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DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMOS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTKIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
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Vol. go. No. 2993. London, September 18, 1897. P r ic e 5 [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 ro n ic le o f t h e W e e k ! Page Lord Rosebery on Sir William Wallace— Don Carlos and the Spanish Throne— Items About Abyssinia— The Sheriff and the Pennsylvania Miners—The Soudan Campaign-The Action at Landikai — The Zionist Movement— Indian Sedition Trial— Fighting on the Indian Frontier— Interview With Captain Younghusband— Parliament, Cricket, and the Empire — Imperial Penny Postage— The Peace Negotiations— The Holding o f Silver .................................... 437 L e a d e r s : The Thirteenth Centenary . . 441 C O N T E N T S . L e a d e r s (Continued) : Page The Late Mr. R . H. Hutton . . 44s St. Augustine and the Conversion of England : I . —An Historical Parallel . . 443 I I . —The Lambeth Conference^.. 444 I I I . — Leo X I I I . and Conversion by P ra y e r .. . . . . . . 445 The St. Augustine Centenary : Inauguration at the Oratory . . 446 Celebrations at Ramsgate . . 446 Papal Letter ......................... 449 Page Wednesday at Canterbury . . 455 A Leurs Eminences le Cardinal Vaughan et le Cardinal Perraud 455 Catholic lite ra tu re Since the Reformation . . . . . . 456 Catholic ^Education Since th e “ Reformation ” . . . . . . 458 Books of the Week . . . . . . 461 N o t e s . . . . _ . . 462 N ew s from t h e D io c e se s : Westminster . . . . «, 462 Nottingham .................................... 462 Shrew sbury.................................... 462 Page Funeral of the Late Mr. Robert B e rk e le y . . . . . . . . 464 O b i t u a r y ............................ _ 464 Social a n d P o l i t i c a l . . ...464 S U P P L EM E N T . The Catholic Conference at Rams gate : Inaugural Meeting : Address by Cardinal Vaughan . . ... 469 The Church in Britain Before St. Augustine.................................... 470 The Mission of St. Augustine . . 473 Rejected M S . cannot he returned unless accompanied w ith address and postage. CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK. it is not worth while for her to celebrate the memory of such battles as Flodden or Dunbar. All Englishmen may rejoice that at Stirling Wallace made Scotland great, for if Scotland were not great the Empire of all the,Britams would not stand where it does. w il l ia m WALLACE. TH E ceremony in honour of the sixth centenary of the battle of Stirling gave Lord Rosebery an opportunity to show himself at his best. What we know of Wallace is very little. He led the Scots in the great battle of Stirling; was defeated at Falkirk and fled the kingdom ; a few years later he returned and was soon taken and executed by the English. Lord Rosebery attributed much of his enduring fame to the biography written by Blind Harry, a biography now generally condemned as apocryphal and legendary ; “ but this decision of historical criticism comes too late to overtake the impression of a nation.” But however little we may know about the details of the great Lowland hero’s exploits and influence, one proof of his eminence and power remains which no criticism can touch. A t the amnesty of 1304, when Scotland lay almost prostrate at the foot of the invader, Wallace was the sole exception to whom no mercy or quarter was to be shown, as if even Edward in his power and supremacy felt that his empire was not safe so long as so capable an enemy were at large. And Lord Rosebery gave fine expression to a great truth when he said it mattered not at all how much Wallace, in own person, achieved— it is enough to remember that he bequeathed to Scotland the fixed resolve of undying patriotism, the passionate, unquestionable determination for freedom. Without him, in face of the formidable foe they had to meet, the Scots might never have rallied to the defence at all. Bruce might never have stood forth and Bannockburn never have been fought. “ Scotland might have been a remote or oppressed and neglected district, without a name, or a history, or a friend; and the centuries of which we are so proud, so full of energy, and passion, and dramatic histoiy, might have passed silently and heedlessly over a dark and unknown province.” Not less happy was Lord Rosebery’s defence of the celebration of the sixth centenary of the battle of Stirling, against the criticism of those who ask : why triumph now over a victory won over Englishmen ? The answer was short and sufficient. In the course of the long and bloody wars between the two countries England has maDy victories to record, but in the long and splendid record of her triumphs all over the world His country’s misfortune is the Pre- T h^ isT tender’s opportunity. It is stated, on what t h r o n e . appears good authority, that Don Carlos is meditating some movement against the present Government in Spain. I f Carlist traditions were less closely associated with the spilling of Spanish blood it might have been thought that the true place of a prince of the blood at this moment was in Cuba. I f the Duke of Madrid and his friends do not see their way to volunteer to give help to Spain where her need is greatest, it is at least to be hoped that they will not play the work of her enemies by attempting disturbances at home. The D a ily M a i l has received the following “ authentic statement as to the attitude of the Carlists ” from the Earl of Ashburnham. The Carlists are standing at attention awaiting events, and ready to act when the hour strikes; but this does not mean that they are going to order at random an armed -ising for the mere pleasure of taking a gambling risk. “ Everything is working for the King, and he cannot himself remain idle in the midst of this unparalleled concurrence of favourable circumstances. He sees that a far greater opportunity is ripening for him than has ever occurred before, and he intends to take advantage of i t ; but the signal for action will be given by the circumstances of the moment.” Another authority explains that “ only a little fighting in places will be necessary.” And “ the favourable circumstances ” referred to by Lord Ashburnham are said by a “ prominent Carlist,” whose name is not given, to be the disasters which have recently fallen upon Spain. National humiliation and defeat become in the eyes of the pious Carlist “ favourable circumstances ” ! However, these champions of civil war are convinced that the Duke of Madrid, if he ever takes the field, will do so from the most unselfish motives : “ The Duke of Madrid, living in peace in his beautiful Palazzo Loredan, in Venice, and spending his summers quietly on Lake Lucerne, would be a far happier man (were it not for the sufferings of his countrymen, which he cannot but feel very keenly) than Don Carlos V II., King of Spain and the Indies is likely to find himself in Madrid. Don Carlos stands out among the claimants of thrones and the successful usurpers of other lands, since it is as an altruist, and not as an egoist, that he N e w S e r i e s . V o i . L V I I I . , N o . 2 .3 02.
