THE TABLET.
A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMDS ÜT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT1S.
From, the B r ie f o) H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.
V o l . 86. No. 2891.
L ondon, O ctober 5, 1895.
P r ic e sd . b y P ost
[R e g is t e r ed a t t h e Gen 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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Death o f M. Pasteur— The Ultimatum to C h in a — The Race Problem in America-The Revenue Returns— The Cuban Revolt— Congregationalists at Brighton— The French Congregations— The Failure of Farming in Norfolk— The Hungarian Marriage Law— A Great London Improvement— A Ship Canal _for Bruges — The Quettah Railway — The Coptic Deputation to Rome — Fighting in the Streets o f Constantinople The “ Iona” Disaster . . . . 533 L e a d e r s :
Our Claim for the Schools _ .. 537 Echoes of the Roman Anniver
sary . . . . .. . . 538 The Kernel of the Conference . . 539 Cardinal Richard and the Tax ..539 Anglican Orders . . . . . . 540 N o t e s ........................................ — 542
CONTENTS.
R e v iew s :
A Memoir of Mother Francis
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Raphael, O.S.D . . . . . 545 Some Celebrated Irish Beauties of the Last Centuries .. . . 546 “ The Gentleman’s M a g a z in e
Library” . . . . . . . . 546 English P a s to ra ls ........................... 547 St. Luke’s Maeazine . . . . 547 Books of the W eek.. . . . . 547 C orrespondence :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) ......................... 549 News from Ireland . . — 550 L e t t e r s to t h e E d itor :
Paul IV. and Anglican Orders . . 552 A Rubrical Question . . . . 552 Rosary Sunday and the Rosary
Confraternity . . . . .. 553 The Late Rev. Daniel Canty . . 553 Convent Schools . . .. . . 553 How to Aid Voluntary Schools 553 Did Richard Whiting take the
Oath of Supremacy ? . . . . 553
L e t t e r s to t h e E d it or (Con
tinued) : St. Gubi ......................... Secondary Education Hyde Park Lectures Homerton Schools in Danger A Common Educational Basis Clerical Schools Father Berry’s Homes I he Kalloogamala Case The Progress of Catholicism The Bishop of Ascalon’s Pastoral. Death of a Nursing Sister in Malta F rom E veryw h ere O b it u a r y ........................... S oc ia l a n d P o l it ic a l
SU PPLEM EN T . N ews from t h e S chools:
The National Society’s Bill Religious Education The “ Almost Intolerable Strain ” Weslevan Educational Policy . . The Government and Voluntary
Schools . . . . . . _
554 554 554 554 554 557 558 558 559 559 559 559 560 561
565
N ew s from t h e Schools (Con
tinued): A Call to Arms . . . . . . 566 The Education Question . . . . 567 The Three Education Schemes . . 567 The Growth of Technical Educa
tion _
The Bishop of Peterborough on
Voluntary Schools . . . . 567 Mr. Spottiswoode’s Educational
Proposals.. . . . . . . 568 N favs from t h e D io ceses : Westminster ........................... 568
567
S o u th w a rk ....................................... 568 Birmingham.. . . . . . . 568 Liverpool .. . : . . . . 568 Newport and Menevia . . . . 568 Nottingham.......................................568 Shrewsbury . . . . . . . . 568 The Vicariate .. . . . . 569 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 569 Aberdeen . . . . . . . . 569 Funeral the Late Mgr. Wil
liams, V .G . . . . . .. . . 569
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
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BY the death o f M. Pasteur, at the age of seventy-two years, which occurred at Paris on Saturday evening shortly before 5 o’clock, France and the world have lost a scientific man o f the first importance. The main points in his career are easily summarized. After his first studies were completed he entered upon life as a professor at the Lycee o f Dijon. Ten years later he was professor o f chemistry at the Sorbonne, and had meanwhile become a member o f the Academy of Sciences, a foreign member of the Royal Society of England, honorary Doctor in Science o f Oxford University and a member of the French Academy in succession to Littré. M. Pasteur’s researches and discoveries gained for him high distinctions at home and abroad, in the shape o f medals, prizes in money, a Government pension o f 20,000 francs, and finally a jubilee celebration in honour of his seventieth birthday. He received many foreign Orders, and was also honoured with the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. His patriotism caused him in 1870 to send back the diploma of doctor, given to him two years before by the. University of Bonn, and to refuse, only a few months since, the Prussian Order o f Merit. It may be a question for speculation whether his reputation would have been so great if he had died before his treatment for hydrophobia had gained for him so wide and so lasting a celebrity. That method of treatment is still sub ju d ic e , but should its claims come to be finally recognized, it would indeed be difficult to exaggerate the services rendered to the world by this eminent scientist. His work was that which appealed not only to experts but also to the people at large, because its far-reaching consequences touch everybody. He was one o f the great pioneers of thought like Copernicus, Newton and Darwin, not by gratifying alone the inner circle of the learned nor by showy achievements that touch merely the surface of science, but by contributing to the sum of human knowledge new matter o f supreme importance. Thus, to patient accurate research he added those gifts of imagination which invest the labours of such men with a sort o f inspiration. H e was of the spiritualist as opposed to the materialistic group of scientific men. In h s first
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work he made known his discovery that all the products o f inorganic nature were perfectly symmetrical in the plan o f their atoms, while all the products formed under the influence o f life were not symmetrical. This was a profound and far-reaching generalization, but in his case it formed only the scientific base o f a number of discoveries which had the most remarkable practical results. Then he took up the study of fermentation, as a chemist and on chemical lines, but his biological instincts drew him more and more to that line of observations. It is said that in one way or another he saved his country millions : he stopped the silk-worm disease, and saved the flocks and herds from a similar disease, traceable to the same cause. He served science, therefore, by making her acceptable to all men— to the savant by the originality o f his conclusions, to the unlearned by the practical uses to which those conclusions could be put. The lying in state of the body took place at the Pasteur Institute, which was visited by a large number of persons. After the lid o f the coffin was screwed down a black silver-fringed pall was thrown over it, and a silver crucifix laid on the top, along with the Academy uniform and the numerous decorations o f the deceased. Four nuns o f the Congregation o f the Immaculate Conception kept watch by the catafalque.
Telegrams, dated Pekin, September 28,
t h e u l t im a t u m announced that the British Government t o c h i n a . had addressed an Ultimatum to the Chinese,
demanding satisfaction, within fourteen days, for the outrages committed on British subjects during the riots in Sze-Chuan. The British representative, Sir Nicholas O ’Conor, was instructed to say that unless the Viceroy of the Province were degraded and other officials punished, within the time specified, the squadron of British vessels in Chinese waters would take instant action. The Ultimatum was thus of the most peremptory nature. It was based upon that principle of personal responsibility which is the only one recognized amongst the Chinese themselves. For infractions of purely Chinese law the ruler o f a district is held responsible, and made to know it. In the case o f the recent massacres the central authorities have been content with the punishment of a few miserable underlings, whilst the high officials, who might have foretold the troubles, if they were not actually, as is commonly thought, chargeable with complicity after the fact, have scarcely been questioned on the subject. It was, therefore, high time that vigorous action should be taken. Lord Salisbury was not alone in his demand for redress for these
