THE TABLET.
A W eek ly N ew spaper a n d R e v ie w .
DOM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS BTIAM ADDIMÜS ÜT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT1S.
From the Brief oj His Holiness Pius IX. to T h e T a b l e t , June 1870.
V o l . 89. No. 2956.
L o n d o n , J a n u a r y 2, 1897.
P r ic e s d . b y P o s t
[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 ‘
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Spain and Cuba— An Ambassadorial Protest — The Case for [ Coercion— Turkish Finance— The
National Liberal C lu b— “ The Confirmation of a Bishop”— A Moving Bog near Killarney— The R e s t o r a t i o n of Peterborough Cathedral—The Taxation of Ireland— An Echo in Limerick—The Hamburg Strike— Mr. Rhodes in the Cape Colony—The German Prohibition of Time-Options in Wheat— The Education Controversy in Canada . . . . . . 1 L e a d e r s :
Christmas at the Vatican .. Mr. Samuel Smith on the War
Path The Unionist Party and Educa
tion . . . . .... . . 6 A Y ear’s Mission Work in Uganda 9
CONTENTS.
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Cardinal Manning.. The History of a Seminary The Grey Man Sacrifice o f the Mass C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :
Rome (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . ~ — 17 News from Ireland . . - 18 N ew sF rom F rar.ee . . . . 19 Ode by the Pope . . . . . . 20 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :
The Rev. Mr. Puller on Attrition 20 Diana Vaughan . . . . ..21 Exeter Ordinations.. . . . . 23 Evolution and Dogma . . _ . . 23 Dr. Creighton and the Nuncio . . 24 Making of Saints . . . . ..24 “ Church or Chapel?” . . . 2 4
Where is St. Cuthbert’s Body? The Providence (Row) Night Refuge
and Home .. An Educational Relic o f the Penal
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T im es.. . . . . . . . . 27 The Archbishop o f Toronto and
the Schools Question . . . . 27 Books o f the Week . . . . ..27 O b it u a r y
So c ia l a n d P o l it i c a l
S U P P L EM E N T . N ew s from t h e S c h o o l s :
The Coming Bill . . Agricultural Rating A ct and Rural
School Boards The Cost of Education in France University Extension The Secondary Education Ques
tion .. The Education Crisis
N ew s from t h e S chools (Con
tinued): The Abandoned Bill and the
Future Whipped for an Earthquake St. Ignatius’ College, Malta An Eton for Nothing a Week . . Convent of the Faithful Com
panions of Jesus, Howrah House, Poplar Extravagance o f the London
School Board N ew s from t h e D io ceses :
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Westminster Northampton Portsmouth . . Newport
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Glasgow .................................... 38 The Church in South Africa . . c8
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
CUBA. T
S P A IN AND
'H E R E is a total absence of news
this week from the scene of war, but a plentiful crop o f rumours as to a probable settlement to be brought about by the friendly action of the Washington Government. It is stated that Mr. Olney and Señor Dupuy de Lome have arrived at an understanding, and that the result of the negotiations will shortly be submitted to Congress. An official communication from Señor Cánovas, the Spanish Premier, in which he sets forth the conditions on which his Government would agree to an arrangement with the Cubans, formed the basis for the suggested terms. In effect, Spain asks the United States to propose these terms to the insurgents, and in return Spain assures the United States that she deplores the commercial losses America has sustained, and is now considering a Reciprocity Treaty, dealing mainly with Cuban products, which is framed so advantageously to the United States that the losses to commerce and through the destruction of property are most generously compensated. Señor Cánovas explains that Spain freely grants all she now offers, and accepts the good offices o f the United States as mediator and guarantor of an amnesty and of the carrying out of the new reform law which is about to be proclaimed in Cuba. The form of government which will be offered is the limit of independence that can be granted to a province of any nation without an absolute severance of the union with the mother country. It provides for the establishment of a Council of Administration. This Council is to control matters of commerce and also the estimates of general taxation and expenditure. It will also have general control over the internal administration. W’hile in official circles in Madrid it is denied that the above terms are accurate, it is admitted that tentative negotiations have been proceeding for some months in the direction of giving Home Rule to Cuba, embracing Cuba’s control of the tariff, and the election of the entire Congress by the Cuban electors instead of the Queen-Regent appointing fifteen of the members. The news indeed is almost too good to be true. Still the hopelessness of the struggle and the awful cost of the war may dispose the Spanish Government to welcome
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the mediation of the United States provided that the nominal sovereignty of Spain is guaranteed. Unfortunately the difficulties which lie in the path of such an arrangement are obvious. Will Spain grant a free pardon to all the rebel leaders? And yet without a general amnesty it is unlikelythat the insurgents would lay down their arms. Mr. Olney will vindicate his title to he considered a great diplomatist if, besides arranging a permanent arbitration treaty with Great Britain, he succeeds in making peace between Spain and her revolted colony.
The Sultan’s latest move in regard to
a m b a s s a d o r i a l ‘ he Promised amnesty to Armenians has
p r o t e s t . been t0 extend it to Turks as well. In
such an amnesty Colonel Mazhar Bey, the
officer responsible for the murder of Father Salvatore, was, it seemed, to have been included. This was more than the French and Italian Ambassadors could bear, and they accordingly took up an attitude of such resolution as to give the Sultan one more warning that the time for excuses and the paltering subterfuges in which Turkish diplomacy is so fertile is nearly at an end. They made a vigorous protest against the idea of Colonel Mazhar Bey being included in the amnesty, aDd made it clear to the Sultan that they mean the Colonel to be put upon his trial. They have hacked up their protest with a request to their respective Governments that squadrons may be ordered to proceed to the Gulf of Alexandretta, so as to be available in case of further difficulties arising. Such a movement should convince the Sultan, who is too cunniDg and too cowardly to meet the demand of the Ambassadors with an absolute refusal, that the patience of Europe is exhausted. A t any rate, though protests and feints of energetic action have failed before, it may well be that the incident may have a wider bearing than is at first apparent on its surface, coming as it does after the •recent stirring that has been evident since M. de NelidofFs return from St. Petersburg.
Such an action on the part of the Fiench t - rCASE and ^ta^an Ambassadors looks like the beginc o e r c i o n . n ‘D£ coercion, and this, as the correspondent
of The D a i ly News pointed out on Monday, is the one thing needful. He says plainly that if the Powers are going to present a scheme of reforms to the Sultan, and then to allow it to be carried out by Turks, the Ambassadors are wasting their time. He points out that Turkish law, imperfect as it is, is tolerable enough and would secure protection for life and property if the country were administered according to its provisions, so that it is not so much
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