansen Expedition—Re-opening of Kirkstall Abbey—The Fire on Board the “ Iona ”—Rising in the Congo 'State—The Duke of Devonshire .on the Aged Poor—Cardiff Musical Festival—The Bishop of Seez on Resistance....................................... 453 L e a d e r s :

The Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Annexation of Rome . . 45^ \ A Charge against St. Francis of

Sales . . ........................ 458 Anglican Orders . . -. . . 459

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N o t e s ......................................... — 462 R e v ie w s :

Memoir of Mother Rose Columba

Adams, O.P. .. . . . . 465 St. Chantal and the Foundation of the Visitation . . .. . . 466 “ The Strand Magazine ” . . . . 466 “ St. Luke’s Magazine” .. . . 467 Foreign Catholic Periodicals . . 467 C o rr e s po n d en c e :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) ...................... ► . 469 News from Ireland . . _ _ 470 L e t t e r s to t h e E d it o r :

The Queen’s Sexagesimal . . 472 More Official Scholarship.. .. 472 “ Archbishop of Westminster and

Canterbury” ........................ 472 Convent Schools . . . . .. 472 A Rubrical Question . . .. 473 The New Church at Tottenham.. 473 Paul IV. and Anglican Orders . . 473 Presbyterian “ Continuity” . . 473 The Barry School .. . . . . 473

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L e t t e r s to t h e E d ito r (Con­

tinued) : Education and Examination .. 474 St. Ambrose’s House .. . . 474 An A p p e a l ..................................... 474 The Pilgrimage to Glastonbury . . 474 Tragic Death of Loid Beaumont .. 476 Foreign Freemasonry .. . . 477 The Ransom of Rome .. .. 479 Convent Schools and University

Local Examinations . . . . 479 F rom E v e r y w h e r e ............................... 480 Books of the Week . . . . . . 480 Ob it u a r y ............................................ 481 S o c ia l a n d P o l it ic a l . . . . 481

SUPPLEM ENT. N ew s from t h e S chools:

Economy and Justice in regard to

Voluntary schools . .. 485 The Rev. Hugh Price Hughes and a National Education Concordat ..................................... 485 The Rev. Dr. Rigg and the Rev.

Hugh Price Hughes . . . . 486

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Page tinued): Hammermith Training College .. 486 Father Berry’s Homes, Liverpool 486 London School Board Elections. 486 The Chairmanship of the London

School Board . . .. . . 486 The Recent Parliamentary Debate on Education . . .. .. 487 Dissolution of a School Board . . 487 The Republic of Childhood . . 487 Elementary Education and its cost 487 The Christian Brothers’ Schools.. 487 Two Products of the Board School 487 N ew s from t h e D io c e s e s : Westminster . . . . . . 488

Southwark......................................488 Leeds ........................ 488 L i v e r p o o l ......................................488 Newport and Menevia . . . . 489 Salford . . . . . . . . 489 Glasgow _ ......................................489 The New Vicar-Apostolic of Wales 489 The Sailors’ Committee . . . . 490

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

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H E Board of Trade Report on the receipts from first-class passengers declined ¿£22,000, and those from second-class ¿£93,000. This last falling-off is of course partly due to the increasing number of railway systems in which no second-class carriages are run. The decline in the receipts from the first-class passengers would have been far greater if we were to reckon only the ordinary passengers. The holders of season tickets did much to redress the balance.

The Water Department of the city of a Bir m in g h a m Birmingham is trying a very interesting e x p e r im e n t , experiment on its own account. While others are talking much of the Gothenburg system,

railways of the United Kingdom is io as instructive as usual, and far ! more cheerful reading than it was last year. It will be remembered that the net results for the year 1893 were the worst that had ever been known, from the point of view of the shareholders. In 1889 the net earnings of the railways reached an amount above that of any former year, and then came a steady decline up to the end of 1893. The total loss in the course •of those four years had been ¿£1,994,000, of which ^ 1 ,4 3 7 ,0 0 0 is debited to 1893. From this point of extreme depression the figures for 1894 show a recovery of no less than ¿£2,166,000, so that the losses during four lean yeais have been more than compensated for by one good year’s gain. As proof of an improvement in trade this may be considered extremely satisfactory; for the shareholders, however, things are not as rosy as they seem. In the first place, the capital on which the dividends have to be paid has been very considerably increased. A comparison between the net earnings of the years 1889 and 1894 shows a gain of half per cent. So that as regards the returns to the shareholders the former was the better year. In 1893 the returns to the shareholders were 3-60 per cent. Last year they had advanced to 3 7 7 . It is interesting to note that the third-class traffic emphasized its supremacy once again, and in a more marked way than ever before. The increase which occurred in the receipts from this source in 1894 was greater both in amount and in percentage proportion than that of 1893 over 1892 or of 1892 over 189 1 . i t is also satisfactory to find that, contrary to the experience of 1893, when the increase in the third-class receipts was almost balanced by the decrease in the receipts from the first and second classes, the additional revenue arising from third-class traffic last year considerably more than made up for the falling-off in the other two classes. The net result is an increase in passenger traffic revenue of over ¿£600,000, an increase which has frequently been exceeded in former years, but which is none the less noteworthy, occurring as it did at a time when trade and industry were generally supposed to be in a thoroughly depressed condition The the capital of the Midlands has been trying for itself what effect the elimination of the element of personal profit has upon the drink traffic. The scene of the experiment is Elan Village near Rhayader, whence the Corporation obtain their water supply. Here a canteen has been constructed for the use of the navvies, and placed under the control of a manager with a good salary. The secretary states that this official quite understands that he is thought no more highly of if his sales are high than if they are low, but, on the other hand, should there be any disturbance or drunkenness on the premises, he would be held responsible. So far, nothing, however, of the kind has occurred. The" takings of the canteen vary considerably, from as low as ¿£20 per week in the winter to ,£60 or ¿£70 in the summer. The profit of the concern is applied entirely to the maintenance of a reading and recreation room for the navvies. The secretary concludes thus : “ Individually, I am a total abstainer, but I am perfectly certain that we are serving the interests of temperance far better in providing wholesome liquor under proper regulations than we should be did we attempt to prohibit the traffic altogether, leaving it to be conducted in the usual way by persons interested in encouraging the sale, or driving the men to illicit practices to obtain supplies.”

The intensity of the competition to which a g r ic u l t u r a l British agriculture is exposed is being met e d u c a t io n , by answering efforts on the part of its friends.

A conspicuous example of what is being done in many parts of the country to fit the farmers for their work, and to give them the advantages of the most scientific methods, is afforded by the action of the County Councils of the four counties of Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, and the Lindsey Division of Lincolnshire, in establishing the new Midland Dairy Institute

N kv; S e r ie s , Vol, LIV., No. 2,198.