HE TABL
A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
DOM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMOS OT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
V ol. go. No. 2991.
From the 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, l8 jo .
London, S eptember 4, 1897.
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[R e g is t e r ed a t t h e G e n e r a l P o st O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper.
C hronicle o f t h e W e e k : Page
The Denounced Treaties— A "Revolt in Uganda — Post Office Puzzles — The Franco-Russian Alliance — The History o f the Alliance— The President's Reception in Paris-W ill Rhodesia Pay? — Thirty-one Years in Ice-Another President Murdered — D o l la r Wheat and Falling Silver—Struck by Lightning-Flowers of Imperial Oratory—The Indian Frontier . . 357 Le a d e r s :
The Significance of the Ebbs Fleet
Commemoration . . . . . 361 Asia as the Commercial Competi
tor o f Europe . . ^ . . 362 A Canticle from Ecclesiasticus 363 The St. Augustine’s Centenary
Celebration, September 14,1897 364 N o t e s . . 365
C O N T
R ev iew s :
Page
Freemasonry •• . . •• 367 A Rose of Yesterday . . .. 368 The Essays of Michael, Lord of
Montaigne . . . . . . 3*9 The Nicomachean Ethics . . 369 His Dead Past . . . . . . 370 A Dead Man’s Thoughts.. . . 370 The Wicked Woods . . ^ 370 Recol'ections of Cardinal Manning 370 Non Angli Sed Angeli . . . . 371 C orrespondence :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . — —373 News from Ireland _ _ 374 News from F rance......................... 376 L e t t e r s to t h e E d it or :
St. Augustine of Canterbury . . 377 The Church of England and
Schism . . . . . . . . 378 The Church in France . . . . 378 Mr. Fillingham’s Fallacies . . 379
E N T S . '
L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r (Con
tinued : How Some o f the Poor Live and
Page
Die . . . . : . . •- 379 The Coming o f St. Augustine . . 380 An Infant Crucifix . . .. 380 The Orientation of Churches . . 3*0 Notes from Sydney .. . . .. 3S0 The Sons of Edmund Ironside : St.
Osgitha . . . . . . . . 381 The Conversion o f the Late Vicar
of Kenn . . . . .. % . . 381 The Late Sir Patrick Jennings.. 382 Archbishop Keane’s Visit to America 38? The Lambeth Letter.. . . . . 383 Vagaries of the Post Office . . . . 383 Books of the W e e k ............................ 384 F rom E v er yw h e r e ............................... 384 Social a n d P o l it ic a l . . . . 385
SUPPLEMENT. N ew « from t h e S ch o o l s :
The Irish Intermediate Examina
tions ....................................... 389
N ews from th e Schools (Con
tinued): The Apostles’ Creed in Board
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Schools _ ....................................... 390 Education in the Transvaal . . 390 Increase of Catholic Schools in
Scotland . . . . . . . . 391 The School Question in Wrexham 391 The Training of Teachers on the
Continent.. . . . . . . 391 Women Teachers in Schools .. 391 Convent o f the Visitation, Rose-
lands, Walmer, Kent . . . . 392 N ew s from t h e D io ceses : Westminster
Southwark Birmingham. Salford Glasgow
392 392 392 393 393
Vicissitudes o f Pluscardyn Priory.. 394 With President Kruger . . . . 394
* * Rejected MS. cannot be returned unless accompanied with address
and postage.
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
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TH E correspondence respecting the
term ination of the commercial treaties between Great Britain and Belgium , and Great Britain and Germany,
has just been published as a Parliam entary paper. Lord Salisbury addressed two letters, which mutatis mutandis are identical, to the British Ambassadors at Brussels and Berlin respectively. H e points out that he must give notice o f termination o f the existing treaty o f commerce, because the following article is no longer in accord with the views o f her M a je sty ’s G o v e rnm en t : “ Articles, the produce or manufactures o f Belgium (or Germany) shall not be subject in the British Colonies to other or higher duties than those which are or may be im posed upon sim ilar articles o f British origin.” L o rd Salisbury says that the insertion o f these words must have been due to oversight, or to a want o f adequate consideration o f the exact consequences which would flow from them. I t would perhaps have been simpler to say that 35 years ago nobody, and least o f all anybody connected with a L ib eral Government, ever thought seriously about the colonies at all. T h e Prim e M in ister then points out that for many years past the British self-governing ■ colonies have enjoyed complete tariff autonomy, and that in all recent commercial treaties concluded b y Great Britain it has been custom ary to insert an article empoweiing the selfgoverning colonies to adhere, or not, at will. N o such article is contained in the Anglo-Belgian T reaty o f 1862, and hence the necessity for term inating it. Moreover, A r t ic le X V . is a barrier against the internal fiscal arrangements o f the British Empire which is inconsistent with the c lose ties o f commercial intercourse which exist, and which it is hoped to strengthen, between the mother country and the colonies. T h e Ambassadors are instructed while giving notice to end the treaties a year hence, to express the desire o f the British Governm ent to arrange a new treaty which, while free from the objectionable features o f the old one, should embody such improvements as the working experience o f so many years may suggest. T h e Belgian Government hastened to accept the notice, and to reciprocate th e wish for a new treaty. T h e German Goverm ent contented itself with acknowledging the notice to end the old treaty.
A revolution in U ganda comes as rather a
a r e v o l t in startling announcement after all the encouraging
Ug a n d a . news that has reached us from the Protectorate
during so many months. But then K in g
Mwanga has ever been a shifty character. I t was he who ordered the murder o f the Anglican B ishop Hannington, and twelve years later endeavoured, in conjunction w ith Dr. Peters, to oust the British out o f the rights they had acquired in Uganda under the agreement o f 1887. Even after 1890, when th e British and German spheres o f influence were finally settled, he still remained partial to the Germans, and though he accepted British authority as necessary for the retention o f his position, he has been a source o f continual trouble. H e always sided with the stronger party. During the troubles between the Catholics and the Protestants in the district he first o f all stood b y th e Catholics, and then, when he saw that success was inclining to the other side, he jo in ed Captain Lugard and becam e a Protestant. Matters have latterly been comparatively quiet since the British East A fr ica Company was superseded by a Government Protectorate. Mwanga was nom inally in jo in t authority w ith our Commissioner, and was reported to be drinking m ilk and go in g to school. F rom some cause or other these symptoms o f reform suddenly disappeared in July, and he left U ganda secretly to organize a rising against the Governm ent in the Buddu district. H is forces were defeated, however, by M a jor Ternan, the D eputy Commissioner, and order was soon restored, as the whole o f the Protectorate, with the exception o f the Buddu district, had remained loyal, T h e K in g escaped and took refuge with the Germans, with whom he is still supposed to be. I t will be curious to see what they will do with him ; he is at any rate best out o f Uganda, where it is reported his infant son will be proclaim ed K in g , with a regent to act for him till he comes o f age. T h e reason o f the revolt has not yet been ascertained with clearness. Perhaps Mwanga had relapsed from m ilk to rum, and had been listening to evil counsellors. O r it may be that the rapid progress o f the railway from the L ake to Mombasa convinced him that a rising would soon be practically impossible. T h e country is improving rapidly, and its importance as a sort o f natural term inus o f the N i le valley route in to Central A frica is evident.
Mr. H enniker H eaton has added appre-
p o s t o f f i c e ciably to the gaiety o f the English public b y
ruzzLEs. the letter to The Times in which he has
exposed the ludicrous confusion which marks
the Post Office regulations for the payment of telegrams. It-
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