A W eekly Newspaper and Review .
DOM VOBIS GRATOLAMOR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS OT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATlS.j
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 ol. 86. No. 2902. L o n d o n , D e c e m b e r 21, 1895.
P r ic e sd . b y P o s t 5
[R e g is tered a t t h e Gen e r a l P o s t O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper
•Chronicle o f t h e W e e k !
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The Shipbuilding Dispute—The Italians in Abyssinia — Trouble in the Transvaal— Revolutionary Views About Spelling— Massacre o f a Uganda Caravan—The Education Difficulty in Ireland— Protest Against Intolerance from his Grace Archbishop Plunket— The Fareham Bench and the Autocar—The Work of the Imperial Institute— The Duke of Devonshire and the Education Deputations— Mr. Gladstone and Armenia -T h e United States and Great Britain — The Venezuela Difficulty — Birth of a Royal Prince .................................... 973 L e a d e r s :
The Meaning of President Cleve
land’s Message . . . . . . 977 Anglican O r d e r s ......................... 978
CONTENTS.
Merry England
Paee
N o t e s . .
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R e v ie w s :
Catholic Socialism
The Wrong Man . . The Paston Letters
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•• 98s
“ The Month ” . . — . . 985 Pearson’s Magazine .. 986 The Works of George Eliot . . 98Ó The Church and the Crafts . . . . 986 C orrespondence :
Rome :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) ....................... 989 News from Ireland . . — _ 990 L e t t e r s to t h e E d it or :
Father Breen and the Anglican
O r d i n a l .......................................991 Anglican O r d e r s ............................991
L e t t e r s to t h e E d it or (Con
Page tinued) : Catholic Secondary Education for Women . . : .. ... 992 An Appeal f<-om Nazareth House,
Hammersmith .. .. .. 992 Rosary of Five Decades and
Monumental Brass .. .. 992 Father Breen and the Rev. E.
Denny .................................... 992 Martyrs and the Sword . . . . 992 The Cardinal in the North :
—Visit to Hull . . . . ■ • 993 —Visit to Bradford........................99^ C h r istm as A p pe a l s . . . .9 9 8 S o c ia l a n d P o l it i c a l . . . . 999
SU PPLEM ENT. N ew s from t h e S chools:
Defence Organization for Volun
tary Schools . . . . . 1005 Lord Russell’s Opinions on Edu
cation ....................................1006
N ew s from t h e S chools (Con
tinued): The Denominational Question in
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Manitoba .. .. ..1006 The Electorate at Large and the
Education Question . . _ ..1006 Cardinal Vaughan’s Educational
Views . . .. . . ..1007 Sectarian Heavy Artillery ..1007 A Commercial Language.. . . 1007 Ratcliffe C o l l e g e ......................... 1007 N ew s from t h e D io ceses : Westminster
S o u th w a rk ......................... Birmingham.. Leeds ......................... Liverpool ......................... Salford ......................... Shrewsbury......................... Portsmouth ..
1008 1008 1008 1009 ,1009 ,1009 1010 1010
A Catholic Knight of SS. Michael and George . . . . . . . . ioio
* * Rejected MS. cannot be returned unless accompanied with address and postage.
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
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THE SHIPBUILDING
DISPUTE. 1 T was generally and confidently expected that the proposals submitted by the masters to the representatives of the men involved in the shipbuilding strike would be accepted by the ballot of the men. Such hopes, however, have met with thekeenest disappointment. A general meeting was held in Belfast on Friday morning, which,by thebursts of cheering which reached the ears of those outside, was practically c f one mind on the question under consideration. The result of the ballot was direct evidence o f this. The majority against accepting the offers of the employers was so overwhelming that the minority shrinks into insignificance. An immediate advance of a shilling a week, to be followed by a further advance o f a shilling on the first pay day in April, was regarded as an absolutely necessary basis for a settlement. The masters, it will be remembered, offered an advance of a shilling a week, to commence on the 3rd of February next. This less liberal proposal has been rejected by the Belfast workers, and their initiative has been followed, with majorities no less great, by the men of Greenock and Glasgow. The total vote, made up of the Glasgow, Greenock, and Clydebank Associations, as given by The D a i ly Telegraph o f Monday, was as follows : For the employers’ offer, 164 ; against, 2,277. By such a determined weight of opinion against the acceptance of the terms proposed by the masters, the prospects of a settlement may be said to have been thrust back indefinitely. How the conflict will end no one can now venture to say. It may be that in view o f Government pressure exerted for the completion of existing contracts, coupled with the placing o f new orders in the strike districts, the masters, as is surmised, will have to give way. However, no one •can yet see the end, for even another Conference is considered to be useless until a more conciliatory spirit is shown.
There has been so much mystification in t h e It a l i a n s in the publication of the details o f the Italian
Ab y s s in i a . reverse in Abyssinia, and the recent despatches are so contradictory o f the earlier ones, that the public fear that the worst has not yet been made known. Thus the colvtmn o f Major Toselli, at
N e w S e r i e s , V o l , L I V . , N o . 2 ,2 1 1 .
first stated to have been 1,200 strong, numbered in reality 2,450, including native auxiliaries. O f the second engagement, again, in which General Arimondi was stated to have defeated the enemy, there is no mention in the later despatches, while the forces of Menelik are now said to number 40,000 or 50,000. The Italian occupation o f Tigre has been rolled back nearly 100 miles, and the interruption of telegraphic communication with Makalleh points to the investiture of the place by the Shoan army. Some of the latter are said to be armed with Russian rifles, and Russian officers were believed to have taken part in the action. On Monday Signor Crispi intervened in the debate in the Italian Chamber on the African policy o f the Government. H e explained that far from the disaster at Ambalagi being a reason for distrust in the Government, it was an incident o f a kind inevitable and common in Colonial warfare, whilst everything that had occurred in the Tigre Province between 1893 and July, 1895, was only the logical and necessary development o f events. The statement that the war was unsought by Italy and merely an act o f defence was met by cries of dissent from the Left. On Tuesday a Bill asking for a credit o f 20,000,000 francs for the special measures in East Africa was laid upon the table, and met with the approval o f the Budget Committee. Though only one registered his disapproval, there is undoubtedly a large party in Italy which disapproves of the campaign from first to last, believing the capital now being squandered abroad might be better spent at home. In Sicily, for instance, thousands are dying of hunger, and the peasantproprietors are being rapidly expropriated for non-payment o f taxes. The state of the island is most dismal. The -nobles still lord it with the worst features of despotic feudalism, whilst the middle class, in whose hands is the local administration, is declared to be shamelessly corrupt. The deprived peasants are reduced to work for a pittance ranging from 4d. to 7d. a day. Such facts as these, which rest upon the authority o f Arvede Barine, Pasquale Villari, and an article in the Tribuna, a Government organ, explain the discontent that is now rife in Sicily, and the reluctance o f those who are not blind partizans of the Government to pour out treasure abroad.
The recovery in the mining market from
TROTmf IN eff"ects o f the recent slump would have t r a n s v a a l . been more speedy than it has been, but for rumours of coming political trouble in the
Transvaal. The nature of the grievances of which the
