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A W e ek ly N ew sp a p er a n d R ev iew .
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
F rom the B r i e f o j H i s H o l in e s s P iu s I X . to The Tablet, J u n e 4, 1870.
Vol. 90. No. 2989.
L ondon, A ugust 21, 1897.
P r ic e s d ., b y P o s t s ^ 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 O N T E N T S
C h ron ic le o f t h e W e e k ! Page l, The India Frontier Fighting—An
Alpine Accident and a Rescue— A Royal Duel— Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Free-Trade— Canada and the ^Empire— The Late Señor Cánovas — A Greek Editor Upon the Greek K in g — The Progress o f Temperance — Buckets of Gold in Klondike—A Polish Memorial— Co-Operative P lay in g -F ie ld s — The Extermination o f Locusts in Cyprus — Peace Negotiations Stand Still— The British Association at Toronto L e a d e r s :
St. Gregory and St. Augustine Ireland and Royalty R ival Railways in Africa . . Sayings o f Our Lord N o t e s . . R e v ie w s :
Memories o f the Crimea . .
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285 . . 286
289
Reviews (Continued) :
Parables o f Our Lord Lazarus Logic and Metaphysics Books of the Week The Lambeth Conference and the
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290
Pope . . . . ^ . . . . . . 290 International Scientific Congress at
Fribourg _ ....................................... 291 Indian Fam ine.. . . . . . . 291 The Orientation o f Temples . . 291 C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . _ m — 293 News from Ireland . . — 293 News from F r a n c e ........................... 296 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :
Tne Commission on Anglican
Orders .......................................297 Abyssinian Ordinations . . . . 298 St. Augustine of Canterbury . . 298 | Tracts for Distribution in France 298
L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r (Con
tinued : A Personal Question The Sincerest Flattery “ Scarlet and Steel ” A Protest and Its Result .. Blood-Letting Our Catholic Volunteers The Bishop of Stepney and the
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Late Archbishop o f Canterbury 300 “ La Dame à la Licorne ” . . 300 An Infant C rucifix.. . . . . 300 The St. Augustine Centenary Cele
bration . . . .. . . 300 The Centenary in Boulogne . . 300 The Coming of the Monks . . 301 The Erastianism o f the Church of
England . . . . . . . . 302 The Lord Chief Justice . . . . 303 Catholics in C h i n a .........................303 What Some Miners Saw in Klondike 304 The Lambeth Letter . . . . . . 304 S o c ia l a n d P o l i t i c a l . . . . 306
S U P P L EM E N T . Page N ew « from t h e S c h o o l s :
The Oxford Local Examinations,
July, 1897................................ 309 The Agriculture Commission and
Education......................... . . 310 Average Cost for Maintenance in
Board and Voluntary Schools.. 310 The Headmaster of Harrow and
Corporal Punishment . . . . 3x0 Church Schools Abandoned . . 311 The Abuse of Athletics . . . . 311: Secondary Education for the D eaf
and Dumb.. . . . . . . 31c N ew s from t h e D i o c e s e s : Westminster . . ... ^ 3 i r
Southwark . . . . . . . . 312 L i v e r p o o l ................................ 3x2 Middlesbrough ............................312 Nottingham ................................ 313 Portsm outh ........................ . . 312 Salford . . 312 Shrewsbury . . . . . . . . 313 The Vicariate ......................... 313 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 313
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C H R O N I C L E O F T H E W E E K .
FIGHTING. T
THE INDIA FRONTIER
'H E news from India is more re
assuring. Reinforcements have been hurried up, and Sir Bindon Blood has cleared the Upper Swat
Valley. In an engagement reported on Wednesday, a body of tribesmen reckoned to be 3,000 strong, was dispersed by mountain guns, and fled before the main body of the infantry could be brought into action. When the enemy broke and fled, the cavalry was sent in pursuit, and some sharp hand to hand fighting followed. Lieutenant Greaves, of the Lancashire Fusiliers, was carried by his horse, which had bolted, into the midst of the enemy, and was killed. Lieutenant H. L. S. MacLean, of the Guides, was mortally wounded while gallantly attempting to recover Lieutenant Greaves’ body, and has since died. Captain Palmer, of the Guides, was severely wounded in the wrist while killing the enemy’s standard-bearer. For the time, however, the British force is master of the field. Early in the week it was announced that the Ameer had issued a Firman forbidding his subjects to help the rebels, and instructing the Governor of Khost to punish Afghan subjects who may again raid the camels of the Tochi punitive expedition. Very various opinions are expressed as to the real views of Abdurrahman, but it is not likely that so shrewd a Prince will risk the ample pension he draws from the British Government unless the general political situation in India were greatly changed. It is curious that no official confirmation has yet been received of the publication of the friendly Firman. O f the fact, however, no doubt is entertained.
AN ALPINE ACCIDENT AND
A RESCUE.
The Berlin correspondent of The D a i ly N ew s gives some interesting details of the wonderful rescue of Herr Sachs, of Breslau, from the depths of the Trift glacier near
Zermatt. It seems that Herr Sachs, one day last week, was out with a mountaineering party from Zermatt, and about noon suddenly sank up to his shoulders in a crevasse which had been hidden from view by the snow. Whilst the guides were about to extricate him he suddenly raised his arm, so that the noose by which he was attached to them
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slipped over him, and he sank into the depths below. The guides then hastened for help and returned to the spot with two doctors. One bent over the black hole in the glacier crevice and shouted down. The answer carr e back in a hollow voice from the green depths below : “ l a m alive and have only broken my arm.” The fifteen guides then set about the work of rescue. The crevasse was about a yard and a-half wide, and the place where Sachs had disappeared was marked by a hole just large enough for a man’s body to pass. A dispute for the post of honour and danger took place amongst the guides, but finally it was decided by the selection of the lightest among them, Josef Maria Kronig. He was tied to a rope and lowered to a depth of 200 feet, when he came upon Sachs seated on a snow-covered ledge of ice, below which again yawned an abyss that seemed fathomless. Two more ropes were let down, and first the tourist and then the guide was hauled up in safety. There was naturally great joy among the guides. So little hope had they of finding Herr Sachs alive, that they had provided themselves with sacks in which to carry his corpse. His right arm was found to be broken, and he was badly cut and torn about the head, chest, and limbs. He says that after a long period of unconsciousness he found himself lying on an icebank. He was nearly frozen to death, and cried for help in vain. He counted the long hours and the minutes, and tried to measure in his mind the distance which would have to be traversed by a number of helpers. The ice-chamber was like a vault above him and he must have fallen from one ice-ledge to another. It was these which broke his fall and prevented him from being dashed to pieces. T o soften the dreary hours he tried to makes notes in his pocket-book. He decided to keep awake as long as his strength held out, and in spite of agonizing thirst and great pain he had sat there struggling against sleep for seven long hours.
The much talked of duel between Prince
a royal duel. Henry of Orleans and the Count of Turin
took place at an early hour in the morning
in a little wood at Vancresson. The performance consisted of five acts, and lasted twenty-six minutes, and resulted in the champion of France receiving a prick in the lower part of the abdomen, which, though not deep enough to draw blood, satisfied the honour of Italy. In the first round Frince Henry was scratched on the right breast, but the wound did not penetrate the “ subcutaneous cellular tissue.” The doctors consulted and eventually decided that this was not in itself enough to justify them in
