THE TABLET.

A Weekly N ew spaper a n d R ev iew .

DUM VOBIS GRATULAMURy ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMDS 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 , June 4, 1870

V o l . 86. No. 2896. L ondon, N ovember 9, 1895.

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[R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a l P o s t O f f i c e a s a N ew s p a p e r

C h r o n ic l e o f t h e W e e k !

The New French Cabinet— The Radical Programme — Undoing •the Work o f the Reformation— Some Figures of the Pontificate of L e o X I I I . - T h e NewCommander-

Page in-Chief— The London Congregationalist Union and Education— The Midland Education League — Can the Railways Help A gric u l tu r e ?— The Young Turkey P a r ly— The Situation in Turkey — The Chartered Company and 'Khama’s Country— Mr. Chamberlain’s Decision— Mr. Chamberlain on Greater Britain— The American Elections : Victory of Tammany— The Bulgarian Sobrany6— The Shipbuilding Disputes— The Irish National League and Mr. H e a l y ................................................733 •Le a d e r s :

The French Radicals in Power . . 737

CONTENTS.

L e a d e r s (Continued):

Mr. L illy on Humour and Philo­

Page sophy .....................................737 Warping . . . . . . . . 738 The Late R . G. Canon Macmullen 739 Anglican Orders . . . . . . 740 N o t e s ........................................ — 743 R e v ie w s : ^ T h e Standard Dictionary . . . . 744

Rifle and Spear with the Rajpoot: Penology .. Frieze and Fustian St. Luke’s Magazine Books of the Week . . Religion and Politics at Cardiff C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :

743 746 746 746 747 747

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre spondent)......................... News from Ireland . . _ L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :

Paul IV . and Anglican Orders The Archbishop o f Canterbury and the Bishop of London . . 753 Bonner’s Rehabilitation of Scory 753

749 750 752

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

Page tinued) : Italians on Italy . . . . . . 754 Protestant Mistakes . . . . 754 Dr. Benson and English Church c H k ' o r y .................................... 754 Saint Cybt . . . . . . 754 Cambridge Church Beils .. . . 7^4 The late Mr. William Palmer . . 754 Mill Hill Missionary College . . 755 The Catholic Social Union . . . . 755 Father Bernard Vaughan’s Replv to the Bishop of Manchester’s Rejoinder on the Roman Claims . . 7^5 Good News frnn Taranto . . • • 7 7 The Catholic Ti uth Society .. 7J7 Willenhall School Board and the

Catholics . . . . . . . . 75S Salford Catholic Protection and

Rescue Society . . . . . . 758 Rescue Work in Leeds . . . . 759 The Protestant Bishop o f Liverpool and Church Reform . . . . 759

Pag e

F rom E v e r y w h e r e ........................... 760 O b it u a r y ........................................ 760 S o c ia l a n d P o l i t i c a l . . . . 7Î2 A p p e a l t o t h e C h a r i t a b l e . . 762

S U P P L EM E N T . N ew s from t h e S chooi.s :

Conference Against Educational

Reform . . . . . . •• 765 Aid for Voluntary Schools from

Public Sources . . . . . . 766 Mr. Diggle and the Chairmanship o f the London School Board . . 766 Catholic D eaf Children . . . . 767 The Government and the Volun­

tary Schools . . . . . . 767 Sir Richard Webster on Commer­

cial Education . . . . . . 767 N ew s from t h e D io c e se s : Westminster .........................769

S o u t h w a r k .................................... 769 Birmingham.. . . . . . . 769 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 769Nottingham .................................... 770 Salford .................................... 770

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

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CABINET. A

THE NEW FRENCH

T last, the old policy of choosing Ministers from the old Opportunist group has been frankly abandoned, and France is face to face with a Radical and homogeneous Cabinet. The offices have been distributed as under : M. Bourgeois ................ Premier and Minister o f the

Interior.

M . Ricard......................... Minister of Justice and Public

Worship.

M. Cavaignac ................ Minister of War. M. Lockroy .................... Minister of Marine. M. Berthelot.................... Minister of Foreign Affairs. M. Doumer .................... Minister of Finance. M. Guyot-Dessaigne....... Minister of Public Works. TVI. Mesureur.................... Minister of Commerce. M. Combes .................... Minister of Public Instruction. M. Glieysse .................... Minister for the Colonies. M . Vigu ......................... Minister of Agriculture.

Conforming to a long tradition, the

— the radical head of the thirty-third Republican Cabinet programme, read a long declaration of policy to the

Chamber, while M. Ricard was engaged on the same task in the Senate. The first words were a simple acknowledgment of the meaning of the vote which overthrew M. Ribot. The new Cabinet accordingly promises a full inquiry into the Southern Railway affair, and also that the details of the investigation shall be given to the public. They pledge themselves also to bring in a Bill which shall forbid the members of either House to serve as directors in •companies having contracts with the State, or even to take .part in private financial syndicates. Then came a list of the promised reforms, for which it is understood the demo•cracy of France is impatiently waiting. The first place after ■ the Budget is voted is given to a progressive succession duty. Then comes a revision of the liquor laws with a view to the remission of all taxation on “ hygienic beverages.” A general income tax is offered as a means of correcting the inequalities of taxation and adjusting the public burdens accurately to the means of every citizen. Old age pensions are to be undertaken on a national scale in the near future. The declaration is not explicit as to the separa-

N e w S e r ie s , V o l , LIV., N o . 2,205.

tion of Church and State, but that some new change for the worse is contemplated may be gathered from the following words : “ A Bill on associations is necessary for the definite settlement of the relations between the Church and the Sovereign State. It will contribute to the pacification of many political and social conflicts by substituting for the system of special laws, which seem to constitute privileges, a true common law respecting alike the liberty of the individual and the security of the State.” But whatever else is to be reformed away, the system of protection is to be held sacred, and the agricultural interest is promised some supplementary measures against certain international speculations. One of the most generally popular passages in this programme was that in which the Ministers pledge themselves to the immediate creation of a colonial army. Finally, France is to be reminded by the deeds of the new Government that the Republic is not merely the name of a political institution but the instrument of moral and social progress, the constant means of lessening the inequality of conditions and of increasing the solidarity of men.

In Catholic times the chapel of Gray’s Inn work1OF THE 11ad a stained-glass window representing St. reformation. Thomas of Canterbury, but by an order of

May, 153T, Henry V I II., “ consideration being had of the King’s command that all the images of Thomas Becket, sometime Archbishop of Canterbury, in any windows either of churches or chapels should be obliterated, it was ordered that Ed. Hall, then one of the readers of this house, should take out a certain window in the chapel wherein the picture of the said Archbishop was gloriously painted and place another instead thereof in memory of Our Lord praying in the wilderness.” Recently Mr. H. C. Richards, M.P., offered, as far as is still possible, to undo this handiwork of the Reformation by replacing Becket in the window. The offer was accepted, and the work is now completed. The new window, which is on the north side, is from a design exhibited in the Royal Academy of 1894 by Mr. O. V. Ostrehan, and represents the Saint as Archbishop and Lord Chancellor. Above the figure, which occupies more than half the space of the lancet window, are the towers and outline of Canterbury Cathedral, and beneath is the scene of his martyrdom with figures of monks engaged in prayer. A suitable Latin inscription records the removal of the old window and its restoration by the donor.

The Vatican press has just issued the P on t ific a l A n n u a l f o r 1893. From it some of leo x iii. idea may be gained of the religious activity there has been during the great and glorious