THE TABLET.

A Weekly Newspaper and Review.

DOM VOBIS GRATOLAMOR, ANIMOS BTIAM ADDIMOS OT IN INCCEPTI3 VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.]

From, the Brief 01 His Holiness Pius IX. to The Tablet, June 4, 1870

V ol. 86. No. 2899. L o n d o n , N o v e m b e r 30, 1895.

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C hrontcle of th e W eek !

The Gales in the Channel—Should Directors be Disqualified for Parliament ?—No Tax for Cycles Wheat Storage for Defence—The Resources of Newfoundland :Disr; coveryof Coal-TheItalian Budget

— The London Nonconformist ? Council and the Education Ques­

tion—Do Voluntary Subscriptions to Voluntary schools Diminish ?— Trinity Alms-Houses-Melbourne’s Gift to Manchester — London [ Statistics-Catholic Representation in Belfast— France and Madagascar— German Sugar-Bounties — The Situation in Turkey — Sentence on Jabez Balfour .. 853 ¿Leaders :

Ocean Cables and Colonial Com­

munications .. .. -• 857 Catholic Secondary Education . . 858 “ Explanations” .........................858 Anglican O r d e r s .........................860

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N o t e s ........................................ — 862 R eviews :

The Thirty-Nine Articles.. .. 864 A Memoir of Father Dignam .. 86s Vailima Letters .. .. .. 866 Schoolboys Three .. .. .. 867 Foreign Catholic Periodicals .. 867 Old English Fairy Tales .. .. 867 Dr. Gray’s Quest . . . . . . 867 Books of the Week.........................867 The Catholic Social Union .. .. 867 C orrespondence :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) ......................... — 869 News from Ireland .. _ _ 870 Letters to th e Ed it or !

Paul IV. and Anglican Orders .. 871 An Error Acknowledged and Cor­

rected .. .. .• _• 872 Religion and Politics at Cardiff 873 St. M achar.................................... 873 An Acknowledgment .. .. 873 Catholic Schools and the Secon­

dary Education Commission .. 873

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L etters to the E ditor (Con-

Page xtinued) : Free Lectures .. .. .. 873 “ The Catholic Magazine ” .. 873 “ History of the Church Catholic”

— Correction : ,, .. 873 A Query About Martyrs .. 873 Funeral of Rustem Pasha .. .. 875 The Catholic Memorial on Educa­

tion _...............................................875 Memorial to Father John Morris at Wimbledon ..

“ The Church Review ” and its Cor­

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respondents .. .. .. .. 877 Concerning.a Title .. .. .. 878 F rom E verywhere .. .. .. 879 Marriage . . . . . . 879 Social and Political .. .. 880

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Notes on the Catholic Memorial 885 The Archbishops’ Memorial to her

Majesty’s Government .. .. 885

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Page tinued1): The Archbishops’ Deputation .. 886 Annual Dinner at St. Cuthbert’s

Association, Newcastle .. 887 The Nonconformist Gain out of the School Boards .. .. 887 Lord Halifaxon Voluntary Schools and the Marriage Laws .. 887 The Report of the Royal Com­

mission on Secondary Education 888 School Attendance . . .. 888 The Duke of Norfolk and the

Voluntary Schools .. .. 888 N fws from th e D io ceses: Westminster ........................... 889

Southwark . . . . . . . . 889 Birmingham.. 890 Clifton .......................................874 Liverpool .. . . . . . . 874. Nottingham.. . . . . . . 874 Salford .. . . . . . . 874 •Shrewsbury .. .. .. .. 874 The Vicariate ........................... 874

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COMPLETE change of weather came over our Islands at the close of last week>when the mild westerly and south-westerly winds gave place to a strong boisterous gale from the north-east. The gale raged with great violence throughout the whole of Sunday. Its effects were felt with especial severity in the Channel. Several casualties were reported along the coast. Some anxiety was caused at Dover on Sunday night by the news from Calais that the Foam, one of the old type of mail packets running in the Chatham service and which had left Dover at i p.m., being unable to make the harbour at Calais after several attempts, was forced to put to sea again. She had 99 passengers on board including many who had intended crossing to Boulogne but who had been prevented by the suspension of the mail service to that port. She managed to return to Dover in safety after encountering a hurricane which some of the crew described as the most severe they have met with for the last twenty-five years. Owing to the continuance of the gale both the Calais and Ostend services were suspended on Sunday night. The new f Ostend steamer Rapide which had left Dover on Saturday night at eleven o’clock did not reach Ostend till six o’clock on Sunday morning, being four hours late. The lifeboats on the south and east coast were busy, and gallant rescues were made by the Folkestone and North Deal lifeboats. Considerable anxiety had been felt at Chatham in consequence of the non-arrival of the new 27 knot torpedo-boat destroyer Sunfish, which was due on Saturday from Newcastle. However, all fear was allayed on Sunday night, when she steered into Sheerness Harbour after a terrible voyage which had proved her capabilities as a sea going craft to be of the very highest order. The Reverend Secretary of the Goodwin Sands and Downs Branch of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution wrote to the papers from Deal on Monday : “ The remarkable rescue effected last night by the coxswain and crew of the Deal lifeboat deserves special notice. It was performed in answer to signals of distress and flares from a barquentine in sore distress, and the brave Deal men launched their lifeboat in the teeth of a fierce gale from the east and mountainous sea dead on shore.

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This was only possible by the aid of our haul-off warp, and the desperate and perilous effort was witnessed by nearly 2,000 people on the beach. In their struggle to get into deep water the lifeboat and her crew were buried in seas twenty-five feet in height, and smothered in the broken water, which reached out half a mile from shore. The marvel is that the men were not washed out of the lifeboat. But they clung to their work with the most stubborn tenacity, and saved the distressed crew, as well as a puppy dog. The sea as they came ashore was most dangeious, and their return on the foam-topped crest of a towering wave— shipwrecked crew all saved— was welcomed by the tumultuous cheers of the excited crowds. Coxswain Roberts’s hand was injured, and serious damage has been done the lifeboat.”

The French Government has lost no

SBrmsouAUFiEDRS time in Pressins forward the preliminary for p a r l i a m e n t ? sta§es of their Bill disqualifying directors of public companies from sitting in Par­

liament, and it has already been adopted with slight modifications by the Committee to which it was referred. It declares that legislative functions are incompatible with those of director of a financial or industrial establishment, in the nomination of the State ; with the situation of owner, director, manager, or auditor of any such establishments, subventioned by the State ; with that of contractor for works, transports, or other services of the State. The Deputies and Senators who come within these definitions will be called upon to choose within a week of the ratification of their election between their commercial or industrial position and their seat in the legislature. In the case of directors who are at the present moment deputies or senators, two months will be allowed within which they may make their choice ; if at the end of that time no action has been taken, the seats will be declared vacant and a fresh election ordered. The participation of a Deputy or Senator in a syndicate for the issue of public securities by an establishment subventioned by the State or holding a concession or a monopoly, will be made a penal offence, rendering him liable to fines and to imprisonment from six months to two years, under Article 175 of the Penal Code, which applies to public functionaries. It is explained that the disqualification of contractors is not meanttoapply to purveying supplies or executing casual work. The Bill will, however, apply to the directors of all railway companies having a State contract— that is to all the great railway companies in France. According to The Economist, the Bill would exclude about forty Senators or Deputies from