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A Weekly Newspaper a n d Review .
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUS, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMDS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From ihe B r i e f o j H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.
Vol. 90. No. 2998. L ondon, O c to b er 23, 1897.
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Chronicle of the Week • Page
Disappointment on the Rand— ‘President Faure and Commerce— Imperial Flowers of Oratory— The Engineering Dispute— Education in Russia— How Sludge is to he Converted—Italy and the Triple Alliance— A Defence of the Spoils System— The Liberation Society — The Political Situation in France— The Pax Britannica in Benin— The Currency Question— The Indian Frontier— The Duke o f Norfolk’s Repoit Leaders:
Ebbs Fleet, Arles, Paris Women and the Universities Catholics and Socialists in Italy 644 Anglicans Abroad . . . . . . 645 Notes — ... — >• . . 646
637 641 643
C O N T E N T S
Reviews :
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Alfred Lord Tennyson . . . . 648 M y Bonnie Lady . . •• 649 The Dominican Spirit . . . . 649 In the Days of Good Queen Bess 6;o The “ Apostolic Faculties” . . 650 Lectures in Essex . . . . . . 650 Marriages . . ^ ........................ 651 University Intelligence . . . . 651 Anglican Dispensations . . . . 6 5 1 Retreat for C lergy at Woodford
Green . . . . . . . • 651 Correspondence :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre-
spondent) . . . . — — 653 News from Ireland — — 656 News from France . . . . . . 656 Letters to the Editor :
The Bull “ Apostolica C u r a ” . . 657
Letters to the E ditor (Con
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tinued : Proposed Plain-Chant Choir . . 657 St. Anthony and the H o ly Souls 658 Portraits of the Stourtcns . . 658 Engineers’ Strike and Lock-Out 658 The Cardinal at Arles . . . . 658
The Cardinal’s Address . . . . 659 The Celebrations at Paris . . 662 Social and Political . . . . 663
S U P P L E M E N T . N ews from the Schools:
The London School Board E le c
tion . . . . . . . . 669 Another View . . . . . . 669 The Purposes o f the Aid Grant 669 School Board Development in 1897 669 St. Wilfrid’s College . . . . 670
N ews from the Schools (Con
tinued): The Support o f Voluntary Schools
in France . . Education in Scotland Denomina
tional D i s s e n t e r s and Undenomina-
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670 670
tionalism ....................................... 670 Medals for Attendance . . . . 670 N ews from the D ioceses :
Westminster . . . . . . 671 S o u th w a r k ....................................... 671 Clifton ....................................... 67r L i v e r p o o l ....................................... 672 Middlesbrough . . . . . . 672 Salford ....................................... 673 Catholicity and Education in Scot
land . .
Catholic Truth Society of Scotland 674
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C H R O N I C L E O F T H E W E E K .
ON THE RAND. T
DISAPPOINTMENT
H E Government of the Transvaal is
getting very much up to date in its manner of treating grievances. Pressed to grant redress to the mining
industry now being throttled by monopolists, the Executive appointed an Industrial Commission to inquire into the whole case. When the report was at length ready the Executive, instead of complying with the recommendations of the Committee, which were of a kind to give full satisfaction to the miners, appointed a sub-committee of the Raad to report upon the report of the Industrial Committee. And now, when the sub-Committee of the Raad has done its work and presented its report, action is delayed until the whole Raad can consider this report upon a report. Unfortunately for the peace of the country, the Raad sub-committee has largely undone the work of the Industrial Committee. In words it agrees to assist all industries as far as possible, but declines to believe that any industry is obstructed or hindered by the Government or the Volksraad. It recommends the Government to correspond with other African Governments with a view to the reduction or total abolition of transit duties, and in the meantime to reduce transit dues in the Transvaal from 3 to per cent. The sub-Committee discredits the statement concerning the alleged high profits on dynamite, and insists that the Government should compel the dynamite company to use ingredients found in the country under the terms of the concession as an experimental measure. The sub-Committee states that it has reason to believe that the Netherlands Railway Company will meet industry in the matter of carriage of coal, and that a proposal for the construction of a railway line between Boksburg and Krugersdorp for the transport of coal will shortly be laid before the Raad. Some modifications in the Pass Law are also recommended. The disappointment in Johannesburg is profound, and we are told that in the opinion of experts the proposed concessions will not lead to the re-opening of a single mine. The correspondent of The Telegraph points out that by this report the dynamite monopoly is left virtually intact, as, although half of the reduction of ten shillings per case comes from the Govern-
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ment, the monopolists will still receive thirty-five shillings over the market price. It is also considered that the railway remissions are insufficient, while the taxation levied on the breakfast-table in respect of tea, coffee, &c., is looked upon as highly objectionable. The whole tone and effect of this report, which must be regarded as an expression of what the executive desires, go to minimize the proposals o f the original Commission, to whitewash the Government, and to shield the monopolists. It is calculated that the proposed concessions will amount cnly to a total o f is. 6d. per ton instead of five shillings, which was the minimum asked for.
The dinner given to M. Felix Faure by
president faure t f ,e p a r js chambers 0 f Commerce was a
commerce. great success. \Vhilst primarily intended
to honour the Franco-Russian alliance it
was also undoubtedly offered as a compliment from the commercial community of the capital of France to a Frenchman who had risen from the ranks of commerce to the highest dignity in the power of his country to bestow. In reply to the toast of his health, proposed by M. Goy, the President delivered a speech, in which he dilated with quite unusual warmth on the future prospects o f French commercial enterprise. The alliance with Russia had been effected by the wisdom and sound political sense of the democracy, and had demonstrated that their Republican institutions, whilst guaranteeing peace at home, secured abroad that continuity of view and designs without which nothing solid or durable could be founded. The new requirements of the times laid onerous and important duties on French commerce, for the period now opening seemed likely to see the definitive settlement of the destinies of European nations and of their respective positions in the world. New countries were being opened out, and the plant indispensable for the working of their riches was being prepared. “ It therefore rests with you, gentlemen,” continued M. Faure, “ to obtain for our country as large as possible a share in the carrying out of these projects, which demand the co-operation of European industry. Without losing one moment of time, therefore, rush headlong to the conquest of new markets ; establish abroad numerous commercial stations which will prove so many centres of expansion for our influence ; promote the emigration of capital which, vivified and increased by the activity of these commercial stations, will revert to the mother country ; augment its riches and develop its power of consumption for the benefit of all ; hasten then to direct your efforts to those regions now barely known, as yet unexploited both by individual effort and private initiative, lest we allow ourselves to
