TA A W eek ly Newspaper and R eview .
DOM VOBIS GRATÜLAMOR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMOS OT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTS!? MANEATIS.l
From, the B r ie f oj H is Floliness P iu s IX . to T he T ablet, June 4, 1S70
V o l . 86. No. 2901. L ondon, D ecem ber 14, 1895. P r ic e sd . b y P o st s}4d
[R eg i st e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a l P o st O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper
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-C hronicle o f t h e W e e k i
The American Ambassador Censured—A Pan-Irish Convention— The Situation in Venezuela—The Turkish Difficulty: Said Pasha— Submission o f the Sultan—The 'Room for Reform— Mass for the Dead in Anglican Churches — Italian Reverse in Abyssinia— Europeans in the Congo Free -State— Autocars Again—The Progress o f Steam Navigation—Our Sugar-Producing Colonies— The Trinity House Almshouses—Agriculture and the Beer Duty—The Shipbuilding Strike . . . . 933 1L eaders :
Signor Crispí and the Chamber.. 937 A Deficiency in Our Secondary
Education f j r Women . . . . 938 Anglican O r d e r s .........................938 Catholic Social Union . . . . 940 rN o T E S .................................... - 941
CONTENTS.
R e v iew s :
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Ushaw College . . . . . . 942 The Monks of the West . . . . 943 “ Dublin Review ” ........................... 944 Cardinal Manning........................... 945 “ The Harvest” ........................... 945 Books of the Week . . . . 945 The Church and the Serf . . . . 94s C orrespondence :
Rome {From Our Own Corre
spondent) .................. ~ 949 News from Ireland . . — — 951 L e t t e r s to t h e E d itor :
Paul IV. and Anglican Orders . . 952 Martyrs and the Sword . . . . 953 St. M a ch a r ....................................... 953 The Red Friars o f Aberdeen . . 953 The Sisters of Charity, 9, Lower
Seymour-street, W. .. . . 953 Catholic Secondary Education : Whither? .. . . -- •• 954 The Late Mr. William Palmer . . 954 Free and Open Churches . . 954
L e t t e r s t o t h e E d itor (Con
Page tinued) : A Personal Matter.. . . . . 9154 Query: A Catholic Colony . . 954 Father Breen and the Anglican
Ordinal . . .. . . . . 955 An Appeal for Children . . . . 955 “ The Somerset Carthusians ” . . 955 Voluntary Schools Defence Asso
ciation . . . . .. . . 955 Celebration at St. Joseph’s Church,
Paris . .
The Late George Augustus Sala . . 956 The Pope and the Index . . .. 957 “ The Guardian ” and the Attitude
956
of the Catholic Bishops on Education . . . . . . . . 957 C h r istm a s A ppeals . . . . 957 O b it u a r y ...........................................9s8 So c ia l a n d P o l it ic a l . . . . 938
SU PPLEM ENT. N ews from 'th e S chools:
Anglican Schools in the Diocese of Liverpool . . . . . 965
N ews from t h e S chools (Con
tinued): The Nonconformist Attitude Mr. Morley on Education
Newcastle Religious Liberty . . “ The Right Scent ” London U n i v e r s i t y Autumn
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. . 965 at . . 965
965 965
Examinations . . . . . . 966 English History Text-Books in
Anglican Schools . . . . 966 County Councils and the Schools 966 The “ Further Statement” o f the
Bishops . . . . . . . . 967 N f.v s from t h e D io c e s e s : Westminster . . . . . . 967
Southwark . . . . . . . . 968 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 968 L i v e r p o o l ......................... . . 968 Middlesbrough . . . . . . 969 Newoort and Menevia . - . . 969 Northampton . . . . . 969 Nottingham.................................... 969 Shrewsbury . . . . . . . . 970
Rejected M S . cannot be returned unless accompanied with address and postage.
