THE TABLET.

A W eek ly N ew sp a p e r a n d R e v ie w .

DOM VOBIS GRATULAMOR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMOS OT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTBR MANEAT1S.

From, the B rief o) His Holiness Pius IX . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870

V o l . 86. No. 2897. L ondon, N o v e m b e r 16, 1895*

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.C h ronicle of t h e W e e k :

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Lord Salisbury at the_ Mansion House—Mr. Chamberlain on Australian Federation—The Destiny o f Bechuanaland-Lord Dunraven’s Mistake — Federated Australia— War Against Kumassi—Extension of British Influence and Trade in Africa—The Religion o f Prince Boris of Bulgaria—The Crops in Ireland— Local Authorities and Cemeteries for Catholics — The Turkish Crisis : Four Jesuits Murdered — Autocar Race at Chicago—The Shipbuilding Strike —The Expulsion of Mr. Healy . . 773 Memorial on the School Question 777

He a d e r s :

The Catholic Memorial . . . . 778 Marshal Campos on the Cuban

Insurrection .........................779

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L e a d e r s (Continued) :

Catholic Evidence Lectures in

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Public Halls . . . . . . 780 Anglican Orders . . . . . . 781 N o t e s ..................................... — 783 R e v i e w s :

The Beginnings of Scholasticism 785 The Origin of Law . . . . 785 The Church in the Time of the

Apostles . . . . . . . . 786 Æthiopum Servus . . .. .. 7S6 The Chronicles of Count Antonio 787 The Long Arm, and Other Detec­

tive Stories ........................ 787 C o r r e sp o n d e n c e :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . — — 789 News from Ireland . . _ _ 790 L e t t e r s to t h e E d it or :

“ Undoingthe Work of the Re­

formation ” . . . . . . 791

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L e t t e r s to t h e E d it or (Con­

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tinued) : Bonnpr's Rehabilitation of Scory 792 Paul IV. and Anglican Orders . . 792 The late Mr. William Palmer . . 793 International Arbitration . . . . 794 Fresh Light on History .. . . 794 The London Pilgrimage to Holywell 79s Public Grants to Voluntary Schools 796 The Catholic Social Union . . . . 797 Formation of a Voluntary Schools

Defence Association _ . . . . 797 The Elementary Education Problem 798 The Mayoralty of Ripon . . . . 798 Death of Father Quaid . . 798 The New Mayor of Sheffield . . 799 Girls’ Night Homes in Manchester 800 Alleged Heretic Burning in Mexico 801 Books of the W e e k ........................ 801 F rom E v e r y w h e r e ......................... 801 A p p e a l to t h e C h a r i t a b l e . . 801 S o c ia l a n d P o l it ic a l . . . . 802

SU P PLEM EN T . N ew s from t h e S chools:

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Report of the Royal Commission on Secondary Education . . 805 The Chairmanship of the London

School Board . . . . . . 8o5 The Threat of Mr. Dixon, M.P. 807 The Birmingham aad Midland

Education League . . .. 807 The Anglican Church and her

Schools . . . . . . . . 807 Municipal Elections at Hey wood 807 The Manchester Nonconformist

Conference on Education . . 808 The Birch in Industrial Schools 808 N e w s from t h e D io c e s e s : Westminster ........................ 808

Southwark . . . . . . . . 809 Birmingham.. . . . . . . 809 Liverpool . . . . . . . . 809 Northampton . . . . . 809 Portsmouth . . . . . . . . 810 Salford ................................... 810 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 810

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C H R O N I C L E O F T H E

W E E K .

LORD SALISBURY

AT THE •MANSION HOUSE. o f the occasion he occupies.

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N responding to tne toast o f her Majesty’s Ministers at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet on Saturday evening, Lord Salisbury made a speech in every way worthy and o f himself in the high position which !

lie occupies. After congratulating the city on having | weathered successfully the gloomy anticipations that had | been formed o f its future, his lordship called attention to I the fact that he came before them then, as he had done nine years before, after a General Election. H e deduced, ! therefore, that for the future a period of peace was likely to i ensue, “ inasmuch as, regarding the integrity o f the Empire, the nation had spoken in terms that could not be mistaken.” Internal affairs were quiet; foreign affairs were the absorbing topic o f the day. In the far East a great war was now over. H e did not believe in the reported treaty between .■ Russia and China, and he silenced the rumours o f our supposed exclusion from trade in that quarter as fo llow s: “ Depend upon it, whatever may happen in that region, be it in the way o f war or in the way o f commerce, we are equal to any competition which may be proposed, and we may look on with absolute equanimity at the action o f any persons, i f such there be, who think that they can exclude us from any part o f that fertile and commercial region, or who imagine that, i f we are admitted, they can beat us in the markets of the world.” Affairs in Armenia were not so peaceful or so hopeful as in the far East. The demands of the three principal Ambassadors for the protection o f the Armenians had been substantially accepted by the Sultan in May. It had been asserted that he had added to those demands “ something in the nature o f an International Commission.” What he did offer was, as a substitute for the demands of the Ambassadors, that the present Mohammedan machinery should go on, but under the supervision o f a mixed Commission. And he had done this in order to get rid o f the proposal to substitute Christian for Moslem officers, which would have brought on the religious difficulty. The Sultan, however, preferred the reforms proposed by the Ambassadors. The question now, therefore, was, would those reforms be carried out ? I f the Sultan was not willing to carry them out, no scheme, under present circumstances, could compel him to do so. The action of the Powers of Europe was limited to their action on the mind o f the Sultan. The news from Constantinople as to the Sultan’s present attitude was not very cheering. In the event of these reforms not being granted by the Sultan, Lord Salisbury was assured that “ injustice will bring the highest on earth to ruin.” The Great Powers were still, he thought, of opinion that the peace of Christendom required that the Ottoman Government should stand; but no one could say it was impossibl that the Powers might be driven by the abuses which characterized it to agree upon some other arrangement which might fulfil the hopes entertained with regard to Turkey forty years ago. Throughout these negotiations he had been deeply impressed by the way in which all the Powers realized the appalling dangers which might arise from any disunion among them.

Last week, Mr. Chamberlain mr. chamberlain alluded to the subject o f Imperial Australian kederation. Federation as a dream that appealed to the highest sentiments of patriot­

ism and o f national interest. His speech on Monday night as president of a banquet at the Imperial Institute given in honour of Colonel Gerard Smith, the Governor-Designate o f Western Australia, was in the same direction. After a happy deprecation o f the patronage at his disposal, Mr. Chamberlain devoted most of his remarks to that least developed o f Australian Colonies, Western Australia. The history o f the Colony was a remarkable one. Colonized by the English in 1829, its white population twenty years after amounted to no more than 5,800. A t the last census it was 76,000. Fifteen years ago the revenue was only £ 1 8 0 , 0 0 0 ; now it was £ 1 1 , 1 5 0 ,0 0 0 . Self-government had done much towards such a rapid rate o f progress, but Mr. Chamberlain thought that the gold discoveries were largely answerable for the happy change. In 1890 the export of gold was ,£ 8 6 ,0 0 0 ; four years later it was £ 9 10 ,0 0 0 . Here was a colony then, eight times the area o f the United Kingdom, but miserably deficient in population. The first need for many years was labour-—labour to till the soil and develop the natural resources o f the country. For this a larger population was necessary, and so Mr. Chamberlain advised the Colony to encourage immigration by every possible means, including low prices. The demand for local manufactures would follow, without any artificial stimulus, on the cultivation of the natural resources of the soil. The elements o f a great nation would then be present. Mr. Chamberlain hoped that the

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