T H TABLET,
A Weekly Newspaper a n d Review.
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCOEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the B r i e f o j H i s H o lin ess P iu s I X . to The Tablet, J u n e 4, iS y o.
V ol. 90. N o . 2995.
London, O c t o b e r 2, 1897.
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[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 r o n t c i .k o f t h e W e e k
'The Indian Frontier—The United ÎXStates and Cuba— The Behring
Sea Question — East Denbigh •Election—Alcohol and the Death Rate— Irish Convents as Centres . of Industries— Elementary Edu
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cation by Syndicate— Interesting to Cyclists — R e p o r t e d Hot [ Against the Tsar— Humours of
the Registration Court — The Opening of the Autumn Campaign— The Forward Rake’s Progress— Dialects and the Study of Language — The Possibilities of British A g r i c u l t u r e — British 7 Volunteers in Greece
517
L e a d e r s :
Catholic Comity . .
Echoes of September the Twen
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tieth .................................... 522 Modern Jewry and the Holy
Land .................................... 523
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Shriving and Penitent ” , , . . 524 N o t e s . . . . - — . . 525 R e v ie w s :
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The Babylonian Talmud . . 528 The Christian . . . . . . 528 1 he French Revolution and Eng
lish Literature . . . . . . 529 Baring-Gould’s Lives of the Saints 530 Thoughts For A ll Times . . . . 531 H a n n i b a l .................................... 531 C orrespon d e n c e :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . ... «. _ 533 News from Ireland _ _ 535 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :
St. Gregory’s Mass Book and
Antiphonary . . . . . . 536 The Prayer Book in Greek . . 536 Eminent Testimonies Concerning
Premature Burial . . . . 537 The Authority of the Anglican
Church . . . . . . . . 537
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L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r (Con
tinued : The Rosary Confraternity : A
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Correction.................................... 537 Bimetallism and Agriculture . . 537 On Mr. R . C. Fillingham .. .. 538 A Remarkable Omission . . . . 538 Proposed Plain Chant Choir . . 538 New School, Ilkeston . . . . 538 The Oxford Edition o f Bacon’s
“ Magnum Opus” The London School Board Election A Forgotten Victim . . The Atlantic Record.. In the Tract o f St. Augustine Disappearing Protestantism Religious Disabilities in the Trans
vaal .. The Priest in War Books of the Week . . . . . . F rom E v e r y w h e r e . . O b it u a r y . . ........................... S o c ia l a n d P o l i t i c a l
SU P P L EM E N T . Rosary E n c y c l i c a l .....................549 N ew i from t h e S c h o o l s :
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Certificate Examination, 1897 •• 55* “ T h e G u a r d i a n ” a n d t h e
Apostles’ C r e e d ..................... 552 The Orpington Scheme . . . . 552 Glasgow : Dowanhill . . . . 552 The Christian Brothers at Den
mark Hill
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N ew s from t h e D io c e se s :
Westminster S o u th w a r k ..................................... Birmingham.. L i v e r p o o l .................................... Northampton Nottingham .................................... Salford Shrew sbury.................................... The Vicariate Newport Cardinal Vaughan Asked to Umpire
in the Engineering Dispute
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C H R O N I C L E O F T H E W E E K .
THE INDIAN FRONTIER. E
V E N T S have moved smoothly during
the week, and the back o f the rebellion is broken. T h e Mahmunds have offered to surrender and to pay a
fine, on condition that they are allowed to retain their arms. In reply, they were told that all weapons must be handed in as a preliminary to negotiations. T h e tribesmen are still hesitating, but General B lood is now in a position to enforce submission. A ll through the fighting o f the last weeks the bearing and conduct of the native troops has been excellent. A piece of news which comes from Simla is important, as showing the sincerity of the recent professions o f friendship from C a b u l : “ Hearing of the extensive preparations which are being made for their punishment by General Lockhart, the Afridis and Orukzais sent a deputation to the Afghan Governor of Jelalabab to implore assistance. In view o f the Ameer’s recent orders, however, the Governor declined even to give audience to the members of the deputation, or to allow them to enter the town, and the tribesmen had to return home without a word o f encouragement.” One pleasant incident has arisen out o f the present trouble. A hundred men o f the New South Wales Cavalry have voluteered to serve in India, and asked to be sent to the front immediately. It is not thought, however, that the offer can be accepted, much as it is appreciated. T h e war will probably be over before the Australians could be brought to the scene of action.
A curious xurnour comes from Berlin as THE to a proposed revival of the Holy Alliance
UNITED STATES
AND CUBA.
to protect the rights o f Spain over Cuba. Thus the Madrid correspondent o f the
F r a n k fu r te r Z e iiu ng telegraphs a statement, though he adds that it must be received with reserve, to the effect that the Emperors William and Francis Joseph agreed at their recent meeting to oppose any encroachment on the part of America. Should it prove necessary, the German Emperor would declare his sentiments by means of a message similar to that which he addressed to President Kruger. Meanwhile the war continues without decisive success on either side, and the special correspondent of The
D a i ly Chronicle sends home dismal stories o f the ruin and waste and cruelty which mark the progress o f the struggle. According to this authority in the three fortresses in Havana there are now confined 4,727 political prisoners, and counting those deported to the Isle o f Pines 10,000 in in the whole Cuban command. From the commencement o f the war until this date 8,274 people have been deported to African penal settlem ents; 427 prisoners o f war have been shot in the Fosse de los Laurels, Havana, alone ; and 103 people, chiefly American citizens, have been expelled from the island. Cuba is about the same size as Ireland, and has a population which is well under two millions. And yet after two years of effort 220,000 disciplined Spanish soldiers are unable to overcome some 40,000 rebels. This is the more remarkable because the configuration o f the island makes it easy for a Power which can command free transit by sea to concentrate an overwhelming force on any given spot. Cuba is about 700 miles long, and at its narrowest point is only twenty-seven miles wide. A t its broadest point it is only ninety miles across. The Spectator believes that sooner or later the United States will have to intervene to put an end to this butchery, and that such intervention would be secretly welcomed by Spain. It would be no disgrace to submit, after a very brief contest, with such a Power as the United S ta te s ; and without such a contest the submission is just as inevitable, and would come in a way which would be intolerable to Spanish pride. Our contemporary sums up the situation in terms which will command the assent o f most Englishmen : “ It is hardly necessary for us to say that if war takes place our sympathies will be with our own flesh and blood, and not merely because they are our own flesh and blood, but because we believe that the rule o f Spain in Cuba is an outrage on humanity. We have no abstract or sentimental prejudice in favour o f insurgents, but it is clear that the men whom Spain sends to Cuba are utterly unfit to rule their fellowcreatures. T h e native Cubans may not be a very worthy set o f people, but this does not alter the fact that Spanish rule has turned the island into a hell upon earth.”
Once more there is a difficulty about the
b e h r i n g s e a Behring Sea business, and various more or
q u e s t i o n . ' ess acrimonious statements on the subject
have appeared on both sides o f the Atlantic.
The special correspondent of T h e T im es points out that Lord Salisbury has never consented to a conference which should have power to revise the findings o f the Paris tribunal, and still less to a conference at which Russia and Japan should be represented with powers equal to those o f
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