A W eek ly N ew sp aper
a n d R ev iew .
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From th e B r i e f o j H i s H o lin ess P iu s I X . to T h e T a b l e t , J u n e 4, 18/0.
V o l , 89. No. 2980.
L o n d o n , J u n e 19, 1897. P r ic e s d ., b y P o s t 5 % d .
[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 le o f t h e W f.e n ! Page
The National Debts of the World — The Duke of Devonshire on the Responsibilities o f Empire— The Means of Imperial Commercial Union—Democracy and Empire— The Death o f Mr. Barnato — Attempt on the Life of President Faure — Earthquake in_ India— The Constitutional Question in the Transvaal — International Congress on Technical Education — The United States and Hawaii— Terrible Accident to an Excursion Train — A German Aeronaut’s Terrible Death — Turkey and Greece— Death o f Father Kneipp —A Severe G a l e .........................957 -Le a d e r s :
After S ix ty Years . . . . . . 961 The Russian Church and Catholic
Theology . . •• . . 961 Father Brandi, S .J ., and the
Anglican Archbishops’ Reply . . 963
CONTENTS.
Page
The Bull “ Apostolicae Curae” . . 964 The Guardians’ Elections of 1898 . . 967 N o t e s . . . . — ~ . . 967 R e v ie w s :
The Formation of Christendom . . 969 Modern Dilettantism in France . . 970 Pius the Seventh . . . . . . 971 The Sacrifice of the Mass Worthily
Celebrated.. . . . . . . 971 Object Lessons in Natural History 971 A New Zealand Bishop and the
Queen’s J u b i l e e ......................... 971 C orrespon d e n c e :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . —
News from Ireland — — 975 News from France . . . . . . 976 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :
Lord Halifax an d C a r d i n a l
Vaughan v . . . . . . 978 The Ceremonies of Holy Week . . 978 The “ Ecclesia AnglicanaDocens ” 978
973
L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r (Con
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tinued : A Test Question for Anglicans . . 979 Mr. Frere and the “ Marian
R e a c t io n ” . . . . . . . . 97^ A Question of Intention . . . . 979 The St. Columba Celebrations in
Scotland . . . . . . . . 979 The Queen’s Jubilee . . . . 931 Consecration o f the New Bishop of
Shrewsbury . . . . . . . . 982 Cardinal Moran’s Silver Jubilee . . 982 In Memory of Martyrs of Charity 983 Hyde Park Lectures .. . . . . 9S4 The Catholic Needlework Guild . . 984 The Bristol School Board and the
Late Mgr. Clarke . . . . . . 984 Catholic Union of Great Britain . . 986 O b it u a r y ........................................986 So c ia l a n d P o l i t i c a l . . . . qS5
SU P P L EM E N T . N e w « from t h e S c h o o l s :
Necessitous Schools . . . . 989
N ew s from t h e S chools (C on
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tinued): The Mediaeval Schoolboy . . 989 St. Wilfrid’s College, Oakamore 990 Training C o l le g e s ......................... 990 Whitsuntide at Ratcliffe College 990 Xaverian Brothers, Mayfield,
Sussex ......................... . , 3 9 0 N ew s from t h e D io ceses : Westminster . . . . ... 990
Southwark . . . . . . ggx Birmingham.. ......................... qq-i _ Clifton Middlesbrough Northampton Nottingham . . Salford Newport .................................... 994 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 994 Catholic School Children and the
Queen................................... 99
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
1 F I H i W U R h O l
AN interesting paper has been published
in The D a i ly M a i l sh om ng th e public indebtedness of the nations. France
, .
comes first with 4 ,1 ,241,410 ,10 1; Russia
-w-J .
comes second with 4728,333,393; Great Britain is third with 4644,956,000 ; Germany fourth with 4598,583,541. The comparative debt loads of individual citizens is also worked out, and we find that a Frenchman’s burden is equal to the combined load of an Englishman and an Italian, while the united debt of individual citizens of Austria, Germany, Russia, and Belgium, only slightly exceeds that of an inhabitant of France. I f we turn to the question of increase or decrease during the last five years, we find that Great Britain, the only Free Trade Power, alone has diminished her debt, while all the Protectionist Powers— France, Russia, Italy, Austria, America, Germany, and Belgium— have added to theirs. Taking the total increase or decrease in the national debts during the last five years, and dividing such increase or decrease in each country among the days of that period, we arrive at the following result:
Each day for five years the public debt of the United
Kingdom decreased ........................ Each day for five years the public debt of Italy in
creased .............................................. Each day for fiveyears the public debt of Belgium
increased ... ... ... ...
Each day for five yearsthe public debtof France
increased ... ... ... ...
Each day for five years the public debt of the United
... •••
... . . .
States increased ............. _ ......................... Each day for five years the public debt of Germany
increased........................ .............. Each day for five years the public debt of Austria-
Hungary increased Each day for five years the public debt of Russia
increased .........................................................
¿ 19,488
4U49 5,001 24,234 25,275 28,139 35,987 S4,222
In his speech at the banquet given
the duke of on Saturday last by the Liverpool Devonshire on h i e Q , arn b er of Commerce to the Colonial
RESPONSIBILITIES
of empire.
Premiers now in England for the Diamond Jubilee festivities, the Duke of
Devonshire boldly grappled with the difficult problem of Imperial unity. He rightly pointed out that there was never
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a time when our colonies and dependencies occupied a larger place in the thoughts of our people and their political leaders, and when the responsibities attaching to empire were so keenly felt. Ih e re is a growing recognition of the fact that we are citizens of a greater State than that which is contained in these little sea-girt islands, that larger issues than the success or defeat of political parties have to be dealt with, that even our relations with continental nations are of less importance than our relations with the young and prosperous States over the seas which have been established there by British arms and energy. It is a question whether those States shall continue to grow up as loyal portions of the Empire or whether they shall break away from the Mother Country and enter upon an independent and separate existence. His Grace could remember the time when a very different temper existed, a temper fostered by the men belonging to the Manchester School, which sought to teach that whilst the mistakes which had resulted in the loss of our North American Colonies should be avoided, our people should look forward with complacency to the time when our other Colonies, having grown to maturity, should peacefully, without friction or anger, separate themselves from the Mother Country and set up as independent republics, There was no such feeling now. Free Trade had not dene all that its prophets had claimed it would. It had not secured universal approval and adoption, and foreign countries, that were carrying on an enormous trade under strongly protective conditions, were competing with us for the possession of territory from which our manufactures might be excluded. It behoved us, therefore, to neglect no opportunity of expanding and consolidating our Colonial possessions in order to gain markets for our trade, and not to allow ourselves to be hemmed in by such a policy as had lost us so much in West Africa.
The Duke next addressed himself to
~ TIimm;rial ° F l ^e means which had been proposed for c o m m e r c i a l u n i o n , fostering the national impulses in the
direction of Imperial unity. He did
not think that the closer connection so much desired would be brought about by the establishment of a parliament truly Imperial, in which the Colonies should have representatives. It was an ideal that might be practically realized, but not at present. It had been one of the aims of the Imperial Federation League, but that league had been dissolved and replaced by another, the British Empire League, which laboured for the bringing about of closer commercial and other connections between the United Kingdom and its