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AMBASSADOR CENSURED. in question is S‘
VTH! AMERICAN
OME weeks ago Mr. Bayard delivered an address at Edinburgh in which he . denounced Protection as an economical and fiscal blunder. Seeing that the blunder
__ ,_ still one which finds favour with the majority of Mr. Bayard’s countrymen, some surprise was felt at the time at the freedom and energy of conviction with which he allowed himself to speak. He described Protection as State Socialism, corrupting public men, banishing independent men from political life, lowering the tone of national representation, an engine of selfish profit, sapping the public conscience and enabling jobbers to take the place o f statesmen. It was pretty plain speaking, and although he was nominally considering an abstract economical theory, his words have been construed as an attack upon the institutions of the country he represents. In the eyes of some of his political opponents the indiscretion has been /•magnified into a crime. Mr. Barrett, of Massachusetts, took the earliest opportunity in the House of Representatives to propose that the Ambassador should be impeached; and as the Republican and Protectionist majority is overwhelmingly strong, the suggestion was seriously considered. Several Members denied Mr. Bayard’s right to make what they described as party speech at a time when he was representing not a party but the nation. Mr. Hitt, a Republican from Illinois and formerly Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, decided the issue of the debate by quoting amid loud cheers the printed instructions of the Department of State, signed by Mr. Bayard, forbidding American Ministers abroad from taking sides in controversies between parties at home. Ultimately the proposal for impeachment was dropped and the question referred by a strictly party vote to the Foreign Affairs Committee.
A PAN-IRISH •CONVENTION.
Mr. Justin M’Carthy announced in an address delivered in Walworth that a serious attempt is to be made to restore peace to the Nationalist party. The machinery for this work is in proportion to its difficulty. A great international convention of the Irish race at home and abroad is to meet in Dublin in the course of the next few months.
New Series, Vol, LIV., No. 2,210.
It would be charged with the duty of expressing its opinion with regard to the constitution of the Irish Parliamentary party, and the dissensions within its ranks. Their hope was that when that declaration had been made,the Irishman who dissented from it would be blotted out of public life by the enthusiastic proclamation of the Irish people from all lands in the world. If, for instance, the decision of the convention were against himself, he would be willing to be blotted out. They asked the opinion of the majority of the Irish race, and by that opinion they would stand or fall. Listening to Mr. M’Carthy it was easy to see that he holds the strongest opinion as to the conduct of Mr. Healy and his journal, The Ir ish Catholic, but it is less easy to say how far he regards such conduct as fatal to the Nationalist movement. In fact he was not very consistent. In one place he declared that if union and reconciliation were not restored to the ranks of the Parliamentary party, “ Irishmen must give up the hope of Home Rule for the present generation ; ” but in another place he remarked that their differences did not effect their attitude towards Home Rule, and whenever it came to a vote on that subject in the House o f Commons, every Irish member, to whatever section he belonged, would pass into the same lobby to record his vote. However, the great convention is to lay down rules which shall make impossible for the future the conduct which has driven Mr. Sexton, “ the greatest Parliamentary debater Ireland has seen at Westminster in our generation,” out of public life.
The Jingo feeling which is always excited
THE sli’^IATI0N in the United States by the rumour of any
Venezuela, alleged aggression in the American hemisphere on the part of Great Britain has had time to cool. President Cleveland is away duck shooting in North Carolina, and politicans naturally infer that the nature of the British despatch, in reply to the proposal to submit the quarrel with Venezuela to arbitration, is not of a kind to require any excited action. Meanwhile more information is to hand as to the state of feeling in Caracas. According to the special correspondent of The Times, the Venezuelan Government is well disposed, and would be glad to settle the questions at issue in a friendly spirit, but is somewhat in fear of the easily inflamed patriotism of the people. The shaky position of the Government is the real difficulty in the way of a speedy agreement. Meanwhile it is necessary to distinguish between the two different disputes which await arrangement. The first of these is the outrage committed by the Venezuelan soldiers on a frontier
